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Chemical Engineer - What's in a Name?
An occasional contributor to the Oxford English Dictionary, Martin Pitt looks at the origins of the name Chemical Engineer
Type: Feature
IChemE Matters: Introducing IChemE’s Young Engineers Awards for Innovation and Sustainability
IChemE are launching a trio of awards to showcase how young engineers are supporting the Institution’s vision of a more sustainable world
Type: Feature
World-first electric steam cracker demo starts operations in push to slash emissions by 90%
BASF, SABIC and Linde have started operating a demonstration plant to prove that electrically heated steam cracking can significantly cut emissions from one of the chemical sector’s most energy intensive operations.
Type: News
Safety Lessons from Home Alone
David Jamieson explains what Kevin McCallister and the Wet Bandits can teach us about inherent safety
Type: Feature
We Are the Universal Engineers
Rosey Deverall talks about her roles in nuclear safety and decommissioning
Type: Feature
Risk and Reward: Integrating GenAI into Educational Assessment
As GenAI improves, ideas of authorised or unauthorised use in assessment become harder to discern. Sarah Grundy, Peter Neal, and Sasha Nikolic suggest the controls the community need to use to ensure educational assessment remains secure.
Type: Feature
IChemE Matters – September 2023
Nigel Hirst, Anousha Khan and Alexandra Meldrum have their say on the issues affecting IChemE members
Type: News
RAEng launches competition for schoolchildren
THE Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) has launched a new competition, Engineers in the Making, for schoolchildren aged 7–14 across the UK. The academy is looking for budding engineers to take on the challenges and show off their creativity, imagination, and problem-solving skills.
Type: News
Practical Process Control Part 17: Fired Heaters - Part 1
In the first of a two-parter on fired heaters, Myke King shows how to implement duty controls
Type: Feature
UK students at Bradford awarded IChemE’s 2020 SIESO Medal
ICHEME has awarded a team of engineering students at the University of Bradford, UK, with the 2020 SIESO Medal for their innovative popup book depicting the lessons learned from the 2005 Texas City Refinery disaster. The incident killed 15 people and injured 180 others.
Type: News
Christmas Past: A Historical Christmas Stocking
Martin Pitt reminisces on Christmases past, and brings with him a sackful of facts and figures
Type: Feature
Malaysian students awarded new IChemE SIESO Medal
ICHEME has awarded the new SIESO Medal, a student process safety award, to four chemical engineering students at Universiti Teknologi Petronas, Malaysia for their compelling project on the issues that led to the Bhopal, India gas leak disaster.
Type: News
MPs meet with IChemE to discuss how to avoid green skills crisis
ENGINEERS called on UK lawmakers to help fix a looming skills crisis that threatens to derail net zero ambitions during a meeting hosted by IChemE at parliament this week.
Type: News
Digital Technologies are Transforming Lives and Work
Type: Feature
Biggs appointed senior deputy vice-chancellor of UWA
SIMON BIGGS, currently the executive dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology at the University of Queensland, Australia, and an IChemE Fellow, has been appointed the next senior deputy vice-chancellor of the University of Western Australia (UWA).
Type: News
Practical Process Control Part 8: Determining Tuning Constants for Tight and Averaging Level Control
Myke King continues his detailed series on process control, seeking to inspire chemical engineers to exploit untapped opportunities for improvement
Type: Feature
