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Engineering Net Zero Part 1: Communicating a Plan
David Simmonds opens a new series on net zero asking: what can engineers do to help secure public engagement and support?
Type: Feature
Taking a Look Back at Control: Part 2
Martin Pitt considers the history of process control in a two-part series, concluding with electrical and computer systems
Type: Feature
History of Nuclear Engineering Part 1: Radioactivity
For just over 100 years, radioactive elements have proved of industrial and commercial use. Martin Pitt charts their emergence
Type: Feature
Laura Grindey, Ethan Lynch and Dom Tsang from the IChemE National Early Careers Committee discuss student placements from the perspectives of both student and employer
Type: Feature
History of Nuclear Engineering Part 2: Building the Bomb
The story of the Manhattan Project and the race to build nuclear weapons is usually told about physicists but Martin Pitt says their achievements wouldn’t have been possible without chemical engineers and chemical engineering companies
Type: Feature
Creating a Winning Final Year Design Project
Glen McClea and Campbell Tiffin were part of the team that won the 2023 IChemE Australia and New Zealand Student Design Prize. Here, they provide a comprehensive guide to undergraduates on how to create a successful final year project
Type: Feature
Martin Pitt considers the chemical engineering history of common salt
Type: Feature
In the final part of our series on fusion energy, Mirjana Damjanovic and Lewis Simmons highlight the significant challenge of decommissioning and repurposing a fusion powerplant
Type: Feature
Three chemical engineers recognised in New Year’s Honours
THREE Fellows of IChemE have been awarded in the Queen’s 2020 New Year’s Honours list. Lynn Gladden has been recognised with a Damehood, and Mark Apsey and Adisa Azapagic have been awarded Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE).
Type: News
Net zero transition 'world's most ambitious engineering project'
SWITCHING from fossil fuel to low-carbon energy in less than 30 years in order to achieve net zero is arguably the biggest engineering project ever undertaken by mankind, says the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) in a new report.
Type: News
Enhanced Cybersecurity Improves Plant Productivity?
It is crucial that organisations do not allow cybersecurity and operational digitisation projects to happen in silos
Type: Feature
References for the TCE serialisation of Fiona Erskine's novel Phosphate Rocks, a compelling mystery set in the world of industry
Type: Feature
BioSNG: Fuelling the Future with Trash
Massimiliano Materazzi and Richard Taylor discuss the promise of a bio-substitute for natural gas
Type: Feature
Pfizer's Penicillin Pioneers – Jasper Kane and John McKeen
Pfizer's Penicillin Pioneers – Jasper Kane and John McKeen
Type: Feature
Creating a Sustainable Future – The Role of Material Selection
The one challenge that engineers of all stripes need to deal with is material selection.
Type: Feature
Are today’s methods of grading and selecting our graduate chemengers lacking?
Type: Feature
Amanda Doyle meets Fiona Erskine to discuss her explosive thriller
Type: Feature
Go Digital for Efficient Shift Handovers
How digital systems can make shift handover processes more efficient, and safer
Type: Feature
BP Texas City: Lessons learned?
A look at how the process industries have changed, more than a decade on
Type: Feature
Project puts ‘poop’ to good use, improving both sanitation and energy supply at one of the biggest refugee camps in the world
Type: Feature
