History of Nuclear Engineering Part 3: Atoms for Peace
In 1953, Dwight D Eisenhower (1890–1969) began his US presidential term with a widely applauded “...
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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 ph...
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 Institut...
History of Nuclear Engineering Part 1: Radioactivity
For just over 100 years, radioactive elements have proved of industrial and commercial use. Marti...
Volunteer Spotlight: Jamie Cleaver CEng FIChemE
Shining a light on the valuable work of IChemE volunteers
Capturing Science to Capture Attention
MIT photographer Felice Frankel talks to Adam Duckett about her new guide to help engineers bette...
Back to the Future
Adam Duckett on engineers and readers predicting and shaping the future
IChemE Global Awards 2023
Matt Stalker offers some useful tips to anyone planning an awards entry this year
Sellafield Digital Twin Project Clinches Top IChemE Award
Adam Duckett reports from this year’s Awards ceremony
Nitrate: An Emerging Solution
Jonathan Wright and colleagues explain how their IChemE Award-winning ion exchange and encapsul...
Recognising Future Leaders
How the Salters' Institute recognises and supports outstanding young chemists and chemical engine...
INWED: Female chemical engineers recognised for green leadership
AS celebrations get underway for International Women in Engineering Day (INWED), we caught up wit...
IChemE Members recognised with RAEng Major Project Award 2019
TWO IChemE members, as part of an engineering team, have been awarded the Royal Academy of Engine...
Waste-to-BioSNG innovation wins big at IChemE Awards
Amanda Jasi reviews the winners of IChemE's annual awards programme
2018 – The Year of Engineering
Adam Duckett speaks to engineers, schoolchildren and teachers who took part in the UK government’...
Supporting the chemical engineers of the future
The Salters' Institute is offering awards of £2,500 to recognise and support outstanding young ch...
Vaccines: The End of the Cold War?
How an award-winning ensilication technology could remove the need to refrigerate life-saving vac...
Solar-Powered Water Purification Wins Top Prize
Helen Tunnicliffe reviews the winners of IChemE’s annual awards programme
Sustainability, Efficiency Win at 2016 Awards
Johnson Matthew takes home top prize; Sime Darby, PETRONAS and the National University of Singapo...
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Johnson Matthey and bp license process to make jet fuel from farm waste at US$4bn plant
JOHNSON MATTHEY (JM) and bp have licensed their Fischer-Tropsch process to a huge new US$4bn US p...
IChemE Matters – April 2024
Nigel Hirst talks about celebrating excellence, Jonathan Seville calls to members to sign up for ...
Aitken awarded Ambassador Prize as IChemE unveils 2024 medals winners
JENNIFER AITKEN has posthumously been awarded IChemE’s Ambassador Prize in recognition of her lea...
IChemE Matters – March 2024
Nigel Hirst on launching initiatives; Tracey Donaldson calls for book ideas and Dianne Watson int...
Nottingham Uni stroll to Frank Morton victory
Students from the University of Nottingham have overturned a near 40-year winless streak to retur...
IChemE opens for entries to its 30th Global Awards
ENTRIES have opened for IChemE’s Global Awards, which feature three new categories for 2024.
Wind turbine pioneers Stiesdal and Garrad win 2024 QEPrize
HENRIK STIESDAL and Andrew Garrad have been awarded the 2024 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineerin...
Isuru Udugama, 1990-2023
Obituary of Isuru Udugama, a senior lecturer at The University of Auckland and prolific academic ...
Oxford’s rapid Covid test wins top prize at IChemE Awards
THE University of Oxford has been given IChemE’s outstanding achievement in chemical and process ...
Solar-powered dryers and greener electric car batteries among £1m Earthshot winners
A BATTERY that uses a water-soluble binding composite to make it easy to recycle, and solar techn...
Clive Davies awarded prestigious Chemeca Medal
ICHEME Fellow Clive Davies has received the Chemeca Medal, most prestigious chemical engineering ...
FluRefin technology wins impact award
A CARBON capture technology developed at the University of Sheffield by IChemE member Peter Styri...
Pennsylvania researchers win Nobel Prize in Medicine for mRNA work critical to Covid-19 vaccine development
NEARLY three years after the rollout of mRNA vaccines across the world, research pioneers Katalin...
John Griffiths, 1939-2023
Obituary of John Griffiths, who was awarded IChemE's Hebden Medal for his work in the field of ga...
Prince William unveils third class of Earthshot Prize finalists leading the way in climate change solutions
A GREENER and more easily recycled lithium-ion battery, a microbial fuel cell for cleaning water ...
Adisa Azapagic awarded IChemE’s Davis Medal
ADISA AZAPAGIC, the world’s first professor of sustainable chemical engineering, has been awarded...
Petronas dominates 2023 IChemE Global Awards as full list of finalists revealed
MALAYSIAN energy group Petronas is in the running for more than ten IChemE Global Awards, accolad...
IChemE medals committee chair encourages nominations to recognise professional excellence
MEMBERS of the chemical engineering profession are being urged to celebrate the outstanding work ...
Year 11 students’ sustainable flavonoid soap wins the Davidson Inventors Challenge 2023
FABNOIDS, a team of year 11 students from the Benenden School in Cranbrook, UK has won this year’...
David Bogle wins prestigious EFCE Jacques Villermaux Medal
DAVID BOGLE, IChemE’s past president, has been awarded the Jacques Villermaux Medal in recognitio...
McGagh, Sorensen and McBride-Wright honoured by the King
CHEMICAL engineers John McGagh, Eva Sorensen and Mark McBride-Wright have been recognised and cel...
Jupiter Ionics announced as a finalist for the Spinoff Prize 2023
JUPITER Ionics, a spinoff from Monash University, Australia that aims to produce ammonia in a zer...
UCL chemical engineering department receives Gold Athena Swan award for gender equality efforts
UNIVERSITY College London’s chemical engineering department has been awarded gold status as part ...
Darrell Patterson awarded Bath’s first ever posthumous professorship
DARRELL PATTERSON is the first person to be awarded a posthumous professorship by the UK’s Univer...
The University of Newcastle wins two Cygnet Awards
THE University of Newcastle has become the first university in Australia to be awarded two Scienc...
RAEng funds engineering department initiatives to bolster student diversity
EIGHT UK university engineering departments have been awarded more than £700,000 (US$850,000) by ...
Azapagic awarded Davis medal as IChemE announces 2023 prize winners
ADISA Azapagic has been awarded the Davis Medal for her work on sustainable production and consum...
Engineers awarded QEPrize for advancing solar PV technology
IN ITS 10th year, the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering has been awarded to four engineers wh...
Folayan awarded MBE in New Year Honours
ICHEME Fellow Oluwole Olawale Folayan has been appointed a Member of the Order of the British Emp...
Sellafield digital twin project clinches top IChemE award
SELLAFIELD and the National Nuclear Laboratory were awarded IChemE’s Outstanding Achievement in C...
Double wins for Sime Darby and Petronas at IChemE Malaysia Awards
SIME Darby and Petronas both won two awards at IChemE’s annual Malaysia Awards, held virtually on...
IChemE Safety Centre Director wins Leader of the Year Award
TRISH Kerin, Director of the IChemE Safety Centre (ISC), has won the Women In Safety Leader of th...
New RAEng Fellows includes three IChemE members
THE ROYAL Academy of Engineering has elected 72 leading UK and international figures in the field...
QEPrize 2023 “Create the Trophy” competition opens
THE Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering Foundation (QEPrize) has now opened its 2023 Create the...
IChemE 2022 Global Awards finalists announced
IChemE has announced more than 100 finalist projects from 15 different countries that are in the ...
IChemE 2023 medals nominations open
IChemE has opened nominations for its 2023 medals and prizes programme, which aims to recognise t...
IChemE announces shortlisted finalists for Malaysia Awards
ICHEME has announced the shortlisted finalists for its annual Malaysia awards. They include Sime ...
Reverend Richard Coles to host IChemE Global Awards 2022
Radio presenter, and Strictly Come Dancing TV show presenter Reverend Richard Coles has been sign...
INWED: Navya Thomas recognised as an innovator
COINCIDING with the celebration of International Women in Engineering Day (INWED) 2022, Research ...
Mark McBride-Wright wins Rooke Award
Campaigning chemical engineer Mark McBride-Wright is to receive one of the Royal Academy of Engin...
Marlene Kanga awarded Queen’s Birthday Honours
MARLENE Kanga, a chartered chemical engineer who successfully campaigned for a global engineering...
Andrew Livingston elected to the Royal Society
ANDREW LIVINGSTON, Professor of Chemical Engineering at Queen Mary University of London, has been...
Boukouvala awarded IChemE’s first Junior Sargent Medal, as Institution announces annual prize winners
ICHEME’S inaugural Junior Sargent Medal has been awarded to Fani Boukouvala for her development o...
Japanese inventor awarded 2022 QEPrize
MASATO Sagawa has won the 2022 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (QEPrize) for his work on th...
Yvonne Baker awarded OBE
ICHEME Chartered member Yvonne Baker has been recognised for services to STEM education, receivin...
Clean TeQ Water wins top accolade at IChemE Awards
A WASTEWATER treatment process that uses bacteria immobilised in plastic lenses has been awarded ...
Inaugural Earthshot winners announced
TECHNOLOGIES for agricultural waste conversion and green hydrogen production have been recognised...
IChemE Fellow awarded 2021 Chemeca Medal
ROSE Amal, a Fellow of IChemE, has been awarded this year’s prestigious Chemeca Medal, in recog...
IChemE announces 2021 Malaysia Awards winners
SUSTAINABLE and digital innovations came out on top at IChemE’s 2021 Malaysia Awards, hosted virt...
Finalists announced for inaugural Earthshot Prize
PRINCE William has announced 15 finalists for the inaugural year of The Earthshot Prize, each of ...
IChemE announces 2021 Global Awards finalists
ICHEME has announced more than 120 finalists for its 2021 Global Awards.
Finalists announced for IChemE Malaysia Awards
ICHEME has announced the 32 finalists for the Malaysia Awards 2021.
Three researchers awarded IChemE Andrew Fellowship
ICHEME has awarded three chemical engineering researchers the Andrew Fellowship to advance the fi...
Dairy pioneer Kevin Marshall honoured by the Queen
KEVIN Marshall has been made a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit by the Queen, for his ...
Student team’s potato mask wins inaugural John Davidson competition
A TEAM of school students who developed a biodegradable face mask made from potato starch have wo...
IChemE announces 2021 Medals and Prizes recipients
ICHEME has announced that it is recognising more than 30 chemical engineers with prizes and medal...
LED pioneers win Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering
FIVE engineers who helped develop LED lighting have won the 2021 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engine...
IChemE Fellows awarded 2021 Australia Day Honours
LAST week, chemical engineers and Fellows of IChemE Chris Fell and the late Graeme Paul were reco...
Bagshaw awarded CBE in New Year Honours
STEVE Bagshaw, a Fellow of IChemE, has been awarded a CBE in the New Year Honours List for his se...
IChemE awards engineers who 3D print reactors
ENGINEERS from Air Liquide who are 3D printing reactors for the purpose of process intensificatio...
Plastic Energy’s push to close loop on plastics wins top IChemE Award
A PROCESS to chemically recycle plastic waste that cannot be mechanically recycled won IChemE’s t...
Petronas wins four awards at IChemE Malaysia ceremony
PETRONAS won four of eight awards at IChemE’s Malaysia Awards ceremony, which was held virtually ...
IChemE Fellows recognised with 2020 Queen’s Birthday Honours
HER Majesty The Queen has awarded 2020 Birthday Honours to chemical engineers and IChemE Fellows ...
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 202...
IChemE Fellows Ding, Edwards and Matar elected to RAEng
THREE ICHEME Fellows – Yulong Ding, David Edwards and Omar Matar – have been elected as Fellows o...
Create the Trophy competition launched for Queen Elizabeth Prize
THE Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering Foundation (QEPrize) has launched its Create the Trophy...
IChemE announces Global Awards 2020 finalists
ICHEME has announced more than 120 finalist entries which are in with a chance of winning a troph...
IChemE calls on community to nominate peers for prizes
ICHEME is calling on the chemical engineering community to make nominations for its annual medals...
IChemE announces finalists for Malaysia Awards
ICHEME has announced 31 finalists in eight categories for its virtual Malaysia Awards.
IChemE Fellow recognised for efforts against Covid
ICHEME Fellow Zhanfeng Cui and his team at the University of Oxford, UK have received an award fr...
Time running out to nominate exceptional engineers for Covid-19 response
THE Royal Academy of Engineering will make a special series of awards to engineers who are have b...
2021 QEPrize nominations now open
NOMINATIONS for the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (QEPrize), the world’s most prestigious...
Canada awards Lister for his contributions to nuclear and safety
DEREK LISTER has been appointed a Member of the Order of Canada for his contributions to nuclear ...
Manchester Uni students win IChemE prize for designing greener process
A TEAM of students from University of Manchester, UK, has won IChemE’s Macnab-Lacey Prize for the...
IChemE medal winners announced
ENERGY experts and dedicated volunteers are among 26 chemical engineers being recognised by IChem...
IChemE Fellow awarded Australia Day honours
ICHEME Fellow Geoffrey Stevens, a chemical engineering professor at the University of Melbourne, ...
Poliakoff receives China’s highest honour for foreign scientists
BRITISH chemist Sir Martyn Poliakoff has received the 2019 International Science and Technology C...
Foo granted Fellowship by Academy of Sciences Malaysia
ICHEME Fellow Dominic Foo has been made a Fellow of the Academy of Sciences Malaysia (ASM).
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 Gladd...
Prince William launches Earthshot Prize to repair the planet
PRINCE WILLIAM has launched a new initiative, billed as the world’s most prestigious environmenta...
Jones awarded RACI Distinguished Fellowship
ICHEME Fellow Clifford Jones has been awarded a Distinguished Fellowship by the Royal Australian ...
Clean energy wins at IChemE Global Awards
ICHEME’s Global Awards saw The University of Birmingham’s Centre for Energy Storage, together wit...
IChemE Member Mandy Lester wins 2019 Karen Burt Award
MANDY LESTER, Chartered Member of IChemE, has won the 2019 Karen Burt Award for her commitment to...
Petronas triumphs at IChemE’s Malaysia Awards 2019
OIL and gas company Petronas scooped four out of the eight trophies given at IChemE’s Malaysia Aw...
Periodic Videos on the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry win
YOUTUBE star and chemist Martyn Poliakoff has published a video looking at lithium-ion batteries,...
Scientists win Nobel prize for developing Li-ion batteries
THE 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to John Goodenough, Stanley Whittingham, and A...
Malaysian students awarded new IChemE SIESO Medal
ICHEME has awarded the new SIESO Medal, a student process safety award, to four chemical engineer...
IChemE announces Global Awards finalists
ICHEME has announced there are more than 100 finalists shortlisted for its annual Global Awards.
Finalists announced for IChemE Malaysia Awards 2019
IChemE has announced the 40 finalists for its Malaysia Awards 2019.
Student chemical engineering projects recognised by IChemE awards
ICHEME has presented awards to school students in Singapore for projects that used chemical engin...
IChemE Member attends palace ceremony for Queens Award
ICHEME Member Irteza Piracha has attended a ceremony at Buckingham Palace after the company he le...
University of Canterbury student wins New Zealand Postgraduate Researcher of the Year 2019
ICHEME has awarded Leatham Landon-Lane, chemical engineering post-graduate student at the Univers...
IChemE Fellows receive Queen’s Birthday Honours
HER Majesty The Queen has awarded birthday honours to IChemE Fellow Katherine Hirschfeld and Hono...
Nouryon announces Imagine Chemistry winners
EIGHT groups received awards in Nouryon’s 2019 Imagine Chemistry competition.
IChemE presents awards to ten chemical engineers
ON 23 May IChemE presented ten chemical engineers with medals for their outstanding contributions...
Warwick Davis to host the IChemE Global Awards 2019
ACTOR Warwick Davis will host IChemE’s Global Awards on 7 November in Hull, UK.
Cattle feed and dye membranes win MIT water prize
ENTREPRENEURS who are developing process technologies to remove dyes from industrial wastewater a...
Agfa-Gevaert wins Process Intensification Award
THE 2019 Process Intensification Award for Industrial Innovation has been awarded by the European...
GSK made Gold Corporate Partner
ICHEME has announced that healthcare company GSK is its newest Gold Corporate Partner.
Higman awarded IChemE Hebden Medal
CHRIS Higman has been awarded IChemE’s Hebden Medal for his contributions to gasification.
Engineering celebrated at North West award ceremony
THE annual North West Engineering Excellence Awards Dinner, jointly hosted by IChemE and IMechE, ...
IChemE announces annual medal winners
TWENTY-SIX chemical engineers have been recognised by the IChemE Medals and Prizes Committee for ...
IChemE seeks applications for new student safety medal
ICHEME has launched a new prize – called the SIESO Medal – to recognise student presentations abo...
IChemE names safety prize in Sam Mannan’s honour
SAM Mannan, a safety expert who died last year, will have a prize named in his honour at IChemE’s...
GPS pioneers win prestigious QEPrize
FOUR engineers responsible for creating the first global, satellite-based positioning system – GP...
Alvin Nienow wins Peter Dunnill Award
ICHEME Fellow Alvin Nienow has received the Peter Dunnill Award in recognition of his outstanding...
Pioneering professor awarded IChemE medal
ICHEME has awarded the Andrew Medal to Freek Kapteijn, Professor and Section Head of Catalysis En...
Merck announces prize for Cork chemical engineering students
SCIENCE and technology company Merck celebrated 30 years at its site in Cork, Ireland, in 2018 an...
IChemE members honoured by Malaysia science academy
SIX IChemE members have been recognised for their research excellence by the Academy of Sciences ...
IChemE Fellows awarded New Year’s Honours
ICHEME Fellows and chemical engineering professors, Geoffrey Maitland and Raffaella Ocone, have b...
Chemical engineering student recognised for academic performance
A CHEMICAL engineering Master’s student at the University of Chester, UK, has been awarded a regi...
Waste to BioSNG innovation wins big at IChemE Awards
A NEW technology that converts solid household waste into sustainable bio-energy has won the top ...
IChemE Safety Centre director wins Trevor Kletz Merit Award
TRISH Kerin, director of the IChemE Safety Centre, has been awarded the Trevor Kletz Merit Award ...
Hackitt and Daniels honoured by Imperial College
FORMER IChemE Council members Dame Judith Hackitt and Ed Daniels have been awarded honorary degre...
Queen of Perak presents IChemE Awards to outstanding young engineers
Her Royal Highness Zara Salim, Queen of Perak, presented two promising chemical engineers with tr...
Call for young engineers to design trophy for Queen Elizabeth Prize
A competition has been launched for young designers and engineers to design the trophy for the Qu...
Chemical engineering professors recognised with Royal Academy fellowship
CHEMICAL engineering professors and IChemE members, Chris Hewitt, Zhibing Zhang, and Barry Lennox...
GHD becomes IChemE Silver Corporate Partner
GHD has been awarded Silver Corporate Partner status by IChemE.
IChemE announces Global Award finalists
IChemE has announced the finalists of the IChemE Global Awards 2018. More than 100 entries from a...
IChemE 2018 medals nominations open
IChemE has opened the call for nominations for its 2018 medals and prizes programme.
IChemE Silver Corporate Partner Award for Xodus Group
ICHEME has presented its Silver Corporate Partner Award to energy consultancy Xodus Group, in rec...
Queen honours Rose Amal, David Hind, Graham Hutchings and Jim Ratcliffe
THE QUEEN has awarded birthday honours to four members of IChemE: Rose Amal, David Hind, Graham H...
IChemE awards engineers for their work on process safety
SEVEN chemical engineers have been awarded medals for their outstanding contributions to process ...
Diversity and pharma awards added to IChemE programme
ICHEME has added two new categories to its Global Awards programme: the Pharma Award and the Dive...
200 gather to celebrate engineering excellence in the Northwest of England
MORE than 200 engineers gathered in Manchester, UK, earlier this month to celebrate excellence in...
Distinguished chemical engineers join QE Prize panel
TWO chemical engineers - Jinghai Li and Raghunath Anant Mashelkar – have joined the judging panel...
Australia honours IChemE Fellows
CHEMICAL engineers Russell Scott and David Wood have been awarded Member in the General Division ...
Syngenta becomes Silver Corporate Partner
THE UK arm of global agribusiness company Syngenta has been awarded Silver Corporate Partner stat...
Noël wins DECHEMA prize for his leaf-inspired microreactors
CHEMICAL engineer Timothy Noël has been awarded the 2017 DECHEMA Prize for his pioneering work on...
New Year’s OBE for Higgins
STAN HIGGINS, an Associate Fellow of IChemE, has been awarded an OBE in the UK’s New Year’s Honou...
University of Leeds team wins Water SIG prize
A TEAM from the University of Leeds has won the inaugural Young Process Engineer Prize set up by ...
ExxonMobil made gold partner
EXXONMOBIL has been awarded IChemE Gold Corporate Partner status for its UK sites in Fawley, Hamp...
GHD is new Bronze Corporate Partner
PROFESSIONAL services company GHD has been awarded Bronze Corporate Partner status by IChemE.
Solar-powered water purification wins top IChemE Award
DESOLENATOR, a company making solar-powered water purification devices, has won the overall Outst...
Winners announced at eighth IChemE Singapore Awards
THE National University of Singapore (NUS), Shell and Croda were amongst the winners at the eight...
PETRONAS wins big at IChemE Malaysia Awards
MALAYSIAN oil and gas giant PETRONAS won three of the seven prestigious IChemE Malaysia Awards at...
Industrial fellowship for ‘living medicine’ cancer treatment
AN ICHEME Associate Member has won a prestigious funding award for her work on a cancer treatment...
IChemE Member Madeleine Jones wins Karen Burt Award
MADELEINE JONES, a Chartered Member of IChemE, has won the Women’s Engineering Society’s (WES) Ka...
IChemE member an ASEAN-US Science Prize for Women finalist
ICHEME associate member Chong Mei Fong will represent Malaysia as a finalist in the ASEAN-US Scie...
IChemE’s top journal reviewers recognised at WCCE10
A CEREMONY has been held in Spain to celebrate the top reviewers of IChemE’s journals.
EFCE honours individuals and team that developed 3D-printed reactor
THE European Federation of Chemical Engineering (EFCE) has today announced the winners of a serie...
Starter for ten…
AN ICHEME student member is representing the profession on the BBC’s University Challenge – and h...
IChemE member wins Malaysian award
A PRESTIGIOUS award that honours outstanding young Malaysians has been won by IChemE Member Denny...
Finalists announced for IChemE Awards 2017
ICHEME has announced a total of almost 200 finalists for its 2017 Global, Singapore and Malaysia ...
Tarmac becomes Bronze Corporate Partner
BUILDING materials and construction firm Tarmac has been made an IChemE Bronze Corporate Partner.
Zoey Clark wins silver in relay finals
CHEMICAL engineer Zoey Clark won a silver medal for Britain in the women’s 4x400 m relay at the I...
IChemE members honoured at Chemeca 2017
MEMBERS of IChemE were presented with awards of excellence at Chemeca 2017, to celebrate their co...
Chris Barrie to host IChemE Awards again
UK ACTOR and comedian Chris Barrie is set to host the 2017 IChemE Global Awards on 2 November, th...
PSE becomes IChemE Gold Corporate Partner
PROCESS SYSTEMS ENTERPRISE (PSE) is the first process engineering software company to become an I...
Jacobs Douwe Egberts is new Corporate Partner
JACOBS DOUWE EGBERTS (JDE) in Banbury, UK, has been made an IChemE Bronze Corporate Partner.
