
IChemE Global Awards 2023
Matt Stalker offers some useful tips to anyone planning an awards entry this year
Matt Stalker offers some useful tips to anyone planning an awards entry this year
Hosts Birmingham win this year’s Frank Morton sports day
Amanda Jasi reports from this year’s Presidential Address
Amanda Jasi speaks to pioneering chemical engineer Robert Langer about his successes and offers a...
Martin Pitt celebrates the life of John W Hinchley
Amanda Jasi speaks to Nobel Prize winner Frances Arnold about how chemical engineering can help h...
Keith Batchelor explains the fund, and shares some personal accounts from members that have ben...
Martin Pitt explores the 19th century inventors of the symbols and calculations upon which modern...
With IChemE’s Centenary celebrations under way, Martin Pitt explores the chemical engineers who i...
Members of IChemE's Safety & Loss Prevention SIG introduce a series that showcases the roles in p...
A culture of care is the foundation, says Mark Walker
Yasmin Ali speaks to Maria Papathanasiou about how she ended up using mathematical modelling to a...
Adam Duckett on setting boundaries
New IChemE President Jane Cutler speaks to Adam Duckett
Shining a light on the valuable work of IChemE volunteers
Yasmin Ali talks to Jason Ballengee about his journey from hydrogen-powered cars to food innovation
Yasmin Ali speaks to US-based Doug Hall – inventor, whiskey maker, and founder of Eureka! Ranch.
Yasmin Ali speaks to Tom Tribone, CEO of Franklin Park, a US-based global owner of energy and inf...
Annual student sports meet calls on students and sponsors to support new virtual format
How might we use the power of assertive behaviour to good effect?
Shining a light on the valuable work of IChemE volunteers
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Yasmin Ali speaks to Mohammed Khan, Managing Director – Life Science Technologies at Johnson Matthey
Shining a light on the valuable work of IChemE volunteers
Safety expert Wassim Naddi on Lebanon’s disregard for safety and the need for change.
Yasmin Ali interviews Sara Penrose, a Chartered Chemical Engineer and a professional artist.
Jane Cutler, IChemE’s newly-elected Deputy President, talks to Adam Duckett
Shining a light on the valuable work of IChemE volunteers
How the Salters' Institute recognises and supports outstanding young chemists and chemical engine...
AS celebrations get underway for International Women in Engineering Day (INWED), we caught up wit...
Yasmin Ali speaks to David Young, a Research Engineer at the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult.
Yasmin Ali speaks to Judy Raper, Dean and CEO of TEDI-London, a startup providing engineering hig...
Yasmin Ali interviews Lina Aglén, Lead Engineer at FairHeat
Yasmin Ali interviews Fiona Macleod about her life in chemicals and crime fiction
Shining a light on the valuable work of IChemE volunteers
Shining a light on the valuable work of IChemE volunteers
Shining a light on the valuable work of IChemE volunteers
Shining a light on the valuable work of IChemE volunteers
Yasmin Ali interviews Maryam Farhanah, Senior Process Engineer at Mott MacDonald.
Yasmin Ali speaks to Michael Wise, Chemical Process Engineer at Worn Again Technologies.
From working in water treatment to paving the way for film productions including Harry Potter
Shining a light on the valuable work of IChemE volunteers
Shining a light on the valuable work of IChemE volunteers
Yasmin Ali interviews Jaega Wise, Head Brewer at Wild Card Brewery in London.
Shining a light on the valuable work of IChemE volunteers
Obituary of Chris Hewitt, Pro Vice-Chancellor and Executive Dean of the School of Life and Health...
Yasmin Ali interviews Chris Woodroofe about his journey from manufacturing to airport operations
Obituary of Professor Michael Streat, an eminent chemical engineer and a leading expert in separa...
TWO IChemE members, as part of an engineering team, have been awarded the Royal Academy of Engine...
HELD on 23 June, International Women in Engineering Day (INWED) is a global awareness campaign wh...
Yasmin Ali interviews chemical-engineer-turned-journalist David Adam
Yasmin Ali interviews Olivia Sweeney about how chemical engineering led her to a career with cosm...
Yasmin Ali interviews Jonathan Cable to find out more about his path to archiving
Yasmin Ali interviews Caroline Metcalf about her journey from aluminium smelters to railway stations
Photos from the UK’s annual Frank Morton Sports Day, where The University of Birmingham took top ...
Yasmin Ali interviews Bob Langer about his journey from playing with chemistry sets to pioneerin...
How UCL chemical engineering professor Marc-Olivier Coppens finds inspiration in nature
Amanda Jasi reviews the winners of IChemE's annual awards programme
Adam Duckett speaks to engineers, schoolchildren and teachers who took part in the UK government’...
A profile of Rachel Cooke, central programs engineering manager for Amazon in Europe, based in Lu...
Yasmin Ali speaks to Vince Pizzoni, associate professor at Nottingham University, executive searc...
Bryden Wood is a technology and design company that designs residential, commercial, and process ...
As lessons emerge following the Grenfell Tower review, chemical engineers have a duty to share th...
Chemical engineers are well suited to assessing fire safety by applying systems thinking and a ri...
Erin Johnson, Ashok Kumar Fellow, talks to IChemE’s Rachael Fraser
As testing begins in Texas, Allam shares his thoughts on building emissions-free natural gas plan...
The Salters' Institute is offering awards of £2,500 to recognise and support outstanding young ch...
A Strathclyde students' project to help supply clean water to rural areas in Uganda
How reverse mentoring is bridging the generational skills gap while encouraging fresh thinking
The future of IChemE is in your hands
Richard Jansen-Parkes looks into the life and times of Nathaniel Wyeth, inventor of the PET bottle
Introducing your nominees for IChemE’s 2018 trustee vacancies
Claudia Flavell-While speaks with Yoshio Nishi, the Sony engineer who led the development of the ...
Claudia Flavell-While charts the rise of business giant (and chemical engineer) Jack Welch
A look at organisational culture and creativity.
Spencer Silver and Arthur Fry: the chemist and the tinkerer who created the Post-it Note
In the first of a series looking at the work of IChemE’s volunteers, we profile the Young Members...
Photos from the UK’s annual Frank Morton Sports Day, where The University of Birmingham took top ...
Jay Bailey helped to bring chemical engineering to cell level. Claudia Flavell-While investigates
… for Bob Gore, one giant leap for outdoor lovers. Claudia Flavell-While looks at the history of ...
IChemE members Sanjoy Sen and Mick Lee go head-to-head in a fight for survival on UK television
Claudia Flavell-While explores the surprising ancestry of modern electronic gadgets, and how a ch...
Claudia Flavell-While explores the contribution of separation scientist Csaba Horváth
Richard Jansen-Parkes looks at the life of Lewis Urry, inventor of the alkaline battery and fathe...
Claudia Flavell-While charts the contribution of P&G’s Victor Mills
Trevor Kletz, the father of inherent safety, explains his remarkable career
Helen Tunnicliffe reviews the winners of IChemE’s annual awards programme
Chemical engineers have a lot to answer for – including the Summer of Love. Claudia Flavell-Whi...
Richard Jansen looks at the life and work of Andrew Grove, a founding father of the silicon age
Vladimir Haensel’s brainchild, the platforming process, underpins transport and plastics producti...
Pfizer's Penicillin Pioneers – Jasper Kane and John McKeen
Overshadowed by his brother Wernher, Magnus von Braun still had a fateful role to play. Claudia F...
Claudia Flavell-While goes on the trail of Dudley Maurice Newitt – a developer of spy gadgetry an...
Tips on giving and receiving feedback
Insights on how a major employer of engineers handles its graduate recruitment process.
Rethinking the PhD – and your perceptions
2015 marks the centenary of the Great Shell Crisis of World War I (WWI), in which the British Arm...
Alchemy. It’s a word that conjures up images of charlatans and quackery, of quasi-mythical men po...
For a series called Chemical Engineers who Changed the World, it would be downright rude not to f...
Leo Hendrik Baekeland, the inventor of Bakelite, whose work ushered in the age of polymers
The commercial success of PE starts with Reginald Gibson, Eric Fawcett, Michael Perrin and Dermot...
The prospects at birth for Edward Charles Howard and Norbert Rillieux could scarcely have been mo...
Arthur D Little defined unit operations and, with it, a whole profession, says Claudia Flavell-While
One of the first chemicals to be produced at industrial scale, a product that laid the foundation...
If the industrial revolution was built on steel, then the father of the industrial revolution was...
Beer has a lot to answer for, and not just beer bellies. Beer is also to blame for some key techn...
From fuel hero to climate zero: Claudia Flavell-While on the turbulent life of Thomas Midgley
Waldo Semon has a lot to answer for, finds Claudia Flavell-While
Fluid catalytic cracking has been called ‘the most revolutionary chemical engineering achievement...
No chemical engineering feat better illustrates the double-edged nature of many inventions than t...
MARK APSEY has been elected to IChemE’s Board of Trustees as deputy president and will become pre...
ALVIN NIENOW, a pioneer of biochemical engineering, has died aged 85.
ICHEME is accepting applications from final year students and postgraduates for the Ashok Kumar F...
TRISH KERIN, director of the IChemE Safety Centre, has been appointed chair of the Major Hazards ...
Sir David Harrison, an educationalist who co-published leading literature on fluidisation, died o...
CLAIRE ADJIMAN, a chemical engineer and Fellow of IChemE, has been elected to the US National Aca...
IAIN CONN, a chemical engineer and IChemE Fellow, is set to become the new chair of EngineeringUK...
ICHEME president David Bogle has given a speech to UCL students in which he traced the history of...
DARRELL PATTERSON is the first person to be awarded a posthumous professorship by the UK’s Univer...
ADISA Azapagic has been awarded the Davis Medal for her work on sustainable production and consum...
IN ITS 10th year, the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering has been awarded to four engineers wh...
ROGER KILBURN, a chemical engineer and Fellow of IChemE, has been appointed the chair of the UK’s...
Obituary of John O'Shea a devoted volunteer, mentor and teacher, whose dedication to the professi...
YVONNE BAKER has been appointed the new CEO of IChemE and will join the institution in April.
ICHEME Fellow Oluwole Olawale Folayan has been appointed a Member of the Order of the British Emp...
ICHEME member Ali Abbas, one of Australia’s leading chemical engineers, has been announced as Aus...
ARTHUR Lindsay Mallen, a keen mentor to both young and not-so-young professionals and a longstand...
THE ROYAL Academy of Engineering has elected 72 leading UK and international figures in the field...
ICheme has issued a statement paying tribute to Her Majesty the Queen, who sadly passed away on 8...
SHELL’S CEO, Ben van Beurden, is preparing to step down next year after nearly a decade as head o...
CHARTERED chemical engineer Marlene Kanga, who successfully campaigned for World Engineering Day,...
THOMAS Michael O’Connor, who dedicated his life to educating chemical engineers about the importa...
JOSH Fearns, a chemical engineering graduate of the University of Surrey, UK has been awarded ICh...
Considered by many to be the “Father of Process Intensification”, Colin Ramshaw leaves behind a l...
ICHEME has announced the shortlisted finalists for its annual Malaysia awards. They include Sime ...
Radio presenter, and Strictly Come Dancing TV show presenter Reverend Richard Coles has been sign...
Former IChemE President Dame Judith Hackitt will reflect on the importance of cross-sector hazard...
COINCIDING with the celebration of International Women in Engineering Day (INWED) 2022, Research ...
DAVID Bogle has become the 81st President of IChemE. Yesterday, he delivered an Address focussed ...
MARLENE Kanga, a chartered chemical engineer who successfully campaigned for a global engineering...
A TEAM of school students who designed a solar water sterilisation system has won this year’s Dav...
RAFFAELLA OCONE has been elected to IChemE’s Board of Trustees.
ANDREW LIVINGSTON, Professor of Chemical Engineering at Queen Mary University of London, has been...
NIGEL Hirst will be IChemE’s next Deputy President, while David Edwards will join the Board of Tr...
Obituary of Clive Millington, former Deputy Head of Department at the University of Surrey
STUDENTS who are interested in science and technology policy are invited to apply for the Ashok K...
ICHEME’S inaugural Junior Sargent Medal has been awarded to Fani Boukouvala for her development o...
MASATO Sagawa has won the 2022 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (QEPrize) for his work on th...
ELIZABETH HOLMES, a former chemical engineering student who garnered praise as a Silicon Valley b...
Obituary of Uğur Tüzün, FIChemE, author, teacher and researcher in the field of particle technology
ICHEME Chartered member Yvonne Baker has been recognised for services to STEM education, receivin...
Obituary of David Wood, international statesman of the chemical engineering profession and first ...
RAY SINNOTT, who had a profound impact on chemical engineers through the book Chemical Engineerin...
PETER ASHMAN is the new Chair of the Australian and New Zealand Federation of Chemical Engineers ...
A WASTEWATER treatment process that uses bacteria immobilised in plastic lenses has been awarded ...
TWO chemical engineers – Frances Arnold and Paula Hammond – will advise US President Joe Biden as...
ROSE Amal, a Fellow of IChemE, has been awarded this year’s prestigious Chemeca Medal, in recog...
HAZARDS 31 will feature a talk by cybersecurity expert Sarabjit Purewal – from the UK’s Health an...
IAN Shott, Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) and IChemE Fellow, has gifted the academy’s Enter...
Obituary of John Bridgwater, former IChemE president
Obituary of John Grace, one of the leading chemical engineers in Canada, known worldwide for his ...
DATUK Sazali Hamzah, IChemE Fellow and CEO of Petronas Chemical Group, has been appointed to the ...
JANE Cutler has become the 80th President of IChemE. She delivered an expansive Presidential addr...
KEVIN Marshall has been made a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit by the Queen, for his ...
A TEAM of school students who developed a biodegradable face mask made from potato starch have wo...
DAVID Bogle has been elected as IChemE’s President for 2022/3. The news comes as IChemE announced...
JOHN BOTTERILL, a pioneer of heat transfer research, died in Birmingham, UK, on 9 February at the...
ICHEME has paid tribute to Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, and his time as Royal Patron of ...
Obituary of Jan Guidoboni, a long-time Fellow of IChemE, winner of the Donald Medal 1996 for “out...
ICHEME has announced that process safety experts from the energy and medical research sectors wil...
ICHEME has published a new book showcasing the works of process safety pioneer Trevor Kletz.
LAST week, chemical engineers and Fellows of IChemE Chris Fell and the late Graeme Paul were reco...
STEVE Bagshaw, a Fellow of IChemE, has been awarded a CBE in the New Year Honours List for his se...
HER Majesty The Queen has awarded 2020 Birthday Honours to chemical engineers and IChemE Fellows ...
THREE ICHEME Fellows – Yulong Ding, David Edwards and Omar Matar – have been elected as Fellows o...
ROBERT “Bob” Gore, chemical engineer and renowned inventor of Gore-Tex has died at the age of 83.
ICHEME Fellow Zhanfeng Cui and his team at the University of Oxford, UK have received an award fr...
THE UK’s Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) has launched a campaign aiming to deliver a Fellows...
Obituary of Owen Edward Potter AM, a seminal figure in chemical engineering in Australia.
RWTH Aachen University, Germany is expanding research into electrochemistry – an area that could ...
BRITISH plant biologist Dame Ottoline Leyser has been appointed as new CEO of UK Research and Inn...
JANE Cutler has been elected to take up the position of IChemE Deputy President from June.
Obituary of John Solbett, former IChemE President
THADDEUS Anim-Somuah has been recognised by media outlet Forbes as one of its 30 people under the...
EARLIER this month, members of the new IChemE Malaysia Board paid a courtesy visit to Her Royal H...
DEREK LISTER has been appointed a Member of the Order of Canada for his contributions to nuclear ...
A TEAM of students from University of Manchester, UK, has won IChemE’s Macnab-Lacey Prize for the...
Obituary of Ronald Hughes, an influential catalysis researcher
PIPER Alpha survivor Steve Rae will share the story of how his survival has led to a lifelong dri...
ENERGY experts and dedicated volunteers are among 26 chemical engineers being recognised by IChem...
UK Research and Innovation has appointed Mercedes Maroto-Valer, IChemE Fellow and Professor at He...
THE University of Derby, UK is currently hosting a photography exhibit entitled Women Engineers –...
Obituary of John Davidson, often referred to as a “founding father of fluidisation” in chemical e...
BRITISH chemist Sir Martyn Poliakoff has received the 2019 International Science and Technology C...
ICHEME Fellow Dominic Foo has been made a Fellow of the Academy of Sciences Malaysia (ASM).
ICHEME Fellow Clifford Jones has been awarded a Distinguished Fellowship by the Royal Australian ...
MANDY LESTER, Chartered Member of IChemE, has won the 2019 Karen Burt Award for her commitment to...
OIL and gas company Petronas scooped four out of the eight trophies given at IChemE’s Malaysia Aw...
YOUTUBE star and chemist Martyn Poliakoff has published a video looking at lithium-ion batteries,...
THE 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to John Goodenough, Stanley Whittingham, and A...
ICHEME has awarded the new SIESO Medal, a student process safety award, to four chemical engineer...
ICHEME Member Irteza Piracha has attended a ceremony at Buckingham Palace after the company he le...
ICHEME has awarded Leatham Landon-Lane, chemical engineering post-graduate student at the Univers...
HER Majesty The Queen has awarded birthday honours to IChemE Fellow Katherine Hirschfeld and Hono...
ON 23 May IChemE presented ten chemical engineers with medals for their outstanding contributions...
ACTOR Warwick Davis will host IChemE’s Global Awards on 7 November in Hull, UK.
CHRIS Higman has been awarded IChemE’s Hebden Medal for his contributions to gasification.
HENRICUS ‘Hans’ Michels passed away peacefully on 8 March at the age of 85.
KEVIN Dixon-Jackson, a longstanding member of IChemE’s Hazards conference organising committee, p...
CHEMICAL engineering postgraduate Jeni Spragg has produced a report to help UK parliamentarians m...
ICHEME has announced that Stephen Richardson will be presented to the AGM for election as Deputy ...
FABIO Schvartsman has resigned as the CEO of Vale, following the fatal collapse of a Vale mine ta...
SAM Mannan, a safety expert who died last year, will have a prize named in his honour at IChemE’s...
FOUR engineers responsible for creating the first global, satellite-based positioning system – GP...
FIVE years on from the publication of his engineering skills review for the UK Government, former...
ICHEME, the University of Chester, and major employers in the region are working together to offe...
GEOFFREY (“Geoff”) Hewitt, Emeritus Professor of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London,...
ICHEME Fellow Alvin Nienow has received the Peter Dunnill Award in recognition of his outstanding...
ICHEME has awarded the Andrew Medal to Freek Kapteijn, Professor and Section Head of Catalysis En...
SIX IChemE members have been recognised for their research excellence by the Academy of Sciences ...
ICHEME Fellows and chemical engineering professors, Geoffrey Maitland and Raffaella Ocone, have b...
A CHEMICAL engineering Master’s student at the University of Chester, UK, has been awarded a regi...
ENGINEERING was the focus of celebration today at a first-of-a-kind national service held at Lond...
BP-FUNDED fellowships have been awarded to two scientists at the UK’s University of Manchester. T...
THROUGHOUT history, industries have either fought change or embraced it. Now, with the global thr...
A NEW technology that converts solid household waste into sustainable bio-energy has won the top ...
FORMER IChemE Council members Dame Judith Hackitt and Ed Daniels have been awarded honorary degre...
LAST night London’s Science Museum unveiled a series of drawings by renowned illustrator Quentin ...
Her Royal Highness Zara Salim, Queen of Perak, presented two promising chemical engineers with tr...
CHEMICAL engineer Frances Arnold has been awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her pione...
CHEMICAL engineering professors and IChemE members, Chris Hewitt, Zhibing Zhang, and Barry Lennox...
JENNIFER Spragg, a postgraduate student in bioenergy at the University of Leeds, UK, will advise ...
ROGER Sargent, the founding father of process systems engineering, passed away on 11 September fo...
THE chair of IChemE’s Malaysia board, Christina Phang, has met with the country’s new energy mini...
M SAM MANNAN, a chemical engineer and pioneer of process safety, passed away on 11 September 2018.
CHEMICAL engineering students at the University of Sheffield, UK have successfully won the bid to...
LEADING engineering experts in nuclear energy and sustainability will deliver keynote speeches at...
PLENARY speeches on topics of wine-making and pharmaceuticals have been announced for Australasia...
FIRE safety is important to all of us, both in residential buildings and on industrial sites, and...
THE QUEEN has awarded birthday honours to four members of IChemE: Rose Amal, David Hind, Graham H...
IChemE member Rona Chandrawati has been named in the World Economic Forum’s 2018 Young Scientists...
SEVEN chemical engineers have been awarded medals for their outstanding contributions to process ...
PHILIP ALDRIDGE, an IChemE member who has taken over as CEO of England’s Northeast Process Indust...
CHEMICAL engineer Lynn Gladden will be the next executive chair of the Engineering and Physical S...
MORE than 200 engineers gathered in Manchester, UK, earlier this month to celebrate excellence in...
CHEMICAL engineer Andrew Liveris has donated A$13.5m to his alma matar the University of Queensla...
TWO chemical engineers - Jinghai Li and Raghunath Anant Mashelkar – have joined the judging panel...
AN INDUSTRY forum held in Texas has discussed the response of chemical companies to Hurricane Har...
CHEMICAL engineer Andrew Liveris will step down in April as executive chair of DowDuPont, the hol...
FIRE safety will be a key topic at IChemE’s process safety conference Hazards Australasia 2018, w...
ICHEME has announced the six members of a new committee that has been formed to ensure that trust...
ICHEME Fellow Tan Sri Wan Zulkiflee Wan Arrifin has had his contract as CEO of Petronas extended ...
TWO Chartered Members of IChemE, Sanjoy Sen and Mick Lee, will clash on Monday night on UK televi...
CHEMICAL engineers Russell Scott and David Wood have been awarded Member in the General Division ...
CHEMICAL engineer Timothy Noël has been awarded the 2017 DECHEMA Prize for his pioneering work on...
ICHEME’s membership has delivered a strong vote of confidence in the current leadership at an ext...
STAN HIGGINS, an Associate Fellow of IChemE, has been awarded an OBE in the UK’s New Year’s Honou...
MICHELLE “NANOGIRL” DICKINSON from the University of Auckland and Transpower CEO Alison Andrew wi...
ICHEME Fellow Karen Hapgood has been appointed executive dean of the faculty of science, engineer...
IMECHE has released a report calling for the UK government to integrate engineering into the scho...
SIMON BIGGS, currently the executive dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Informa...
THE UK government has announced that it has appointed Patrick Vallance as its chief scientific ad...
THE National University of Singapore (NUS), Shell and Croda were amongst the winners at the eight...
ICHEME has appointed Henry Mangkusasono, technical safety engineer at Petroleum Development Oman ...
AN ICHEME Associate Member has won a prestigious funding award for her work on a cancer treatment...
ANDREW Liveris will take a board position at an Australian battery company when he steps down fro...
MADELEINE JONES, a Chartered Member of IChemE, has won the Women’s Engineering Society’s (WES) Ka...
ICHEME associate member Chong Mei Fong will represent Malaysia as a finalist in the ASEAN-US Scie...
RAKESH AGRAWAL, chemical engineering professor at Purdue University, speaks on camera to The Chem...
THE European Federation of Chemical Engineering (EFCE) has today announced the winners of a serie...
AN ICHEME student member is representing the profession on the BBC’s University Challenge – and h...
A PRESTIGIOUS award that honours outstanding young Malaysians has been won by IChemE Member Denny...
ICHEME has announced a total of almost 200 finalists for its 2017 Global, Singapore and Malaysia ...
CHEMICAL engineer Max Lu has been appointed to the UK Council for Science and Technology (CST), a...
THE engineering profession needs a widespread culture change to improve inclusion in the workplac...
THREE IChemE Fellows, Joan Cordiner, Sir Martyn Poliakoff and Dame Angela Strank have been electe...
TODAY is International Women in Engineering Day, and while 16% of engineering students are female...
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