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January 15, 2008
Introduction to Process Engineering & Design. By S. B. Thakore and B. I. Bhatt. Tata McGraw Hill, B-4, Sector 63, Distt. Gautam Budh Nagar, Noida, UP-201301. Web: tatamcgrawhill.com. 2007. 768 pages, Rs 500. Reviewed by Michael E. Ryan, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, The State University of New York, Buffalo, N.Y. This book is intended as a textbook for an undergraduate process...
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October 1, 2007
For the mainstream media, stories about persons guided by their pocketbooks or hormones instead of ethical principles make fodder for front-page news. Although chemical engineers are not exempt from scandals, a poor ethical decision in the chemical process industries (CPI) can be — and unfortunately, has been — more damaging than the loss of a job, career or self esteem. Damage to the...
http://www.che.com/career_tools/coworkers_and_conduct/Ethics-Part-2-Survey-Results_3413.html
September 1, 2007
The relationship between attorney and inventor is very important. A potentially valuable patent is involved, and the value of it is often dependent in large part on how well the inventor and attorney work together. It is very helpful if the chemical engineer as inventor has some basic knowledge of the patent system and what interacting with a patent attorney will be like, even before there is...
http://www.che.com/career_tools/coworkers_and_conduct/Working-With-A-Patent-Attorney_3362.html
September 1, 2007
Fundamentals of Industrial Catalytic Processes, Second Edition. By C.H. Bartholomew and R.J. Farrauto. John Wiley & Sons, 111 River St., Hoboken, NJ. Web: wiley.com. 2006. 966 pages. $99.95 Reviewed by Richard D. Newman, Ph.D., CRI Catalyst Company, Houston, Tex. This second edition is an extensive update of the first edition published in 1995. The book consists of two parts. Part I is a...
http://www.che.com/career_tools/bookshelf/September-Bookshelf_3409.html
August 1, 2007
Chemical engineers, whether directly engaged in R&D or not, routinely deal with situations that are new and different, not only to them, but to those in the chemical process industries (CPI) as a whole. Quite often, the way such situations are handled produces one or more patentable inventions. In the event that a patent is sought on the invention(s), the chemical engineer (inventor) will...
http://www.che.com/career_tools/coworkers_and_conduct/A-Primer-on-Patent-Law_3117.html
July 1, 2007
While statistics from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS; Washington, D.C.; www.bls.gov) and trends reported by the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Arlington, Va.; www.americanchemistry.com) suggest chemical engineers seeking work may be singing the blues, chemical processors and chemical engineering professors are belting out a very different tune. According to BLS’s 2000 to...
http://www.che.com/career_tools/professional_development/Happy-Days-are-Here-Again_3328.html
July 1, 2007
Fluid Mechanics for Chemical Engineers. Second edition. By James O. Wilkes. Prentice Hall PTR, 1 Lake St., Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458. Web: phptr.com. 2005. 784 pages. $120.80. Reviewed by Ron Darby, Texas A&M University, College Station, Tex. This is a revised and expanded edition (with some 150 additional pages) of the book first published in 1999. The book is divided into two parts: Part I —...
http://www.che.com/career_tools/bookshelf/July-Bookshelf_3410.html
May 1, 2007
Compressors and Modern Process Applications. By Heinz P. Bloch. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 111 River St., Hoboken, NJ 07030. Web: wiley.com. 2006. 339 pages, $99.95. Reviewed by Stanley S. Grossel, Process Safety & Design, Inc., Clifton, N.J. This is the second book on compressors by the author that was published in 2006. The first book, “A Practical Guide on Compressor Technology” was...
http://www.che.com/career_tools/bookshelf/May-Bookshelf_3411.html
January 1, 2007
What skills are required to effectively lead a project team? Leadership is different from management, requires different knowledge, a different skill set, and accomplishes a different purpose. Management deals with the present; leadership deals with the future. Management deals with resources; leadership deals with people and personalities. Management deals with facts; leadership deals with...
http://www.che.com/career_tools/professional_development/Leadership-of-Project-Teams_3116.html
October 1, 2006
Everyone knows that engineers are good with numbers. We can measure, calculate, tabulate, and report results accurately. But after you take pains to get the numbers right in your reports, sales brochures, or capital expenditure requests, readers in many cases misread, misinterpret, or just plain miss the figures that you want them to understand. Fortunately, several techniques are available...
http://www.che.com/career_tools/writing_and_presenting/Optimize-Your-Presentation-of-Numbers_2772.html
September 1, 2006
Chemical engineering and, perhaps to a lesser degree, other kinds of engineering are topics of intense interest to contemporary ethicists and philosophers. In many cases, this scrutiny has been triggered by unfortunate safety or pollution incidents from the recent past in “our” process industries. In some circles, merely identifying oneself as a chemical engineer arouses negative...
http://www.che.com/career_tools/professional_development/Ethics-and-Professionalism_2771.html
June 1, 2006
During career coaching to hundreds of individuals, I’ve come to realize that the people who take longest to find meaningful employment tend to commit the same blunders. Singled out here are ten of the most egregious career-stalling maneuvers. If you are (or plan to be) looking for a job and you recognize a little of yourself in any of these ten areas, take immediate remedial action, along the lines...
http://www.che.com/career_tools/professional_development/Job-Hunting-Avoid-These-Ten-Blunders_2769.html
April 1, 2006
For any of us who have kept up in recent years with the business news (happenings at Enron and some major Wall Street firms, say), it seems safe to assume that, nowadays at least, ethical behavior and personal honesty are not such overarching issues for the engineering community as they are for at least some segments of the business and financial community. Even so, issues of conscience clearly can arise...
http://www.che.com/career_tools/professional_development/A-worthwhile-trek-back-to-the-sandbox_3095.html
June 1, 2005
For some chemical engineers, the tank is half full; for others, it is half empty. Technically, both are right, especially if the discussion pertains to what they were paid in 2004. Where optimists argue that overall salaries continued to rise, cynics remind us that today’s dollar, pound or yen does not put as much bread on the table as it did the previous year. Take the latest numbers...
http://www.che.com/career_tools/professional_development/Salary-Prognosis-Its-All-Relative_3414.html
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