http://www.che.com Chemical Engineering en-us 2010 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:29:13 EST A little over one month ago, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) received national pledges from 55 countries, to cut and limit greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions... http://www.che.com/editors_comments/5488.html Mon, 1 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EST Late last month, in an event at the White House, the U.S. National Science Board (NSB) released its Science and Engineering Indicators 2010 report. Produced every two years by NSB — the... http://www.che.com/editors_comments/5444.html Mon, 1 Feb 2010 0:00:00 EST Number six on this magazine’s list of twelve tips for clearer technical writing is “When writing about concepts that are new, unfamiliar or abstract, try to include examples.”... http://www.che.com/editors_comments/5373.html Fri, 1 Jan 2010 0:00:00 EST Like it or not, 2009 will go down as a year when massive structural change began in the chemicals business. We are far from feeling the full effects of the upheaval, but there is a sense of... http://www.che.com/editors_comments/5315.html Tue, 1 Dec 2009 0:00:00 EST Early next month, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences will hold its award ceremonies for the 2009 Nobel Prizes, the winners of which were announced in October. The prestigious awards are... http://www.che.com/editors_comments/5208.html Sun, 1 Nov 2009 0:00:00 EDT Last month, the chemical engineering profession began to feel its first aftershocks from an explosion that occurred nearly two years ago at a plant that most of you would be hard-pressed to... http://www.che.com/editors_comments/5137.html Thu, 1 Oct 2009 0:00:00 EDT The first round of judging in Chemical Engineering's 2009 Kirkpatrick Chemical Engineering Achievement Award competition has produced the following five finalists... http://www.che.com/editors_comments/5022.html Tue, 1 Sep 2009 0:00:00 EDT While the worst of the recession may very well be over for the global economy in general, the downstream effects in the chemical process industries (CPI) will take awhile to flush themselves... http://www.che.com/editors_comments/4968.html Sat, 1 Aug 2009 0:00:00 EDT In offering up strategies for the chemical process industries (CPI), many business experts turn to the virtues of a global stage. For decades now, CPI companies in developed countries have... http://www.che.com/editors_comments/4907.html Wed, 1 Jul 2009 0:00:00 EDT Chemical engineering principles do not differ by geographical location. The same cannot be said, however, about the established criteria for certifying that an individual has mastery of those principles. Requirements for obtaining a professional license or charter in the field vary widely from country to country, and in the U.S. they even vary from state to state. Such inconsistencies further complicate an initiative that has recently gained momentum — and criticism — in the U.S. and elsewhere: raising the educational prerequisite from a bachelor’s to a master’s degree.... http://www.che.com/editors_comments/4828.html Mon, 1 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT