7 Must-Follow Twitter Accounts For Engineers and Scientists

Twitter accounts are a means of disseminating information on any topic you can think of. Even scientists can use Twitter accounts to share information. The following Twitter accounts should be followed by every scientist. The pursuit of knowledge just got a lot easier thanks to the Tweets that these accounts put out.
1. PopMech
This Twitter account [...]

Professors develop sweet new power source

It’s not quite as simple as plugging your laptop into a can of soda, but a team of BYU researchers is hoping to give the world a sweeter, cheaper source of power through the abundant glucose molecule.
“We’re always searching for better sources of electrical power,” said Dean Wheeler, a chemical engineering professor in BYU’s Fulton [...]

Has Crude Oil Peaked?

The EIA (Energy Information Administration) released last week’s inventory report this morning. Crude oil inventory is down, but gasoline and distillates (diesel, jet A & home heating oil) are up. The lower inventory did not cause a rally in crude prices as one would expect. The larger supply of gasoline and distillates is viewed as [...]

Schorlarship from Nagaoka University of Technology

JENESYS Program 2009/10: Invitation Project of Undergraduate and Postgraduate Students of Environment related subjects, Implemented by JASSO.
What you will do in this program are as follows:
1. You will do research work in specific laborotories at NUT (Nagaoka University of Technology) for one year from September 2009.
2. Before starting this program, both of your supervisors at [...]

Analyze Process Costs with SRI Consulting’s New PEP Yearbook

Today, SRI Consulting (SRIC) released its 2008 Process Economics Program (PEP) Yearbook, a valuable and timely yearbook and web based tool that provides itemized production cost data for over 1100 processes, covering 600 commercial chemical and refinery products. Regions covered are the U.S., Germany, Japan and China as well as more limited [...]

Introduction to Chemical Engineering Video

This is an excellent video showing an introduction to what chemical engineering is all about. If you have no idea what is chemical engineering, then this is a video you should watch. It was created by Stanford Chemical Engineering Department.

The head TA for Introduction to Chemical Engineering (E20) fills in for Professor Channing Robertson and [...]

Welcome to Chem-Eng-Net.com

Hi there,
This is a new Chemical Engineering blog currently under massive development. I have been blogging using a blogspot.com platform for the pass 2.5 years. It is now the time for me to grow my blogging activities and raise it to a higher level. I have bought a new dot com specially devoted for Chemical [...]