Sentences with phrase «chemical engineers study»

Caltech's chemists and chemical engineers study nature's most intricate processes on scales from the subatomic to the macroscopic.

The scholars of Electrical, Mechanical, Electrical & Electronics, and Chemical engineering study this subject.

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A great example of this is the Mexico - based Solben, founded by Daniel Gomez in 2009 while studying chemical engineering at the University Technologico de Monterrey.

Mike Schmidt grew up outside Toronto and later attended Queen's University, studying chemical engineering.

Virginia Commonwealth teaches communication design, fashion design and interior design; Carnegie Mellon University Qatar, business and computer science; Texas A & M University at Qatar, chemical, electrical, mechanical and petroleum engineering; Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar, premedical and medical studies leading to the M.D. degree.

Destree has degrees in biochemistry and chemical engineering from UW — Madison and studied at the University of California — Davis.

However, a study recently published in Nature Communications by chemical engineers at the University of Pittsburgh's Swanson School of Engineering explains how metal nanoparticles form.

He later moved to Texas with another of his sisters to study engineering at a community college and then transferred to the University of Texas, Austin (UT Austin), where he majored in chemical engineering.

«It's good news for the mRNA delivery field and an important step,» says Kathryn Whitehead, a chemical engineer at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who was not involved in the study.

In lab tests, prototype multilayer lenses have shown they can release ciprofloxacin (an antibiotic often used to treat eye and other infections) for up to 100 days, according to a study published in the July issue of Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science by researchers from Children's Hospital Boston, the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary's (MEEI) ophthalmology department, Schepens Eye Research Institute in Boston, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (M.I.T.) chemical engineering department.

For this study, Yanik's team developed a new technology to inject RNA carried by nanoparticles called lipidoids, previously designed by Daniel Anderson, an associate professor of chemical engineering, member of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, and an author of the new paper.

Chemicals used to process the wood work for various tree species and don't pose any significant pollution concerns, says study coauthor Teng Li, a mechanical engineer at the University of Maryland in College Park.

A 2000 study found that the average salary for advanced - degreed chemical engineers 2 years past their last degree was $ 47,000 and was increasing by 8 % per year.

The ability to make and study cubic ice in the laboratory could improve computer models of how clouds interact with sunlight and the atmosphere — two keys to understanding climate change, said Barbara Wyslouzil, project leader and professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at The Ohio State University.

From microprocessor - based medical devices and rehabilitative engineering to implantable devices and biomaterials, bioengineering is that branch of applied science that integrates physical, chemical, and mathematical sciences and engineering principles in the study of biology, medicine, behavior, and health.

When these bacteria are placed inside an animal, an ultrasound detector can pick up those signals and reveal the microbes» location, much like sonar waves bouncing off ships at sea, explains study coauthor Mikhail Shapiro, a chemical engineer at Caltech.

In 2011, chemical and biochemical engineer Jessica Winter learned that she had breast cancer — ironically just 3 months after she had begun breast tumor studies in her lab at Ohio State University (OSU), Columbus.

Finding funding was probably even more difficult for me as a female who wanted to study chemical engineering.

«Once we had designed the system, we had to first go into the lab and attach these DNA strands to various proteins we wanted to be able to control,» said study author Rebecca P. Chen, a doctoral student in chemical and biomolecular engineering (no relation to Wilfred Chen).

They then isolated the active compounds, studied their chemical structures and engineered more potent derivatives.

Szilágyi started studying chemical engineering in a 5 - year master's - degree program at Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME).

The study, co-authored by Dichtel, Damian Helbling, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Cornell University, and members of their research groups at Northwestern and Cornell, recently was published by the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

A second study, out of MIT, used principles of computer engineering to design a molecular logic circuit that senses six different biomarkers, seeking out a chemical pattern unique to one type of cancer.

«Instead of building a metabolic framework from the ground up, we can reverse engineer existing regulons to enable an organism to thrive on a novel nutrient,» said Nikhil U. Nair, Ph.D., assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering at Tufts and corresponding author of this study.

And together with the University of Bath it runs an annual 1 - week course in Industrial Catalytic Processes aimed at young chemists and chemical engineers beginning their careers in industry and academia, or studying for a PhD.

Joshua Gallaway, a chemical engineer of Columbia University who was not affiliated with the study, says this type of work is critical because of biofuel's potential to reduce America's carbon footprint and its dependency on non-renewable fossil fuels.

In 2005, chemical engineer William Ristenpart of the University of California, Davis, was studying the effects of electric charge on droplets of water suspended in oil.

William Ristenpart, a chemical engineer at the University of California at Davis, was studying how the shape of a water column in oil changed as it was drawn towards an electrically charged plate.

Norman Wagner, a chemical engineer at the University of Delaware, developed the strength - enhancing substance after studying liquids whose viscosity or stiffness loosens up when they are stirred or shaken (latex paint, for instance).

«These chemicals are just everywhere,» said Keri Hornbuckle, an engineering professor at the University of Iowa and senior author of a new study.

She conducted the study with Barrett Bohnengel, a 2013 master's degree graduate of both Duke and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Joule Bergerson, assistant professor of chemical and petroleum engineering at the University of Calgary.

Yuan Chen, a professor of chemical engineering at NTU led the new study, working with Dingshan Yu, Kunli Goh, Hong Wang, Li Wei and Wenchao Jiang at NTU; Qiang Zhang at Tsinghua; and Liming Dai at Case Western Reserve.

«Finding inexpensive ways to remove lignin is one of the largest barriers to producing cost - effective biofuels,» says Ezinne Achinivu, a Ph.D. student in chemical and biomolecular engineering at NC State and lead author of a study describing the new technique.

To gain insights into the complex mechanisms behind chemotaxis, the authors of the present study held a worldwide competition to «race» engineered cells through a microfluidic maze, up a chemical gradient to the finish line.

«These structures work more or less like little rockets,» says chemical engineer Giuseppe Battaglia, also of University College London, and the study's senior author.

The challenge is to engineer a system where we get enough growth to have a productive microbial «chemical factory» but not so much that we can't channel enough of the sugars into a pathway to make large quantities of our target molecules,» says Kristala Prather, an associate professor of chemical engineering at MIT and the senior author of the study.

While this study focused on the biological aspects of nucleation, Jun said an advanced understanding of nucleation in confinement also applies to chemical engineering, materials science and environmental science and engineering.

«This method enables new combinations of metals that do not exist in nature and do not otherwise go together,» said Chao Wang, a Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering and one of the study's co-authors.

«Most of the other techniques used in the petroleum field provide the «average» values of sample parameters,» said study author Wei - Shan Chiang, a postdoctoral researcher in chemical and biomolecular engineering at UD who does work onsite at NIST Center for Neutron Research and at Aramco Services Company.

In a first - of - its - kind study, a team of environmental engineers from the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin found that infants are exposed to high levels of chemical emissions from crib mattresses while they sleep.

The study's lead author is Carl Schoellhammer, a graduate student in chemical engineering.

E. coli is popular in genetic engineering because it is deeply studied and quite hardy, able to tolerate genetic changes well, says chemical engineer Jay Keasling of the University of California, Berkeley.

That's exactly what a group of chemical engineers and biochemists attempted in a new study, embedding single - walled carbon nanotubes — microscopic tubes thinner than a human hair that can also absorb sunlight and convert it to electron flow — in living chloroplasts.

When I say I study chemical engineering some people's chins drop and they don't know what to say.

I am studying chemical engineering at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg but I have always been interested in foreign countries and have travelled throughout my life.

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In new findings, researchers have shown the polymer, poly -LSB-(3,4 - dihydroxystyrene)- co-styrene], is non-toxic to cells, said Julie Liu, an associate professor of chemical engineering and biomedical engineering who co-led the study.

«If we go back 10 years and ask what is the most important parameter [to developing a therapeutic particle], people would immediately think of the particle's size and then its surface chemistry,» says University of California, Santa Barbara, chemical engineering professor Samir Mitragotri, who develops microscopic particles of different shapes and tests their ability to deliver drugs, but was not associated with DeSimone's study.

Matthew Paszek, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Cornell and Valerie Weaver, at the University of California, San Francisco, led the study on glycoprotein - induced cancer cell survival, published online in Nature.

Co-authors of the study are Kaila M. Bennett, one of Lo's graduate students, and Sharon L. Walker, a UCR professor of chemical and environmental engineering.