Sentences with phrase «chemical engineers work»

The real significance of this research, Mavrikakis says, is less about basic chemistry and more about offering a way forward as chemical engineers work to predict and synthesize new catalytic materials, with the ultimate goal of replacing platinum and palladium with more affordable metals.

A chemical engineer working on ways to design new antibiotics has won the National Science Foundation's prestigious Alan T. Waterman award for young researchers.

«We're showing the current products only remove about half of the sulfite based on our initial testing,» said Maddie Lyda, an undergraduate senior in chemical engineering working on the project in Shiflett's group.

The collaboration of Claussen's group of nanoengineers developing printed graphene technologies and Mallapragada's group of chemical engineers working on nerve regeneration began with some informal conversations on campus.

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She earned a master's in chemical engineering from Princeton and worked in a number of roles at J&J, including marketing, product science, and devices.

The squeeze system Sharei then designed to temporarily disrupt cell membranes — for which he's been granted most of his 10 patents — is the basis for SQZ Biotech, the company he co-founded in 2013 with the pioneering MIT professors he worked for: Klavs Jensen, the school's head of chemical engineering, and Robert Langer, a renowned bioengineer and serial entrepreneur.

These brainy engineers working on the outskirts of Fort Worth, dubbed «mildcatters» by Texas Monthly magazine, then blew the layer up in 100 - metre segments, one at a time, using bursts of water, sand and chemicals.

Chemical engineer professor Michael Egan began his career in Canada with the Hiram Walker Group, famous for their Canadian Club whisky, and cut his teeth working at distilleries in Illinois and Ontario.

As a chemical engineer and businessman, Mark worked in air separation, pharmaceuticals, engineering and mathematics in the UK, Australia, and the USA.

Campaigns in India have gained momentum against genetically engineered rice, including the Save our Rice network, the Folk Rice Movement and the Seed Mothers movement; all working to conserve and salvage thousands of traditional and indigenous seed varieties which would have otherwise been eroded by the onslaught of hybrid technology and conventional chemical inputs in the past decades.

The Trinidad Scorpion, which has a pod that comes to a point like a stinger, was tested last year by Marlin Bensinger, a chemical engineer who has worked with peppers extensively for more than 40 years.

Working from our laboratories, application and development centers around the world, our scientists and engineers create coatings, specialty chemicals, and advanced additive and colorant technologies that transform the way we experience products from automotive plastics to children's art supplies.

She was working as a chemical engineer and pregnant with my second child when she decided to go back to school to become a certified nutrition coach in 2016.

Alfonsi reports from within Pamper's Top Secret Research and Development Center where over 500 scientists, chemical engineers and seamstresses work to improve the look, feel, absorbency, and trimness of today's disposable diapers.

He has worked as a chemical engineer in the pharmaceutical industry, and now works in the insurance industry for Capitol Risk Management Services, Ltd. in Nanuet.

When I graduated with my doctorate in 1974, the standard chemical engineering job was to work at an oil company.

«This is a really nice piece of science,» says Alfred Spormann, a chemical engineer at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, who was not involved in the work.

While Berkland was working on his Ph.D. in chemical and biological engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign, faculty members there started a company that incorporated Berkland's research on fabricating micro - and nanostructures from biodegradable polymers.

However, Ahmed Osman, an Early Career Researcher from Queen's University's School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, has worked with engineers at the university to create an innovative crystallisation method, which obtains 100 % pure single crystals of aluminium salts from the contaminated foil.

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.

According to Ma, it's a great time for chemical engineers to consider working in the Canadian petrochemical sector, especially in Alberta and British Columbia.

There are analytical chemists, food engineers and scientists, soil scientists, computer programmers, microbiologists, post-harvest engineers, agricultural engineers, chemical engineers, and others, all working together in the field of biosystems engineering.

Organic chemists along with chemical and process engineers often carry out this work.

«The proposed hydricity concept represents a potential breakthrough solution for continuous and efficient power generation,» said Rakesh Agrawal, Purdue University's Winthrop E. Stone Distinguished Professor in the School of Chemical Engineering, who worked with chemical engineering doctoral student Emre Gençer and other reseChemical Engineering, who worked with chemical engineering doctoral student Emre Gençer and other resechemical engineering doctoral student Emre Gençer and other researchers.

Many of these projects involved working closely with engineers, and so we had the idea that we could combine both sciences and develop automated solutions for chemical and environmental processes in the lab.

George Georgiou, a chemical engineer at the University of Texas, Austin, says that industry values people who are not just collaborative but who can work in an interdisciplinary way.

Engineers are working on more effective (and cooler) techniques like super-high pressure, chemical coatings, and, yes, laser ovens.

«I get to direct research on my own terms, and I have a flexible work schedule,» says Jodie Lutkenhaus, a chemical engineer at Texas A&M University in College Station, who finished her Ph.D. in the Hammond Lab in 2007.

A microeconomic game theoretic perspective,» was coauthored by Jay Sethuraman, professor of industrial engineering and operations research at Columbia Engineering, and Yu Luo, a chemical engineering PhD student working with Venkatasubramanian, and published online in the April 28th issue of the journal Physica A.

Working with Brian Rosen, a chemical engineering graduate student; Wei Zhu, a recent chemical engineering Ph.D.; Amin Salehi - Khojin, a postdoctoral researcher; and other scientists at Illinois, Masel used ionic liquids to stabilize intermediates in the dioxide - monoxide conversion.

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.

«He's been in phase with what the country wants to do in science and technology, and it's paid off,» says William Schowalter, an emeritus professor of chemical engineering at Princeton University and the University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign, who has worked as senior adviser to Shih for the past 6 years.

Jay Keasling, who was named DISCOVER magazine's 2006 Scientist of the Year, received his bachelor's degree in chemistry and biology from the University of Nebraska, earned his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Michigan and did postdoctoral work in biochemistry at Stanford University.

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.

Chandra Mohan, Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Endowed Professor of biomedical engineering in the UH Cullen College of Engineering, and his group's latest work could lead to new, more natural therapeutics for lupus that use a plant - derived chemical.

This concept didn't explain his results, however, so he borrowed an idea from chemical engineers who work with catalysts.

The women modeling its spring fashion line, notes Inside Higher Ed (and the βetabrand website), have or are working toward Ph.D. s, many in scientific fields: chemistry / chemical biology, engineering, and neuropsychology.

Too often, academic researchers seeking corporate support for their work try to convince industry scientists that what they do is great science, notes Michael Amiridis, a chemical engineer and dean of the college of engineering and computing at the University of South Carolina, Columbia.

«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.

As they work toward translating laboratory findings into full - scale industrial production, synthetic biologists also must have sound knowledge of good manufacturing practice; automation, chemical, and biochemical engineering; mathematics; and thermodynamics.

Nowhere is this more true than in the field of green chemistry, where chemists regularly work alongside biologists, chemical engineers, commercial companies and policy - makers.

«Our work helps us understand why the frequency of gun violence at schools changes, not necessarily why gun violence at schools in the United States exists at all,» said Amaral, professor of chemical and biological engineering in the McCormick School of Engineering.

«If you used just anaerobic digestion, you would wait weeks to turn the food waste into energy,» said Posmanik, who works in both the laboratories of co-authors Jeff Tester, professor of chemical and biochemical engineering, and Lars Angenent, professor of biological and environmental engineering.

Endy recalls a 2006 New York Times article on synthetic biology in which Frances Arnold, a distinguished professor of chemical engineering at Caltech, said, «There is no such thing as a standard [biological] component, because even a standard component works differently depending on the environment.

«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.

Fraden's work sought to answer key questions, such as why is there such a void between the animate and inanimate that we never confuse the two, and if engineers could create materials with similar attributes to living organisms, but constructed from inanimate objects, can we do so using only chemicals and eschew use of motors and electronics?

«Plants have, for a long time, provided us with valuable products like food, biofuels, construction materials and the oxygen we breathe,» notes plant biologist turned chemical engineer Juan Pablo Giraldo, a postdoctoral fellow in the research lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who did the work.

Jay Keasling, who was named DISCOVER Magazine's 2006 Scientist of the Year, received his bachelor's degrees in chemistry and biology from the University of Nebraska, earned his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Michigan, and did postdoctoral work in biochemistry at Stanford University.

Many researchers have worked to engineer microcompartments to make drugs, industrial chemicals or biofuels.

Professor Annette Bunge, from the Colorado School of Mines, USA, is a chemical engineer who is used to work on modelling the flow of oil through rocks.