What chemical engineers can learn from Mother Nature
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Economic pressures particularly on R and D are quite severe on the chemical proces industries. However, nature's evolutionary processes provide a number of complex, effective mechanisms for increasing the economy of evolutionary activity, some of which are already being applied by chemical engineers. A review of the rapidly growing body of literature in biological evolution and nonlinear dynamics suggests that they can be used as the bases for improving innovation rates in a cost-effective manner within the chemical process industries.
Publication Name: Chemical Engineering Progress
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0360-7275
Year: 1998
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C- level executives express concern about potential shortage of trained engineers and scientists
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The chief executive officers and other C-level executives who participated in Bayer Corp.'s Making Science Make Scene (MSMS) survey opinioned that they are more worried about the threat that United States may lose its global leadership in science and technology due to potential shortage of skilled scientists and engineers.
Publication Name: Chemical Engineering Progress
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0360-7275
Year: 2006
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"We will move from this attack and we will move forward"
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The devastating blow to the budget situation for the fiscal year (FY) 2002 in Washington due to the terrorist attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center was the highlight. The use of the forty million dollar aid sanctioned to address the needs of New York and Washington were discussed.
Publication Name: Chemical Engineering Progress
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0360-7275
Year: 2001
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