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Engineers pulling pranks and pints.

  pulling pintPhoto by Josh Olalde on Unsplash We might have a reputation when we’re all grown up of being a dry bunch. But you remember how much fun you had (at least some of the time) as an engineering student, especially when it came to engineering pranks! Consider these hilariously…


A Focus on Scaling Up

  dinosaurPhoto by Fausto García-Menéndez on Unsplash “Scaling up” may have new meaning this summer if you’ve seen the blockbuster Jurassic World. Those scientists can’t keep their hands off the dino DNA and engineer one big, bad and nasty scaled-up dinosaur. Yet when we focused on scaling up process in…


Let's Get Rating!

  starsPhoto by Glen Carrie on Unsplash College Football has its AP Poll, Coaches Poll and the BCS. College Basketball uses the RPI-Rating Percentage Index and Strength of Schedule. Soccer sees teams ranked by FIFA based on their success in their games over a four year period. Plus we…


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ACHEMA 2015, Chemical Process Equipment & German Food

  pretzelPhoto by Pierre Gui on Unsplash ACHEMA 2015, Chemical Process Equipment & German Food. How are these three related? ACHEMA is the World Forum for the chemical engineering and process industries. With 170,000 attendees from more than 100 countries and 3,800 exhibitors ACHEMA…


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So Many Choices. Where to Begin?

keysPhoto by Elena Mozhvilo on Unsplash Selecting the right type of filtration equipment to use in liquid and solid separation is its own kind of sleuthing. With such a wide range of equipment available, and only several basic principles of solid/liquid separation (pressure, vacuum and…