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Definition of chemical engineering
: engineering dealing with the industrial application of chemistry
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Recent Examples on the Web In the chemical engineering lab, instructors and school officials did a walk through with the Environmental Health and Safety department prior to the start of the semester and adjusted to feedback, according to another instructor in the course.
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Grace Oldham, The Arizona Republic, "'We have to create a very safe environment': Summer classes at ASU give idea of what's to come in fall," 7 Aug. 2020 Jason Chen of Enfield is a member of the class of 2022, majoring in chemical engineering.
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courant.com, "Community News For The Windham Edition," 7 Aug. 2020 The wide doors of the chemical engineering lab open to a series of experiment workstations.
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Grace Oldham, The Arizona Republic, "'We have to create a very safe environment': Summer classes at ASU give idea of what's to come in fall," 7 Aug. 2020 Robert Buxbaum, a former chemical engineering professor at Michigan State University who lost to Nash in 2016, won the primary with ?
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Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press, "Dave Coulter wins Democratic nomination for Oakland County executive," 5 Aug. 2020 Gabriel da Silva is a senior lecturer in chemical engineering at the University of Melbourne.
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Gabriel Da Silva, Scientific American, "What Is Ammonium Nitrate, the Chemical that Exploded in Beirut?," 5 Aug. 2020 The New York Times reports that Vanessa attended M.I.T. for a degree in chemical engineering and went on to work as a scientist for Johnson & Johnson.
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Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, "How Lin-Manuel Miranda Impressed His Wife Vanessa Nadal Despite Having a "Total Lack of Game"," 4 July 2020 Kwanghun Chung, an associate professor of chemical engineering at MIT, developed the new process while working on a complex project five years in the making: building the most comprehensive map to date of the the human brain.
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Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, "Scientists Found a Way to Make Brain Tissue Indestructible," 18 June 2020 Ingrid Joylyn Paredes is a Ph.D. candidate in chemical engineering at New York University.
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Joshua Austin Acklin, Scientific American, "A Rush to Reopen Could Undo New Yorkers' Hard Work against COVID-19," 9 July 2020
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