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CIC MEMBERS
What does membership mean to you? Belonging, community, integration. These words reflect the essence of membership for the Chemical Institute of Canada (CIC) with members joining...
Read More >>Discover the publishing process: Initial submission
CAREERS & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
This is Part 2 of Can. J. Chem. Eng.’s Discover the Publishing Process series of CIC News stories. As a society-owned journal, we are offering our CIC community behind-the-scenes information on how journal publishing works. In the first story in this series, we provided some tips from our publishing experts on things like why you...
Read More >>Canada to host the World’s Leading Computational and Theoretical Chemists in 2020
RESEARCH & INNOVATION
The 12th Triennial Congress of the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists (WATOC 2020) will be held August 16-21, 2020 in Vancouver. The event will mark the latest stage in the growth and development of this active group since it was founded as the World Association of Theoretical Organic Chemists in 1982. First held...
Read More >>Career advice from emerging leaders: a PhD student perspective
CONFERENCES
Among the highlights of the 69th Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference, which took place in October in Halifax, was a set of diverse presentations that made up the annual Emerging Leaders in Chemical Engineering plenary session. This prestigious event showcased the perspectives of four leading early-career researchers in 10-minute TED-Talk-style presentations. Each of them offered a vision of the...
Read More >>Design Our Climate Simulation: a free interactive program the world can use
CHEMISTRY FOR ENERGY & THE ENVIRONMENT
What if we could move beyond politicized and polarizing sound bites about climate change to explore feasible climate solutions? What if citizens could learn which combination of mitigation strategies...
Read More >>Can. J. Chem. Eng. November Issue
PUBLICATONS
The November issue of The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering is now available. It features the official announcement of our lectureship award winner, Prof. Arun Ramachandran from University of Toronto. This issue also includes a new mini-review from our Experimental Methods in Chemical Engineering special series, this time focusing on specific surface area and pore...
Read More >>A showcase for solutions
CONFERENCES
Students could be seen squirming in their seats while Shafiq Jaffer, MCIC, listed the world’s woes. As Vice-President of Corporate Science and Technology Projects in North America for the French energy giant TOTAL, his career has given him a front-row seat for some of the biggest challenges facing our civilization: climate change, finding energy sources...
Read More >>The darker reality behind the brighter alternative
CHEMISTRY FOR ENERGY & THE ENVIRONMENT
For decades, solar panels have been the solution we have all been looking for. Harvesting sunlight and converting it into usable power should be a harmless and notably sustainable energy solution for future generations. That perception makes it easy, however, to overlook the complete life cycle of a solar panel system is often overlooked. Solar...
Read More >>Putting microbes to work for us
CHEMISTRY FOR HEALTH
What do glaucoma, oil sands tailings ponds and solar cells have in common? They all appear in the resumé of Dr. Vikramaditya Yadav, MCIC, a chemical engineering professor whose pursuit of bio-inspired tools...
Read More >>Discover the publishing process: Early career publishing workshop
CAREERS & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering is starting a new series of CIC News articles providing an inside look at publishing for everyone in our chemical sciences community. As a society-owned journal, we want to provide our members with behind-the-scenes information about how publishing in a journal works, from the early stages of writing all...
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