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We Still Need ChemE’s

October 28, 2022 Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. 6 Comments

Since I became a chemical engineer some 50 years ago, our profession has changed.

Back when I matriculated, the normal requirement for graduation was 144 credits. Not 120 like the rest of the educational curricula, but 144. And, since we were a technical curriculum, one must recognize that a bunch of courses also required laboratories. So, when one said 144 credits were required, it did not mean that one needed to 18 hours of classes a term, but closer to 21 or 23, since a lab course only was awarded 1 credit for each 3 or 4 hours of lab work

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MIT. PhD. M-o-n-e-y. 3

October 18, 2018 Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. 6 Comments

He had the second longest name I encountered at MIT. (A fellow grad student has the longest one.) Pierre Leonc Thibaut Brian. He was known as P.L. Thibaut Brian, though.

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Superb Management – a combination of training, acumen, and timing.

December 4, 2017 Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. 6 Comments

Do you remember the controversy a few years ago when certain individuals tried to claim that it was their brilliance that made their companies great? “You didn’t build that” was the catch phrase. Because most of us know that to be successful, we need viable infrastructure (which means government investment) and dedicated employees- under the guidance of competent (hopefully- even inspired) management.

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