Chemical Engineering Web Sites

This site is meant as jumping off point for web searches. Hopefully freshmen and graduate students alike will gain some benefit from these links. The dates following the links mean they worked on that day.

Inclusion of a link on this page is not intended as endorsement of the persons or organizations owning the linked webpages. Most of the pages linked have not been carefully read.

Feel free to email comments on the sites that you find most useful and the ones that are wasting bandwidth. Also let us know if there is a link we should have, but don't.

• What is Chemical Engineering?
• Academic Departments
• Career Planning
• Course Materials
  • Ole Miss ChE
  • Other Schools
• Employment
• Environmental Engineering
• Engineering Ethics
• Equipment
• Fluid Dynamics
• Heat Transfer
• Help for ChE Students
• History of Chemical Engineering
• Indices & Databases
• Industrial Links
• Internships, Summer Opportunities
• Magazines & Journals
• Mathematics & Statistics
• News Groups
• Particle Technology
• Presentation Skills
• Problem Solving
• Process Control
• Professional Organizations
• Professional Registration
• Safety
• Software
• Software Tutorials & Tools
  • Mathcad
• Summer Opportunities, Internships
• Textbooks
• Thermodynamics
• Tools

What Is Chemical Engineering?, History of Chemical Engineering

• History of Chemical Engineering -- overview of the history and contributions of the profession, as well as a good take on What is Chemical Engineering? 8/22/2002
• What is Chemical Engineering? from the WWW Virtual Library of Chemical Engineering 1/3/2002

Academic Departments

• US ChE Depts, and Worldwide Ch E Academic Departments from the WWW Virtual Library of Chemical Engineering 1/3/2002

Index Pages and Databanks

• WWW Virtual Library Chemical Engineering 1/3/2002
• Yahoo Index to Chemical Engineering Sites 1/3/2002
• International Directory of Chemical Engineering URLs from the University of Karlsruhe 1/3/2002
• Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library 1/3/2002
• The Chemical Engineers' Resource Page 1/3/2002
• Engineering Links: Chemical and Process 8/22/2002

Industrial Links

• Chemical Industry Home Page 1/3/2002

Professional Organizations

• American Chemical Society 1/3/2002
• AIChE (American Institute of Chemical Engineers) 8/8/2000
• CACHE (Computer Aids for Chemical Engineering) 1/3/2002
• ASEE (American Society for Engineering Education)1/3/2002
  • ASEE Southeastern Section 1/3/2002
• ISA (International Society for Measurement and Control) 1/3/2002
• SWE (Society of Women Engineers)1/3/2002
• NCEES (National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying) -- FE exam information 1/3/2002
• ABET (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology)1/3/2002
• NACME (National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering) 1/3/2002
• National Academy of Sciences / National Academy of Engineering 1/3/2002
• The Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society This group's student newsletter has some good career resource materials.1/3/2002
• World Batch Forum 8/22/2002

Software

• The Mathworks (Matlab, Simulink) 8/22/2002
• Simulation Sciences (Hextran, Process, Pro II) 8/22/2002
• ControlArts Petrochemical and Process software. 8/22/2002
• Computer Applications in Chemical Engineering Email list information and archives 8/22/2002

Internships, Summer Opportunities, Student Competitions

• WISE: Washington Internships for Students of Engineering 8/22/2002
• Research Experience for Undergraduates Program An overview from the NSF, includes a listing of sponsored programs. 8/22/2002
• Student Training Opportunities at the National Institute of Health 8/22/2002
  • NIH Undergraduate Scholarship Program 8/22/2002
• Division of Educational Programs at Argonne National Laboratory 8/22/2002
• NOBCChE Undergraduate Research Award 8/22/2002
• Tech-Interns.com ASEE sponsored database of Science and Engineering internships. 8/22/2002

Tools

• Process Tools from Process Associates -- includes unit conversion calculator, etc. 8/22/2002
• Fluid Phase Equilibria Quest Consultants -- calculates PT phase envelopes 8/22/2002
• Thermodynamic Properties Quest Consultants -- calculates densities, enthalpies, heat capacities of mixtures 8/22/2002

Engineering Ethics

• Texas A&M Ethics Archive 8/22/2002
• Applied Ethics in Professional Practice from the University of Washington 8/22/2001
• The Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science 8/22/2002

Process Control

• CAST Email List Archive
  Sponsored by the CAST (Computing and Systems Technology) Division of the AIChE. Contains job listings, meeting announcements, etc. 8/22/2002
• WWW Virtual Library -- Control 8/22/2002

Newsgroups

Career Planning

• Engineering Your Future -- Precollege information from the ASEE 8/22/2002
• WashingtonPost.com Career Library 8/22/2002
• Initial Placement of Chemical Engineering Graduates from the AIChE 8/22/2002

Employment

• www.ChemicalEngineer.com 8/22/2002
• Graduating Engineer 8/22/2002
• Job Search for Chemical Engineers [InterEC.net] 8/22/2002
• Engineering Central Job Bank 8/22/2002
• AICHE Student Resume Database 8/22/2002

Textbooks

• Professional Publications Inc. -- FE/EIT, PE review texts 8/22/2002
• Corporate Book Resources -- Dealer in technical and business books 11/6/2002

Course Materials from Other Schools

• Chemical Separations, Chemistry Department, University of Akron 8/22/2002

Software Tutorials

• Powerpoint
  • Introduction to Powerpoint from Middle Tennessee State 8/22/2002
• Mathcad
  • Chemical Engineering Mathcad User's Group hosted at U of Maine 8/22/2002
  • Mathcad Documents for Physical Chemistry 8/22/2002
  • Mathcad in the Chemistry Curriculum from the Journal of Chemical Education 8/22/2002

Magazines & Journals

• Chemical Engineering Progress 8/22/2002
• Chemical Engineering on the Web 8/22/2002
• Industrial Equipment News Online 8/22/2002

Help for CHE Students

• Richard Felder's Student Handouts -- Survival Tips for students; test taking, talks, etc. 8/22/2002
• I'm a Madman! a site for ChE students 8/22/2002

Presentation Skills

Talks

• Tips on Talks by Richard (the red book!) Felder 6/14/2001
• Effective Presentations -- an on-line tutorial from the Kansas University Medical Center 6/14/2001
• Presenters University Course Archives from InFocus Corp. (manufacturers of computer display projectors) 6/14/2001
• Technical Presentations from Georgia Tech 6/14/2001
• Professional Technical Presentations from the University of Oklahoma 6/14/2001

Posters

• Guidelines for Preparing Posters from the United Engineering Foundation 6/14/2001
• Guidelines for Poster Presentations from the University of Pittsburgh 6/14/2001
• Poster Presentation of Research Work from the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne 6/14/2001

Problem Solving

• 21st Century Problem Solving -- it wants to sell you software, but there are some good points made along the way 6/14/2001

Environmental Engineering

• Online Environmental References from Dr. Will 6/14/2001

Process Equipment

• The Thomas Register 6/14/2001
• Pump School An informational site from Viking Pumps. 6/14/2001
• Pump World Centrifugal Pump Tutorial 5/3/2000
• The Tubular Exchangers Manufacturers Association (TEMA) 5/22/2001

Safety

• Chemical Safety Database Searcher from Oxford University 6/14/2001
• Cornell University MSDS Search Engine 10/23/2000
• NWFSC MSDS Search 6/14/2001
• Chemical Compatability Chart 8/8/2000
• MSDSonline 10/23/2000
• Vermont Safety Information Resources 10/23/2000
• Where to find MSDS on the Internet 10/23/2000
• MSDSsolutions.com 12/13/2002

Particle Technology

• Educational Resources for Particle Technology 5/22/2001

Thermodynamics

• Gas-Vapor Phase Equilibrium 8/8/2000

Fluid Dynamics

• ITSC Fluids Movie Archive 5/22/2001
• Boundary Layers Online Course Materials 5/22/2001

Mathematics and Statistics

• NIST/Sematech Engineering Statistics Internet Handbook 5/22/2001
• NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions 8/22/2002

Professional Registration

• Mississippi State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors 8/22/2002

Heat Transfer

• Heat Transfer Research, Inc. 8/22/2002

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