NU AIChE
The current NU AIChE Advisor and a Capstone professor.
Who is Professor Courtney Pfluger?
Has the acronym PLC, representing the ruggedized industrial computers used to control manufacturing processes
What is a Programmable Logic Controller?
This five-letter campus building houses the UO Lab, ChemE CoLab, and a variety of other research labs.
What is Mugar?
In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Tony Stark utilizes a particle accelerator in his basement to synthesize a brand-new element to replace this toxic transition metal in his arc reactor core.
What is palladium?
Named after a French chemist, this principle states that if you stress a chemical system at equilibrium, it will stubbornly shift its position to counteract your changes.
What is Le Chatelier's principle?
The 3 sister clubs under NU AIChE.
Wha is ChemE Sports, ChemE Cube, and ChemE Car?
This dimensionless number that tells you if your fluid flow is smooth and laminar or a turbulent.
What is Reynold's Number?
This massive 1,000+ page textbook by Felder and Rousseau is the central textbook for Northeastern's "CHME 2310" Transport Processes I / Material & Energy Balances class.
What is "Elementary Principles of Chemical Processes"?
The most famous "fictional" chemical engineer in TV history, Walter White used his deep knowledge of crystallization and reduction to cook 99.1% pure meth under this criminal alias.
Who is Heisenberg? (from Breaking Bad)
This thermodynamic property is a quantitative measure of microscopic disorder or randomness, and according to the Second Law, the universe is constantly making more of it.
What is entropy?
The NU AIChE Eboard position that organizes the cross-AIChE Mixer with other college AIChE chapters.
What is the Social Chair?
This 3-letter acronym describes the system that uses G-code and computers precisely carve out metal parts.
What is CNC (Computer Numerical Control)?
This late Professor and alumnus served the university for decades, and the department officially awarded its very first PhD to him in 1967.
Who is Ralph A. Buonopane?
Invented by a chemical engineer in 1943 during a failed wartime attempt to create a synthetic rubber substitute, this bouncy, stretchy silicone polymer toy famously lifts comic book ink right off the newspaper.
What is Silly Putty?
Named after a German physicist, this fundamental law reminds process engineers that mass flux moves down a concentration gradient.
What is Fick's Law?
The year NU AIChE was chartered.
What is 1938?
Often used in high-purity pharmaceutical water systems, this specific type of positive displacement pump keeps the fluid entirely contained inside a flexible tube, ensuring zero contact with the mechanical elements.
What is a peristaltic pump?
The Chemical Engineering department officially traced its very first member back to this year, when it launched with exactly one student.
What is 1909?
Known to comic book fans as the chemical compound that transformed a mild-mannered scientist into a radioactive green monster, this type of radiation actually cannot turn you into the Hulk.
What is Gamma radiation?
Coined by chemical engineers to describe the scaling relationship of plant equipment costs, this mathematical rule states that doubling the capacity of a piece of equipment doesn't double the cost; it only increases it by roughly a factor of 20.6.
What is the Six-Tenths Rule (or Rule of 0.6)?