Empathy: Enabling students to be entrepreneurs

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Rivas, who teaches chemical engineering at the University of Twente in Netherlands, has co-authored two papers published in the journal Education for Chemical Engineers. The argument these papers make are that while chemical engineering will contribute to sustainability goals, if we continue to mostly apply traditional process optimisation techniques then industry will not bring about the changes quickly enough.

The papers discuss how new generations of chemical engineers need new tools that include a grounding in process intensification so they can help accelerate change from within industry. Rivas teaches process intensification, used its principles to develop “bubble bag” reactors, and has started up a company to sell them, and is using microfluidics to develop needle-free injections.