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The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Indore launched a new course BTech in Chemical Engineering for the academic year 2023-24. The programme intends to provide a holistic perspective to the students focusing on multidisciplinary, and hands-on approach.

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The course is offered by 16 other IITs as well including IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Kharagpur among others.

BTech in Chemical Engineering: course structure

The programme structure and curriculum are developed by the leading experts in academia from India and the world and encompass the traditional and modern topics of chemical engineering. It is offered with multiple specialisations including Petrochemical, Biochemical, Energy, Pharmaceutical, Processing etc.

It is a four-year full-time undergraduate degree programme divided into eight semesters. In each semester, candidates will have to study 6 to 7 subjects along with elective options.

BTech in Chemical Engineering: Eligibility criteria

Admission to the programme will be done based on JEE Advanced 2023 score. Additionally, candidates must have completed the class 12 (or equivalent) examination from any recognised state or central board.

BTech in Chemical Engineering: Career Scope

Chemical Engineering is one of the core disciplines of engineering and there is an increasing demand for chemical engineers in the petrochemical, Biofuel, energy, Food Processing etc.

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First published on: 08-05-2023 at 10:59 IST

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SEA, which has five locations across the cities of Springboro and Franklin, provides chemical and manufacturing services to the automotive and motorcycle industries. Through the expansion, SEA said it will streamline its motorcycle, research and development, and warehousing functions, and will integrate new manufacturing processes and bring new services in-house.

SEA is thrilled to continue to develop our footprint in the Springboro/Franklin area and is on a clear path to creating more high-value jobs and opportunities for our localities and the state of Ohio, Palen said. We are transforming our business towards mobility and electrification, moving towards a carbon-neutral society. SEA is committed to expanding our presence in the region and consolidating manufacturing in Ohio.

A variety of positions will be created, including chemical engineers, R&D personnel, supervisors, quality control, operations, sales, back office and a multitude of equipment operators. Most job creation will occur in Springboro, but the expansion will also generate a small number of employment opportunities in Franklin.

Ohio has the third-largest manufacturing workforce in the U.S., and Sunstar Engineering Americas is bolstering that strength by adding 60 jobs in the region, said J.P. Nauseef, JobsOhio president and CEO. SEA continues to innovate, invest and expand in Ohio, which will improve manufacturing efficiencies and help the company meet the growing demand from its customers worldwide.

Springboro Mayor John Agenbroad called the project great news for Sunstar, the city of Springboro and the entire region.

We are thrilled that Sunstar is committed to investing additional capital and workforce in Springboro and commend Sunstars top-notch management team for this creative way to improve operating efficiencies, Agenbroad said.

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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) Tens of thousands of engineers remain frustrated with the lack of paid sick time and the demands railroads like BNSF are making in negotiations despite the deals that have been made this year for most of the other rail unions.

The lack of sick time and other quality of life concerns about the demanding schedules train crews work took center stage in the negotiations last fall that reached the brink of a strike before Congress intervened and blocked a walkout.

The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen union says the railroads are still asking for too much in return for sick time instead of just providing the basic benefit it believes workers are entitled to.

They want to take the money out of our pocket somewhere else and give it back to us in the form of sick time, said Rob Cunningham, one of the BLET's general chairmen who is leading the negotiations with BNSF.

The BLET's frustrations generally extend to all the major freight railroads, but Cunningham said BNSF seemed to be acting especially hard headed in talks last week.

The Fort Worth, Texas, based railroad is in the spotlight this weekend because it is owned by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway and thousands of adoring shareholders filled an arena in Omaha, Nebraska, Saturday to listen to him answer questions.

Buffett didn't face any questions about the way BNSF is treating its workers, but Buffett takes an extremely hands-off approach to Berkshire's companies and largely lets them run themselves. In the past, he has declined to get involved in labor negotiations at subsidiaries.

You would think with something as easy as paid sick time, he could just say: Do it. We need to do this. This is the right thing to do," Cunningham said about Buffett, who is also a major philanthropist.

But clearly he doesnt practice what he preaches," Cunningham said.

BNSF spokeswoman Lena Kent said the railroad has already reached deals to provide sick leave to more than 6,000 of its employees at eight of its unions, and it is our intention to ultimately have agreements in place covering our entire scheduled workforce.

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Across the industry, CSX has led the way by reaching agreements with most of its unions on sick time. Norfolk Southern and Union Pacific have also announced several sick time deals. Most of these deals provide workers with four days of paid sick time and give them the option to convert three leave days into sick time to give workers a total of seven sick days a year.

CSX is determined to ensure that all employees feel valued, respected, appreciated and operate as one team, spokeswoman Sheriee Bowman said.

Most of those other deals that have been announced focus on smaller unions that do maintenance and repair work along the rails and generally have more regular schedules. The conductors' union the Transportation Division of the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers has reached deals with NS and CSX that include five paid sick days and the option to convert two personal leave days.

The Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes Division Union that represents track maintenance workers has been able to reach sick time deals with UP, CSX and Norfolk Southern, but they have had to fight to get that benefit without making concessions.

The engineers' union has yet to reach a single sick time agreement at any of the railroads.

One of the key remaining concerns for the BLET is that even where the railroads seem willing to give engineers sick time, the railroads generally still want to hold workers accountable for missing work under their strict attendance policies. So even if workers do get sick time, they may not feel free to use it because they would still be penalized for missing work although CSX has said it won't punish workers for taking sick time.

Were going to have locomotive engineers and conductors making a choice of whether to work sick and handle some of the most dangerous items that any transportation group handles, but theyre going to work sick or be subject to attendance policies, said Mark Wallace, BLETs second-highest official.

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders who has been pressuring the railroads to give their workers sick time and tried unsuccessfully to require it when Congress was voting on the contract in December said he has been encouraged by the progress the industry has made so far.

Already more that one third of all rail workers industrywide have gained paid sick time since the start of the year. On CSX and Norfolk Southern, the portion of workers who now have sick time is closer to two-thirds.

But more needs to be done, and without concessions, the Vermont independent said.

This is something that should have been done years ago and time is long overdue for those companies to provide those benefits right now, Sanders said.

Sanders said all the publicity the railroads received last fall for refusing to provide sick time forced their hands.

At the end of the day, what the rail industry understood is its just very hard to defend record breaking profits and massive stock buybacks and then saying they dont have enough money to do what is the right and decent thing for workers and that is guarantee them paid sick days, Sanders said.

SMART-TD President Jeremy Ferguson said he hopes the agreements his union has reached with CSX and Norfolk Southern to secure five sick days will become a model for deals with the rest of the railroads. But he is also focused on trying to get conductors relief from the stringent attendance policies that have put them on call 24-7 in recent years.

Thats where we really butted heads with the carriers," Ferguson said.

The deal SMART-TD reached with Norfolk Southern last week tries to ensure conductors will know their days off in advance. Norfolk Southern spokesman Thomas Crosson said those new rules should help because conductors will generally work six days in a row followed by two days off, and each week's schedule will be more predictable.

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This story was first published May 7, 2023. It was updated May 8, 2023, to correct a typo in a quote in the fourth paragraph.

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Human lifespan is intricately connected to the aging process of individual cells, and this means that scientists have spent decades trying to unravel the mysteries of cellular aging and exploring methods to slow down the ticking of the aging clock.

Longevity.Technology: In 2020, a group of researchers from the University of California San Diego identified two distinct mechanisms of cellular aging and genetically manipulated them to extend cell lifespan [1]. Now, their research has progressed to employ synthetic biology and gene circuits to delay the deterioration associated with cellular aging [2]. The teams innovative approach could revolutionize scientific methods of aging prevention and contribute to reprogramming aging pathways in various human cell types.

Publishing in Science, the researchers describe how cells in yeast, plants, animals and humans all contain gene regulatory circuits responsible for several physiological functions, including aging. These gene circuits, akin to electric circuits controlling household devices, can operate in different ways, and the UC San Diego team discovered that cells dont necessarily age the same way it all depends on their genetic material and environment. The researchers found that cells can age either through DNA stability decline or mitochondrial decline.

These gene circuits can operate like our home electric circuits that control devices like appliances and automobiles,said Professor Nan Hao of the School of Biological Sciences Department of Molecular Biology, the senior author of the study and co-director of UC San Diegos Synthetic Biology Institute [3].

So, once these functions are understood, can they be varied? In order to promote longevity, the team reprogrammed the circuit that controls cell aging, using synthetic biology to design and build a clock-like gene oscillator that periodically switches cells between two detrimental aged states; this avoids prolonged commitment to either, and thereby slows the cells degeneration.

The researchers engineered a negative feedback loop to stall the aging process and created a smart aging process that extends cellular longevity by cycling deterioration from one aging mechanism to another. This approach led to a dramatically extended cellular lifespan, setting a new record for life extension through genetic and chemical interventions [3].

Using computational simulations, the researchers tested ideas before modifying the circuit in the cell, which proved advantageous in saving time and resources to identify effective longevity strategies.

This is the first time computationally guided synthetic biology and engineering principles were used to rationally redesign gene circuits and reprogram the aging process to effectively promote longevity, said Hao [3].

In their study, the team studied Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast cells as a model for the aging of human cells. The researchers developed and employed microfluidics and time-lapse microscopy to track the aging processes across the cells lifespan. Yeast cells that were synthetically rewired and aged under the direction of the synthetic oscillator device resulted in an 82% increase in lifespan compared with control cells that aged under normal circumstances [2].

The teams findings represent a proof-of-concept example that demonstrates the successful application of synthetic biology to reprogram the cellular aging process. The authors note that their results establish a connection between gene network architecture and cellular longevity, which could lead to rationally-designed gene circuits that slow aging [2]. Their approach is distinct from numerous chemical and genetic attempts to force cells into artificial states of youth, as it actively prevents cells from committing to a pre-destined path of decline and death.

The potential implications of these findings could be far-reaching, and the researchers note that their method has the potential to reconfigure scientific approaches to age delay [2]. The clock-like gene oscillators could serve as a universal system to promote longevity and could be the foundation for designing synthetic gene circuits to effectively promote longevity in more complex organisms. The team is currently expanding their research to the aging of diverse human cell types, including stem cells and neurons.

The UC San Diego teams findings represent a significant advancement in the understanding and potential manipulation of the aging process. The researchers innovative approach employing synthetic biology and gene circuits represents a promising avenue for reprogramming aging pathways in various human cell types, and if the research can be successfully expanded to more complex organisms, it could pave the way for new strategies to promote longevity and reduce the incidence of age-related diseases

[1] https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aax9552%5B2%5D https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.add7631%5B3%5D https://today.ucsd.edu/story/scientists-slow-aging-by-engineering-longevity-in-cells

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