Download free PDF of Basic Principles and Calculations in Chemical Engineering (8th Edition) by David M Himmelblau with solutions and review

Book: Basic Principles and Calculations in Chemical Engineering (8th Edition)

Author: David M. Himmelblau and James B. Riggs

Subject: Process Calculations

This posts provides detailed resources for Basic Principles and Calculations in Chemical Engineering book (8th Edition) by David M. Himmelblau. It includes:

• Review about the book
• FREE PDF version of the book
• Paid version at Amazon at discounted prices
• Solutions Manual

Download free PDF of Chemical Reaction Engineering by Octave Levenspiel with solutions and review

Book: Chemical Reaction Engineering

Author: Octave Levenspiel

Subject: Chemical Reaction Engineering

This posts provides detailed resources for Chemical Reaction Engineering book by Octave Levenspiel. It includes:

• Review about the book
• FREE PDF version of the book
• Paid version at Amazon at discounted prices
• Solutions Manual

Download free PDF of Mass Transfer Operations by Robert Treybal with solutions and review

Book: Mass Transfer OperationsAuthor: Robert TreybalSubject: Mass Transfer Operations

This posts provides detailed resources for Mass Transfer Operations book by Robert Treybal. It includes:

• Review about the book
• FREE PDF version of the book
• Paid version at Amazon and Flipkart at discounted prices
• Solutions Manual

Research Internship at Germany with scholarship (DAAD-WISE Program)

Institution/Organisation: Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) - German Academic Exchange Services
Start/End Date: NA
Duration: 2-3 months between May-July. Less than 2 months is not accepted.
Stipend: - Monthly scholarship of 650 euros with lump-sum 525 euros travel subsidy
Deadline: November 1

About DAAD-WISE program:

The Working Internships in Science and Engineering (DAAD-WISE program) targets Indian students pursuing a degree in the fields of science and engineering who wish to do an internship at a German higher education institution or at a research institute.

List of websites to help with your thesis/final year projects (Get E-thesis from premier institutes)

We all get excited about our final year project and hop over the internet to find out that one exciting topic to work on (or to copy). In this post, I have listed a few websites which have a collection of final year BTech, MTech as well as PhD thesis which can surely guide you to research more on your topic and to find what is already been done. 

1. This is the ethesis database by NIT Rourkela. It hosts good chemical engineering projects to get inspiration from, research on topics and get direction. Here's the link: NIT-Rourkela Chemical Department

2. Chemical Engineering thesis collection by University of Massachusetts at Amherst: UMass dissertation collection 

3. Digital Library of IIT-Kharagpur for PhD thesis: IIT-Kharagpur thesis

4. Library of University of Waterloo: Click Here

5. E-thesis collection by Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT E-thesis

6. E-thesis by Imperial College London: ICL E-thesis

7. E-library by IIT Gandhinagar: IIT-G E-thesis

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List of websites to search for research articles/books

Not all articles in our Google scholar searches are free and easily available. In order to get hold of the articles, here is a list of websites where you can search to get access:

1. Library Genesis 

2. Sci-Hub

3. Crossref

4. Booksc

5. Scimag

6. AIRCC Digital Library

7. Bookzz

8. Golibgen

Other ways to get free articles is by requesting for them at Facebook groups. The community always helps you get the article. All you need to do it post the article link and the members generally respond within hours. The following is the list of links to such Facebook groups:

1. Research Gate

2. Research articles, books and literature

3. Share Research Paper

4. Research Paper Help

5. Research Papers

6. Chemical Engineering ebooks

7. Research world

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Details about Masters admission to National University of Singapore through GATE marks

GATE score can be used to get admissions in foreign universities like National University of Singapore (NUS, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and some other German universities as well. Here are some details I dug up for you all on how you can use you GATE score to get admissions at one of the universities: NUS.

NUS has 2 types of graduate programs as follows:

1. Coursework based program.
2. Research oriented program.
 
Coursework based program is similar to M.tech in India. Admitted students have to attend coursework lectures and clear semester exams. This is aimed at providing additional skills to working professionals. This is a full time program, but the classes will be held during morning and evening hours. Admission to coursework based program is NOT competitive and you don't need any Letter of recommendations. [Please check website though].

The research based program is like an introduction to PhD. This is a full-time course, wherein you attend lectures which are relevant to your research area. Some courses might be compulsory, so do check that. The admission to this program is competitive. You will need strong letter of recommendations, your profile should scream an aptitude for research ad good GPA.

For coursework based program GRE is optional, but do give GRE to give some weight to your application as when the number of applicants is high, they may filter using GRE scores. For research oriented programs you can submit either GRE score or GATE score. TOEFL is mandatory for both coursework based and research oriented program. If you are applying for PhD. you will be taken in for research based program. At the end of the program you can decide whether to end your masters, or proceed to PhD.

The coursework based program is NOT funded for INDIAN students. Only the students from ASEAN [not to be confused with Asian] countries will get funded. As for the research based program, all students will be funded.


Application periods:

Coursework program : 
Application will be open from January to February for August intake.
Application will be open from July to August for January Intake.

Research Program :
May  for August intake.
November for January intake.


Here is the link to the application page: Application Page




Link to application booklet for Coursework based program: MSc Application Booklet

Link to application booklet for Research based program: Research based program application booklet
Link to tution fee estimates: Fees

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How to go about editing your Review Paper for your MS applications- PART-3

This is the Part-3 to the series How to write a Review Paper for your MS applications. I have already covered Part-1 - How to choose the right topic for your Review Paper for your MS applications and Part- 2 - How to search content for your review paper for your MS applications.

So here I will be continuing by giving you all a direction on how to approach the structure of the review paper once you have gathered required information during your content hunt.First of all, get hold of the format of your paper if the competition/symposium already has mentioned one. Else, IEEE format is recommended to follow. The link to download the IEEE format is here: IEEE format.

Although you can structure your review paper as per your content and ideas, but it must contain the following sections:
1. Abstract: 

This is the first thing that you will see in the format. But this is to be written only after you finish up with a proper structure of your paper, as in, what exactly your paper is going to be about. During the start itself you might have scribbled some points on what you were going to add, so keep that scribbled sheet safe and take it out. Look at all the abstracts from the papers you had referred to and get a hint on the level of professional language you will need to frame your abstract. An abstract should be of around 500-1000 words or below your word limit given to you. Start framing your scribbled ideas into the language in your reference papers. You will be editing this part of your paper a lot as you go further structuring your paper.

2. Introduction: 

It should contain the scope of your research/ review work conducted with justification of why you did it. The justification must be done through facts. It should informally state your results as well.
  

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Preparations you should make before applying to your dream company for an Internship opportunity!

Here I'll be covering up all sorts of internship opportunities available in India and abroad alike and what you are supposed to do exactly to get into your dream company. This will not only be focused on
chemical engineering streams, but I'll also post management related ones too for people interested in MBA. So follow me for all the updates!

Doing an internship is not only something that helps in making your resume look more good, but is also something that can change or give a direction to your career. It gives you a proper insight as to what actually happens in the industry, what you are good at and where you actually lack professionally and personally. But as you are into grabbing the internship opportunity, here are some preparations you must make before applying. Following these will surely improve your chances of getting selected in a selection based internship.

• Prepare a proper resume. This is extremely important as this is the 1st thing your recruiters will look into. You've got only 30 seconds to impress your employer and hence make sure you go through all sorts of websites on the internet which gives you tips and tricks on developing your resume. Bang on if you draft your resume on LATEX. I'll cover about drafting an amazing resume in my future posts, so keep looking!
• Cover letter: Some companies might ask you for a cover letter. In this you just need to mention why you want to do that particular internship, why you love that company (some corporate ass licking) and in the end what exact skills you have to complete that internship (be straight with this one). Just these 3 simple things, don't extend your letter by writing other crap, because nobody cares. You can make your letter general as people aren't that strict for internships, but always try to draft different letters for applying to different companies.

          Your body of cover letter should contains following things ONLY:
1. Your formal introduction about your college and year of study.
2. 1-2 lines about your actual career goals.
3. 3 lines about why you want to do this internship, as in, how this internship will help you achieve your career goals.
4. 3 lines on how much you like that company. Go through their website and mention some notable things and praise it.
5. 3 lines on how you are the perfect fit for the internship. Try figuring out the skills required to complete that internship and mention those as your strengths.
6. Close by writing how you look forward to work with them.

I'll put up my cover letter soon to give my readers an idea on how to ace your cover letter.

• Email-content: If you are applying for the internships by sending emails to the HR of your dream company, then you really need a good not-too-big and not-too-short content for the email that you'll be sending. 

          Here you only need to mention following in short:
1. Your name, college name, year of engineering and current semester in 1 sentence.
2. Your duration of internship you wish to apply for (1 line).
3. Mention why the company and the internship excites you in 2-3 lines.
4. Mention why you are fit in 1-2 lines.
5. End by saying how you look forward to joining the company.
And you're done. No other crap. Do not forget to end the email with your name, college name, contact details like you do in a letter. I'll post my email content in future posts, so subscribe me!

So in all, these things are some per-requisites needed to start your journey on grabbing that dream internship of yours. Keep following for updates as I'll be posting opportunities soon!

How to search content for your review paper for MS applications: PART-2

This is the part-2 of the series on How to write a review paper for your MS applications . I have already covered the 1st step towards your goal : How to choose the right topic for your Review Paper - PART-1 . In this post I will continue our journey by giving steps on how to search for the content of your paper and then listing out the available resources over the internet for the same.

STEP 1: Once you are done narrowing down your topic, let's say Biodiesel then the first thing you need to do is ofcourse to put your tentative topic name and description on the google search bar. Go through whatever content you find over it for the next 20 or more pages thoroughly following each link (No missing of any links here!). Then you go to the News tab of google homepage and read all the possible latest news that are available for your topic.
While doing do, write down and bookmark whatever keywords you find and list them. Take a print of whatever important articles you find.

STEP 2: Now that you've got a start, head onto Google Scholar. This is a very good place to start off to deepen the knowledge of your topic. For starts, type again your tentative topic name and you'll find a tons of research and review articles. Go through all of those papers. It will take time to read but you've got to do it! That is why choosing the topic of your INTEREST is more important. You've got to read things you enjoy, afterall.
Further, type out all the keywords you had listed down one by one. Repeat by reading all the content you find.

TIP: you'll see a filter on the publishing year on the left side of the page. Use it to narrow down your searches if you're interested in older or newer articles.

Now, there will be times when you won't find the research paper available for downloading, but you'll get to see the abstract only. In order to get access to these papers without paying for them you can do the following:

• If you're a student, then ask your librarian or some professor if he/she has access to the journals, articles or books.
• If 1st step doesn't work, then Facebook is here to help! (The only proper reason to use this otherwise time wasting site :P). Join numerous groups which share research articles available on FB. There are some kind people who share research articles and books with people who have no access to paid journals. Join every group possible just post the link of your required article and you're done. Also, don't forget to say thanks to them! :)
• Academia.edu An awesome website to get access to research papers.
• Directory of Open Access Journals is also a good site to get hold of all sorts of open access articles.
• JURN another good website to start your search.
• Free full PDF  This site searches all those articles whose free PDF are already available on the internet.
• Elsevier Open access  Open access articles by the journal Elsevier.

Here are links to some popular journals that publish good quality research papers: List of scientific journals

Keep reading as much as you can and then trust me, you'll automatically start narrowing down your topic further as you progress. A brief structure of your paper will start coming in mind and don't forget to list it down as it happens!

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How to choose the right topic for your Review Paper - PART-1

This is the part-1 of the series on How to write a review paper for your MS applications . As mentioned, the 1st step is: choosing the right topic of your interest. This is a very crucial step as you wouldn't want to keep changing your topic again and again and repeating the process. Here are some tips on choosing the right topic:

• In case you've been already given a list on topics as is mostly the case while participating in symposiums or paper presentation competitions then make sure whatever topic you choose suits your career goals. For example, if I'm interested in an MS in renewable energies, I'll narrow down my topic on Energy sciences and engineering. In this 1st step keep the topic very broad and don't directly jump into narrowing it down further as your wouldn't want to miss out on information.
• Now that we are done with our main Topic, we will start dwelling deeper into it again based on our career goals. In case I'm interested in MS, I'll go about reviewing trends either in the most recent developments in Energy sciences or review the conventional technologies associated with it. I'll focus more towards the technical aspect of it. In case if it is an MBA you're planning then focus more on the current trends in market conditions, technology scale up, environmental/life-cycle impact assessments, etc. 
• Now that you've narrowed down, start searching deeper into it either on Google or Google Scholar. If you want the latest news and articles then keep googling. Simultaneously, open up google scholar and type whatever interesting keywords you find while googling and read detailed research papers on the same. (P.S Google scholar is the best site to access research papers for a start on a particular topic. I've covered upon the topic on resources for finding information on further blog posts.)

1. For MS compatible review paper:

Here are some ideas on the basis of which you can start structuring your paper:

• Review on technology scale up aspects of the most recent technology you've found during your search for your topic.
• Review by comparison of latest technologies available for your topic. The comparison could be on the basis of economic costs, energy efficiencies, raw materials or any comparison criteria that you would like to define. You'll start defining it yourself when you read detailed papers.
• Review on comparison on conventional and recent technologies available.
• Review on how a particular technology has developed since past and its current status.
• A review on advantages and disadvantages of a particular process or technology.

2. For MBA or any management side compatible review paper:

• Review on environmental impact assessment or life cycle assessment
• Review on market conditions of a particular product or technology.
• Review on economic aspects of a technology scale-up.
• Comparing economics and costs of conventional and new trends in technology.

I'll keep updating this blog post as and when I get more ideas!So keep following :)

How to write a review paper for your MS applications

We all dream about going to US or any abroad nation for our masters for specialization. A masters degree is a research focussed course. Hence, to get an admit into a good university, you need a couple of research papers, whether only presented or published. If you don't have enough time (or the skill) to write a real research paper,  then you head for reviews, which to be honest is way easier to write. You just need the right track to go about with your topic. Follow these steps:

• Choose a good topic of your interest: This is the most crucial part of writing a paper. The topic should be chosen very wisely. Make it a point that the topic is such that you get a lot of content on the internet and journals. Don't worry about not being able to access certain papers. Just make sure that there is content available. Also, you should have a bit of interest in it. It can be from a subject that you're good at. If you're participating in a symposium or a competition, then the topics will be provided to you.
• Content Research: search for as many papers, journals, articles, notes etc that you can find on the internet and bookmark all of them. If you're not comfortable with desktop, then print those articles for easy reading.
• Highlight important points, remarks, major subtopics, conclusion of each article and paper that you've gone through. This is the most important part. Spend a lot of time on it.
• As you go through the content, you can come across your own views, understanding of the topic or some modifications. List them out.
• Make a rough sketch of what all subtopics your paper will consist after going through your content. You will be able to figure out by now the structure of your paper. Every paper consists of introduction, middle subtopics and a conclusion.
• Start adding content to those subtopics. Do not think of a format of the paper I.e. the text size, font etc. You can do the editing later. While adding content from your researched content, make sure the sentences are not same. You can either change the form of the sentence or else Add your own views and opinions that you listed out.
• Keep reading you paper from start to end again and again till it makes perfect sense. Keep reading additional content. Make sure your facts and calculations are correct.
• When you are happy with the content, add pictures, graphs that you plotted, comparisons you've made etc.
• Start editing the document according to the prescribed format of the paper.

For more, read furthur posts on selection of a topic, tips and tricks on my blog!