Cutting edge, technological innovation

Learning Catalytics is a technology that has grown out of twenty years of cutting-edge research, innovation, and implementation of interactive teaching and peer instruction. 

Research Technician. Start 22 to 34 per hour 62,920 to 74,360 per year with 25% overtime. Certificate, AAS degree, or three years experience. Same as process technician plus operate bench-top units and pilot plants. Special emphasis on technical and problem-solving skills, ability to assimilate cutting-edge technologies quickly, and ability to apply innovative ideas. 

Strong technical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to adopt and assimilate cutting-edge technologies quickly and apply innovative ideas... 

Specialty chemicals are generally successful only if they are pushed into companies at the very cutting edge of each wave of technological advance. However, the developers also have to be able to create value from their investments in innovation, which requires both the scientific research to develop the chemicals in the first place, and also a business-focused mindset to ensure their longevity in the market. 

One should not be interested in being a me too producer, but instead be on the cutting edge of technological innovation. The expected benefits to customers through the technological advance must, therefore, be outlined in the concept. 

In 1996, as part of the Superfund Innovative Technology Evaluation (SITE) Program, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) demonstrated the ISEE system at the SNL chemical waste landfill site in Albuquerque, New Mexico (USEPA, 1998). The ISEE system was developed by SNL for removing hexavalent chromium from unsaturated soil. This was a cutting edge, since most of the laboratory-scale studies were carried out in saturated soil samples. In a saturated sample, the contact of the interstitial fluid with the solid particles is more effective and aids in the extraction and transportation of pollutants. The two primary transport mechanisms in electrokinetics (electromigration and electroosmosis) require a liquid medium (water), but in the unsaturated soil zone, the lack of water in the interstices makes the solubilization and transportation of the heavy metals precipitated or adsorbed on the solid particles surface more difficult. 

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