When I was younger and people would ask me what my father did for a living, my standard response involved words like "thermal heat fluid transfer dynamics". See, dad was a Chemical Engineer who worked for Monsanto (later Solutia, a spin-off). He developed ways to produce new chemicals that behaved certain ways under certain conditions (at least, that's about all I understood about what he did...) The following are some items collected from his professional career.
-- Kimball Larsen