A chemical engineer's work is never done! ChEnected contributor Fatima Enam looks at her country's energy needs and the enormous need for solutions and highly skilled chemical engineers to implement them.
On June 22, 1908, 19 men working in what was then a new and emerging discipline – chemical engineering – met at the Engineers' Club in Philadelphia and founded the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. At the time, chemical engineering – somewhere between chemistry and mechanical engineering – had just begun. Its literature was almost nonexistent, and the 500 or so people who could call themselves chemical engineers were widely scattered. The founding of AIChE helped to establish chemical engineering as a separate discipline. Local sections began to form...
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