How Well Are We Preparing ChE Students for Industry?

摘要

The chemical engineering domain of expertise continues to expand as new fields of research arise based on chemical engineering fundamentals. Chemical engineers continue to be leaders in the traditional chemical process industries (CPI), but can now also be found in horizon areas such as biological engineering and nano-technology. With this ever-expanding scope, AIChE continues to monitor and explore the chemical engineering curriculum and student preparedness for the industrial sector. This subject was recently addressed at a special plenary organized by the late John Chen*, AIChE Fellow, Past President of AIChE, and Emeritus C. R. Anderson Professor and Dean of Engineering at Lehigh Univ., at the AIChE Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA, this past November.