Where is the Chemical Engineering Industry Headed?

摘要

The answer to the question posed above reveals itself through the chemical enterprise.With over 70,000 products in its portfolio and global sales exceeding 2.2 trillion/yr,the chemical industry is large and lucrative (2).Globally,it employs approximately 10 million people,enables indirect employment of over 50 million people and,according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS;Washington,DC;www.bls.gov),has a domestic industrial population of engineers that is 31,000 strong (slightly more than 2% of the 1.4 million engineers working in the U.S.today are chemical engineers).