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This three year study will outline an ambitious vision to guide chemical engineering research, innovation, and education for the next 30 years. A broad representation of the chemical engineering community will provide the study team with input on the current state of the profession and where growth is needed.
Our study will cover several areas, including chemical engineering undergraduate and graduate education, promising intellectual and investment opportunities, and potential economic and national needs. The final report will provide guidance to funders, researchers, educators, and industry professionals. Our recommendations will focus on science needs and priorities.
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Description
An ad hoc committee will prepare a report that will articulate the status, challenges, and promising opportunities for chemical engineering in the United States. In particular, the report will:
1. Describe major advances and changes in chemical engineering over the past three decades, including the importance and contributions of the field to society; technical progress and major achievements; principal changes in the practice of R&D; and economic and societal factors that have impacted the field.
2. Address the future of chemical engineering over the next 10 to 30 years and offer guidance to the chemical engineering community:
- Identify challenges and opportunities that chemical engineering faces now and may face in the next 10-30 years, including the broaderimpacts that chemical engineering can have on emerging technologies, national needs, and the wider science and engineering enterprise.
- Identify a set of existing and new chemical engineering areas that offer promising intellectual and investment opportunities and newdirections for the future, as well as areas that have major scientific gaps.
- Identify aspects of undergraduate and graduate chemical engineering that will require changes needed to prepare students and workers for the future landscape and diversity of the profession.
- Consider recent trends in chemical engineering in the United States relative to similar research that is taking place internationally. Based on those trends, recommend steps the United States might take to secure a leadership role and to enhance collaboration and coordination of such research and educational support, where appropriate, for identified subfields of chemical engineering.
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American Chemistry Council
Arkema
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
Colorado School of Mines
Department of Energy
Dow Chemical Company
DuPont de Nemours, Inc.
Eastman Chemical Company
Evonik Industries AG
ExxonMobil
Georgia Institute of Technology
Honeywell International, Inc.
Johns Hopkins Medicine
Louisiana State University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
National Institute of Standards and Technology
National Science Foundation
North Carolina State University
Northwestern University
PPG Industries, Inc.
Princeton University
Procter & Gamble Company
Purdue University
Rice University
Shell
Texas A&M University
The American Chemical Society
The American Institute of Chemical Engineers
The Pennsylvania State University
University at Buffalo
University of Arkansas
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Davis
University of California, Los Angeles
University of California, Merced
University of Delaware
University of Florida
University of Houston
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
University of Michigan
University of Minnesota
University of Notre Dame
University of Texas at Austin
University of Virginia
University of Wisconsin
West Virginia University
Staff
Brenna Albin
Liana Vaccari
Jessica Wolfman
Guru Madhavan
