One Hundred Years of Chemical Engineering

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. The Origins of Academic Chemical Engineering

   • Nikolaos A. Peppas

   Pages 1-14

3. The Development of Chemical Engineering as Shown by its Texts

   • D. C. Freshwater

   Pages 15-25

4. Academic Connections of the 20th Century U.S. Chemical Engineers: Influence of the 18th and 19th Century Swedish, French and German Chemists

   • N. A. Peppas

   Pages 27-37

5. History of a Research Journal, Chemical Engineering Science

   • J. Bridgwater

   Pages 39-46

6. The Development of Fluid Mechanics in Chemical Engineering

   • Stephen Whitaker

   Pages 47-109

7. Changing View on the Classical Stefan Problem

   • H. Janeschitz-Kriegl

   Pages 111-124

8. Unit Processes Against Unit Operations: The Educational Fights of the Thirties

   • N. A. Peppas, R. S. Harland

   Pages 125-142

9. Chemical Engineering in the Netherlands 1935–1965

   • H. Kramers

   Pages 143-151

10. Chemical Engineering Developments in India

    • R. A. Mashelkar, J. V. Rajan

    Pages 153-221

11. Chemical Engineering at University College London

    • Peter N. Rowe, Anthony R. Burgess

    Pages 223-236

12. From Mining to Chemical Engineering at the University of Birmingham

    • A. J. Biddlestone, J. Bridgwater

    Pages 237-244

13. Loughborough — The Development of a Department

    • D. C. Freshwater, B. W. Brooks, A. Foord

    Pages 245-261

14. Chemical Engineering at Purdue University

    • Nikolaos A. Peppas, Ronald S. Harland

    Pages 263-299

15. History of Chemical Engineering at the University of Rochester

    • John C. Friedly

    Pages 301-319

16. Chemical Engineering Education at the University of Kansas 1895–1988

    • James O. Maloney

    Pages 321-351

17. History of ChE at the University of Washington

    • Ralph Wells Moulton

    Pages 353-362

18. The History of Chemical Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT)

    • Satish J. Parulekar, Darsh T. Wasan

    Pages 363-377

19. History of Chemical Engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology 1881–1988

    • Deran Hanesian, Angelo Perna, Joseph Joffe

    Pages 379-397

20. Back Matter

    Pages 399-414

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One hundred years ago, in September 1888, Professor Lewis Mills Norton (1855-1893) of the Chemistry Department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology introduced to the curriculum a course on industrial chemical practice. This was the first structured course in chemical engineer­ ing taught in a University. Ten years later, Norton's successor Frank H. Thorpe published the first textbook in chemical engineering, entitled "Outlines of Industrial Chemistry." Over the years, chemical engineering developed from a simple industrial chemical analysis of processes into a mature field. The volume presented here includes most of the commissioned and contributed papers presented at the American Chemical Society Symposium celebrating the centenary of chemical engineering. The contributions are presented in a logical way, starting first with the history of chemical engineering, followed by analyses of various fields of chemical engineering and concluding with the history of various U.S. and European Departments of Chemical Engineering. I wish to thank the authors of the contributions/chapters of this volume for their enthusiastic response to my idea of publishing this volume and Dr. Gianni Astarita of the University of Naples, Italy, for his encouragement during the initial stages of this project.

• chemical analysis
• chemical engineering
• chemistry
• industrial chemistry

`This book is warmly recommended to chemical engineers, historians of chemistry, and to all persons interested in the development of chemical engineering both in the United States and abroad.'
Journal of Chemical Education, 67 (7) July 1990

• School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA

  Nikolaos A. Peppas

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