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Discuss “Chemical Engineering Department celebrates 100 years of dynamic innovation”

Alumni, faculty, and students gathered for a symposium to celebrate the department?s successes, reminisce about its history, and discuss the department?s current issues.

Since its inception, chemical engineering has transformed into a discipline that incorporates all technologies and sciences. Andrew Gellman, head of the chemical engineering department, said ?The field of chemical engineering itself started as an empirical discipline, but it has since evolved into a more scientifically and molecularly based discipline.?

This diversity helps today?s chemical engineers enter a variety of careers: supervising the operation of chemical plants, designing chemical processes for pollution prevention, and developing new products and processes. In...

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