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In this chapter the committee draws together its principal recommendations for action by policymakers in four sectors: academia, industry, government, and professional societies. RECOMMENDATIONS FOR ACADEMIA Education and Training of Chemical Engineers Chemical engineering undergraduate curricula have traditionally been designed to train students for employment in the conventional chemical processing industries.
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· The chemical processing industries will increasingly have a global outlook. They will require engineers with a greater understanding of the global economy, knowledge of engineering research and advances occurring in other countries, and appreciation for other cultures.
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· Academic institutions should take steps to strengthen even further the long-standing ties between chemical engineering departments and the chemical process industries, with a particular emphasis on the flow of personnel between academia and industry. Mechanisms for increased interchange include appointing industrial researchers as adjunct professors in academia; providing industrial sabbaticals for university professors; inviting industrial researchers as seminar speakers on campus; placing student researchers in industrial laboratories; and expanding the number of masters degree programs, evening continuing education programs, and other short courses targeted to industrial research personnel.
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An industry committed to financial sponsorship and personnel exchanges with academia will make sure that the crucial industrial intellectual involvement needed for success exists. Thus, the committee urges that: · industry continue to expand its support of academic chemical engineering research in each of the priority research areas identified in this report, and · policymakers in industry facilitate the exchange of people across the interface between industry and academia.
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Much of the vitality of chemical engineering over its history can be traced to innovative and exploratory research groups led by individual principal investigators. 179 Because of these advantages, and because many of the most exciting research problems in chemical engineering lend themselves to the scale and environment of the small research group, grants to individual academic investigators should continue to remain the mainstay of the portfolio of support mechanisms for research.
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Another type of individual award that belongs in the balanced portfolio is the type of ''research excellence award" exemplified in the industrial world by the IBM Fellows program. These awards would choose extremely meritorious investigators for research support on the basis of the creativity, productivity, and significance of their recent work, rather than on the basis of a project proposal.
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allow for fruitful interchange of ideas between industrial and academic researchers, and (2) improve the research efficiency of the energy processing industries while leaving each individual energy company free to develop its own proprietary processes and technologies.
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· Environmental protection, process safety, and hazardous waste management. NSF should strongly support continued growth in this area, focusing on engineering design methodology for process safety and waste minimization.
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The committee recommends that DOD formulate integrated initiatives (i.e., from basic research to testing and evaluation) on problems where improvements in chemical processing is the key to enhanced performance (e.g., polymer-based optical fiber and components; processing for high-strength, high-modulus fibers; manufacturing process technology for composite materials; and joining and repair science for complex materials systems based on polymers, ceramics, and composites)
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The ACS is a natural partner for the AIChE in joint undertakings to benefit chemical engineering, and the committee recommends that both organizations pursue opportunities for future joint undertakings. O , , , O Council for Chemical Research The Council for Chemical Research is not a professional society, but it deserves mention in this report because it provides a unique forum for interactions between chemists and chemical engineers and between academic and industrial researchers.
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