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1 Introduction
Pages 13-16

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... Perhaps more important than identifying this need, the community provided support for such a study: in addition to federal sponsors, more than 45 academic departments, private companies, and professional organizations offered financial contributions. This broad convergence of support culminated in the formation of the National Academies' Committee on Chemical Engineering in the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities.
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...  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 broader impacts 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 new directions for the future, as well as areas that have major scientific gaps.
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... REPORT ORGANIZATION To address the future of chemical engineering in the coming decades, the committee was tasked with identifying challenges and opportunities, as well as existing and new areas for intellectual and investment opportunities and scientific gaps. The committee chose to treat these elements collectively, as challenges and scientific gaps present exciting opportunities for both intellectual investment by academic and industrial researchers and funding investment by federal funding agencies and industrial research programs.
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... Chapter 8 describes tools and techniques with the potential to enable future advances across all of the previously discussed challenge areas. Chapter 9 focuses on education and the need to maintain those aspects of the curriculum that have made chemical engineering successful while allowing for innovation to ensure that the next generation of chemical engineers is more demographically diverse and receives training that ensures its ability to address the challenges facing society.
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