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NAS
point the way
for research,
education
workforce development
directions
over
the next 25
years. " Tentatively
titled
" Chemical Engineering
in the
21st
and
Century:
Challenges and
Opportunities, "
the study will be
organized and
managed by
the NAS Board
on Chemical
Sciences and
Technology
FIGURE 2. Plans are underway to update this 1988
National Academies report on chemical engineering
(BCST), and has a planning committee led by Joane
Brennecke, professor of chemical engineering at the
University of Texas at Austin (www.utexas.edu).
To support development of the study, the committee
has raised $300,000 from the chemical engineering
community so far, and has also secured additional funding
from federal scientific funding agencies, including the
National Science Foundation (Alexadria, Va.; www.nsf.
gov) and the Department of Energy Office of Science
(Washington, D.C.; www.energy.gov). The NAS study
report is expected to be delivered in autumn of 2020.
The new report aspires to " articulate and transform
the chemical engineering profession, guiding its vision
of future research, innovation and education. " It also
will address other topics, such as the changing needs
of industry in the 21st century, effective engagement
with related fields, strengthening diversity, modernizing
educational curricula and others, the NAS planning
committee states.
Emphasizing the need for the chemical engineering
discipline to continue to evolve in future decades to address
the rapidly changing needs of society while taking
advantage of new scientific capabilities, the NAS
planning committee points to several specific areas that
are affecting how research priorities, education and the
practice of chemical engineering are viewed. These
include advances in computing power and communications
technologies that have changed how chemical
engineers model and design, monitor, control and protect
manufacturing processes and products. Computational
power also has implications for predicting outcomes,
managing data and publishing results. Related
to the computing aspect is the the advent of data science
and analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence,
all of which will have implications for chemical
engineering research and process design, says the
NAS planning committee.
Another concept likely to frame the forthcoming NAS
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