American engineering profession

Layton, E. T. (1990). The revolt of the engineers Social responsibility and the American engineering profession. Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press. 

Layton, Edward, Jr. 1971. The Revolt of the Engineers Social Responsibility and the American Engineering Profession. Cleveland Case Western Reserve University Press. 

The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) has a 30-year history of involvement with process safety for chemical processing plants. Through its strong ties with process designers, builders, operators, safety professionals and academia, the AIChE has enhanced communication and fostered improvement in the high safety standards of the industry. AIChE publications and symposia have become an information resource for the chemical engineering profession on the causes of accidents and means of prevention. 

A second point can be made about the way in which uni" processes came into existence. The emergence of unit process is analogous to that of unit operations, particularly with regard to relevant social groupings involved in this evolution. Industries, professional organizations, particularly AIChE and the American Chemical Society, and universities are involved, as in the case of unit operations. This time, however, the process leading to the identification of unit processes is simpler because the disciplinary identity of the chemical engineering profession is well defined and especially because unit processes, as the name shows, are patterned after unit operations. 

The development of American universities and their curricula in science and engineering is a well-studied subject. Useful accounts in the present context are Earle D. Ross, Democracy s College, Iowa State College Press, Ames, 1942 Edward H. Beardsley, The Rise of the American Chemistry Profession, University of Florida Press, Gainesville, 1964 and the Wickenden Report [8], Of particular interest is Ezra S. Carr s... 

Rehm, T. R., A Guide for the Implementation of the International System of Units by the Chemical Engineering Profession, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, New York, 1979. 

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