EARLY ACHIEVEMENTS OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

The United States was the pioneering country of chemical engineering. A curriculum in chemical engineering was started at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1880. The old Europe followed the trend, starting from Denmark, Great Britain, and Imperial Russia. 

The education of chemical engineers advanced dramatically in the 1920s. In 1920-1925, new chairs in chemical engineering were established at 14 American universities. Politecnico di Milano formed a chair in chemical engineering in 1927 and, in 1928, the Technical 

University of Karlsruhe established an institute of chemical engineering, the first one on German soil. In the 1920s, chemical engineering education was established in Scandinavia. 

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