Engineering academic discipline

In a 1999 survey of 110 energy companies, flow assurance was listed as the major technical problem in offshore development (Welling and Associates, 1999). On September 24,2003, in a Flow Assurance Forum, Professor James Brill (2003) discussed the need for a new academic discipline called Flow Assurance. Such a question, presented to an audience of 289 flow assurance engineers, would not have been considered in 1993, when the flow assurance community totaled a few dozen people. 

The early rise of chemical engineering as an academic discipline was characterized by an intimate association between the university and industry in several different ways and at various critical periods in U.S. history. This interaction was especially important in influencing the Course in Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the centennial of which we celebrate. In this paper, I trace the development of the program at MIT and the role played by academic-industrial interaction. I have divided this early development into two time periods, 1888-1920 and 1920-1941, because each was associated with a single dominant personality, William H. Walker and Warren K. Lewis, respectively. 

A century has passed since the field of chemical engineering became formalized as an academic discipline. To mark this occasion, the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology sponsored a celebration on October 5-9, 1988 consisting of a Centennial Symposium of Chemical Engineering and an Alumni Convocation. This volume is a permanent record of all of the presentations and discussions at the symposium together with several papers presented at the convocation. 

Marsden, B., Engineering Science in Glasgow Economy, Efficiency and Measurement as Prime Movers in the Differentiation of an Academic Discipline) The British Journalfor the History of Science, 25(1992), pp. 319-46. 

By the close of the Second World War, chemical engineers had proved their worth, and an independent academic discipline of chemical engineering with a substantial body of codified knowledge underpinning it had been established. 

I wrote this book to fill a gap. There is much in the literature about patient safety, medical informatics and the engineering of safety critical systems, but outside of medical device regulation little is said about how we manufacture and implement Health IT safely. In this book I have attempted to consolidate what the industry has learnt over a 10-15-year period. As technologies and techniques evolve it is clear that this is just the start of an exciting journey, the birth of an academic discipline which brings together learnings from many disparate sources. 

Proposal 6 The academic discipline of engineering (or. perhaps more broadly, technology) should be included in the liberal arts canon undergitding a 21st-century college education for all students. 

These arguments, together with the complexity of human involvement in the case studies described in Chapter 8 and 9, lead us inevitably to the conclusion that, within engineering, greater recognition should be given to an academic discipline... 

The proposed structure for engineering universities of academic disciplines on Engineering Geology and Surveying may also be recommended for the postgraduate training of specialists of construction complex. 

Microlithography and nanolithography are highly specialized areas when it comes to developing a career. At the same time, they involve the intersection of many different academic disciplines, such as engineering, physics, and chemistry. 

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