Manufacturing engineering, profession

Between the wars, the growing numbers of continuous catalytic processes—in other manufactures as well as petroleum refining and petrochemicals—absorbed more and more chemical engineers. They brought incentives to focus as much on selective reactions of flowing fluids and suspensions as on the separations and particulate solids-processing methods that constituted the unit operations. They also became nuclei of all sorts of opportunities for the chemical engineering profession. 

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The production of books in manufacturing engineering is an active part of this profession. Books summarize the accepted knowledge in a field, providing valnable information to the researcher and... 

When a new medicine is announced, it is important that companies publicly recognize the chemistry that went into its creation and the chemical engineering that went into the manufacturing process. When other valuable new products are introduced, companies should not be afraid to describe the contribution of chemical scientists. The negative public reactions from past problems with chemical manufacturing have led some companies to nearly hide the fact that they do chemistry. But if chemical companies can discuss behavior of which they are proud, they may be willing to assert that they indeed do chemistry, and do it well. Pretending otherwise demeans the entire profession and the incredible contributions that it makes. 

With a list of 22 authors, many among the best known in the field, the GSK-engineered article is a living demonstration that America s psychiatric drug experts serve as a stable of horses kept and run by the pharmaceutical industry. Collectively, they manufactured a powerful go-ahead signal to the medical profession to liberally prescribe Paxil off-label to children. 

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