Mechanical Engineering Profession

As the engineering profession developed in the nineteenth century, and its major institutions and educational frameworks were established, a number of groups advocated the cause of engineering science . The Gentlemen of Science of the British Association s early years saw engineering science as a way to institute hierarchical control over engineering by physical scientists, and even by gentlemen whose liberal education included mechanical science. Their representations... 

Davisy [in the] Manchester Lectures thirty years before the coining of the term, presented the essential concept of unit operations, and particularly an understanding of its value for educators that Davis must be given full credit for the initiation of the modem chemical engineering profession that Nortons curriculum was differentiating between the chemistry of an industry which is always specific to that industry on the one handy and the mechanical and physical operations common to many industries on the other (8),... 

During World War II he served as technical adviser to the Commandant of the Chemical Warfare Service Development Laboratory at M.I.T. This laboratory, designed for use by the Chemical Engineering Department, served as its quarters from 1946 to 1976. He was appointed Chief Scientific Adviser to the Chief of Research and Development in 1958 and has lived in retirement in Arizona since 1960. His services as a consultant in the fields of petroleum, textiles, paper, and mechanical and electronic equipment were of great value in introducing the realities of the chemical engineering profession into the classroom, thus making his lectures come alive for the students. 

Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) is often credited as the father of industrial engineering (Copley 1923). By profession, he was a mechanical engineer and he introduced a lot of techniques for improving the efficiency of the production system. In USA, Henry R. Towne (1844—1924), an ASME member, was one of the pioneers in developing industrial engineering field (http //www.stamfordhistory. org/towne 1905.htm). In 1948, a society called American Instimte of Industrial Engineers was founded (http //www.iienet2.org/). The word American was dropped in 1981. 

Frederick Remsen Hutton is not so much known for his scientific contributions to the profession, but more for his impact mainly into the American Society of Mechanical Engineers ASME. In 1873 and 1876, respectively, he obtained the AB and the EM degrees fi om the Columbia School of Mines,... 

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