Research challenges and opportunities

How can chemical engineering departments implement this broader curriculum as well as aggressively respond to new research challenges and opportunities A bold step is needed. The committee recommends that universities conduct a one-time expansion of chemical engineering departments over the next 5 years, exercising a preference for new faculty capable of research at interdisciplinaiy frontiers. 

Identification of problems, knowledge barriers and research challenges and opportunities... 

Christiani DC, Sharp RR, Collman GW, Suk WA (2001) Applying genomic technologies in environmental health research challenges and opportunities. J Occup Environ Med, 43(6) 526-533. 

Varma, V.A., Reklaitis, G.V., Blau, G.E., and Pekny J.F. (2007) Enterprise-wide modeling and optimization - an overview of emerging research challenges and opportunities. Computers el Chemical Engineering, 31 (5-6), 692-711. 

Granick, S., Kumar, S. K., Amis, E. J. et al. 2003. Macromolecules at surfaces Research challenges and opportunities from tribology to biology. Journal of Polymer Science,... 

Granick, S., Kumar, S.K., Amis, E., Antonietti, M., Balazs, A.C., Chakraborty, A.K., Grest, G.S., Hawker, C., Janmey, P., Kramer, E.J., Nuzzo, R., Russell, T.P. and Safinya, C. (2003) Macromolecules at surfaces research challenges and opportunities from tribology to biology. Journal of Polymer Science Part B Polymer Physics, 41, 2755-93 and references therein. 

L. G. Leal, Challenges and Opportunities in Fluid Mechanics and Transport Phenomena William B. Russel, Fluid Mechanics and Transport Research in Chemical Engineering J. R. A. Pearson, Fluid Mechanics and Transport Phenomena... 

Baranenko, V.V. (2001). Pea chloroplasts under clino-rotation lipid peroxidation and superoxide dismutase activity. Advances in Space Research 27 973-976. Bhowmik, P.C. and Inderjit (2003). Challenges and opportunities in implementing allelopathy for natural weed management. Crop Protection 22 661-671. 

The activation of dioxygen encompasses a broad spectrum of research fields, from biology/biochemistry to chemistry, and hence to catalysis, industrial processes, and theoretical analyses. The studies outlined in this review are indicative of the range of ongoing research in the area, and of the challenges and opportunities presented. While we have attempted to address many of the accomplishments we feel are important and interesting, this is one of the broader and more complex fields of chemistry, and one that is expected to develop and change rapidly. 

Real-time monitoring techniques for organic compounds encompass many disciplines. Many problems have been solved, and yet more need further investigation. With the development of related science and technologies, real-time monitoring techniques will continue to develop. There are still many challenges and opportunities to researchers in the related research areas. 

Mallik, A.U. Challenges and opportunities in allelopathy research a brief overview. J Chem Ecol 2000 26 2007-... 

Arakawa H, Aresta M, Armor JN et al (2001) Catalysis research of relevance to carbon management progress, challenges, and opportunities. Chem Rev 101(4) 953-996... 

In the remainder of this section, I discuss the significance of these future trends in fluid mechanics and transport phenomena, beginning with the evolution of new theoretical tools and concluding with a more detailed description of future objectives, challenges, and opportunities for fluid mechanics research at the microscale. Some of the latter discussion is drawn from a more comprehensive report, The Mechanics of Fluids with Micro-structure written in 1986 by Professor R. A. Brown (MIT) and myself (with substantial input from the chemical engineering research community) as part of a general NSF-sponsored study of The Future of Fluid Mechanics Research. 

So far, I have described only the class of materials and problems to be considered, without providing any insight into the challenges and opportunities that should be the focus of future research. 

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