Описание: Chemical engineering has a rich past and a bright future. In barely a century, its practitioners have erected the technological infrastructure of much of modern society. Without their contributions, industries as diverse as petroleum processing, pharmaceutical manufacturing, food processing, textiles, and chemical manufacturing would not exist as we know them today. In the 10 to 15 years ahead, chemical engineering will evolve to address challenges that span a wide range of intellectual disciplines and physical scales (from the molecular scale to the planetary scale). And chemical engineers, with their strong ties to the molecular sciences, will be the "interfacial researchers" bridging science and engineering in the multidisciplinary environments where a host of new technologies will be brought into being.