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ChE in Context: Building “New Directions for Chemical Engineering” — Together

As stated by electrical engineer and renowned educator Gordon Stanley Brown, “Engineers operate at the interface between science and society.” Chemical engineers are working every day to safely commercialize technical advances to improve our lives. ChEs must work with many stakeholders to solve the world’s most difficult challenges.

That is a key message in the 2022 consensus report “New Directions for Chemical Engineering” from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) (1). It asserts that ChEs can and should play crucial roles in tackling global challenges...

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