Editing Chemical engineer (section)

==History==

[[File:Glauber.png|thumb|200px|left|Portrait of [[Johann Rudolf Glauber]]]]

The president of the [[Institution of Chemical Engineers]] said in his presidential address "I believe most of us would be willing to regard [[Edward Charles Howard]] (1774–1816) as the first chemical engineer of any eminence".<ref>''Transactions of the IChemE'' (1951) Volume 29 page 163</ref>  Others have suggested [[Johann Rudolf Glauber]] (1604–1670) for his development of processes for the manufacture of the major industrial acids.<ref>Herman Skolnik ''in'' W. F. Furter (ed) (1982) ''A Century of Chemical Engineering'' {{ISBN|0-306-40895-3}} page 230</ref>

The term appeared in print in 1839, though from the context it suggests a person with [[mechanical engineering]] knowledge working in the [[chemical industry]].<ref>[[Andrew Ure|Ure, Andrew]] (1839) ''A Dictionary of Arts Manufactures and Mines'', London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman, page 1220</ref> 
In 1880, [[George E. Davis]] wrote in a letter to ''Chemical News'' "A Chemical Engineer is a person who possesses chemical and mechanical knowledge, and who applies that knowledge to the utilisation, on a manufacturing scale, of chemical action."  He proposed the name Society of Chemical Engineers, for what was in fact constituted as the [[Society of Chemical Industry]]. At the first General Meeting of the Society in 1882, some 15 of the 300 members described themselves as chemical engineers, but the Society's formation of a Chemical Engineering Group in 1918 attracted about 400 members.<ref>Colin Duvall and Sean F, Johnston (2000) ''Scaling Up: The Institution of Chemical Engineers and the Rise of a New Profession'' Kluwer Academic Publishers</ref>

In 1905 a publication called ''The Chemical Engineer'' was founded in the US,<ref name=Sun>[http://cdsun.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/cornell?a=d&d=CDS19041026.2.25 The Cornell daily Sun] Volume XXV, Number 25, 26 October 1904</ref> and in 1908 the [[American Institute of Chemical Engineers]] was established.<ref name=AIChEEarly>[http://www.aiche.org/uploadedFiles/About/Centennial/CE_Profession-A.pdf John C. Olsen (December 1932), ''Chemical Engineering As A Profession: Origin and Early Growth of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120813180349/http://www.aiche.org/uploadedFiles/About/Centennial/CE_Profession-A.pdf |date=2012-08-13 }}</ref>

In 1924 the [[Institution of Chemical Engineers]] adopted the following definition: "A chemical engineer is a professional man experienced in the design, construction and operation of plant and works in which matter undergoes a change of state and composition."<ref>''Transactions of the Institution of Chemical Engineers'' volume 2 page 23 (1924)</ref>

As can be seen from the later definition, the occupation is not limited to the [[chemical industry]], but more generally the process industries, or other situations in which complex physical and/or chemical processes are to be managed.

The UK journal ''[[The Chemical Engineer]]'' (began 1956) has a series of biographies available online entitled “Chemical Engineers who Changed the World”,<ref name=CECW>[http://www.thechemicalengineer.com/chemical-engineers-who-changed-the-world.aspx  www.thechemicalengineer.com] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170211080528/http://www.thechemicalengineer.com/chemical-engineers-who-changed-the-world.aspx# |date=2017-02-11 }} Chemical engineers who changed the world</ref>