The Chemical Engineer and the Community

Abstract

This chapter provides an overview of chemical engineering and community. The profession needs to be more proactive in its interaction with the community. Sustainability is proposed as a strategic framework for such interaction and as an overall framework for the profession, as it moves into the 21st Century. Chemical engineers and the societies and institutions that represent them already hold positions within the community. The chemical engineering profession needs to develop a strategic framework that fits with the current world such as flexibility, proactive, engaging, and communicating. Sustainability is a new concept for a new century. The elements of sustainability are more like the ne..