The Origins of Academic Chemical Engineering

Abstract

The origins of chemical engineering can be linked to the industrial revolution of the 18th and 19th century in Europe and the United States (1–4) and the sociopolitical changes following the 1848 revolution in France and Germany (5–6). No doubt one can claim that chemical engineering was practiced even by the ancient Greeks and Romans when they were making soap or wine, or treating ores in Lavrion or Sicily.