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SPRING 2011 • MIT Course x newS • Web.mit.Edu/cheme/ XCurrentsMIT Chemical Engineering ALumni NEwS Course x alumni share their updates and memories as MIT prepares for its 150th birthday. (Page 28) Letter from Department Head Klavs F. Jensen HigHligHts News from the Head 1 This semester, MIT celebrates its 150th birthday. The campus is busy with events and symposia and planning for our first Institute-wide “Open House” in over thirty Practice School News 4 years, scheduled for Saturday, April 30th. In this festive environment, it’s only natural to start thinking of the Faculty News 12 evolution of our own Course X. In an excerpt from the 1888 MIT Report to the President, the impetus for the Research News 16 creation of chemical engineering is explained: Alumni News 28 “There are a great number of industries which require constructions, for specific chemical operations, which can best be built, or can only be built, by engineers Spring Event Schedule 48 having a knowledge of the chemical processes involved. This class of industries is constantly increasing, both in number and in importance. Heretofore, the required constructions have, generally speaking, been designed, and work findfind thethe latestlatest newsnews online:online: upon them has been supervised and conducted, either by chemists, having an inadequate knowledge of engineering principles and unfamiliar with engineering, web.mit.edu/cheme/web.mit.edu/cheme/ or even building, practice; or else by engineers whose designs were certain to be either more laborious and expensive than was necessary, or less efficient MITChemEngMITChemEng MITChemEMITChemE than was desirable, because they did not thoroughly understand the objects in view, having no familiarity, or little familiarity, with the chemical conditions under which the processes of manufacture concerned must be carried on.
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