(384a) 25 by 25: Chemical Engineering in the Next 25 Years

In 2008, the centennial year for AIChE, we asked 25 chemical engineers for their visions of the profession from around the US and the world: Nine faculty, eight from industry, and eight post-docs and graduate students. We posed four questions related to each individual's industrial sector or area of research, asking for extrapolation, new impacts on existing sectors, new sectors, and an optional, more open-ended comment on the future of the profession as a whole.

In this 110th year of AIChE, we have revisited these questions with many of the same people. Ten years has seen many developments in our profession, in society, and in our thought-leaders' experiences. Here we report on their perspectives, comparing them to the 2008 visions.