Scaling Up: The Institution of Chemical Engineers and the Rise of a New Profession

Abstract

Chemical engineering - as an acknowledged profession and an academic discipline - is scarcely a century old. Yet from a contested existence before the First World War, chemical engineering had become one of the 'big four' engineering professions in Britain, and a major contributor to Western economies, by the end of the twentieth century. \n \nThe subject had distinct national trajectories. In Britain - too long seen as shaped by American experiences - the emergence of recognised chemical engineers was the result of professional aspirations and contingency, and shaped by a shifting ecology of institutions, firms and government. \n \nDrawing upon extensive archival research, this book examines the evolution of technical practice, working environment and social interactions of chemical engineering.

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