Institution of Chemical Engineers
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The Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) is a global professional engineering institution with over 33,000 members in over 120 countries worldwide, founded in 1922, and awarded a Royal Charter
in 1957.
to assess candidates for inclusion on ECUK
's Register of professional Engineers, giving the status of Chartered Engineer
. It is licensed by the Science Council
to grant the status of Chartered Scientist
. It is licensed by the Society for the Environment
to grant the status of Chartered Environmentalist
. It is a member of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering
.
It accredits chemical engineering
degree courses in 25 countries worldwide.
It has offices in Rugby
, London
, Melbourne
, Wellington, New Zealand, Kuala Lumpur
, Shanghai
and Singapore
.
:
is a shield with two figures. On the left a helmeted woman, Pallas Athene
, the goddess of wisdom, and on the right, a bearded man with a large hammer, Hephaestus
the god of technology and of fire. The shield itself shows a salamander
as the symbol of chemistry
, and a corn grinding mill
as a symbol of continuous processes. Between these is a diagonal stripe in red and blue in steps to indicate the cascade nature of many chemical engineering processes. The shield is surmounted by helmet on which is a dolphin
, which is in heraldry
associated with intellectual activity, and also represents the importance of fluid mechanics
. Just below the dolphin are two Integral signs to illustrate the necessity of mathematics and in particular calculus
.
The Latin
motto is "Findendo Fingere Disco" or "I learn to make by separating".
Royal Charter
A royal charter is a formal document issued by a monarch as letters patent, granting a right or power to an individual or a body corporate. They were, and are still, used to establish significant organizations such as cities or universities. Charters should be distinguished from warrants and...
in 1957.
Structure
It is licensed by the Engineering Council UKEngineering Council UK
The Engineering Council is Britain's regulatory authority for registration of Chartered and Incorporated engineers and technicians, holding a register of these and providing advice to students, engineers, employers and academic institutions on the standards for registration and procedures for...
to assess candidates for inclusion on ECUK
Engineering Council UK
The Engineering Council is Britain's regulatory authority for registration of Chartered and Incorporated engineers and technicians, holding a register of these and providing advice to students, engineers, employers and academic institutions on the standards for registration and procedures for...
's Register of professional Engineers, giving the status of Chartered Engineer
Chartered Engineer (UK)
In the United Kingdom, a Chartered Engineer is an engineer registered with Engineering Council UK . Contemporary Chartered Engineers are master's degree-qualified and have gained professional competencies through training and experience...
. It is licensed by the Science Council
Science Council
The was established by Royal Charter in 2003. The principal activity of The Science Council is the promotion of the advancement and dissemination of knowledge of and education in science pure and applied, for the public benefit....
to grant the status of Chartered Scientist
Chartered scientist
Chartered Scientist is a professional qualification in the United Kingdom that is awarded by the Science Council through its Licensed member organisations...
. It is licensed by the Society for the Environment
Society for the Environment
The Society for the Environment is an umbrella body that can license its member institutions to confer chartered status on sustainability and environmental professionals worldwide...
to grant the status of Chartered Environmentalist
Chartered Environmentalist
The status of Chartered Environmentalist is a professional qualification that is awarded by the Society for the Environment , a UK professional institution whose members are a number of well-respected and established professional institutions across the environmental sector...
. It is a member of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering
European Federation of Chemical Engineering
The European Federation of Chemical Engineering . Also known as: Fédération Européenne du Génie Chimique and Europäische Föderation für Chemie-Ingenieur-Wesen. An association of professional societies in Europe concerned with chemical engineering.It was formed in Paris on 20 June 1953 with 18...
.
It accredits chemical engineering
Chemical engineering
Chemical engineering is the branch of engineering that deals with physical science , and life sciences with mathematics and economics, to the process of converting raw materials or chemicals into more useful or valuable forms...
degree courses in 25 countries worldwide.
It has offices in Rugby
Rugby, Warwickshire
Rugby is a market town in Warwickshire, England, located on the River Avon. The town has a population of 61,988 making it the second largest town in the county...
, London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
, Melbourne
Melbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
, Wellington, New Zealand, Kuala Lumpur
Kuala Lumpur
Kuala Lumpur is the capital and the second largest city in Malaysia by population. The city proper, making up an area of , has a population of 1.4 million as of 2010. Greater Kuala Lumpur, also known as the Klang Valley, is an urban agglomeration of 7.2 million...
, Shanghai
Shanghai
Shanghai is the largest city by population in China and the largest city proper in the world. It is one of the four province-level municipalities in the People's Republic of China, with a total population of over 23 million as of 2010...
and Singapore
Singapore
Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...
.
Membership Grades and Post-nominals
The following are membership grades with post-nominalsPost-nominal letters
Post-nominal letters, also called post-nominal initials, post-nominal titles or designatory letters, are letters placed after the name of a person to indicate that the individual holds a position, educational degree, accreditation, office, or honour. An individual may use several different sets of...
:
- Affiliate: (no post-nominal) The grade for students and those involved in chemical engineering who do not meet the requirements for the following grades.
- AMIChemE: Associate Member of the Institution of Chemical Engineers: this is the grade for chemical engineering graduates who have not yet met the requirements for full membership.
- MIChemE: Member of the Institution of Chemical Engineers. Entry to this level requires an education of (or equivalent to) a Master's level qualification plus at least 4 years professional experience and a position of responsibility. A competence and commitment report is required plus a technical interview with two senior members of the IChemE. Members normally have Chartered statusChartered (professional)A Chartered professional is a person who has gained a level of competence in a particular field of work and as such has been awarded a formal credential by an organization in recognition. It is considered a status of professional competency, and the Chartered status is awarded mainly by...
by one of the routes above. - FIChemE: Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers. This is the highest grade for members who have the requirements for MIChemE and have achieved a position of some seniority or eminence.
Coat of Arms
The coat of armsCoat of arms
A coat of arms is a unique heraldic design on a shield or escutcheon or on a surcoat or tabard used to cover and protect armour and to identify the wearer. Thus the term is often stated as "coat-armour", because it was anciently displayed on the front of a coat of cloth...
is a shield with two figures. On the left a helmeted woman, Pallas Athene
Athena
In Greek mythology, Athena, Athenê, or Athene , also referred to as Pallas Athena/Athene , is the goddess of wisdom, courage, inspiration, civilization, warfare, strength, strategy, the arts, crafts, justice, and skill. Minerva, Athena's Roman incarnation, embodies similar attributes. Athena is...
, the goddess of wisdom, and on the right, a bearded man with a large hammer, Hephaestus
Hephaestus
Hephaestus was a Greek god whose Roman equivalent was Vulcan. He is the son of Zeus and Hera, the King and Queen of the Gods - or else, according to some accounts, of Hera alone. He was the god of technology, blacksmiths, craftsmen, artisans, sculptors, metals, metallurgy, fire and volcanoes...
the god of technology and of fire. The shield itself shows a salamander
Salamander
Salamander is a common name of approximately 500 species of amphibians. They are typically characterized by a superficially lizard-like appearance, with their slender bodies, short noses, and long tails. All known fossils and extinct species fall under the order Caudata, while sometimes the extant...
as the symbol of chemistry
Chemistry
Chemistry is the science of matter, especially its chemical reactions, but also its composition, structure and properties. Chemistry is concerned with atoms and their interactions with other atoms, and particularly with the properties of chemical bonds....
, and a corn grinding mill
Mill (grinding)
A grinding mill is a unit operation designed to break a solid material into smaller pieces. There are many different types of grinding mills and many types of materials processed in them. Historically mills were powered by hand , working animal , wind or water...
as a symbol of continuous processes. Between these is a diagonal stripe in red and blue in steps to indicate the cascade nature of many chemical engineering processes. The shield is surmounted by helmet on which is a dolphin
Dolphin
Dolphins are marine mammals that are closely related to whales and porpoises. There are almost forty species of dolphin in 17 genera. They vary in size from and , up to and . They are found worldwide, mostly in the shallower seas of the continental shelves, and are carnivores, mostly eating...
, which is in heraldry
Heraldry
Heraldry is the profession, study, or art of creating, granting, and blazoning arms and ruling on questions of rank or protocol, as exercised by an officer of arms. Heraldry comes from Anglo-Norman herald, from the Germanic compound harja-waldaz, "army commander"...
associated with intellectual activity, and also represents the importance of fluid mechanics
Fluid mechanics
Fluid mechanics is the study of fluids and the forces on them. Fluid mechanics can be divided into fluid statics, the study of fluids at rest; fluid kinematics, the study of fluids in motion; and fluid dynamics, the study of the effect of forces on fluid motion...
. Just below the dolphin are two Integral signs to illustrate the necessity of mathematics and in particular calculus
Calculus
Calculus is a branch of mathematics focused on limits, functions, derivatives, integrals, and infinite series. This subject constitutes a major part of modern mathematics education. It has two major branches, differential calculus and integral calculus, which are related by the fundamental theorem...
.
The Latin
Latin
Latin is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. It, along with most European languages, is a descendant of the ancient Proto-Indo-European language. Although it is considered a dead language, a number of scholars and members of the Christian clergy speak it fluently, and...
motto is "Findendo Fingere Disco" or "I learn to make by separating".
Peer-Reviewed Journals
- Chemical Engineering Research and Design
- Process Safety and Environmental Protection
- Food and Bioproducts Processing
- Education for Chemical EngineersEducation for Chemical EngineersEducation for Chemical Engineers is a peer-reviewed academic journal published quarterly by Elsevier on behalf of the Institution of Chemical Engineers. The journal's scope covers all aspects of chemical engineering education...
Past presidents
Noted members and their achievements
- Roland CliftRoland CliftRoland Clift, CBE is a chemical engineering professor widely known for his work and media contributions on the topic of sustainability.-Career:...
Developer of Life cycle assessmentLife cycle assessmentA life-cycle assessment is a technique to assess environmental impacts associated with all the stages of a product's life from-cradle-to-grave A life-cycle assessment (LCA, also known as life-cycle analysis, ecobalance, and cradle-to-grave analysis) is a technique to assess environmental impacts...
and broadcaster on environmental issues - John CoulsonJohn CoulsonJohn Metcalfe Coulson, born 13 December 1910 in Dudley, died 6 January 1990,was a British chemical engineering academic particularly known for co-writing a textbook on chemical engineering with Jack Richardson , which became an established series of texts now known as Coulson & Richardson's...
(1910–1990) Co-writer of classic UK textbooks - Sir Arthur DuckhamArthur DuckhamSir Arthur McDougall Duckham GBE, KCB was one of the founders of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, and its first President....
(1879–1932) First President of the IChemE - Ian FellsIan FellsIan Fells CBE, PhD, FREng, FRSC, FInstE, FIChemE, FRSE is Emeritus Professor of Energy Conversion at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, and former chairman of the "New and Renewable Energy Centre" at Blyth, Northumberland, England.-Education and career:...
Noted energy expert and popular science broadcaster - Trevor KletzTrevor KletzTrevor Kletz OBE is a prolific British author on the topic of chemical engineering safety. He is credited with introducing the concept of inherent safety, and was a major promoter of Hazop.-Early life and education:...
Noted safety expert - Ashok Kumar (1956–2010) UK Member of Parliament
- Frank LeesFrank LeesFrancis Pearson Lees , known as Frank Lees, was a chemical engineer and a Professor at Loughborough University who is noted for his contribution to the field of industrial safety.-Education:Lees was born in Hexham, Northumberland...
(1931–1999) author of major safety encyclopedia - Bodo LinnhoffBodo LinnhoffBodo Linnhoff is a chemical engineer who developed Pinch Analysis, a technique for minimizing energy usage in the process industries. In its early days, the technique helped companies such as ICI and BASF to design plants that used roughly 30% less energy...
His 1979 PhD thesis led to Pinch TechnologyPinch analysisPinch analysis is a methodology for minimising energy consumption of chemical processes by calculating thermodynamically feasible energy targets and achieving them by optimising heat recovery systems, energy supply methods and process operating conditions...
which has enabled companies to save large amounts of energy - K. B. QuinanK. B. QuinanKenneth Bingham Quinan CH, usually known as K.B. Quinan, was an American born chemical engineer who settled in South Africa and contributed significantly to the British war effort in World War I by designing and building efficient explosives factories.Quinan was born in New Jersey as the sixth son...
(1878–1958) An American who, according to Lloyd GeorgeDavid Lloyd GeorgeDavid Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor OM, PC was a British Liberal politician and statesman...
"did more than any other single individual to win the (First World) War" (Freshwater, page 14) - Jack RichardsonJack Richardson (chemical engineer)John Francis "Jack" Richardson, OBE, was a UK chemical engineering academic, notable for his research into multiphase flow and rheology, but best-known for a series of textbooks.-Life:...
(1929–2011) Co-writer of classic UK textbooks - Meredith ThringMeredith ThringMeredith Wooldridge Thring was a British inventor, engineer, futurologist, professor and author.-Education and career:...
(1915–2006) prolific inventor, futurologist and early proponent of sustainability
See also
- Chartered engineer
- Incorporated engineer
- Royal Society of ChemistryRoyal Society of ChemistryThe Royal Society of Chemistry is a learned society in the United Kingdom with the goal of "advancing the chemical sciences." It was formed in 1980 from the merger of the Chemical Society, the Royal Institute of Chemistry, the Faraday Society and the Society for Analytical Chemistry with a new...
- American Institute of Chemical EngineersAmerican Institute of Chemical EngineersThe American Institute of Chemical Engineers is a professional organization for chemical engineers.AIChE was established in 1908 with the purpose of establishing chemical engineers as a profession independent from chemists and mechanical engineers.As of 2010, AIChE had over 40,000 members,...
(AIChE) - Chemical engineerChemical engineerIn the field of engineering, a chemical engineer is the profession in which one works principally in the chemical industry to convert basic raw materials into a variety of products, and deals with the design and operation of plants and equipment to perform such work...
- Chemical engineeringChemical engineeringChemical engineering is the branch of engineering that deals with physical science , and life sciences with mathematics and economics, to the process of converting raw materials or chemicals into more useful or valuable forms...
- History of chemical engineeringHistory of chemical engineeringChemical engineering as a discipline is a little over one hundred years old. It grew out of mechanical engineering in the last part of the 19th century, because of a need for chemical processors. Before the Industrial Revolution , industrial chemicals were mainly produced through batch processing. ...
- List of chemical engineers
- List of chemical engineering societies
- Process design (chemical engineering)
- Frank Morton Sports DayFrank Morton Sports DayThe Frank Morton Sports Day is an annual sporting competition between the students of chemical engineering departments from UK universities. The event is held on one of the campuses of one of the competing universities, normally in the second week of February, when there is less academic pressure...
Further reading
- Colin Duvall and Sean F. Johnston, 2000 Scaling Up - The Institution of Chemical Engineers and the Rise of a New Profession Kluwer Academic Publishers ISBN 0-7923-6692-1
- Royal Charter and Byelaws
External links
- Institution of Chemical Engineers
- Why not Chemical Engineering - schools' website
- Official IChemE Twitter feed