DIVISION OF INDUSTRIAL AND ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY
CHAIRMAN A. R. RESCORLA Cities Service Oil Co P. 0.Box 300 Tulsa. Oklahoma
CHAIRMAN-ELECT ARTHUR ROSE Applied Science Lab., Inc. P.O.Bor.140 State College, Pennsylvania I
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J. B. RILEY Enjay Laboratories P. 0. Box 45 Linden, New Jersey
PROORAM SECRET.ARY J. R. FERRON Dept. of Chemical Engr. University of Delaware Newark, Delaware
TREASURER LEO FRIEND The M. W. Kellogg Co. 71 1 Third Avenue New York 17. N. Y.
A HISTORY OF THE DIVISION For those ofyou who may not haue been exposed to its actiuities Division of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry was the first division created Thewithin the American Chemical Society. It was formed on June 30, 1908, as the Division of Industrial Chemists and Chemical Engineers, under the guidance of Arthur D. Little, its first Chairman, A. H. Low, first Vice Chairman, and T. Babbit Hyde, first Secretary. Its name was changed to the present one in 1919. The function of the Division, then as now, is to disseminate technical information within its field of knowledge. Over the years, it has sponsored symposia in many fields of specialization that have since become so active that they have warranted Divisions of their own within the Society. For example, the Divisions of Petroleum Chemistry, of Chemical Marketing and Economics, of Fuel Chemistry, and of Cellulose, Wood, and Fiber Chemistry were all a t one time subdivisions of the I&EC Division. And last year, two new probationary Divisions-Fluorine Chemistry and Nuclear Chemistry and Technologywere created from I &EC Division subdivisions. The first formal symposium on the Unit Operations was held a t the April 1921 meeting. The concepts of the Unit Processes were promulgated in the Division and have served as useful structures for the development of knowledge in industrial chemistry and chemical engineering. The Annual Chemical Engineering Symposium-the 30th of which was held last November a t the University of Maryland-considers a n area of special knowledge on a highly technical level each year. The 31st, to be held next November on the University of Michigan campus, will be on “Chemical Reactivity of Solids.” The Division sponsors several annual awards to recognize significant contributions in the field of industrial chemistry and chemical engineering. The Honor Scroll Award, established in 1950, honors the technical paper making a valuable contribution to scientific knowledge and most ably presented at the Annual Chemical Engineering Symposium. The Scroll of Honor Award, established in 1953, is presented annually to a chemist or chemical engineer in recognition of distinguished and faithful service to the American Chemical Society and the Division of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry. Since 1957, the ACS Award in Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, sponsored by Esso Research and Engineering Company, has been presented a t the Spring Meeting of the Society. This award of $1000 and a gold medal was established to stimulate fundamental research in industrial and engineering chemistry and in the development and application of chemical engineering principles to industrial processes. Dr. Bruce H. Sage, Professor of Chemical Engineering a t California Institute of Technology, will receive this award at the Philadelphia meeting this Spring. Although proud of its record of more than 50 years, the Division has no intention of relaxing its efforts and will continue to inform its members on the most recent developments in all fields of industrial chemistry and chemical engineering by sponsoring symposia of interest and encouraging publication of high quality papers in Industrial und Engineering Ckemistry .
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