D I V I S I O N OF I N D U S T R I A L AND ENGINEERING C H E M I S T R Y
CHAIRMAN A. R. RESCORLA
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CHAIRMAN-ELECT ARTHUR ROSE Applied Science Lab., Inc. P. 0. Box 140 State College, Pa.
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SECRETARY J. B. RILEY Enjay Laboratories P. 0. Box 35 Linden, N. J.
PROGRAM SECRETARY J. R. FERRON Dept. of Chemical Engr. University of Delaware Newark, Del.
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LEO FRIEND The M. W. Kellogg Co. 711 Third Avenue New York 17, N. Y .
I&EC DIVISION A T THE CHICAGO MEETING The Division has organized or helped to organize the following symposia to be held in Chicago from Aug. 31 to Sept. 4. We hope to see you there. SUBJECTS AND CHAIRMEN Research Laboratory Operations (W. P. Metzner, Chairman) Brief presentations of problems and approaches by eight experts, followed by audience participation discussion. Selected Papers (Vernon Fauver, Chairman) Settling in Slurries, Foam Drainage, Molecular Sieve Rates, Fused MCI and “ 0 s Reactions, and four other topics. Putting Chemistry Back into t h e Training of Chemists a n d Chemical Engineers (Arthur Rescorla, Chairman) This is an attempt to start discussion on whether recent graduates know the kind of chemical technology needed to develop, produce, and sell the products that support and advance chemistry. Ample time and a cocktail hour (Dutch) will be available for extended discussion. New Processes in Synthetic Detergents (J. C. Kirk, Chairman) A lot has been going on. This session will summarize important new developments (6 papers). Organic Peroxides (0.L. Mageli, Chairman) Development, Stabilization, Uses (12 papers). Processing of Adhesives (R. Patrick, Chairman) Two half-day sessions on recent developments. Bench Scale Processes (J. D . Idol, Chairman) A continuation of an earlier symposium on this money-saving technique. Radiation Polymerization (R. I. Leininger, Chairman) Cosponsored with Division of Nuclear Chemistry. Standards i n Chemical Industry a n d Research (W. W. Meinke, Chairman) Another panel and audience discussion session. Cosponsored with Division of Analytical Chemistry, Chemical Marketing, and the ACS Committee on Standardization. Topics include establishing standards in international trade and scientific activities, as well as bringing together domestic activities on standards.
AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION AT CHICAGO I&EC MEETINGS
The I&EC Division is emphasizing audience participation in planning programs for the Chicago ACS meeting. Symposia on Research Laboratory Operation, on Chemical Standards, and on More Practical Academic Chemical Training will include special arrangements for floor discussion. The audience of a scientific meeting usually participates by gathering in two’s, three’s, or half dozen’s in the halls (or more comfortable spots) after a paper or session to take the worthwhile papers (and some others) apart and to puzzle over how to fit the pieces into a meaningful pattern for personal philosophical or practical purposes. Another and more direct (but not really new) way is being tried at the Chicago ACS meeting in the I&EC Symposium on Research Laboratory Operations (Wednesday morning, September 1). At this session, after brief introductions by eight specialists, the attendees will be divided into several groups in adjoining rooms, each with a specialist discussion leader and small panel, to let as many as possible of the audience add an idea or two. Almost every chemist has something to do directly or indirectly with laboratory operation, even if only to wonder why “they)) don’t get analyses done yesterday, or purchase orders processed more promptly. Keep at least a part of this time period open on your calendar, to get some new ideas on laboratory operations and on running a discussion meeting. The session on how practical academic training of chemists and chemical engineers should be is designed to stimulate discussion on how fast and in what directions the practice of chemical technology is changing and on what should be done to keep open the lines of communication between academician and industrialist, between traditionalist and modernist, or between scientist and technologist-the exact titles assigned not mattering so much as the need and desire for a mainstream of thought to which all chemically trained people can relate. The alternative is even greater fragmentation into specialties than the fragmentation we now face. Half a dozen speakers representing the various vested interests will present their views in short, concise talks, after which the meeting will be thrown open to free-wheeling discussion of the whole subject.
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