D I V I S I O N OF I N D U S T R I A L A N D E N G I N E E R I N G C H E M I S T R Y CHAIRMAN A. R . RESCORLA Cities Service Oil Cr,. P. 0 . Box 300 ‘Tulsa, Okla.
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ARTHUR ROSE Applied Science Idah, 111r P. 0. Box 140 State College, Pa.
Response to the ballot mailing for the 1965 Division officers was very encouraging; more than 1200 Division members participated. T h e results: CHAIRMAN-ELECT SECRETARY TREASURER PROGRAM SECRETARY COUNCILOR
SECRETARY J. B. RILEY Enjay Laboratories P. 0. Box 35 Linden, N. J.
University of Maryland Enjay Laboratories VERNON A. FAUVER, Dow Chemical JOHN R. FERRON, University of Delaware JOSEPH STEWART, Esso Research & Engineering ROBERT B. BECKMANN,
JOHN B. RILEY,
These newly elected officers, along with the new chairman (currently chairman-elect) Arthur Rose, take office on January 1, 1965. DIVISION PROGRAMS AT THE CHICAGO MEETING
PROGRAM SUCRGTARY
I. R. FERRON Dcpt. of Chemical Engr. University of Dd;iwarc Newark, Del.
’TREASURER
LEO FRIEND The M. W. Kellogg Co. 71 1 ‘Third Avenue New York 17, N. Y.
The symposium on Research Laboratory Operations, with its experimental approach to stimulating audience participation, seems to have succeeded in this objective. The formal presentations were well attended; when the panel broke u p into two separate rooms for direct speaker-audience contact, much enthusiastic discussion ensued. We are therefore considering similar tactics for future symposia. The roundtable discussion on Putting Chemistry and Unit Operations Back into the Training of Chemists and Chemical Engineers evoked the fact that there is a great deal of disagreement on how best to prepare a person for a technical career. Amid accusations of narrow viewpoints, lack of concern for the problems and needs of the other side, and the search for status rather than for results, a couple major points stand out. First, there is now competition for students, whereas in simpler times industry took most of them. Secondly, financing of the academic world comes primarily from the government, whereas only a couple decades ago it came primarily from industry. And thirdly, more and more teachers have less and less exposure to industrial and other nonacademic environments, thus creating the potential for a “closed academic society” relatively unmindful of the needs of others. A more detailed discussion of the panel appears on page 13. THE 31ST ANNUAL CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SYMPOSIUM
“Chemical Reactivity of Solids” is the subject to be treated at this fundamental symposium, which will be held at the University of Michigan on November 12-13, 1964. For reservations or more detailed information, write to Prof. W. C. Bigelow, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich. 48104. Here is the program: 1. “Structure and Reactivity of Solid Surfaces,” J. J. Lander, Bell Telephone Laboratories “Sensitivity of Chemical Reactivity to Lattice Defects in Graphite,” G. Hennig, Solid State Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory 3. “The Preparation and Oxidation of Thin Single Crystal Films of Copper,” L. 0. Brockway, University of Michigan 4. “Formation Energy of Frenkel Defects in Calcium Fluoride,” A. D. Franklin, National Bureau of Standards 5 . “Thermal Decomposition of Irradiated Solids,” J. Jach, State University of New York at Stony Brook 6 . “The Thermal Decomposition of Barium and Strontium Trioxalatoferrates (III),” P. K. Gallagher, Bell Telephone Laboratories 7 . “Kinetics of Gas-Solid Exchange Reactions,” E. A. Secco, St. Francis Xavier University 8 . “Surface Reactivity and Solid State Transport in Platinum,” L. F. Norris, University of Michigan 9. “Surface Reaction Kinetics in Metal-Halogen Systems at High Temperatures,” John D. iMcKinley, Surface Chemistry Section, National Bureau of Standards. 10. “Mechanism of High Temperature Gas-Metal and Gas-Solid Reactions,” Earl A. Gulbransen, Physical Chemistry Department, Westinghouse Electric Corp. 11. “The Decomposition of Calcia Stabilized Zirconia,” R. E. Carter, General Electric Co. 12. “Organic Reactions in the Crystalline State,” H. Morawetz, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn 2.
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