Chemical engineering is the technology of scaling up to
commercial size chemical reactions which have been demonstrated
in the laboratory. The sciences of CHEMISTRY, PHYSICS, BIOLOGY
and MATHEMATICS underlie the ENGINEERING disciplines brought to
bear on the design of safe and profitable chemical plants. An
important objective of chemical engineering is to design the
chemical reactors and physical processing equipment so that
reactions proceed continuously, rather than occurring in batch
operations. Because chemical engineers have become so adept at
continuous processing, the CHEMICAL AND CHEMICAL PRODUCTS
INDUSTRIES are skill- and capital-intensive, the ratio of
employees to dollar revenue being low and the proportion of
highly skilled employees being high. For the same reason, the
chemical industries are quite scale-intensive, ie, the unit
price of chemical products depends upon the size of the
producing unit and the length of the production run. The genesis
of chemical engineering education in Canada was t