ABSTRACT
It is not possible to describe the history of the chemical engineering curriculum without highlighting a number of important events from the development of chemical engineering as a ’eld and discipline. The Chemical Heritage Foundation has published a list of major events in the history of chemical engineering: The First Century of Chemical Engineering: A Timeline of Discoveries and Achievements [1]. Apart from this list, Hougen in 1977 [2] and Freshwater and Yates in 1985 [3] proposed a number of stages that somehow de’ne the evolution of chemical engineering as a ’eld. More recently, the magazine Chemical Engineering Progress [4] published the list of the 30 authors and books that have most inšuenced chemical engineering education. Based on these and other reviews [5,6], we can describe how the chemical engineering curriculum has evolved. Thus, we extend the stages presented by Hougen as well as Freshwater and Yates to start a few years before and ’nish today. We present here the seven stages in which the main events and the books launched have been responsible for the current chemical engineering curriculum.
