chemical engineering

noun

the branch of engineering concerned with the design, operation, maintenance, and manufacture of the plant and machinery used in industrial chemical processes

chemical engineering

The branch of engineering that deals with the manufacture of products through chemical processes. These products include, among others, pharmaceuticals, pulp and paper, petrochemicals, microelectronic devices, polymers, and products used in food processing and in biotechnology.

First recorded in 1900–05

The newest big shot in the New York financial world is a guy from Atlanta who studied chemical engineering and loves go-carts.

She earned a chemical engineering degree at the University of California, Berkeley, and spent 20 years working in Silicon Valley.

This may be attained by the two processes usual in such a problem of chemical engineering, viz.

There is also considerable room for improvement in the methods of chemical engineering usually employed.

Thus, in 1888 a new course was established in chemical engineering.

At graduation, he may say, “I'm going into chemical engineering construction.”

My task of impersonation so far looked feasible--I could talk chemical engineering.

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