“Sustainable Chemical Engineering and the Future”

Chemical engineering plays a key role in realizing sustainable development in our society. With wise and responsible engineering during the process of design and planification, we, the community of chemical engineers, can greatly improve people’s living standard while protecting the beloved nature. We firmly believe that education is one of the most powerful and proven vehicles to achieve sustainability in chemical engineering, notably for future chemical engineers. The concept of a sustainable system, which is either in equilibrium, or slowly changes at a tolerable rate, must be solidly rooted in the mind of all chemical engineering students, who will eventually make the foundation of future community of chemical engineers. As educators in Chemical Engineering, we must help students to acquire the ability of developing a closed-loop ecological system with the consideration of humanity to illustrate the many activities of chemical engineering that support sustainable development, such as resource development and extraction, resource recovery and re-use, environmental restoration, energy production and usage.

It is our great pleasure and honor to invite you to attend the B-2 "sustainable chemical Engineering and the future" Forum to discuss the important role of Engineering Education in sustainable Chemical Engineering and the future!

Panel Chair：

ZHAO Jinsong（Dean, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University）

Lorenz T. BIEGLER (Member of the National Academy of Engineering, USA; Professor, Carnegie Mellon University, USA)

Panel Discussion Chair：

LIU Zheng (Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering; Dean, Tanwei College, Tsinghua University)

Panel Speakers:

Lorenz T. BIEGLER (Member of the National Academy of Engineering, USA; Professor，Carnegie Mellon University)

(20:10-20:30)

GONG Jinlong (Vice President, Tianjin University)

(20:30-20:50)

Lev SARKISOV (Professor and Head, the Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science Department, University of Manchester)

(20:50-21:10)

LIU Zheng (Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering; Dean, Tanwei College, Tsinghua University)

(21:10-21:30)

Takeo YAMAGUCHI (Professor, Laboratory for Chemistry and Life Science, Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology)

(21:30-21:50)

Romildo Dias TOLEDO FILHO (Professor, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro(COPPE), Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences)

(21:50-22:10)

Discussion (22:10-23:00)

About the Organizer​

The Department of Chemical Engineering of Tsinghua University

The Department of Chemical Engineering of Tsinghua University was founded in 1964, and it currently offers two four-year undergraduate programs, namely “Chemical Engineering and Industrial Bioengineering” and “Polymer Material and Engineering”. The Department emphasizes on the multi-disciplinary collaboration and innovation among chemical engineering, material, energy and biology. In the 2020 QS World University Ranking by Subject, Chemical Engineering of Tsinghua University ranks the 12th in the world. It is one of the five subjects in China which ranked Top 20 worldwide in the past eight consecutive years. In addition, the subject of Material Science, to which our major “Polymer Material and Engineering” belongs, ranks the 9th in the world. In the 21st century, tremendous changes are observed in both the intension and extension of Chemical Engineering to respond to the major challenges facing the human sustainable development in the fields of resource, energy and environment. 

Today’s Chemical Engineering puts more emphasizes on the organic unification from molecular to systematic levels, and actively collaborates with life science as well as information science in order to enhance and create smart and efficient pathways to transform matters and energy. All these efforts have one sole mission for tomorrow’s Chemical Engineering: to produce chemical engineering product with higher efficiency, greater safety, better environmental caring and more variety and make the future life of humankind better.

About the Co-sponsor

The Chemical Industry and Engineering Society of China (CIESC)

The Chemical Industry and Engineering Society of China (CIESC), founded on April 23, 1922, is affiliated to the Chinese Association for Science and Technology (CAST). CIESC has more than 160 companies or entities and more than 27,000 individual registered as CIESC’s members. CIESC includes 6 working committees and 37 professional committees, and supervising 27 provincial chemical industry associations. CIESC sponsors 4 academic journals: CIESC Journal, Chemical Industry and Engineering Progress, Chinese Journal of Chemical Engineering (English) and Energy Storage Science and Technology. CIESC is member of the Executive Committee of World Chemical Engineering Council (WCEC), the Pacific Asian Confederation of Chemical Engineering (APCChE) and institutional member of European Federation of Chemical Engineering (EFCE).