Talk:List of chemical engineers

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[edit] Cindy Crawford

Man, this is a short list. Can anyone verify the urban legend that CIndy Crawford studied chemical engineering?

Cindy attended Northwestern University but never graduated.

I removed Cindy Crawford's name. Studying one semester as a Chemical Engineer does not make you a chemical engineer. I think only people who should be on this list are chemical engineers and those who have made scientific discoveries related directly to the Chemical Engineering field. As in, discovery of distillation would be a chemistry discovery but design of a process to distill 50,000 barrels a day would be chemical engineering. 24.249.147.3

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I don't like the way this page looks. Anyone object to making it a standard bulleted list? Or the name/known for/affiliation table is pretty nice; is there any way to use CSS or XML to make adding entries easy so noobs like me don't have to wrestle with too much markup code like | || etc? BTW, http://sdcc13.ucsd.edu/~aiche/xceleb.html says that Dolph Lundgren has a masters.

Agree it could look better but I'm not sure what to do yet. I'm trying to find more ChE's who have contributed a good bit of research to the field. Honestly, it is somewhat difficult as a lot of research, etc. isn't put up in front of the public's eye as much as research in other fields. Who would really want to read about a new way to perform gasification of coal other than someone in that area of research - Reflux 09:00, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Shouldn't this be a list of individuals that completed a chemical engineering program? I don't think Cindy Crawford and Ashton Kutcher deserve a place here.

I agree with this statement. Studing ChE for one semester doesn't make you a Chemical Engineer. I think people who made discoveries related to Chemical Engineer should be on the list though as your degree does not always dictate the work you will be studying/researching. Enviornmental, Chemical, and Petrleum engineering are closely related in their core ideas. Each one then has their own, specific and different area of study but could work in a ChE job position or do research that would directly benefit the chemical engineering field. 24.249.147.3 23:22, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Exactly... One quarter (or semester) in the chemical engineering major does not make you an engineer.

Perhaps they should be moved to something like a "Trivia" section at the bottom of the page?--GregRM 02:29, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

I agree 100% that they should not be considered ChE24.249.147.3 23:27, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

I started a trivia header to fix the issue. --Sadi Carnot 13:51, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Doing things that benefit chemical engineering does not make you a chemical engineer, otherwise the list would be filled with mathematicians and scientists. A degree in chemical engineering or membership of AIChE, IChemE etc would qualify in my view. Prior to 1900, we must use reasonable judgement as to people that we would today recognise as chemical engineers and not chemists or mechanical engineers. Wikipedia content must be verifiable. Chemical Engineer 12:21, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

It seems to me that people are adding friends and textbook authors. I don't see that being a university professor or a company director alone is worth adding to the list. If it is, we should have all the heads of chemical engineering departments in the world, and a lot of company CEOs. Writing a textbook is again not exactly unique - if we include all of them, it would add more than a hundred to the list. Quite a few people have written one good specialist text. However, any texts which can be demonstrated to be exceptional in their impact should make the authors notable. Here I would take the originators and not necessarily everyone whom contributes to subsequent editions. Examples of exceptional books would be Perry's Handbook, Coulson & Richardson, Bird, Stewart and Lightfoot. I would not put in Richard Felder just because of his book with Rousseau. I would put him in because it is a verifiable fact that he has won many awards for his contribution to education.Chemical Engineer 12:21, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

Self-poster Daniel Shanefield does not mention chemical engineering in his biography. If he is a chemical engineer, why is he not a member of the AIChE? Chemical Engineer 12:21, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

What is the evidence for Sady Homrich being a chemical engineer? Chemical Engineer 12:21, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

Does anyone know why there were so many entries of people that seem to have little to do with chemical engineering? I removed some, but I think there are more that could be left off as well. Tnxman307 (talk) 20:59, 26 November 2007 (UTC)