The founding members of the U.K.'s Institution of Chemical Engineers, defined a Chemical Engineer as ‘a professional person experienced in the design, construction and operation of plant in which materials undergo chemical or physical change.’

	What does this actually mean?
	Is Chemical Engineering the same as chemistry?
	What do chemical engineers do that chemists or other engineers cannot?

These pages introduce Chemical Engineering, the skills and training of chemical engineers and describe how chemists and chemical engineers work together to put chemistry into practice.

Is Chemical Engineering chemistry?