The Department of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science (CEAS)

University of Manchester , mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity , established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Univ ...

was formed by the merger in 2004 of the former

UMIST The University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) was a university based in the centre of the city of Manchester in England. It specialised in technical and scientific subjects and was a major centre for research. On 1 Oct ...

departments of

Chemical Engineering Chemical engineering is an engineering field which deals with the study of operation and design of chemical plants as well as methods of improving production. Chemical engineers develop economical commercial processes to convert raw materials int ...

, and DIAS - the Department of Instrumentation and Analytical Sciences - and the Centre for Process Integration. After formation of the

, the department was known as the School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Sciences, however was renamed in 2019 following a faculty-wide restructuring. The department inherits a longstanding association of Chemical Engineering and UMIST, indeed the discipline was founded by a series of lectures given there by George E. Davis in 1888. The professors of technological chemistry in the Faculty of Technology, Victoria University of Manchester, were W. J. Pope (1905–08), E. Knecht (1909–18), F. L. Pyman (1918–27) and J. Kenner (1928-50).Charlton, H. B. (1951) ''Portrait of a University'', p. 182

References

External links

CEAS website

History and heritage of the school
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