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performance in chemical engineering, and near- and longer-term projections of research leadership. Over a quarter of the jobs in the United States depend on chemistry in one way or another, and over $400 billion worth of products rely on innovations from this field.
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The United States is currently among world leaders in all of the subareas of chemical engineering research identified in the report, and leads in both classical subareas such as transport processes as well as emerging areas such as cellular and metabolic engineering. Although the comparative percentage of U.S.
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2 (page Korea, Taiwan, and India, and the European Union includes 25 countries. chemical engineering research, and to expand and extend its current position into subareas such as biocatalysis and protein engineering; cellular and metabolic engineering; systems, computational, and synthetic biology; nanostructured materials; fossil energy and extraction and processing; nonfossil energy; and green engineering.
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Chemical engineering research in the United States is leading to the creation of new technologies and products. Additionally, the chemical engineering education and research enterprise in the United States is excellent, attracting talented people with desired expertise.
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