Chemical engineering is that discipline centrally concerned with the economic, safe, environmentally acceptable manufacture of materials of all types - solid, liquid, or gas. These can be made by chemical or biochemical means. Stemming from the oil and gas indusries, we now have a discipline with methods of broad applicability. Why has chemical engineering come to restrict itself to the design and operation of processes? This book, based on Professor Bridgwater's inaugural lecture, is concerned with the future shape of chemical engineering and how teaching, research and practice should be linked. It is, thus, of most interest to those concerned with the future shape of the chemical and processing industries or with the development of new processes and products in academia, government or industry.