Talk:Process engineering/Archives/2013
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poor definition
This is from the online OED: "noun
[mass noun] the branch of engineering that is concerned with industrial processes, especially continuous ones such as the production of petrochemicals. "
which strikes me as a much better definition than one involving computers
The conflation of process engineering, which has a very wide usage, with process systems engineering, which is only the name of a few engineering departments, further muddies the waters.
I suggest that the definition is changed to something like: "the engineering of industrial processes, especially continuous ones. "
If the articles gets off to this (better) start, then sorting out the rest of the problems will be much easier. (I appreciate that process engineering also extends to batch processes, as well as continuous processes, and this can be explored further with follow-on amendments.) I think this was referred to under the 'wrong area' comment above.
Proposal: split Process Engineering and Process Systems Engineering
At the moment Process Systems Engineering redirects to Process Engineering. The page is pretty small and most of it refers to PSE not PE. I propose that the redirect is removed, so that there are two separate articles. Most of the current stuff can be moved to PSE, which at least will then be accurate. It will leave PE looking pretty bare, but at least we won't have the misleading current situation where the accomplishments for an enormous part of engineering are the minor things quoted. Gravuritas (talk) 00:18, 22 September 2013 (UTC)