The Israel Institute of Chemical Engineers was founded in 1963 by members of staff of the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Technion, Prof. Zeev Resnick, Prof. Samuel Sideman and Prof. David Hasson.
The objectives of the institute are the advancement of Chemical Engineering in theory and practice and the maintenance of high professional standards among its members.
Membership in the institute is open to all chemical engineers, to students of chemical engineering (as student members), and to other professionals actively connected to chemical engineering. Associate membership is open to other interested persons fulfilling certain conditions. The institute received the formal status of a foundation ("Amuta") in 1984.
The institute is also affiliated as an associate member to the European Federation of Chemical Engineering.
The main activities of the institute are the yearly two-day symposium held in most years during the Pessach holidays at Haifa, Tel Aviv or Beer Sheva, and the publication of an occasional journal named Journal of the Institute of Chemical Engineers.
The first issue of the institute journal was published in December 1972 and issue number 26 was published in 1997. The Journal editors during those years were: David Wolf, Simcha Avrahami, Aharon Roy, Baruch Grinbaum, Rafi Semiat and Chaim Forgash.
A discussion list, cheng-il, was started in 1996, and an Internet site was started in 1997.
The institute is managed by a 15 member council, originally elected every year but since 1988 is elected every two years. The past president and the two chairmen of the departments of Chemical Engineering are members ex-officio, and the other members are elected during the yearly meeting. The committee elects the president for the current term. A list of the past presidents follows.

Presidents of IIChE Year/s Name Affiliation 1963-1969 Prof. Zeev Resnick Technion 1970 Prof. David Hasson Technion 1971-1972 Prof. Eliezer Rubin Technion 1973-1975 Prof. Samuel Sideman Technion 1976 Mr. Alexander Goldberg Technion 1977-1978 Prof. David Wolf Ben-Gurion University 1979-1980 Dr. Max Reiss Israel Chemicals 1981-1982 Dr. Simcha Avrahami Koor Environment 1983-1984 Prof. Avinoam Nir Technion 1985 Dr. Tuvia Zisner Dead Sea Works 1986 Mr. Oded Lerner Haifa Chemicals 1987-1988 Prof. David Wolf Ben-Gurion University 1989-1990 Prof. Ephraim Kehat Technion 1991-1992 Prof. Mordechai Shacham Ben-Gurion University 1993-1994 Prof. Ram Lavie Technion 1995-1996 Prof. Neima Brauner Tel-Aviv University 1997-1998 Prof. Jaime Wisniak Ben-Gurion University 1999-2000 Prof. Rafi Semiat Technion 2001-2002 Prof. Mordechai Shacham Ben-Gurion University 2003-2004 Dr. Baruch Grinbaum TAMI (IMI) 2005-2007 Prof. Gideon Grader Technion 2007 to present Prof. Josef Kost Ben-Gurion University Since 1973 the institute had started but not maintained a variety of prizes. However, since 1988 the institute consistently presents, during the yearly symposium, two prizes for the best Senior thesis to the students at BGU (Pablo Gottlieb prize) and students at the Technion (Institute prize). The institute also recognizes, as honorary fellows, chemical engineers or persons active in the chemical industry who have made a considerable contribution to the profession or to the industry in Israel. A list of the honorary members follows. Honorary Fellows of IIChE Year Name Affiliation   Mr. Itzhak Hofman IDC 1975 Prof. Zeev Reznik Technion 1984 Mr. Alexander Goldberg Deshanim 1988 Mr. Zwi Tsur Koor Chemicals 1987 Dr. Max Reiss Israel Chemicals 1989 Mr. Avigdor Bartel Haifa Refineries 1991 Mr. Arie Shachar Dead Sea Works 1992 Mr. Moshe Bar-Ilan Haifa Refineries 1994 Prof. Ephraim Kehat Technion   Prof. David Hasson Technion 1995 Mr. Zwi Waldman Haifa Chemicals 1996 Prof. Samuel Sideman Technion 1997 Prof. David Wolf Ben-Gurion University   Dr. Tuvia Zisner Dead Sea Works 1998 Mr. Reuven Wachs Machteshim 2000 Prof. Ram Lavie Technion 2001 Prof. Zeev Tadmor Technion 2002 Prof. Jaime Wisniak Ben-Gurion University 2003 Dr. Eli Barnea Bateman 2004 Prof. Mordechai Shacham Ben-Gurion University 2005 Oded Lerner Bateman 2006 Dr. Baruch Grinbaum Bateman We acknowledge with thanks the assistance of Prof. Ephraim Kehat for completion of this section.