BS Chemical Engineering

The Department of Chemical Engineering conducts undergraduate and graduate programs of teaching and research in the areas of thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, mass transfer, catalysis, semiconductor materials processing, plasma processing, electrochemistry and corrosion, hightemperature chemical kinetics, reaction engineering, combustion science, environmental reaction engineering, cryogenics and lowtemperature processes, biochemical engineering, process systems engineering, process integration, computeraided process design and control, particle technology, pollution control, pollution prevention, and polymer engineering. Students are trained in the fundamental principles of these fields while learning a sensitivity to society's needs a crucial combination in addressing the question of how industry can grow and innovate in an era of economic, environmental, and energy constraints.