About Us
The advances of chemical engineering can be found all around us: from innovations and improvements that lead to new medicines, electronic devices, and high-performance materials to new technologies for cleaning the environment and feeding and clothing the world's people.
Chemical engineers play a crucial role transforming raw material into useful products-and not just necessities like food, water, and clothing, but petroleum, pulp and paper, pharmaceuticals, consumer products, cosmetics, biotechnology, electronic materials, nuclear chemical engineering, polymers, composites, and coatings. In addition to making these chemicals and finished products, chemical engineers devise recycling and reclamation processes for consumer products at the end of their life cycle. These processes can include everything from large chemical plants and refineries down to the small processes involved in biochemical engineering. In every way, our field works to engineer the chemistry of people's lives.
Traditionally, chemical engineers have been employed by oil, chemical, plastics, and pharmaceutical companies, but in recent years others have been added to this list: environmental, electronic, biochemical, and materials industries. Chemical engineering is one of the enabling technologies of the 21st century, and our department lies at the forefront.
