Chemical Engineering Graduate Program

The Chemical Engineering Program was founded by Professor David Miller and Professor Stanley Middleman in the late 1970s under the former Applied Mechanics & Engineering Science (AMES) Department. The first graduating class was 1980, and the undergraduate program received ABET accredidation in 1984.

The Chemical Engineering Program has affiliated faculty from the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, the Bioengineering, and the Chemistry departments. The program is administered by a core of three faculty members under the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE), which evolved from AMES in 2000.

The curricula at both the undergraduate and graduate levels are designed to support and foster chemical engineering as a multidisciplinary profession that interfaces engineering and basic sciences (physics, chemistry, and biology).

The Chemical Engineering Program is administratively housed under the NanoEngineering department and currently offers graduate instruction leading to the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in chemical engineering. The Nanotechnology concentration signifies that 4 elective courses are chosen from the approved courses in this area.