Chemical Engineering

What is Chemical Engineering?

Chemical engineering (ChE) is a respected and ideal profession for today's dynamically changing markets. It is broad, adaptable to a large family of businesses (i.e., petroleum, environmental, biotechnology, biomedicine, pharmaceutical, materials, food and others) and highly paid. Rooted in basic sciences, ChE is mainly concerned with the design, scaling (up or down), operation and control of the transformation and separation of raw materials into valuable products. Chemical engineers are the inventors of nylon fibers, artificial heart valves, nasal drug deliveries and efficient processes to clean our environment, to name a few.

What Does a Chemical Engineer Do?

A B.S. graduate in ChE, within her/his everyday responsibilities, works on challenging problems by integrating concepts of chemistry, physics, mathematics, computer sciences, and/or biology with engineering principles, overall profits, environmental impact, and societal effects all toward the design, production and control of valuable products.