Our Chemical Engineering major prepares students to create for good in rewarding careers in a range of industries or by continuing on to graduate research in fields like pharmaceuticals and green energy.
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Undergraduate Programs
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Undergraduate Programs
Through a combination of rigorous academics and hands-on learning in laboratory and design experiences, our undergraduate degree program prepares students to create for good in rewarding careers in a range of industries or by continuing on to graduate research in fields like pharmaceuticals and green energy. As a chemical engineering graduate, you’ll have not only technical knowledge but also a practical understanding of how to translate that knowledge into improving the world.
Students also have the opportunity to opt-in to our Accelerated Graduate Program, in which you’ll earn a chemical engineering undergraduate degree in four years and a graduate degree in biomedical engineering or chemical engineering with an additional year of study.
Our Undergraduate Programs
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Accelerated Graduate Pathway
The Accelerated Graduate Pathway provides outstanding graduate students the opportunity to make simultaneous progress toward both the Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering and a graduate degree in engineering.
Get Hands-On Experience
Conduct your own research in a professor's lab. Intern in several industries to sample possible career fields. And more.
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Join the Biomedical Engineering Affiliate Initiative
Apply to join the BME Affiliate Initiative to get our world-class educational and research experience, have a biomedical engineering mentor, and work toward your B.S. and M.S. degrees in a shorter timeframe.
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Design a Capstone Project
For your capstone senior design course, choose from land development, environmental or water resources, structures and foundations, or a special project incorporating technical, team problem-solving and communication skills.
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Get Involved in Engineering Student Organizations
Get to know engineering students from across the college, tackle challenges design challenges, and pursue your passions outside of the classroom with a student organization or competition team.
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Explore Internships in Your Career Planning
Don’t wait until after graduation to develop your career. With an engineering internship, you’ll get hands-on experience in real-world work environments.
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Elevate Your Future with the Robe Leadership Institute
The Robe Leadership Institute in the Russ College of Engineering and Technology offers an exclusive, transformative seminar each fall designed specifically for junior and senior engineering students.
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Become an Engineering Ambassador
Develop your leadership experience in one of the Russ College's most visible programs, the Karol A. and Jo Ondick Engineering Ambassadors Program.
About Our Chemical Engineering Major
As an undergraduate Chemical Engineering student in the Russ College, you’ll learn the fundamentals of mathematics and science, the core skills of the profession in mass balances, heat and mass transfer, and reaction engineering, as well as a range of technical electives. Students are challenged with a variety of chemical plant and equipment design problems both inside the curriculum and at national-level competitions. Our broad variety of technical electives allows students to build a breadth and depth of knowledge in other engineering disciplines and higher-level science and mathematics.
The department offers pathways to obtain a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree in Chemical Engineering in four years and a Master of Science (M.S.) degree in either chemical or biomedical engineering in one additional year through an Accelerated Graduate Pathway (AGP). The AGP program allows approved upper-level Chemical Engineering undergraduates to complete up to 16 hours of graduate courses while an undergraduate and apply up to 9 of these hours to both their B.S. and M.S. degrees.
The Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering offers a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree in Chemical Engineering which is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET under the commission’s General Criteria and Program Criteria for Chemical, Biochemical, Biomolecular Engineering. The program’s educational objectives are to prepare students so that, within a few years of graduation, our chemical engineering graduates will:
- Use their combined academic and professional experience to make lasting contributions to the betterment of society and their profession.
- Further expand their knowledge and skills to increase their effectiveness and influence in a changing world.
- Progress in their careers, earning increased responsibility, leadership roles, and the respect of their colleagues.
Undergraduate study begins with foundation courses in chemistry, biology, physics, and mathematics. Individual and team projects are introduced early and continue throughout the curriculum, providing professional development through teamwork, communication skills and the ability to solve problems beyond the textbook. Students progress from basic analysis of commercial chemical and biological processes to operating pilot-scale manufacturing equipment and designing a complete manufacturing process.
In addition to their core requirements, students select from a wide range of technical elective courses in engineering, science and mathematics, giving the degree a strong interdisciplinary flavor. The broad variety of technical electives allows students to experience a breadth of subjects or build a depth of knowledge in an engineering or science discipline of specific interest to them.