Chemical engineers use chemical processes to find innovative and creative ways of producing goods that improve and protect human health, the environment, energy, materials and more. Our students acquire a breadth of knowledge, allowing them to become employed across a spectrum of industries, from traditional chemicals and petroleum-based processes to medical fields, including pharmaceuticals, tissue engineering, quantum dots for imaging and therapeutics, vaccines, genome engineering, and labs-on-a-chip diagnostics, as well as specialty industries like food and beverage processing, textiles, microelectronics, and alternative energy. Identify, formulate and solve complex engineering problems Gain hands-on research opportunities in biotechnology, biomedical and tissue engineering, and emerging energy systems Explore topics such as bioengineering, environmental engineering, computers, energy, materials science and microelectronics
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4 | year |
Chemical engineers often start their careers in larger companies and migrate toward smaller organizations of entrepreneurial nature after a few years. As the process industries take on a global character, chemical engineers may be employed overseas for segments of their careers.