The Chemical Engineering Department seeks to provide the expertise, environment, facilities, and administrative structure that inspire learning and the pursuit of scholarly activities in chemical engineering and related science and engineering disciplines. The Department will provide an educational program and research environment that will permit our graduates to compete in the evolving workplace, to permit students and faculty to advance knowledge at the highest levels of the profession, and to address the technological and personnel needs of industry, governments, and society.
Program Objectives
Our undergraduate program objectives are as follows:
1. Chemical Engineering graduates will apply the knowledge and skills acquired through the chemical engineering curriculum to their professional careers.
2. Chemical Engineering graduates will assume positions of responsibility and/or leadership in industry, government, and business.
3. Chemical engineering graduates will pursue professional careers across a broad range of industries.
4. Chemical engineering graduates will succeed in post-graduate and professional degree programs.
Program Outcomes
In preparation for meeting the above program objectives, the graduates of the Department of Chemical Engineering are expected to have:
(i) A strong background in the fundamentals of chemistry, physics, mathematics, and statistics.
(ii) A broad education in chemical engineering fundamentals, including mass and energy balances, separation processes, reaction engineering, thermodynamics, transport processes, and control.
(iii) Training in computers as tools of the profession, including experience with spreadsheets, simulators, computer-aided design software, and mathematical/statistics packages.
(iv) Comprehensive design experiences involving problem definition ,literature searching, synthesis, economics, communications, teamwork, project management, equipment choice, and safety.
(v) Laboratories that include hands-on experience with equipment, design of experiments, data/statistical analysis, and reinforcement of fundamental physical concepts.
(vi) Courses in which the technological needs of industry, government, and society are considered.
(vii) A sufficiently broad education to understand the impact of engineering on society.
(viii) Multiple and integrated opportunities to develop written and oral communication skills.
(ix) Knowledge in a specialty elective area, such as biomedical engineering, biochemical engineering, computing, electrochemical engineering, environmental engineering, management, polymer science, or research.
(x) Leadership roles in group-based course activities encouraging a “can-do” positive attitude and developing skills in teamwork.
(xi) A commitment to excellence and integrity.
(xii) An emphasis on safety and ethical issues, and the environmental consequences of the practice of chemical engineering.
(xiii) An atmosphere of self-instruction as a preparation for life-long learning.
