BS Chemical Engineering

Chemical engineers are responsible for producing products based on chemical processing and chemical transformations. They carry out basic research; they design, build, operate and manage chemical processes and plants; and they supply petroleum products, renewable resources, plastics, detergents, agricultural chemicals, pharmaceuticals, biological compounds, photographic materials, microelectronic devices and various food and other products. Today s processes must be energy efficient, nonpolluting and profitable. Thus, students must master inorganic, organic and physical chemistry, mathematics, statistics, computers, physics and often biology and biochemistry. Students must learn to apply these fundamentals in the process industries. Paralleling the technical courses are studies in the humanities and the social sciences.