Welcome!
On
these Web pages, you'll find some of the most exciting activities in
this
vital field. Ultimately, everything in chemical engineering revolves
around
applied chemistry. Biology in the last 15 years has come to be
recognized as
being systems behavior with chemical underpinnings, so chemical
engineering has
become a hotbed of "bioengineering" and "biomolecular engineering."
Similarly, ChE has a natural and leading role in the chemistry and
physics of
materials science and engineering, from carefully structured
microelectronics and
colloids to nanostructured block copolymers and biomaterials. Mastering
systems
behavior is a key to success, and we have helped set the standards for
designing
processes from product needs.
At UMass,
you'll find all this and more:
Undergraduates
can study with leaders of the profession; use widely adopted,
UMass-authored texts; explore research in the department and co-op jobs
in
industry; and get ready for entry-level positions in a diverse range of
industries.
Graduate
students have great resources of faculty, top-notch fellow
students, and a beautiful new
experimental lab building, opening in March 2004, that we'll share
with Civil and
Environmental Engineering. We are internationally regarded for our
leadership in
process design and control, polymer and other materials science and
engineering,
applied molecular and materials modeling, catalytic and noncatalytic
kinetics, and
biosystems analysis and control.
Companies
and policy-makers can locate expertise in applied molecular
modeling, computational materials science, engineering-based cancer
therapies,
production of drugs from plant cell cultures, microelectronics
processes, polymer
science and engineering, colloidal materials, process design and
control,
combustion pollutant control, rheology, microfluidics, and many more
areas.
Alumni
can find an ever-evolving and vigorous faculty and staff with a
passionate commitment to work in the forefront of the profession and to
bring it
to today's best and brightest students. From our beginnings in the
1950's,
we've produced distinguished faculty like Matt
Tirrell (Dean of Engineering at UC-Santa Barbara), Mike Malone
(Isenberg Distinguished Professor and Dean of Engineering at UMass), and Rich Calabrese
(Maryland); leaders of industry like Marv Schlanger
(chair and CEO of Resolution
Performance
Products, formerly President and CEO of ARCO Chemical), Jack
Welch (former CEO of General Electric,
Jack
Drosdick (Chairman, CEO, and President of Sunoco Inc.),
Robert Querido (former president of
Phibro Animal
Health); and business and technical leaders throughout the world.
Come see
us, and come join us. We're having fun, working hard, and finding
amazing things in the Department of Chemical Engineering at UMass
Amherst!
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