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Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Massachusetts
686 North Pleasant Street
159 Goessmann Lab
Amherst, MA 01003
USA
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Chemical engineering is an
applications-driven outgrowth of applied sciences.
Because biology in the last fifteen years
has come to be recognized as
systems science with chemical underpinnings,
chemical engineering has become a hotbed of
bioengineering and biomolecular engineering.
Chemical engineering plays a leading role
in the chemistry and physics of materials engineering
with applications ranging
from carefully structured microelectronics and colloids
to nanostructured block copolymers and biomaterials.
Over the last several decades,
chemical engineers have paved the way to applied mathematical
modeling and scientific computing.
At UMass, Amherst, you'll find all of this and much more:
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Undergraduates study with leaders of the profession,
using widely adopted UMass-authored textbooks,
exploring research in the department
and co-op jobs in industry,
and getting prepared for professional positions
in a diverse range of industries.
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Graduate students enjoy first-rate faculty mentors,
top-notch fellow students,
and a conducive environment.
The Department is internationally
regarded for its leadership
in process design and control,
transport phenomena,
polymer and materials science and engineering,
applied molecular and materials modeling,
catalytic and noncatalytic kinetics,
and biosystems analysis and control.
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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.
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Alumni can find an ever-evolving and vigorous faculty and staff
with a commitment to working
in the forefront of the profession and to attracting
today's best and brightest students.
From our beginnings in the 1950s, the Department
has educated
distinguished scholars such as like Matt Tirrell
(former Dean of Engineering at UC, Santa Barbara),
as weill as business and technical leaders
such as Marv Schlanger
(former 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).
Currently, the Department
consists of fifteen full-time faculty members,
and approximately 278 undergraduate students and 60 graduate students.
Come see us, and come join us.
Professor T.J. (Lakis) Mounziaris
Department Head
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Links of Interest
News
Collaborative plan to build a high-performance
computing center
at Holyoke.
(June 2009)
The College of Engineering
and the Chemical Engineering Department welcome
the new
graduate class (pdf)
(September 2009)
Professor Henning Winter to serve a two-year term as the
director of the fluid mechanics program,
Engineering Directorate, National
Science Foundation, Washington, D.C.
(September 2009)
Professor Huber featured in
the PBS
Eco-Exchange
Program.
(August 2009)
Professor Huber featured in
the
Science Nation.
(August 2009)
The College of Engineering
and the Chemical Engineering Department welcome
Professor
Paul Dauenhauer to our faculty.
(July 2009)
The second edition of the book
Fluid Dynamics:
Theory, Computation, and Numerical Simulation
by Professor Pozrikidis is published by Springer.
(June 2009)
The College of Engineering
and the Chemical Engineering Department welcome
Professor
Constantine Pozrikidis to our faculty.
(April 2009)
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