Chemical engineering is a versatile field.
It involves the design, refinement, and control of processes through which less valuable materials are transformed into useful products in an efficient, economical, and socially responsible way. As a student in Waterloo's Chemical Engineering department , you'll start by building a foundation of core courses in fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, and equilibrium stage separations. In your upper years, you'll choose a specialization and carry out a research and design project. You'll use specialized process design and analysis software in your courses and work in well-equipped laboratories, including our new ChemCAT process simulation lab. The largest group within Chemical Engineering.