There are three centers connected with the department. Undergraduates are working in all three. In senior year there are a variety of technical elective courses which may be appealing. There are many excellent departments of chemical engineering in the nation, and it is not wise or useful to make direct comparisons. Delaware has an active program for participation in research.
Graduates attend first-rate graduate schools.
Undergraduate research opportunities have been described in previous answers. The University later copied the MIT program for undergraduate research campus wide, and undergraduate research participation has grown throughout the institution. Eleven are completing undergraduate theses and four are in the Degree with Distinction program. About 75 percent finish in four years. 3 Most of the 32 who graduated in eight terms took some course work during one or more Winter or Summer sessions.