More than 300 faculty, graduate students, postdoctoral associates, and staff support our research and teaching missions. The excellence of these groups and the quality of our undergraduates establish the Department's reputation. Each year, we graduate about 170 undergraduates and confer approximately 40 graduate degrees. Our graduates at all levels have distinguished themselves in industrial, academic, and governmental careers. The marriage of chemical engineering with material science in a single department offers superb collaborative opportunities.
Many undergraduates pursue double majors and work with faculty on research projects.
Also, many graduate students choose co-advisors to pursue interdisciplinary research. Among the faculty, five professors have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering and two to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Most have received national awards or international recognition for research achievements, including named lectureships, Guggenheim Fellowships, Sloan Fellowships, and Alexander von Humboldt awards. Three of the faculty have been presidents of scientific or engineering societies, and all have served on editorial boards, as journal editors, or in other service capacities.