He also specializes in colloids and polymer reaction engineering and is a member of McMaster's Institute for Polymer Production Technology. Invited organizer of the Industry-University Conference on Mixing. Hamielec is an emeritus professor. That means he no longer teaches. Excellence in research - Chemical Engineering.
Research is vital.
All faculty do research and consult with industry in their areas of specialty. Each professor offers specialty courses as final year electives. They help you see how to apply the fundamentals by describing consulting and research projects in the classroom. Some of the laboratory experiments done in the undergraduate program are on research equipment developed to solve industrial problems. Quality of student life- Chemical Engineering.