Department home page Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Chemical and biochemical engineering began as an offspring of chemistry and biochemistry and has evolved into a distinct parallel focus discipline in which industrial processes for making thousands of chemical and biochemical products are economically designed through the inter-disciplinary application of all branches of chemistry, mathematics, computers, physics, and biochemistry. In chemical engineering there is an emphasis on application of transport phenomena, kinetics and thermodynamics, phase equilibria, electrochemistry, and computer-controlled systems in process engineering and plant design. Recently, the chemical engineering field has branched into the crucial area of management of hazardous wastes, which includes in situ Bioremediation, fly-ash decontamination, soils purification, and waste minimazation. The biochemical engineering field also embraces the areas of immunotechnology, protein engineering, artificial organs, bioseparations, and insect, fungal and plant cell biotechnology. This is done by taking raw materials and safely transforming them by means of physical, chemical, or biological processes into useful intermediates or finished products replete with the necessary ans sufficient environmental safeguards.
Typical products are plastics, petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, food, and energy fuels.
Department home page Civil and Environmental Engineering Civil engineering is the broadest of the engineering disciplines, extending across many technical specialties. As a civil engineer, you plan, design, and supervise the construction of facilities essential to modern life. The civil engineering program at Rutgers originated when the Trustees of Rutgers College established the Rutgers Scientific School in 1863. The early engineering enrollment of the scientific school was predominantly civil engineers. Today, the department provides broad and thorough technical education to its students, while generating and advancing knowledge through research.