Students are also prepared for graduate study in chemical engineering, medicine, business and law.
Chemical engineering builds on a thorough grounding in chemistry obtained from general, organic and physical chemistry and other advanced chemistry topics appropriate to the program specialization. Fundamental and specific math, science and engineering topics are selected to provide a strong core chemical engineering background and the needs of each program specialization. Each chemical engineering graduate has a strong working knowledge of the core chemical engineering topics including material and energy balances applied to chemical processes, thermodynamics of physical and chemical equilibria, heat, mass and momentum transfer, chemical reaction engineering, continuous and stagewise separation operations, process dynamics, statistics and control. The design experience is interwoven throughout the curriculum from elementary design principles in material and energy balances using modern computing methods to the capstone senior process design and process control sequence employing advanced computer process and control simulators and experimental control systems. Any deviation from the above requires approval of the department head.