Chemical & Materials Engineering

Cleaner fuels. Safer cars. Better pharmaceuticals. And more efficient ways to deliver those products to the consumer. Explore our department's degree programs, including the industrial engineering program. 

Undergraduate programs

In addition to majors and minors in chemical engineering and materials science and engineering, we offer a new major in industrial engineering. 

Graduate programs

We offer an M.S. and Ph.D. in chemical engineering and materials science and engineering. Research and teaching assistantships are available for qualified students.

Chemical & Materials Engineering news

Four students in lab coats, gloves and protective goggles stand in a lab; the one in the front holds a container with blue crystals, the second holds a cylinder of blue liquid.

Students build crystallizer to showcase chemical engineering process

Project is one of many the public can view May 1 at Innovation Day

A student sits at a flight simulator, looking at a monitor with a plane on the screen and his right hand holding a control while an instructor sits next to him, holding a model plane and pointing to it.

Two new engineering programs earn national rankings

Aerospace and industrial engineering graduate programs debut in the U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate Schools Rankings

Five people, three seated and two standing, pose in a library setting.

Engineering students receive NASA fellowships and scholarships to advance space exploration

From 3D-printed rocket parts to advances in heat conduction, students’ research could help shape the future

Are you ready to make a world of difference?

Join the College of Engineering students, faculty and alumni who are developing the ideas, techniques and technologies that change the world.