The Program Mission & Educational Objectives

The mission of the Chemical Engineering Program is to educate students in chemical engineering, foster interdisciplinary collaboration with allied fields, advance and disseminate state-of-the-art knowledge and technology through novel and sustained research, to serve the public, academic, industrial and governmental communities, and to value diversity as defined broadly in scholarship, approach to teaching and in student, faculty and staff make-up.

In order to accomplish this mission, the Department has identified the following list of specific educational objectives for the undergraduate program:

1. Educate chemical engineers to meet the technological challenges of the future.
2. Educate chemical engineers to understand and properly address the impact of technology in other areas, and to work effectively in interdisciplinary teams with other engineers, scientists, and non-technical personnel.
3. Provide chemical engineers with the ability to integrate material learned from different sources and to apply state-of-the-art technologies to identify and solve problems.
4. Instill students with the desire to engage in life-long learning and provide them with the ability to succeed in this endeavor.
5. Motivate chemical engineers to be good citizens by serving their professional and civic communities.