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For more information on Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, please contact the department's undergraduate academic advisor, at cbe-ugrad@chbmeng.ohio-state.edu or by phone at (614)292-6986.
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Interested in Energy, Petroleum and/ or Alternative Fuels?
A Chemical Engineering undergraduate degree is excellent preparation for a career in any of the professions that deal with energy, from petroleum to coal to biomass as a source of hydrocarbon fuels. We teach the fundamentals to our undergraduates who are very employable in all of these as well as many other areas. In addition we have faculty with significant real world experience with these technologies. L. S. Fan is perhaps the foremost expert in the entire country on clean coal processes and issues of CO2 sequestration. He also is well known for his work on fluidized beds, a technology extensively used in the petrochemical industry. We also have Winston Ho who is an expert in fuel cell membranes and the use of hydrogen in fuel cells to produce energy. Kurt Koelling works on composite systems that can incorporate resins made from genetically modified soybean oils. Finally we have Umit Ozkan whose catalysis research bears on conversion of natural gas to oxygenated compounds such as alcohols suitable for automotive and diesel fuels.
A lot of what our faculty are famous involves their research which is largely accomplished by their graduate students, but we also have many undergraduates who work in these faculty laboratories. While a career in an energy-related industry is very feasible with an undergraduate degree, a student in this area might want to think about graduate study as well. What we try to do at the undergraduate level is to teach the fundamentals so that the student has the maximum flexibility in terms of career direction. By effective use of intern, co-op or undergraduate research a given student can check out the career choice he or she is thinking about. Chemical Engineering is not an easy major, but it offers maximum flexibility, exposure to excellent faculty, many of whom have earned teaching awards--also because of these qualities our undergraduates are sought after by industry and receive among the highest starting salaries of engineering graduates.
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