DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL and MATERIALS ENGINEERING

Subjects covered.
 
 

Chemical Engineering		Materials Engineering
Undergraduate	Graduate	Undergraduate	Graduate
Chemical reaction engineering	Aerosol engineering	Ceramic materials	Adhesion science
Equilibrium processes	Air pollution engineering	Composite materials	Biomaterials
Heat and mass transfer	Bioengineering	Diffusion and kinetics	Ceramic materials
Material/energy balance	Biological membranes	Electrometallurgy	Composites; metal, polymer, ceramic matrix composites
Momentum transport	Chemical engineering design	Extractive metallurgy	Diffusion
Organic structures	Coal research	Heat transfer	Electrical ceramics
Process design	Computational methods	Materials processing	Electro-optic and sensor materials
Process dynamics and control	Foam fractionation	Mechanical behavior of materials	Electron microscopy
Thermodynamics	Life sciences applications	Metallurgical techniques	Ferroelectric ceramics
	Polymer systems	Metal fabrication	High-temperature materials
	Process dynamics and control	Metallurgical thermodynamics	Intermetallic compounds
	Process optimization	Nature and properties of materials	Kinetics in materials processing
	Reaction engineering	Phase equilibria	Material properties and structure at molecular and atomic levels
	Separation processes	Physical metallurgy	Materials processing
	Transport phenomena	Polymer characterization	Mechanical properties of materials: creep, fatigue, fracture, oxidation, corrosion
		Polymer chemistry	Metallic materials
		Computer graphics	Micropyretic synthesis
		Polymeric materials	Phase transformations
		Powder metallurgy	Plasma polymerization
		Properties of solids	Polymeric materials
		Strength of materials	Powder metallurgy
		X-ray diffraction	Raman and infrared spectroscopy
			Thermophysical properties of alloys, powder metallurgy and tribology
			Thin films

Degrees granted.  The department offers the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees Chemical Engineering, the B.S. in Materials Engineering, and the M.S. and Ph. D. in both Materials Science and Materials Engineering.

Research focus.  The department features a Center of Excellence in Membrane Technology, supported by a SOHIO grant.  An Eminent Scholar Chair has been awarded in membrane technology.  The department participates in the Polymer Research Center, an interdepartmental program in the polymer area.
 

Dorothy Byers
January 26, 2007