September 22, 2004

NC State’s Department of Chemical Engineering Gets New Name

The Department of Chemical Engineering at North Carolina State University has been renamed the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, effective September 16. The name change reflects the changing character of the profession, the increased interest in the biomolecular engineering concentration among chemical engineering undergraduates, the importance of biochemical engineering as a research focus and the department’s association with the NC Biomanufacturing Training and Education Center.

NC State has had a department of chemical engineering since 1924. The current department has 20 faculty members, more than 325 undergraduates and more than 90 graduate students, including 79 at the Ph.D. level.

Graduate students pursuing master’s or doctoral degrees focus on scholarly research in cell and protein engineering; enzyme and conventional catalysis; electrochemical, reaction and bioreactor engineering; electronic materials; green chemistry and engineering; polymers and colloids; nanotechnology and interfacial science; thermodynamics and molecular simulation and supercritical fluids. A distance education master of science degree in chemical and biomolecular engineering is also available.

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