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MaKing the WorlD
a BeTter pLaCe
Chemical Engineering major at
Kettering: Intense and Focused
Chemical Engineering students put their creativity
to work to synthesize new materials, transform
combinations of elements of matter and develop
the processes to do it all safely. For example,
students work on ways to better use limited
petroleum resources, or design new processes to
produce life-saving antibiotics and vaccines.
All Chemical Engineering graduates develop a
thorough grounding in the following areas:
Chemistry and Physics — with sufficient knowledge in
the application of these basic sciences to enable them
to design, analyze and control physical and chemical
processes.
Engineering lectures and labs including Mass and
Energy Balance, Thermodynamics, Applied Transport
Phenomena, Mass Transfer & Separations and
Reaction Engineering.
Teamwork, communication and interpersonal skills to
enable them to work effectively with interdisciplinary
expLorer teams. Skills, confidence, professionalism and
experience necessary to assume positions of technical
and/or managerial leadership as their careers develop.
Solving Major
Problems Almost every company in the Chemical engineers apply the
chemical process industry, nuclear principles of chemistry, math and
The field of Chemical Engineering energy, materials science, food physics to the design and operation of
will play a central role in solving production, energy development large-scale chemical manufacturing
the major problems confronting and medical fields employ chemical processes. They translate lab
the U.S. economy. Energy, chemical engineers. Chemical engineers processes into the practical
manufacturing processes, the state of work in areas such as production, production of products like plastics,
the environment and the emergence research, environmental studies, medicines, detergents and fuels.
of nanotechnology are all heavily market analysis, data processing,
influenced by chemical engineering. sales and management.
