Welcome to Chemical Engineering

Michael J. Solomon named dean of Rackham

He will begin his five-year, full-time appointment on July 1.

CHE Highlights

U-M re-enters top 10 in U.S. News & World Report undergraduate program rankings

Consistently ranked among the nation’s best chemical engineering departments, U-M rises to No. 7 in the latest U.S. News & World Report's annual undergraduate program rankings

Levi Thompson returns to his alma mater as dean of engineering

His appointment at University of Delaware begins October 1, 2018

Revealing the demise of native American dogs

Technology developed by U-M chemical engineers help make evolutionary and domestication discoveries possible

Our world is facing big problems, from energy, to healthcare, to the environment. Chemical Engineers at the University of Michigan are ready to tackle the challenges of the 21st Century.

Research Areas

If chemistry is the central science, it comes as no surprise that chemical engineering underpins a broad range of technologies. We turn our expertise in producing and manipulating chemicals to energy, medicine, electronics and advanced materials with new properties.

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Graduate Program

Our broad range of research opportunities apply chemical engineering principles and modern science to solving some of today's most pressing problems.

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Undergraduate Program

The program focuses on critical-thinking, preparing our graduates to identify and develop solutions for engineering challenges in the field. Students with a passion for chemistry and talent in math and problem solving typically do well in chemical engineering.

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