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How Mcubed is helping derisk research investments

Mark Burns, Executive Director of MCubed and Research Innovation, talks about the six-year-old program's successes and new funding options.

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CHE Highlights

Compostable diapers are the aim of new sustainability startup

Safe and eco-friendly ingredients for personal care, made through a process first demonstrated in a Michigan Engineering lab, have attracted more than $1.5 million in venture capital

Glotzer, Larson receive prestigious American Physical Society prizes

Glotzer received the Aneesur Rahman Prize for outstanding achievement in computational physics research. Larson received the Polymer Physics Prize for outstanding achievement in polymer science

Applications now available for inaugural ChE GradExpo

Selected prospective graduate students will come to Ann Arbor in April 2019 for immersive one day workshop to explore chemical engineering graduate studies

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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