Welcome to Chemical Engineering
Interim appointments for Mike Solomon
Selected to serve as Interim Dean of Rackham Graduate School and Interim Vice Provost of Academic Affairs – Graduate Studies
Harnessing light to drive chemical reactions
Paving the way to design better reactions that use less energy and produce less waste
Nagrath co-directs new U-M Cancer Core
Core designed to facilitate investigators with experimental design, rare cell procurement and single cell analysis
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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Sunitha Nagrath co-directs new U-M Cancer Core
Sharon Glotzer named next Chemical Engineering chair
CHE NSF and NDSEG graduate fellowship recipients
Welcome to Bryan Goldsmith and Nirala Singh
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Event Calendar
more events »Labor Day (Holiday)
Off Campus Location
Fall Term Classes Begin
Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
engIN 2017
The Grove
BME Bicentennial Celebration
Gerald Ford Library
BME Bicentennial Celebration
Gerald Ford Library
BME Bicentennial Celebration
Gerald Ford Library
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Recent Publications
See why Michigan ChE is one of the top cited chemical engineering departments.
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