ChemE Student Vidhya Thiyagarajan Elected as SWE’s Collegiate Director
ChemE Student Vidhya Thiyagarajan Elected as SWE’s Collegiate Director

Thiyagarajan is planning to foster more connections between SWE’s collegiate and professional members as well as its global affiliates during her tenure as its collegiate director

Engineering Aquaman
Engineering Aquaman

Pitt Researchers Join $7.5M Multidisciplinary Project Funded by the U.S. Department of Defense to Engineer Materials that Could Take Humans to the Deepest Ocean Depths

An Outstanding Legacy in Engineering Education
An Outstanding Legacy in Engineering Education

Taryn Bayles Receives 2023 Swanson School of Engineering Outstanding Educator Award

Supporting the future of cardiovascular research
Supporting the future of cardiovascular research

Four Pitt Graduate Students Receive American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowships

Too hot to handle
Too hot to handle

A new Pitt Engineering study tests the thermal conductivity of metal organic frameworks

From Oilfield to Take-off: Tracking the Costs of Aviation
From Oilfield to Take-off: Tracking the Costs of Aviation

Pitt engineer explores avenues for a greener aviation industry in first-ever study

The teacher who learns
The teacher who learns

Assistant ChemE Professor Joaquin Rodriguez recognized with both the 2022 Provost’s Award for Diversity in the Curriculum and 2022 James Pommersheim Award for Excellence in Teaching in Chemical Engineering

Creating a community for professional success
Creating a community for professional success

ChemE Professor and Vice Chair of Undergraduate Education Taryn Bayles receives 2022 AIChE Philanthropist of the Year Award

ChemE Student Malena Rybacki won’t be put into a box
ChemE Student Malena Rybacki won’t be put into a box

Rybacki is one of 24 students nationwide selected for the Future Leaders Symposium

Actin’ like Winners
Actin’ like Winners

Swanson School and Medicine teams win top prizes at the 2022 Pitt Innovation Challenge Awards

The "Cellular" Network
The "Cellular" Network

Utilizing Chemo-Mechanical Oscillations to Mimic Protocell Behavior in Manufactured Microcapsules

Extending an Alliance of Innovation
Extending an Alliance of Innovation

Ohio-based Lubrizol Corporation and Pitt' Swanson School Build on Research & Process Development Successes with Three-Year, $1 Million Extension of Innovation Collaboration

Gut in a Capsule - The Microbiome as Medicine
Gut in a Capsule - The Microbiome as Medicine

Pitt Chemical Engineer Tagbo Niepa Receives $2M from the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award for Work Manipulating the Human Microbiome

A Step Toward Decarbonizing the Chemical Industry
A Step Toward Decarbonizing the Chemical Industry

Pitt Engineers Lead $3.5M DOE Project to Advance Carbon-Neutral Hydrogen Technology

ChemE Student Benjamin Hudock can’t stop learning. And he doesn’t want to.
ChemE Student Benjamin Hudock can’t stop learning. And he doesn’t want to.

Hudock was chosen for the US Fulbright Program after years of mastering both engineering and foreign language learning.

Model (Virus) Behavior
Model (Virus) Behavior

Pitt Researchers Use Computational Modeling to Understand Why Some Flu Viruses Cause More Severe Infections

Self-assembled, Interlocked Threads: Spinning Yarn with No Machine Needed
Self-assembled, Interlocked Threads: Spinning Yarn with No Machine Needed

Pitt and Princeton engineers discover spontaneous intertwining of 2D polymer sheets into self-rotating 3D “dancing” spirals

Dancing in the Light
Dancing in the Light

Traveling wave of light sparks simple liquid crystal microposts to perform complex dance

Sparking Sustainable New Chemical Catalysts
Sparking Sustainable New Chemical Catalysts

Pitt Chemical Engineers Show How Tungsten Oxide Can Be Used as a Catalyst in Sustainable Chemical Conversions

Understanding Bacterial Biofilms
Understanding Bacterial Biofilms

Tagbo Niepa Receives $663K NSF CAREER Award for Work on Biofilm Micromechanics and Metabolic Properties

Swanson School of Engineering Professors Named Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors
Swanson School of Engineering Professors Named Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors

MEMS' William "Buddy" Clark and ChemE's Steven Little are the 9th and 10th Pitt faculty to be selected as NAI Fellows since its inaugural class named in 2015

Covestro LLC and University of Pittsburgh collaborate to establish groundbreaking Circular Economy Program
Covestro LLC and University of Pittsburgh collaborate to establish groundbreaking Circular Economy Program

Collaboration will establish unique circular design curriculum for graduate and PhD students in the U.S.

Finding the Missing Piece in Global Oil Life-Cycle Assessment
Finding the Missing Piece in Global Oil Life-Cycle Assessment

New Research in Nature Models the Relationship Between Carbon Impacts and Market Factors in the Oil Industry

Sustainable Agriculture from the Bottom Up
Sustainable Agriculture from the Bottom Up

Pitt Researchers Receive $1.7MM to Rebalance the Nitrogen Cycle

Foiling Electronics Fraudsters
Foiling Electronics Fraudsters

Pitt Engineers Receive $553K from NSF to Develop Electronic Hardware that Thwarts Counterfeiting Attempts

Lightening the Load of Multi-Material Manufacturing with 3D Printing
Lightening the Load of Multi-Material Manufacturing with 3D Printing

NSF Future Manufacturing program Awards $500K to Pitt, CMU Engineers

Chemical & Petroleum Engineering

The Chemical and Petroleum Engineering department at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering was established in 1910, making it the first department for petroleum engineering in the world. Today, our department has over 40 expert faculty (tenure/tenure-stream/joint/adjunct), a host of dedicated staff, more than 20 state-of-the-art laboratories and learning centers, and education programs that enrich with strong fundamentals and hands-on experience.

Chemical engineering is concerned with processes in which matter and energy undergo change. The range of concerns is so broad that the chemical engineering graduate is prepared for a variety of interesting and challenging employment opportunities. Chemical engineers with strong background in sciences are found in management, design, operations, and research. Chemical engineers are employed in almost all industries, including food, polymers, chemicals, pharmaceutical, petroleum, medical, materials, and electronics. Since solutions to energy, environmental, and food problems must surely involve chemical changes, there will be continued demands for chemical engineers in the future.

 

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