Chemical Engineering

Overview

Chemical engineering is one of today’s most versatile engineering fields. From environmental to energy to medical, countless fields rely on chemical engineers. You’ll design safe, sustainable, and economical equipment for large-scale chemical or biological manufacturing plants or protect the environment by inventing cleaner technologies or modeling the environmental impacts of chemical processes.

Get concept-to-market experience in the Consumer Products Enterprise Group. Learn in a three-story simulated chemical plant. Work a co-op—90 percent of Huskies in this major do.

With the Chemical Engineering program of Michigan Technological University, design safe, sustainable, and economical equipment for large-scale chemical or biological manufacturing plants. You won’t be stuck in the lab, though. Chemical engineers frequently work to protect the environment by inventing cleaner technologies or modeling the environmental impacts of chemical processes.

Be Ready for What Tomorrow Needs:

• Design, build, and test a malaria detection microdevice.

• Conduct research on how to best use rice straw as feedstock for the production of biofuel.

• Gain real world experience using our state-of-the-art Unit Operations Lab.

• Get involved with a student Enterprise team such as the Alternative Fuels Group or Consumer Product Manufacturing.

Create the Future with Careers In:

• Process Engineering

• Manufacturing Production Engineering

• Quality Control Engineering

• Project Management