Overview and Mission
Cornell's School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering has a long and distinguished history of successfully educating leaders for a wide variety of industries and for academia. Our graduates have had major impacts on the chemical, consumer, pharmaceutical, petroleum, electronic, biotechnology and biomedical industries.
Our Mission
We have two complementary missions:
- To prepare our students for life-long achievement through education in the principles of chemical engineering by methods which encourage the development of communication, teamwork and leadership skills, and by guidance on the application of these principles and skills to societal needs.
- To advance, through research and scholarship, an understanding of the fundamentals of chemical engineering and apply those principles to the creation of new devices or strategies for the solution of societal problems.
Our faculty and staff are committed to fulfilling this mission for students at all degree levels, undergraduate and graduate. Our faculty have authored some of the most important textbooks in chemical engineering and have received many teaching awards.
The faculty are engaged in research in a wide variety of issues important in chemical and biomolecular engineering. Numerous awards have recognized this research. Special multi-faculty efforts exist in drug delivery, metabolism and production; in proteomics; in complex fluids and polymer processing; and in microreactors and microfluidics. These research efforts involve combinations of experiments, computational techniques and advanced mathematics.
The School appreciates your interest in our programs. Please feel free to contact us with any questions or comments.
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