Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering is an engineering discipline that opens the door to a world of diverse careers and research interests, from polymers to drug delivery systems, from semiconductor processing to alternative energy sources, from pharmaceuticals to microfluidic devices, at length-scales from angstroms to meters.
Researchers in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Cornell are working on such topics as the development of flexible electronics that could allow you to roll up your laptop display, of new burn treatments made from nanoscale heat pipes, of biological machines that could transform therapies for Alzheimer's disease, and the development of biodegradable textiles.
A background in Chemical and biomolecular engineering provides you with a strong fundamental understanding of the processes of life in its broadest sense, from thermodynamics and kinetics, fluid mechanics and process control, reactor design and process design.
Our graduates can be found as the president of a major energy company or electronics firm, the vice-president of a bioengineering venture capital company, or the founder of a pharmaceuticals company. But you'll also find them working in presidential appointments in the commerce department, "Teaching for America", as doctors in your local hospital, or in many other ways, large and small, committing themselves to service to the community.
The School of Chemical Engineering at Cornell was founded in 1938. At the dedication of the School, the Director Fred Rhodes called on students to come to the School to produce "those flashes of scientific imagination and engineering inspiration that form the stepping stones from the impossible of today to the commonplace of tomorrow." We still have those big dreams today: With over two hundred undergraduate students and roughly one hundred graduate students, and over thirty talented faculty and technical staff, we are a vibrant part of one of the top ten Engineering Colleges in the country.
To our cherished alumni and friends we welcome you back home through this site. To prospective undergraduate and graduate students and to prospective faculty, we invite you to come to Cornell with your dreams and be part of our future.
