The Graduate Program in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
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The A. James Clark School of Engineering traces its beginnings to 1856 when courses in surveying and construction were offered. The baccalaureate degree program in Chemical Engineering was established in 1937. The Department was expanded in 1938 and 1939, respectively, to include the Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy programs, marking the first graduate degree programs offered at the School.
The Clark School has maintained its place as 13th among engineering schools worldwide according to the Institute of Higher Education at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China.
U.S. News & World Report ranked the Clark School 17th in the nation and 11th among public universities in its listing of top graduate engineering schools in the U.S. for 2009.
The Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering is well-equipped for graduate research in aerosol science and engineering, biochemical engineering, computational modeling, fluid mechanics and mixing, nanoparticle technology, polymer processing and characterization, polymer reaction engineering, process control, thermodynamics and transport phenomena, and systems research. Major research facilities are coordinated through a variety of laboratories.
The Department maintains a distributed computing network consisting of research laboratories and a PC laboratory. Each research laboratory has its own specialized computing hardware and software. Central facilities for electron microscopy, crystal growth, computing and physical testing are also available.
