Chemical and Biological Engineering

Chemical and biological engineering

encompasses numerous disciplines, including bioengineering, catalysis and reaction engineering, ceramics, colloids, electronic and photonic materials, environmental engineering, interfacial phenomena, kinetics, molecular simulation, polymer processing and rheology, polymer science, process design and control, separations, statistical physics, surface science, thermodynamics, and transport phenomena.

National Ranking

The Department of Chemical Engineering at UB is known nationally and internationally for academic excellence in both teaching and research. It has been consistently ranked among the nation's top thirty chemical engineering departments in the Gorman and the National Research Council reports. In two recent rankings of all chemical engineering departments in the world, conducted independently by the University of Pittsburgh and the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, UB's chemical engineering department was ranked in the top ten worldwide based on research publications per faculty and their impact on the field (as manifested by the quality of the scientific journals in which the papers were published and the number of citations each paper received).

On-Site Laboratories

The Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering is supported by laboratories such as:

• Engineering Biotechnology Laboratory
• Catalysis and Reaction Engineering Laboratory
• Ceramic and Reaction Engineering Laboratory
• Colloid and Surface Science Laboratories
• Electronic and Photonic Materials Laboratory
• Kinetics and Reaction Engineering of Vapor Phase Materials Synthesis Laboratory
• Molecular Simulation Laboratory
• Polymer Rheology and Processing Laboratory
• Process Design Laboratory
• Transport Phenomena Laboratory
  

Areas of Faculty Interest and Research Concentration

• Reaction rate measurement
• Catalysts and catalysis
• Reactor flows and modeling
• Process design

Transport Phenomena

• Reaction rate measurement
• Catalysts and catalysis
• Reactor flows and modeling
• Process design

• Pharmaceutical synthesis
• Fermentation
• Tissue engineering
• Cell culture production

Bioinformatics

• Genomics
• Transcription profiling