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URI Hosts New England Complex Fluids Symposium
Research conducted by researchers across New England and less
nearby regions will be presented at the
35th New England Complex
Fluids Workshop on Friday June 27. The workshop runs from
8:45-5:00 and will feature invited presentations by Pankaj Karande
(RPI), Diane Hoffman-Kim (Brown University), Darren Link (Raindance
Technologies), Paul Calvert (UMass Dartmouth), and Ian Morrison (Cabot Corporation).
Attendees will contribute "sound bites" on
a wide range of complex fluid topics. The workshop will occur in the
Cherry Auditorium of the Kirk Building, and lunch will be
provided for registered attendees. Visit the
Complex Fluids web page
to register. See you there!
"Among the most promising fields now: chemical engineering"
--
Annie Fisher,
writing in
Fortune Magazine, 9/7/2006
Chemical Engineering involves applying fundamental principles of
chemistry, physics, and biology to the engineering of processes — the
transformation of a "thing" to some other "thing" -- and products --
the things themselves. What makes chemical engineering so exciting
nowadays is that the same underlying concepts and approaches can be
applied to such a wide variety of problems:
| biological processes | polymers |
fuel cells | process engineering |
colloids | nanotechnology |
corrosion | process safety and efficiency |
environmental protection | surfaces and sensors |
pollution prevention | thermodynamics |
How much reacts, and how quickly? How much moves in response to a
natural or imposed gradient? What does this mean on the molecular
level? While a cell, an oil refinery, and a semiconductor surface
seem very different from one another, and in many ways they are,
chemical engineers focus on the similarities in order to improve how
each one transforms raw ingredients into desirable products.
The department offers
undergraduate
and graduate
programs in Chemical Engineering, as well as a unique undergraduate
program in Chemical and Ocean
Engineering. Several undergraduates participate in the
International Engineering Program, working and
taking certain core courses overseas at partner universities.
In all these programs we strive to achieve a detailed set of
overall program objectives.
Research
in the department is sponsored by Federal and State
agencies, private foundations, and industry. University partnerships
help to provide multidisciplinary opportunities for faculty and
students whose interests fall at the boundaries of chemical
engineering.
For more information, we invite you to browse our web pages or to
contact the department directly.
Biology Track in Chemical Engineering
The popular biology track was first available
to undergraduate chemical engineering students in Fall 2005 and is
continuing to attract new interest to the department. Its
curriculum
combines chemical engineering and biology courses, forming a major
that combines the quantitative nature of chemical engineering with
the concepts and ideas of biology and molecular biology.
Visit the
biology track web page for additional
information. Also see the
URI press
release, which led to a
Providence Journal news story on June
22, 2005.
Pharmaceutical Engineering Track
A Pharmaceutical track in the Chemical Engineering major is
now available
at URI. The program was recently promoted in URI
Facts about Fall 2007.
See the
Curriculum page
for a list of courses in this program.
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