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Lehigh’s undergraduate program in Chemical Engineering combines an in-depth background in the chemical and physical sciences with classical engineering principles that prepares students for exciting careers in a wide range of industries including biopharmaceuticals, polymers, energy, and environmental as well as classical chemical and petrochemical manufacturing. Key aspects of the program include:
  • Laboratory facilities among the best in the nation — in unit operations, process design, and process control — are an integral part of the undergraduate experience;
  • A focus throughout the curriculum on research opportunities with individual faculty;
  • Technical minors that provide a broad foundation in such critical technologies as environmental engineering, materials engineering, polymer science and engineering, energy, information, and biotechnology.
Learning in the department of Chemical Engineering focuses on the mastery of science and engineering fundamentals through the use of computers, team projects, and lab experiments. All classes are taught only by faculty.

Students can take advantage of Lehigh’s Cooperative Education program, which offers qualifying engineering majors up to eight months in paid industrial internship positions while still graduating in four years.

The faculty of the Chemical Engineering department encourages students to take part in the university’s many study-abroad programs and in the department’s student exchange programs, with opportunities for students to spend their junior year at the University of Nottingham in England, or a summer at Dortmund University in Germany.


For more information please contact:

Department of Chemical Engineering
Lehigh University
111 Research Drive
Bethlehem, PA 18015-4791

Ruth Kneller
(610) 758-4260