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Graduate Degrees offered:
M.S., M.Eng. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering

Graduate students in the department of Chemical Engineering (ChE) work closely with professors who are renowned for their work and who uphold the highest standards of research and publication.  Research opportunities fall into five broad areas:

  • Polymer Science and Engineering, which has ties to the departments of Chemistry, Physics and Materials Science and Engineering;
  • Biotechnology, which links with Lehigh's Bioengineering program as well as the department of Biological Sciences;
  • Catalysis and surface science, which includes close work with Lehigh’s Center for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology (CAMN);
  • Process modeling and control which has ties to the departments of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics and Electrical and Computer Engineering;
  • Transport phenomena, thermodynamics and chemical reaction engineering.

Laboratory facilities in the Chemical Engineering department are state-of-the-art, research funding is strong, and the department maintains close ties with more than 50 industrial and corporate sponsors in the U.S.

Chemical Engineering faculty cooperate actively with international researchers, and hold high offices in the American Institute for Chemical Engineers and other professional societies.

In 2000, the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) ranked Lehigh fifth among the top 100 federally funded U.S. universities in terms of scientific citations of papers by Chemical Engineering faculty.

Sponsors of Research Projects

Research in the ChE department is sponsored by NSF, ONR, DOE, Air Products and Chemicals, Dow Corning, ExxonMobil, ICI, Aspen Technology, BOC, DuPont, FMC, Honeywell, PADC, PITA, and Georgia-Pacific Corp.

Affiliated Lehigh Research Centers, Laboratories and Institutes
Center for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology
Center for Optical Technologies
Center for Polymer Science and Engineering
Chemical Process Modeling and Control Research Center
Emulsion Polymers Institute
Energy Research Center

For more information or to obtain an application, contact:

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

Barbara Kessler
Phone: (610) 758-4261
E-mail: bak0@lehigh.edu