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Vision

the Department of Chemical Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University will be recognized as one of the leading comprehensive programs in the country, fulfilling its part of the University's proud historical land grant mission through excellence in teaching, research, and service.

Mission

to foster a community of learning and scholarship to create new knowledge and technology and to enable our graduates to identify and achieve their goals.

Educational Objectives

The educational objectives of the undergraduate program in Chemical Engineering are specifically designed to produce graduates who will be able to:

1. Identify and pursue their personal and professional goals using the foundation provided by the breadth of educational opportunities in chemical and biomolecular engineering offered at Penn State.
2. Pursue careers as practicing chemical engineers in traditional chemical and energy-related industries as well as in expanding areas of materials, environmental, biomedical, and biotechnology.
3. Apply their broad chemical engineering education -- including their problem solving, analytical, design, research, and communication skills - in industry, government agencies, financial institutions, consulting firms, educational institutions, business, law, and medicine.
4. Provide the technical, educational, business, and political leadership needed in today's rapidly changing, increasingly technological, global society.

To create such a modern chemical engineer, the program focuses on the training of students to solve problems which involve the complex coupling of many factors with an emphasis on the analysis and design of processes and products. The program builds on its traditional foundation of applications in the chemical process industries while expanding student exposure to various new fields of activity. The scholarly and research activities of the faculty are integrated into the core program of courses and specialty elective courses. The program offers diverse opportunities for students to pursue inter-disciplinary studies through options in Polymer Engineering, Bioprocess Engineering, and Fuels and Energy Engineering, utilizing the faculty and the facilities in other engineering, physical and life sciences departments. The curriculum, while conveying specific factual information, is structured to train students as problem solvers rather than as specialists in a narrow field of study.

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