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Chemical & Biological Engineering is …a discipline that combines math, physics, chemistry, biology, and engineering to benefit society by providing safe, economical solutions to a wide range of technological problems.

Chemical & Biological Engineering

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National placement of B.S. Chemical Engineers*

*Chemical Engineering Progress, December 2015

Application areas• Biotechnology and biomedicine• Polymers, ceramics, and composites• Electronic and photonic materials and

devices• Clean energy• Process safety, human

health/environmental protection, and environmental remediation

• Many more fields!

Biotechnology and biomedicine

• CBEs are involved in– bioprocess design, optimization, and

operation– product development – disease diagnosis and treatment

• Application areas– human health– agriculture– industrial biotechnology

Polymers, ceramics, and composites• Material properties depend on their

microstructure and processing history• CBEs are involved in

– Developing new materials

– Producing new materials

Electronic and photonic materials and devices• Integrated circuits, sensors, optical fibers,

magnetic media, photovoltaics, and more• Chemical engineering contributions:

– reactor design and engineering;– ultrapurification, materials synthesis

and processing;– thin film deposition;– process design and control for safety

and environmental protection

Clean energy• Conversion of renewable resources

into energy and useful products • CBEs are involved in

– solar power– electrochemical energy storage– biofuels and biorefining– fuel cells

Process safety, human health/environmental protection, and environmental remediation

• Protect people and the environment• Research, design, and implementation of

– safer and less polluting plants and processes

– environmental remediation strategies– combustion and air quality models– better ways to assess risks from

chemicals

What else is available?

• Almost anything!– medicine– law– business– education– technical journalism

Our program• Strong faculty-student rapport• Excellent teaching and advising• Continual efforts to provide the most

effective curriculum– research and current topics in courses– relevant experiments and design

projects• Friendly, intelligent students• Opportunities to become involved with

research in emerging areas of chemical and biological engineering

What do chemical & biological engineers study?

• Technical foundation courses– calculus– physics– chemistry– biology

• Humanities and social sciences• Chemical and biological engineering

– reaction kinetics & reactor design– thermodynamics– transport phenomena (fluid flow, heat and mass transfer)

• Also: teamwork, communications, professionalism, and ethics

What courses will you take your first year?

– Introduction to CBE– MATLAB for CBE– Calculus I, II– General Chemistry I, II– Introduction to Life Sciences– Physics I– A core curriculum course

The capstone senior design course• Renewable and clean energy

– Continuous algae biodiesel production – Solar-thermal water splitting– Torrefaction utilizing forest waste– Carbon capture and sequestration

• Biotechnology and biomedicine– Monoclonal antibody manufacturing– Optical biosensors– Biomedical stents

• Process safety and environmental science

– Inherently safe chemical plants– Hazardous waste disposal processes

Co-ops, internships, and summer jobs• Our co-op program is centralized in the College of

Engineering. Dow Chemical in Houston, New Belgium Brewery in Fort Collins

• Internship Opportunities: College of Engineering Career & Internship Fair, Fall semester

• Summer Jobs: CSU Career Center(http://www.career.colostate.edu/)

• Research Opportunities: Laboratory Research, NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program (http://www.engr.colostate.edu/students/future-students/undergraduate/research-opportunities.html)

Where do our graduates go?

• Employers– IM Flash, Epic Health Services, Schlumberger,

Anheuser-Busch Inc., Lockheed Martin, Ambient Air Technologies, Amgen Inc., Aramco, BP Alaska, Burns and McDonnell, Chata Biosystems, Frito Lay, Halliburton, Kiewit, Mangar Inc., Merrick, OSI Software, Sandozpharmaceuticals, Solix Biofuels, Stewart Environmental Consultants, U.S. Air Force, Utility Engineering, URS - Washington Group International, Williams Energy

• Various Graduate and Professional Schools

Average salaries for chemical engineers

*Chemical Engineering Progress, June 2017 (Total Respondents = 730)

Experience Median Salary*less than 3 years $70,450

3 to 5 years $85,000 6 to 10 years $108,500 11 to 15 years $115,000 16 to 20 years $146,000 21 to 25 years $138,31226 to 30 years $150,500 31 to 35 years $150,000 36 to 40 years $146,544

more than 40 years $156,000