Graduate Degrees and Certificates: Cullen College of Engineering

Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

 

The Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering has research programs in four core areas; materials engineering (including polymeric and electronic), biomolecular engineering, energy engineering, and reaction and systems engineering. Specific research areas include biochemical engineering, chemical reaction engineering, chemical vapor deposition, catalysis, colloid science, combinatorial chemistry, applied molecular biology, process control, interfacial phenomena, numerical simulation, molecular recognition, rheology, fluid flow and phase behavior in porous media, polymer and macromolecular solutions, processing of electronic materials, thin-films materials fuel cells, two-phase flow, solid-fluid separation, reliability theory, super-conductivity, thermochemical energy storage, and petroleum production engineering.

The department occupies more than 50,000 square feet in the two modern buildings that house the Cullen College of Engineering. All full-time graduate students are provided office and laboratory space to carry out their studies and research. Excellent facilities and equipment are available in the aforementioned research program areas. Typical equipment includes scanning electron microscopes, an X-ray diffractometer, pulsed excimer-pumped dye laser, quasi-elastic laser light scattering spectroscopy unit, atomic force microscopes, ellipsometers, and confocal microscopes system. In addition the department has laser anemometers, rheometus, gas chromatograph/mass spectrometer system, ultraviolet spectrometers, microscope-video recorder and microscope-move camera systems, and automatic image analyzers. New facilities include systems for infrared thermal imaging, plasma processing and etching, semiconductor processing equipment, high pressure centrifuge for porous medium analysis, X-ray scattering equipment, advance rheometer, TGA/DSC, Fourier transform infrared spectrometers, parallel array diagnostic equipment, polymer chain reactor devices, cell culture facilities and fluorimeters. The faculty and students in the department participate in the Texas Diesel Testing and Reserach Center and The National Wind Energy Center.

Degrees Offered

Master of Science Thesis Option 

  • Chemical Engineering

 

Master of Science Non-Thesis Option 

  • Chemical Engineering

 

Master of Engineering 

  • Chemical Engineering

 

Doctor of Philosphy (Ph.D.)

  •  Chemical Engineering

 

Certificates

  • Process Engineering and Modeling

Catalog Publish Date: January 14, 2013
This Page Last Updated: December 20, 2012