Welcome to Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
Our department has been involved in chemical engineering education and research since the early 1960s. We currently provide instruction and training to over 150 undergraduate and over 50 graduate students. To meet the challenges of the new century, our department is working to constantly improve its educational and research program. We combine an innovative educational experience with many opportunities for practical training and connections to local industry and professional societies.
The department has a dynamic and active faculty of 15 doing cutting-edge research in all areas of chemical engineering, including biotechnology/biomolecular engineering, nano-pharmaceutics, pharmaceutical engineering, energy, and process systems. The program is host to an NSF-funded Engineering Research Center for Structure Organic Particulate Systems, an NIH-sponsored Biotechnology Training Program, and two NSF-funded IGERT graduate fellowship programs in Stem Cell Research and Nano-Pharmaceutics.
We invite you to explore our site to get information about our faculty, staff, and students. You can learn more about the research and educational activities in our exciting undergraduate and graduate degree programs, to view our latest news and see who is visiting in the upcoming semesters and find events hosted by our department.
Cordially,
Henrik Pedersen
Department Chair
Contact information:
Department of Chemical & Biochemical Engineering
School of Engineering
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Busch Campus
98 Brett Road
Piscataway, NJ 08854
tel: 732-445-4949
fax: 732-445-2581
Headlines
Prof. Ierapetritou wins an NSF Award
($350,000) for her work on integrated production planning and scheduling. The goal of this work is to optimize the production planning operations in large-scale, single-facility production plants considering the details of scheduling decisions. Realistic case studies from petrochemical, fast moving consumer goods manufacturing and chemical companies will be utilized to test and verify the results of the proposed analysis tools. The impact of the proposed work goes beyond specific industrial sector since the general ideas and findings can be applied or extended to different types of production facilities.
1.8 M Grant for Commercializing of Continuous Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Technology
was awarded by NSF to support a vigorous commercialization effort for continuous pharmeceutical manufacturing technology developed by C-SOPS Engineering Research Center. The Effort is lead by Prof. Ierapetritou, Prof. Muzzio, Dr. Erenrich from Rutgers, Prof. Litster from Purdue and Prof. Dave from NJIT are co-PIs in this effort
Ben Glasser receives the Rutgers Scholar-Teacher Award
The President of Rutgers awarded the 2009 Scholar-Teacher Award to Prof. Ben Glasser for his "innovative interdisciplinary research in particle technology applied to pharmaceutical and chemical processes, his development of innovative courses that transcend traditional disciplinary barriers and encourage exploration of new areas of research, and his deep commitment to the academic and professional development of all students."
