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Turning Food Scraps into Tractor Fuel: Research Promotes Renewable Energy
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Missouri S&T Alumnus Contributes $10 million to Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Department
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Dr. Yang's Research Team Develops New Cellular Treatment: Potential Cure for Chronic Artery Disease
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Chemical Engineering Students Virtually Display Research for State Legislators

Groundbreaking Research

The Chemical and Biochemical engineering department faculty are doing groundbreaking research in fields ranging from carbon dioxide sequestration and alternative energy, to cancer prevention and novel batteries. Check out the articles above spotlighting our faculty and all they're doing.

State-of-the-art Laboratories
 

World-Class Professors and Facilities

As a chemical or biochemical engineering student, you can learn from and work alongside world-class professors in 68,500-square-foot James E. Bertelsmeyer Hall, one of the newest buildings on campus. With nearly 400 undergraduate and graduate students, our growing department enrollment ranks near the top among S&T’s engineering disciplines. One-third of our students receive departmental scholarships, and graduates earn an average starting salary of more than $66,000.

Programs

Undergraduate Programs

Explore and learn more about the following degree's offered by the department:

  • Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering

  • Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering with a Biochemical Engineering Emphasis

Undergraduate

Graduate Program

Find out more about the Chemical Engineering graduate program offering these degree's:

  • Master of Science in Chemical Engineering

  • Doctor of Philosophy in Chemical Engineering

Graduate

LATEST NEWS

  • Dr. Muthanna Al-Dahhan, Curators’ Distinguished Professor of chemical and biochemical engineering at Missouri S&T and Qusay Jaafar Al-Obaidi, a Ph.D. student in chemical engineering, have submitted a patent for a pollutant-extracting method that can gather contaminants over 10 times more efficiently than current methods. Great work!
  • Dr. Hu Yang, chair of the Doshi Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, has been named director of the Center for Biomedical Research (CBR) effective September 1. Hu assumes the role from Dr. Richard Brow, Curators’ Distinguished Professor of ceramic engineering and interim deputy provost for academic excellence, who has served as CBR director since 2017.
  • Dr. Fateme Rezaei, associate professor of chemical and biochemical engineering, has been appointed as associate editor of Energy & Fuels. The journal is published by ACS, a leader in authoritative scientific information publications.
  • The president of Koya University in Iraq has sent a letter of thanks to Dr. Joseph Smith, the Laufer Energy Endowed Chair in the Doshi Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, for Joseph’s volunteer work for the university as a conference keynote speaker, workshop organizer, lecturer and Ph.D. program supervisor. Joseph has also published a book that describes the process of performing computational fluid dynamics for the chemical and petrochemical industries. 
  • The S&T Academy of Chemical Engineers has inducted six new members. Welcome to Mike Foley, Ken Jinkerson, Kay Modi, Dustin Olson, Stephen Schade, and Steven D. Bridges!
  • For more chemical and biochemical engineering news, please visit here.

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