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Richard Lueptow Elected Fellow of the AIChE

The honor is the highest grade of AIChE membership and recognizes Lueptow’s distinctive professional achievements and accomplishments.Read more

Minerals

Faculty Members Part of New NSF-Funded Center

Led by Professor Jennifer Dunn, SuReMin will conduct research and develop educational opportunities to guide the development of a sustainable international minerals supply chain.Read more

Block Museum

Trek to Chile Widens Northwestern Students’ Perspective

Professor Jennifer Dunn led nine students on a new global engineering trek to study energy storage and critical minerals in the social and cultural context of Chile.Read more

Water Security Project Receives $3 Million NSF Grant

Northwestern engineers, chemists, social scientists, and law professors will collaborate to provide Chicago-area residents access to at-home water tests for lead, copper, and PFAS and to measure the tests’ impact on people’s daily lives. Read more

About the Department

Pioneering transformational discoveries to tackle global challenges

Our internationally recognized Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Northwestern University prepares the next generation of engineers by fostering their growth in a collaborative, multidisciplinary community built on excellence in research and education.

We impact and shape the world through inventions and innovations in soft materials, complex systems, synthetic biology, biotechnology, and catalysis and use them to tackle global challenges in renewable energy, biomanufacturing, clean water, sustainability, and human health.

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Setting ourselves apart

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NSF CAREER awards

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interdisciplinary research centers, institutes, and programs

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startup companies

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Research Areas

From transformational discoveries to impactful solutions

Our department combines the fundamentals of physics, chemistry, biology, and mathematics with technology development to drive discoveries in our core research areas.

Programs

Fostering growth in a collaborative, multidisciplinary community built on excellence in research and education

Undergraduate

Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering

Combined BS/MS Degree Program

Minor in Biotechnology and Biochemical Engineering

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Graduate

Master of Science in Chemical Engineering

PhD in Chemical Engineering

Synthetic Biology Minor

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Affiliated

Master of Science in Biotechnology

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Andrew Reiter

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Mission Next

Having cofounded and guided Shield AI to global leadership in intelligent autonomous systems design, entrepreneur Andrew Reiter eagerly anticipates his next new challenge—climate change.

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Discover Our Whole-Brain Engineering Philosophy

We augment the analytical core of engineering with design, entrepreneurship, leadership, personal development, and unusual collaborations to imagine what's next and take the world in a whole new direction.

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