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Chemical Engineering
| Stat | Undergrad | Masters | Ph.D. |
| Male | 42 | 3 | 4 |
| Female | 28 | 4 | 2 |
What is a Chemical Engineer?
A Chemical Engineer is a process engineer. Their specialties include developing new processes to prevent pollutants from being released into our environment or to remove them after they're already there; provides drinking water in desert countries by desalinating salt water; decreases our energy use by increasing the efficiency in our fossil fuel refining plants, or by experimenting with new forms of energy storage; designs, implements, and supervises an industrial process where matter undergoes change. This could be in the pharmaceutical industry, the pulp and paper industry, the food industry, or the plastics industry … anywhere where a transformation of matter occurs.
What does the USF Chemical Engineering Department have to offer?
The University of South Florida offers many research and educational oportunities. Visit some of the labs below.
Or visit their web site at http://che.eng.usf.edu/
Biomedical
Part
of the research for chemical engineers invovles medicine. The two projects below
are examples of this.
Pictured to the left is ongoing work to encapsulate medicine in an atherosclorotic plaque. The particles are made in thedevice pictured to the left then are tested by another machine for size and properties. End goal would be to allow medicine to be absorbed more readilly by the body.
To the right, a biomedical student hard at work designing prophetic limbs.
His work involves testing materials for heart valves and shoulder implants.
Also working with effective drug delivery is Claire Johnson. Here she is looking at cancer cells bathed in a flourecent dye under a microscope.
Other labs within the chemical department try to produce more effieient ways of creating reactions and measuring the end products. Pictured to the left is a system which in undergoing a reaction. This expiriment is used to deterimine the amout of Hydrogen in the end products.
Pictured to the right is a catalyst system with an application in the petrolium field. This catalyst is Silicon Carbonide which is turning out to be better the the currently used Aluminum Zincronimum catalists used in the industry. Advantages gained by using this calatlys include lower temperatures, and work better for burning methanol. The end products are measured in a Foyer transfer IR pictured above so see thier if they are working well enough.