"The noblest aim before us, gentlemen, the one which most amply justifies us before all the world, is our ambition for the enlightenment and ample equipment of our successors: that is for the improvement of the training of the chemical engineer of the future," stated by Charles McKenna, founder of American Institute for Chemical Engineers (AIChE).

 

UMBC Chemical Engineering Tracks (for undergraduate):

Traditional Chemical Engineering

Biochemical Engineering (est. 2002)

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What is the difference???

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Biochemical engineering is a discipline through which the knowledge of living organisms and biological system is translated into creating safe and efficient process.

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Chemical engineering involves with the processes that cause substances to undergo required changes in their chemical or physical composition, structure, energy content or physical state..

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Additional Information:

Undergraduate Main Requirement Courses as of 2006/2007

More to come...