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Facts About CBE@UB CBE researchers insulin-secreting tissues that mimic the pancreas. These studies may lead to improved treatment • Full-time faculty: 22 Degrees offered of diabetes. • Average class size: 65 • BS, MS, M Eng, PhD (all in Chemical Engineering) • Average ChE starting salary: $68,000 (BS) • A five-year BS in Chemical Engineering + • Events held by CBE students: about 30 per year MBA is also available • Lecture courses taught by teaching assistants: 0

What Do Chemical and Biological Curriculum Overview Two UB CBE Undergraduate Students Win Do? Freshman-Sophomore the Prestigious Goldwater Scholarship CBE graduates apply to make things that people The first two years build the basic science and mathe- Congratulations to UB can use. This is PRODUCT ENGINEERING and examples matics skills that you need for the practice of chemical CBE undergraduate include: engineering: four chemistry courses, including organic students Stephanie Kong • Portable water purifiers chemistry; two semesters of ; math through and Sharon Lin, who have • -efficient windows differential equations; and one required course in • Ozone-safe refrigerants both won the highly com- biolotechnology. Chemical engineering courses start in • Pollution-preventing ink petitive Barry Goldwater • A home-use ventilator the sophomore year. Scholarship, established • Stain-resistant fabrics by Congress in 1986 in Junior • Pacemaker batteries honor of Senator Barry The third year develops the engineering sciences. Here • Drug-delivery patches Goldwater. The scholarship provides up to $7,500 per • Artificial organs you learn to control the movement of mass and energy, year to cover the educational expenses of outstanding • A cure for cancer (really) and how to engineer chemical reactions. You learn students pursuing careers in math, the natural sciences, how to purify things on a large scale. You discover why and engineering. This year’s award winners are a point CBE graduates help to solve the material needs of society, materials behave as they do, and how to manipulate of pride for UB’s engineering school. Since 2012, six ensuring that there is enough to go around today and in them. Hands-on laboratories build practical skills from the future. This is and contemporary undergraduate engineering students—including five the classroom instruction. examples include: from the Department of Chemical and Biological Engi- neering—have won this prestigious award. Read more • How can we make environmentally friendly plastic water Senior about the Goldwater Scholarship winners at www.cbe. bottles and food packaging from corn? Study of chemical and biological systems is coupled • A lifesaving drug has been discovered in a tropical plant. buffalo.edu/goldwater. with practice of design to provide the capstone to How can we make enough of it to satisfy the needs of the degree. The material you learned in the first three all people who need this cure? years comes together synergistically. Both product and Employment Outlook • A competitor overseas can make a product with less cost because regulations there are not as strict. How can we are given equal emphasis. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that chemical improve our manufacturing process to remain competitive? engineering is expected to have employment growth from • Flexible display devices can be made by coating organic 2012 to 2022.” Please see: http://www.bls.gov/ooh/archi- on a substrate. How can we make tecture-and-engineering/chemical-engineers.htm. enough of these to satisfy demand and keep them affordable? Did You Know? Employers About 30 of our students each year work on undergradu- ate research. This is a great experience, getting involved in Any company that is in the business of making some actual research at the frontier of new scientific knowledge physical product must employ chemical engineers. This and technology, and working closely with a faculty includes the obvious companies such as Dow, Dupont and member and graduate students. This experience also looks ExxonMobil, as well as ones you may not have expected, very impressive on a resume. CBE undergraduates do such as IBM, Chrysler, Nabisco, Merck, Molson, and so on. both experimental and computational projects, and have become published as co-authors on scientific papers.

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BS in Chemical and Biological Engineering Quantum mechanical modeling supplements experiment to reduce the need for hazardous chemicals Training for the Real World through the in . CBE Spiral Learning Initiative UB CBE is using an exciting new program to enhance students’ effectiveness at designing real-world chemical Did You Know? processes as they enter the workplace. When you start You can get paid to go to graduate school. About 20% of our graduates go on to taking CBE courses as a sophomore, you are already pursue advanced study toward a PhD. Some choose to continue their studies here, fine-tuning the capstone plant design project you will while others go to study at other elite graduate programs nationwide (e.g., Princeton, tackle in your final semester. Students get special “spiral” MIT, Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, Minnesota, Michigan…). Students admitted to the PhD assignments and exam problems in various courses that introduce and revisit skills program at any of these schools receive not just full tuition scholarships, but also a that will be especially useful to them in designing part of a two- modest stipend to support their study (about $20,000/year; enough to live on, but not and-a-half years later. enough for a fancy car).

For example, last spring seniors designed the reactors and separations units Student Clubs and Activities needed to make 300 million lb/year of polylactic acid, an environmentally friendly UB’s student chapter of AIChE is a club committed to “plant plastic” increasingly used for water bottles, food packaging and medical encouraging academic and professional progress by products. Along the way we repeatedly infused them with useful skills supporting providing all the necessary resources for success. The club this project in their transport, reactor engineering and other courses, so that they brings students together, and connects them with the CBE would be more ready to be creative designers. department, professors and industry professionals. The club hosts speakers, plant tours, monthly meetings, and Says Johannes Nitsche, instructor for CE 408 Plant Design and Director of Under- social events, in addition to attending both the national graduate Studies, “This final course is really exciting because students get to pull and regional conferences and competing in the Chem-E Car together all they’ve learned thinking up a new design to produce a useful chem- competition. We have developed a mentorship program con- ical. They are mentored by real practicing engineers from local companies, and necting underclassman to upperclassman within the chemical engineering department. we stand by them all along their journey with these ‘spiral’ problems in different The club is also involved in outreach events. We have attended the Buffalo Museum courses that prepare and focus them for the challenge.” of Science during Engineers Week to teach kids about engineering and make them liquid nitrogen ice cream. This year, we are planning to go into Buffalo schools monthly to do experiments and science demonstrations for the students, to intrigue them about Work Opportunities engineering at a young age. Getting involved with the student chapter of AIChE at UB “UB can help students find valuable opportunities is a great way to make valuable connections, learn about the , and to gain work experience even before graduation. I have fun interacting with other Chemical Engineers. worked at an internship with Praxair and enhanced – Emily Benz, UB AIChE chapter president, 2014-2015 my understanding of production. This valuable experience developed my professional Award-Winning Faculty growth and also counted for three course credits. UB CBE faculty are very active in education and research, and are well recognized Working on site at the production plant was a within and outside the university for their accomplishments. Distinctions include four learning experience unlike any I have had in a recipients of the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, seven National classroom. The observation of chemical engineering Science Foundation Young Investigator awards, three members of the National Academy principles in real world practice has given me a of Engineering, a recipient of the National Medal of Science (the National Medal greater appreciation for the theories that I have provides the nation’s highest scientific honor), as well as numerous other national learned in the classroom and has challenged me to research and teaching awards. Our faculty ranks also include two SUNY Distinguished think in new ways to address real world factors. My work experience has further Professors and two SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professors. developed my chemical engineering knowledge and given me great perspective for what to expect once I start my career.” – Alex Tomasik, Former UB CBE Undergraduate Student To apply, please visit admissions.buffalo.edu

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