Chemical and Biological Engineering

Course Overview

We pursue integrative research and offer graduate training at the frontiers of chemical engineering in these main areas: nanoscale science and engineering computational science and engineering, biochemical and biomedical engineering We expect that a quantitative, mathematical, chemical-engineering approach will prove most effective for the modeling and manipulation of complex biological systems from individual cells, to tissues, to organs. Our department encourages and supports research in: core chemical engineering disciplines , molecular transformations, multiscale processes, and chemical systems engineering emerging areas, biochemical, biomedical and metabolic engineering, nanotechnology, and advanced polymeric, electronic and optical materials, We maintain vigorous research programs in the variety of areas. See research areas. Our research projects are generously supported by federal and state funding agencies and by industry. Our faculty includes a National Medal of Science awardee and three members of the National Academy of Engineering, three former National Science Foundation presidential young investigators, and several recipients of national, international, and regional research and teaching awards from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the American Chemical Society, the Electrochemical Society, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the American Society for Engineering Education, Tau Beta Pi, and the State University of New York system, among others. See faculty. The required 24 to 27 credits of course work are assembled as a coherent program of electives. The remaining three to six credit hours are devoted to a project. Completion of the Chemical and Biological Engineering ME degree at the SUNY Buffalo School of Engineering and Applied Sciences typically takes 12 to 18 months. In accordance with New York State Education Department (SED) regulations, the percentage of courses taken through distance education must be less than 50% of a graduate student's degree requirements.