Why choose this program?
Graduate studies in Chemical Engineering encompasses areas of environmental control, plastics and polymers, pulp and paper, instrumentation and process control, petrochemicals, petroleum and natural gas processing, and energy conversion and utilization, as well as the growing fields of biotechnology, food processing, composite materials, corrosion and protective coatings, and manufacture of microelectronic components.
Opportunities to explore these areas are available within the department, in collaboration with other departments, and through several research centers on campus.
The Dalhousie Chemical Engineering program houses faculty members with research interests in the areas of bioprocessing and drug delivery, dust explosion and risk management, pilot-scale design and system testing, multiphase process engineering, oil and gas processing and release mitigation, hybrid separation technology, and fermentation processing.