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Department of Chemical Engineering

The Chemical Engineering Department at Case Western Reserve University is among the first Chemical Engineering programs in the country (we will be celebrating our centennial in 2012), with a rich history of excellence. We take pride in fostering a balanced program where comprehensive undergraduate education, an advanced graduate program, and cutting edge research are equally promoted and benefit from synergistic interactions with each other. Feel free to contact me (uziel.landau@case.edu) if you have questions or would like to learn more about our programs.

Departmental News:

Students travel to Malawi to see how engineering can improve children’s health

Vaccinations are critical to good health, but to be effective, the vaccines must be refrigerated. In developing countries with little access to electricity to keep the vaccines cold or automobiles to quickly transport them, simply getting vaccines to individuals in need can be a major challenge. That all could change, with the help of a few Case Western Reserve University students ... read more

CWRU awarded grant to build battery for smart grid, renewables

A Department of Energy agency that funds high-risk, high-payoff research, has awarded engineers at Case Western Reserve University $567,805 to develop a “rustbelt” battery with unprecedented flexibility and utility... read more.

Case School of Engineering leads program to help rebuild Iraqi higher education

After decades of underinvestment and isolation, the Iraqi higher education system suffered even further during the Iraq War. Now, eight Iraqi engineering faculty members have come to Case Western Reserve University to learn first-hand how they can reshape their universities and contribute to rebuilding their country... read more

Chemical Engineering alum wins Fulbright scholarship

Jeffrey M. Halpern, an alum of the Department of Chemical Engineering, has been awarded a Fulbright scholarship to help develop a breath test that would identify early cancers.  His scholarship will bring him to the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, beginning January 2013... read more

Two engineering students bring tennis to children in Botswana

As the school year came to a close, two rising juniors prepared for a three-week trip to Africa to study thermodynamics at the University of Botswana. Once they arrived, they learned plenty about engineering and also helped make the sport of tennis accessible to children in African villages... read more

Students use engineering skills to help aid a village in Senegal

Just days before the start of spring semester, as many students were already back on campus or packing up in their hometowns, five seniors were halfway across the world in Africa, learning how residents of a remote village live daily without electricity or running water—and how the students could use their engineering knowledge to help... read more

CWRU researchers developing cheap, efficient ways to store energy

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University are mixing cheap and plentiful iron in benign solutions to create a flow battery – essentially an unwrapped battery that can be scaled up to hold and supply electricity to a home or an entire community...  read more

Mohan Sankaran receives Peter Mark Memorial Award

R. Mohan Sankaran, associate professor of chemical engineering, is the recipient of the 2011 Peter Mark Memorial Award from the American Vacuum Society. The award recognizes outstanding theoretical or experimental work by a young scientist—in this case, Sankaran’s work with carbon nanotubes. For more information on the award and to see an interview with Sankaran, click here.

Beyond the lecture hall: students study engineering in Africa

One offering of Engineering 225B is no semester in a traditional lecture hall.  Students stand on the rim and peer down into the world’s most productive diamond mine, in Jwaneng, Botswana, seeing if it reaches the depth—which they had calculated in class—at which diamond is more stable than graphite... read more