The Graduate Program in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

A 3D model of an endothelial cell attached to a vascular vessel. Hemodynamic forces play a pivotal role in the normal and pathological behavior of vascular endothelial cells. For example, these cells convert into biochemical signals the hemodynamic forces on them via a process called mechano-transduction. The research group of Professor Dimitrakopoulos investigates the dynamics of vascular endothelial cells in a wide range of blood vessels, from large arteries down to capillaries.

The Graduate Program in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering offers research and education opportunities leading to the Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees. The Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering is well-equipped for graduate research in aerosol science and engineering, biochemical engineering, computational modeling, fluid mechanics and mixing, fuel cell technology, metabolic engineering and systems biology, nanoparticle technology, polymer processing and characterization, polymer reaction engineering, process control, thermodynamics and transport phenomena, and systems research. The Department maintains a distributed computing network consisting of research laboratories and a PC laboratory. Major research facilities including electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and NMR are coordinated through a variety of laboratories.

The Department is part of the A. James Clark School of Engineering, which U.S. News & World Report ranks 17th in the nation and 11th among public universities in its listing of top graduate engineering schools in the U.S. for 2009.

The Clark School has maintained its place as 13th among engineering schools worldwide according to the Institute of Higher Education at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China.

Our location in College Park, Maryland, is a great place to study and a great place to live! College Park is next door to the nation's capital, Washington, D.C. Our campus is within a Metro (subway) ride or easy driving distance of many prominent government research facilities including the NIH, the FDA, NIST, and the NRC. Our alumni have gone on to academic and industrial positions, as well as positions at federal laboratories.

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