Engineering: Programs

Chemical Engineering

Mission Statement

The mission of the Manhattan College Chemical Engineering Program is to provide students with the knowledge and skills to become practicing engineers and pursue advanced studies.

Chemical Engineering

Chemical engineers combine mathematics and advanced chemistry with engineering principles to design, develop and operate industrial processes for the manufacture of a host of products including fuels, gasoline, heating oil, plastics, synthetic fibers, paint, solvents, industrial chemicals and chemical intermediates, and a variety of consumer products such as foods, beverages, medicines and cosmetics.  A chemical engineer’s education permits the student to work in design and construction, computer simulation, specialty chemicals, industrial gases, food processing, petroleum fractionation, power generation, polymers, pollution prevention and remediation, safety and accident management, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, or pulp and paper industries.

The Chemical Engineering program includes course work in material and energy balances, thermodynamics, reaction engineering, heat and mass transfer, separation processes, and plant design, plus elective courses such as transport phenomena, pollution control, biochemical engineering, process safety, and engineering economy. Students may also select electives that count towards an Environmental Engineering minor. Course work is complemented by comprehensive laboratory facilities with experiments in both traditional and emerging technologies, ranging from unit operations such as distillation and filtration, to unique applications such as biological reactors and membrane separation processes. Computer usage, including software, programming, professional design packages and data acquisition, is integrated throughout the curriculum.

Students are prepared for both professional employment and graduate study. Chemical Engineering students who plan to enter the medical profession must complete Biology 111-112 and 113-114 in addition to the courses required for graduation.

Educational Objectives

The Chemical Engineering program at Manhattan College provides broad intellectual and social development for their students in order to accomplish the following objectives:

1.   Prepare graduates to meet expectations of employers in the chemical and related industries, consulting firms and government
agencies.

2.   Prepare graduates to pursue advanced studies, if so desired.

Four-Year Program

The curriculum for the first year is common to all branches of engineering.  In order to enable a student to test his or her interest in Chemical Engineering, he or she takes designated courses from the Chemical Engineer-ing course offerings in their sophomore year.  The junior and senior years allow for concentrated studies in a variety of traditional and emerging ideas including process design and control, transport phenomena, thermodynamics, reactor design and kinetics, separations, bioengineering, computer and environmental applications. A representative four-year program is shown below.

Chemical Engineering

FIRST YEAR	Credits	SECOND YEAR	Credits
CHEM 101	4	ENGS 201/202, 205	6
ENGL 110	3	CHML 207, 208	6
ENGS 115, 116	6	CHEM 102	4
MATH 103, 104	6	PHYS 102	4
PHYS 101	4	MATH 201, 203	6
RELS 110	3	CHEM/BIO Elective2	3
HSS Electives	6	ENGL Elective	3
Total	32	Total	32
THIRD YEAR	Credits	FOURTH YEAR	Credits
CHML 305, 306	6	ENGS/ENGR Electives2	9
CHML 308	3	CHML 403, 4041	4
CHML 316	3	CHML 405, 406	6
CHML 321	3	CHML 423	3
CHEM 310	3	CHML 439	3
CHEM 319, 320	6	HSS Elective	3
CHEM 323	2	RELS Elective	3
HSS Elective	3	Science Elective2	3
RELS Elective	3	Total	34
Total	32
Total Credits for graduation:		130

¹ CHML 404 may be replaced by CHML 431 with permission of the Department Chair.

² Electives to be selected from courses on an approved list provided by the Department of Chemical Engineering.