The chemical engineering master’s degree prepares you to develop new, high-tech materials for use across a range of critical industries, including semiconductors, pharmaceuticals, renewable energy systems, battery and alternative energies, and more.
Why Study RIT’s Chemical Engineering Master’s Degree
Advanced Course Work with Capstone Project: Chemical engineering students receive training in the latest theory, principles, and processes to design engineered systems culminating in an independent project.
Hands-On Experience : Students may pursue research for credit with a faculty member, graduate internships, and cooperative education through paid full-time work in industry.
Strong Career Paths: Students are hired at industry-leading companies, such as Bausch & Lomb, Boston Beer Company, Regeneron, DuPont, Eastman Kodak Company, Global Tungsten and Powders, Northrop Grumman, Global Foundries, The Hershey Company, and more.
Chemical engineers apply the core scientific disciplines (chemistry, physics, biology, and mathematics) to transform raw materials or chemicals into more useful or valuable forms, invariably in processes that involve chemical change. In research and development, chemical engineers not only create new, more effective ways to manufacture chemicals but also work collaboratively with chemists to pioneer the development of new high-tech materials for specialized applications.
The development, commercialization, and optimization of the industrial-scale processes for manufacturing chemicals and advanced materials are feats of chemical engineering. Virtually every aspect of a modern industrial economy is critically dependent upon chemical engineering for manufacturing the vast array of bulk and specialty chemicals and high-tech materials needed to create a limitless array of value-added products.
Those with advanced knowledge in chemical engineering become leaders in industry, government, and higher education.
RIT’s Chemical Engineering Master’s Degree
In RIT’s chemical engineering MS, you will take core chemical engineering courses in topics like advanced engineering mathematics, advanced thermodynamics, transport phenomena, and advanced reaction engineering. With this foundation in place, you are prepared to select focus area elective courses that provide a breadth of expertise across chemical engineering and develop your professional interests. You may personalize your chemical engineering master’s program with elective courses in chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, microelectronic engineering, microsystems engineering, imaging science, materials science and engineering, and mathematics. These areas allow you to customize your course work in a range of topics, such as:
- Battery engineering
- Renewable energy systems
- Nanotechnology and microsystems
- Quantum mechanics
- Polymer science
- Thermodynamics
- Applied mathematics