What is Chemical Engineering?
Chemical engineering deals with the design and development of procedures to create products that essential to sustaining modern life such as food and fuel. It is the application and combination of chemistry, biology, physics, and math.
This degree offers a specialization in bioprocess and biochemical engineering and an accelerated master’s degree.
What does a chemical engineer do?
Chemical engineers take raw materials and create every day, usable products crucial to modern society. They do this by applying the principles of chemistry, biology, physics, and math to solve the problems that occur during the production of chemicals, fuel, drugs, food, and a myriad of other products.
With a degree in chemical engineering from South Dakota Mines, you can work in jobs that increase crop yields to combat world hunger, create new materials, reduce pollution, and meet energy demands. Chemical engineers (as well as biological engineers) are instrumental in creating pharmaceuticals and lifesaving devices such as the artificial kidney, but they also produce products like cosmetics, biofuels, and sandwich bags.
Courses for this Degree
• Programming for Chemical and Biological Engineering
• Chemical Engineering Material Balances
• Chemical Engineering Fluid Mechanics
• Chemical Engineering Process Thermodynamics
• Computer Applications in Chemical Engineering
• Chemical Engineering Heat Transfer
• Chemical Engineering Equilibrium Thermodynamics
• Chemical Engineering Process Control Lab
• Chemical Kinetics and Reactor Design
• Chemical Engineering Equilibrium Separations
Course Curriculum
Catalog Links: Chemical Engineering
Internships and Co-ops
On average, 73% of South Dakota Mines students have applicable work experience when they graduate thanks to internships and co-ops. For these co-ops and internships, students receive an average salary of $22.62/hour.
As a South Dakota Mines chemical engineering major, you will have the opportunity to participate in internships and co-ops with such companies as:
• Cargill
• POET
• Lyondell Basell
• Applied Control Equipment
• Baker Hughes
• Dow Chemical
• 3M
• Freeport McMoRan
• Kimberly-Clark
• Baker Hughes
• Mosaic Company
• Cabot Microelectronics Corporation
77% of students at Mines land internships or co-ops, earning an average hourly salary of $20.00.