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【简介】 The Department of Chemical Engineering here at the Pennsylvania State University has a proud tradition of scholarship and teaching that began with Professor Merrill Fenske, the first Head of the Department and a pioneer in the technology of distillation. Under the guidance of Professors Eagleton and Duda the Department became highly diversified in each of the major sub-disciplines of chemical engineering. Their current strengths are in biological, materials and computational chemical engineering.
Housed in Fenske Laboratory, the department is home to an undergraduate program, which is one of the best and largest in the country. Recently, the senior classes have been on the order of 120 students. The graduate program offers both the MS and PhD degrees and operates at a steady state level of approximately 60-70 students. There are experimental and theoretical, single and multi-investigator research programs in diffusion and thermodynamics within polymeric materials, heterogeneous catalysis, kinetics and reaction engineering, colloids and complex fluids, bioengineering, both bio-medical and bio-processing, and computation, which spans a full range of length scales from the atomistic issues of reaction and transport at surfaces to problems in multiphase flows and turbulence. The bio-medical research is affiliated with the Hershey Medical School, while the bio-process engineering group possesses its own $5MM laboratory and pilot plant facility within Fenske. Both bioengineering gro ups are affiliated with and each has a strong presence in the University's Life Science Consortium.
Penn State is a "Research I" campus, with outstanding affiliated departments in the basic sciences, including Molecular Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Materials, Polymers and Fuel Science. The other engineering disciplines, especially Mechanical, Bioengineering, Civil, Electrical and Engineering Science and Mechanics, are equally excellent and there is ample ongoing collaboration between our faculty and students in Chemical Engineering and those in the other departments. Furthermore, to encourage and facilitate campus-wide interactions, Penn State has established consortia devoted to the Life Sciences, the Environment, Informatics and Materials. The total extramural research budget for the University Park campus last year was over $440 MM and continues to rise annually. The University is currently engaged in its most ambitious fundraising effort ever. The Penn State Campaign seeks to raise $1 billion by June 30, 2003, for increased support of students, faculty, programs, and carefully s elected projects. Their mission is to be among the best comprehensive departments of chemical engineering in the country.
Department Address: 158 Fenske Laboratory Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA 16802-4400
