OUTLINE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING PROGRAM

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Chemical Engineering Provides a Broad
Foundation for Greater Opportunities in Critical
Technologies
Chemical Engineering
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Chemical Engineering Program at Lehigh University

• Accredited by ABET (the Accreditation Board for
  Engineering and Technology)

• Uniform Freshmen Year

• Chemical Engineering Major for Three Years

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Chemical Engineering Program at Lehigh University

• Humanities and
• Social Science
• Electives (23 cr.) 17

• Engineering and Science
• Electives (14 cr.) 10

• Free Electives (6 cr.) 5

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Advising ChE Undergraduate Students and Other
Educational Opportunities

• Personal Faculty Advisors for Students

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Past Opportunities for Student Investigation
Research Projects

• Optimization of Melt Dropping Process for
  Caustic Pellet Production (General Chemical
• Steady-State Process Operability (Air Products
  Chemicals)
• Predicting Phase Stability of Conditioners after
  Exposure to Freeze-Thaw Cycles (Avon Products)

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Past Opportunities for Student Investigation
Research Projects

• Waterproofing/Film Forming Attributes (Avon
  Products)
• Lifetime Storage Studies to Predict Shelf Life
  and Corrosion Failure Envelopes of Aerosol
  Packages (Avon Products)

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Other Opportunities

• The Co-op Program
• Study Abroad
• University of Nottingham, England
• University of Sydney, Australia
• National University of Mexico
• University of Dortmund, Germany
• Industrial Internships/Externships/Co-op
• AIChE Student Chapter

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Past Co-ops

• Air Products Chemicals
• Becton Dickinson
• B. Braun
• IBM
• Infineum

• Instrument Specialists
• Lucent Technologies
• Merck Company
• Morton
• Praxair
• Rohm Haas

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ChE Undergraduate Unit Operations Laboratory,
Mountaintop Campus

• Piping and Pumping Systems
• Packed and Fluidized Beds
• Filtration
• Shell and Tube Heat Exchangers

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ChE Undergraduate Unit Operations Laboratory,
Mountaintop Campus

• Heat Transfer in an Agitated Vessel
• Membrane Filtration of Gases
• Gas Absorption
• Liquid-liquid Extraction

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ChE Undergraduate Unit Operations Laboratory,
Mountaintop Campus

• Refrigeration
• Thermodynamics of gases
• Calorimetry and Heat of Mixing
• Chemical Kinetics

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ChE Undergraduate Unit Operations Laboratory,
Mountaintop Campus

• Binary Distillation
• Pilot Scale Distillation
• Automated Data Acquisition
• Gas Chromatography
• Two Phase Heat Transfer

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ChE Undergraduate Computers Laboratory at Iacocca
Hall
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Chemical Engineering Industrial Placement (Recent
Years)
Air Products Chemicals Akzo Alcoa Amoco
Chemicals ARCO Allied-Signal Bayer AG Binny
Smith B.F. Goodrich BOC Gases Dow
Chemical DuPont Elf-Atochem
ExxonMobil FMC Foster Wheeler GE
Corporation IBM International Paper Lonza
Merck National Starch Proctor Gamble
Rhone-Poulenc Union Carbide Graduate schools
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Typical Placement of B.S. in Chemical
Engineering Graduates
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Typical Employment, Salaries, and Signing Bonuses

• Deloitte Consulting
• Merck Company
• Air Products
• IBM
• Pfizer
• Accenture
• Aventis Pasteur
• Global Technology

• 58,000
• 54,000 5,000 bonus
• 54,500
• 52,000 4,000 bonus
• 55,000
• 55,000 - 57,000
• 45,000
• 50,000

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Typical Employment, Salaries, and Signing Bonuses

• ExxonMobil
• Andersen Consulting
• Philips Semiconductor

• 56,300 5,000 bonus
• 54,000
• 52,000
• Average salary
• 53,706
• Average signing bonus
• 4,800

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Past Mean Engineering Starting SalariesSource
National Association of Collages and Employers
(NACE)
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Recent Graduate Schools

• University of California, Davis
• University of Delaware
• University of Pennsylvania
• University of Southern California
• Lehigh University

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Chemical Engineering Faculty

• Prof. Blythe
• Prof. Caram
• Prof. Charles
• Prof. Chaudhury
• Prof. Chen
• Prof. El-Aasser
• Prof. Hencke
• Prof. Hsu
• Prof. Klein

• Prof. Kothare
• Prof. Luyben
• Prof. McHugh
• Prof. Schiesser
• Prof. Silebi
• Prof. Sircar
• Prof. Stenger
• Prof. Tuzla
• Prof. Wachs

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Mottos

• The Students Dream
• Knowledge is Power
• Bert Harte 19th Century

• Imagination is More Important than
• Knowledge
• Albert Einstein 20th Century

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Chemical Engineering Provides a Broad
Foundation for Greater Opportunities in Critical
Technologies
Chemical Engineering