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Carnegie Mellon Chemical Engineering The Chemical Engineering department at Carnegie Mellon University emphasizes advanced collaboration

The primary missions of the Department of Chemical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon are to educate undergraduate and graduate students, and to discover and disseminate knowledge through research. The Department is committed to achieving excellence in these activities, and evaluates the success and leadership of its programs using the highest standards of quality, innovation, and visibility. The Department values scholarly research that is interdisciplinary and industrially relevant. In education the emphasis is on fundamentals complemented by professional skills including communication. The goal of the department is to produce students and faculty who will become leaders in their areas.

Congratulations to Ignacio Grossmann, recognized by INFORMS with the Saul Gass Expository Writing Award!
09/15/2026

Congratulations to Ignacio Grossmann, recognized by INFORMS with the Saul Gass Expository Writing Award!

Three ChemE graduate students earned accolades from the American Chemical Society. Congratulations!
09/04/2026

Three ChemE graduate students earned accolades from the American Chemical Society. Congratulations!

Congratulations to alum Brian Carlock, class of 1974, named to CMU's Athletics Hall of Fame!
08/21/2026

Congratulations to alum Brian Carlock, class of 1974, named to CMU's Athletics Hall of Fame!

What does leadership look like to you? To CMU's Vice Provost for Faculty and Professor of Chemical Engineering Shelley A...
08/20/2026

What does leadership look like to you? To CMU's Vice Provost for Faculty and Professor of Chemical Engineering Shelley Anna, leadership goes beyond a job title.

“I really believe that people are leaders based on how they choose to show up for other people,” she says, “and not based on their title.”

Read the article about her leadership journey: https://www.cheme.engineering.cmu.edu/news/2026/08/10-anna-inspiring-leadership.html

How do you show up for others?




Vice Provost for Faculty and Professor of Chemical Engineering Shelley Anna shares her leadership journey.

08/12/2026
08/05/2026
Sunny Suprenant has received recognition from the American Chemical Society with a Leadership in Mentoring Award. Sunny'...
08/04/2026

Sunny Suprenant has received recognition from the American Chemical Society with a Leadership in Mentoring Award. Sunny's Ph.D. work is in Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering Daphne Chan's group. Congrats!

07/31/2026

"We know rainfall generally is expected to get more intense as the Earth warms up over time because there’s more moistur...
07/30/2026

"We know rainfall generally is expected to get more intense as the Earth warms up over time because there’s more moisture in the atmosphere, and so that water has to go somewhere,” Gordon Hamish, associate professor of chemical engineering, told Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.

That added atmospheric moisture also triggers microbursts — rapid, localized downpours caused by colliding updrafts and downdrafts.

https://triblive.com/local/westmoreland/why-western-pa-s-rainfall-is-getting-more-intense-and-overwhelming-infrastructure/




It isn’t just your imagination: When it rains in Western Pennsylvania these days, it pours harder than it used to — and the region’s infrastructure is buckling under the weight. While weather experts debate whether overall storm frequency has increased, the data shows rainfall has....

ChemE alum and faculty member Alexandra Newby is part of a new cohort of Provost's Inclusive Teaching Fellows at CMU. Co...
07/30/2026

ChemE alum and faculty member Alexandra Newby is part of a new cohort of Provost's Inclusive Teaching Fellows at CMU. Congratulations!

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