College of Engineering College of Engineering

The Department of Chemical Engineering was authorized in November 1986 and began with an intake of 40 students in 1987. The intake was increased to 50 students in 1988. The master's program in Chemical Engineering was established in 1994, and the doctoral program was introduced in 1995. Additionally, an industrial graduate school major in Chemical Engineering was introduced in March 1996, and in September 1997, an industrial graduate school program for Production Technology and Environmental Engineering was established. By operating these similar related departments within our department, we are enhancing our research capabilities.

The undergraduate program of the department was run jointly with the Polymer Engineering major under the Department of Applied Chemical Engineering since 1996. However, from 2005, it started operating as a single department again. Currently, the Department of Chemical Engineering has 7 full-time faculty members, over 200 undergraduate students, and about 20 graduate students. As of 2004, the department has produced 544 bachelor's, 37 master's, and 2 doctoral graduates who are playing key roles in universities, research institutes, oil refineries, petrochemical companies, cosmetics companies, electronics companies, and various other industries.

Over the past decades, the department has been committed to education for the talent cultivation of core industries like refining, petrochemicals, inorganic and organic chemical industries, plastics, etc., and to achieve the basic educational objectives of chemical engineering. Currently, in a rapidly converging interdisciplinary environment, there's a growing focus on fostering competent biochemical engineers equipped with a broad foundation and practical engineering knowledge, capable of effectively integrating BT (Biotechnology), IT (Information Technology), NT (Nano Technology), and ET (Environmental Technology). We are also dedicated to expanding our areas of interest into core growth technologies required by the 21st century using traditional chemical engineering concepts.

Thus, in the lower years, students acquire various basic principles for interdisciplinary integration in foundational engineering fields. In the higher years, the curriculum is designed to acquire knowledge about applications and process technologies directly usable in industrial processes. The department emphasizes students' participation in various government-led core technology development projects, industrial-academic cooperative projects, and diverse industrial-academic cooperative joint projects, focusing on nurturing talents for advanced technology development and producing students with outstanding adaptability in the field.

In the department, 7 professors are conducting diverse research in areas such as biochemical engineering, energy and environmental engineering, chemical engineering materials, and separation processes.