Graduate Program in Chemical Engineering

Degress offered
The department of Chemical and Nuclear Engineering at UNM offers an MS in Chemical Engineering and a PhD in Engineering with a Chemical Engineering concentration.

Research Areas
The department has a variety of established research programs in chemical, biological, and materials engineering. These include:

• Nano- and Biomaterials Synthesis
• Ceramics
• Bioanalytical Micro- and Nanosystems
• Tissue Engineering
• Catalysis
• Fuel Cells
• Optoelectronics Materials
• Interficial and Transport Phenomenon

See the faculty directory for more details.

Faculty
The department currently houses twelve faculty in Chemical Engineering.

Research Facilities
Research facilities within the department available to graduate students include:

• Chemical Reactors (Berty, Packed Bed)
• Autoscan-33 Mercury Porosimeter
• Autosorb-1 Sorption Analyzer
• Sedigraph Particle Sizer
• Coulter Counter
• ASAP2000 Sorption Analyzer (2)
• VTI 100 High Pressure Absorption Analyzer
• Scanning and Transmission Electron Microscopes
• Chemisorption in-situ IR Spectroscpopy
• UHV Chambers for Surface Science Experiments
• Plasma Etching Equipment
• Semiconductor Fabrication/Characterization Equipment
• A Process Control Laboratory
• Fossil Energy Characterization Instrumentation and a Scattering Facility, including 2 Rotating Anode Generators
• Kratkey, Pinhole, and Bonse-Hart Optics for SAXS, 1800 XRD
• 2 light scattering Set-ups

Other equipment is available in the department for diffusion/absorption measurements, solar research, phase equilibria and biomedical research.

Graduate students also have access to resources available through our associated centers and affiliated reasearch facilities.

Contacts
Jocelyn White (chnegrad@unm.edu), Program Coordinator for Advisement
Dr. Sang Han (meister@unm.edu), Professor and Graduate Advisor