The Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Department is housed in the Center for Advanced Materials Processing (CAMP) building on the west side of the Raquette River on Clarkson's beautiful hill campus.

The CAMP complex contains research laboratories, faculty and department offices, classrooms, special test laboratories, and the Multidisciplinary Engineering Laboratory.

The first floor of the CAMP complex also contains the Multidisciplinary Engineering Computer and Design Laboratory.

Clarkson combines two distinctive strengths that benefit students: Personalized teaching and high-powered research.

With a 16:1 faculty-to-student ratio, our professors get to know students as individuals. On the other hand, these faculty members are also inspired explorers on the very frontiers of knowledge. They conduct world-class research in areas of vital importance — and involve undergraduates as well as graduate students in the process!

Project-based learning
Clarkson takes a project-based approach to learning. Because you focus on the creative application of knowledge and skills to solve practical, real-world problems, you gain:

• a strong, hands-on foundation in the basics
• teamwork and leadership skills
• practice in creative problem solving
• techniques in research and analysis
• skills in applying what you know

And at all levels, you enjoy the individualized attention that only an undergraduate-centered school can provide.

Chemical Engineering research areas
Clarkson professors work closely with industry and government on exciting and important research, in a wide range of areas.  Current topics include:

• polymer fabrication
• chemical mechanical polishing
• adaptive and process control systems
• applied convective transport processes
• nucleation theory
• motion studies in capillary, bubble, and drop dynamics
• fuel cell technology
• air pollution monitoring
• crystal growth
• process intensification