Chemical Engineering

2021 Chem-E Car team set to blast off with Lightning McLaren

Combining sunlight and wastewater nitrate to make the world’s No. 2 chemical

Pandemic changes nature of some chemical engineering jobs

New undergraduate concentrations enhance industry relevance

From a career in fulfillment to a fulfilling career

Researchers discover foam ‘fizzics’

‘Wonder material’ can be used to detect COVID-19 quickly, accurately

UIC research paves way for next-generation of crystalline material screening devices

Professor to offer summer refresher webinars

Metal petals bloom to win for spring award

Math, science, and medicine lead Siva Sreedhar forward

Could this yeast enzyme cut through plastic waste?

UIC startup executes exclusive license to commercialize thermal energy storage technology

UIC researchers to test new groundwater decontamination technology

Student-facilitated public-private partnership to improve battery safety

Professor Bilgin one of two engineers honored for teaching excellence

New method converts methane in natural gas to methanol at room temperature

Melanie Valentin joins chemical engineering department as student assistant

Braskem announces research partnership for sustainable plastic production using CO2 capture and utilization technology

UIC researchers identify new process to produce ammonia with a much smaller carbon footprint

UIC researchers describe fundamental processes behind movement of magnetic particles

Via new program, two degrees in five years

Grant to help students gain real-world insight

Department Head Welcome Letter Fall 2020

Department Head Welcome Letter: Fall 2020

Research team looks to up the voltage in battery tech

Gratitude shown, accolades given for ChE student video

Chemical engineering grad students stay connected while apart

Chemical engineering department puts charge in 3D-printing research

Summer Chem-E-Club keeps students learning

Anh Ngo joins Chemical Engineering Department’s faculty

ChE senior James Fell wins AICHE McCormack Award

ChE students honored with spring awards

ChE department does its part to fight COVID-19

UIC chemical engineers get ‘muddy’ to develop renewable fuel cell

COE MakerSpace, chemical engineering alumnus steps up to shield healthcare providers during pandemic

UIC Campus Health Update

What is Chemical Engineering?

Chemical engineering team publishes food flow research

GrACE and AIChE co-host welcome back event for spring semester

Two prominent student groups affiliated with UIC’s Chemical Engineering Department joined forces to welcome back students with dinner and presentations to explain current research ongoing in the department. Members of GrACE discussed CHE…

Chemical engineering team develops novel membrane material for water purification, energy harvesting

Chemical engineering student wins award for nanoculture research

Study reveals breach of ‘dancing’ barrier governs crystal growth

Department celebrates graduate students at fourth annual symposium

Chemical Engineering Department to host Graduate Research and Career Symposium 2019 on Nov. 1

UIC chemical engineering alumna Priyanka Sharma wins Outstanding Young Engineer Award

Chemical engineering accelerates through summer

Associate Professor Ludwig Nitsche retires after long tenure at UIC

ChE moves to new EIB on east campus

Clearing up the ‘dark side’ of artificial leaves

ChE moves to new home in the Engineering Innovation Building

UIC, AbbVie scientists develop a novel device to screen advanced crystalline materials

ChE Assistant Professor Sharma wins 2019 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award

Chemical engineering spring 2019 graduate profiles

Engineering Innovation Building acquires some extra glass from a local artist

Chemical engineering seniors impress at Expo 2019

UIC undergrad chemical engineering student finds equilibrium to help future students

UIC chemical engineering student Vrushant Patel wins Henry McCormack Outstanding Senior Award

Senior chemical engineering students work to turn leftover wood into new biofuel

UIC chemical engineering students take on Chem-E-Car challenge

UIC Chemical Engineering PhD candidate receives NSF-Graduate Fellowship to study 2D nanomaterial gels, inks

UIC professor looks to the future of electrochemical water treatment

UIC chemical engineering researchers work on graphene-semiconductor’s ‘surface junction’ leads to emerging photovoltaics field

Materials could delay frost up to 300 times longer than existing anti-icing coatings

PhD candidate gaining industry experience via NSF INTERN grant

By David Staudacher, UIC PhD candidate Alireza Ahmadian Yazdi has taken his studies outside the laboratory and into the working world. The College of Engineering student jumped at the opportunity to take on…

Moving artificial leaves out of the lab and into the air

First use of graphene to detect cancer cells

What can’t graphene do? You can scratch “detect cancer” off of that list. By interfacing brain cells onto graphene, researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago have shown they can differentiate a single…

Associate Professor Gang Cheng joins the department

Dr. Gang Cheng, PhD from University of Washington Seattle (2009) joined the Chemical Engineering faculty as an associate professor with tenure. Prior to this appointment at UIC, Cheng was an associate professor and…

Assistant Professor Shafigh Mehraeen joins the department

Dr. Shafigh Mehraeen, PhD from Stanford University (2011) joined the Chemical Engineering faculty as an assistant professor. Prior to this appointment at UIC, Mehraeen was a postdoctoral fellow at MIT. After two-year postdoctoral…

Assistant Professor Meenesh Singh joins the department

Dr. Meenesh R. Singh joined the Department of Chemical Engineering as an assistant professor and will be the director of the Materials and Systems Engineering Lab (MaSEL) at UIC. Prior to his appointment…

Professor Brian Chaplin receives a new NSF-grant worth $160,000

Chemical Engineering Department Professor Brian Chaplin received a new NSF-grant entitled “Multifunctional Electro-reactive Membranes for Efficient Biomass Separation” worth $160,000.

UIC hosts great reception at AIChE-2015

UIC had a great reception at AIChE-2015, where chemical department faculty interacted with alumni, students, and friends.

Deisy Arrington wins the prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Deisy Arrington (PhD student in Berry Research Lab) won the prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF-GRF) worth $138,000. Arrington is performing research on using novel functionalization schemes on graphene for cancer…

Associate Professor Ying Liu named as 2015 UIC Researcher and Scholar of the Year

Associate Professor Ying Liu was named a recipient of the 2015 UIC Researcher and Scholar of the Year given out by the UIC Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research (OVCR). “These honors…

Assistant Professor Ying Liu receives the prestigious NSF CAREER award

Assistant Professor Ying Liu received the prestigious NSF CAREER award entitled “Understanding Nanoprecipitation – Scalable Production of Polymeric Nanoparticles Encapsulating Hydrophobic Compounds.”

Chemical Department hosts first Annual Industry Day

The Department of Chemical Engineering had its first Annual Industry Day on October 23 with great engagement between students and the industry.

Assistant Professor Vivek Sharma receives the Distinguished Young Rheologist Award

Assistant Professor Vivek Sharma received the Distinguished Young Rheologist Award from TA Instruments. This award, which includes an instrument grant, is bestowed on a promising young researcher nominated by an international panel of…

Department receives $599,766 NSF S-STEM Grant to increase enrollment of women in chemical engineering

New Scholarship Program: UIC Chemical Engineering Department received $599,766 NSF S-STEM Grant to increase enrollment of women in chemical engineering.

Assistant Professor Sangil Kim joins the department

The Department of Chemical Engineering welcomed Dr. Sangil Kim, who joins the faculty as an assistant professor. Prior to his appointment at UIC, he was a staff scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory…

Lastest paper from Associate Professor Vikas Berry's research group featured in Washington Post, Wall Street Journal

  Associate Professor Vikas Berry‘s research group’s latest paper published in Scientific Reports was featured in The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal (R&D Section), EE-Times, Motherboard, and several other news outlets. The…

Chemical engineer and South Carolina educator Michael D. Amiridis named UIC chancellor/vice president

Chemical engineer and South Carolina educator Michael D. Amiridis was named UIC chancellor/vice president. Before serving as the executive vice president for academic affairs and provost at the University of South Carolina, Amiridis…

Assistant Professor Brian Chaplin receives NSF CAREER Award

Chemical Engineering Assistant Professor Brian Chaplin receives NSF CAREER Award entitled “Development of Reactive Electrochemical Membranes for Sustainable Water Treatment Applications: An Integrated Research and Education Plan”.

Associate Professor Vikas Berry joins the chemical department

Associate Professor Vikas Berry joins the Department of Chemical Engineering. Berry Research Lab studies the electrical, structural, and chemical properties of innovatively designed nano- and bio- materials to enable the development of the…

Assistant Professor Brian Chaplin joins the department

Assistant Professor Brian Chaplin joins the Department of Chemical Engineering. The focus areas of Chaplin Labs are environmental chemistry and water treatment.