Careers
Clarkson Chemical Engineering graduates are highly sought in industry, government and academic institutions. Their quality is reflected by high starting salaries. They work in sectors that include: production of chemicals, pharmaceuticals, plastics and other synthetics; petroleum refining; engineering design and construction; equipment manufacture; nuclear energy; pollution control; energy conservation; bio-engineering and microelectronics.
Many chemical engineering graduates move on to advanced degree study, medical or dental school, or law school. Our graduates are accepted in the best advanced degree programs in the country, including our own. Among them: Cal Tech, Cornell, Georgia Tech, MIT, Penn State, Purdue University, University of Colorado, University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania, University of Vermont Medical School, and Virginia Tech.
Companies Who Hire Our Chemical Engineers
Those hiring Chemical Engineering graduates include:
- Alcoa Inc.
- Air Products and Chemicals, Inc
- Aspen Technology
- Anheuser-Busch
- Babcock & Wilcox
- Babcock Power
- Constellation Energy
- Corning, Inc.
- Dupont
- Environmental Compliance Services
- Eveready Battery Co., Inc
- Exxon-Mobil
- Foxboro Company
- Frito-Lay
- General Dynamics Corporation
- General Electric Company, Inc.
- Georgia Pacific/New Page Paper
- Global Foundries
- GDF Suez
- Honeywell
- IBM
- International Paper
- Lockheed-Martin
- Merck
- New York State DEC
- Norfolk Naval Shipyard
- Osram Sylvania
- Pratt-Whitney
- Praxair, Inc.
- Procter & Gamble Company
- Thiokol ATK
- Tyco International
- Universal Photonics, Inc
- Versa Paper
- Wyeth
- Xerox Corporation









