Christy Petruczok

"As a chemical engineering major, I am working on an idea for creating a polymer that would release drugs as it changed shape in solutions of varying pH. This means certain medications would become more efficient within the body because their absorption would be guaranteed to occur in the stomach. Such a process could improve the lives of many people who depend on the effectiveness of medications they take every day." - Christy Petruczok '08

Chemical Engineering Lab

Chemical Engineering: Research Opportunities

At Clarkson, you will have the opportunity to work with professors on research projects, if you choose, and you can take advantage of our 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 rigorous preparation for the future and teamwork experience that spans the disciplines.

Clarkson professors work closely with industry and government on exciting and important research. Current topics include:

  • Atmospheric Science 
  • Bioengineering 
  • Computer-aided Process Engineering
  • Electrochemistry and Electrochemical Eng. 
  • Energy Systems
  • Fluid Mechanics and Transport Phenomena 
  • Green Manufacturing
  • Interfacial Phenomena
  • Biological Surface Science
  • Nucleation Phenomena
  • Materials Processing
  • Polymer Thin Films and Coatings
  • Separation Processes
  • Surface Characterization and Transport

Chemical Engineering majors participate in a wide range of research projects funded by the National Science Foundation and other government and corporate sources. Recent student projects include:

  • Effect of Water on the Viscosity of Room Temperature Ionic Liquids

  • Preparation of Model Porous Membranes with Pinhole Defects

  • Responsive Materials and Devices Based on Hierarchical Self-Assembly of Functional Hybrid Nanofibers

  • Novel Approaches to Coating Fuel Cell Membranes

  • Novel Synthesis of Poly (tert – butylacrylate – block – vinyl acetate) Copolymers

  • Thermocapillary Motion and Deformation of Squalane Drops on a Solid Surface

  • Electrochemical Impedance Change with Specific Binding of Ara h1 Peanut Protein

  • Nonequilibrium Distillation Boundaries

  • Minimum Energy Design of Dividing Wall Columns

  • Correlations of High-Efficiency Structured Packings

 

As a Clarkson engineering student, you'll benefit from our Multidisciplinary Engineering and Project Laboratory, where team-based experiences and projects are developed. And you will have access to all of the benefits of our Center for Advanced Materials Processing (CAMP), which includes 70 state-of-the-art labs and has been designated by the State of New York as a Center for Advanced Technology.