Chemical engineering has and will continue to play a prominent role in all realistic solutions to national and international problems of energy and the environment, health and medicine, and food and water. Progress toward solutions in these areas rests with judicious application of science. Such is the domain of the chemical engineer. The graduate plans of study in chemical engineering are heavily oriented toward synthesis with an emphasis on analysis. There is a strong thread of physics, chemistry, mathematics, biochemistry, and microbiology in much of the research in the department. Current thrust research areas include: data analytics (artificial intelligence and machine learning in the chemical engineering domain), sustainable and green energy (catalysis and surface science), health and medicine (biochemical and tissue engineering, biomaterials, nano- and precision-medicine). Traditional areas also remain active and in some cases overlap with the thrust areas: polymer chemistry and polymer science and engineering, colloid and surface chemistry, solid state chemistry and physics, nanotechnology, applied thermodynamics, molecular modeling, computer-aided design, and supercritical fluid science and technology. This representative list of topics gives an indication of the breadth and diversity of research areas in the department.