A degree in chemical engineering is versatile. Chemical engineers traditionally bridge the gap between fundamental science and consumer applications through diverse roles including research and development, process design, manufacturing, project management, and sales and marketing. The skills that are learned are also transferable to non-scientific fields such as non-governmental organizations, government agencies, law, medicine, dentistry, and entrepreneurship.
Lafayette ChBE alumni work in a diverse range of fields, from chemical manufacturing and process engineering to pharmaceuticals and personal care products. Others focus on environment and sustainability or materials and food science. Graduates are equipped with an array of technical and professional tools to be successful as technical engineers, consultants, managers. Many also choose to pursue advanced degrees, building on the exceptional preparation they received at Lafayette.
Our chemical engineering graduates go on to work at leading companies and pursue advanced degrees at top universities.
Merck
Bristol Myers Squibb
Pfizer
DuPont
ExxonMobil
Air Products
Ramboll
Estee Lauder Companies
Mars, Inc.
PepsiCo
University of California, Santa Barbara
University of Delaware
University of Michigan
Cornell University
University of Pennsylvania
Columbia University
University of Virginia
North Carolina State University
University of Maryland, College Park
As an advanced controls engineer at Air Products, I often face high-stakes troubleshooting. Lafayette’s ChemE program gave me technical depth, but more importantly taught me soft skills like analyzing problems, building solutions and clearly presenting them, which were sharpened through labs, projects, and presentations.