Build a smarter future

Cleaner fuels. Safer cars. Better pharmaceuticals. And more efficient ways to deliver those products to the consumer. Explore programs in the Department of Electrical & Biomedical Engineering, including our industrial engineering program. 

Undergraduate programs

In addition to majors and minors in chemical engineering and materials science and engineering, we offer a new major in industrial engineering. 

Graduate programs

We offer an M.S. and Ph.D. in chemical engineering and materials science and engineering. Research and teaching assistantships are available for qualified students.

Chemical & Materials Engineering news

Jade Beland, wearing safety goggles and a lab coat, operates scientific equipment in Krista Carlson's lab.

Grad of the pack: Jade Beland

Materials science student recognized for nuclear waste research

Dev Chidambaram, dressed in a suit, stands on an outdoor walkway with trees and a building in the background.

Engineering professor partners with UNLV and University of Houston on project to reduce carbon emissions in the iron industry

Dev Chidambaram and team bring expertise and key laboratory infrastructure

Dylan Graf wearing a Nevada shirt and standing inside a room.

Industrial Engineering bachelor’s degree program debuts this fall

From manufacturing to transportation, industrial engineers are needed in a variety of areas.

Are you ready to make a world of difference?

Join the College of Engineering students, faculty and alumni who are developing the ideas, techniques and technologies that change the world.