Department of Chemical
& Biomedical Engineering
Our department awarded 9 Doctoral Degrees, 30
Master’s and 71 Bachelor degrees in the Academic Year
of 2014-2015. The department has 51 PhD students,
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Advanced Materials
56 Master’s students and 270 undergraduate students
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Biofluidics
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Biomechanics
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Clean Energy & Systems
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Corrosion of Engineering
Materials
43rd in the nation for research expenditures, among
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Drug & Gene Delivery
all U.S. universities, public or private, by the National
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Electrochemistry
Science Foundation (2013).
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Environmental Engineering
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Fuel Cells
USF is one of the nation’s top 73 public research
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Hydrogen Production & Storage
Modeling, Simulation & Control
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Nanotechnology
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Process & Product Design
currently enrolled. The University of South Florida’s
Engineering Graduate program ranks #72 among public
institutions by U.S. News & World Report, and is ranked
universities and one of 40 public research universities
nationwide with very high research activity that is
designated as the community engaged by the Carnegie
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Chemical & Biological Sensors
Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. USF is one
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Smart Materials
of only four Florida public universities classified by the
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Supercritical Fluids
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in
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Surface Science & Technology
the top tier of research universities (RU/VH), a distinction
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Sustainability & Green
Engineering
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Synfuels Production
attained by only 2.3 percent of all universities.
chbme@usf.edu • http://chbme.eng.usf.edu • 813-974-3997
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Chemical Engineering Education