MASc/PhD admission for January 2024

The MASc/PhD admission cycle for a January 2024 start is now open! Apply by October 15, 2023

News & Announcements

LLE 2023-24

Molly Shoichet & Lab Featured in Canadian Living for International Women’s Day

Four ChemE students receive U of T Student Leadership Awards

The donor who keeps on giving: ChemE alum made his first gift in 1983 and has no plans to stop

ChemE Student Discovery Award winners

LLE 2023-24

Lectures at the Leading Edge (LLE) returns for the 2023-24 season. This series, which has been offered for nearly 30 years, seeks to engage world-class researchers and thought leaders in Canada and around the world to spark conversations on the latest innovations in existing and emerging areas relevant to chemical engineering, applied chemistry, education in engineering, and the engineering profession.
 
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Upcoming Events

Sep
27
Wed
10:00 am Seminar: The engineering of func... @ Myhal Centre, room MC331
Seminar: The engineering of func... @ Myhal Centre, room MC331
Sep 27 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Seminar: The engineering of functional biomimetic surfaces by femtosecond laser micromachining @ Myhal Centre, room MC331
Professor Anne Kietzig McGill University (Department of Chemical Engineering Abstract: Functional surfaces in nature are often characterized by patterns of similar multi-length scale surface features of regular but random geometry. In science and engineering we[...]
Oct
4
Wed
11:00 am LLE: Design of Self-Organizing P... @ Sandford Fleming Building, Room 1105
LLE: Design of Self-Organizing P... @ Sandford Fleming Building, Room 1105
Oct 4 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Claudia Schmidt-Dannert, University of Minnesota Host: Prof. Emma Master In biological systems, simple building blocks such as proteins, nucleic acids and lipids are precisely organized to form higher ordered structures across multiple length scales. Harnessing[...]
Oct
18
Wed
11:00 am LLE: Assessing Exposures and Hea... @ Sandford Fleming Building, Room 1105
LLE: Assessing Exposures and Hea... @ Sandford Fleming Building, Room 1105
Oct 18 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Petros Koutrakis, Harvard University Host: Prof. Jeffrey Brook The recent Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study estimated that long-term exposure to fine particulates (PM2.5) caused 9 million deaths worldwide in 2019, making it the fourth-ranked[...]

Prospective Students

Undergraduate

As a Chemical Engineering student, you will learn to address issues with a large impact on society: the need to decrease our environmental footprint, create sustainable processes, improve human health, and more.

Graduate

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Research & Partnerships

Addressing industry challenges with research-based solutions

The Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry at the University of Toronto has a long tradition of successful collaborations with industrial partners that address commercially relevant technical challenges. The University provides excellent institutional support for strategic industry-university partnerships that maximize impact by leveraging various federal and provincial funding sources.

Our faculty members are world leaders in their fields working with diverse and talented graduate students and postdoctoral fellows on real-world problems in sectors as diverse as energy, environment, health, bioprocessing, pulp and paper, industrial water and mineral extraction.

Examples of our industrial collaborations include:

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