The ChemE Car team competed at the 2017 AIChE Northeast Student Conference and achieved third place, qualifying the students for the national competition in October.

CBE researchers observe condensation on surfaces heated to temperatures at least 100 K above the normal boiling point of the liquid in experiments conducted on the International Space Station.

The 2017 Micro and Nanoscale Phase Change Heat Transfer Gordon Conference took place in Galveston, TX from January 8 - 13. This year's Chair is Evelyn Wang. Vice Chairs are Joel Plawsky and Jungho Kim.

Institute Professor, Georges Belfort, was honored at the 2016 American Institute for Chemical Engineer’s (AIChE) meeting in San Francisco California.

The NYSP2I (New York State Pollution and Prevention Institute) R&D Student Competition enables students to propose, research, and design solutions to environmental challenges.

David Eckhardt! An RPI Alumnus wins the prestigious AIChE F.J. & Dorothy Van Antwerpen Award for Service to the Institute.

The Howard Isermann Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering would like to congratulate Dr. Mattheos Koffas and his new, exciting role as Editor for the journal "Biotechnology Advances"!

Dr. Wayne Bequette has recently been elected as the Vice President for the CACHE Corporation.

Nanobiotechnology expert Ravi Kane, the P.K. Lashmet Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has been named head of the university’s Howard P. Isermann Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering (CBE).

2014 marks an exciting time for the Howard P. Isermann Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, as we commemorate a century at Rensselaer! Over the coming year, our Centennial events will highlight the important accomplishments of our alumni, faculty and students.

For a detailed program of events, please visit our Chemical & Biological Engineering Centennial page.