January, 2017 - Dave C. Swalm School of Chemical Engineering - Bagley College of Engineering

Chemical and Petroleum Engineering: The Numbers

Andrew Weaver The Swalm School of Chemical Engineering is continuing to grow, and undergraduate enrollment has once again reached record numbers. Combined with more students enrolled in coop programs, and more students earning degrees, the program is larger than ever. Swalm School of Chemical engineering undergraduate enrollment has grown steadily since 2005, setting new records…

January 18, 2017


AIChE News Letter – A Letter from the Editor

After disappearing for several years, the AIChE Newsletter is back and better than ever. We are proud to announce that the newsletter will be updated each semester on the Swalm School of Chemical Engineering webpage and linked to our Facebook page. This new and improved newsletter will help keep everyone connected to news and events…

January 18, 2017


AIChE EWB Grant Award

Amy Schemitsch Erin Wynn is a junior in chemical engineering from Hope Hull, Alabama. She currently is vice president of Engineers Without Borders. She joined Engineers Without Borders during her freshman year while she was living in Hull Hall which was the engineering living learning community.She said “one of the mentors of her hall was…

January 18, 2017


The Freshman Experience in Chemical Engineering

Peyton Johnson A main source of confusion for chemical engineering freshmen is what to expect career-wise upon graduating. The Dave C. Swalm School of Engineering aims to thwart this potential anxiety by offering a crash course in chemical engineering to freshman students, in which they learn some basic aspects of projects that a chemical engineer…

January 18, 2017