Chemical engineers deal with a variety of challenges that are central to our culture and the research is aimed at advancing the technologies and inventing new ones while using enabling tools like modeling, computation, control, catalysis etc. The graduate and the research programs will focus, through the proposed centers, on issues of Alternate Energy sources, Green Chemical Processes and Pollution Abatement, Water Desalination and Purification, Catalysis, Polymer and Plastics and in the future Advanced Process Engineering and Biomedical Applications.