School of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering – Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering

Solving global challenges

for people, animals, and the planet

Welcome to the new School of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering!

Biomedical and chemical engineers work at the interface of biology, medicine and engineering to help solve challenging global problems for people, animals, and the planet.

The School brings together two CSU research areas of excellence for even greater impact on Colorado, the nation and the globe – the School of Biomedical Engineering and the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering – creating a robust research and education for current and future grand challenges.

This expansion significantly increases resources available to our students, both Biomedical Engineering and Chemical and Biological Engineering. Majors and degree offerings remain the same, and by combining the faculty and staff, we are doubling up on research opportunities and creating a much more robust base for significant biological, chemical and biomedical expertise.

Allen Robinson, Dean
Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering

Same Excellent Majors

With Exciting New Connections

We continue to offer our existing majors, with new opportunities to connect with faculty and staff.

Faculty are now based directly in the School, offering our students easier ways to connect with the disciplines within the majors:

Chemical and biological engineering major
Biomedical engineering with a dual degree in:
- Chemical and biological engineering
- Electrical and computer engineering
- Mechanical engineering

Undergraduate:
Chemical and Biological Engineering Major

Are you interested in designing new innovations in renewable and sustainable energy, treating disease, addressing climate change, or ensuring a safe and clean environment? Chemical and biological engineering will give you the skills to describe, predict, and control all changes of matter.

Undergraduate:
Dual Biomedical Engineering Majors

Our program combines the breadth of biomedical engineering with the depth of a traditional engineering degree in five years, helping our dual degree graduates be more competitive in the job market and for graduate studies.

Research Impact

AI-powered tools for protein engineering in medicine and beyond

Medical foam aims to revolutionize wound care for faster healing, better outcomes

CSU biologists and engineers create genetic toggle switch for plants

We explore a broad range of innovative research areas, led by faculty who are world-renowned experts in their respective fields. Our interdisciplinary focus includes improving health, fighting disease, and advancing materials that have a daily impact on communities globally.

About Us

Engineering has been part of CSU since the 1870s with the founding of mechanical and irrigation engineering that put our college and university on the world stage. As society’s needs changed, so have we. For example, we expanded into agricultural engineering in the 1950s, which later became Chemical and Biological Engineering.

In 2007, we innovated again, creating the state’s first School of Biomedical Engineering that offers innovative multi-disciplinary degree programs engaging faculty from across the college and entire university. That includes CSU’s top-ranked veterinary medicine program.

We have merged these great research and education programs into a new department called the School of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering. The new school combines faculty from the existing Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering along with Biomedical Engineering faculty from other departments across the college. Importantly, it will permanently bring together the faculty who support all three biomedical engineering dual majors – with mechanical, electrical and computer engineering, and chemical and biological engineering.