Research Funding
External research funding during the past five years averaged $2.7 million per year. Research funding per grant holder has ranked second among the nine engineering programs in the UBC Faculty of Applied Science over the past several years and compares well with that of other leading chemical engineering departments across the country. Several faculty members have won national and international recognition for their research contributions and many former students have gone on to become leaders in industry and academia in Canada and abroad.
Facilities
The new building is considered critical to the Department maintaining and improving the quality of its world class research activities. CHBE also benefits from the integration of Clean Energy Research Centre as part of the Department facilities. The greatest asset though remain our faculty members, honorary professors and graduate students, along with visiting scholars, professors and researchers, who also contribute to the success of CHBE research.
Research Areas
More specific information on current research activities in the Department can be found using the menu below. You may wish to contact the faculty members to receive further information.
| BIOTECHNOLOGY | ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH | PROCESS ENGINEERING |
| Agro industrial | Catalysis and Reaction Engineering | |
| Bio-monitoring | Air Pollution Control | Clean Energy Research |
| Biofuels | Fluid Mechanics | |
| Biomedical | Pollution Prevention | Fluidization and Reactor Engineering |
| Water Pollution Control | Process Control | |
| Thermodynamics | ||
