News from the department of Chemical Engineering

Chemical Engineering Professor Giancarlo Dalle Ave explains how "green" steel is made through direct reduced iron and electric arc furnaces, and why it's such a big change from traditional methods.

Breakthrough provides easier access to type of virus that infects bacteria.

It’s highly flexible, light weight, low cost to manufacture and serves multiple functions. The ubiquity of polyvinyl chloride – or PVC – in our day to day lives points to an abundance of applications. What’s sorely lacking are adequate practices for recycling and reuse.

Mike Thompson shares his thoughts on graduate studies and preparing our students for the future as he ends a 10-year tenure.

Yingful Li and Mac Eng professor Carlos Filipe are leading one of the four teams that won the Innovation Matchmaking competition.

Mac Eng and its extended community gathered to commemorate the achievements and next steps of the Class of 2024 at two ceremonies at FirstOntario Concert Hall on June 11.

Reducing CO2 emissions is part of the public discourse on addressing climate change, but what are we doing to remove CO2 that’s already been emitted? The de Lannoy Lab in McMaster Engineering is exploring how the oceans can be used to sustainably remove CO2 from the atmosphere.

Four McMaster Engineering researchers have been awarded over $4.2M to advance critical minerals research in collaboration with industry leaders.

When it comes to co-op, McMaster Engineering alumni and former international students Adetutu Ajayi and Mehedi Newaz Khan, support it wholeheartedly.

More than 250 final-year engineering projects were showcased at the annual Capstone Expo on April 9.

Five Capstone project teams share their initial concepts and final iterations and describe how their projects are positioned to engineer a brighter future.