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Chemical Engineering

Do you want to help end starvation? Do you feel a responsibility to eradicate disease or poverty? Are you interested in saving the environment? By graduating with a chemical engineering concentration, you’ll develop, design, and foster new ideas in the field of chemical engineering. New ideas that can save lives, change the world, and glorify God in the process.

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Program Overview

When studying chemical engineering at Dordt, you’ll be challenged to achieve more. As a result of your coursework and hands-on experiences, you’ll grow academically and spiritually. Through learning to convert natural and recycled resources into fuels and materials for everyday products. Through researching emerging technologies. And through turning your own passion into your career. All together, it creates a chemical formula for success.

Professors with years of research and industry experience create a rich learning environment. Our resources, facilities, and labs set us apart from other engineering programs. Collaborative projects give you opportunities to work together with teams of students to solve real-world problems. And you’ll learn how to engage the engineering field from a Christian perspective.

What You'll Learn

A concentration in chemical engineering from Dordt University is designed to prepare you for a future of creation and innovation. Dordt’s cutting edge program pushes you to be your best. Coursework will include core Engineering classes. It also includes more focused options such as thermal-chemical systems, organic chemistry, and more.

What You Can Do With A Chemical Engineering Concentration

Chemical engineers make an impact in industry, government, education, and many more fields. Your career could lead you to life-changing scientific research. You may work as a field engineer. Or, depending on your employer, you may find yourself traveling all over the world. Whatever path you choose, you’ll have a chance to incorporate your Christian faith into everything you do.

Chemical Engineer

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Chemical Plant Operator

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Career Preparation

Dordt University's 2025 Career Outcome Rate was 99.7%! “I believe it is also, in part, indicative of the type of graduates we are encouraging our students to become—that is, graduates who don’t just learn for the sake of learning, but graduates who continue to learn for the sake of serving," said Dr. Ethan Brue, dean for technology and applied sciences. "Dordt is not just about training students for competence, but it is more about inviting students to embrace the goodness of work out of a deep care for the world.”

Students who choose the chemical engineering concentration will complete 11 engineering courses, one required chemistry course, and one elective upper-level chemistry course, in addition to the general requirements for an engineering degree. This coursework includes at least three additional credit hours of lab work.

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Faculty

With experience in a variety of fields, our faculty members are equipped and ready to help you succeed.

Manuela Ayee-Leong

Associate Professor of Engineering & Chemistry

Jonathan Gingrich

Assistant Professor of Engineering

Science and Technology Center

When studying chemical engineering at Dordt, you'll have the opportunity to spend time in Dordt's Science and Technology Center. Informally known as the "Science Building," the Science and Technology Center is home to labs for mechanical engineering, electronics, electrical engineering, and computer-aided design.

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Student Stories

Dordt students and alumni use their gifts to make a difference in the world. Check out their stories to see how Defender Nation lives out our mission to work effectively toward Christ-centered renewal in all aspects of contemporary life.

Dealing with the constant uncertainty of what he wanted to do with his future, Aidan was able to lean on Dordt professors and mentors to help him become more open-minded and flexible, eventually finding a place where he fit in.

Aidan Bender

After being worried that he was stuck inside a bubble after choosing Dordt for college, Nathan found that he was able to become involved in a variety of different activities that allowed him to extend himself outside of his comfort zone.

Nathan Ryder

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Jenna Veenstra

In addition to developing her own path to her future career, Jenna was able to fit right into the built-in community at Dordt that became her second home.

Jenna Veenstra

Despite Dordt's familiarity, Riley was able to step out of his comfort zone and make the uncomfortable decisions that allowed him to further learn how to serve in God's kingdom in his future.

Riley Arkema

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