Welcome to the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering (CBE) at Iowa State University
CBE Hours
Sweeney Hall Regular Building Hours
6 a.m. – 8 p.m. Monday – Friday, closed Saturday & Sunday
CBE Office Hours
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Monday – Friday.
Student Advising Office:
The CBE student advising office is open for in-person meetings by appointment only. Students can choose to meet with their advisor by phone, video, or in-person. Please use the Navigate Student app to schedule an appointment with your advisor.
What Is Chemical Engineering?
Thinking about studying chemical engineering at Iowa State? Wondering what chemical engineers do? Check out this video of how chemical engineers impact everyone’s life, as told by our students.
CBE Points of Pride
Female enrollment: 35% undergraduate students, 33% graduate students – some of the largest enrollments in the College of Engineering (fall 2022)
CBE B.S. undergrad average starting salary $73,000/yr.
CBE Spotlight
Bardhan leads team testing new nanocarriers to deliver drugs to brain
CBE’s Rizia Bardhan (center) and her collaborators have come up with a new approach to making nanocarriers for drug delivery. Their technology features a soft, fat-like, liposome interior (which is already a clinically approved drug carrier) surrounded by a hard shell of gold nanoparticles.
CBE Publications
 activesite Newsletter – 2021 Download PDF View on ISSUU |
