Student Recruitment
Industry engagement is often linked with recruitment, and our top-ranked program offers some of the best young chemical engineering talent in the world. Our goal is to build long-term, mutually beneficial relationships with industry partners and offer ways for companies to maintain a consistent presence within the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering. This ensures we continue to help our graduates receive job offers, and our industry partners have a steady pipeline of talented new hires.
Get in Touch
A member of our team can provide more information on engagement opportunities that best suit your company’s goals.
There are many ways companies can engage with the department and increase brand visibility among students to boost recruitment efforts. Examples include:
- Giving a guest lecture
- Helping us increase our student diversity and our equity and inclusion initiatives
- Sponsoring a department event
- Sponsoring an experiment station in our undergraduate teaching labs
- Partnering with us to teach an industry-relevant course (for example, process safety)
- Supporting department recruitment efforts to attract top students to our program
- See sponsorship opportunities with our undergraduate AIChE Student Chapter, the undergraduate OXE Honor Society or our Graduate Leadership Council for engagement with graduate students
- Supporting senior projects with fourth-year courses: Process Design and Operations (CHE 473K) and Process and Project Lab (CHE 264)
- Funding a special project
Host an Engagement Event
Partner with our Graduate Leadership Council to host a dedicated engagement event.