Life, Energy, Environment: Global Solutions Through Chemical Engineering
What if you could help power cities, develop biomedical devices and vaccines, clean the planet, and design the next viral skincare product—all with the same career? Sounds wild, right? Welcome to chemical engineering.
Ever wonder how your shampoo is made at a massive scale, or why your snacks stay fresh for months, or how engineers run entire factories?
Chemical engineering mixes chemistry, physics, biology, math, and a whole lot of creativity to design the processes that make modern life possible. Chemical engineers don’t just make things—they design safe, efficient, eco-friendly ways to turn raw materials (and even waste!) into valuable products.
If you want a career that’s hands-on, world-changing, and connected to all 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals, this talk will show you how chemical engineers are shaping the future one reaction, one innovation, one breakthrough at a time.
They dive into everything from thermodynamics and fluid mechanics to biochemical engineering, materials science, and process control—the field that uses simulations, optimization, and machine learning to solve real-world problems.
Professor Mario Ioannidis, Chair of Chemical Engineering at the University of Waterloo, will take you inside this world of transformation—where chemical engineers scale up ideas from “cool experiment” to “global impact.”
Prof. Mario Ioannidis
Mario Ioannidis is the Chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering and a Professor at the University of Waterloo.
Professor Ioannidis and his students research fundamental aspects of multiphase flow and transport of solutes and nanoparticles in porous materials of different kinds (fibrous or granular, loose or consolidated, natural or man-made, etc.). The ultimate goal of their research is to enable engineering applications ranging from contaminant hydrology, groundwater remediation and petroleum production to environmental sampling, fuel cell performance optimization and oil spill response.
