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CHBE Chair Peter Kofinas alongside Spring 2024 graduates.
Contributions to the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (CHBE) help create more educational and research opportunities for our students and faculty. The generous support of friends and donors allows CHBE to provide graduate awards to attract the best candidate, discretionary funds to support new faculty and graduate student research, and scholarships to increase college access and affordability.
Your contribution can have an impact on a student today and far-reaching impacts for tomorrow.
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Gift Fund
The Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Fund supports student and faculty educational and research departmental needs.
AIChE Chem-E-Car Initiave
Chem-E Car is a student run organization that creates a model chemically-run car completely from scratch. Students participating in Chem-E Car develop key skills such as design, technical construction, working under pressure with a deadline, and public speaking. Financial donations help us offset the costs of materials, lab costs, and travel to the annual regional and national tournaments.
AICHE Lounge Fund
Gifts made towards this fund will support the modernization of the AICHE Lounge, a place of study for CHBE undergraduate students.
Chemical Engineering Graduate Student Association (CGA) Gift Fund
Gifts towards this fund will support CGA, an organization of CHBE graduate students that focuses on academic, career-building, and professional activities that include attending the annual AIChE conference, hosting ResearchFest (an annual symposium), and operating a hands-on experiments table for kids on Maryland Day.
Patrick and Marguerite Sung Distinguished Professorship in Chemical Engineering and the Patrick and Marguerite Sung Professorship in Chemical Engineering
The Sung Professorships provide support that enables their recipients to grow their research groups, mentor more students, make new discoveries, and publish more results.
CHBE Travel Fund
The CHBE Travel Fund supports both undergraduate and graduate student travel expenses to scientific conferences for the purpose of presenting their research and professional development.
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (CHBE) Unit Ops' Laboratory Fund
CHBE's Unit Operations Laboratories Campaign is an effort to modernize the department equipment and better equip students with tools to exercise their knowledge in the real world. In our capstone course, CHBE437: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Laboratory, students apply knowledge gained in the first three years of our curriculum for the design and implementation of experiments to test hypotheses, improve understanding of physical and chemical phenomena as applied to real chemical engineering process equipment, improve understanding of the interface between instrumentation and equipment with an emphasis on process control, and develop experience with process hazard analysis and mitigation.
Gifts may be made by check to "University of Maryland College Park Foundation (UMCPF)." Please designate "Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering" in the memo line. Checks can be mailed to:
Peter Kofinas
Professor and Chair
Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
2113D Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Building
University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742
You can also donate to the department through matching gifts, appreciated securities, real estate, annuities, estate planning, and more. Please visit the Clark School's Giving pages or contact our development staff to learn more.
You can designate a gift of any amount to support students in ways you may not have thought of before, such as providing tools to Engineers Without Borders, providing lab supplies, sponsoring a student organization, helping students buy books or pay activities fees, or even contributing toward the cost of a student's dining plan, parking permit, or dorm room!
T.K. "Patrick" Sung M.S. '69, Ph.D. '72, and his wife Marguerite '70, met as students in College Park, which holds a special place in their hearts. Today, they are sharing their success with the university through a number of generous gifts, including a pledge of $1.5 million to the Clark School for two endowed professorships in chemical engineering: The Patrick & Marguerite Sung Professorship in Chemical Engineering, and The Patrick & Marguerite Sung Distinguished Professorship in Chemical Engineering.
Associate Director of Development
3216 Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
Email: mjohnst9@umd.edu
Phone: 301-405-8289