CPSE Director, Professor Raymond Pearson

Lehigh University's Center for Polymer Science and Engineering (CPSE) offers a unique environment for graduate study—one that is large enough to boast world-class professors and research facilities, but is small enough to give each graduate student individualized attention.
    The CPSE is a teaching-oriented center with faculty members from the departments of  Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Materials Science and Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, and Physics. The CPSE also serves as an umbrella organization for the research-oriented Emulsion Polymers Institute and the faculty from the Engineering Polymers Laboratory of the Center for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology.
     CPSE courses cover polymer synthesis and characterization, physical polymer science, organic polymer science, engineering behavior, rheology, polymer blends and composites, polymer processing, emulsion polymers, polymer interfaces, and colloid science, among others. The Center has 23 faculty from the participating departments, approximately 76 full-time, part-time, and distance education (taking courses via satellite) graduate students, several research scientists, and a number of post-doctoral students and visiting scientists.
     Through CPSE's participating departments, graduate students can earn the Master of Science (M.S.), Master of Engineering (M.E.), and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degrees in polymer science and engineering. Students may also elect to earn degrees in their participating home department while emphasizing polymer courses and research. Both advanced undergraduate and graduate courses are offered in polymer science and engineering.