By the numbers

1st

55%

5

McMaster is ranked 1 st among all Departments of Chemical Engineering in Canada in these categories of the National Survey of Student Engagement: • Effective Teaching Practices • Higher-Order Learning • Quality of Interactions • Quantitative Reasoning • Supportive Environment

The percentage of female students enrolled in Chemical Engineering at McMaster has risen from 36% in 2015 to 55% in 2019.

Chemical Engineering Associate Professor, Kim Jones, is chair of the Ontario Network of Women in Engineeing.

5 McMaster Chemical Engineering graduate students have received the prestigious NSERC Vanier Scholarships.

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5 McMaster Chemical Engineering faculty members have been elected to the Royal Society of Canada.

• McMaster placed 1 st in the world to win the prestigious Global Teaching Excellence

Award in 2018.

• In 2019, McMaster placed 2 nd in the world in a new Global Impact ranking from the

U.K.-based Times Higher Education.

• Citations of McMaster Chemical Engineering faculty members have risen from 4 in 1976 to

5,348

• McMaster is now one of only four Canadian universities to place in the top 75 in the world.

• McMaster has been named Canada’s most research-intensive university for 3 years in a row (2017, 2018, 2019).

in 2018 (using Web of Science). A key indicator of research impact is the number of times papers written by our faculty members are cited by their peers. • McMaster Chemical Engineering has the highest average number of citations per paper among all Departments of

Chemical Engineering in Canada at

28

• The number of graduate students in

Chemical Engineering at McMaster has grown to

(using Web of Science).

116

in 2018 from 59 in 2001. • In October 2019, McMaster Engineering rose to

6th in Canada

in the annual “Canada's best university engineering programs” rankings published by Maclean's magazine (rising from #8 two years ago and #7 one year ago).