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The Center for Complex Fluids Engineering is an interdisciplinary research and educational effort housed in two different colleges at Carnegie Mellon University. Faculty and graduate students involved in the center perform fundamental and applied research to attack problems in the formulation, control and engineering of processes involving complex fluids.

Vision Statement
Complex fluids, which include polymeric and surfactant solutions as well as colloidal suspensions, are of universal industrial importance due to their unique mechanical properties, their capacity to solubilize and transport materials and their internal microstructures. Complex fluids engineering is an enabling discipline that facilitates the efficient production of existing product and the scale-up of novel laboratory procedures to pilot and production plant size operations for new products. The Center is a synergy of scientific knowledge bases targeted at processing operations involving complex fluids in the coatings, pharmaceutical and mining industries such as spraying, granulation, solid/liquid and protein separations.  This same scientific knowledge base is vital to the fields of nanotechnology and biotechnology, leading to significant research in these areas by CCFE faculty.

CFE Graduate Students


Advanced Topic Courses are offered regularly by visiting faculty and CFE faculty. A list of recent offerings is available.  

 

 


Professor Robert Tilton
Director, Center for Complex Fluids Engineering
tilton@andrew.cmu.edu

Dr. Annette Jacobson
Director, Colloids, Polymers and Surfaces (
CPS) Educational Program
jacobson@andrew.cmu.edu

Shannon Young
CPS and CFE Administrative Assistant
(412) 268-2243
E-mail:slyoung@andrew.cmu.edu