Nano Engineering vs Chemical Engineering

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<p>I am looking to apply to Chemical Engineering in the future. Most of the schools I am applying to call it "Chemical Engineering" but UC San Diego has it classified as "Nanoengineering".</p>

<p>Does anybody know the similarities/differences between chemical engineering and nanoengineering, or just knows what the hell nanoengineering is?</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>UCSB has both, so yeah. <a href=“http://www.chemengr.ucsb.edu/”>Chemical Engineering - UC Santa Barbara |; <a href=“http://www.cnsi.ucsb.edu/”>http://www.cnsi.ucsb.edu/&lt;/a&gt; <a href=“Micro & Nano Technology | Mechanical Engineering - UC Santa Barbara”>Micro & Nano Technology | Mechanical Engineering - UC Santa Barbara;

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<p>Chemical engineering is it’s own major at UCSD. It’s just in the same department. Nanoengineering is a new major. I believe UCSD is the only school in the country with this major.</p>

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<p>As the name implies, nanoengineering focuses on very small structures. (A nanometer is 10^-9 meters, about ten times the diameter of a hydrogen atom.) Often nanoengineering is considered part of electrical engineering or mechanical engineering. I can imagine that some chemical engineers are interested in nanostructures.</p>

<p>The SUNY College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering has an undergraduate program.
<a href=“http://www.sunycnse.com/PioneeringAcademics/UndergraduatePrograms.aspx”>http://www.sunycnse.com/PioneeringAcademics/UndergraduatePrograms.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;