In July of 2005, Stebe became chair of the department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, a department that has seen the number of its freshman double in size from 2006 to 2007. “This year we have 120 freshmen and have increased out graduate student yield by 100 percent - from eight to 16 new graduate students.”
“As a department, we’ve returned to the fundamental courses in each discipline and amended them to include more timely examples. We’ve added required non-classical in topics such as interfaces, and materials and others that emphasize opportunities and techniques in biomolecular engineering.”
A member of the engineering school’s faculty since 1991, Stebe’s research interests include the engineering of fluid interfaces, nanomaterials, and microfluidics.