PE at Rutgers

Welcome to Packaging Engineering at Rutgers. The School of Engineering offers the nation’s only packaging program housed in an engineering school. Unique from other engineering disciplines, the packaging engineering is offered as a concentration within applied sciences engineering and draws heavily from the chemical, industrial, materials, and mechanical engineering fields. It requires a strong background in mathematics, chemistry, physics, and computers.

Academic Programs

Bachelor of Science Degree
Packaging engineering is a multi-disciplinary field within the Applied Sciences in Engineering major at Rutgers. The program draws on chemical, industrial, materials, and mechanical engineering in order to design and create boxes, cartons, bottles, and other packing materials that meet specific criteria. A packaging engineering certificate is also available through other engineering disciplines. Find out more>>
 
Master of Science Degree
The Master of Science in Packaging Engineering is a thirty (30) credit graduate program designed to provide engineering students from all disciplines with an interest in packaging engineering including packaging materials, packaging design and development, manufacturing, project management, sustainable and innovative packaging. Professionals working in packaging or a related field may enhance their education and on the job experience by earning this degree. Find out more>>

Graduate Certificate
The graduate level certificate in Packaging Engineering is an eighteen (18) credit program designed to provide those students with an interest in the field of packaging engineering. Professionals working in packaging or a related field who do not wish to pursue a degree may enhance their education and on the job experience by earning this certificate.