包括石油工程在内的化学工程和材料科学的莫克家族系涵盖的主题领域包括对高级半导体材料和纳米结构，高级陶瓷和金属复合材料，生物技术，高级计算，膜分离，反应器设计以及石油和天然气的研究。天然气勘探。
The Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, which includes Petroleum Engineering, covers subject areas ranging from the study of advanced semiconductor materials and nanostructures, advanced ceramics and metal composites, biotechnology, advanced computation, membrane separations, reactor design, and oil and gas exploration.