Graduate Courses

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As you consider your degree requirements and the courses available to you, consult the Graduate Studies Academic Calendar for the year and term in which you were admitted. See the Archived Graduate Studies Academic Calendars page to find the calendar you need.

You may also find the Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs calendar of important dates helpful. The customizable calendar provides term-specific academic deadlines, term start and end dates, examination periods and more.

Schedule of CHE courses

The department updates the lists below on a regular basis to provide notice of the coming schedule of classes and the tentative plans for future terms.

Please note you are able to view basic course outlines here: Academic Calendar Course Outlines for Chemical Engineering

Schedule of Courses for Fall 2022

The Department of Chemical Engineering will provide all of its scheduled graduate courses on campus, following the physical distancing guidelines set by the University.

For detailed course syllabus information, please click the link beside the course number below.

ChE 500 Special Topics - Synthetic Biology Project Design (Instructor permission required, please contact instructor directly)

ChE 514 Fundamentals of Petroleum Production

ChE 541 Introduction to Polymer Science and Properties

ChE 565 Synthetic Biology Project Design

ChE 571 Industrial Ecology

CHE 600 Engineering and Research Methods, Ethics, Practice, and Law

CHE 601 Theory and Application of Transport Phenomena (Formerly CHE 610)

CHE 620 Applied Engineering Mathematics

CHE 621 Model Building and Response Surface Methodology

ChE 660 Biochemical Engineering

NANO 600 Introduction to Nanotechnology

Schedule of Courses for Winter 2023

ChE 520 Process Flowsheet Analysis

ChE 521 Process Optimization

ChE 522 Adv Process Dynamics & Control

ChE 524 Process Control Laboratory

ChE 543 Polymer Production: Polymer Reaction Engineering

ChE 561 Biomaterials and Biomedical Design

ChE 562 Advanced Bioprocess Engineering

ChE 564 Food Process Engineering

ChE 572 Air Pollution Control

ChE 574 Industrial Wastewater Pollution Control

ChE 602 Chemical Reactor Analysis

ChE 640 Principles of Polymer Science

Schedule of Courses for Spring 2023

ChE 614 Capillary and Transport Phenomena in Porous Media

ChE 632 Introduction to Catalysis

ChE 641 Fundamentals of Polymer Processing Operations

ChE 663 Bioseparations

Nano 601 Characterization of Nanomaterials

Nano 603 Nanocomposites

Courses

Graduate students may choose from courses within the 500, 600 and 700 series, as explained above. Consult your degree requirements when choosing courses.

500-series courses

Courses with numbers within the 500 series are undergraduate courses, and they are posted in the Schedule of Classes for Undergraduate Students.

The 500-series courses provide

technical electives for undergraduate students who want to specialize in a particular area, and
background information for graduate students who lack specific knowledge.

600- and 700-series courses

Chemical Engineering's 600- and 700-series course offerings are subject to change and remain unconfirmed until they are posted in Schedule of Classes for Graduate Students. Normally, each 600- and 700-series course includes three hours of lectures per week for one term.

Reading Courses

Some 700-level courses are reading courses, in which students in research-based programs learn through independent study under the supervision of an instructor. Up to five students may be enrolled in each reading course. To be eligible to take a reading course, you must have taken at least one graduate course towards your degree and have a minimum grade of 80% in the degree you are pursuing.