Degree planning
The current requirements for completing a Bachelor of Applied Science degree in Chemical Engineering (including including Complementary Studies Electives, Technical Electives and Professional Development courses) are listed in the Undergraduate Calendar.
Students admitted in a prior year can find their degree requirements in the Academic Calendar Archives.
Degree enhancement
In addition to receiving a professional engineering degree, Waterloo Engineering offers several ways for you to further enhance your degree and gain valuable experience.
Options
Options are intended to provide you with a path to expand your degree and are a specified combination of courses that provide a secondary emphasis in another subject or a career-oriented area. As a Chemical Engineering student you may be interested in: an Environmental Engineering Option, a Management Sciences Option, an Entrepreneurship Option or a Physical Sciences Option.
There are currently 13 options available to engineering students. Options often require advanced planning and extra courses on top of your scheduled workload. Some of these options are compatible with the Chemical Engineering degree requirements and only require a few additional courses. Chemical Engineering students are allowed to take one extra course during an academic term if they have an average greater than 70% in each of the previous two academic terms. Another possibility is to add a course during a co-op term.
The most common option completed by chemical engineering students is the Management Sciences option.
For more information or help planning contact Denise Mueller
Specializations
A specialization is intended to formally recognize on your diploma a focused selection of elective courses within Chemical Engineering.
Students interested in pursuing one of these specializations must take four required technical elective courses from the corresponding list of approved technical electives. An average of at least 60% in the four specialization courses and a grade of at least 50% in each of the four courses is required.