Ph.D. Curriculum & Courses
Required Courses
The graduate program in Chemical Engineering focuses on developing Ph.D. level students. It builds upon the foundation of knowledge developed in the course of prior studies at the B.S. and M.S. levels. The Ph.D. degree requires the five core courses that form part of the M.S. degree plus twelve additional courses that are decided between the Ph.D. candidate and the faculty thesis advisor. Many of these courses are special topics and independent study courses. Students must pass a qualifying examination for the doctorate degree and perform novel and innovative research that leads to a written thesis. The thesis is defended in a final oral examination by the Doctoral committee that is chaired by the thesis advisor. It takes approximately five years post B.S. degree to complete the Ph.D. degree plan.
The doctoral program requires requires:
- Minimum of sixty (60) hours beyond the bachelors
- Or thirty-six (36) hours beyond the master's degree
- Oral admission to candidacy (AtC) exam is administered by the candidate's advisory committee which the candidate must pass to be admitted to the Ph.D. program
- Final oral defense of the written dissertation
Specifically, the graduate courses offered by the Department of Chemical Engineering are as follows:
- CHE 5000 - Advanced Topics in Chemical Engineering
- CHE 5310 - Advanced Chemical Engineering Techniques
- CHE 5312 - Fluids Trasport Principles and Analysis
- CHE 5314 - Process Dynamics and Automatic Control
- CHE 5316 - Linear Chemical Process Control Theory
- CHE 5317 - Chemical Process Model-Based Control
- CHE 5321 - Advanced Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics
- CHE 5323 - Digital Computational for Chemical Enigneers
- CHE 5335 - Advanced Transport Phenomena
- CHE 5340 - Polymer Processing
- CHE 5341 - Polymer Chemistry and Processing
- CHE 5342 - Polymer Physics and Engineering
- CHE 5343 - Reaction Kinetics
- CHE 5344 - Polymers/Materials Lab
- CHE 5346 - Polymer Viscoelasticity
- CHE 5348 - Materials Applications of Scanning Probe Microscopy
- CHE 5363 - Biochemical Engineering
- CHE 5364 - Chemical Engineering Applications in Biological Systems
- CHE 5365 - Biotransport
- CHE 5366 - Biomicrofluidics
- CHE 5372 - Engineering Experimentation
- CHE 5381 - Statistical Mechanics for Chemical Engineers
- CHE 5382 - Methods for Molecular Simulations
- CHE 5385 - Bioprocess Control
- CHE 5635 - Advanced Topics in Transport
- CHE 6000 - Master's Thesis
- CHE 7000 - Research
- CHE 7121 - Doctoral Seminar
- CHE 7122 - Polymer and Materials Seminar
- CHE 7123 - Bioengineering Seminar
- CHE 8000 - Doctoral Dissertation