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Sample A.B./B.E. Program: Chemical Engineering

Students interested in chemical engineering have two options:

  • chemical processes and applications
  • fluid and thermal sciences

The sample A.B. program below focuses on fundamentals; the sample B.E. programs offer 2 directions for chemical engineering.

Sample A.B. Engineering Sciences Major

Common core (3 courses)

Distributive core (2 courses)

Gateway (3 courses)

Electives (2 courses)

  • ENGS 27 Discrete and Probabalistic Systems
  • CHEM 6 General Chemistry

Sample B.E. Program (Chemical Processes and Applications)

Mathematics (1 course)

  • ENGS 103 Statistical Methods in Engineering

Engineering design (2-course sequence)

  • ENGS 190 Engineering Design Methodology and Project Initiation
  • ENGS 290 Engineering Design Methodology and Project Completion

Chemical engineering (6 courses)

  • ENGS 150 Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • ENGS 156 Heat, Mass, and Momentum Transfer
  • ENGS 157 Chemical Process Design
  • ENGS 158 Chemical Kinetics and Reactors
  • CHEM 51 or CHEM 57 Organic Chemistry
  • CHEM 71 Macroscopic Physical Chemistry

Sample B.E. Program (Fluid and Thermal Sciences)

Mathematics (1 course)

  • ENGS 91 Numerical Methods in Computation

Engineering design (2-course sequence)

  • ENGS 190 Engineering Design Methodology and Project Initiation
  • ENGS 290 Engineering Design Methodology and Project Completion

Fluid and thermal sciences (6 courses)

  • ENGS 150 Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • ENGS 151 Environmental Fluid Mechanics
  • ENGS 155 Intermediate Thermodynamics
  • ENGS 156 Heat, Mass, and Momentum Transfer
  • ENGS 158 Chemical Kinetics and Reactors
  • CHEM 71 Macroscopic Physical Chemistry