PhD Minor

Chemical Engineering

School of Engineering

MS
PhD
PhD Minor
ENG
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Overview

The Department of Chemical Engineering offers opportunities for undergraduates and graduate students to pursue coursework and research in energy sciences and technology, including the chemical, physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences.

In addition, undergraduates and graduate students can pursue work in interdisciplinary biosciences, including the chemical, biological, physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences. Students are encouraged to review course offerings in all departments of the School of Engineering and to seek academic advice from individual chemical engineering faculty. Students wishing assistance should talk with student services staff in the department.

Current research and teaching activities cover several advanced topics in chemical engineering, including applied statistical mechanics, biocatalysis, biochemical engineering, bioengineering, biophysics, computational materials science, colloid science, dynamics of complex fluids, energy conversion, functional genomics, hydrodynamic stability, kinetics and catalysis, microrheology, molecular assemblies, nanoscience and technology, Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluid mechanics, polymer physics, protein biotechnology, renewable fuels, semiconductor processing, soft materials science, solar utilization, surface and interface science, and transport mechanics.

Requirements

Program Requirements

Requirements Overview

The university’s general requirements for the PhD minor can be found here. Both the major and minor departments must approve an application for a PhD minor.

A student proposing a Ph.D. minor in Chemical Engineering must work with a minor program adviser who has a faculty appointment in Chemical Engineering. This adviser must be included as a member of the student’s reading committee for the doctoral dissertation, and the entire reading committee must meet at least once with the candidate. This meeting should occur at least one year before scheduling the student’s oral examination; the department strongly prefers that regular meetings of the complete reading committee start in the second year of graduate study. In addition, the Chemical Engineering faculty member who is the minor adviser must be a member of the student’s University Oral Examination committee.

The PhD minor program must include at least 20 units of graduate-level lecture courses (numbered at the 200 level or above). It may not include any one to two-unit lecture courses in the 20-unit minimum. The list of courses must form a coherent program and must be approved by the minor program advisor and the chair of this department.

Overview

Requirements

Program Requirements

Requirements Overview

The university’s general requirements for the PhD minor can be found here. Both the major and minor departments must approve an application for a PhD minor.