Four-Year Undergraduate Curriculum

Four-Year Curriculum Code 155

The undergraduate program in Chemical Engineering is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, https://www.abet.org, under the commission's General Criteria and Program Criteria for Chemical, Biochemical, Biomolecular Engineering.

See First-Year Program (35)

Sophomore Year

(common to both chemical and biochemical options)

First Semester

  01:160:307  Organic Chemistry I (4)¹

  01:640:251  Multivariable Calculus (4)

  01:750:227  Analytical Physics II (3)

  01:750:229  Analytical Physics II Laboratory (1)

  14:155:201  Chemical Engineering Material and Energy Balances (3)

  14:155:298  Professional Skills Development (1) 

Second Semester

  Chemical Science Elective (4)^1,2

  14:540:343  Engineering Economics (3)

  01:640:244  Differential Equations for Engineering and Physics (4)

  14:155:208  Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics I (3)

  14:155:210  Biological Foundations of Chemical Engineering

Chemical Option

First Semester

  14:155:303  Transport Phenomena in Chemical Engineering I (3)

  14:155:307  Computational Methods in Chemical Engineering (3)

  14:155:309  Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics II (3)

  technical elective (3)

  humanities/social sciences elective (3)

Second Semester

  14:155:304  Transport Phenomena in Chemical Engineering II (3)

  14:155:324  Separation Processes (3)

  14:155:341  Chemical Engineering Kinetics (3)

  14:635:407  Mechanical Properties of Materials (3)

  humanities/social sciences elective (3)

Senior Year

First Semester

  14:155:411  Biochemical Engineering (3)

  14:155:415  Process Engineering Laboratory I (4)

  14:155:422  Process Simulation and Control (3)

  technical elective (3)

  general elective (3)

Second Semester

  14:155:416  Process Engineering Laboratory II (4)

  14:155:428  Chemical Engineering Design II (4)

  technical elective (3)

  general elective (3)