Specialize in a track within the broad field of chemical engineering.

Tracks

  • Chemical Design and Manufacturing: Conventional ChE including catalysis, separations and manufacturing.
  • Sustainability, Energy and Environment: sustainability, environmental impact, energy conversion and storage, batteries and photovoltaics.
  • Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology: Science and engineering at the nano scale.
  • Biomolecular Engineering: Biopharmaceuticals and cellular engineering.

 

All current CHBE undergraduate students are eligible to pursue a track. Students may pursue any one track by informing their staff advisor (currently, either Ms. Kathy Gardinier or Ms. Amanda Alicea) of their intent to pursue the track. Students should then work with their faculty mentor and staff advisor to select courses within the chosen track. Choosing a track is optional. A student could choose to graduate with no tracks if they wish to study the major comprehensively instead of specializing in certain area.

Students may switch tracks at any point until they apply for graduation, as long as they inform their staff adviser of the change, and plan to complete three courses within the track (with a C– or higher grade) before graduating.

The default 4-year plan does not list tracks. If a student chooses a track and does not complete its requirements, but otherwise completes the
requirements of the major as listed in the 4-year plan, the student can still graduate.

Immediately after graduation, the department will issue printed certificates to students who have successfully completed their tracks.

Track Requirements

Students should complete at least three courses listed within each track below with a grade of C– or better before graduation.

Complete at least three courses within the track from the list below with a grade of C– or better before graduation.

COURSE NAME INSTRUCTOR
CHBE451: Photovoltaics Raymond Adomaitis
CHBE452: Machine Learning & Data Po-Yen Chen
CHBE470: Colloids Taylor Woehl
CHBE473: Batteries Chunsheng Wang, Paul Albertus
CHBE474: Biopharmaceuticals Deborah Goldberg
CHBE481: Transport—Small Panagiotis Dimitrakopoulos 
CHBE490: Polymer Science Kyu Yong Choi
CHBE4: Separations & Carbon Capture Chen Zhang
CHBE468: Research TBD
CHBE469: Special Projects TBD

 

Complete at least three courses within the track from the list below with a grade of C– or better before graduation.

COURSE NAME INSTRUCTOR
CHBE451: Photovoltaics Raymond Adomaitis
CHBE472: Air Pollution Akua Asa-Awuku
CHBE473: Batteries Chunsheng Wang, Paul Albertus

CHBE484: Metabolic Engineering

 Ganesh Sriram
CHBE497: Protein Engineering Amy Karlsson
CHBE4: Separations & Carbon Capture Chen Zhang
CHBE468: Research TBD
CHBE469: Special Projects TBD
ENMA410: Materials for Energy (Offered by the Department of Materials Science and Engineering).

Complete at least three courses within the track from the list below with a grade of C– or better before graduation.

COURSE NAME INSTRUCTOR
CHBE452: Machine Learning & Data Po-Yen Chen
CHBE470: Colloids Taylor Woehl
CHBE472: Air Pollution Akua Asa-Awuku
CHBE476: Molecular Dynamics Jeff Klauda
CHBE480: Bionanotechnology Srinivasa Raghavan
CHBE490: Polymer Science Kyu Yong Choi
CHBE457: Biomaterials Peter Kofinas
CHBE468: Research TBD
CHBE469: Special Projects TBD
ENMA410: Materials for Energy (Offered by the Department of Materials Science and Engineering).

Complete at least three courses within the track from the list below with a grade of C– or better before graduation.

COURSE NAME INSTRUCTOR
CHBE474: Biopharmaceuticals Deborah Goldberg
CHBE476: Molecular Dynamics Jeff Klauda
CHBE480: Bionanotechnology Srinivasa Raghavan
CHBE481: Transport—Small Panagiotis Dimitrakopoulos
CHBE480: Bionanotechnology Srinivasa Raghavan

CHBE484: Metabolic Engineering

 Ganesh Sriram
CHBE497: Protein Engineering Amy Karlsson
CHBE457: Biomaterials Peter Kofinas
CHBE468: Research TBD
CHBE469: Special Projects TBD
BCHM461: Biochemistry I TBD
BCHM462: Biochemistry II TBD
BCHM463: Biochemistry of Physiology TBD

Ready to Declare your Track?

Once you have decided which specialty to pursue, please fill out this form and contact your academic advisor.

 

 

 


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