Program Components

Engineering & Concentration Coursework

Chemical Engineering courses with electives reviewed for relevance to each concentration.

Management Component

Business/management courses in finance, marketing, operations, and project management.

Capstone Project

A six (6) credit hour capstone delivering tangible products consistent with industry expectations.

Internship Track

Hands-on industry experience as part of the degree.

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Working Professional Track

Flexible track allowing students to pursue the degree while continuing full-time employment.

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CONCENTRATIONS

30–41

CREDITS REQUIRED

12-16

MONTHS TO COMPLETE

Course Requirements

12-Month Track — 30 Credits

Core Chemical Engineering Courses (6 Credits)
Course Credits
CHE 69700 – Statistical Methods in Chemical Engineering 3
CHE 54000 – Transport Phenomena 3
Management / Business Courses (9 Credits) — choose 3*
Course Credits
CHE 59700 – Engineering Applications in Marketing Mgmt. 3
CHE 59700 – Financial Analysis & Management of Projects 3
Strategic Management I 3
Intro to Operations Management 3
Concentration Elective Courses (9 Credits)
Course Credits
Choose 3 courses from your concentration's elective list — see full elective list by concentration 9
Capstone Project (6 Credits)
Course Credits
CHE 50300 – Prof. MS Capstone Project 6

Total: 30 credits. *Other management courses may be selected upon approval from the PMP Program Director.

16-Month Track — 41 Credits

Prerequisite Courses (11 Credits)
Course Credits
CHE 20500 – Chemical Engineering Calculations 4
CHE 30600 – Design Of Staged Separation Processes 3
CHE 34800 – Chemical Reaction Engineering 4
Core Chemical Engineering Courses (6 Credits)
Course Credits
CHE 69700 – Statistical Methods in Chemical Engineering 3
CHE 54000 – Transport Phenomena 3
Management / Business Courses (9 Credits) — choose 3*
Course Credits
CHE 59700 – Engineering Applications in Marketing Mgmt. 3
CHE 59700 – Financial Analysis & Management of Projects 3
Strategic Management I 3
Intro to Operations Management 3
Concentration Elective Courses (9 Credits)
Course Credits
Choose 3 courses from your concentration's elective list — see full elective list by concentration 9
Capstone Project (6 Credits)
Course Credits
CHE 50300 – Prof. MS Capstone Project 6

Total: 41 credits. *Other management courses may be selected upon approval from the PMP Program Director.

*The 16-Month Track adds 11 credits of undergraduate prerequisite coursework (CHE 20500, CHE 30600, CHE 34800) for applicants without a chemical engineering undergraduate degree, bringing the total to 41 credits.

Concentration Elective Courses

You may select any 3 elective courses from the list below (must be 9 credit hours of electives):

  • ABE 55500 – Bio & Food Processing Unit Ops (3)
  • ABE 55700 – Transport Ops in Food & Bio Systems I (3)
  • ABE 55800 – Biological Engineering Design II (3)
  • ABE 56000 – Biosensors (3)
  • ABE 58000 – Process Eng of Renewal Resources (3)
  • ABE 59100 – Princ of Sustainable Biomfg. (3)
  • BME 69500 – Polymers in Bio & Pharma Sys (3)
  • CHE 50100 – Medical Devices Dev & App (3)
  • CHE 50200 – Analytical Approach Healthcare Delivery (3)
  • CHE 52100 – Principles of Tissue Engineering (3)
  • CHE 52300 – Engr Applications of Bio Molecules (3)
  • CHE 52500 – Biochemical Engineering (3)
  • CHE 55100 – Principles of Pharmaceutical Engr. (3)
  • CHE 55300 – Pharma Process, Dev and Design (3)
  • CHE 55400 – Smart Mfg. in Process Industries (3)
  • CHE 55800 – Rate Control Separation Processes (3)
  • CHE 59700 – Fundamentals of Lyophilization (1)
  • CHE 59700 – Princ of Inject Drug Product Mfg, lecture (1)
  • CHE 59700 – Pract of Inject Drug Product Mfg, hands-on* (1)
  • CHE 59700 – Data Science in ChE (3)
  • CHE 59700 – Industrial Chem Technology (3)
  • CHE 59700 – Pharma Process Dev & Design (3)
  • CHE 59700 – Process Safety (3)
  • CHE 59700 – Rheology of Soft Materials (3)
  • CHE 59700 – Stem Cell Engineering (3)
  • CHE 59700 – Sustainable Chem. Engr (3)
  • CHE 62300 – Separation Processes (3)
  • CHE 69700 – Metabolic Engineering (3)
  • CHM 53400 – Introductory Biochem, cont from 53300 (3)
  • IMPH 58300 – Adv. Biopharmaceutics (3)
  • MSE 53500 – Lean Manufacturing (3)

*Cannot take hands-on section without the lecture section.

You may select any 3 elective courses from the list below (must be 9 credit hours of electives):

  • BIOL 56310 – Protein Bioinformatics (3)
  • BME 64600 – Deep Learning: Theory & Practice of Deep Neural Networks (3)
  • CHE 46300 – Applications of ChE Principles (3)
  • CHE 55000 – Optimization in ChE (3)
  • CHE 55400 – Smart Mfg. in Process Industries (3)
  • CHE 55500 – Computer Integrated Process Ops (3)
  • CHE 55700 – Intelligent Systems in Process Engr (3)
  • CHE 59700 – Computational Optimization (3)
  • CHE 59700 – Data Science in Chemical Engr (3)
  • CHE 59700 – Industrial Chem Technology (3)
  • CHE 59700 – Process Safety (3)
  • CHE 59700 – Process Synthesis (3)
  • CHE 63300 – Probabilistic Methods in ChE (3)
  • CHE 65600 – Advanced Process Control (3)
  • CHE 69700 – Adv Modeling for Catalysis Studies (3)
  • CS 50100 – Computing for Science and Engr (3)
  • CS 50023 – Data Engineering I (1)
  • CS 50024 – Data Engineering II (1)
  • CS 50025 – Foundations of Decision Making (1)
  • CS 57800 – Statistical Machine Learning (3)
  • CS 59000 – Numerical Computing for Data Sci (1)
  • CS 59000 – Foundations of Computer Science (3)
  • CS 59300 – Machine Learning Theory (3)
  • ECE 50024 – Machine Learning (3)
  • ECE 56200 – Introduction to Data Management (3)
  • ECE 57000 – Artificial Intelligence (3)
  • ECE 59500 – Intro to Data Mining (3)
  • ECE 60000 – Random Variables and Signals (3)
  • ECE 62900 – Introduction to Neural Networks (3)
  • ECE 64200 – Information Theory and Source Coding (3)

You may select any 3 elective courses from the list below (must be 9 credit hours of electives):

  • CHE 54300 – Polymerization React Engr & Reactor Anlys (3)
  • CHE 55400 – Smart Mfg. in Process Industries (3)
  • CHE 55800 – Rate Control Separation Processes (3)
  • CHE 56000 – Intro to Energy Storage System (3)
  • CHE 56200 – Battery Systems (3)
  • CHE 56400 – Organic Elect. Materials & Devices (3)
  • CHE 57500 – Industrial Catalytic Processes (3)
  • CHE 59700 – Advanced Solar Energy Conversion (3)
  • CHE 59700 – Data Science in ChE (3)
  • CHE 59700 – Electrochemistry & Electrochem. Engr. (3)
  • CHE 59700 – Energy Tran Sustainable Future (3)
  • CHE 59700 – Food & Energy Farms (3)
  • CHE 59700 – Industrial Chemical Technology (3)
  • CHE 59700 – Intro Nanoscale Science & Engineering (3)
  • CHE 59700 – Intro to Upstream Oil and Gas (3)
  • CHE 59700 – Introduction to Petroleum Engineering (3)
  • CHE 59700 – Process Safety (3)
  • CHE 59700 – Process Synthesis (3)
  • CHE 59700 – Sustainable Chemical Engineering (3)
  • CHE 59700 – Sys & Econ Anlys for FEW (3)
  • CHE 59700 – Sys Anlys Efficient Energy (3)
  • CHE 63200 – Linear Operator CHE (3)
  • CHE 66600 – Methods in Catalysis (3)
  • ME 50300 – Micro & Nano Scale Energy Transf. Proc. (3)
  • ME 50500 – Intermediate Heat Transfer (3)
  • ME 51400 – Fundamentals of Wind Energy (3)
  • ME 59700 – Distributed Energy Resources (3)
  • ME 59700 – Solar Energy Technology (3)
  • ME 69700 – Comp Methods Nanoscale Engr. Transp. (3)
  • MSE 52500 – Struct-Property Relations of Eng Polymers (3)
  • MSE 53500 – Lean Manufacturing (3)
  • MSE 56700 – Polymer Synthesis (3)
  • MSE 57700 – Matl Sci of Recharg Batteries (3)
  • MSE 59700 – High Temp Corrosion (3)
  • NUCL 59700 – Fuel Cell Engineering (3)

You may select any 3 elective courses from the list below (must be 9 credit hours of electives):

  • CHE 46300 – Applications of ChE Principles (3)
  • CHE 55000 – Optimization in ChE (3)
  • CHE 55400 – Smart Mfg. in Process Industries (3)
  • CHE 55800 – Rate Control Sep Process (3)
  • CHE 57500 – Industrial Catalytic Processes (3)
  • CHE 59700 – Data Science in ChE (3)
  • CHE 59700 – Energy Tran Sustainable Future Gas (3)
  • CHE 59700 – Industrial Chemical Technology (3)
  • CHE 59700 – Intro to Upstream Oil and Gas (3)
  • CHE 59700 – Introduction to Petroleum Engineering (3)
  • CHE 59700 – Process Safety (3)
  • CHE 59700 – Process Synthesis (3)
  • CHE 59700 – Sys Anlys Efficient Energy (3)
  • CHE 59700 – Sustainable Chemical Engr. (3)
  • CHE 66200 – Catalysis (3)
  • CHE 66600 – Methods in Catalysis (3)
  • CHE 66800 – Colloidal & Interfacial Phen. (3)
  • CHE 69700 – Advanced Modeling for Catalysis Studies (3)

You may select any 3 elective courses from the list below (must be 9 credit hours of electives):

  • CHE 46300 – Applications of ChE Principles (3)
  • CHE 54300 – Polymerization React Engr Reactor Analysis (3)
  • CHE 55400 – Smart Mfg in Process Industries (3)
  • CHE 56200 – Battery Systems (3)
  • CHE 56400 – Organic Elect. Materials & Devices (3)
  • CHE 57500 – Industrial Catalytic Processes (3)
  • CHE 59700 – Data Science in ChE (3)
  • CHE 59700 – Industrial Chemical Technology (3)
  • CHE 59700 – Process Safety (3)
  • CHE 59700 – Electrochemistry & Electrochemical Engr (3)
  • CHE 59700 – Energy Tran Sustainable Future (3)
  • CHE 63200 – Linear Operator CHE (3)
  • CHE 66200 – Catalysis (3)
  • CHE 66600 – Methods in Catalysis (3)
  • CHE 69700 – Advanced Modeling for Catalysis (3)
  • CHM 64200 – Advanced Inorganic Chemistry (3)
  • CHM 64600 – Kinetics & Mechs of Inorganic Reactions (3)
  • CHM 64700 – Transition Metal and Organometallic Chem (3)
  • CHM 65100 – Advanced Organic Chemistry (3)
  • ME 50500 – Intermediate Heat Transfer (3)
  • MSE 52500 – Struct-Property Relations of Eng Polymers (3)
  • MSE 54700 – Introduction to Surface Science (3)
  • MSE 59700 – High Temp Corrosion (3)

You may select any 3 elective courses from the list below (must be 9 credit hours of electives):

  • ABE 59100 – Princ. of Sustainable Biomfg. (3)
  • BCHM 56100 – General Biochemistry I (3)
  • CHE 50100 – Medical Devices Dev & App (3)
  • CHE 50200 – Analytical Approach Healthcare Delivery (3)
  • CHE 52100 – Principles of Tissue Engineering (3)
  • CHE 55100 – Principles of Pharmaceutical Engr. (3)
  • CHE 55300 – Pharm Process Develop & Design (3)
  • CHE 55400 – Smart Mfg. in Process Industries (3)
  • CHE 59700 – Fundamentals of Lyophilization (1)
  • CHE 59700 – Princ of Inject Drug Product Mfg, lecture (1)
  • CHE 59700 – Pract of Inject Drug Product Mfg, hands-on* (1)
  • CHE 59700 – Crystallization Systems in ChE (3)
  • CHE 59700 – Industrial Chemical Technology (3)
  • CHE 59700 – Process Safety (3)
  • CHE 59700 – Data Science in ChE (3)
  • CHE 59700 – Sustainable Chem. Engineering (3)
  • IMPH 58000 – Physical Chemical Principles (3)
  • IMPH 58300 – Adv Biopharmaceutics (3)
  • IMPH 58700 – Pharmaceutical Solids (2)
  • ME 50500 – Intermediate Heat Transfer (3)
  • ME 53101/53201 – Particle, Powder & Compact Characterization (TBD)
  • MSE 51200 – Powder Processing (3)
  • MSE 53500 – Lean Manufacturing (3)

*Cannot take hands-on section without the lecture section.

You may select any 3 elective courses from the list below (must be 9 credit hours of electives):

  • CHE 50100 – Medical Devices and Applications (3)
  • CHE 52100 – Principles of Tissue Engineering (3)
  • CHE 52300 – Engr Appl of Biol Molecules (3)
  • CHE 54300 – Polymer Reaction Engr & Reactor Analy (3)
  • CHE 54400 – Struct & Phys Behavior of Polymer Sys (3)
  • CHE 55400 – Smart Mfg. in Process Industries (3)
  • CHE 56400 – Organic Elect. Materials & Devices (3)
  • CHE 66800 – Colloidal & Interfacial Phenomena (3)
  • CHE 59700 – Industrial Chemical Technology (3)
  • CHE 59700 – Intro to Nanoscale Science & Eng (3)
  • CHE 59700 – Data Science in ChE (3)
  • CHE 59700 – Process Safety (3)
  • CHE 59700 – Rheology of Soft Materials (3)
  • CHE 59700 – Sustainable Chemical Engineering (3)
  • MSE 52400 – Mechanical Behavior of Polymers (3)
  • MSE 52500 – Struct-Prop Relations of Eng Polymers (3)
  • MSE 53500 – Lean Manufacturing (3)
  • MSE 54800 – Deposition Process of Thin Films/Coatings (3)
  • MSE 56700 – Polymer Synthesis (3)
  • MSE 59700 – High Temp Corrosion (3)