Chemical Engineering

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Chemical Engineering

Major in Specialized Curriculum in Chemical engineering

The chemical engineering curriculum is designed to prepare students for careers in the chemical, food, energy, pharmaceutical, semiconductor processing, personal care, fiber and materials industries where chemical processes are coupled with heat, mass, and momentum transfer. The curriculum is arranged in a flexible manner to permit students to use their elective hours and to substitute courses in order to arrange programs incorporating various specific areas of chemical engineering or interdisciplinary areas. For example, sequences can be set up in conjunction with the student's adviser to emphasize environmental engineering, bioengineering, food science, computer science, or one of many other options. It will be advantageous to the student to plan course sequences with an adviser as early in the student's academic career as possible.
The program emphasizes fundamentals required to develop models for the design, control, and operation of chemical processes. Students entering without adequate preparation in mathematics and chemistry may find it difficult to complete the chemical engineering curriculum in four years. A typical program, including all required courses and electives, is shown below. Individual students may vary the order in which the various courses are taken to suit their individual needs. However, care must be exercised in scheduling to ensure that necessary course prerequisites are met.
Students in the curriculum of chemical engineering must maintain a 2.5 general average, excluding military training in order to be accepted by the department as juniors and seniors.
For information regarding the cooperative education program and internships in the School of Chemical Sciences, see the Chemistry major in the Science and Letters curriculum.

E-mail: chemeng@uiuc.edu
Web address for most current program requirements:
http://www.las.uiuc.edu/students/programs/CH_E/f_CH_E.shtml
Degree title: Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering
General education: All campus general education requirements must be satisfied.
Minimum hours required for graduation: 129 hours including 16 hours of approved general education courses. This must include at least six hours in Social Perspectives or Behavioral Sciences and at least six hours in Literature and the Arts or Historical and Philosophical Perspectives. Students must satisfy the distribution requirements in Western and Non-Western Cultures.
Departmental distinction: A student is recommended for departmental distinction on the basis of grade point average and work presented in CH E 292-Senior Thesis.
First year
HOURS     FIRST SEMESTER
3         CHEM 107¹-Accelerated Chemistry, I
1         CHEM 109-Accelerated Chemistry Laboratory, I
5         MATH 120-Calculus and Analytic Geometry, I
4         RHET 105 or 108-Composition I writing requirement
3         Elective 2,3,4
16        Total

HOURS     SECOND SEMESTER
1         CH E 161-The Chemical Engineering Profession
3         CHEM 108-Accelerated Chemistry, II
2         CHEM 110-Accelerated Chemistry Laboratory, II
3         C S 101-Introduction to Computing for Engineering 
           and Physical Science
3         MATH 130-Calculus and Analytic Geometry, II
4         PHYCS 111-General Physics (Mechanics)
16        Total
Second year
HOURS     FIRST SEMESTER
3         CH E 261-Introduction to Chemical Engineering
4         CHEM 236-Fundamental Organic Chemistry, I
2         CHEM 237-Structure and Synthesis

3         MATH 242-Calculus of Several Variables⁵
4         PHYCS 112-General Physics (Electricity and Magnetism)
16        Total

HOURS     SECOND SEMESTER
4         CH E 370-Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics
3         CHEM 336⁶-Fundamental Organic Chemistry, II
2         MATH 225⁷-Introductory Matrix Theory
3         MATH 285⁸-Differential Equations and Orthogonal 
           Functions
2         PHYCS 114-General Physics (Waves and Quantum Physics)
3         Electives^2,3,4
17        Total
Third year
HOURS     FIRST SEMESTER
4         CH E 371-Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer
2         CHEM 319-Instrumental Characterization of Chemical  
           Systems Laboratory
2         CHEM 321-Instrumental Characterization of Chemical 
           Systems
4         CHEM 342-Physical Chemistry, I
3         Electives^2,3,4
15        Total
HOURS     SECOND SEMESTER
4         CH E 373-Mass Transfer Operations
4         CHEM 344-Physical Chemistry, II
3         CH E 381-Chemical Rate Processes and Reactor Design
6         Electives^2,3.4
17        Total
Fourth year
HOURS     FIRST SEMESTER
4         CH E 374-Chemical Engineering Laboratory
4         CH E 389-Chemical Process Control and Dynamics
9         Electives^2,3,4
17        Total
HOURS     SECOND SEMESTER
4         CH E 377-Synthesis and Design of Chemical Systems
11        Electives^2,3,4
15        Total
1. Students who do not place into CHEM 107, or who do not satisfy the mathematics prerequisite for CHEM 107, may substitute the sequence CHEM 101, 102, 105, 106, 223, and 224 for CHEM 107, 108, 109, and 110.
2. All Campus General Education requirements must be satisfied, including those in approved course work in the Humanities/Arts, Social/Behavioral Sciences, and Cultural Studies, including the Western, Non-Western and/or U.S. Minorities components. The requirements for the Campus General Education categories Natural Sciences/Technology, Quantitative Reasoning I, and Composition I and II are fulfilled through required course work in the curriculum.
3. Three semesters of college credit in one foreign language is required. Three years of high school credit in one foreign language are equivalent to three semesters of college credit.
4. Students must take at least 19 hours of technical electives in areas of engineering science. These must include at least 6 hours of chemical engineering electives plus at least 3 additional hours of 300-level electives (or CH E 292). Students may obtain a current list of courses that may be used to satisfy this requirement in Room 209 RAL.
5. MATH 243 (4 hours) may be substituted for MATH 242 (3 hours). The additional credit hour earned for MATH 243 will be counted as a technical elective hour.
6. BIOCH 350 may be substituted for CHEM 336.
7. Students may substitute MATH 315 for MATH 225. Students electing to do so should be certain that they have the prerequisites for MATH 315.
8. MATH 341 may be substituted for MATH 285. MATH 286 (4 hours) may be substituted for MATH 285. The additional credit hour earned for MATH 286 will be counted as a technical elective hour.
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