Coursework Requirement

PhD students are required to take, at a minimum, 18 hours of formal courses (i.e., lecture style or organized laboratory instruction) as outlined below:

• Three core courses (9 hours):
  
  • Graduate Thermodynamics (CHE387K) - 1st fall semester    
  • Graduate Kinetics (CHE391J) - 1st fall semester
  • Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer - also known as Graduate Transport (CHE381N) - 1st spring semester 

• Three additional courses (9 hours) in any field or major. Only coursework with an overall GPA of 3.0 or higher will be counted towards this requirement. Upper-division undergraduate formal courses outside of Chemical Engineering will be counted toward this requirement.

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