StudyQA — Master: Chemical and Biological Engineering

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The M.Eng. is a coursework-based master's degree offered to practicing engineers. Eight graduate-level courses must be completed for the M.Eng. degree, at least six of which must be in technical subjects; the remainder can include courses in policy, economics, or finance. Students admitted in candidacy for the M.Eng. degree will always have external support, typically from their employers. The M.Eng. degree may also be pursued part-time by staff from the many nearby industrial laboratories. No research or thesis is required, and financial support is normally not offered.

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Candidates for the M.Eng. degree must successfully complete at least eight graduate-level courses and, if enrolled full time, will normally satisfy that requirement in one 10-month academic year. A minimum of six of these eight courses must be technical, having their primary listing in a department or a program within the natural sciences or engineering. A minimum of four of these six courses must be chosen from graduate offerings in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering; options include any of the following five core courses for the Ph.D. degree (CBE 501/MAE 552, CBE 502, 503, 504, 505), as well as several graduate-level chemical engineering electives chosen according to the student’s area of interest. To complete the set of eight courses, students with an interest in economics, entrepreneurship, finance, or public policy may choose up to two graduate-level courses from the Department of Economics or the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Students must have a “B” (3.0) average or better at the time they complete the program requirements in order to receive the degree.

Students are encouraged, although not required, to focus their course choices so as to develop significant expertise in a particular area. Possible specializations, and some courses that fall within each area, include: (1) materials, CBE 522, 531, 532, 541, 543, 544; MSE 501, 502, 503, 504, 505, 515, 519, 531; MAE 562, 563, 564; ELE 541, 549, 551; CHM 507, 511, 522; PHY 525, 526; GEO 501; (2) environmental engineering, CBE 522, 546; CEE 571, 576, 581, 582, 586, 587; MAE 571; GEO 524, 526, 537; WWS 582b, 584, 585b, 586c; (3) systems engineering, CHE 521, 527, 528, 530, 554; MAE 541, 545, 546, 548; ELE 521; ORF 522, 526, 562; COS 525; and (4) bioengineering, APC 514; CBE 532, 533, 538, 539, 540; CHM 515, 516, 543, 544, 550; MOL 504, 505, 506, 507, 551, 558; WWS 586a. Any of the core chemical engineering courses (CHB 501/MAE 552, 502, 503, 504, and 505) can be used to complement selections from any of these areas.

CBE 501 Incompressible Fluid Mechanics
CBE 502 Mathematical Methods of Engineering Analysis II (also APC 502)
CBE 503 Advanced Thermodynamics (also MSE 521)
CBE 504 Chemical Reactor Engineering
CBE 505 Advanced Heat and Mass Transfer
CBE 506 Application of Statistical Methods
CBE 507 Research Topics in Chemical & Biological Engineering
CBE 508 Numerical Methods for Engineers
CBE 521 Advanced Chemical Reactor Engineering
CBE 522 Colloidal Dispersions I
CBE 523 Colloidal Dispersions II
CBE 526 Surface Science: Processes and Probes
CBE 527 Nonlinear and Mixed-Integer Optimization: Fundamentals and Applications
CBE 528 Advanced Process Flowsheeting and Process Control
CBE 529 Hydrodynamic Stability
CBE 530 Systems Engineering
CBE 531 Synthesis and Processing of Ceramic Matrix Composites
CBE 532 Interfacial Science and Engineering
CBE 535 Computational Biology of Cell Signaling Networks
CBE 536 Glasses and Supercooled Liquids
CBE 539 Quantitative Physiology
CBE 540 Physical Basis of Human Disease
CBE 541 Polymer Synthesis
CBE 542 Polymer Viscoelasticity
CBE 543 Structure and Properties of Complex Fluids
CBE 544 Solid-State Properties of Polymers
CBE 545 Science and Technology of Fibrous Materials
CBE 546 Aerosol Physics and Chemistry
CBE 547 Mechanics of Granular Materials and Gas-Particle Flows
CBE 548 Dynamics of Films, Jets and Drops
CBE 550 Physics of Polymeric Glasses
CBE 552 Topics in Chemical Engineering
CBE 553 Topics in Interfacial Chemistry
CBE 554 Topics in Computational Nonlinear Dynamics
CBE 555 Introduction to Polymer Materials
CBE 556 Topics in Chemical Engineering
CBE 556A Topics in Chemical Engineering
CBE 556C Special Topics in Chemical Engineering
CBE 567 Metabolic Engineering
CEE 535 Statistical Mechanics II: Methods
CHM 503 Introduction to Statistical Mechanics
ENE 506 Synchrotron and Neutron Studies of Materials
MAE 552 Viscous Flows and Boundary Layers
MSE 504 Monte Carlo and Molecular Dynamics Simulation in Statistical Physics & Materials Science
QCB 511 Modeling Tools for Cell and Developmental Biology