Chemical Engineering

Program | Faculty | Master's | Doctoral | Courses

Web site: www.ecs.umass.edu/che/

The graduate program in chemical engineering emphasizes advanced study in engineering fundamentals rather than specific technological applications. For an applicant to be admitted to full graduate standing, one of the following requirements must be met.

The applicant must have a recognized bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering; or the applicant must, as a minimum, show satisfactory academic training or demonstrate proficiency in the following subjects:

Mathematics (through Calculus).

Chemistry (through Organic and Physical).

Chemical Engineering (Stoichiometry, Unit Operations).

Thermodynamics (including thermodynamics of chemical change).

Every student admitted to graduate standing shall be required after the first year of graduate study, as part of the academic requirements, to devote 5 hours per week to departmental teaching activities.