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Graduate Electives in Chemical Engineering

Department: Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

CHEM-ENG 518 Green Chemical Engineering — Fall
CHEM-ENG 575 Tissue Engineering — Fall
CHEM-ENG 590CC Atomistic Simulations for Heterogeneous Catalysis — Fall
CHEM-ENG 592B Introduction to Biochemical Engineering — Fall
CHEM-ENG 688 Entrepreneurial Aspects of Biotechnology: Biotech Bootcamp — Fall
CHEM-ENG 510 Immunoengineering — Spring
CHEM-ENG 535 Microfluidics and Microscale Analysis in Materials and Biology — Spring
CHEM-ENG 562 Electrochemical and Electronic Materials and Devices — Spring
CHEM-ENG 571 Physical and Chemical Processing of Materials — Spring
CHEM-ENG 578 Nanomaterials Chemistry and Engineering — Spring
CHEM-ENG 583 Polymer Processing & Sustainability — Spring
CHEM-ENG 589 Nanostructured Biomaterials — Spring
CHEM-ENG 590STB Carbon Capture and Utilization? A Road to Sustainability — Spring
CHEM-ENG 613 Catalysis: Fundamentals, Catalyst Synthesis and Characterization — Spring
CHEM-ENG 610 Fundamentals of Intelligent Theses
CHEM-ENG 697K Kinetic Modeling of Catalytic Systems

Department: Animal Science

ANIMLSCI 658 Frontiers in Biotechnology 

Department: Biology

BIOLOGY 676 Evolutionary Genomics and Bioinformatics

Department: Biomedical Engineering

BMED-ENG 602 Drug Delivery — Fall
BMED-ENG 605 Biotransport  — Fall
BMED-ENG 611 Immunoengineering  — Fall
BMED-ENG 590STB Frontiers of Bioelectronics — Fall
BMED-ENG 608 Introduction to Biophotonics — Spring
BMED-ENG 610 Tissue Engineering — Spring
BME 575/675 Nature’s Materials

Department: Chemistry

CHEM 551 Advanced Organic Chemistry — Fall
CHEM 552 Spectroscopic Identification of Organic Compounds — Fall
CHEM 584 Adv Phys Chem — Fall
CHEM 777 Chem Spectroscopy — Fall
CHEM 780 Electrochemistry — Fall
CHEM 559 Computational and Mathematical Methods in Chemistry — Spring
CHEM 585 Adv Phys Chem — Spring
CHEM 653 Organic/Hybrid Semiconductors — Spring
CHEM 657 Drug Design — Spring
CHEM 546 Advanced Inorganic Chemistry
CHEM 560 Materials Chemistry
CHEM 649 Phys Methods Inorganic Chemistry
CHEM 658 Frontiers in Biotechnology
CHEM 697 Special Topics in Organic Chemistry
CHEM 743 Crystallography and Solid State Chemistry

Department: Civil & Environmental Engineering

CEE 605 Finite Element Analysis  — Fall/Spring
CEE 629 Clay Mineralogy for Engineers —  Spring
CEE 601 Machine Learning Foundations and Applications —  Spring
CEE 622 Geotechnical Materials Testing
CEE 630 Advanced Solid Mechanics

Department: Computer Science

COMPSCI 514 Algorithms for Data Science — Fall
COMPSCI 589 Machine Learning — Fall

Department: Electrical & Computer Engineering

E&C-ENG 607 Quantum Theory for ECE Fall
E&C-ENG 571 Microelectronic Fabrication Spring
E&C-ENG 609 Semiconductor Devices Spring
E&C-ENG 551 Introduction to Biosensors and Bioelectronics
E&C-ENG 574 Fundamentals of Nanoelectronics
E&C-ENG 597EN/697EN NanoEnergy
E&C-ENG 614 Numerical Semiconductor Device Modeling
E&C-ENG 677 Recent Advances in Nanotechnology
E&C-ENG 697NS Nanostructure Engineering

Department: Food Science

FOOD-SCI 690STA Genomic Approaches for Food Science Spring
 

Department: Materials Science & Engineering

MSE 690S Introduction to Interdisciplinary Materials Science Research — Fall
MSE 590A Advanced Materials Science and Engineering
MSE 690A Materials and Additive Manufacturing: From Concept to Application
 

Department: Mathematics

MATH 552 Applications of Scientific Computing — Spring

Department: Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

*Offered every two years

M&I-ENG 590D Deep Learning for Engineering Applications —  Fall
M&I-ENG 601 Advanced Thermodynamics  — Fall
M&I-ENG 605 Finite Element Analysis  — Fall/Spring
M&I-ENG 607 Advanced Fluid Mechanics  — Fall
M&I-ENG 609 Mechanical Behavior of Materials  — Fall
M&I-ENG 614* Optical Engineering & Photonics  — Fall/Spring
M&I-ENG 618 Additive Manufacturing  — Fall
M&I-ENG 658 Connections in Medicine, Biology and Engineering  — Fall
M&I-ENG 686 Practical Medical Device Design  — Fall
M&I-ENG 619 Nanomaterials & Sensors  — Fall
M&I-ENG 617 Computational Materials Science  — Fall
M&I-ENG 690D Deep Learning for Engineering Applications  — Fall
M&I-ENG 579* Advanced Materials Engineering  — Spring
M&I-ENG 597SM* Skeletal & Tissue Biomechanics  — Spring
M&I-ENG 608 Advanced Manufacturing of Polymers  — Spring
M&I-ENG 640* Introduction to MEMS and Microsciences  — Spring
M&I-ENG 668* Molecular, Cellular, & Tissues Biomech  — Spring
M&I-ENG 685* Biorobotics  — Spring
M&I ENG 597E Computational Material Science
M&I-ENG 597MA/697MA Intelligent Manufacturing
M&I-ENG 612 Metamaterials
M&I-ENG 613 Extreme Materials
M&I-ENG 630 Advanced Solid Mechanics
M&I-ENG 697B Solidification, Cold Sprays, and Phase Changing Heat Exchange

Department: Microbiology

MICROBIO 685 Concepts in Molecular Genetics  — Spring

Department: Physics

PHYSICS 531 Electronics for Scientists  — Fall
PHYSICS 553 Optics with Labs  — Spring
PHYSICS 558 Solid State Physics  — Spring
PHYSICS 551 Biological Physics
PHYSICS 715 Introduction to Solid State Physics

Department: Polymer Science and Engineering

POLYMER 602 Polymer Characterization lab  — Fall
POLYMER 603 Polymer Synthesis lab  — Fall
POLYMER 604 Intro Polymer Engin  — Fall
POLYMER 607 Int Synthtc Poly Chm  — Fall
POLYMER 608 Phys Chem Polymer I  — Fall
POLYMER 690D Polymer Decomposition and Degradation for Sustainability  — Fall
POLYMER 745 Colloidal Phenomena  — Fall
POLYMER 757 Polymer Rheology (must be taken for 3 credits)  — Fall
POLYMER 501 Introduction to Polymer Science and Engineering  — Spring
POLYMER 704 Advanced Polymer Engineering  — Spring
POLYMER 721 Polymer Morphology  — Spring
POLYMER 760 Organic Polymerization Reaction  — Spring
POLYMER 780 Scientific Management  — Spring
POLYMER 789 Physical Chemistry of Polymers II  — Spring
POLYMER 736 Polymer Surfactant Adsorption
POLYMER 742 Biopolymers
POLYMER 797EM ST-Electron Microscopy - Theory and Practice (must be taken for 3 credits)

Current as of June 2025

NOTE: Any 500/600 level class from Biochemistry, VASCI, Biology, Food Science, Math, Computer Science, etc. (any science or engineering department) should be fine. Please check with the GPD to verify.

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