Required Transition Courses

Chemical Engineering (ChE) Required Transition Courses

Transition courses for ChE majors are required of all students without an undergraduate Chemical Engineering degree. A student does not need to take a transition course if they can show that they had a similar course as part of their undergraduate degree. Transition courses do not count towards the 30 units of your MS degree.    

• ChE 115 (Fall) Industrial Chemical Calculations - 3  
• ChE 190 (Fall) Introduction to Transport Phenomena - 3
• ChE 151 (Spring) Process Engineering Thermodynamics - 4
• ChE 158 (Fall) Kinetics and Reactor Design - 3
• ChE 160A (Spring) Unit Operations I - 4
• ChE 160B (Fall) Unit Operations II - 4

Note: 

• Students without a BS in Chemical Engineering need to have a BS in a related engineering or science discipline with at least one college level course each in calculus, differential equations, chemistry, organic chemistry, and physics (mechanics).
• Students must earn a C or better in each transition course and achieve a GPA of 3.0 or better in all their transition courses or will be disqualified from the ChE MS Program.
• Graduate level courses can be taken at the same time as transition courses as long as the pre-requisite transition courses have been satisfactorily completed.
• Incoming students with a BS Chemistry Degree and a GPA of 3.0 or above in their Chemistry courses can waive the ChE 115 requirement.

Materials Engineering (MatE) Required Transition Courses

Transition courses for MatE majors are required of all students without an undergraduate Materials Engineering degree. A student does not need to take a transition course if they can show that they had a similar course as part of their undergraduate degree. Transition courses do not count towards the 30 units of your MS degree.

Students without a BS in Materials Engineering need to have a BS in a related engineering or science discipline with at least one college level course each in calculus, differential equations, chemistry, organic chemistry, and physics (mechanics).

• MatE 115 Structure and Properties of Solids - 3
• MatE 152 Solid State Kinetics - 3
• MatE 195 Mechanical Behavior of Materials - 3

Note:

• You must get a C or better in every transition course and a GPA of 3.0 or better in all the transition courses.
• Graduate level courses can be taken at the same time as some transition courses as long as the pre-requisite transition courses are met.
• Organic chemistry is a required transition class for all students who have not yet had organic chemistry (including those with MatE BS).