Chemical Engineering, PhD (Boston)
Graduatemajor2027 catalogEngineeringBoston32 semester hours totalverified parse
Official catalog page for this program
Core Courses
From the catalog
A cumulative 3.250 GPA, with no individual class lower than a B–, is required for the following:
- One of:
- CHME 7330 — Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics
- CHME 7340 — Chemical Engineering Kinetics
- CHME 7350 — Transport Phenomena
Research
- CHME 9984 — Research
Professional Development
- CHME 7391 — Professional Development and Communication in Chemical Engineering 1
- CHME 7392 — Professional Development and Communication in Chemical Engineering 2
- CHME 7393 — Professional Development and Communication in Chemical Engineering 3
- CHME 7394 — Professional Development and Communication in Chemical Engineering 4
Seminar
From the catalog
Complete the following (repeatable) course each semester:
Recommended but optional:
- One of:
Electives
From the catalog
Complete 8 semester hours. Consult your faculty advisor for acceptable courses:
- Choose 8 semester hours from:
- BIOE 5410 — Molecular Bioengineering
- CHME 5101 — Fundamentals of Chemical Engineering: Fluid, Heat, and Mass Transfer
- CHME 5105 — Materials Characterization Techniques
- CHME 5137 — Computational Modeling in Chemical Engineering
- CHME 5160 — Drug Delivery: Engineering Analysis
- CHME 5179 — Complex Fluids and Everyday Materials
- CHME 5185 — Design of Experiments and Ethical Research
- CHME 5510 — Fundamentals in Process Safety Engineering
- CHME 5520 — Designing for Process Safety
- CHME 5621 — Electrochemical Engineering
- CHME 5630 — Biochemical Engineering
- CHME 5631 — Biomaterials Principles and Applications
- CHME 5632 — Advanced Topics in Biomaterials
- CHME 5683 — Introduction to Polymer Science
- CHME 5699 — Special Topics in Chemical Engineering
- CHME 7600 — Pharmaceutical Engineering I
- CHME 7601 — Pharmaceutical Engineering II
- CHME 7602 — Pharmaceutical Engineering Laboratory
- CHME 7973 — Special Topics in Chemical Engineering
- EMGT 5220 — Engineering Project Management
- EMGT 6225 — Economic Decision Making
- EMGT 6305 — Financial Management for Engineers
- ME 5620 — Fundamentals of Advanced Materials
- NNMD 5270 — Foundations in Nanomedicine: Therapeutics
- NNMD 5370 — Nanomedicine Research Techniques
- NNMD 5470 — Nano/Biomedical Commercialization: Concept to Market
Dissertation
Substitutions
Stated by the catalog on this program's requirements:
- Additional core classes may be required by the chemical engineering graduate committee to achieve PhD candidacy, which would not count toward the 20 SH minimum for the PhD.
Parsed from the catalog by NU Map; the structured machine copy is in this college's JSON for the 2027 catalog, under chemical-engineering-phd-boston, and the official page is the authority.