Chemical Engineering, PhD—Advanced Entry (Boston)

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Core Courses

From the catalog
Complete at least one of the four core classes. A cumulative 3.250 GPA—with no individual class below a B minus—is required for core classes taken:

Choose 4 semester hours from:
- One of:
  - CHME 7320 — Chemical Engineering Mathematics
  - ME 6200 — Mathematical Methods for Mechanical Engineers 1
- CHME 7330 — Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics
- CHME 7340 — Chemical Engineering Kinetics
- CHME 7350 — Transport Phenomena

Research

CHME 9984 — Research

Seminar and 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
From the catalog
Complete the following repeatable course each semester:
Recommended but optional:
One of:
- CHME 7390 — Seminar
- ENCP 6100 — Introduction to Cooperative Education
- CHME 7395 — Mentoring in Chemical Engineering

Electives

From the catalog
Complete a minimum of 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

From the catalog
Complete the following two courses:

One of:
- CHME 9990 — Dissertation Term 1
- CHME 9991 — Dissertation Term 2

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-phdadvancedentry-boston, and the official page is the authority.