CHEME-MS - Chemical Engineering (MS)
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Program Overview
The Department of Chemical Engineering offers opportunities for undergraduates and graduate students to pursue coursework and research in energy sciences and technology, including the chemical, physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences.
In addition, undergraduates and graduate students can pursue work in interdisciplinary biosciences, including the chemical, biological, physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences. Students are encouraged to review course offerings in all departments of the School of Engineering and to seek academic advising from individual chemical engineering faculty. Students wishing assistance should talk with student services staff in the department.
Current research and teaching activities cover several advanced topics in chemical engineering, including applied statistical mechanics, biocatalysis, biochemical engineering, bioengineering, biophysics, computational materials science, colloid science, dynamics of complex fluids, energy conversion, functional genomics, hydrodynamic stability, kinetics and catalysis, micro rheology, molecular assemblies, nanoscience and technology, Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluid mechanics, polymer physics, protein biotechnology, renewable fuels, semiconductor processing, soft materials science, solar utilization, surface and interface science, and transport mechanics.
Minimum Units in the Program
Minimum University Units
A range of MS programs comprising appropriate coursework is available to accommodate students wishing to obtain further academic preparation before pursuing a chemical engineering career or a degree program. The degree requirements are lecture course based; there are no research or thesis requirements. This is a terminal MS degree, i.e., this degree is not a prerequisite for, nor does it lead to admission to the department’s PhD program.
The Honors Cooperative Program (HCP) MS program, available entirely online, makes it possible for academically qualified engineers and scientists in industry to be part-time graduate students in Chemical Engineering while continuing professional employment. Prospective HCP MS students follow the same admissions process and must meet the same admissions requirements as full-time residential MS students.
Coterminal Master's Degrees in Chemical Engineering: Stanford undergraduates with strong academic records may apply to study for a master’s degree while simultaneously completing their bachelor’s degree(s). Interested students should discuss their educational goals with their faculty advisors and discuss the application requirements with departmental graduate student services before submitting an application. Students, who have completed at least 120 units toward an undergraduate degree and complete their applications by the seventh week of a quarter, may be admitted to the Chemical Engineering MS program the following quarter. The GRE is not required for students applying for the Chemical Engineering coterminal master’s degree. Coterminal master’s degree candidates are expected to complete all University-level master’s degree requirements as described in this Bulletin.
To ensure that an appropriate Chemical Engineering graduate program is pursued by each MS candidate, students who first enroll at Stanford at the graduate level must do the following during the first quarter, no later than the seventh week:
Complete a Program Proposal for a master’s degree form.
Submit this petition form to departmental student services for review.
Obtain approval for any subsequent program change or changes using a freshly completed Program Proposal form.
All MS candidates must obtain approvals for the final MS program no later than the seventh week of the quarter preceding the quarter of degree conferral to permit amendment of the final quarter’s study list if the faculty deem this necessary. Students with questions should contact departmental graduate student services.
Students terminating their graduate work with the MS degree in Chemical Engineering must develop a graduate-level, thematic MS program consisting of a minimum of 45 completed units of academic work that includes:
Four (4) courses selected from the CHEMENG 300 series listed below.
- 1033831
- 1033841
- 2102861
- 1400171
- 1033861
- 1033881
An additional four (4) courses selected from 200, 300 and 400-level Chemical Engineering lecture courses.
- 1034271
* HCP MS students may substitute colloquium with up to three units of a science, math or engineering seminar/speaker series or a three-unit graduate lecture course in science, math or engineering.
These units must be selected from graduate-level science, math or engineering lecture courses (3 units or more each) in any appropriate department.
Students may substitute up to 12 units of graduate-level science, math or engineering lecture electives from a combination of the following categories:
No more than three units of seminar or colloquium courses on science, math or engineering topics.
No more than six units of graduate-level science, math or engineering lab courses.
No more than six units of 100-level or higher lecture, case study, workshop or practicum courses.
PhD and Coterm students are permitted to substitute up to six units of Chemeng 600 or equivalent. (Students using research units may not exceed six combined units of research and seminar or colloquium courses)
Graduate-level science, math or engineering courses include, but are not limited to, courses from the following departments: AA, BIOE, BIO, BIOMEDIN, CEE, CHEM, CME, CS, EE, ENGR, MATH, MS&E, MATSCI, ME, PHYSICS, PSYCH and STATS.
No courses under 100-level are accepted for any MS degree requirements.
Graduate level courses are numbered 200 and above unless otherwise stated.
Graduate Degrees summarizes the university’s requirements, including residency requirements, for the MS, Engineer, and PhD degrees.