Options for Chemical Engineers

Environmental Engineering

Students who would like an environmental engineering option within chemical engineering take the regular chemical engineering curriculum.  In addition, these students must take the following courses as their electives:

Engineering Electives (6 units): ChEE 370 Water Sup/Wastewater and ChEE 476 Water/Wastewater Treatment Process

Technical Electives (6 units):  Choose from the following courses:  ChEE 415, 469A, 478, 481, CEEM 423, HWR 450 a-b, 438, 478, 490, SWES 325, 425, 438, 440, 466, 470

Premedical Students

Students often choose to major in chemical engineering and then go on to medical school.  Students who would like to do this should plan on the following as their electives:

Engineering Electives (6 units): ChEE 481 and BME course

Technical Electives (6 units): Biology 181 and 182 (note that these are actually 4 unit courses each thus, premedical students will actually have 130 units upon graduation)

Tier 2 General Education: Recommend psychology, anthropology, or sociology

Biomedical Engineering

Advanced Science: BME 410 or PSIO 403

Engineering Electives: BME 411 and either BME 416 or BME 417

Technical Electives (2 courses from the following list): ABE 423, AME 466, BME 416 (if not taken as Engineering elective), BME 417 (if not taken as Engineering elective), ChEE 481, MSE 461, PHYS 402, PHYS 430

Biomedical Engineering Accelerated MS

Take 12 units as technical and engineering electives from the following:

            BME 510        Biology for biomedical engineers

            BME 511        Physiology for biomedical engineers

            BME 517        Bioinstrumentation

Take 1 of the following:

            BME 561        Biomaterials

    BME 566        Biomechanics

            BME 516        Bioimaging