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Accredited by ABET (see inside front cover).

Offered by: School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
120 Olin Hall, 255.8656, www.cheme.cornell.edu

Program Objectives

Our objectives are designed to meet the needs of our constituents: our students, our graduates, the employers of our graduates, the graduate study programs that our graduates enter, the chemical engineering professional community, and society in general.

Objective 1. To teach our students to analyze and design chemical processes that span molecular to macroscopic scales.

Objective 2. To teach our students interpersonal skills necessary in a professional environment.

Objective 3. To provide a liberal education in humanities and history.

Objective 4. To create scholars and professionals.

Engineering Distributions

ENGRD 219: Mass and Energy Balances (required)

CHEM 389: Honors Physical Chemistry I (recommended)a

Required Major Courses

CHEM 251: Introduction to Experimental Organic Chemistry

CHEM 290: Introductory Physical Chemistry Laboratory

CHEM 357: Organic Chemistry for the Life Sciencesb

CHEM 390: Honors Physical Chemistry II

CHEME 301: Nonresident Lectures

CHEME 313: Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics

CHEME 323: Fluid Mechanics

CHEME 324: Heat and Mass Transfer

CHEME 332: Analysis of Separation Processes

CHEME 372: Introduction to Process Dynamics and Control

CHEME 390: Reaction Kinetics and Reactor Design

CHEME 432: Chemical Engineering Laboratory

CHEME 462: Chemical Process Design

Electives

Two advanced chemical engineering electives (chosen from CHEME 401: Molecular Principles of Biomedical Engineering, CHEME 402: Cellular Principles of Biomedical Engineering, CHEME 424/M&AE 524: Physics of Micro- and Nanoscale Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer, CHEME 470: Process Control Strategies, CHEME 472: Feedback Control Systems, CHEME 480: Chemical Processing of Electronic Materials, CHEME 481: Biomedical Engineering, CHEME 484: Microchemical and Microfluidic Systems, CHEME 543: Bioprocess Engineering, CHEME 631: Engineering Principles for Drug Delivery, CHEME 640: Polymeric Materials,
CHEME 644: Aerosols and Colloids, CHEME 661: Air Pollution Control, CHEME 664: Energy Economics, CHEME 665: Energy Engineering, and CHEME 675: Synthetic Polymer Chemistry)

Four Major-approved electives (includes the advanced science electivec and the biology electived)

	Minimum Credit Hours	√ When Done
MATH 191	4	❑
MATH 192	4	❑
MATH 293	4	❑
MATH 294	4	❑
CHEM 209 (or 215)	4	❑
PHYS 112 (or 116)	4	❑
PHYS 213 (or 217)	4	❑
CS 100	4	❑
CS 101	1	❑
Introduction to Engineering (ENGRI 1XX)	3	❑
Engineering Distribution 1: ENGRD 219	3	❑
Engineering Distribution 2: CHEM 389	3	❑
First-Year Writing Seminar 1f	3	❑
First-Year Writing Seminar 2f	3	❑
Liberal Studies Distribution—six courses (18-credit minimum)g
Liberal Studies 1		❑
Liberal Studies 2		❑
Liberal Studies 3		❑
Liberal Studies 4		❑
Liberal Studies 5		❑
Liberal Studies 6		❑
Approved Elective 1: CHEM 208 (216) (two courses; 6-credit minimum)		❑
Approved Elective 2e		❑
Required Major Courses (52-credit minimum)h
CHEME 301    1	1	❑
CHEME 313    3	3	❑
CHEME 323    3	3	❑
CHEME 324    3	3	❑
CHEME 332    3	3	❑
CHEME 372    2	2	❑
CHEME 390    3	3	❑
CHEME 432f	4	❑
CHEME 462	4	❑
Advanced CHEME Elective 1i	3	❑
Advanced CHEME Elective 2i	3	❑
Courses outside the Major:
CHEM 251    2	2	❑
CHEM 290	2	❑
CHEM 357	3	❑
CHEM 390	4	❑
Major-approved Elective 1: Biology Elective	3	❑
Major-approved Elective 2: Advanced Science Elective	3	❑
Major-approved Elective 3:i	3	❑
Major-approved Elective 4:i	3	❑
Total Required Credits	128

Notes

a.    CHEM 389 is required by the Major, and it is recommended that this course be counted as an engineering distribution course.
b.    Premed students need 8 credits of organic chemistry.
c.    Advanced science electives include: A&EP: any course >333; BIOBM 330, 331, 332, 333; CHEME 401, 402, 470, 472, 480, 481, 484, 521–529, 543, 631, 640, 661, 675; CHEM: any course >301 except 389, CEE 451, 654; FD SC 417; MS&E 206, 305, 521, 524, 531, 541; M&AE 423; BIOMI 290; PHYS: any course >300; T&AM 310, 311.
d.    Every student must complete one of the six following options for the biology elective:
•    Advanced Placement—a score of 5 on the CEEB AP exam or a score of 7 on the IB Higher Level exam.
•    CHEME 288: Biomolecular Engineering: Fundamentals and Applications (spring, 3 credits)
•    four credits of a pre-med biology sequence; BIO G 101: Biological Sciences, Lectures (fall, 2 credits) and BIO G 103: Biological Sciences, Laboratory (fall, 2 credits); BIO G 102: Biological Sciences, Lectures (spring, 2 credits) and BIO G 104: Biological Sciences, Laboratory (spring, 2 credits); BIO G 105: Introductory Biology (fall, 4 credits); BIO G 106: Introductory Biology (spring,
4 credits); BIO G 107: General Biology (first half of the eight-week summer session, 4 credits); or BIO G 108: General Biology (second half of the eight-week summer session, 4 credits).
•    three credits of microbiology—BIOMI 290: General Microbiology Lectures (fall, spring, or six-week summer session, 3 credits).
•    four credits of biochemistry—BIOBM 330: Principles of Biochemistry, Individual Instruction (fall or spring, 4 credits) or BIOBM 333: Principles of Biochemistry: Proteins, Metabolism, and Molecular Biology (six-week summer session, 4 credits).
•    five credits of biochemistry—BIOBM 331: Principles of Biochemistry: Proteins and Metabolism (fall, 3 credits) and
BIOBM 332: Principles of Biochemistry: Molecular Biology (spring, 2 credits).
e.    If CHEM 389 is taken as an engineering distribution, the fourth credit may apply as an approved elective credit.
f.    In addition to the first-year writing seminars, a technical writing course must be taken as an engineering distribution, liberal studies, approved elective, or Major course (CHEME 432: Chemical Engineering Laboratory satisfies this requirement).
g.    The six courses must be chosen from at least three of the following six groups: (1) Cultural Analysis (CA), (2) Historical Analysis (HA), (3) Literature and the Arts (LA), (4) Knowledge, Cognition, and Moral Reasoning (KCM), (5) Social and Behavioral Analysis (SBA), (6) Foreign Languages (not literature courses). At least two of the six courses must be at 200-level or higher.
h.    The required 9 credits of Major program courses outside the Major consist of courses in chemistry.
i.    Students who want a biomolecular focus should use the following courses as electives: BIOBM 330 as an applied science elective, CHEME 401 and CHEME 402 as advanced chemical engineering electives, and CHEME 543 or CHEME 481 as a Major-approved elective.
This engineering check list is formatted to conform to the general specifications of the College of Engineering. We strongly recommend that you visit 120 Olin Hall for an official Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering curriculum sheet and check list or go to www.cheme.cornell.edu/undergraduate/curriculum/.

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