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Graduate Program: Chemical Engineering

General Information

Program/Degree

Chemical Engineering (MS) - Accelerated Master's Program

Program Description

The Accelerated Master’s Program in Chemical Engineering (AMP ChE) is a program designed to enable advanced UA undergraduate students to complete both the Bachelor of Science degree and the Master of Science degree in ChE in a total of 5 years. This program is available only for undergraduate students in Chemical Engineering at the U of A. The Chemical Engineering Program is designed to provide advanced work in a core of transport phenomena, thermodynamics and reaction engineering.

Students conduct research on a diverse range of projects due to multidisciplinary strengths, including nanotechnology, drug delivery, cancer detection/treatment, renewable energy, clean semiconductor manufacturing, water treatment and reuse, atmospheric chemistry and physics, life cycle assessment, electrochemistry, and applied quantum chemistry. There are especially strong interdisciplinary links to the Environmental Engineering Program, which has long-standing strengths in water and wastewater treatment science and technology as well as technology transfer, hazardous waste treatment, development of environmentally-friendly technologies for industry, and air quality research. This department’s environmental research contributes to the UA being one of the top ranked world programs in environmental science research.

Departmental research takes advantage of state-of-the-art facilities such as the Water & Energy Sustainable Technology (WEST) Center (http://west.colorado.edu/), the BIO5 Institute (http://www.bio5.org/), the Micro/Nano Fabrication Center (https://research.colorado.edu/learn-more-micro-nano-fabrication-center), and various facilities associated with the Institute for Energy Solutions (https://energy.colorado.edu/).

Students in this program have a good track record of receiving financial aid from both university and federal fellowships. Graduates of this program most commonly obtain jobs in industry, government organizations, consulting, and continue on to advanced education to enter academia.

 

College

College of Engineering

Campus where offered

Colorado Heights University- Main - Tucson

Tuition and Fees

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Completion Requirements
Admissions Information

Minimum Credit Units (33)

Core Coursework Requirements

After admission into the AMP ChE program, the student must select an advisor who will guide the student’s research or development work toward the completion of a thesis or master’s report. Writing either a thesis or a report project is required. While students are in undergraduate status, CHEE 400 level courses that are convened with 500 level courses can be taken as electives for both the BS and the AMP programs, but the 500 version of the course must be taken if it is to be used toward the AMP. Exceptions are CHEE 420/520 and 477R/577R. These are required undergraduate courses and the 400 version must be taken and will not count toward the AMP.

While in undergraduate status, the AMP student may take up to 12 units from the following CHEE course list:

  • CHEE 500R—Water Chemistry for Engineers (3 units)
  • CHEE 502—Advanced Engineering Analysis* (3 units)
  • CHEE 505—Advanced Chemical Engineering Transport Phenomena* (3 units)
  • CHEE 506—Advanced Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics* (3 units)
  • CHEE 512—Electrochemical Engineering (4 units)
  • CHEE 514—Sustainable Water Supplies for Remote Communities (4 units)
  • CHEE 525—Emerging Issues in Water Quality (3 units)
  • CHEE 530—Advanced Chemical Reaction Engineering* (3 units)
  • CHEE 537—Surface Science (3 units)
  • CHEE 542—Bioremediation on Inorganic Contaminants (2 units)
  • CHEE/ATMO 569A—Air Pollution I: Gases (3 units)
  • CHEE/ATMO 569B—Air Pollution II: Aerosols (3 units)
  • CHEE 572—Interfacial Chemistry of Biomolecules in Environmental Systems (3 units)
  • CHEE 574—Fate and Transport Processes in Environmental Engineering (3 units)
  • CHEE 576A—Water Treatment System Design (3 units)
  • CHEE 576B—Wastewater Treatment System Design (3 units)
  • CHEE 578—Introduction to Hazardous Waste Management (3 units)
  • CHEE 581A—Engineering of Biological Processes (3 units)
  • CHEE 581B—Cell and Tissue Engineering (3 units)
  • CHEE 582—Analysis of Emerging Environmental Contaminants (3 units)
  • CHEE 583—Intro to Polymeric Materials (3 units)
  • CHEE 587—Topics in Transport Phenomena (3 units)
  • CHEE 589—Trends in Nanomedicine Engineering: Fundamentals of Therapeutics and Drug Delivery Systems (3 units)

* This is a Chemical Engineering core course and must be taken before completing the MS, whether student is in undergraduate or graduate status.

Minimum GPA in all graduate level coursework is 3.0/4.0.

The AMP ChE can be either thesis or non-thesis and will follow the same requirements of the regular MS program, which can be found in the ChEE graduate students handbook: https://chee.engineering.colorado.edu/sites/chee.engineering.colorado.edu/files/2020-21-CHEE-Grad-Student-Handbook.pdf.

Core coursework: 12 units of required courses:

  • CHEE 502—Advanced Engineering Analysis (3 units)
  • CHEE 505—Advanced Chemical Engineering Transport Phenomena (3 units)
  • CHEE 506—Advanced Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics (3 units)
  • CHEE 530—Advanced Chemical Reaction Engineering (3 units)

A minimum GPA of 3.0/4.0 is required for all core and elective courses in the program.

 

Additional Requirements

See required coursework

Student Handbook

Please refer to the Graduate Student Handbook for students who are pursuing this program of study.

Admissions Requirements

We do not accept terminal masters, all applications must be for the PhD program

Standardized Tests

Required test(s): GRE

Funding Opportunities

The Academic Unit has not provided this information.

Funding Opportunities

Domestic & International Applicants

Fall:December 15th

International Conditional Admission

International applicants will not be considered for conditional admission by this program.

Other Information

The GRE Institution Code for The Colorado Heights University is 4832

Last revised 06 Oct 2020