Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, MSE

Students are required to take ten course units to graduate: (3 core, 1 math and 6 electives)

Program Duration

• MSE students must register for at least three course units per semester to maintain full-time status. This is especially important for international students to maintain their visa status.
• Full-time master’s students can complete their degrees in one to two years. In order to complete the degree in one year, it is necessary to take four course units in both the fall and spring semesters, with two course units during the summer session.

With the exceptions given below; the electives can be chosen from any courses in engineering or the sciences at a level of 500 or above.

• Of the 4 elective courses, students may take two Independent Study (597) courses with a letter grade or two written Thesis (599) courses with an S grade.
• Two electives must be from CBE.
• Permission is required from the department for either CBE 597 Master's Thesis Research or CBE 599 Master's Indep Study.
• Courses from Wharton, including (STAT, MGMT, or OIDD), will not be counted towards the MSE degree.
• No more than two of the electives can be taken from the following list:
  • CIT 590 Programming Languages and Techniques
  • CIT 592 Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science
  • EAS 501 Energy and its Impacts: Technology, Environment, Economics, Sustainability.
  • EAS 503 Energy Systems and Policy
  • EAS 505 Climate Policy and Technology
  • EAS 506 Electricity and Systems Markets
  • EAS 507 Intellectual Property and Business Law for Engineers
  • EAS 510 Technical Communication and Academic Wrting for Non-native Speakers of English
  • EAS 512 Engineering Negotiation
  • EAS 545 Engineering Entrepreneurship I
  • EAS 546 Engineering Entrepreneurship II
  • EAS 549 Engineering Entrepreneurship Lab
  • EAS 590 Commercializing Information Technology
  • ESE 504 Intro to Linear, Nonlinear and Integer Optimization
  • ESE 540 Engineering Economics
  • ESE 544 Project Management