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Both 100- and 200-level courses are suitable for graduate students. These courses are focused on the fundamentals of chemical engineering. More specialized research-oriented course work is replaced at Caltech by informal seminars in almost all of the currently active areas of research.

In addition to the chemical engineering courses listed below, students are encouraged to take courses in other disciplines such as chemistry, applied mathematics, applied physics, biology, environmental engineering science, etc., depending on the interests of the individual student.

Information regarding the PhD program, teaching assignment duties, and examination procedures are available in our guide to the "Chemical Engineering Graduate Studies Guide." Please open the Acrobat PDF file for viewing or printing.

Other course related links of interest are: Caltech Course Catalog and the Chemical Engineering Courses list.

Required Courses (ONLY THESE are required: ChE 151 ab, ChE 152, ChE 164, ChE 165 and ONLY ONE of these is required: Ch/ChE 140, 147, 148, 155, ChE/ESE 157, 158, 159, ChE 163, 174, 189, BE/ChE 200b (or ChE 210)
ChE 112	Design, Invention, and Fundamentals of Microfluidic Systems
ChE 114	Solid State NMR Spectroscopy for Materials Chemistry
ChE 115	Electronic Materials Processing (formerly ChE 189)
ChE 118	Introduction to the Design of Chemical Systems
ChE 120	Optimal Design of Chemical Systems
Ch/ChE 140 ab	Principles and Applications of Semiconductor Photoelectrochemistry
Ch/ChE 147	Polymer Chemistry
ChE/Ch 148	Polymer Physics
ChE 151 ab	Physical and Chemical Rate Processes
ChE 152	Heterogeneous Kinetics and Reaction Engineering
ChE/Ch 155	Chemistry of Catalysis
ChE/ESE 158	Aerosol Physics and Chemistry
ChE/BE 163	Introduction to Biomolecular Engineering
ChE/Ch 164	Introduction to Statistical Thermodynamics
ChE/Ch 165	Chemical Thermodynamics
ChE/BE 169	Biomolecular Cell Engineering
ChE 174	Special Topics in Transport Phenomena
ChE 188	Molecular Imaging
ChE 280	Chemical Engineering Research
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