Graduate Program: Graduate Course Offerings

The Department of Chemical Engineering offers a broad spectrum of graduate courses. The "core" courses, required of all Ph.D. students, are:

  • ChE 501       Fluid Mechanics
  • ChE 502       Mathematical Methods of Engineering Analysis II
  • ChE 503       Advanced Thermodynamics
  • ChE 504       Chemical Reactor Engineering
  • ChE 505       Advanced Heat and Mass Transfer

In addition, the modest student-to-faculty ratio at Princeton permits the department to offer a remarkable number of graduate elective courses, each typically taught at two-year intervals. Current graduate elective courses are given in the list below. Detailed descriptions of all of these courses, as well as the hundreds of graduate courses offered by other departments and programs at Princeton , may be found in the on-line version of the Graduate School Announcement.

  • ChE 508       Numerical Methods for Engineers
  • ChE 522       Colloidal Dispersions I
  • ChE 523       Colloidal Dispersions II
  • ChE 524       Statistical Mechanics [also CHM 503 and APC 512]
  • ChE 527       Nonlinear and Mixed Integer Optimization
  • ChE 529       Hydrodynamic Stability
  • ChE 530       Systems Engineering
  • ChE 531       Synthesis and Processing of Ceramic Matrix Composites [also MSE 530]
  • ChE 532       Interfacial Science and Engineering
  • ChE 533       Molecular Recognition and Biomolecular Engineering
  • ChE 534       Emerging Technologies in Bioengineering
  • ChE 535       Computational Biology of Cell Signaling Networks
  • ChE 536       Glasses and Supercooled Liquids
  • ChE 541       Polymer Synthesis [also MSE 534]
  • ChE 543       Solution Properties of Polymers
  • ChE 544       Solid-State Properties of Polymers [also MSE 514]
  • ChE 547       Mechanics of Granular Materials and Gas-Particle Flows
  • ChE 548       Dynamics of Films, Jets, and Drops
  • ChE 554       Topics in Computational Nonlinear Dynamics
  • ChE 556       Quantum Theory and Applications

Students pursuing the Ph.D. in Chemical and Materials Engineering will take several of the graduate courses offered in the Princeton Materials Institute's interdisciplinary graduate curriculum:

  • MSE 501       Introduction to Materials
  • MSE 502       Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Materials
  • MSE 503       Structure of Materials
  • MSE 504       Modeling and Simulation in Materials Science
  • MSE 505       Microscopy Methods in Materials Sciences
  • MSE 515       Random Heterogeneous Materials
  • MSE 519       Electronic Excitations of Organic Crystals and Conjugated Polymers
  • MSE 531       Introduction to Nano/Microfabrication