Chairperson
| Ahmad, Mohammad |
| Professor | Ahmad, Mohammad |
| Associate Professors | Al-Hindi, Mahmoud; Azizi, Fouad; Saad, Walid; Zeaiter, Joseph |
| Assistant Professors | Ghorayeb, Kassem; Maalouf, Elsa |
| Instructor | Itani, Adnan |
| Assistant Instructor | El Berjawi, Mohammad
|
General Information
The Baha and Walid Bassatne Department of Chemical Engineering and Advanced Energy offers the degrees of master of engineering in chemical engineering (thesis/ non-thesis) and master of science in chemical engineering (thesis/non-thesis).
Master of Engineering (ME), Major: Chemical Engineering
The Baha and Walid Bassatne Department of Chemical Engineering and Advanced Energy fosters a community of scholars among its faculty members and graduate students, who have an interest in advancing knowledge and contributing to the profession.
The ME Thesis program will be open to students with a bachelor of engineering (BE) in chemical engineering or other related disciplines.
Students must complete a minimum of 21 credit hours of courses and a 9 credit-hour thesis (30 credit hours in total) on a full- or part-time basis. A minimum of one calendar year of residence is required for graduation from this program.
Students who have a bachelor of engineering in a degree other than chemical engineering will be accepted as ME in chemical engineering and should take CHEN 417 and CHEN 470.
The required 30 credit hours of courses and thesis are distributed as follows:
- 3 credits of applied mathematics
- 6 credits of chemical engineering core required courses
- 6 credits of chemical engineering electives
- 6 credits of non-chemical engineering electives
- 9 credits of thesis work
- 0 credit of seminar (when offered)
- 0 credit of Thesis Proposal (CHEN 799T/TR)
ME Non-Thesis Program Requirements
The ME Non-Thesis program will be open to students with a bachelor of engineering (BE) in chemical engineering or other related disciplines.
Students must complete a minimum of 33 credit hours of courses on a full-or part-time basis. A minimum of one calendar year of residence is required for graduation from this program.
Students who have a bachelor of engineering in a degree other than chemical engineering will be accepted as ME in chemical engineering and should take CHEN 417 and CHEN 470.
The required 33 credit hours of courses and thesis are distributed as follows:
- 3 credits of applied mathematics
- 6 credits of chemical engineering core required courses
- 12 credits of chemical engineering electives
- 9 credits of non-chemical engineering electives
- 3 credits of Special Topics/ Project
- 0 credit of Seminar when offered
The courses of each category are detailed below:
Applied Mathematics Course
The math course or math-oriented course offered by other departments must be approved by the graduate adviser. Additional math courses may be counted as non-chemical engineering electives. Acceptable courses include but are not limited to:
| CIVE 710 | The Finite Element Method | 3 cr.
|
| MATH 350/CMPS 350 | Discrete Models for Differential Equations | 3 cr. |
| MATH 351/CMPS 351 | Optimization and Nonlinear Problems | 3 cr. |
| CMPS 354 | The Finite Element Method | 3 cr. |
| ENMG 604 | Deterministic Optimization Models | 3 cr. |
| MECH 630 | Finite Element Methods in Mechanical Engineering | 3 cr. |
| MECH 663 | Computational Fluid Dynamics | 3 cr.
|
Core Required Courses
| CHEN 611 | Transport Phenomena | 3 cr.
|
| CHEN 617 | Chemical Reactor Analysis and Design | 3 cr.
|
Special Courses and Thesis
Students should register for the Thesis Proposal (CHEN 799T) and pass it before being allowed to register for their thesis. If they fail CHEN 799T, they must register for CHEN 799TR and take the exam during the next term (excluding summer). Once completed, the students can register for CHEN 799, then CHEN 799 (A-E) in subsequent terms until the completion of their independent research.
With the exception of CHEN 797, students are not allowed to take any of the listed special courses and Thesis more than once. The seminar course is compulsory and students should register it every term (excluding summer).
Students must register for the following to complete their thesis requirements:
| CHEN 799T/ 799TR | Thesis Proposal | 0 cr. |
| CHEN 799 | Thesis | 9 cr. |
| CHEN 799A/B/C | Thesis | (9 cr., 0 billing) 9 cr. |
| CHEN 799D/E | Thesis | (9 cr., 1 billing) |
| CHEN 797 | Seminar | 0 cr.
|
Chemical Engineering Elective Courses
Students can choose courses from the following list:
Please note that students can only credit 600-level (or above) courses in the department.
| CHEN 610 | Materials Design and Characterization | 3 cr.
|
| CHEN 612 | Desalination | 3 cr. |
| CHEN 613 | Membrane Separation Processes | 3 cr. |
| CHEN 614 | Environmental Engineering Separation Processes | 3 cr. |
| CHEN 615 | Advanced Mass Transfer Processes | 3 cr.
|
CHEN 618
| Colloid and Interface Science | 3 cr.
|
CHEN 619
| Sustainability Science: Human and Environment Interaction
| 3 cr.
|
| CHEN 620 | Reaction Engineering and Reactor Design II | 3 cr. |
| CHEN 630 | Sustainable Biorefinery Processes | 3 cr. |
| CHEN 632 | Carbon Capture, Usage, and Storage | 3 cr. |
| CHEN 651 | Advanced Process Control | 3 cr. |
| CHEN 670 | Advanced Process Flow-sheeting | 3 cr. |
| CHEN 672 | Polymer Science | 3 cr. |
| CHEN 673 | Engineering of Drug Delivery Systems | 3 cr. |
| CHEN 674 | Process Operations and Diagnosis | 3 cr. |
| CHEN 675 | Tissue Engineering | 3 cr. |
| CHEN 690 | Reservoir Engineering | 3 cr. |
| CHEN 696 | Reservoir Modeling | 3 cr. |
| CHEN 779 | Special Projects | 3 cr. |
| CHEN 796 | Engineering Literature Critique | 1 cr. |
| CHEN 798 | Special Topics in Chemical Engineering I | 3 cr. |
| CHEN 798A | Waste Minimization in the Process Industry | 3 cr. |
| CHEN 798B | Special Topics in Chemical Engineering II | 3 cr.
|
Non-Chemical Engineering Elective Courses
Students can choose courses from the following list:
Please note that students can only credit 600-level (or above) courses in the Maroun Semaan Faculty of Engineering and Architecture (or at an equivalent level in other faculties).
| BMEN 600 | Biomedical Engineering Applications | 3 cr. |
| BMEN 601 | Computational Modeling of Physiological Systems | 3 cr. |
| BMEN 605 | Biomedical Imaging | 3 cr. |
| BMEN 606 | Nano Biosensors | 3 cr. |
| CIVE 602 | Experimental Design and Statistical Methods | 3 cr. |
| CIVE 651 | Processes in Water and Wastewater Treatment | 3 cr. |
| CIVE 652 | Landfill Engineering Design | 3 cr. |
| CIVE 654 | Environmental Bioremediation | 3 cr. |
| CIVE 655 | Air Pollution and Control | 3 cr. |
| CIVE 656 | Environmental Impact Assessment | 3 cr. |
| CIVE 658 | Industrial Waste Management | 3 cr. |
| CIVE 710 | The Finite Element Method | 3 cr. |
CIVE 740
| Transport Phenomena in Surface and Subsurface Waters
| 3 cr.
|
| CIVE 755 | Air Pollution Modeling | 3 cr. |
| CMPS 350 | Discrete Models for Differential Equations | 3 cr. |
| CMPS 351 | Optimization and Non-Linear Problems | 3 cr. |
| CMPS 354 | The Finite Element Method | 3 cr. |
| EECE 601 | Biomedical Engineering I | 3 cr. |
| EECE 602 | Biomedical Engineering II | 3 cr. |
| EECE 663/ MECH 656 | System Identification | 3 cr. |
| EECE 671 | Environmental Aspects of Energy Systems | 3 cr.
|
| EECE 672 | Energy Planning and Policy | 3 cr. |
| EECE 675 | PV and Wind Electric Energy Systems | 3 cr. |
| ENMG 601 | Management Theory | 3 cr. |
| ENMG 602 | Introduction to Financial Engineering | 3 cr. |
| ENMG 603 | Probability and Decision Analysis | 3 cr. |
| ENMG 604 | Deterministic Optimization Models | 3 cr. |
| ENMG 611 | Supply Chain Design and Management | 3 cr. |
| ENMG 612 | Advanced Supply Chain Design and Management | 3 cr. |
| ENMG 616 | Advanced Optimization Techniques | 3 cr. |
| ENMG 622 | Simulation Modeling and Analysis | 3 cr. |
| ENMG 623 | Stochastic Models and Applications | 3 cr. |
| ENMG 633 | Advanced Topics in Project Management | 3 cr. |
| ENMG 654 | Technology-Based Entrepreneurship | 3 cr. |
| ENGM 659 | Introduction to System Dynamics | 3 cr. |
| ENMG 663 | Product Design and Development | 3 cr. |
| MATH 350 | Discrete Models for Differential Equations | 3 cr. |
| MATH 351 | Optimization and Non-Linear Problems | 3 cr. |
| MECH 603 | Solar Energy | 3 cr. |
| MECH 606 | Aerosol Dynamics | 3 cr. |
| MECH 607 | Micro-Flows Fundamentals and Applications | 3 cr. |
| MECH 609 | Experimental Methods in Fluid Dynamics | 3 cr. |
| MECH 627 | Polymers and Their Properties | 3 cr. |
| MECH 630 | Finite Element Methods in Mechanical Engineering | 3 cr. |
| MECH 634 | Biomaterial and Medical Devices | 3 cr. |
| MECH 663 | Computational Fluid Dynamics | 3 cr.
|
| MECH 672 | Modeling Energy Systems | 3 cr. |
| MECH 674 | Energy Economics and Policy | 3 cr. |
| MECH 678 | Solar Electricity | 3 cr. |
| MECH 701 | Principles of Combustion | 3 cr. |
| MECH 747 | Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis | 3 cr. |
| MECH 751 | Simulation of Multiphase Flows | 3 cr. |
| MECH 760 | Advanced Fluid Mechanics | 3 cr. |
| MECH 761 | Convection Heat Transfer | 3 cr. |
| MECH 764 | Advanced Topics in Computational Fluid Dynamics | 3 cr. |
| MECH 765 | Advanced Finite Volume Techniques | 3 cr. |
| MECH 766 | Turbulent Flow and Transport | 3 cr. |
| MECH 767 | Heat Conduction | 3 cr. |
| MECH 768 | Transport Through Porous Media | 3 cr. |
| MECH 773 | Numerical Methods in Energy Technology | 3 cr. |
| MECH 798A | Fundamentals of Energy and Resource Recovery | 3 cr.
|
Master of Science (MS), Major: Chemical Engineering
The Baha and Walid Bassatne Department of Chemical Engineering and Advanced Energy fosters a community of scholars among its faculty members and graduate students, who have an interest in advancing knowledge and contributing to the profession.
The MS Thesis program is open to students with a bachelor of science (BS) in chemical engineering or other related disciplines. Additionally, it is also open to students with a bachelor of science degree in chemistry, biology, mathematics, or physics.
The students must complete a minimum of 37 credit hours of courses and 9 credit hours of thesis work (46 credits in total) on a full- or part-time basis. A minimum of two calendar years of residence is required for graduation from this program.
The minimum required 46 credit hours of courses and thesis are distributed as follows:
- 3 credits of applied mathematics
- 12 credits of core required courses
- 13 credits of chemical engineering electives
- 9 credits of non-chemical engineering electives
- 9 credits of thesis work
- 0 credit of seminar (when offered)
- 0 credit of Thesis Proposal (CHEN 799T/TR)
MS Non-Thesis Program Requirements
The MS Non-Thesis program is open to students with a bachelor of science (BS) in chemical engineering or other related disciplines. Additionally, it is also open to students with a bachelor of science degree in chemistry, biology, mathematics, or physics.
The students must complete a minimum of 46 credit hours of courses on a full- or part-time basis. A minimum of two calendar years of residence is required for graduation from this program.
The minimum required 46 credit hours of courses and thesis are distributed as follows:
- 3 credits of applied mathematics
- 12 credits of core required courses
- 16 credits of chemical engineering electives
- 12 credits of non-chemical engineering electives
- 3 credits of Special Topics/project
- 0 credit of Seminar when offered
The courses that fall in each category are detailed below:
Applied Mathematics Course
The math course or math-oriented course offered by other departments must be approved by the graduate student adviser. Additional math courses may be counted as non-chemical engineering electives. Acceptable courses include but are not limited to:
| CIVE 710 | The Finite Element Method | 3 cr.
|
| MATH 350/ CMPS 350 | Discrete Models for Differential Equations | 3 cr. |
| CMPS 354 | The Finite Element Method | 3 cr. |
| ENMG 604 | Deterministic Optimization Models | 3 cr. |
| MECH 630 | Finite Element Methods in Mechanical Engineering | 3 cr. |
| MECH 663 | Computational Fluid Dynamics | 3 cr.
|
Core Required Courses
| CHEN 570 | Process Synthesis and Optimization | 3 cr.
|
| CHEN 571 | Chemical Product Design | 3 cr. |
| CHEN 611 | Transport Phenomena | 3 cr. |
| CHEN 617 | Chemical Reactor Analysis and Design | 3 cr.
|
Special Courses and Thesis
Students should register for the Thesis Proposal (CHEN 799T) and pass it before being allowed to register for their thesis. If students fail CHEN 799T, they must register for CHEN 799TR and take the exam during the next term (excluding summer). Once completed students can register for CHEN 799, then CHEN 799 (A-E) in subsequent terms until of their independent research.
With the exception of CHEN 797, students are not allowed to take any of the listed special courses and Thesis more than once. The seminar course is compulsory and students should register it every term (excluding summer).
Students must register for the following to complete their thesis requirements:
| CHEN 799T/ CHEN 799TR | Thesis Proposal | 0 cr. |
| CHEN 799 | Thesis | 9 cr. |
| CHEN 799A/B/C | Thesis | 9 cr., 0 billing |
| CHEN 799D/E | Thesis | 9 cr., 1 billing |
| CHEN 797 | Seminar | 0 cr.
|
Chemical Engineering Elective Courses:
Students can choose courses from the following list:
Please note that students can only credit 600-level (or above) courses in the department.
| CHEN 610 | Materials Design and Characterization
| 3 cr.
|
| CHEN 612 | Desalination | 3 cr. |
| CHEN 613 | Membrane Separation Processes | 3 cr.
|
| CHEN 614 | Environmental Engineering Separation Processes | 3 cr. |
| CHEN 615 | Advanced Mass Transfer Processes | 3 cr. |
| CHEN 618 | Colloid and Interface Science | 3 cr. |
CHEN 619
| Sustainability Science: Human and Environment Interaction
| 3 cr.
|
| CHEN 620 | Reaction Engineering and Reactor Design II | 3 cr. |
| CHEN 630 | Sustainable Biorefinery Processes | 3 cr. |
| CHEN 632 | Carbon Capture, Usage and Storage | 3 cr. |
| CHEN 651 | Advanced Process Control | 3 cr. |
| CHEN 670 | Advanced Process Flow-sheeting | 3 cr. |
| CHEN 672 | Polymer Science | 3 cr. |
| CHEN 673 | Engineering of Drug Delivery Systems | 3 cr. |
| CHEN 674 | Process Operations and Diagnosis | 3 cr. |
| CHEN 675 | Tissue Engineering | 3 cr. |
| CHEN 690 | Reservoir Engineering | 3 cr. |
| CHEN 696 | Reservoir Modeling | 3 cr. |
| CHEN 779 | Special Projects | 3 cr. |
| CHEN 796 | Engineering Literature Critique | 1 cr. |
| CHEN 798 | Special Topics in Chemical Engineering I | 3 cr. |
| CHEN 798A | Waste Minimization in the Process Industry | 3 cr. |
| CHEN 798B | Special Topics in Chemical Engineering II | 3 cr.
|
Non-Chemical Engineering Elective Courses:
Students can choose courses from the following list:
Please note that students can only credit 600-level (or above) courses in the Maroun Semaan Faculty of Engineering and Architecture (or at an equivalent level in other faculties).
| BMEN 600 | Biomedical Engineering Applications | 3 cr.
|
| BMEN 601 | Computational Modeling of Physiological Systems | 3 cr. |
| BMEN 605 | Biomedical Imaging | 3 cr. |
| BMEN 606 | Nano Biosensors | 3 cr. |
| CIVE 602 | Experimental Design and Statistical Methods | 3 cr. |
| CIVE 651 | Processes in Water and Wastewater Treatment | 3 cr. |
| CIVE 652 | Landfill Engineering Design | 3 cr. |
| CIVE 654 | Environmental Bioremediation | 3 cr. |
| CIVE 655 | Air Pollution and Control | 3 cr. |
| CIVE 656 | Environmental Impact Assessment | 3 cr. |
| CIVE 658 | Industrial Waste Management | 3 cr. |
| CIVE 710 | The Finite Element Method | 3 cr. |
CIVE 740
| Transport Phenomena in Surface and Subsurface Waters
|
3 cr.
|
| CIVE 755 | Air Pollution Modeling | 3 cr. |
| CMPS 350 | Discrete Models for Differential Equations | 3 cr. |
| CMPS 351 | Optimization and Non-Linear Problems | 3 cr. |
| CMPS 354 | The Finite Element Method | 3 cr. |
| EECE 601 | Biomedical Engineering I | 3 cr. |
| EECE 602 | Biomedical Engineering II | 3 cr. |
| EECE 663/ MECH 656 | System Identification | 3 cr. |
| EECE 671 | Environmental Aspects of Energy Systems | 3 cr.
|
| EECE 672 | Energy Planning and Policy | 3 cr. |
| EECE 675 | PV and Wind Electric Energy Systems | 3 cr. |
| ENMG 601 | Management Theory | 3 cr. |
| ENMG 602 | Introduction to Financial Engineering | 3 cr. |
| ENMG 603 | Probability and Decision Analysis | 3 cr. |
| ENMG 604 | Deterministic Optimization Models | 3 cr. |
| ENMG 611 | Supply Chain Design and Management | 3 cr. |
| ENMG 612 | Advanced Supply Chain Design and Management | 3 cr. |
| ENMG 616 | Advanced Optimization Techniques | 3 cr. |
| ENMG 622 | Simulation Modeling and Analysis | 3 cr. |
| ENMG 623 | Stochastic Models and Applications | 3 cr. |
| ENMG 633 | Advanced Topics in Project Management | 3 cr. |
| ENMG 654 | Technology-Based Entrepreneurship | 3 cr. |
| ENGM 659 | Introduction to System Dynamics | 3 cr. |
| ENMG 663 | Product Design and Development | 3 cr. |
| MATH 350 | Discrete Models for Differential Equations | 3 cr. |
| MATH 351 | Optimization and Non-Linear Problems | 3 cr. |
| MECH 603 | Solar Energy | 3 cr. |
| MECH 606 | Aerosol Dynamics | 3 cr. |
| MECH 607 | Micro-Flows Fundamentals and Applications | 3 cr. |
| MECH 609 | Experimental Methods in Fluid Dynamics | 3 cr. |
| MECH 627 | Polymers and Their Properties | 3 cr. |
| MECH 630 | Finite Element Methods in Mechanical Engineering | 3 cr. |
| MECH 634 | Biomaterial and Medical Devices | 3 cr. |
| MECH 663 | Computational Fluid Dynamics | 3 cr.
|
MECH 672
| Modeling Energy Systems | 3 cr. |
| MECH 674 | Energy Economics and Policy | 3 cr. |
| MECH 678 | Solar Electricity | 3 cr. |
| MECH 701 | Principles of Combustion | 3 cr. |
| MECH 747 | Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis | 3 cr. |
| MECH 751 | Simulation of Multiphase Flows | 3 cr. |
| MECH 760 | Advanced Fluid Mechanics | 3 cr. |
| MECH 761 | Convection Heat Transfer | 3 cr. |
| MECH 764 | Advanced Topics in Computational Fluid Dynamics | 3 cr. |
| MECH 765 | Advanced Finite Volume Techniques | 3 cr. |
| MECH 766 | Turbulent Flow and Transport | 3 cr. |
| MECH 767 | Heat Conduction | 3 cr. |
| MECH 768 | Transport Through Porous Media | 3 cr. |
| MECH 773 | Numerical Methods in Energy Technology | 3 cr. |
| MECH 798A | Fundamentals of Energy and Resource Recovery | 3 cr.
|
Science Majors
Students who have a bachelor of science degree in chemistry, biology, mathematics or physics will be accepted as prospective graduate students in the MS program.
It is the responsibility of these students to have completed the equivalent of both MATH 218 and MATH 251 prior to joining the program.
If MATH 251 is not taken, students have to take EECE 231/CMPS 200 first, then in the next term, the students have to register MATH 251 to pass graduate courses.
Students will also have to pass the following courses with a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.3 before joining the MS program:
- Required core chemical engineering courses: CHEN 311, CHEN 312, CHEN 314, CHEN 411 and CHEN 417.
- One of the following three courses is required: CHEN 351, CHEN 451, CHEN 470.
Engineering Majors
Students who have a bachelor of engineering other than chemical engineering will have to take the following: CHEN 417 and CHEN 470.
Course Descriptions