| Requirements
for Undergraduate Students -
Undergraduate
students enrolled in the chemical and biomolecular engineering
program at The Ohio State University are required
to complete 18 credit hours in technical elective
courses. Your technical elective program must be
approved by your faculty advisor, preferably
before you begin to take courses. At least six
hours (not including ChE 693 or H783) must
be Chemical Engineering courses. All students must
also take one advanced math technical elective.
Technical
Elective List lists all of the currently approved technical
elective courses. Other advanced-level
(5xx/6xx/7xx) courses in the sciences, math, or
other engineering departments may be acceptable
technical electives; however, many advanced-level
courses do not count as technical
electives, either because they are not
"technical" courses or because their
content is too similar to a course in the chemical
engineering core curriculum. According to
University rules, 800-level courses (or higher)
can not be counted towards an undergraduate
degree.
If you wish to
take a course for technical elective credit that
is not listed in Table 1, you must obtain formal
written approval from your faculty advisor and
Sherry McDonald before enrolling in the class.
Click the link below to download the official
permission form, which must be signed by you, your
faculty advisor, and Sherry McDonald. If you take
a course not listed in Table 1 and you don't have
an official permission form on file, then the
course will not count as a technical elective. |
Eighteen hours of Technical Electives
are required to graduate. Technical elective
courses provide exposure to advanced areas of
chemical engineering or to topics in related areas
of science, engineering, and mathematics that are
not addressed in the core curriculum. Some
students decide that they would like to
concentrate their technical electives in one
particular area; for example, a student interested
in environmental topics can elect to take a series
of technical courses that provide an in-depth
coverage of environmental engineering and science.
Other students decide that they want to take
courses in many different areas so that they get a
better idea of the variety and diversity of areas
in which chemical engineers work. Either of these
approaches is fine. Students who concentrate on
one area can in some cases receive a certificate
upon graduating that acknowledges their technical
elective focus.
