Electives

Students should be aware that some of the listed technical elective courses require prerequisites which would not normally be taken by ChE students.  Students must talk to the course instructor or graduate advisor before enrolling in any course for which they do not have the recommended prerequisites.  Please be aware of the work load required for the course before enrolling in it.  If you want a course added to the technical electives, please send the course description and syllabus to the CME Graduate Coordinator for review.

• Per university policy, required transition courses and program of study courses cannot be used as electives.
• Per university policy, you may not have more than 9 units of 100 level courses that count towards your M.S. degree.
• You cannot take a 100-level course as an elective if you have already had a similar course as part of your undergraduate degree.
• 100W and 200W cannot be used as technical electives.
• Students must have a total of 12 units of technical electives as part of their program.  With research advisor approval it may be possible to use up to six (6) more 280 units as part of the technical electives requirement.

Group 1: CHE/MATE 200 Level Electives (3-12 units)

• CHE 291: Industrial Bioseparations (3 units)
• CHE 293: Applied Bioinformatics (3 units)
• CHE 297: Special Topics in Chemical Engineering (1-4 units)
• MATE 241: Advanced Methods of Materials Characterization (3 units)
• MATE 220: Principles and Applications of Electrochemistry (3 units)
• MATE 232: Plasma Processing of Materials (3 units)
• MATE 260: Theory of Semiconductor Materials (3 units)
• MATE 265: Principles of Nanomaterials (3 units)
• MATE 270: Methods of Thin Film Deposition (3 units)

Group 2: CHE/MATE 100 Level Electives (0-9 units)

• CHE 133: Sustainable Engineering (3 units)
• CHE 137: Pollution Control Engineering (3 units)
• CHE 172: Biofuel Process Engineering (3 units)
• CHE 174: Hazardous Materials (3 units)
• CHE 176: Energy Storage Systems (3 units)
• CHE 178: Smart Sensors and Biosensors (3 units)
• CHE 192: Introduction to Biochemical Engineering (3 units)
• CHE 194: Biochemical Engineering (3 units)
• CHE 199: Special Topics in Chemical and Materials Engineering (3 units)
• MATE 115: Structure/Properties of Solids (3 units)
• MATE 129: Introduction to Integrated Circuit Processing and Design (3 units)
• MATE 135: Introduction to Composite Materials (3 units)
• MATE 141: Structure and Analysis of Materials (3 units)
• MATE 143: Principles of Scanning Electron Microscopy (1 unit)
• MATE 144: X-Ray Diffraction Lab (1 unit)
• MATE 145: Principles of Scanning Probe Microscopy (1 unit)
• MATE 165: Photovoltaic Fabrication/Testing Lab (1 unit)
• MATE 168: Microfluid Fabrication and Design (1 unit)
• MATE 169: Microelectromechanical Systems Fabrication and Design (1 unit)
• MATE 185: Ceramics (3 units)
• MATE 186: Polymers (3 units)

Group 3: Engineering/Science Electives (0-6 units)

• BIOL 135L: Molecular Cell Biology Lab (3 units)
• BME 254: Microscale Biomedical Systems: Physics and Applications (3 units)
• BME 272: Biomedical Device Design and Principles (3 units)
• CE 274: Wastewater Treatment and Plant Design (3 units)
• CHEM 145: Inorganic Chemistry (3 units)
• CHEM 232: Nucleic Acids (3 units)
• CHEM 170A: Foundations of Macromolecular Chemistry (1 units)
• CHEM 276: Physical Polymer Chemistry (3 units)
• ENGR 261: Battery Technologies I (3 units)
• ENGR 262: Battery Technologies II (3 units)
• ENGR 263: Battery Electrochemistry (3 units)
• GEOL 138: Hydrogeology (4 units)
• ISE 114: Safety Engineering (3 units)
• ME 170: Solar Energy Engineering (3 units)
• ME 181: Fundamentals of Biosensors (3 units)
• ME 271 Computational Fluid Dynamics for ME (3 units)
• ME 280: Automatic Control Engineering (3 units)
• ME 284: Sensor Technology and Principles (3 units)

Group 4: Mathematical Electives (0-3 units)

• ISE 202: Design and Analysis of Engineering Experiments (3 units)
• MATH 162: Statistics for Bioinformatics (3 units)
• ME 160: Introduction to Finite Element Method (3 units)
• ME 230: Advanced Mechanical Engineering Analysis (3 units)
• ME 273: Finite Element Methods in Engineering (3 units)
• TECH 232: Advanced Statistical Process Control (3 units)

Group 5: Other Electives (0-3 units)

• BUS3 160: Fundamentals of Management and Organizational Behavior (3 units)
• ENGR 203: Engineering Management (3 units)
• ISE 235: Quality Assurance and Reliability (3 units)
• ISE 250: Leading the Six Sigma Improvement (3 units)