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MS Program

Program Description

What attracts students to the ChemE MS Program?

  • A streamlined educational experience that bolsters students’ knowledge and credentials in the field of Chemical Engineering.
  • UW’s nationally and internationally recognized Chemical Engineering faculty. Faculty interests are broad, so students become familiar with a variety of areas while receiving individual guidance in a specialty.
  • Study and collaborate with faculty members in an atmosphere that is informal, friendly, and intellectually vigorous.
  • Program includes basic subjects of importance to all chemical engineers, such as thermodynamics, transport phenomena, kinetics, and applied mathematics. In addition, students are invited to take more-specialized courses in chemical engineering or in other departments.
  • Proximity to one of the most technologically and scientifically innovative cities in the U.S.

Who might be interested in the ChemE MS?

  • Students with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering (or closely related field) wanting to gain a technical knowledge of Chemical Engineering and improve their prospects of obtaining a higher level position in a professional setting.
  • Students looking to receive a quality education in an efficient manner; our M.S. students enroll in the same courses as our Ph.D. students and typically complete their M.S. degrees in just four quarters.

What is the intent of the MS Program?

  • To enhance student’s mastery of core and specialized areas of chemical engineering.

     

Cost of Study

The cost of Tuition and Fees at the UW can be found at the UW’s Office of Planning & Budgeting website. Select each of the following to display the current MS Chemical Engineering Tuition and Fees: Academic Year, Quarter, Campus (Seattle), Tuition Category (MS Chemical Engineering), and Residency.

MS requirements

Program requirements

Students must complete 39 credits, achieve a cumulative GPA of at least 3.0 in the graduate program, and pass a final exam consisting of oral presentation of the project.  A typical program includes:

CHEM E core: 14 credits

CHEM E 523 (seminar):  3 credits

CHEM E 600 (research project): 9 credits

Electives (specialization areas: 13 credits

Project requirement

A member of the ChemE graduate faculty supervises the student on an independent project. It may be either experimental or theoretical. The scope is more limited than for a thesis, suitable for completion in two or three quarters. A written final report is required. A draft of an article to be submitted for publication may substitute for the report. In either case, the project supervisor must approve it.

Areas of research/specializations

  • Biochemical Engineering and Bioengineering
  • Information and Process Technology
  • Environmental Technology
  • Materials and Interfacial Phenomena