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The Chemical Engineering Curriculum Credit Hours Summary:
ABET Program Criteria for Chemical Engineering Program: Curriculum
The program must demonstrate that graduates have: thorough grounding in the basic sciences including chemistry, physics, and biology appropriate to the objectives of the program; and sufficient knowledge in the application of these basic sciences to enable graduates to design, analyze, and control physical, chemical, and biological processes, consistent with the program educational objectives.
The ChE curriculum is a four-year program with a total of 136 credits. It consists of 8 credits of university requirements, 55 credits of college requirements, 64 credits of department requirements, and 9 credits of technical electives.
Figure 7: The structure of the new ChE curriculum in block diagram

Chemical Engineering Department Course Requirements
Chemical Engineering Department Requirements 73 credits
ChE 201 Chemical Process Principles (3 credits)
Engr 221 Engineering Mechanics I (3 credits)
Engr 222 Engineering Mechanics II (3 credits)
Chem 143 Organic Chemistry (3 credits)
Engr 303 Thermofluids (3 credits)
Engr 206 Electric Circuits (3 credits)
ChE 202 Transport Phenomena (3 credits)
ChE 301 Equilibrium Thermodynamics (3 credits)
ChE 302 Process Heat Transfer (3 credits)
ChE 303
Separation Processes I (3 credits)
ChE 304 Reaction Engineering (3 credits)
ChE 305
Chemical Process Industries (3 credits)
ChE 306 Chem. Eng. Lab. I (1 credit)
ChE 307 Biochemical Engineering (3 credits)
ChE 401
Separation Processes II (3 credits)
ChE 402 Plant Design (3 credits)
ChE 403
Separation Processes III (3 credits)
ChE 404
Process Dynamics & Control (3 credits)
ChE 405 Chem. Eng. Lab. II (1 credit)
ChE 406 Chem. Eng. Lab. III (1 credit)
ChE 407 Chemical Engineering Optimization (3 credits)
ChE 408 Chemical Process Safety
(3 credits)
ChE 491 Graduation Project I (1 credit)
ChE 492 Graduation Project II (3 credits)
Three courses only from any group
Group A: Petroleum and Petrochemicals
1.
ChE 431 Natural Gas Engineering
2.
ChE 432 Petroleum Refining Engineering
3.
ChE 433 Petrochemical Industries
4. MAE 430 Polymer Science & Technology
Group B: Industrial Water Treatment
1.
ChE 441 Introduction to Environmental Engineering
2.
ChE 442 Industrial Water Treatment
3.
ChE 443 Industrial Wastewater Treatment
4.
ChE 444 Water Desalination
Group C: General
Choose any Combination of 3 Courses from Groups A, B and from the following courses
1.
Engr 465 Measurement Systems
2.
ChE 452 Air Pollution and Control
3.
ME 461 Fundamentals of Corrosion
4. ChE 455 Special Topics in Chemical Engineering