DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

Tracks

Chemical Engineering students at The Petroleum Institute have the opportunity to select a certain number of technical elective courses and create his or her own “Track” of specialty. Currently students have two different Tracks to choose from, namely: the General Track and Polymer Track.

In the General Track, students have the freedom to fulfill the technical elective course with any technical elective courses offered at the program. A list of technical electives is shown below:

Chemical Engineering Technical Elective
Course Code	Course Title	Credit Hour
CHEG 481	Gas Processing Engineering	3
CHEG 421	Petroleum Refining and Processing	3
CHEG 472	Water Treatment and Membrane Processes	3
CHEG 415	Combustion and Air Pollution Control	3
CHEG 416	Corrosion Engineering	3

In the Poymer Track, students ought to fulfill the technical elective course with ONLY technical elective related to polymer science and engineering. A list of polymer technical electives is shown below:

Polym er Science and Engineering Technical Elective
Course Code	Course Title	Credit Hour
CHEG/MEEG 380	Introduction to Polymer Science and Engineering	3
CHEG 381	Polymer Chemistry and Reaction Engineering	4
CHEG 441	Polymer Properties, Testing and Characterization	4
CHEG 491	Polymer Processing and Materials Design	4

Students interested in the Polymer Track should fulfill a minimum credit hour of 18 in order to obtain a minor in Polymer Science and Engineering.

It is important to note that students seeking the General Track are able to choose any technical elective courses from the Polymer Science and Engineering list.