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Overview At Rice, the PhD is primarily a research degree. Graduate education is aimed at developing each student's ability to conduct independent creative scientific research. Our graduate curriculum provides a sound understanding of engineering fundamentals so that our students are versatile, a mastery of engineering tools so that our students are productive, and clear goals of professional development so that our students are successful. Our graduate program is large enough to offer research topics in several important areas of chemical engineering and related fields, but small enough to retain an atmosphere where student and faculty can have extensive personal contact. In addition, interdisciplinary research projects provide ample opportunities for students to interact with researchers from other disciplines, especially through the interdisciplinary institutes. During the period 1995-2004, our department awarded 80 PhD degrees and 21 MS degrees, an average of 10 graduate research degrees per year. It also awarded 10 professional master's (MChE) degrees in the same period. In the fall of 2004, 65 students were enrolled in our graduate programs (63 PhD, 1 MS and 1 MChE).
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