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The Rice Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Curriculum What opens to our graduates career paths ranging from the petrochemical, electronic and biotechnology industries to business, law and medicine? The answer is a broad education that encompasses both fundamentals and applications to give students a sound scientific and technical grounding for further development in a variety of professional environments.
Courses in mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and computational engineering provide the foundation for the chemical engineering core, which introduces students to chemical process fundamentals, fluid mechanics, heat and mass transfer, thermodynamics, kinetics, reactor design, process control and process design. Chemical engineering curricula place an emphasis on chemistry not found in other engineering disciplines. This background allows chemical engineers to tackle a wide variety of technical problems arising, for example, in the chemical, electronic and pharmaceuticals/biotechnology industries. To complete their technical education, Rice students seeking a B.S. degree in chemical engineering take course electives in two or more other engineering disciplines to satisfy a "breadth" requirement. Or, they can use their course electives to create a focus area in one of the following four disciplines:
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