Open Faculty Position
Assistant Professor or untenured Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Stanford University

Stanford
ENGINEERING
Chemical Engineering

HCP Master’s Program Requirements

The HCP MS program was designed with two goals in mind:

  1. To provide access to Stanford Chemical Engineering classes and faculty research-based insight to a wider audience
  2. To give Chemical Engineering master’s students the opportunity to combine Chemical Engineering studies with a wide range of engineering coursework offered by Stanford

To earn the degree, students complete 45 graduate academic units, distributed as follows:

Chemical Engineering | Take eight graduate level classes in Chemical Engineering, and one engineering seminar

Students take four of the following six available 300-level courses: (Not all courses are offered each year. Some courses are offered every other year. Quarter offered is subject to change)

  • CHEMENG 300: Applied Mathematics in the Chemical and Biological Sciences (Autumn)
  • CHEMENG 310: Microhydrodynamics (Not offered online AY 2022/2023)
  • CHEMENG 320: Chemical Kinetics and Reaction Engineering (Spring)
  • CHEMENG 340: Molecular Thermodynamics (Autumn)
  • CHEMENG 345: Fundamentals and Applications of Spectroscopy (Spring)
  • CHEMENG 355: Advanced Biochemical Engineering (Not offered AY 2022/2023)

Students take additional four chemical engineering graduate-level lecture courses. (May not use CHEMENG699 or any CHEMENG500-level course.) The following courses apply and are offered online. (Not all courses are offered each year. Some courses are offered every other year. Quarter offered is subject to change)

  • May take additional core chemical engineering lecture course from the CHEMENG300 series
  • Four graduate electives in chemical engineering. Courses include but are not limited to the following:
    • CHEMENG 250: Biochemical Engineering (not offered AY 22/23)
    • CHEMENG 277: Data Science and Machine Learning Approaches in Chemical and Materials Engineering (not offered AY 22/23)
    • CHEMENG 283: Biochemistry II (Winter)
    • CHEMENG 289: Career Building: Entrepreneurship / Intrapreneurship, People, Innovation, Decision-Making and Impact (Winter)
    • CHEMENG 296: Creating New Ventures in Engineering and Science-based Industries (Spring)
    • CHEMENG 432: Electrochemical Energy Conversion (not offered AY 22/23)
    • CHEMENG 443: Principles and practice of heterogeneous catalysis (Autumn)
    • CHEMENG 450: Advances in Biotechnology (Spring)
    • CHEMENG 464: Polymer Chemistry (Winter)
    • CHEMENG 470: Mechanics of Soft Matter: Rheology (not offered online AY 22/23)

Engineering seminar: students take three additional units of CHEMENG699 Colloquium.  Students may also satisfy this requirement by taking three units of another seminar/speaker series in engineering, science, or math. For example:

  • MS&E472: Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders’ Seminar
  • MS&E494: The Energy Seminar
  • EE292E: Stanford Center for Image Systems Engineering (SCIEN) Seminar

Electives | An additional 18 units selected from graduate-level science, math or engineering lecture courses (3 units or more) in any appropriate department 

Of these 18 units, 6 must be graduate-level science, math or engineering lecture courses. The remaining 12 units can come from a combination of the following categories:

  • An additional 3-12 units of graduate-level science, math or engineering lecture courses
  • No more than 6 units of non-science, math or engineering courses
  • No more than 3 units of seminar courses on science, math or engineering topics
    • Graduate-level science, math or engineering courses include, but are not limited to, courses from the following departments: AA, BIOE, BIO, CEE, CHEM, CME, CS, EE, MATH, MS&E, MATSCI, ME, PHYSICS, and STATS.

Topic Areas Sample

Students are encouraged to develop a concentration of 3-4 elective courses in one topical area and then use the other 2-3 elective courses to provide breadth to their program.

We have provided a sampling of topical areas and courses that one might take as part of this topical area concentration. This is not an exhaustive list; students are encouraged to follow their own interests and goals in selecting their elective courses.

Applied Mathematics, Modeling, and Numerical Analysis:

  • CME204: Partial Differential Equations in Engineering
  • CME206: Introduction to Numerical Methods for Engineering
  • EE261: The Fourier Transform and Its Applications
  • EE263: Introduction to Linear Dynamical Systems

Optimization and Control:

  • AA222/CS361: Engineering Design Optimization
  • EE263: Introduction to Linear Dynamical Systems
  • EE364A: Convex Optimization I
  • ENGR205: Introduction to Control Design Techniques
  • MS&E202: Optimal Control of Dynamic Systems
  • MS&E211: Introduction to Optimization
  • MS&E311: Optimization

Entrepreneurship in Science and Engineering:

  • MS&E271: Global Entrepreneurial Marketing
  • MS&E274: Dynamic Entrepreneurial Strategy
  • MS&E275: Foundations for Large-Scale Entrepreneurship
  • CEE246: Entrepreneurship in Civil & Environmental Engineering

Energy:

  • MATSCI256: Solar Cells, Fuel Cells, and Batteries: Materials for the Energy Solution
  • MATSCI302: Solar Cells
  • MS&E494: The Energy Seminar

Other potential areas of interest include Materials Science, Biomed, Computer Science.