HCP Master’s Program Requirements
The HCP MS program was designed with two goals in mind:
- To provide access to Stanford Chemical Engineering classes and faculty research-based insight to a wider audience
- 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 (Winter)
- CHEMENG 320: Chemical Kinetics and Reaction Engineering (Winter)
- CHEMENG 340: Molecular Thermodynamics (Autumn)
- CHEMENG 345: Fundamentals and Applications of Spectroscopy (Spring)
- CHEMENG 355: Advanced Biochemical Engineering (Spring)
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 (Winter)
- CHEMENG 277: Data Science and Machine Learning Approaches in Chemical and Materials Engineering (not offered AY 23/24)
- 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 (Autumn)
- CHEMENG 443: Principles and practice of heterogeneous catalysis (Winter)
- CHEMENG 450: Advances in Biotechnology (Spring)
- CHEMENG 464: Polymer Chemistry (not offered AY 23/24)
- CHEMENG 470: Mechanics of Soft Matter: Rheology (not offered online AY 23/24)
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.