Technical Electives

Linked from undergraduate courses/curriculum and courses listed by year (senior, junior, etc.)

Professional engineering electives for the B.S. in Chemical Engineering must be chosen from the lists below.

ELE 220 (circuits) is no longer a mandatory course in the CHE programs.

The distiction between "Type I/Analysis" and "Type II/Design" was eliminated by the Chemical Engineering department. Any number of technical electives can be taken from each category.

Formerly Type I/Analysis courses

• CHE 403 - Introduction to Ocean Engineering Processes I (I, 3)
• CHE 491 - Special Problems (I, 1-6 each)
• CHE 513 - Advanced Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics (II, 3) In alternate years.
• CHE 530 - Polymer Chemistry (II, 3) In alternate years.
• CHE 533 - Engineering Metallurgy (II, 3)
• CHE 534 (or OCE 534) - Corrosion and Corrosion Control (II, 3)
• CHE 535 or (OCE 535) - Advanced Course in Corrosion (I, 3)
• CHE 542 - Advances in Interfacial Phenomena (I, 3)
• CHE 560 - Chemical and Physical Processes of Integrated Circuit Fabrication (I, 3)
• CHE 574 - Biochemical Engineering I (I, 3)


• CVE 220 - Mechanics of Materials


• ELE 220 - Circuits
• ELE 331 - Solid State Devices


• IME 432, 433 - Operations Research


• MCE 372, 373 - Engineering Analysis
• MCE 426 - Materials
• MCE 455 - Fluid Mechanics
• MCE 466 - Finite Elements

Formerly Type II/Design courses

• CHE 404 - Introduction to Ocean Engineering Processes II (II, 3)
• CHE 492 - Special Problems (II, 1-6 each)
• CHE 531 - Polymer Engineering (II, 3) In alternate years.
• CHE 532 - Ceramic Engineering (I, 3)
• CHE 537(or OCE 537) - Advanced Materials Engineering (I, 3) In alternate years.
• CHE 539 - Electron and Light Microscopy of Solids (I, 3) In alternate years.
• CHE 541 - Transport Phenomena I (II, 3) In alternate years.
• CHE 548 - Separations for Biotechnology (II, 3) In alternate years.
• CHE 576 - Pollution Prevention (II, 3) In alternate years.


• CVE 374 - Environmental Engineering
• CVE 470, 471 - Water and Waste
• CVE 472 - Air Pollution
• CVE 478 - Solid Waste


• MCE 366 - Systems Engineering
• MCE 401, 402 - Ocean Engineering Systems
• MCE 428, 431 - Control
• MCE 434 - Thermal Engineering
• MCE 439 - Energy Conversion

Math elective Requirements

The math elective must be chosen from

• MTH 215 - Linear Algebra
• MTH 425 - Topology
• MTH 435 - Mathematical Analysis I
• MTH 437 - Advanced Calculus and Application I
• MTH 441 - Intro to Partial Differential Equations
• MTH 451 - Probability and Statistics

General Education Requirements

Courses taken to satisfy General Education requirements must satisfy the requirements of the university, listed in the catalog. An exception is that only three credits are required in the foreign language or culture component (scroll to General Education Requirements).

The General Education Handbook itemizes which gen ed courses fall into which categories. Copies are available via this University College advising page. Select the handbook that corresponds to your first year at URI. University College also recommends some general guidelines for General Education.