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Graduate Degree Programs and Requirements
There are four graduate degree programs in the Chemical
Engineering Department. These are:
- The Master of Science, non-thesis
option, program, which requires advanced course work and real
world lab experience, and allows ample opportunity to specialize
in a chosen area of Chemical Engineering.
- The Master of Science (with thesis)
program, which requires advanced course work and research
experience, including a thesis, and provides preparation either
for further education or for industrial work.
- The Master of Engineering, a non-thesis
program, intended for those without an accredited Chemical
Engineering Bachelor's degree and for off-campus students.
- The PhD Program, which involves
in-depth study in fundamentals and practice, and significantly
greater creative research effort.
Except for students who have Master's degrees from other
American institutions, students will normally start on one of the
Master's programs, although the M.S. degree can be bypassed by
those who show satisfactory academic progress and who pass the
Ph.D. qualifying exam.
The written qualifying exam is normally given at the end of
the Spring semester. It is the policy of the department that the
terminal degree be a thesis degree for those students with a B.S.
degree in Chemical Engineering. Financial support through
departmental, contract, or grant sources (i.e., the University of
Florida OPS category) will not be available to students
enrolled in the Master of Engineering program.
General requirements for the various degree program as well as
descriptions of courses can be found in the University of Florida
graduate catalog. A student is normally regulated by the rules
set forth in the catalog published in the academic year of the
students first term. The revised
Graduate Program Requirements document
for the Department of Chemical Engineering is now available.
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