This concentration provides a mechanism to give students credit for a focused study in materials on their academic transcripts. Extending this opportunity to students is valuable to them because of growing industrial interest in these areas of chemical engineering.
In South Jersey and the Mid-Atlantic region, there are a number of industries, such as Solvay, Metrologic, DuPont, Inolex, W.L. Gore, Johnson Matthey, and VWR Scientific, whose success is based on the application of materials science. Within the region, there are only a limited number of schools that can supply qualified people to meet the needs of their labor force. By providing skilled graduates, these companies can meet their needs and allow them to expand their enterprises.
Materials science is inherently multi-disciplinary, requiring of its practitioners a broad range of knowledge and a variety of skills. The materials concentration will enable students to follow the complete cycle of materials science from concept to research design to synthesis, to measurement of and explanation for the physical properties of the material to successful application. Coupled with the organization of learning for chemical engineering students comes a distinct and strong effort to motivate students to pursue careers in materials research. Ultimately, these efforts are expected to created a skilled pool of talented students for industries in New Jersey and beyond.
This concentration is a cohesive set of courses that focus on materials within chemical engineering. To obtain this concentration in materials, at least 12 semester hours of credit are required. The requirements to earn a concentration in materials are as follows:
- Course Credits 12 s.h.
- Chemical Engineering Materials (CHE 06381 ) Credits: 2
- Jr/Sr Clinic Materials-Related Project (ENGR 01303 , ENGR 01403 ) Credits: 4
- ChE or Chemistry Elective - (from Approved List) Credits: 3
- Out of Discipline Elective - (from Approved List) Credits: 3
In order to earn the concentration in materials, students can earn four credits by working on an approved materials project in 2 semesters of Junior/Senior Engineering Clinic. These projects can be housed in any of the engineering disciplines, but must be approved by the Chemical Engineering faculty as having substantial materials content. Note that students can also fulfill the project requirement through independent study on materials-related projects (Independent Study in Engineering ENGR 01391 ).
Students earn the remaining six credits towards the concentration by taking one elective from each of the following lists. In order to underscore the diverse applications and multi-disciplinary nature of materials science, we will require students to take one chemistry or chemical engineering elective, and one materials elective outside of chemical engineering. Note that a chemistry course can be used to fulfill either requirement, but no one course can be used to fulfill both. Alternative courses to that given below must be approved by the concentration advisor.
