| General Institute Requirements (GIRs) | Subjects |
| Science Requirement | 6 |
| Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences Requirement | 8 |
| Restricted Electives in Science and Technology (REST) Requirement [can be satisfied from among 5.12; 5.07 or 7.05; 5.60; 10.301; and 18.03 or 18.034 in the Departmental Program] | 2 |
| Laboratory Requirement [can be satisfied by 5.310] | 1 |
| Total GIR Subjects Required for SB Degree | 17 |
| Communication Requirement | |
| The program includes a Communication
Requirement of 4 subjects: 2 subjects designated as Communication Intensive in Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (CI-H); and 2 subjects designated as Communication Intensive in the Major (CI-M). |
|
| PLUS Departmental Program | Units |
| Subject names below are followed by credit units, and by prerequisites, if any
(corequisites in italics) |
|
| Required Subjects | 162 |
| 5.12 Organic Chemistry I, 12, REST;
Chemistry (GIR) |
|
| 5.07 Biological Chemistry I, 12, REST;
5.12 or 7.05 General Biochemistry, 12, REST; 5.12* |
|
| 5.310 Laboratory Chemistry, 12, LAB; 5.12 | |
| 5.60 Thermodynamics and Kinetics, 12, REST; Calculus II (GIR), Chemistry (GIR) | |
| 10.10 Introduction to Chemical Engineering, 12; Physics I (GIR), Calculus I (GIR), Chemistry (GIR) | |
| 10.213 Chemical
and Biological Engineering Thermodynamics, 12;
5.60,
10.10 |
|
or one of the following three subjects: |
|
| 10.26 Chemical Engineering Projects Laboratory, 15, CI-M; 5.310*; 10.302; or permission of instructor | |
| 10.27 Energy Engineering Projects Laboratory, 15, CI-M(1); 5.310*; 10.302; or permission of instructor | |
| 10.29 Biological Engineering Projects Laboratory, 15, CI-M; 5.310*; 10.302; or permission of instructor | |
| plus 10.301 Fluid Mechanics, 12, REST; 18.03, 10.10 |
|
| 10.302 Transport Processes, 12; 5.60, 10.301, 10.213; or permission of instructor | |
| 10.32 Separation Processes, 6; 10.213, 10.302 | |
| 10.37 Chemical Kinetics and Reactor Design, 9; 5.60, 10.301 | |
| 10.490 Integrated Chemical Engineering I, 8; 10.37 | |
| 10.491 Integrated Chemical Engineering II, 8;
10.490 |
|
| Two of the following three subjects: |
|
| 10.492 Integrated Chemical Engineering Topics I, 4; 10.301 and permission of instructor | |
| 10.493 Integrated Chemical Engineering Topics II, 4;10.301 and permission of instructor | |
| 18.03 Differential Equations, 12, REST;
Calculus II (GIR) or 18.034 Differential Equations, 12, REST; Calculus II (GIR) |
|
| Restricted Electives | 22-24 |
| One subject in Chemical Engineering, except 10.UR, 10.URG, 10.ThU, 10.04, 10.792J, 10.801-10.816, 10.90-10.999 | |
| plus one laboratory subject from the following list: | |
| 3.014 Materials Laboratory, 12, LAB, CI-M | |
| 5.36 Biochemistry and Organic Laboratory, 12, CI-M —Module 4 Expression and Purification of Enzyme Mutants, 4; 5.07 or 7.05; Module 2 or 5.310; Module 5 —Module 5 Kinetics of Enzyme Inhibition, 4; 5.07 or 7.05; Module 2 or 5.310; Module 4 —Module 6 Organic Structure Determination, 4; 5.12; Module 2 or 5.310; 5.13 |
|
| 6.152J Micro/Nano Processing Technology, 12, CI-M; permission of instructor | |
| 10.467 Polymer Science Laboratory, 15, LAB, CI-M; 5.12; 5.310* | |
| or one of the following: | |
| 10.26 Chemical Engineering Projects Laboratory, 15, CI-M; 5.310*; 10.302; or permission of instructor | |
| 10.27 Energy Engineering Projects Laboratory, 15, CI-M(1); 5.310*; 10.302; or permission of instructor | |
| 10.29 Biological Engineering Projects Laboratory, 15, CI-M; 5.310*; 10.302; or permission of instructor | |
| Departmental Program Units That Also Satisfy the GIRs | (36) |
| Unrestricted Electives | 48 |
| Total Units Beyond the GIRs Required for SB Degree | 198 |
| No subject can be counted both as part of the 17-subject GIRs and as part of the 198 units required beyond the GIRs. Every subject in the student's departmental program will count toward one or the other, but not both. | |
| Notes | |
| *Alternate prerequisites are listed in the subject description. | |
| (1) Either 10.28, or one of 10.26, 10.27, or 10.29 must be taken as a Departmental Requirement and cannot also be used to satisfy the Laboratory Requirement within Restricted Electives. | |
| For an explanation of credit units, or hours, please refer to the online help of the MIT Subject Listing & Schedule, http://student.mit.edu/catalog/index.cgi. | |