Office: Engineering Building 385

Telephone: 408-924-4000; 408-924-4057 (Fax)

Email: chemical-materials-engineering@sjsu.edu

Website: www.sjsu.edu/cme

Professors

Wenchiang R. Chung
Katy Kao
Claire F. Komives
Melanie A. McNeil
Anand Ramasubramanian, Chair

Associate Professor

Ozgur Keles
Dahyun Oh
Liat Rosenfeld

Assistant Professors

Santosh KC
Gautam Kumar
Christopher Lew

Overview

Researchers, chemical and materials process engineers, pharmaceutical engineers, failure analysis engineers, and polymer engineers are some of the jobs that graduates from the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering over the past 70 years obtain in Silicon Valley and beyond. Our graduates and alumni find employment in industrial sectors as diverse as oil and gas, alternative energy, carbon capture, semiconductors and microelectronics, additive manufacturing, nanotechnology, biotechnology, biomedical engineering, food process engineering, cosmetics engineering, and environmental remediation. Based on their interest, students can specialize in tracks by taking courses focused on these specializations. Our program is continually updated in consultation with industry advisors to reflect the changing needs of the society. In addition to bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Chemical Engineering and Materials Engineering, we offer undergraduate minors in Materials Science and Engineering, and Sustainable Engineering. Many of our graduates pursue masters of science and doctoral degrees at various universities across the country.

The Chemical Engineering Bachelor of Science degree program is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, under the General Program Criteria and the Chemical, Biochemical, Biomolecular and Similarly Named Engineering Programs Program Criteria. The Materials Engineering Bachelor of Science degree program is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, under the General Program Criteria and the Materials (1), Metallurgical (2), Ceramics (3) and Similarly Named Engineering Programs Program Criteria. 

Programs

• Chemical Engineering, BS
• Materials Engineering, BS

• Materials Science and Engineering Minor
• Sustainable Engineering Minor

• Chemical Engineering, MS
• Materials Engineering, MS

Spartan Accelerated Graduate Education (SAGE) Programs  programs are combined bachelor’s and master’s programs at SJSU (per University Policy F19-1). Sometimes they may also satisfy the requirements for a credential. Students in these programs pursue a bachelor’s and master’s degree simultaneously. These program allow students to earn graduate credit while in their junior and/or senior year, reducing the number of semesters required for completion of a master’s degree.

• Chemical Engineering BS + MS
• Materials Engineering BS + MS

Courses

• CHE 109 - Heat Transfer in Electronics
• CHE 110A - Mathematical Methods in Chemical Engineering
• CHE 110B - Computational Methods in Chemical Engineering
• CHE 115 - Industrial Chemical Calculations
• CHE 131 - Air Pollution Meteorology
• CHE 133 - Sustainable Engineering
• CHE 137 - Pollution Control Engineering
• CHE 142 - Principles of Thermal Analysis
• CHE 151 - Process Engineering Thermodynamics
• CHE 158 - Kinetics and Reactor Design
• CHE 160A - Unit Operations I
• CHE 160B - Unit Operations II
• CHE 161 - Process Safety and Engineering Ethics
• CHE 161L - Undergraduate Chemical Engineering Laboratory
• CHE 162 - Engineering Statistics and Analysis
• CHE 163L - Undergraduate Chemical Engineering Laboratory II
• CHE 165A - Plant Design I
• CHE 165B - Plant Design II
• CHE 172 - Biofuels Process Engineering
• CHE 174 - Hazardous Materials
• CHE 176 - Energy Storage Systems
• CHE 178 - Smart Sensors and Biosensors
• CHE 180 - Individual Studies
• CHE 180R - Undergraduate Research and Projects
• CHE 185 - Chemical Process Dynamics and Control
• CHE 190 - Introduction to Transport Phenomena
• CHE 191 - Bioseparations
• CHE 192 - Introduction to Biochemical Engineering
• CHE 194 - Biochemical Engineering Lab
• CHE 199 - Special Topics in Chemical and Materials Engineering
• CHE 200 - Research Methods
• CHE 207 - Mass Transfer
• CHE 211 - Advanced Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics
• CHE 218 - Reaction Kinetics
• CHE 219 - Transport Processes
• CHE 280 - Graduate Research
• CHE 280I - Graduate Research Internship
• CHE 281 - MS Thesis/Project Preparation Seminar
• CHE 282 - Applied Graduate Research
• CHE 283C - Graduate Curricular Practical Training
• CHE 291 - Industrial Bioseparations
• CHE 293 - Applied Bioinformatics
• CHE 298 - MS Research/Project
• CHE 298I - MS Research/Project Internship
• CHE 299 - Master’s Thesis
• CHE 299I - Master’s Thesis Internship
• CHE 1290R - Culminating Experience Supervision

• MATE 25 - Introduction to Materials
• MATE 92 - International Program Studies
• MATE 115 - Structure/Properties of Solids
• MATE 129 - Introduction to Integrated Circuits Processing and Design
• MATE 131 - Fundamentals of Additive Manufacturing
• MATE 135 - Introduction to Composite Materials
• MATE 141 - Structure and Analysis of Materials
• MATE 143 - Principles of Scanning Electron Microscopy
• MATE 144 - X-Ray Diffraction Lab
• MATE 145 - Principles of Scanning Probe Microscopy
• MATE 146 - Experimental Methods in Materials Characterization
• MATE 150 - Introduction to Computational Materials Engineering
• MATE 151 - Solid State Thermodynamics
• MATE 152 - Solid State Kinetics
• MATE 153 - Electronic, Optical, and Magnetic Properties of Materials
• MATE 154 - Metals and Alloys
• MATE 155 - Materials Selection and Process Design
• MATE 165 - Photovoltaic Fabrication/Testing Lab
• MATE 168 - Microfluid Fabrication and Design
• MATE 169 - Microelectromechanical Systems Fabrication and Design
• MATE 175 - Biomaterials
• MATE 180 - Individual Studies
• MATE 185 - Ceramics
• MATE 186 - Polymers
• MATE 193 - Special Topics in Materials Characterization Lab
• MATE 195 - Mechanical Behavior of Materials
• MATE 198A - Senior Design Project
• MATE 198B - Senior Design Project
• MATE 199 - Special Topics in Chemical and Materials Engineering
• MATE 205 - Advanced Mechanical Behavior of Solids
• MATE 210 - Experimental Methods in Materials Engineering
• MATE 215 - Solid State Materials Engineering
• MATE 220 - Principles and Applications of Electrochemistry
• MATE 232 - Plasma Processing of Materials
• MATE 241 - Advanced Methods of Materials Characterization
• MATE 244 - Introduction to Materials Informatics and Data Sciences
• MATE 250 - Advanced Computational Materials Engineering
• MATE 251 - Advanced Solid State Thermodynamics
• MATE 260 - Theory of Semiconductor Materials
• MATE 261 - Semiconductor Process Equipment
• MATE 262 - Semiconductor Wafer Processing
• MATE 263 - Semiconductor Device Reliability and Failure Mechanisms
• MATE 265 - Principles of Nanomaterials
• MATE 270 - Methods of Thin Film Deposition
• MATE 280 - Graduate Research
• MATE 280I - Graduate Research Internship
• MATE 281 - MS Thesis/Project Preparation Seminar
• MATE 282 - Applied Graduate Research
• MATE 283C - Graduate Curricular Practical Training
• MATE 297 - Special Topics in Materials Engineering
• MATE 298 - MS Research/Project
• MATE 298I - Master’s Project Internship
• MATE 299 - Master’s Thesis
• MATE 299I - Master’s Thesis Internship