Master of Science Degree in Polymer Engineering
MS. Program in Polymer Engineering
Program Objectives:
The objectives of the program can be summarized as follows:
§ Prepare Saudi engineers to advance and meet the work requirements of the polymers industrial sector.
§ Encourage the scientific research in the professional field of polymers engineering and its applications.
§ Co-operation with polymer industry to improve manufacturing practice.
Admission Requirements:
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Degree Requirements:
A. Successful completion of a 24 credit hours of graduate courses distributed as follows:
· Fifteen (15) credit hours from core courses.
· Nine (9) credit hours from elective courses.
B. Completion and successful defense of a master thesis. The student is allowed to register the thesis after completion of 12 credit hours.
C. Scientific production such as (publishing a scientific paper in a journal, presenting a scientific paper at a conference, or registering a patent).
Program Structure:
| Number & Type of Courses | Credit Hours |
| 5 Core Courses | 15 |
| 3 Elective Courses | 9 |
| Thesis | - |
| Total | 24 |
Courses
Core Courses:
| Course Code | Course title |
| CHE 545 | Advanced transport phenomena 1 |
| CHE 561 | Fundamentals of Polymer Engineering |
| CHE 562 | Polymer Reaction Engineering |
| CHE 563 | Polymer Properties and Rheology |
| CHE 564 | Polymer Processing |
Elective Courses:
| Course Code | Course title |
| CHE 544 | Advanced reaction engineering |
| CHE 565 | Polymer Characterization and Synthesis Laboratory |
| CHE 566 | Polymers Degradation |
| CHE 567 | Micromechanics |
| CHE 568 | Polymer Surfaces and Adsorption |
| CHE 569 | Advanced topics in Polymer Engineering |
| CHE 570 | Modeling and Simulation in Polymer Synthesis & Processing |
| CHE 571 | Non Newtonian Flow and heat transfer in Polymers |
| MATH 506 | Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations |
| CHEM 581 | Polymer Solutions |
