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:
· The admission requirements enumerated in the unified bylaws organizing the graduate studies in Saudi universities.
· Bachelor of science in chemical engineering. Other Bachelors holders can be accepted as well.
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.
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 |