Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering University of Illinois University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign
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Undergraduate Program

Checklist — Biomolecular Concentration
Fall 2006 and Fall 2007

CHEMISTRY (31 hours)
  1General Chemistry
    CHEM 202__(3)  CHEM 203__(2)  CHEM 204__(3) CHEM 205__(2)
  Organic Chemistry
    CHEM 236__(4) CHEM 237__(2) MCB 450__(3)
  Physical Chemistry
    CHEM 315__(2) CHEM 420__(2) CHEM 442__(4) CHEM 444__(4)
MATHEMATICS (17 hours)
  Calculus, Analytic Geometry & Linear Algebra
    2MATH 221__(4) MATH 231__(3) 3MATH 241_(4) 4MATH 415__(3)
  5Differential Equations
    MATH 385__(3)
6PHYSICS (10 hours)
    PHYS 211__(4) PHYS 212__(4) PHYS 214__(2)
7COMPUTER SCIENCE (3 hours)
    CS 101__(3)
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING (30 hours)
    8CHBE 121__(1) CHBE 221__(3) CHBE 321__(4) CHBE 421__(4) CHBE 422_(4)
    CHBE 424__(4) 9CHBE 430__(4) 9CHBE 431__(4) CHBE 440__(3)
10TECHNICAL ELECTIVES from approved list (18 hours)
    10At least three courses from CHBE 471, 472, 473, 474   (9)__
    10Bio-Technical Electives   (6)__
    10IE 300 or STAT 400  (3)__
RHETORIC (4 hours)
    REHT 105 OR 108__(4) OR SPCOM 111 and 112__(6)
11GENERAL EDUCATION (16 hours)
  Humanities and the Arts
    Literature and the Arts OR
Historical and Philosophical Perspectives __(6)
  Social Science from LAS lists for
    Social Perspectives OR
Behavioral Sciences __(6)
  Other Humanities or Social Science from any of the LAS lists
  Western Cultures __(3)
  Non-Western/US Minority Cultures __(3)
  12Foreign Languages
13FREE ELECTIVES
13TOTAL CREDITS REQUIRED FOR GRADUATION        129
NOTES:
  1. Students who do not place into CHEM 202 or who do not satisfy the mathematics prerequisite for CHEM 202 may substitute the sequence CHEM 102, 103, 104, 105, 223, 224 for CHEM 202, 203, 204, and 205.
  2. MATH 220-Calculus may be substituted, with four of the five credit hours applying toward the degree. Math 220 is appropriate for students with no background in calculus.
  3. MATH 242-Calculus of Several Variables (3 hours) will be offered for the last time for continuing students in Fall 2006. Students who have taken MATH 220 and 230 may complete the calculus sequence by taking MATH 242 in Fall 2006. Those who choose to take MATH 241 (4 hours), will earn an additional credit hour that will be counted as a technical elective hour.
  4. Students who have taken MATH 225 (2 hours) and will take CHBE 440 (3 hours) will need to have an additional hour from Technical Elective list
  5. MATH 441 may be substituted for MATH 385. MATH 386 (4 hours) may be substituted for MATH 385 (3 hours). The additional credit hour earned for MATH 386 will be counted as a technical elective hour.
  6. Under no circumstances will PHYS 101-102 be accepted as a substitute for any part of the Physics sequence.
  7. The new CS101 is 3 hrs and includes the C programming language. The old CS 101 was 2 hrs and requires the completion of CS 110 in Fortran, C or C++.
  8. The CHBE 121 requirement will be waived for students who transfer into the chemical engineering curriculum after their freshman year. Under no circumstances will this requirement be waived for students who are in the chemical engineering curriculum during their freshman year.
  9. CHBE 430 and CHBE 431 together satisfy Comp II requirement.
  10. Students must take at least 18 hours of approved technical electives in areas of engineering science. Distribution requirements for theses 18 hours are:
    1. At least three "Biomolecular Engineering" courses offered by the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (for example, including CHBE 471, 472, 473, and 474). Students may not count both CHBE 472 and 473 toward meeting this requirement.
    2. At least 9 hours of technical electives in areas of engineering science. Of these, at least 6 hours must be from the list of Bio-technical Electives.
    3. One course must be IE 300 or STAT 400.
      All technical electives must be approved by the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.
  11. All Campus General Education requirements must be satisfied, including those in approved course work in the Humanities/Arts, Social/Behavioral Sciences, and Cultural Studies, including the Western, Non-Western and/or U.S. Minorities components. The requirements for the Campus General Education categories Natural Sciences/Technology, Quantitative Reasoning I and II, and Composition I and II are fulfilled through required course work in the curriculum.
  12. Three semesters of college credit in one foreign language is required. Three years of high school credit in one foreign language are equivalent to three semesters of college credit.
  13. All students are required to complete at least 129 semester hours. In order to do this one may need to take some additional elective hours. For example, if one satisfies the mathematics requirement by taking MATH 235-225-245-385 (15 hours) instead of the usual sequence MATH 220-230-225-242-385 (16 hours), then he or she will need to have one additional elective hour. These electives are free electives; that is, they can be in anything that the LAS College will accept as credit towards graduation. All that matters is that one completes 129 hours acceptable by the LAS College toward graduation. To find out what is not acceptable by the LAS College, see the LAS Student Handbook (this is an indispensable reference--if you don't have one, get one at the College Office, 270 Lincoln Hall).
SUBSTITUTIONS FOR REQUIRED COURSES: Substitutions other than those described in the notes above will not normally be accepted. Any exceptions must be approved by the Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering. A student requesting an exception may submit a petition to the department.

(modified 7/2006)