Curriculum

Each student majoring in Chemical Engineering must satisfactorily complete a minimum of 132 credits distributed as follows:

 

I. GENERAL EDUCATION COURSES (18 Credits)

A. Compulsory (9 Credits)

Code	Course	Credits
0330-100	Modern and Contemporary History of Kuwait	3
9988-123	Intermediate Writing Skills	3
9988-221	Technical Writing	3

 

B. Electives (9 Credits)

Restricted Elective

Code	Course	Credits
0330-102	Arab and Islamic Cultural History or one course from a group of humanities courses	3

 

Free Electives (6 Credits)

Two courses from humanities/social science electives: Students can choose any course from the approved departments at the university.

 

II. MATHEMATICS AND BASIC SCIENCE COURSES (27 Credits)

Code	Course	Credits
0410-101	Calculus I	3
0410-102	Calculus II	3
0410-111	Linear Algebra	3
0410-211	Calculus III	3
0410-240	Ordinary Differential Equations	3
0420-101	General Chemistry I	3
0420-105	General Chemistry I Laboratory	1
0430-101	Physics I	3
0430-105	Physics I Laboratory	1
0430-102	Physics II	3
0430-107	Physics II Laboratory	1

 

III. COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING REQUIREMENTS (18 Credits)

Code	Course	Credits
0600-104	Engineering Graphics and Design	2
0600-205	Electrical Engineering Fundamentals	3
0600-207	Electrical Engineering Fundamentals Lab	1
0600-208	Engineering Thermodynamics	3
0600-209	Engineering Economy	3
0600-304	Engineering Probability and Statistics	3
0600-307	Numerical Methods and Engineering Programming	3

 

IV. MAJOR REQUIREMENTS (69 Credits)

A. Compulsory Courses (46 Credits)

Code	Course	Credits
0640-211	Chemical Engineering Principles	3
0640-241	Fluid Mechanics	3
0640-242	Fluid Mechanics Laboratory	1
0640-291	Fundamentals of Chemical Engineering Design	3
0640-321	Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics	3
0640-324	Kinetics and Reactor Design (A)	3
0640-343	Heat Transfer	3
0640-344	Heat Transfer Laboratory	1
0640-345	Mass Transfer	3
0640-351	Process Dynamics and Control	3
0640-352	Process Dynamics and Control Laboratory	1
0640-391	Chemical Process Synthesis	3
0640-428	Kinetics and Reactor Design (B)	3
0640-440	Mass Transfer Operations	3
0640-443	Mass Transfer Operations Laboratory	1
0640-461	Water Desalination	3
0640-472	Petroleum Refining Engineering	3
0640-491	Plant Design	3

 

B. Compulsory Non-Dept. Course (11 Credits)

Code	Course	Credits
0420-208	General and Analytical Chemistry	4
0420-217	Physical Chemistry	3
0420-269	Organic Chemistry	4

 

C. Elective Courses (12 Credits)

1. One of the following two courses (3 Credits)

Code	Course	Credits
0630-241	Material Science and Metallurgy	3
0640-437	Polymer Engineering	3

 

2. One elective course (at least 200 level) (3 Credits)

From Chemical department, or the College of Engineering and Petroleum, or the College of Science

 

3. Two elective courses of the following (6 Credits)

Code	Course	Credits
0640-302	Introduction to Chemical Processes	3
0640-304	Introduction to Environmental Engineering	3
0640-314	Properties of Materials	3
0640-327	Corrosion Engineering	3
0640-346	Transport Phenomena	3
0640-353	Mathematical Methods in Chemical Engineering	3
0640-395	Engineering Training	3
0640-437	Gas Chromatography for Chemical Engineers	3
0640-444	Two Phase Flow	3
0640-449	Multi-component Phase Separation	3
0640-452	System Analysis and Simulation	3
0640-457	Optimization Techniques	3
0640-462	Introduction to Biochemical Engineering	3
0640-463	Wastewater Treatment	3
0640-465	Air Pollution	3
0640-471	Gas Engineering	3
0640-474	Petrochemical Engineering	3
0640-475	Gas Sweetening	3
0640-478	Liquefied Natural Gas	3
0640-479	Rheology and Polymer Processing	3
0640-481	Operations Research	3
0640-482	Industrial Safety	3
0640-484	Topics in Chemical Engineering	3
0640-493	Equipment Design	3
0640-495	Senior Project	3