Chemical Engineering: Pre-Medical, BSCH
Requirements for Students Matriculating in or before Academic Year 2025-2026. Learn more about University Academic Regulation 3.1.
Minimum Overall Grade Point Average: 2.00
Total Hours: 128
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| General Education Requirements | ||
| English Composition | ||
| See Academic Regulation 3.5 | ||
| ENGL 1113 | Composition I | 3 |
| or ENGL 1313 | Critical Analysis and Writing I | |
| Select one of the following: | 3 | |
| Composition II | ||
| Critical Analysis and Writing II | ||
| Technical Writing | ||
| American History & Government | ||
| Select one of the following: | 3 | |
| Survey of American History | ||
| American History to 1865 (H) | ||
| American History Since 1865 (DH) | ||
| POLS 1113 | American Government | 3 |
| Quantitative Thought & Logical Reasoning (Q) | ||
| MATH 2144 | Calculus I (Q) | 4 |
| MATH 2153 | Calculus II (Q) | 3 |
| Understanding Humanities-Human Heritage & Cultures (H) | ||
| Courses designated (H) 1 | 3 | |
| Courses designated (DH) | 3 | |
| Reasoning in the Natural Sciences (N) | ||
| Must include one Laboratory-Based Inquiry (L) course | ||
| CHEM 1314 | Chemistry I (LN) | 4 |
| CHEM 1515 | Chemistry II (LN) | 5 |
| BIOL 1113 & BIOL 1111 | Introductory Biology (N) and Introductory Biology Laboratory (LN) | 4 |
| or BIOL 1114 | Introductory Biology (LN) | |
| PHYS 2014 | University Physics I (LN) | 4 |
| Exploring Society & Human Behavior (S) | ||
| Courses designated (GS) 2 | 3 | |
| Diversity (D) | ||
| Courses designated (D) | ||
| May be paired with another designated course | ||
| Global Cultural Competency (G) | ||
| Courses designated (G) | ||
| May be paired with another designated course | ||
| Additional General Education | ||
| Additional general education credit hours may be required to meet the total 40-hour minimum of general education credit if courses carry more than one general education designation and can be used to meet multiple general education designation hour requirements above. | ||
| Courses designated (Q), (H), (N), (S), (D), (G), or (F). | 0 | |
| Hours Subtotal | 45 | |
| College/Departmental Requirements | ||
| UNIV 1111 | First Year Seminar (or other approved first year seminar course) | 1 |
| Basic Science | ||
| BIOL 1604 | Animal Biology | 4 |
| Engineering | ||
| ENGR 1412 | Introductory Engineering Computer Programming | 2 |
| ENGR 2421 | Engineering Data Acquisition Controls Lab | 1 |
| Engineering Science | ||
| ENSC 2113 | Statics | 3 |
| ENSC 2613 | Introduction to Electrical Science | 3 |
| ENSC 3231 | Fluids and Hydraulics Lab | 1 |
| ENSC 3233 | Fluid Mechanics | 3 |
| ENSC 3313 | Materials Science | 3 |
| Chemistry | ||
| CHEM 3053 | Organic Chemistry I | 3 |
| CHEM 3112 | Organic Chemistry Laboratory | 2 |
| CHEM 3153 | Organic Chemistry II | 3 |
| Hours Subtotal | 29 | |
| Major Requirements | ||
| Mathematics | ||
| MATH 2163 | Calculus III | 3 |
| MATH 2233 | Differential Equations | 3 |
| or MATH 3263 | Linear Algebra and Differential Equations | |
| Chemical Engineering | ||
| CHE 2023 | Introduction to Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics | 3 |
| CHE 2033 | Introduction to Chemical Process Engineering | 3 |
| CHE 2581 | Chemical Engineering Seminar I | 1 |
| CHE 3013 | Rate Operations I | 3 |
| CHE 3113 | Rate Operations II | 3 |
| CHE 3123 | Chemical Reaction Engineering | 3 |
| CHE 3333 | Introduction to Transport Phenomena | 3 |
| CHE 3473 | Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics | 3 |
| CHE 3543 | Introduction to Chemical Process Analytics | 3 |
| CHE 3581 | Chemical Engineering Seminar II | 1 |
| CHE 4002 | Chemical Engineering Laboratory I | 2 |
| CHE 4112 | Chemical Engineering Laboratory II | 2 |
| CHE 4124 | Chemical Engineering Design I | 4 |
| CHE 4224 | Chemical Engineering Design II | 4 |
| CHE 4581 | Chemical Engineering Seminar III | 1 |
| CHE 4843 | Chemical Process Instrumentation and Control | 3 |
| Hours Subtotal | 48 | |
| Controlled Electives | ||
| Advanced Bioscience Elective | ||
| Select three hours from the following: | 3 | |
| General Genetics | ||
or MICR 3033 | Cell and Molecular Biology | |
| Interdisciplinary Design and Build for Chemical Systems I and Interdisciplinary Design and Build for Chemical Systems II | ||
| Introduction to Tissue Engineering | ||
| Introduction to Catalysis and Photocatalysis | ||
| Drug Delivery | ||
| Bioprocess Engineering | ||
| Biomedical Engineering | ||
| Electrochemical Engineering | ||
| Environmental Engineering | ||
| Introduction to Molecular Modeling and Simulation | ||
| Introduction to Colloid Processing | ||
| Colloidal and Interfacial Phenomena | ||
| Machine Learning for Chemical Processes | ||
| Introduction to Membrane Separations | ||
| Introduction to Applied Numerical Computing for Scientists and Engineers | ||
| Introduction to Computational Fluid-Particle Dynamics | ||
| Bioengineering/Bioscience Electives | ||
| Select 3 hours of the following: | 3 | |
| Biological Applications in Engineering | ||
| Food Engineering | ||
| Physical Chemistry for Biologists | ||
| Survey of Biochemistry | ||
| Biochemistry I | ||
| Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Laboratory | ||
| Molecular Biology | ||
| General Genetics | ||
| Human Anatomy | ||
| Bioprocess Engineering | ||
| Biomedical Engineering | ||
| Advanced Bioprocess Engineering | ||
| Advanced Biomedical Engineering | ||
| Hours Subtotal | 6 | |
| Total Hours | 128 | |
- 1
Humanities courses - should select one from ENGL and one ART, ENGL, FLL, MUSI, PHIL or TH to also meet medical school requirements.
- 2
Social & Behavioral Sciences courses – should select from ANTH, PSYC, or SOC to also meet medical school requirements.
Graduation Requirements
- A minimum GPA of 2.00 is required in all CHE coursework.
- Must Receive a "C" or better in the following CHE courses: CHE 2023, CHE 2033, CHE 3013, CHE 3113, CHE 3123, CHE 3333, CHE 3473, 3543, and CHE 4002.
- The major engineering design experience, capstone course, is satisfied by CHE 4124 Chemical Engineering Design I and CHE 4224 Chemical Engineering Design II.
Additional State/OSU Requirements
- At least: 60 hours at a four-year institution; 30 hours completed at OSU; 15 of the final 30 and 50% of the upper-division hours in the major field completed at OSU.
- Limit of: one-half of major course requirements as transfer work; one-fourth of hours earned by correspondence; 8 transfer correspondence hours.
- Students will be held responsible for degree requirements in effect at the time of matriculation and any changes that are made, so long as these changes do not result in semester credit hours being added or do not delay graduation.
- Degrees that follow this plan must be completed by the end of Summer 2031.