Technical Electives

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The Department undergraduate programs train students to be competent engineers through lectures, laboratories, problem sessions, research, industry visits and design experiences.  To maintain the greatest degree of elective flexibility, each student can select among technical electives, which cover fields such as alternative energy sources, interfacial phenomena, petroleum processing, bioengineering and pulp & paper processes.

The table below lists approved technical electives for Department undergraduate programs. Students should consult the year calendar for course availability and pre-requisites.  Electives may be cancelled if enrolment is low or if a suitable instructor is not available.

Non-approved courses can be granted credit towards the technical elective program requirement provided permission has been granted by an undergraduate program advisor prior to the student taking the course. To request permission, email undergrad@chbe.ubc.ca.  Similarly, permission to take a technical elective is at the discretion of the course instructor should any pre-requisites be incomplete.

Approved Technical Electives

Both Chemical Engineering and Chemical and Biological Engineering Programs
Departmental Courses

  • CHBE 3705 (3) Fundamentals of Sustainable Engineering
  • CHBE 3736 (3) Water Pollution Control
  • CHBE 402 (3) Biomass Fractionation Technology
  • CHBE 451 (3) Engineering Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics
  • CHBE 476 (3) Modelling and Optimization in Chemical Engineering
  • CHBE 477 (3) Fuel Cell and Electrochemical Engineering
  • CHBE 478 (3) Polymer Science and Processing
  • CHBE 482 (3) Petroleum Refining Process Modelling and Simulation
  • CHBE 483 (3) Energy Engineering
  • CHBE 4856 (3) Air Pollution Prevention and Control
  • CHBE 486 (3) Waste Management for Resource Recovery
  • CHBE 487 (3) Interfacial Phenomena
  • CHBE 488 (3) Carbon Capture, Conversion and Sequestration Technologies see the course webpage or the course syllabus
  • CHBE 4911 (1) Thesis Proposal
  • CHBE 4921 (5) Thesis (following CHBE 491)
  • CHBE 4952 (1) Thesis Proposal-Biotechnology Topic
  • CHBE 4962 (5) Thesis-Biotechnology Topic (following CHBE 495)

 

 

 

 

 Non-Departmental Courses

  • APSC 440 Management Fundamentals for Technology-Based Product Marketing and Development
  • APSC 486 (6) New Venture Design
  • APSC 498 (1-6) Directed Studies
  • BIOC 202 (3) Introductory Medical Biochemistry
  • BIOC 302 (3) General Biochemistry
  • BIOL 200 (3) Fundamentals of Cell Biology
  • BIOL 201 (3) Intro to Biochemistry
  • CAPS 391 (3) Introduction to Gross Human Anatomy
  • CHEM 405 (3) Biophysical Chemistry
  • COMR 457 (COMM 457)3 (3) Fundamentals of Financial Accounting
  • FNH 301 (3) Food Chemistry
  • FNH 309 (3) Food Processing
  • FNH 313 (3) Food Microbiology
  • MECH 433 (3) Biofluids
  • MECH 495 (3) Industrial Engineering
  • MECH 496 (3) Engineering Management
  • MINE 486 (3) Mining and the Environment
  • MINE 488 (3) Heavy Oil Sand Mining and Processing
  • MTRL 358 (3) Hydrometallurgy I
  • MTRL 458 (3) Hydrometallurgy II
  • MTRL 495 (3) Biomaterials
  • PHYS 305 (3) Introduction to Biophysics

Chemical Engineering Program

Chemical and Biological Engineering Program
  • CHBE 381 (3) Bioprocess Engineering I
  • CHBE 481 (3) Bioprocess Engineering II
  • APSC 278 (3) Engineering Materials
  • CHBE 474 (3) Process Control Engineering

Notes:

  1. CHBE 491 and CHBE 492 must be taken together.
  2. CHBE 495 and CHBE 496 must be taken together.
  3. Only for students completing the Minor in Commerce Program.
  4. Students completing the Minor in Science Program may use one 3-credit course that is used to fulfill the minor requirement (300/400 level Science) as technical elective credit, subject to approval by a Program Advisor. Please contact undergrad@chbe.ubc.ca for further information.
  5. CHBE 370 may be taken as a technical elective by students who started in CHBE prior to 2019W only.
  6. CHBE 373 and CHBE 485 may only be taken as a technical elective by students who started in CHBE in 2019W or later or started 3rd year courses in 2020W or later.