DEGREE REQUIREMENTS

Major Course Requirement for Dept. of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
(For Master’s Program)

Thesis Master’s Degree Program Please check the common graduation requirements. Credit Requirement for Graduation: Required to complete a total of more than 33 credits. Mandatory General Courses: 3 credits and 1AU Mandatory Major Courses: 6 credits Elective Courses: At least 12 credits
  • It is required, at least, to take 9 credits from lectures offered by the CBE Department.
  • ※ Lectures offered in Graduate School of EEWS by professors of CBE department are considered as lectures offered by CBE department.
Research Courses: At least 12 credits
  • At least 12 credits including 2 credits from Seminar
  • ※ International students who have completed at least one of the Korean language courses are exempted from the completion requirement of taking 2 credits from Seminars.
  • ※ Students of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering who are taking the Interdisciplinary Program are exempted from the completion requirement of taking 2 credits from Seminars, if they have taken the Interdisciplinary Internship Program.
Please check the common graduation requirements.

None

Transitional measures
  • These requirements apply to those who enrolled in 2013 and onward.
  • For those who enrolled in 2012 or before should comply to the former requirements:
    • Master’s Program students who enrolled in 2012: 3 credits of Mandatory Major Course (CBE601); at least 15 credits of Elective Course (12 credits from CBE course)
    • Master’s Program students who enrolled between 2009 and 2011: at least 18 credits of Elective Course (15 credits from CBE course); no Mandatory Major Course required
  • The exemption of the completion requirement of taking Master’s Seminars is applied to all enrolled students.

Major Course Requirement for Dept. of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
(For Doctoral Program)

Please check the common graduation requirements. Credit Requirement for Graduation: Required to complete a total of more than 60 credits Mandatory General Courses: 3 credits and 1AU Mandatory Major Courses: 6 credits Elective Courses: At least 21 credits
  • It is required, at least, to take 12 credits from lectures offered by the CBE department.
  • ※ Lectures offered in Graduate School of EEWS by professors of CBE department are considered as lectures offered by CBE department.
Research Courses: at least 30 credits
  • ※ The course credits earned in the Master's course work can be used towards the Doctoral degree (except research credits).
Transitional Measures
  • These requirements apply to those who enrolled in 2013 and onward.
  • For those who enrolled in 2012 or before should comply to the former requirements:
    • Doctoral, Integrated Master’s and Doctoral Degree Program students who enrolled between 2009 and 2012: at least 27 credits of Elective Course (18 credits from CBE course); no Mandatory Major Course required

Major Course Requirement for Dept. of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
(For MS-PhD Integrated Program)

Please check the common graduation requirements. Credit Requirement for Graduation: Required to complete a total of more than 60 credits Mandatory General Courses: 3 credits and 1AU Mandatory Major Courses: 6 credits Elective Courses: At least 21 credits
  • It is required, at least, to take 12 credits from lectures offered by the CBE department.
  • ※ Lectures offered in Graduate School of EEWS by professors of CBE department are considered as lectures offered by CBE department.
Research Courses: At least 30 credits Transitional Measures
  • These requirements apply to those who enrolled in 2013 and onward.
  • For those who enrolled in 2012 or before should comply to the former requirements:
    • Doctoral, Integrated Master’s and Doctoral Degree Program students who enrolled between 2009 and 2012: at least 27 credits of Elective Course (18 credits from CBE course); no Mandatory Major Course required

Substitute Course List

Substitute Courses Offered by Other Departments
Category Courses Offered by the Department Courses Offered by Other Departments
Course No. Course Title Course No. Course Title Remark
Under graduate CBE203 Industrial Organic Chemistry CH221 Organic Chemistry Ⅰ Unidirectional substitution
Under graduate CBE260 Biomolecular Engineering BS209 Molecular Biology Unidirectional substitution
Under graduate CBE303 Physical Chemistry for
Chemical and Bimolecular
Engineers Ⅰ
CH213 Physical Chemistry Ⅱ Unidirectional substitution
Under graduate CBE362 Bioinformatics Bioinformatics Bioinformatics Unidirectional substitution
Under graduate CBE404 Physical Chemistry for Chemical and Bimolecular Engineers Ⅱ CH211 Physical Chemistry Ⅰ Unidirectional substitution
Graduate CBE567 Metabolic Engineering BiS622 Metabolic Engineering Unidirectional substitution
Graduate CBE653 Mechanical Properties of
Polymers
MAE633 Mechanical Behavior of
Polymeric and Composite Materials
Unidirectional substitution
Graduate CBE712 Surface Phenomena MS654 Surface Science Unidirectional substitution
Graduate CBE861 Special Topics in
Biochemical Engineering
BS760 Selected Topics in
Environmental Biotechnology
Unidirectional substitution
  • ※ Students cannot take both courses to be substituted and courses to be recognized. For example, students can only take either [CBE203] Industrial Organic Chemistry or [CH221] Organic Chemistry Ⅰ.
  • ※ If you have taken [CH213] Physical Chemistry Ⅱ and [CBE303] Physical Chemistry for Chemical and Bimolecular Engineers Ⅰ, or [CH211] Physical Chemistry Ⅰ and [CBE404] Physical Chemistry for Chemical and Bimolecular Engineers Ⅱ in 2013 or before, credits from both courses can be counted in the graduation credits.
  • ※ Substitute courses may differ according to the effective year of the requirements.