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Department of Petrochemical Materials Engineering

What is Petrochemical Materials Engineering

Petrochemical Materials Engineering is helping solve the world's most daunting challenges in health, energy, and the environment by improving the products that people use every day. Products made from petrochemicals—derived from crude oil and other fossil fuels such as coal and natural gas or from renewable sources such as sugar cane, corn, and other biomass—are found in products as diverse as automobiles, smartphones, computers, clothes, luggage, boats, fertilizers, pesticides, drugs, soaps, paints, flooring, and insulating materials, which are crucial in modern civilization.

Department of Petrochemical Materials Engineering at Chonnam National University

The Department of PCME is to pursue the vision of educating practical field engineers leading the petrochemical industry advancement. Based on petrochemical engineering knowledge, PCME is to promote practical skills such as convergence research of advanced materials and their various applications, and to accumulate the field experience by industry-academic cooperation-education process. In line with the trend of advancement of the petrochemical industry, PCME intends to nurture professional engineers who can lead the creation of future smart industrial complexes and advanced fine chemical material complexes.

Professors

  • Hyosung An[Assistant Professor, Functional polymeric and composite materials, 3D Electron tomography,hyosungan@jnu.ac.kr]
  • Jaewon Byun [Assistant Professor, Process Modeling and Optimization, Techno-Economic Assessment, Life Cycle Assessment, jaewonbyun@jnu.ac.kr]
  • Won Ho Choi [Assistant Professor, Porous materials, Metal-organic frameworks, Electrocatalysts, Energy storage wonhochoi@jnu.ac.kr]
  • Jinsu Kim [Assistant Professor, Mathematical modeling, Gas separation, Kinetic analysis, Machine learning. jinsu.kim@jnu.ac.kr]

Degree Requirements

Students are required to earn at least 130 credit (99 from Department courses and 31 from electives), which normally takes four years of full-time study, and pass qualifying exams or a dissertation.

What Do You Study?

  • Fundamentals of petrochemical materials engineering
  • Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Technologies
  • Basic Design of Chemical Engineering
  • Physical Chemistry 1,2
  • Organic Chemistry 1,2
  • Chemical Process Calculation 1,2
  • Materials Science
  • Basic Experiment Of Chemical Engneering 1,2
  • Chemical Process Thermodynamics
  • Process Control
  • Separation Process
  • Field Practice for PettroChemical material Engineering
  • Organic Synthesis
  • Numerical Analysis in Chemical Engineering
  • Advanced Materials for petrochemical engineering
  • Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics
  • Hybrid Materials for petrochemical material Engineering
  • Chemical Plant Design
  • Chemical Process risk assessment
  • green Chemical Process Design
  • Green Chemical Process
  • Catalyst Chemistry
  • Capstone Design 1,2
  • Chemical Safety and Quality Control
  • chemical electronic materials
  • Comprehensive Design in Chemical plant

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