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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.
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.
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.