B.S. in Chemical Engineering + Data Science
About Chemical Engineering + Data Science
As with many other scientific fields, chemical engineering has undergone a digital transformation in recent years, with massive data sets now being collected during all stages of research and industrial processes. Students with a balanced education in both chemical engineering and data science will be uniquely poised to harness big data for applications in chemical engineering and chemical sciences.
The Chemical Engineering + Data Science (ChemE+DS) major prepares students to tackle problems using modern computational and statistical methods, equipping them with the technical skills to construct models, analyze, interpret and visualize data, and make data-driven decisions in light of technology, economic and safety/ethics considerations.
Curriculum Information
This major is sponsored jointly by the Departments of Statistics, Computer Science, Mathematics, and Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, and the iSchool. The ChemE+DS degree plan combines chemical engineering education with training in data science principles, techniques and practices. Students take the full chemical engineering core as well as coursework that includes statistics, data analysis, data modeling, machine learning and other data science topics. They also take data curation and ethics courses, and finish with a data science practicum course.
The B.S. in Chemical Engineering + Data Science is a 132-credit hour program. Full curriculum details for this degree are listed in the Academic Catalog. For more information about this major, contact our department's academic advisors in the School of Chemical Sciences at scs-advising@illinois.edu.