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To prepare the next generation of chemical engineering leaders who skillfully integrate their comprehensive understanding of mathematics, physics, chemistry, and biology with engineering expertise to innovatively address challenges in chemical and biomolecular technology, while developing groundbreaking (bio)chemical processes and products.
To cultivate chemical engineering graduates who:
Leverage their strong foundation in mathematics, physics, chemistry, and biology alongside core chemical engineering principles to develop inventive solutions for chemical, biochemical, and biomolecular challenges.
Integrate societal, ethical, environmental, and economic factors—including sustainable development principles—into their chemical, biochemical, and biomolecular engineering work.
Program Outcomes
Graduates of the chemical engineering program will exhibit:
Proficiency in applying mathematical, scientific, and engineering knowledge
Competence in designing experiments, conducting them, and evaluating results
Skill in creating systems, components, or processes that fulfill requirements while considering practical limitations like cost, environmental impact, social factors, political concerns, ethics, safety, production feasibility, and sustainability
Capability to collaborate effectively in interdisciplinary teams
To be considered for admission to UCLA, international students must have completed secondary school with a superior average in academic subjects and have earned a certificate of completion which enables the student to be admitted to a university in the home country.
English language proficiency is critical to your success at UCLA. Applicants, whose first language, or language of instruction for at least the last three years, is not English, are required to take the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) or the International English Language Testing Service (IELTS).
Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL): A competitive score is above 100 (with sub-scores above 22)
International English Language Testing System (IELTS): A competitive score is 7 or higher.