Information for Potential Graduate Applicants
Please read the following first:
- The letter below is what you will get for your general inquiry. The letter tells you how to get online forms and how to get the forms by air mail.
- Please do not send your general inquiry to our department chairman or secretary. Your inquiry will be forwarded to the grad chair.
- We will not pre-evaluate your application via email. You must submit your application and pay the application fee. Financial aid is very competitive. Only a small fraction of applicants accepted will receive an offer of financial assistance.
Letter To Prospective Applicants
If you send a general inquiry to our department for information about our graduate programs, the following is the letter you will receive.
Dear Prospective Applicant:
Thank you for your inquiry concerning graduate studies in Chemical Engineering at Ohio University. All the application materials and graduate study information can be found at our web site at http://www.ohio.edu/chemical. If you need a short graduate bulletin which contains application materials via air mail, please contact:
Office of Graduate Studies
Ohio University
Athens, OH 45701
PHONE: (740) 593-2800
FAX: (740) 593-4625
http://www.ohio.edu/graduate/
http://www.collegesource.org/displayinfo/catalink.asp
E-mail: gradapps@ohio.edu
I have included some information from our "Fact Sheet" about our department and university below.
Programs leading to both the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in our department are supported by active research in the areas of coal conversion and utilization technologies, polymerization reaction engineering, materials engineering, process dynamics and control, separation processes, applied mathematics, transport phenomena, corrosion in multiphase systems, environmental assessment, biochemical engineering, and thermodynamics.
Current research funding sources include university, state, federal, and industrial sponsors. The research effort is conducted at a high level, with frequent interdisciplinary involvement (mechanical engineering, civil engineering, physics, chemistry), sophisticated computer utilization (Intergraph CAD/CAM, IBM mainframes, various microcomputers, and supercomputer access), and excellent laboratory facilities.
Graduate course work represents a challenging and rewarding mixture of theoretical and applied studies. Students are expected to have a solid background in chemical engineering fundamentals, be computer literate, and be able to communicate effectively in English.
The M.S. course work is keyed to begin in the Fall quarter of each year with courses in applied mathematics and transport phenomena. Although students can be admitted in any quarter, they should make every effort to begin their studies in the Fall.
Many students are supported through external or internal funding during some or all of their studies. However, students who are accepted into the program without a specific pledge of financial support should plan their studies assuming that they will not be supported during their entire stay at Ohio University. This approach will enable the student to avoid undue financial hardship should financial aid not be made available.
A separate application for financial aid is not required. All admitted students are considered for financial aid, including tuition scholarships and graduate assistantships. Awards are based solely upon the quality of the student's background and expectations for performance at the graduate level.
Please note that considerable information about our program, including the complete text of our graduate brochure, is available on the World Wide Web at http://www.ohio.edu/chemical/graduate/. The admission forms, etc. are also available on the Web. If you have access to the Web, you are invited to check us out.
We look forward to receiving your application.
Ohio University
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
