CH ENGR 100Fundamentals of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Chemical Engineering · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Introduction to analysis and design of industrial chemical processes. Material and energy balances. Introduction to programming in MATLAB.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Fall 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Enforced requisites: Chemistry 20B, 20L (not enforced), Mathematics 32B (may be taken concurrently), Physics 1A.
BruinTree reads · Prerequisite
confidence 1.00 · from text- CHEM 20B
- CHEM 20L
- MATH 32Bmay be taken concurrently
- PHYSICS 1A
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
CH ENGR 100
- CHEM 20BChemical Energetics and Change
- CHEM 14AGeneral Chemistry for Life Scientists I
- LIFESCI 30AMathematics for Life Scientists
- MATH 3ACalculus for Life Sciences Students
- CHEM 14AEGeneral Chemistry for Life Scientists I—Enhanced
- CHEM 20AHChemical Structure (Honors)
- MATH 32BCalculus of Several Variables
- PHYSICS 1APhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics
- CHEM 20LGeneral Chemistry Laboratory
- CHEM 14BGeneral Chemistry for Life Scientists II
- LIFESCI 30BMathematics for Life Scientists
- MATH 3BCalculus for Life Sciences Students
- CHEM 20AChemical Structure
4 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 35 courses over 3 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
CH ENGR 100
- CH ENGR 103Separation Processes
- CH ENGR 104BChemical and Biomolecular Engineering Laboratory II
- CH ENGR C121Membrane Science and Technology
- CH ENGR C221Membrane Science and Technology
- CH ENGR 104AChemical and Biomolecular Engineering Laboratory I
- CH ENGR 108AProcess Economics and Analysis
- CH ENGR C119Pollution Prevention for Chemical Processes
- CH ENGR C219Pollution Prevention for Chemical Processes
- CH ENGR 106Chemical Reaction Engineering
- CH ENGR 107Process Dynamics and Control
- CH ENGR C135Advanced Process Control
- CH ENGR C235Advanced Process Control
- CH ENGR 108BChemical Process Computer-Aided Design and Analysis
- CH ENGR 250Computer-Aided Chemical Process Design
- CH ENGR 210Advanced Chemical Reaction Engineering
- CH ENGR 236Chemical Vapor Deposition
- CH ENGR 230Reaction Kinetics
- CH ENGR 231Molecular Dynamics
- CH ENGR 232Combustion Processes
3 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 25 courses over 3 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.