Approved Electives (5 Required)
No courses may be used for both core and elective courses. Due to overlap of curricula, only one from each of the pairs PHYS 521/CHEM 530, and PHYS 526/CHEM 520/CHBE 540 may be used for the nine required courses. MSNE 506 will not be accepted as an approved elective. Note that all courses are not available for all academic years or semesters.
For any electives not on this list, students will need the approval of the Applied Physics Curriculum Committee. Send an email to sciapp@rice.edu with course number, title, instructor, description, and any restrictions, prerequisites, and co-requisites, noting that the request is for credit for an elective not on the approved list.
| Elective Number(s) | Elective Name |
|---|---|
| BIOC 524 | Microbiology & Biotechnology |
| BIOC 551 | Molecular Biophysics I |
| BIOC 589/BIOE 589 | Computational Molecular Bioengineering/Biophysics |
| BIOE 502 | Physical Biology |
| BIOE 508 | Synthetic Biology |
| BIOE 512 | Biophotonics Instrumentation and Applications |
| BIOE 517 | Instrumentation and molecular analysis |
| BIOE 539 | Applied Statistics for Bioengineering & Biotechnology |
| BIOE 548/ELEC 548 | Neural Signal Processing |
| BIOE 552 | Introductory Computational System Biology: Modeling & Design Principles of Biochem Networks |
| BIOE 561 | Principles of Bioengineering |
| BIOE 574 | Continuum Biomechanics |
| BIOE 580 | Protein Engineering |
| BIOE 584 | Lasers in Medicine and Bioengineering |
| BIOE 587 | Optical Imaging and Nanobiophotonics |
| BIOE 589/BIOC 589 | Computational Molecular Bioengineering/Biophysics |
| BIOE 592 | Sensory Neuroengineering |
| BIOE 610/PHYS 610 | Methods of Molecular Simulation |
| BIOE 684 | Advanced Biophotonics |
| CAAM 519 | Computational Science I |
| CAAM 520 | Computational Science II |
| CAAM 536 | Numerical Solutions of Partial Differential Equations |
| CAAM 551 | Numerical Linear Algebra |
| CAAM 567 | Signal Recovery |
| CAAM 583 | Intro to Random Processes & Applications |
| CAAM 615 | Theoretical Neuroscience: From Cells to Learning Systems |
| CEVE 538/MSNE 538 | Computational Nanoscience |
| CHBE 502 | Heat and Mass Transport |
| CHBE 510 | Fundamentals & Applications in Electrochemical Energy Conversion |
| CHBE 518 | Electron Transport in Solids |
| CHBE 540 | Statistical Physics |
| CHBE 548 | Energy Systems & Sustainable Development |
| CHBE 560 | Colloidal and Interfacial Phenomena |
| CHBE 571 | Flow and Transport Through Porous Media I |
| CHBE 590 | Kinetics, Catalysis and Reaction Engineering |
| CHBE 594/MSNE 594 | Properties of Polymers |
| CHBE 597/CHEM 597/MSNE 597 | Polymer Synthesis, Soft materials and Nanocomposites |
| CHBE 602 | Physico-Chemical Hydrodynamics |
| CHBE 603 | Rheology |
| CHBE 615 | Applications of Molecular Simulations and Statistical Mechanics |
| CHBE 620 | Tissue Engineering |
| CHBE 630 | Chemical Engineering of Nanostructured Materials |
| CHBE 671 | Flow and Transport Through Porous Media II |
| CHEM 511 | Spectral Methods in Organic Chemistry |
| CHEM 515 | Chemical Kinetics and Dynamics |
| CHEM 520 | Classical and Statistical Thermodynamics |
| CHEM 530 | Quantum Chemistry |
| CHEM 531 | Advanced Quantum Chemistry |
| CHEM 533 | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology I |
| CHEM 547 | Supramolecular Chemistry |
| CHEM 550 | Chemical Physics of Condensed and Biological Matter |
| CHEM 557 | Nanocarbons |
| CHEM 558 | Nanocrystals |
| CHEM 559 | Spectroscopy at the Single Molecular/Particle Limit |
| CHEM 560 | Advanced Optical Microscopy |
| CHEM 580/MSNE 580 | Microscopy Methods |
| CHEM 592 | Statistical Data Analysis |
| CHEM 595 | Transition Metal Chemistry |
| CHEM 597/CHBE 597/MSNE 597 | Polymer Synthesis, Soft materials and Nanocomposites |
| CHEM 630 | Molecular Spectroscopy & Group Theory |
| CHEM 661/ELEC 661/MSNE 661 | Nanophotonics, Spectroscopy, and Materials for Sustainability |
| COMP 502/ELEC 502 | Neural Machine Learning I |
| COMP 540 | Statistical Machine Learning |
| COMP 642 | Machine Learning |
| ELEC 502/COMP 502 | Neural Machine Learning I |
| ELEC 523 | Introduction to Microfabrication |
| ELEC 531 | Statistical Signal Processing |
| ELEC 546 | Intro to Computer Vision |
| ELEC 548/BIOE 548 | Neural Signal Processing |
| ELEC 549 | Computational Photography |
| ELEC 560 | Physics of Sensors |
| ELEC 562 | Optoelectronic Devices |
| ELEC 563 | Introduction to Solid State Physics I |
| ELEC 564/PHYS 564 | Introduction to Solid State Physics II |
| ELEC 565 | Materials for Energy & Photocatalysis |
| ELEC 566 | Nanophotonics & Metamaterials |
| ELEC 567 | Nano-Optics |
| ELEC 568 | Intro to Quantum Computing with Qiskit |
| ELEC 569/PHYS 569 | Ultrafast Optical Phenomena |
| ELEC 571 | Imaging at the Nanoscale |
| ELEC 572 | Multiphysics Modeling |
| ELEC 573 | Network Science and Analytics |
| ELEC 574 | Ubiquitous & Wearable Computing |
| ELEC 575 | Learning from Sensor Data |
| ELEC 576/COMP 576 | A Practical Introduction to Deep Machine Learning |
| ELEC 578 | Introduction to Machine Learning |
| ELEC 581 | Quantum Information Processing |
| ELEC 582 | Imaging Optics |
| ELEC 585/BIOE 591 | Fundamentals of Medical Imaging |
| ELEC 587 | Intro to Neuroengineering |
| ELEC 588/CMORE 615/NEUR 615 | Theoretical Neuroscience |
| ELEC 589 | Neural Computation |
| ELEC 591 | Electrical Engineering Research- Vertically Integrated Projects |
| ELEC 592 | Topics in Quantum Optics (Nonlinear Optics) |
| ELEC 604 | Nano-Optics |
| ELEC 605/PHYS 605 | Computational Electrodynamics and Nanophotonics |
| ELEC 631 | Advanced Machine Learning |
| ELEC 645/MSNE 645 | Thin Films |
| ELEC 660 | Quantum Information Science & Technology |
| ELEC 661/CHEM 661/MSNE 661 | Nanophotonics, Spectroscopy, and Materials for Sustainability |
| ELEC 677 | (special topics course; must request approval for each term) |
| ELEC 680 | Nano-Neurotechnology |
| ELEC 691 | Seminar Topics in Nanotechnology |
| MECH 520 | Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis |
| MECH 679 | Lunar Vehicle and Spacecraft Design |
| MECH 682 | Convective Heat Transfer |
| MECH 683 | Radiative Heat Transfer I |
| MECH 684 | Microscopic Thermodynamics and Transport |
| MSNE 502 | Mechanical Properties of Materials |
| MSNE 503 | Thermodynamics & Transport Phenomena in Materials Science |
| MSNE 510 | Scaling Concepts in 2D Materials and Polymer Physics |
| MSNE 512 | Quantum Materials Engineering |
| MSNE 523 | Properties, Synthesis, and Design of Composite Materials |
| MSNE 533 | Computational Materials Modeling |
| MSNE 535/PHYS 535 | Crystallography and Diffraction |
| MSNE 538/CEVE 538 | Computational Nanoscience |
| MSNE 540 | Thin Film and Device Physics |
| MSNE 555 | Materials in Nature and Biometic Strategies |
| MSNE 580/CHEM 580 | Microscopy Methods |
| MSNE 594/CHBE 594 | Properties of Polymers |
| MSNE 597/CHBE 597/CHEM 597 | Polymer Synthesis, Soft materials and Nanocomposites |
| MSNE 610 | Crystal Thermodynamics |
| MSNE 614 | Special Topics II |
| MSNE 615 | Special Topics III |
| MSNE 623 | Spectroscopy: Tools in Materials Science |
| MSNE 634 | Thermodynamics of Alloys |
| MSNE 635 | Transformation of Alloys |
| MSNE 645/ELEC 645 | Thin Films |
| MSNE 650 | Nanomaterials and Nanomechanics |
| MSNE 661/CHEM 661/ELEC 661 | Nanophotonics, Spectroscopy, and Materials for Sustainability |
| MSNE 666 | Conduction Phenomena in Solids |
| NEUR 582 | Introduction to Computational Neuroscience |
| NEUR 615/CMOR 615/ELEC 588 | Theoretical Neuroscience |
| PHYS 580 | Introduction to Plasma Physics |
| PHYS 510 | Magnetospheric Physics |
| PHYS 512 | Ionospheric Physics |
| PHYS 513 | Introduction to General Relativity |
| PHYS 515 | Classical Mechanics |
| PHYS 516 | Mathematical Methods |
| PHYS 517 | Computational Methods |
| PHYS 519 | Plasma Kinetic Theory |
| PHYS 521 | Quantum Mechanics I |
| PHYS 526 | Statistical Physics |
| PHYS 532 | Classical Electrodynamics |
| PHYS 533 | Nanostructures and Nanotechnology I |
| PHYS 534 | Nanostructures and Nanotechnology II |
| PHYS 535/MSNE 535 | Crystallography and Diffraction |
| PHYS 537 | Methods of Experimental Physics I |
| PHYS 538 | Methods of Experimental Physics II |
| PHYS 539 | Characterization and Fabrication at the Nanoscale |
| PHYS 542 | Introduction to Nuclear and Particle Physics |
| PHYS 549 | Physics Data Science And Machine Learning Laboratory |
| PHYS 551 | Biological Physics |
| PHYS 552 | Topics in Biological Physics |
| PHYS 563 | Introduction to Solid State Physics I |
| PHYS 564/ELEC 564 | Introduction to Solid State Physics II |
| PHYS 566 | Surface Physics |
| PHYS 567 | Quantum Materials |
| PHYS 568 | Quantum Phase Transition |
| PHYS 569/ELEC 569 | Ultrafast Optical Phenomena |
| PHYS 571 | Modern Atomic Physics and Quantum Optics |
| PHYS 572 | Fundamentals of Quantum Optics |
| PHYS 600 | (special topics course; must request approval for each term) |
| PHYS 605/ELEC 605 | Computational Electrodynamics and Nanophotonics |
| PHYS 610/BIOE 610 | Biological & Molecular Simulation |
| PHYS 663 | Condensed Matter Theory: Applications |
| PHYS 664 | Condensed Matter Theory: Many-Body Formalism |
| STAT 518 | Probability |
| STAT 519 | Statistical Inference |
| STAT 583 | Introduction to Random Processes and Applications |
| STAT 622 | Bayesian Data Analysis |