Courses: Chemical Engineering (CHEE)

1131: The Challenge of Chemical Engineering
Cr. 1. (1-0). Prerequisite: Science or engineering major. Introduction to chemical engineering as a profession. Developing areas, career opportunities, communication skills, and engineering ethics.

1331: Computing for Engineers (also CIVE 1331, INDE 1331)
Cr. 3. (2-2). Prerequisites: MATH 1431. Credit may not be received for more than one of CHEE 1331, CIVE 1331, and INDE 1331. Introduction to the computing environment; matrix arithmetic; programming essentials; spreadsheets; symbolic algebra tools; solution of typical engineering problems using computing tools.

2331: Chemical Processes
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: CHEM 1332, MATH 1432, PHYS 1321. Introduction to chemical engineering calculations, unit equations, process stoichiometry, material and energy balances, states of matter, case studies.

2332: Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics I
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: CHEM 1332, MATH 2433, PHYS 1321, CHEE 2331. Fundamental concepts of thermodynamic systems, heat and work, properties of pure substances, first and second laws.

3333: Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics II
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: CHEE 2332. Multicomponent systems, phase equilibria, and prediction of thermodynamic properties.

3334: Statistical/Numerical Techniques for Chemical Engineers
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: CIVE 1331 or CHEE 1331, CHEE 2332, MATH 3321 or equivalent and credit for or concurrent enrollment in ENGI 3363 or CHEE 3363. Statistics for chemical engineers, numerical methods in linear algebra, non-linear algebraic equations, ordinary and partial differential equations, optimization. Special emphasis is placed on problems appearing in chemical engineering applications.

3363: Fluid Mechanics for Chemical Engineers (formerly ENGI 3363)
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: CHEE 2332, MATH 3321 or equivalent, MECE 3400, PHYS 1321 and credit for or concurrent enrollment in CHEE 3334. Foundations of fluid mechanics, fluid statics, kinematics, laminar and turbulent flow; macroscopic balances; dimensional analysis and flow correlations.

3366: Topics in Physical Chemistry
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: CHEE 3333. Introduction to various physical-chemical topics; electrochemistry, chemical kinetics, colloid and particle science, macromolecules.

3367: Process Modeling and Control
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: CHEE 3334, CHEE 3363 or ENGI 3363, MATH 3321, and PHYS 1322. Modeling techniques of chemical engineering problems with emphasis on process control.

3369: Chemical Engineering Transport Processes
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ENGI 3363 or CHEE 3363. Mass transfer in single and multiphase systems and combined heat and mass transfer. Selected topics in heat and mass transfer, and in heat and momentum transfer.

3399-4399: Senior Honors Thesis
Cr. 3 per semester. Prerequisites: senior standing; 3.00 cumulative grade point average in chemical engineering and overall.

3462: Unit Operations
Cr. 4. (3-1.5). Prerequisites: CHEE 3333, ENGI 3363 or CHEE 3363 and credit for or concurrent enrollment in CHEE 3369. Unit operations with emphasis on distillation, absorption, extraction, and fluid-solid systems.

4198:4298:4398:4498: Special Problems
Cr. 1-4 per semester, or more by concurrent enrollment. Prerequisite: approval of chair.

4321:4322: Chemical Engineering Design
Cr. 3 per semester. (3-0). Prerequisites: CHEE 3333, 3462, 3369, and credit for or concurrent enrollment in CHEE 4367. Computer-aided design of chemical processes with emphasis on process economics, profitability analysis, and optimum operating conditions.

4361: Chemical Engineering Practices
Cr. 3. (1.5-5). Prerequisites: CHEE 3462, 3369, 3367, and credit for or concurrent enrollment in CHEE 4367. Design and execution of experiments with emphasis on heat and mass transport, unit operations, process control, and reactors. Written reports.

4367: Chemical Reaction Engineering
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: CHEE 3366, 3369, and 3462. Chemical reaction kinetics, mechanisms, and reactor design in static and flow systems; introduction to heterogeneous catalytic reactions in flow systems.

5360: Biochemical Engineering Fundamentals
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: credit for or concurrent enrollment in CHEE 4367. Analysis and design fundamentals for biochemical process, reactor design, transport phenomena; applications of enzymes and microbial populations.

5367: Advanced Process Control
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: CHEE 3367 or consent of instructor. Application of high-speed computers in the control of chemical processes, reactors, and units.

5371: Pollution Control Engineering
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: credit for or concurrent enrollment in CHEE 4321 and CHEE 4367. Pollution problems and remedies with the earth as an environmentally closed system. Limitations of absorption and self-cleaning for terrasphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere and their interrelationship.

5373: Environmental Remediation
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: CHEE 3363 or ENGI 3363, CHEE 3462, and credit for or concurrent enrollment in CHEE 4367. In situand ex situmethods of remediation or restoration of contaminated environmental sites. Emphasis is on hydrocarbon contaminants in soil, surface water and groundwater.

5374: Reaction Kinetics for Industrial Processes
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: credit for or concurrent enrollment in CHEE 4367. Methods for predicting product distributions in practical chemical reactors. Determination of thermochemical and kinetic constants from statistical mechanics and transition-state theory. Applications from vapor phase processes to catalysis.

5375: Chemical Processing in Microelectronics
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: CHEE 4367 or consent of instructor. Chemical engineering principles applied to micro-electronic device fabrication and processing.

5376: Solid/Liquid Separation-Environmental Processes
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ENGI 3363 or CHEE 3363. Introduction to solid/fluid separation and processing. Particle characteristics. Porous media. Interfacial phenomena. Flow through compactible and granular beds. Sedimentation, clarification, filtration, centrifugation, expression, and washing.

5380: Biochemical Separations
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: senior standing in chemical engineering or consent of instructor. Addresses the most difficult part of many biotechnological projects-actually producing a cloned protein in useful amounts. Some attention is also given to the use of recombinant DNA methodologies to produce proteins, and to characterization methods.

5383: Advanced Unit Operations
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: senior standing in chemical engineering or consent of instructor. Property prediction of multicomponent fluids. Advanced principles of heat exchanger design, multicomponent fractionation, absorption, stripping and extraction.

5384: Petrochemical Processes
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: CHEM 3332 and senior standing or consent of instructor. Petrochamical industry in terms of feedstocks, products, companies and trends. Technology, markets, and economics for the major building blocks and derivatives.

5386: Air Pollution Problems and Control
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Air pollutant identification and control technology; estimation of pollutant transport, dispersion, and conversion; computer application for design of control units.

5388: Catalytic Processes
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: credit for or concurrent enrollment in CHEE 4321 and 4367. Process-oriented survey of catalytic technology; catalyst selection and design; catalytic processes, engineering and economics in the petroleum, chemical, and pollution control industries.

5397: Selected Topics
Cr. 3. (3-0). May be repeated for credit when topics vary.