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, and
PHYS 1321.
Introduction to chemical engineering calculations,
unit equations, process stoichiometry, material and energy balances,
states of matter, and 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.
3300: Materials Science and Engineering I
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: CHEE
2331, CHEM 1332, PHYS 1321 and credit for or concurrent enrollment in MATH 3321.
Properties of materials with emphasis on metals, ceramics, polymers and electronic
materials.
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. Curve fitting, numericla 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.
3466: Biological and Physical Chemistry
Cr. 4. (4-0). Prerequisites: CHEE
3333 and CHEM 3332. Introduction to biochemistry. Physical-chemical topics including
chemical kinetics and adsorption
4198:4298:4398:4498:
Special Problems
Cr. 1-4 per semester, or more by concurrent enrollment. Prerequisite: approval
of chair.
4300: Materials Science and Engineering II
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: CHEE
3300, 3333 and 3363. Advanced topics in selection and design of materials, including
phase diagrams, corrosion and degradation, property selection and control, and
topical case studies.
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.
4366: Biochemical Engineering
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: CHEE 3466 and credit
for or concurrent enrollment in CHEE 4367. Analysis and design fundamental for
biochemical processes, reactor design, transport phenomena; applications of
enzymes and microbial populations.
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 situ and ex situ
methods 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.
5377: Introduction to Polymer Science
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite:
CHEM 3363 or
3366 or consent of instructor. Synthesis, characterization,
physical properties and processing of polymetic materials. Methods to measure and characterize the correlations
among structure processing properties of polymeric materials.
5379: Safety and Reliability
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites:
CHEE 3363,
3369, and
3367. Risks, safeguards, adn hazards associated with
chemical process engineering. Layers of protection, hazard identification, source term models, toxic release
and dispersion models, fires and explosions, probabilistic analysis, fault tree analysis, designs to
prevent accidents, safety-instrumented systems, and safety-related standards and regulations.
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.
5387: Plasma Processing: Principles and Application
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: senior standing in engineering or natural sciences or consent of instructor.
Principles of low pressure glow discharge plasmas: plasma generation and maintenance, plasma chemistry,
plasma diagnostics. Applications with emphasis on semiconductor manufacturing.
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.