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Chemical Engineering Competencies

Program Outcomes which we would like for our students to possess when they leave the university and enter the workforce are subdivided into competencies. The first number of each competency reflects the relationship of the competency to the Program Outcome. Thus, competency 3.1.2 refers to competency number 1.2 of Program Outcome #3. The Chemical Engineering program has 12 Program Outcomes (see Program Outcomes hosted by the University's Educational Programs site).

Different classes and program activities help the student develop the competency. A search below on any competency will return the associated classes and program activities that develop the competency. A search on any class or program activity will return all of the competencies that are to be developed by that class or activity. For each competency, there is a level of assessment and usage.

Level of Assessment

1 - Student is exposed to material but not necessarily assessed
2 - Competency is assessed in course
3 - Competency is assessed in course and again before graduation

Usage

I - (Introductory) The competency is covered at an introductory level
M - (Major) Major exposure to competency occurs in the course
R - (Review) Competency taught previously is reviewed.
P - (Programmatic) The competency occurs widely throughout the curriculum and is not specific to a particular course.

Please choose a competency or a class

Competency Number:

-- 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 3.1.1 3.1.1.1 3.1.1.2 3.1.2 3.1.2.1 3.1.2.2 3.1.2.3 3.1.3 3.1.4 3.1.5 3.1.6 3.2 3.2.1 3.2.2 3.2.3 3.2.4 3.2.5 3.2.6 3.2.7 3.3.1 3.3.2 3.3.3 3.3.4 3.3.5 3.3.7 3.3.8 3.3.9 3.4.1 3.4.2 3.4.3 3.4.3.1 3.4.3.2 3.4.4 3.4.5 3.4.6 3.4.7 3.5.1 3.5.2 3.5.3 3.5.4 3.6.1 3.6.1.1 3.6.1.2 3.6.3 3.6.4 3.6.5 3.6.6 3.6.7 3.6.8 3.7.1 3.7.1.1 3.7.1.2 3.7.2 3.7.3 3.7.4 3.7.5 3.7.6 3.7.7 3.8.1 3.8.2 3.8.3 3.8.4 3.8.5 3.8.6 3.8.7 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8 4.9 5.1 5.1.1 5.1.2 5.1.3 5.1.4 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 8.1 8.2 8.5 9.1 9.2 10.1.1 10.1.2 10.1.3 10.1.4 10.1.5 10.2.1 10.2.1.1 10.2.1.2 10.2.2 10.2.3 10.3.1 10.3.2 10.3.3 10.3.4 10.4.1 10.4.2 10.4.3 10.4.5 10.4.6 10.4.7 10.5.1 10.5.2 10.5.3 10.5.4 10.6.1 10.6.2 10.7.1 10.7.2 10.7.3 10.7.4 10.8.1 10.8.2 10.8.3 10.8.4 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 12.5 12.6 12.7 12.8

Class:

-- Advanced Chemistry Advanced Mathematics Advising Basic Sciences and Mathematics ChEn 170 ChEn 263 ChEn 273 ChEn 291 ChEn 311 ChEn 373 ChEn 374 ChEn 376 ChEn 378 ChEn 391 ChEn 436 ChEn 451 ChEn 475 ChEn 476 ChEn 477 ChEn 478 Dean's Lecture Ecclesiastical Endorsement Engl 316 External Service Activity GE/Religion General Level 3 exam Stat 361 Student Chapter

Level 3 exam

Competency 3.1.1.1

Students will be able to convert fundamental units and simple combinations of fundamental units between and within the AES and SI systems of units
Level: 3  Usage: M

Competency 3.1.1.2

Students will be able to convert derived units (e.g., force, pressure, power, etc.) between and within the AES and SI systems of units
Level: 3  Usage: M

Competency 3.1.2.1

Students will be able to solve steady-state material balances for non-reacting, single-unit systems.
Level: 3  Usage: M

Competency 3.1.2.2

Students will be able to solve steady-state energy balances for single-unit, isothermal, reacting systems.
Level: 3  Usage: M

Competency 3.1.2.3

Students will be able to solve steady-state material balances for single-unit, reacting systems.
Level: 3  Usage: M

Competency 3.2.1

Students will be able to identify equilibrium phases on either PT or PV projections of the PVT surface, and be able to obtain vapor pressures for pure components for a given temperature.
Level: 3  Usage: M

Competency 3.3.1

Students will be able to solve the mechanical energy balance for frictionless flow with and without shaft work.
Level: 3  Usage: M

Competency 3.3.2

Students will be able to (1) describe qualitatively the physical significance of viscosity in terms of fluid behavior; (2) define and describe the physical significance of Re; (3) describe flow regimes that correspond to different values of Re.
Level: 3  Usage: M

Competency 3.4.1

Students will: (1) be able to assign appropriate modes of heat transfer to a given physical scenario; (2) know (from memory) Newton's law of cooling; and (3) understand and be able to use Fourier's law (one dimensional) and Newton's law of cooling.
Level: 3  Usage: M

Competency 3.4.2

Students will understand conduction and convection resistances, and be able to quantitatively use q = (Delta T)/(Sum Res) and q = UA(Delta T)_lm.
Level: 3  Usage: M

Competency 3.4.3.1

Students will understand q = hA(Delta T) and how h is qualitatively related to Nu, Re, and Pr, and how to obtain a value for h - qualitative problem.
Level: 3  Usage: M

Competency 3.4.3.2

Students will understand q = hA(Delta T) and how h is qualitatively related to Nu, Re, and Pr, and how to obtain a value for h - quantitative problem.
Level: 3  Usage: M

Competency 3.5.1

Students will understand Fick's law and the contributions to the flux arising from a driving force and from convection.
Level: 3  Usage: M

Competency 3.5.2

Students will be able to use the heat/mass transfer analogy to estimate mass transfer coefficients.
Level: 3  Usage: M

Competency 3.6.1.1

Students will understand and be able to use definitions of rate and nth-order rate expressions. They will know how to determine n from basic rate data.
Level: 3  Usage: M

Competency 3.6.1.2

Students will understand and be able to use definitions of rate, nth-order rate expressions, and the Arrhenius temperature dependence k = Aexp(-E/RT). They will know how to determine E from basic rate data.
Level: 3  Usage: M

Competency 3.7.1.1

Students will be able to solve steady-state, first law problems with open, non-reacting, single-process units (e.g., compressors, valves, heat exchangers).
Level: 3  Usage: M

Competency 3.7.1.2

Students will be able to solve first-law problems with single process units for closed systems.
Level: 3  Usage: M

Competency 3.7.2

Students will be able to solve bubble and dew point problems assuming Raoult's Law behavior.
Level: 3  Usage: M

Competency 3.7.3

Students will know how Delta G is related to equilibrium constants and will be able to calculate an equilibrium constant (from Delta Go) at 298 K and relate equilibrium constants to the extent of reaction for ideal gas phase reactions.
Level: 3  Usage: M

Competency 10.1.1

Students will be able to use the design equations for ideal reactors to determine reactor volume, feed flow rate, or conversion.
Level: 3  Usage: M

Competency 10.2.1

Students will be able to do preliminary size and performance calculations on shell-and tube heat exchangers using the log-mean temperature difference method.
Level: 3  Usage: M

Competency 10.3.1

Students will be able to determine the power required for a pump to deliver a specified flow rate of an incompressible fluid through a single pipeline (excludes flow in parallel lengths) consisting of pipe (multiple diameters acceptable), valves, and fittings.
Level: 3  Usage: M

Competency 10.4.2

Students will be able to use Raoult's Law and vapor pressure correlations to solve the VLE and mass balances associated with a single-stage isothermal flash. (Adiabatic flames are considered level 2.)
Level: 3  Usage: M