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Principles of chemical processes and analyses with spreadsheets and graphics. Applying chemical engineering
to current problems.(F,W) 2 Credits.
ChE 263: Problem Solving Techniques
for Chemical Engineers
Use of spreadsheets, advanced equation solving packages, and structured languages to solve engineering
problems. Introduction to chemical process principles. College lecture attendance required.(F,Sp) 2 Credits.
Material Balances. College lecture attendance required.(W,Sp) 3 credits.
Presentations by faculty, advisors, and industrial representatives. College lecture attendance required.
Required one semester of freshman year.(F,W) 1/2 Credit.
Energy sources, demands, and processes; costs and environmental studies; case studies of various fuel and alternate
energy sources; introduction to combustion and flames.(F2009, Sp2011) 3 credits.
ChE 311: Chemical Engineering & Society
Responsibility of chemical engineers when interacting with society relative to safety, environment, and ethics.
College lecture attendance required.(F) 3 credits.
ChE 373: Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics
First and second laws of thermodynamics as applied to behavior of real fluids; physical and chemical equilibrium.
College lecture attendance required.(W) 3 credits.
Basic mass, momentum, and energy relations of fluid flow; design of fluid handling systems and equipment.
College lecture attendance required.(F) 3 credits.
Heat and mass transfer, including conduction, convection, radiation, diffusion; steady and unsteady state
systems; transport analogies; design application.(W) 3 credits.
Fundamental principles of solid materials and their properties and behavior in engineering applications
of metals, polymers, ceramics, and glasses.(F) 3 credits.
Basic introduction to semiconductors and principles involved in semiconductor
production. (Based on instructor availability) 3 credits.
ChE 391: Junior Seminar
Seminar for Juniors. Presentations by faculty, advisors, and industrial representatives.
(W) 1 credit.
ChE 400: Creative Skills in Chemical Engineering
Application of creativity and technical knowledge from prior course work to solution of relevant, open-ended problems.(F) 1 Credit
ChE 410: Principles of Reservoir Engineering
Reservoir and hydrocarbon classification; fluid flow; primary oil and gas recovery mechanisms; enhanced oil recovery.(W - Alt. Yr.)
3 Credits.
ChE 412: Nuclear Engineering
Principles and applications of nuclear reactor design.(F - Alt. Yr.) 3 credits.
Process systems, associated control systems , and instrumentation. Use of Laplace transforms and complex variables. College lecture attendance required.(F)
3 credits.
ChE 451: Chemical Engineering Plant Design and Process Synthesis
Design of chemical engineering machinery; plants and/or processes requiring application of unit operations;
chemical process principles; economic analysis. Synthesis and optimization of chemical processes.
College lecture attendance required.(W) 4 credits.
Experimental verification of unit operations design principles; data collection and reduction; report preparation.
Stage operations, distillation, extraction, and absorption; design applications.(475:F,Sp; 477:W,Sp) 2 Credits.
Stage operations, distillation, extraction, and absorption; design applications.(F) 3 credits.
Fundamental principles and equations of chemical kinetics and reactor design.(W) 3 credits.
ChE 493R: Special Topics-Undergraduate
Classroom study based on student and faculty interest. Variable Credits.
ChE 498R: Undergraduate Research
Final report required; 2 hours max allowed for degree credit
ChE 499R: Undergraduate Thesis Research
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Application of chemical engineering principles to model physiologic systems and to solve medical problems.(W) 3 Credits.
ChE 528: Industrial Catalytic Processes.
Fundamentals of catalytic chemistry and materials; applications to important industrial catalytic processes.
Includes catalyst materials and preparation, catalyst characterization, fixed-bed reactor design, and catalyst
deactivation. (Sp alt. yr.) 2 Credits.
ChE 531: Thermodynamics of Multicomponent Systems
Fundamental concepts and applications in first and second laws, equilibrium and stability, phase equilibrium,
and homogeneous and heterogeneous chemical equilibrium.(F) 3 Credits.
ChE 533: Transport
Phenomena
Transport mechanisms and coefficients and fundamental field equations for momentum, heat and mass transport,
with applications to system design.(F) 3 Credits.
ChE 535: Kinetics and Catalysis
Theories and principles of chemical kinetics, including heterogeneous catalysis and reactor design. 3 credits
ChE 541: Computer Design Methods
Computer-aided design and numerical methods of chemical engineering processes.(W - Alt. Yr.) 3 Credits.
ChE 578: Polymer Science and Engineering
Fundamentals of polymer chemistry and physics and their implications in engineering applications; topics include
polymerization chemistry, structure-property relationships, polymer physics, and transport properties. (W)
3 Credits.
ChE 601: Directed Graduate Studies
Guided preparation for department's comprehensive exams for formulation of research prospectus.(W) 2 Credits.
ChE 631: Applied Statistical Mechanics
Fundamentals of statistical mechanics and their application to calculating thermodynamic and transport properties
of fluids and fluid mixtures.(W - Alt. Yr.) 3 Credits.
ChE 633: Combustion Processes
Fundamentals of transport processes in reacting flow systems with specific applications of various combustion
processes. 3 Credits.
ChE 634: Advanced Mass Transfer
Fundamental mass trandfer for multicomponent and flow systems. Includes influence of species activities and temerature gradients.(W - Alt. Yr. with ME 522) 3 Credits.
Theory of combustion systems and quantitative procedures for computing performance of combustion chambers.
Applications include turbulent combustion of gases, sprays, and particulates.(Sp - Alt. Yr.) 3 Credits.
ChE 674: Advanced Thermodynamics
Advanced topics in thermodynamics, including electrolytes, phase equilibrium modeling, nonequilibium thermodynamics,
and calorimetry.(per student request) 2 Credits.
ChE 685: Chemical Engineering for Chemistry Students
Intensive treatment of fundamentals of material and energy balances, fluid flow, and heat and mass transfer,
with application to design and analysis of engineering systems.(per student request) 6 Credits.
Technical presentations by graduate students, faculty members, and guests.(F, W) Combined with 791R 0.5 Credits.
ChE 693R: Special Topics-Graduate
ChE 697R: Special Problems-Graduate
ChE 698R: Masters Project
ChE 699R: Masters Thesis
Fundamentals of coal combustion and gasification processes, including particle mechanics, devolatilization,
heterogeneous oxidation, radiative heat transfer, and combustion of coal in practical flames.(Sp - Alt. Yr.) 3 Credits.
Technical presentations by graduate students, faculty members, and guests.(F, W) Combined with 691R. 0.5 Credits.
ChE 793R: Selected Topics in Chemical Engineering
Topics vary according to student-faculty research interests.
ChE 799R: Doctoral Dissertation
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