Courses

    Provides a team-based capstone design experience for chemical engineering students. Projects are sponsored by industry and student design teams collaborate with industrial consultants. Projects consider chemical process and product design with emphasis on economic analysis. Deliverables include an oral mid-project design review, a final oral presentation and final written design report. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite course of CHEN 4520 (minimum grade C-).
    Examines principles of control theory and their application to chemical processes. Focuses on single-loop feedback and feedforward control. Laboratory sessions cover measurement fundamentals, signal transmission, dynamic testing, control system synthesis, and implementation and adjustment. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite courses of CHEN 3220 and CHEN 4330 (or CHEN 4830) and APPM 2360 (all minimum grade C-).
    Learn the fundamentals of the various types of intellectual property, obtain the ability to search the USPTO database for patents, learn the difference between provisional patents, utility patents and foreign patents, and learn the timing requirements related to the filing of patents and public disclosure, use, and/or sale of an invention. Same as CHEN 5630. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 87-180 credits (Senior, Fifth Year Senior).
    Aims to identify the important physical mechanisms occurring in processes involving particles, formulate and solve mathematical descriptions of such processes, and analyze experimental and theoretical results in both a qualitative and quantitative manner. Teaches students to apply this knowledge to the design of particulate systems. Conveys the breadth and depth of natural and industrial applications involving particulates. Same as CHEN 5650. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite courses of APPM 2360 and either CHEN 3200 or MCEN 3021 (all minimum grade C-).
    Lect. Covers traditional, as well as new, chemical separations processes that have environmental applications. Includes chemically benign processing (pollution prevention) as well as approaches to address existing pollution problems. Same as CHEN 5670. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite course of CHEN 3220 (minimum grade C-). Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Junior or Senior) or graduate students only.
    Focuses on the engineering needed to bring therapeutic products derived from living organisms (e.g., proteins, peptides, DNA, RNA) from the production plant to the patient. Covers the challenges of keeping these products "active" as they are stored, shipped, and administered to patients. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite courses of CHEN 3320 and prerequisite or corequisite courses of CHEN 4830 or CHEN 4330 (all minimum grade C-).
    Introduces basic concepts in metabolic engineering and explores modern approaches in metabolic and strain engineering. Application areas that will be discussed will include the use of metabolic engineering approaches in biofuels and biorefining as well as biopharmaceutical production. CHEN 4803 and 5803 are the same course. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite course of CHEM 4711 or CHEM 4611 (minimum grade C-).
    Provides an overview of biomaterials. Covers major classes of materials used in medical applications, properties, degradation mechanisms, and characterization methods, foreign body response, methods to control physiological response to biomaterial surfaces, biocompatibility, biomaterials used in soft and hard tissue replacements, drug delivery devices and tissue engineering, and design criteria for developing a material for a given biological application. Same as CHEN 5805. Prerequisites: Requires a prerequisite course of CHEN 2810 or MCDB 1150 or EBIO 1220 and 1230 (minimum grade C-).
    Involves planning and execution of chemical engineering experiments on mass transfer operations, bioseparations, and biological reactors. Interprets experimental data with theoretical principles and statistical analysis. Emphasizes communication with written memos, full reports and oral presentations. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite courses of CHEN 2810 or MCDB 1150 or EBIO 1210 and 1220 and CHEN 3130 and 4830 (all minimum grade C-). Requires a corequisite course of CHEN 4820.
    Lect. and lab. Presents purification methods, mass transfer coefficients, problems specific to biologicals, and scale-up of processes. Also covers chromatography, phase extraction, supercritical fluids, sedimentation, precipitation, electrophoresis, dialysis, affinity techniques, cell separation, application of separations to bioreactors, and comparison of batch and continuous processes. Same as CHEN 5820. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite course of CHEN 3220 (minimum grade C-).
    Introduces chemical kinetics, chemical reactor design, and biological kinetics. Involves mass and energy balances for steady-state and transient reactor systems. Also covers residence time distribution, mass transfer, catalytic reactions, multiple steady states in reactors, enzyme kinetics, metabolic networks, and cell growth kinetics. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite course of CHEN 3320 (minimum grade C-).
    Presents fundamental chemical and physical concepts that give rise to the unique optical, electronic and magnetic properties of nanoscale materials. Introduces important synthetic routes for producing nanomaterials, and interparticle forces governing colloidal behavior and self-assembly. Discusses current and potential applications in catalysis, biomedicine, renewable energy, and other fields. CHEN 4836 and 5836 are the same course. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 87-180 credits (Senior, Fifth Year Senior).
    Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors).

    Available to seniors with approval of chemical engineering department. Subject arranged to fit needs of student.

    Required of all chemical engineering graduate students. Includes reports on research activities and on special current topics. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
    Discusses the concepts and techniques of applied statistics essential to quality control and product/process improvement. Includes computer control (SQC/SPC), sampling methods and time series analysis, and methods of experimental design. Same as CVEN 5127 and MCEN 5126. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite course of MCEN 4120 (minimum grade D-).

    Students learn current and emerging statistical methods that are appropriate to experimentation in research and development activities. Statistical design of experiments and model fitting is emphasized. Department enforced prereq., one introductory probability/statistics course.

    Considers continuum mechanics, emphasizing fundamental relationships for fluid mechanics and heat transfer and their applications to engineering problems. Department enforced prereqs., undergraduate courses in fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and differential equations. Prerequisites: Restricted to students with 87-180 credits (Seniors) or graduate students only.
    Examines fundamentals of mass transport with particular attention to microscopic balances in complex systems, such as those involving multiple components, chemical reaction, simultaneous heat and mass transport, and/or high mass flux. Department enforced prereq., undergraduate mass transfer and familiarity with vector and tensor calculus. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite course of CHEN 5120 (minimum grade D-).
    Prepares graduate students to carry out independent research. Research ethics, laboratory skills, experimental methods, critical thinking, presentations, proposal preparation and career planning are discussed. Independent research project carried out under direction of chemical engineering faculty. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
    Prepares graduate students to carry out independent research. Focuses on topics such as safety, ethics, communication skills, data analysis, intellectual property considerations, and time management. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
    Studies principles of chemical kinetics and catalytic reactions, emphasizing heterogeneous catalysis. Department enforced prereq., graduate standing in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering. Prerequisites: Requires corequisite course of CHEN 4330 or a prerequisite course of CHEM 4551 (minimum grade D-).
    Reviews fundamentals of thermodynamics, application to pure fluids and mixtures, and physical equilibrium and changes of state. Examines the equation of state and computation of fluid properties for pure fluids, mixtures, and solutions. Also looks at relations between thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. Department enforced prereq., an undergraduate course in chemical thermodynamics. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.

    Studies ideal and nonideal chemical reactors, including unsteady state behavior, mixing effects, reactor stability, residence time distribution, and diffusion effects. Department enforced prereq., undergraduate course in chemical reactor design/kinetics.

    Covers thermodynamics of interfaces and surface tension measurement; adsorption at liquid-gas, liquid-liquid, and solid-gas interfaces; monolayers; conservation equations for a fluid interface; rheology of interfaces; surface tension driven flows; contact angle and wettability; and double layer phenomena. Prerequisites: Requires prerequisite course of CHEN 3200 (minimum grade D-).

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