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An asterisk (*) following the four-digit number indicates the course is approved for graduate credit.
Graduate College
Chemical Engineering (CHE)
CHE 2033
Introduction to Chemical Process Engineering
Prerequisite(s): CHEM 1515, ENSC 2213. Co-requisite(s): MATH 2233 or 3263. Application of mathematics and scientific principles to solving chemical engineering problems. Simple material and energy balances applied to process design. The nature and application of unit operations and unit processes to the development of chemical processes.
CHE 3013
Rate Operations I
Prerequisite(s): Admission to CHE Professional School. Development and application of phenomenological and empirical models to the design and analysis of fluid processing and heat transfer unit operations.
CHE 3113
Rate Operations II
Prerequisite(s): 3013, 3333, 3473, admission to CHE Professional School. Development and application of phenomenological and empirical models to the design and analysis of mass transfer and separations unit operations.
CHE 3123
Chemical Reaction Engineering
Prerequisite(s): 3333, 3473, and admission to CHE Professional School. Principles of chemical kinetics rate concepts and data treatment. Elements of reactor design principles for homogeneous systems; introduction to heterogeneous systems.
CHE 3333
Introduction to Transport Phenomena
Prerequisite(s): Admission to CHE Professional School. Molecular concepts of mass, momentum, and thermal energy diffusion. Theories and correlations for transport properties of viscosity, thermal conductivity, and diffusivity. Shell balance techniques to derive differential equations of change. Application of ODEs to simple transport phenomena problems. Turbulent flow analysis. Use of CFD software for analysis.
CHE 3473
Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics
Prerequisite(s): Admission to CHE Professional School. Application of thermodynamics to chemical process calculations. Behavior of fluids, including estimation of properties by generalized methods. Study of chemical thermodynamics, including heats of reaction, chemical reaction, and phase equilibria.
CHE 4002*
Chemical Engineering Laboratory I
Lab 6. Prerequisite(s): 3013, 3333, 3473, admission to CHE Professional School. Application of CHE fundamentals and unit operation principles to the analysis of bench and pilot-scale equipment. Primarily fluid processing and heat exchange. Design of experiments on non-ideal units to generate credible data useful for validation of principles and for engineering decisions. Interpretation of experimental data and presentation of results.
CHE 4112*
Chemical Engineering Laboratory II
Lab 6. Prerequisite(s): 3113, 3123, 4002, admission to CHE Professional School. A continuation of 4002. Primary reaction and mass transfer processes.
CHE 4124*
Chemical Engineering Design I
Lab 2. Prerequisite(s): 3113, 3123, 4002, and admission to CHE Professional School. Economic analysis of process plants and systems of equipment; methods for estimating plant investment requirements and operating costs; economic evaluation and optimal design of chemical process systems; basic equipment and process design calculations.
CHE 4224*
Chemical Engineering Design II
Lab 2. Prerequisite(s): 4124 and admission to CHE Professional School. A continuation of CHE 4124. Economic analysis of process plants and equipment. Design of chemical processing equipment and chemical plants. Application of computer techniques to chemical engineering design.
CHE 4283*
Bioprocess Engineering
Prerequisite(s): Admission to CHE Professional School and 3123 (or instructor consent). Application of fundamental engineering principles to biochemical and biological processes. Introduction to cellular processes, fermentation technology, biological mass transfer and kinetics, bioreactor design and scale-up and downstream processing. (Same course as BAE 4283*)
CHE 4293
Biomedical Engineering
Prerequisite(s): ENSC 2213, 3233, MATH 2155. Introduction to engineering principles applied to biomedical applications. Biomaterials, drug delivery, artificial organs, transport in biological systems, tissue engineering and modeling of biological systems.
CHE 4343
Environmental Engineering
Prerequisite(s): 4123. Application of science and engineering principles to minimize the adverse effects of human activities on the environment. National and state environmental regulations. Predictive movement and fate of chemicals in the geospheres. Multi-media pollution assessment, analysis and control. Consideration of safety, health and environmental issues from a process standpoint.
CHE 4523
Introduction to Colloid Processing
Prerequisite(s): MATH 2153, CHEM 1515. The physics and chemistry governing the behavior of microscopic particles in dilute and concentrated suspensions. Interparticle interaction influence on viscosity, viscoelasticity, yield stress, and shear thinning. Practical application of colloids principles in industrial practice. No credit for students with credit in 5523.
CHE 4581*
Chemical Engineering Seminar
Prerequisite(s): Senior standing in the department. Through guest lectures and home assignments, provision of an awareness of aspects of career and personal success that are not normally covered in the technical curriculum.
CHE 4843*
Chemical Process Instrumentation and Control
Prerequisite(s): 4124, admission to CHE Professional School. Process instrumentation for measurement and control. Process dynamics and modeling. Linearization. Classical control system analysis and design. Tuning. Communication through block diagrams and P&IDs.
CHE 4990
Special Problems
1-5 credits, max 5, Lab 3-15. Prerequisite(s): Senior standing. Training in independent work, study of relevant literature, and experimental investigation of an assigned problem.
CHE 5000*
Master's Thesis
1-6 credits, max 6. Prerequisite(s): Approval of major professor. Methods used in research and thesis writing.
CHE 5030*
Professional Practice
2-6 credits, max 8. Prerequisite(s): Senior standing and consent of instructor. Application of chemical engineering principles to the solution of real-life engineering problems in an actual or simulated industrial environment. Includes application of design and testing procedures, economic evaluation and reporting on one or more assigned projects.
CHE 5110*
Special Topics In Chemical Engineering
2-3 credits, max 6, Lab 2-6. Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor. Small group and individual projects in unit operations, unit procedures, chemical kinetics, computer applications, process modeling, or any of a wide range of chemical engineering topics. May be repeated for credit if subject matter varies.
CHE 5123*
Advanced Chemical Reaction Engineering
Prerequisite(s): 4473. Advanced principles and applications of chemical kinetics in catalysis, heterogeneous systems, non-ideal reactions, polymerization, and biological reactions.
CHE 5213*
Selected Diffusional Unit Operations
Mass transfer in fluids. Diffusion in liquids and gases. Equilibrium stage and transfer unit concepts. Mass transfer concepts of diffusional unit operations such as absorption, adsorption, crystallization, drying, humidification and liquid extraction.
CHE 5263*
Advanced Biomaterials Science and Engineering
Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing or consent of instructor. Engineering issue that are implicit in understanding the interactions of living tissue and processed materials will be introduced. Emphasis is on identifying the processes in which cells interact with surfaces and particulate matter and the outcome of these interactions. Highlighted biological responses will include inflammation and coagulation. Also, biomaterial issues related to drug delivery and tissue engineering will be discussed.
(Same course as MAE 5003)
CHE 5273*
Basic Physiology and Physiological System Analysis for Engineers
Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing or consent of instructor. The goals of this class are: 1) to introduce the basic physiology concepts used widely in biomedical engineering research; 2) to introduce and develop engineering concepts and approaches for quantitative analysis of physiological systems. Engineering principles will be applied to study mechanical properties of various tissue and organ systems under normal and diseased conditions. Knowledge obtained from this class can help engineers to apply engineering principles to the design and development of medical devices for disease treatments. (Same course as MAE 5013)
CHE 5283*
Advanced Bioprocess Engineering
Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor. Application of fundamental engineering principles to biochemical and biological processes. Introduction to cellular processes, fermentation technology, biological mass transfer and kinetics, bioreactor design and scale-up, and downstream processing. (Same course as BAE 5283*)
CHE 5293*
Advanced Biomedical Engineering
Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor. Principles and engineering analysis of biomedical processes. Artificial organs, biomaterials, tissue engineering, transport in biological systems, biomedical imaging and drug delivery systems.
(Same course as MAE 5033*)
CHE 5343*
Advanced Environmental Engineering
Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor. Science and engineering principles to minimize the adverse effects of human activities on the environment. National and state regulations. Predictive movement and fate of chemicals in the geospheres. Multi-media pollution assessment, analysis, and control. Consideration of safety, health, and environment issues from a process standpoint. Special project required. Credit not allowed if CHE 4343 was taken.
CHE 5523*
Colloid Processing
Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing in engineering, physics, or chemistry or consent of instructor. The physics and chemistry governing the behavior of microscopic particles in dilute and concentrated suspensions. Interparticle interaction influence on viscosity, viscoelasticity, yield stress, and shear thinning. Practical application of colloids principles in industrial practice.
CHE 5703*
Optimization Applications
Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing. A survey of various methods of unconstrained and constrained linear and non-linear optimization. Applications of these methodologies using hand-worked examples and available software packages. Intended for engineering and science students. (Same course as ECEN 5703, IEM 5023* & MAE 5703*)
CHE 5733*
Neural Networks
Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing. Introduction to mathematical analysis of networks and learning rules and on the application of neural networks to certain engineering problems, image and signal processing and control systems.
(Same course as ECEN 5733* & MAE 5733*)
CHE 5743*
Chemical Engineering Process Modeling
Chemical engineering systems and process models. Analytical and numerical methods of solution of resulting equations with computer methods in a chemical engineering context.
CHE 5843*
Principles of Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics
Principles of thermodynamics. Properties of fluids and prediction of thermodynamic properties. Phase and chemical equilibrium. Thermodynamics in unit operations.
CHE 5853*
Advanced Chemical Process Control
Prerequisite(s): 4843 or equivalent. General concepts and approaches of model-based control. Studies in the application of process-model-based control and model-predictive control on multivariable, nonlinear, nonstationary, noisy processes.
CHE 5873*
Air Pollution Control Engineering
Causes, effects and control of atmosphere pollution. (Same course as CIVE 5873*)
CHE 5990*
Special Problems
2-4 credits, max 9. Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor. Individual report topics in chemical engineering involving operations, processes, equipment, experiments, literature search, theory, computer use or combinations of these.
CHE 6000*
Doctoral Thesis
2-15 credits, max 54. Prerequisite(s): Consent of major professor. The doctoral candidate registers for a minimum of 2 semester credit hours to a maximum of 15 semester credit hours in each semester during which laboratory work is in process. Methods used in research and thesis writing. An original investigation of a problem in chemical engineering and its report in a dissertation.
CHE 6010*
Chemical Engineering Seminar
1-3 credits, max 3. Advanced research and development topics.
CHE 6223*
Advanced Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics
Prerequisite(s): 5843. Phase equilibrium in multicomponent systems. Irreversible processes. Properties of fluids and the prediction of properties by statistical methods. Application of thermodynamics to unit operations.
CHE 6440*
Advanced Topics in Chemical Engineering
3-6 credits, max 9. Topics in chemical engineering unit operations in design. Advanced mathematical techniques in chemical engineering problems. May be repeated for credit if subject matter varies.
CHE 6703*
Research Methods in Chemical Engineering
Prerequisite(s): MS or PhD candidacy in chemical engineering or consent of instructor. Methods and skills required to successfully conduct chemical engineering research projects. Maintaining research records, experiment design, data validation, results presentation and research ethics.
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