Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering


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Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

COURSES

CHEMISTRY/TECHNICAL ELECTIVES FOR 2010

Spring

CHEMISTRY/TECHNICAL ELECTIVES FOR 2009

Spring Fall

CHEMISTRY/TECHNICAL ELECTIVES FOR 2008

Spring Fall

CHEMISTRY/TECHNICAL ELECTIVES FOR 2007

Spring Fall

CHEMISTRY/TECHNICAL ELECTIVES FOR 2006

Spring Fall

COURSE	DESCRIPTION	PREREQUISITES
CHEE 1131	The Challenge of Chemical Engineering Cr. 1. (1-0). Introduction to chemical engineering as a profession. Developing areas, career opportunities, communication skills, and engineering ethics. (More details)	Science or Engineering Majors
CHEE 1331	Computing for Engineers (also CIVE 1331, INDE 1331) Cr. 3. (2-2) Introduction to the computing environment; matrix arithmetic; programming essentials; spreadsheets; symbolic algebra tools; solution of typical engineering problems using computer tools. (More details)	MATH 1431. Credit may not be received for more than one of CHEE 1331, CIVE 1331, and INDE 1331
CHEE 2331	Chemical Processes Cr. 3 (3-0). Introduction to chemical engineering, calculations, unit equations, process stoichiometry, material and energy balances, states of matter, case studies. (More details)	CHEM 1332, MATH 1432, and PHYS 1321
CHEE 2332	Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics I Cr. 3 (3-0). Fundamental concepts of thermodynamic systems, heat and work, properties of pure substances, first and second laws. (More details)	CHEM 1332, MATH 2433, PHYS 1321, CHEE 2331.
CHEE 3300	Materials Science and Engineering I Cr. 3 (3-0). Properties of materials with emphasis on metals, ceramics, polymers and electronic materials. (More details)	CHEE 2331, CHEM 1332, PHYS 1321 and credit for or concurrent enrollment in MATH 3321.
CHEE 3333	Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics II Cr. 3 (3-0). Multicomponent systems, phase equilibria, and prediction of thermodynamic properties. (More details)	CHEE 2332.
CHEE 3334	Statistical / Numerical Techniques for Chemical Engineers Cr. 3. (3-0). Statistics for chemical engineers. Curve fitting. Numerical 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. (More details)	CIVE 1331 or CHEE 1331, CHEE 2332, MATH 3321 or equivalent and credit for or concurrent enrollment in ENGI 3363 or CHEE 3363.
CHEE 3363	Fluid Mechanics for Chemical Engineers (formerly ENGI 3363) Cr. 3 (3-0). Foundations of fluid mechanics, fluid statics, kinematics, laminar and turbulent flow; macroscopic balances; dimensional analysis and flow correlations. (More details)	MATH 3321, CHEE 2332, and credit for or concurrent enrollment in CHEE 3334.
CHEE 3367	Process-Modeling and Control Cr. 3 (3-0). Modeling techniques of chemical engineering problems, with emphasis on process control. (More details)	CHEE3334, CHEE 3363 or ENGI 3363, MATH 3321, and PHYS 1322.
CHEE 3369	Chemical Engineering Transport Processes Cr. 3 (3-0). 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. (More details)	ENGI 3363 or CHEE 3363.
CHEE 3399- 4399	Senior Honors Thesis Cr. 3 per semester.	senior standing; 3.00 cumulative grade-point average in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and overall.
CHEE 3462	Unit Operations Cr. 4. (3-1.5). Unit operations, with emphasis on distillation, absorption, extraction, and fluid-solid systems. (More details) (Laboratory Experiments)	CHEE 3333, ENGI 3363 or CHEE 3363, and credit for or concurrent enrollment in CHEE 3369
CHEE 3466	Biological and Physical Chemistry Cr. 4 (4-0). Introduction to biochemistry. Physical-chemical topics including chemical kinetics and adsorption. (More details)	CHEE 3333 and CHEM 3331
CHEE 4198:4298: 4398:4498	Special Problems Cr. 1-4 per semester, or more by concurrent enrollment.	Approval of chair.
CHEE 4300	Physics and Chemistry of Engineering Materials Cr. 3. (3-0). Advanced topics in selection and design of materials, including phase diagrams, corrosion and degradation, property selection and control, and topical case studies. (More details)	CHEE 3300, 3333 and 3363
CHEE 4321:4322	Chemical Engineering Design Cr. 3 per semester (3-0). Computer-aided design of chemical processes, with emphasis on process economics, profitability analysis, and optimum operating conditions. (More details on 4321), (More details on 4322)	CHEE 3333, 3462, 3369, and credit for or concurrent enrollment in CHEE 4367.
CHEE 4361	Chemical Engineering Practices Cr. 3. (1.5-5). Design and execution of experiments, with emphasis on heat and mass transport, unit operations, process control, and reactors. Written reports. (More details) 12 laboratory days / semester from 8:30 am to 5 pm, these include consecutive Tuesdays and Thursdays. There are lectures on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9:00 am to 10:30 am. There are either 2 or 3 class days for presentations. These usually last from 9:00 am to noon.	CHEE 3462, CHEE 3367, CHEE 3369, and credit for or concurrent enrollment in CHEE 4367.
CHEE 4366	Biomolecular Engineering Fundamentals Cr. 3 (3-0). Analysis and design fundamentals for biochemical processes, reactor design, transport phenomena; applications of enzymes and microbial populations. (More details)	CHEE 3466 and credit for or concurrent enrollment in CHEE 4367.
CHEE 4367	Chemical Reaction Engineering Cr. 3 (3-0). Chemical-reaction kinetics, mechanisms, and reactor design in static and flow systems; introduction to heterogeneous catalytic reactions in flow systems. (More details)	CHEE 3369 and CHEE 3466.
CHEE 5323	Introduction to Tissue Engineering Cr. 3 (3-0). Fundamental concepts in Tissue engineering and cell biology. Tissue structure, function, and replication. (More details)	CHEE 3363 or MECE 3363 or BIOE 3440 and MATH 3321.
CHEE 5360	Biomolecular Engineering Fundamentals Cr. 3 (3-0). Analysis and design fundamentals for biochemical process, reactor design, transport phenomena; applications of enzymes and microbial populations. (More details)	Credit for or concurrent enrollment in CHEE 4367.
CHEE 5367	Advanced Process Control Cr. 3 (3-0). Application of the use of high-speed computers in the control of chemical processes, reactors, and units. (More details)	CHEE 3367 or consent of instructor.
CHEE 5368	Chemical Process Economics I Cr. 3 (3-0). Fundamental concepts in financial analysis of chemical and other industrial projects. Methods of cost estimation. Project control tools. (More details)	Senior standing and approval of instructor/advisor.
CHEE 5369	Chemical Process Economics II Cr. 3 (3-0). Fundamental concepts in financial analysis of chemical and other industrial projects. Methods of cost estimation. Project control tools. (More details)	Senior standing and approval of instructor/advisor.
CHEE 5373	Environmental Remediation Cr. 3 (3-0). 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.	ENGI 3363, CHEE 3462, and credit for or concurrent enrollment in CHEE 4367.
CHEE 5375	Chemical Processing in Microelectronics Cr. 3 (3-0). Chemical engineering principles applied to micro-electronic device fabrication and processing. (More details)	CHEE 4367 or consent of instructor.
CHEE 5377	Introduction to Polymer Science Cr. 3 (3-0). Synthesis, characterization, physical properties and processing of polymeric materials. Methods to measure and characterize the correlations among structure processing properties of polymeric materials. (More Details)	CHEE 3363 and CHEE 3466 or consent of instructor.
CHEE 5379	Safety and Reliability Cr. 3 (3-0). Risks, safeguards, and hazards associated with 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. (More details)	CHEE 3363, CHEE 3369, and CHEE 3367.
CHEE 5380	Biochemical Separations Cr. 3. (3-0). Addresses the most difficult part of many biotechnological projects-actually producing a cloned protein in useful amounts. Some attention is also give to the use of recombinant DNA methodologies to produce proteins, and to characterization methods.	Senior standing in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering or consent of instructor.
CHEE 5383	Advanced Unit Operations Cr. 3 (3-0). Property prediction of multicomponent fluids. Advanced principles of heat-exchanger design, multicomponent fractionation, absorption, stripping and extraction. (More details)	Senior standing in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering or consent of instructor.
CHEE 5384	Petrochemical Processes Cr. 3 (3-0). Petrochemical industry in terms of feedstocks, products, companies and trends. Technology, markets, and economics for the major building blocks and derivatives. (More details)	CHEM 3332 and senior standing in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering or consent of instructor.
CHEE 5386	Air-Pollution Problems and Control Cr. 3 (3-0). Air-pollutant identification and control technology; estimation of pollutant transport, dispersion, and conversion; computer application for design of control units.	Consent of instructor.
CHEE 5387	Plasma Processing: Principles and Applications Cr. 3 (3-0). Principles of low pressure glow discharge plasmas: plasma generation and maintenance, plasma chemistry, plasma diagnostics. Applications with emphasis on semiconductor manufacturing. (More details)	Senior standing in engineering or natural sciences or consent of instructor.
CHEE 5388	Catalytic Processes Cr. 3 (3-0). Process-oriented survey of catalytic technology; catalyst selection and design; catalytic processes, engineering and economics in the petroleum, chemical, and pollution control industries. (More details)	Credit for or concurrent enrollment in CHEE 4321 and 4367
CHEE 5390	Energy and the Environment Cr. 3. (3-0). This course is a survey of modern energy production and usage technologies and their impact on the environment. Topics on energy generation include fossil fuels (gas, petroleum and coal), nuclear, and renewables (biomass, solar, wind). Use of energy covers stationary (electric power, industrial, and residential) and transportation (automobiles, trucks, etc.). Optimization of source-to-consumer efficiencies and minimization of air emissions are included, with special emphasis on emerging technologies such as fuel cells. Capstone topics for the course are the hydrogen economy and global warming. (More details)	credit for or concurrent enrollment in CHEE 4321 or CHEE 4367.
CHEE 5394	Analysis of Physiological Transport Phenomena Cr. 3 (3-0). Fundamental aspects of systems physiology and other life science principles with quantitative analysis of transport phenomena and chemical reactions in cells, organs and the whole body. (More details)	Senior standing or consent of instructor
CHEE 5397	Selected Topics Cr. 3 (3.0). May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
CCHEE 6111	Graduate Seminar Cr. 1. (1-0). May be repeated for credit.
CHEE 6197 :6297:6397	Selected Topics Cr. 1-3. (1-0; 2-0; 3-0;). May be repeated for credit.
CHEE 6198:6298:6398 :6498:6598	Research Cr. 1-5.	Approval of chair.
CHEE 6289:6389	Chemical Engineering Project Cr. 2-3. (2-0; 3-0). May be repeated for credit. Industrial scale chemical engineering economics and/or engineering project.	Approval of instructor.
CHEE 6323	Fundamentals of Tissue Engineering Cr. 3. (3-0). Fundamental concepts in tissue engineering and cell biology. Tissue structure, function, and replication.	CHEE 3300, CHEE 3334 and CHEE 3369 and graduate standing, or consent of instructor.
CHEE 6300	Physics and Chemistry of Engineering Materials Cr. 3. (3-0). Advanced theories of the structure and properties of materials, preparation methods, and applications in electronics, optics, catalysis and fuel cells.	Graduate standing or consent of instructor.
CHEE 6327	Experimental Methods in Chemical Engineering Cr. 3. (3-0). Experimental methods used in chemical and biomolecular research such as error analysis, experimental design, microsopy (optical, electron, atomic force), scattering, spectroscopic analysis, bioanalysis, electrochemical analysis, and x-ray diffraction.	Graduate standing and/or consent of instructor.
CHEE 6331	Mathematical Methods in Chemical Engineering I (core course) Cr. 3. (3-0). Linear methods applied to chemical engineering, matrices, transforms, series, complex variable methods and boundary layer problems.	Approval of department.
CHEE 6332	Mathematical Methods in Chemical Engineering II Cr. 3. (3-0). Linear methods applied to chemical engineering, matrices, transforms, series, complex variable methods and boundary layer problems.	CHEE6331
CHEE 6333	Transport Processes I (core course) Cr. 3. (3-0). Advanced principles of fluid mechanics, heat and mass transfer with application to problems in research and design. Emphasis on unified view of transport process in laminar and turbulent flow situations.	CHEE 3369
CHEE 6334	Transport Processes II Cr. 3. (3-0). Advanced principles of fluid mechanics, heat and mass transfer with application to problems in research and design. Emphasis on unified view of transport process in laminar and turbulent flow situations.	CHEE 6333
CHEE 6335	Classical and Statistical Thermodynamics I (core course) Cr. 3. (3-0). Advanced methods. Advanced principles of chemical engineering thermodynamics. Introduction to molecular and statistical thermodynamics and their ability to predict bulk thermodynamic properties and characteristics of chemical engineering systems.	CHEE 3460 or approval of department.
CHEE 6336	Classical and Statistical Thermodynamics Cr. 3. (3-0). Advanced methods.	CHEE 6335.
CHEE 6337	Advanced Reactor Engineering (core course) Cr. 3. (3-0). Introduction to modern concepts and techniques of chemical reactor analysis and design.	Undergraduate kinetics or reactor design course, approval of department.
CHEE 6365	Fundamentals of Catalysis Cr. 3. (3-0). Theories and experimental procedures in modern heterogeneous catalysis, catalyst preparation and properties, absorption, surface mechanisms, catalyst design, and catalytic processes.	CHEE 4367 or equivalent.
CHEE 6367	Advanced Process Control Cr. 3. (3-0). Application of high-speed computers in the control of chemical processes, reactors, and units.	CHEE 3367 or equivalent or consent of instructor.
CHEE 6368	Chemical Process Economics I Cr. 3. (3-0). Managerial economics of chemical processes and products; development of decision-making methods using chemical industry examples.(More Information)	Graduate standing in chemical engineering.
CHEE 6369	Chemical Process Economics II Cr. 3. (3-0). Study of profitability, process comparison, and risk analysis from an advanced viewpoint, followed by extensive case history studies of managerial economics in process industries.(More Information)	CHEE 6368
CHEE 6371	Pollution Control Engineering Cr. 3. (3-0). A general survey of problems and remedies with the earth as an environmentally closed system. Limitations of absorption and self-cleaning of the terrasphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere and their interaction and interrelationship.	Credit for or concurrent enrollment in CHEE 4321 and CHEE 4367 or equivalent.
CHEE 6375	Chemical Processing for Microelectronics Cr. 3. (3-0). Chemical engineering principles applied to micro-electronic device fabrication and processing.(More details)	CHEE 4367 or equivalent or consent of instructor.
CHEE 6377	Introduction to Polymer Science Cr. 3. (3-0). Introduction to the synthesis, characterization, physical properties and processing of polymeric materials. The course thematically revolves around methods to measure, characterize and tailor structure, processing, property correlations for polymeric materials.(More details)	Consent of instructor.
CHEE 6379	Safety and Reliability Cr. 3. (3-0). An overview of risk, safeguards and 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. (More details)	CHEE 3363, CHEE 3369 & CHEE 3367.
CHEE 6383	Advanced Unit Operations Cr. 3. (3-0). Property prediction of multicomponent fluids. Advanced principles of heat exchanger design, multicomponent fractionation, absorption, stripping, and extraction from a unified point of view.	CHEE 3462.
CHEE 6384	Petrochemical Processes Cr. 3. (3-0). Petrochemical industry in terms of feedstocks, products, companies and trends. Technology, markets, and economics for the major building blocks and derivatives.(More details)	CHEE 3332 and graduate standing or consent of instructor.
CHEE 6386	Air-Pollution Problems and Control Cr. 3. (3-0). Air pollutant identification and control technology; estimation of pollutant transport, dispersion, and conversion; computer application for design of control units.
CHEE 6388	Catalytic Processes Cr. 3. (3-0). Process-oriented survey of catalytic technology; catalyst selection and design; catalytic processes, engineering, and economics in the petroleum, chemical, and pollution control industries.	CHEE 4367 or consent of instructor.
CHEE 6390	Energy and the Environment Cr. 3. (3-0). This course surveys modern energy technologies and their impact on the environment. Topics include energy generation from fossil, nuclear, and renewable sources. Energy utilization covers stationary and transportation applications. Optimization of source-to-consumer efficiencies and minimization of emissions are included, with special emphasis on emerging technologies such as fuel cells. Capstone topics for the course are future developments in the hydrogen economy and the technical-economic-social aspects of global warming.	Graduate standing in Chemical Engineering or consent of instructor.
CHEE 6391	Transport Phenomena in Physiological Systems Cr. 3. (3-0). Fundamental aspects of systems physiology and other life science principles with quantitative analysis of transport phenomena and chemical reactions in cells, organs and the whole body.	Graduate standing or consent of instructor.
CHEE 6393	Cellular and Biological Transport Phenomena Cr. 3. (3-0). Combines basic cell biology and biophysical chemistry principles with quantitative analysis of transport phenomena and chemical reactions.	Graduate standing or consent of instructor.
CHEE 6399-7399	Master’s Thesis Cr. 3 per semester.
CHEE 7350	Applied Nonlinear Methods for Engineers Cr. 3. (3-0). Recent nonlinear methods with emphasis on engineering applications. Topics: nonlinear functional analysis, steady-state bifurcation theory, dynamical systems, nonlinear partial differential equations, nonlinear waves, computation methods in bifurcation theory.	CHEE 6331, CHEE 6332, or consent of instructor.
CHEE 7387	Plasma Processing: Principles and Applications Cr. 3. (3-0). Principles of low pressure glow discharge plasmas: plasma generation and maintenance, plasma chemistry, plasma diagnostics. Applications with emphasis on semiconductor manufacturing.	Graduate standing in engineering or natural sciences or consent of instructor.
CHEE 7397	Selected Topics Cr. 3 per semester. (3-0). May be repeated for credit.
CHEE 8198:8298: 8398:8498: 8598	Doctoral Research Cr. 1-5 or more by concurrent enrollment.	Approval of chair.
CHEE 8399:8699: 8999	Doctoral Dissertation Cr. 3, 6, 9 per semester.

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