Undergraduate Courses

Chemical Processes
Cr. 3 (3-0). Introduction to chemical engineering, calculations, unit equations, process stoichiometry, material and energy balances, states of matter, case studies. 

CHEM 1312, ENGI 1100, ENGI 1331, MATH 2414 or 1451, and PHYS 2325

Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics I
Cr. 3 (3-0). Fundamental concepts of thermodynamic systems, heat and work, properties of pure substances, first and second laws. 

CHEM 1312, MATH 2415, PHYS 2325, CHEE 2331.

Materials Science and Engineering I
Cr. 3 (3-0). Properties of materials with emphasis on metals, ceramics, polymers and electronic materials. 

CHEE 2331, CHEM 1312, PHYS 2326.

Analytical Methods for Chemical Engineers
Cr. 3 (3-0) Mathematical modeling and conservation equations, linear algebra, ordinary and partial differential equations with applications to chemical engineering systems. Credit may not be received for more than one of MATH 3331 or CHEE 3321.

MATH 2415 or MATH 1451, CHEE 2331.

Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics II
Cr. 3 (3-0). Multicomponent systems, phase equilibria, and prediction of thermodynamic properties. 

CHEE 2332.

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. 

CHEE 2332 and CHEE 3321.

Fluid Mechanics for Chemical Engineers
Cr. 3 (3-0). Foundations of fluid mechanics, fluid statics, kinematics, laminar and turbulent flow; macroscopic balances; dimensional analysis and flow correlations. 

CHEE 2332 and CHEE 3321.

Process Modeling and Control
Cr. 3 (3-0). Modeling techniques of chemical engineering problems, with emphasis on process control. 

CHEE 3334, CHEE 3363 and CHEE 3321.

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. 

CHEE 3363.

Senior Honors Thesis
Cr. 3 per semester.

senior standing; 3.00 cumulative grade-point average in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and overall.

Unit Operations
Cr. 4. (3-1.5). Unit operations, with emphasis on distillation, absorption, extraction, and fluid-solid systems. (Laboratory Experiments)

CHEE 3333

Biological and Physical Chemistry
Cr. 4 (4-0). Biochemistry and physicochemical topics, including chemical kinetics and adsorption.

CHEE 3333 and CHEM 2323

Selected Topics
Cr. 1 (1-0). May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

Approval of chair.

Independent Study
Cr. 1. 

Approval of chair.

Selected Topics
Cr. 2 (2-0). May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

Approval of chair.

Independent Study
Cr. 2.

Approval of chair.

Chemical Engineering Design I
Cr. 3 per semester (3-0). Design of chemical processes with emphasis on health and safety, and environment aspects; mass and energy balances; equipment design; process economics; profitability analysis; and optimum operating conditions.

CHEE 3300, CHEE 3333, CHEE 3369, CHEE 3462, ECON 2302, ENGI 2304, and credit for or concurrent enrollment in CHEE 4367.

Chemical Engineering Design II
Cr. 3 per semester (3-0). Computer-aided design of chemical processes with emphasis on process economics, profitability analysis, and optimum operating conditions.

CHEE 4321.

Chemical Engineering Practices
Cr. 3. (1.5-5). Design and execution of experiments involving chemical reaction, heat and mass transfer, chemical separations, and process control. Course includes teamwork and further development of oral and written communication skills. Written reports. 
 

CHEE 3462, CHEE 3367, CHEE 3369, and credit for or concurrent enrollment in CHEE 4367.

Biomolecular Engineering Fundamentals
Cr. 3 (3-0). Analysis and design fundamentals for biochemical processes: introductory biochemistry, microbiology, biological kinetics, reactor design, transport phenomena; applications of enzymes and single and mixed microbial populations.

BIOE 3341 or CHEE 3466.

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. 

CHEE 3369, CHEM 2325 and CHEE 3466.

Selected Topics
Cr. 3 (3-0). May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

Approval of chair.

Independent Study
Cr. 3. 

Approval of chair.

Senior Honors Thesis
Cr. 3.

Senior standing; 3.00 cumulative grade point average in chemical engineering and overall. 

Nanotechnology Laboratory
Cr. 1 (0-2). Nanotechnology metrology and fabrication methods.

CHEE 3333, enrollment in CHEE 5319, and consent of instructor.

Nanomaterials Engineering Laboratory
Cr. 1 (0-2). Introduction to engineering of nanomaterials with emphasis on structural, optical, photonic, magnetic and electronic materials. Experimental design, synthetic and analytical characterization will be emphasized. 

ECE 5119 or CHEE 5119 or MECE 5119, concurrent enrollment in CHEE 5320, and instructor permission.

Nanofabrication Laboratory
Cr. 1 (0-2). Design, fabricate on, and metrology of nanoscale devices. 

ECE 5120 or CHEE 5120 or MECE 5120, enrollment in CHEE 5321, and consent of instructor.

Introduction to Nanotechnology
Cr. 3 (3-0). Field of nanotechnology. Fundamental concepts underlying various nanotechnologies which serves as a leveling course.

CHEE 3333, concurrent enrollment in CHEE 5119, or consent of instructor.

Introduction to Nanomaterials Engineering
Cr. 3 (3-0). Engineering of nanomaterials with emphasis on structural, optical, photonic, magnetic, and electronic materials. Synthetic methods and analytical characterization with design for applications will be emphasized.

ECE 5319 or MECE 5319, concurrent enrollment in CHEE 5120, or consent of instructor.

Nanoscale Design & Fabrication
Cr. 3 (3-0). Design and fabrication at the nanoscale. Effects of nanoscale phenomena on device scaling; technological advantages and challenges. Design, fabrication, metrology, and device integration at nanoscale.

ECE 5320 or CHEE 5320 or MECE 5320, concurrent enrollment in CHEE 5121, or consent of instructor.

Fundamentals of Tissue Engineering
Cr. 3 (3-0). Credit may not be received for more than one of BIOE 4323, CHEE 5395, or MECE 5323. Fundamental concepts in tissue engineering and cell biology including structure, function, and replication.

CHEE 3363 or MECE 3363 or BIOE 3341 and CHEE 3321.

Advanced Oxidation Processes for Aqueous Systems
Cr. 3(3.0). This course is designed to provide the fundamentals of advanced oxidation processes currently applied, and under development for the remediation of water, wastewater and sludge. The first half of the course is devoted to present an introduction to AOPs and a background to UV photolysis and it’s mathematical modeling. The second half is focused on individual advanced oxidation processes and selected industrial applications that include drinking water & wastewater treatment, odor treatment and textiles applications.

CHEE 4367

Advanced Biomolecular Engineering
Cr. 3 (3.0). The objective of this course is to introduce fundamental concepts in biochemical engineering. The course assumes that the students have a basic understanding of biomolecules. The course presents a basic understanding of enzyme mechanisms and kinetics. From there we will transition into cellular energetics and the thermodynamics of cellular energetics. Next, we will understand the underlying concepts of commonly used techniques in molecular and cell biology. The second half of the semester will focus on biopharmaceuticals including antibodies, proteins, and cells as drugs in the context of immunotherapy. We will learn the basics of immunology before transitioning into the use of the immunology in cancer immunotherapy. Finally, the course also introduces students to the use of statistics in study design and the use of the appropriate statistical tests for testing hypotheses and selecting appropriate graphs to represent data. The use of appropriate statistics to report the error and a discussion on significant figures will be presented.

CHEE 4366 or equivalent or consent of program director.

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.

Credit for or concurrent enrollment in CHEE 4367, or consent of instructor.

Advanced Process Control
Cr. 3 (3-0). Application of high-speed computers in the control of chemical processes, reactors, and units.  

CHEE 3367 or consent of instructor.

Chemical Process Economics I
Cr. 3 (3-0). Managerial economics of chemical processes and products; development of decision-making methods using chemical industry examples.

Senior standing and concurrent enrollment in CHEE 4321.

Chemical Process Economics II
Cr. 3 (3-0). Analysis of profitability and investment alternatives. Optimization concepts with and without financial constraints. Sensitivity analysis. Financial analysis under risk, uncertainty, and probabilistic situations.  

Senior standing and CHEE 5368.

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. 

CHEE 3333 and CHEE 3363 or consent of instructor.

Safety and Reliability
Cr. 3 (3-0). Risks, 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.

CHEE 3363, CHEE 3369, and CHEE 3367.

Advanced Unit Operations
Cr. 3 (3-0). Property prediction of multicomponent fluids. Advanced principles of heat exchanger design, multicomponent fractionation, absorption, stripping and extraction. 

Senior standing in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering or consent of instructor.

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. 

CHEM 2325 and senior standing or consent of instructor.

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.

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. 

Credit for or concurrent enrollment in CHEE 4321 and 4367

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.

Credit for or concurrent enrollment in CHEE 4321 and CHEE 4367.

Cellular and Biological Transport Phenomena
Cr. 3 (3-0). Basic cell biology and biophysical chemistry principles related to quantitative analysis of transport phenomena and chemical reactions. Credit may not be received for more than one BIOE 4393 and CHEE 5393.

BIOE 3341 or CHEE 3363 or equivalent.

Selected Topics
Cr. 3 (3.0). May be repeated for credit when topics vary.