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1005  Technology and the Environment (3) Fulfills Science Foundation.
   Advances in technology have allowed the earth to sustain ever-increasing levels of population and per-capita consumption of resources, leading to increasing environmental degradation. Course explores the technology of production and utilization of the earth's resources and the impact on air, water, and land systems. Potential modifications to these technologies are investigated with the goal of reducing environmental impact within the framework of society's goals, political reality, and economic feasibility.

1703  Topics in Chemical and Fuels Engineering (2) Co-requisite: MATH 1210 and CHEM 1210.
   Introductory topics germane to the modern practice of chemical engineering, e.g., spreadsheets, word processing, programming, use of Internet.

2703  Numerical Methods Applications in Chemical and Fuels Engineering (2) Prerequisite: MATH 2250.
   Applications of numerical methods to interpolation, differentiation, integration, and the solution of systems of linear, nonlinear, and differential equations in chemical and fuels engineering.

2803  Fundamentals of Process Engineering (3) Prerequisite: CHEM 1220 and CHFEN 2853.Co-requisite: CHFEN 1703.
   Material balances, fundamentals of multi-component phase properties and phase equilibria, numerical and graphical calculations; degrees of freedom; applications to process engineering. Energy balances and application of digital computers to process-engineering calculations.

2853  Thermodynamics I (2) Cross listed as ME EN 2600. Co-requisite: MATH 2250 and PHYCS 2220.
   Thermodynamic properties, open and closed systems, equations of state, heat and work, first law of thermodynamics, second law of thermodynamics, availability and irreversibility, Carnot cycle.

3010  Technology and Public Policy (3) Prerequisite: Any science foundation course. Fulfills Science Integration.
   Problems which arise because of the application of modern technology are discussed and students are assigned in groups to study the problems in depth, make oral presentations to the class, and submit a report. Emphasis on understanding the scientific and engineering basis of the technology. Problems selected from such areas as environmental degradation, resource depletion, public health, and national security.

3353  Fluid Mechanics (3) Prerequisite: MATH 2250 and PHYCS 2220.Recommended Prerequisite: ME EN 1300 and CHFEN 2853 and Intermediate standing.
   Fluid statics; application of conservation of mass, energy, and momentum to basic fluid mechanics problems; introduction to compressible flow, potential flow, boundary layer and dimensional analysis.

3453  Heat Transfer (3) Prerequisite: MATH 2250 and CHFEN 2703 and 2853 and Intermediate standing.Co-requisite: CHFEN 3353.
   Basic mechanisms of heat transfer, conduction, radiation, convection; design of heat exchangers. Introduction to complex problems involving all three modes of heat transfer (conduction, convection, and rdiation).

3553  Chemical Reaction Engineering (3) Prerequisite: CHFEN 2703 and 3853 and intermediate standing.Co-requisite: CHEM 3070. Fulfills Quantitative Intensive BS Course.
   Reaction-rate equations, adiabatic reactions, back-mixed and plug-flow reactors, heterogeneous reactions, heterogeneous catalysis, reactor design.

3603  Mass Transfer and Separations (5) Prerequisite: CHFEN 3353 and 3453 and 3853 and CHEM 3060 and intermediate standing.Co-requisite: CHEM 3070. Fulfills Quantitative Intensive BS Course.
   Molecular and turbulent diffusion; conservation, phase equilibria and rate-processes concepts in diffusional operations design, including simultaneous heat and mass transfer. Gas absorption, distillation, extraction, membranes, adsorption, and drying.

3853  Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics (3) Prerequisite: CHFEN 2853 and 2803 and intermediate standing.Co-requisite: CHEM 3060. Fulfills Quantitative Intensive BS Course.
   Principles of physical and chemical equilibria with illustrative applications in chemical process industries.

4203  Process Dynamics and Control (3) Prerequisite: CHFEN 3553 and 3603, Major standing.
   Introduction to practical and theoretical aspects of process control, process dynamics, empirical model identification and feedback control of single-input, single-output processes; PID algorithm, tuning of the PID controller, stability analysis, time and frequency domain design methods, digital implementation of process control, control system performance and limitations, and trade-offs in controller design. Enhancements to single-loop PID control; cascade control, feed-forward control, level and inventory control, and model predictive control.

4253  Process Design (3) Prerequisite: CHFEN 3553 and 3603, Major standing.
   Process design and engineering; process synthesis, mathematical modeling of process equipment units, system calculational strategy, economic evaluation and optimization, process simulation.

4753  Undergraduate Seminar (0.5)
   Graded CR/NC principally on attendance. Four semesters minimum required for graduation. Topics in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Field trips to industrial facilities. Serves as forum for activities of University student chapter of American Institute of Chemical Engineers.

4755  Undergraduate Seminar (0.5)
   Graded CR/NC principally on attendance. Four semesters minimum required for graduation. Topics in engineering, science, the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Field trips to industrial facilities. Serves as forum for activities of University student chapter of American Institute of Chemical Engineers.

4903  Projects Laboratory I (3) Prerequisite: CHFEN 3553 and 3603, Major standing.Co-requisite: CHFEN 4203. Fulfills Upper-division Communication/Writing.
   Priority is given to chemical-engineering majors according to a GPA ranking in required chemical and fuels engineering classes. Experimental and theoretical solution of realistic problems in heat transfer, fluid flow, mass transfer, chemical-reaction kinetics, and process control by use of semi-industrial-scale and bench-scale equipment.

4905  Projects Laboratory II (2) Prerequisite: CHFEN 4903. Fulfills Upper-division Communication/Writing.
   Continuation of CHFEN 4903.

4973  Undergraduate Thesis (1 to 3)
   Completed thesis may comprise from two to three credit hours work. Original research or design in a selected field of chemical engineering.

4975  Chemical and Fuels Engineering Clinic (1 to 3)
   Original engineering project selected with approval of external sponsor and instructor.

4977  Cooperative Education Work Period (1 to 3)
   Students register for this course each semester in which they officially participate in a full-time cooperative work experience.

4999  Honors Thesis/Project (3) Fulfills Upper-division Communication/Writing.
   Restricted to students in the Honors Program working on an honors degree.

5103  Biochemical Engineering (3) Cross listed as CVEEN 5603. Prerequisite: for CHFEN students - CHFEN 3553 and 3603; for CVEEN students - CVEEN 3610. Recommended Prerequisite or Co-Requisite: BIOL 2001and CHFEN 5104 or CVEEN 5604.
   Introductory course in biochemical engineering and bioprocessing. Cell biology, enzyme kinetics, bioreactors, bioseparations and bioprocessing in relation to the medical, pharmaceutical, environmental, and biochemical industries.

5104  Biochemical Engineering Laboratory (1) Cross listed as CVEEN 5604. Co-requisite: CHFEN 5103 or CVEEN 5603.
   Laboratory course demonstrating the principles of fermentation, filtration, centrifugation, chromatography, and other biochemical principles. Meets with CVEEN 5604.

5153  Fundamentals of Combustion (3) Prerequisite: Instructor's consent.
   A broad introduction to combustion including stoichiometry, equilibrium, mixing, heat transfer, kinetics, heterogeneous combustion, flames, confined flames, and practical applications. Extensive use is made of computer programs for calculation of equilibrium, kinetics, and confined flames. Factors affecting pollutant formation and control are emphasized.

5203  Multivariable Process Analysis, Identification, and Control (3) Prerequisite: CHFEN 4203 and instructor consent.
   Overview of the classical SISO control; trade-offs and limitations in controller design; system stability; observability and controllability; model reduction; interactions in MIMO control, control structure selection; decentralized and decoupling control; optimization approach to process control; optimal control problems; Kalman filtering; model predictive control.

5253  Process Design II (3) Prerequisite: CHFEN 4253 and 4903, Major standing.
   Computer-aided process design and simulation; solution of complex recycle processes and modeling of process equipment. Comprehensive design project leading to preparation of process design and economic evaluation report.

5303  Environmental Aspects of Fossil Fuels (3) Prerequisite: Instructor's consent.
   The nature of pollutants, their sources, and existing and evolving strategies for their abatement and control. Environmental considerations in the production, transportation, and processing aspects of coal and petroleum. Topics include air pollution, surface water pollution and subsurface pollution analysis. Public-domain software will be used to study realistic environmental problems.

5305  Air Pollution Control Engineering (3) Recommended Prerequisite: Intermediate Status in an Engineering discipline or Senior standing in science.
   Air-pollution emission sources, behavior of pollutants in the atmosphere, theory and practice of control of particulate and gaseous air pollutants at their sources.

5307  Law, Engineering, and the Environment (3) Prerequisite: Instructor's consent.
   Interdisciplinary course where groups of law and engineering students work on legal and environmental engineering problems. For engineers, a one-hour weekly meeting covering law issues. In addition, law and engineering students meet jointly each week for a two-hour session.

5353  Computational Fluid Dynamics (3) Cross listed as ME EN 5720. Prerequisite: (ME EN 2040 and 3700) or (CHFEN 2703 and 3353) and ME EN/CHFEN status or junior standing.
   Introduction to computational fluid dynamics and heat transfer for graduate students and practicing engineers. Various numerical methods for solving the governing partial differential equations for incompressible, inviscid and viscous, and laminar and turbulent flows. Provides students with hands-on experience using several CFD codes such as SOLA-ICE, TEACH, and FLUENT.

5403  Introduction to Petrochemicals (2) Prerequisite: Instructor's consent.
   An overview of the present scope and historical growth of the petrochemical industry. Methods for the production of feedstocks and their conversion to key intermediates or products will be studied.

5405  Refining and Upgrading of Petroleum and Synthetic Fuels (3) Prerequisite: Instructor's consent.
   Chemistry and engineering aspects of modern refinery processes. Methods for the upgrading of conventional, heavy and synthetic crudes. Blending to product specifications.

5503  Instrumental Analysis of Process Products (2) Recommended Prerequisite: CHEM 3070, Major standing.
   One lecture, one laboratory weekly. Spectroscopic, chromatographic, and other instrumental techniques for identification and analysis of process-related materials.

5553  Introduction to Heterogeneous Catalysis (2) Prerequisite: CHEM 3070.
   Basic principles, adsorption, isotherms, catalyst geometry, surface reactions, kinetics and mechanisms, selective and polyfunctional catalysts, geometric and electronic theories, examples of industrial applications.

5555  Environmental Engineering Seminar (1) Cross listed as GG 5555, CVEEN 5555, MET E 5555, MG EN 5555.
   Provides students the opporunity to meet with and learn from environmental engineering practitioners and researchers during a series of informal lectures and discussions.

5653  Engineering Materials (2) Cross listed as MSE 5001. Prerequisite: CHEM 3070.
   Chemical bonds, crystal structures, imperfections and dislocations, solid-liquid phases, diagrams, phase changes, surfaces, diffusion, oxidation, corrosion. Introduction to general classes of materials; ceramics, polymers, metals, and semiconductors.

5950  Independent Study (1 to 5) Prerequisite: Instructor's consent.
   Independent-study projects such as participation in organized student paper competition.

5960  Special Topics (1 to 5) Prerequisite: Instructor's consent.
   Application of engineering to societal problems. Tutorial courses. Offered as opportunities arise.

6253  Advanced Design (1 to 5)
   Offered by arrangement with a professor. Complex chemical-process problems of interest to students; analysis, synthesis, and optimization.

6353  Fluid Mechanics (3) Prerequisite: CHFEN 3353 or equivalent.
   Introduction to tensor analysis and derivation of governing partial differential equations. Solution of problems in Newtonian, laminar, incompressible flow. Introduction to potential flow, turbulence, non-Newtonian flow, and compressible flow.

6453  Heat Transfer (3) Prerequisite: CHFEN 3453 or equivalent.
   Review of governing equations for conduction with solutions by separation of variables, Laplace and Fourier transform techniques, and numerical control volume approaches. Review of governing equations for convection with applications to laminar and turbulent convection in tubes and over flat plates. Superposition is used to construct solutions to convection problems with complex boundary conditions. Introdution to radiation including exchange between surfaces, directional and spectral characteristics of surfaces, and participating gases.

6553  Chemical Reaction Engineering (3) Prerequisite: (CHFEN 2703 and CHFEN 3553) or equivalent.
   Development of rate equations and evaluation of parameters from data for homogeneous and heterogeneous reacting systems including catalytic reactions. Global rate equations with simultaneous heat/mass transfer with reaction. Use of transition state theory to understand and estimate rate parameters. Reactor design including changes in pressure through a reactor, non-isothermal effects, multiple reactions/reversible reactions, non-ideal flow regimes (one-dimensional models), reactor stability, and parameter sensitivity analysis. Students with adequate preparation may substitute CHFEN 7553, Advanced Chemical Reaction Engineering.

6603  Multicomponent Mass Transfer (3) Prerequisite: Instructor's consent.
   Diffusion in multicomponent systems, Maxwell-Stefan relations, generalized Fick's law for multicomponent systems, linearized theory, applicability of pseudo-binary approximations. Multicomponent mass transfer coefficients, effects of mass transfer on energy transfer, mass and energy transfer models.

6703  Applied Numerical Methods (3) Prerequisite: CHFEN 2703 or equivalent.
   Matrix methods, linear and nonlinear equations, eigen systems, numerical integration, interpolation, estimation of parameters, ordinary differentia equations, finite difference formulations, partial differential equations, finite element methods, parallel computing. Emphasis on chemical engineering-related problems.

6853  Thermodynamics (3) Prerequisite: CHFEN 3853 or equivalent.
   Second law and availability balance. Minimization of free energy. Equation-of-state and activity-coefficient models. Mixing rules. Derived thermodynamic properties. Computational methods for simultaneous physical and chemical equilibrium in multi-phase, multi-reaction systems. Polymer, electrolyte, and supercritical systems. Continuous thermodynamic models.

6973  Thesis Research: Master's (1 to 12)
   Master's degree thesis research.

6983  Faculty Consultation (2)
   Allows master's degree students to continue using University facilities while completing their degrees. To be used only if not otherwise enrolled.

7203  Advanced Process Identification, Optimization, and Control (3) Prerequisite: CHFEN 5203 or equivalent.
   Control of uncertain systems; robust control; control-relevant process identification; adaptive control; controller design trade-offs: robustness vs. optimality, constrained control, introduction to nonlinear systems and nonlinear control.

7355  Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics (2) Prerequisite: CHFEN 6353.
   Non-Newtonian flows of polymers, suspensions,and emulsions; viscoelasticity, constitutive models, and standard rheological testing. Special considerations for computer simulations of non-Newtonian flows.

7553  Advanced Chemical Reaction Engineering (2) Prerequisite: CHFEN 6553.
   Simultaneous heat and mass transfer with reaction. Two-dimensional models for non-ideal catalytic and non-catalytic flow reactors. Advanced treatment of fixed-bed slurry, fluid bed, and trikle-bed reactors. Multiple-phase reactors. Modeling of adsorption and chromatographic beds.

7605  Advanced Separation Operations (2) Prerequisite: CHFEN 6603.
   Computer-aided design and analysis of equilibrium-based and rate-based separation operations, including multicomponent distillation, batch distillation, absorption, stripping, liquid-liquid extraction, extractive distillation, azeotropic distillation, reactive distillation, supercritical extraction, and interlinked systems. Solution of systems of nonlinear equations with bifurcation analysis to seek multiple solutions.

7753  Graduate Seminar (1)
   Seminars on advanced topics in chemical engineering.

7755  Graduate Seminar (1)
   Seminars on advanced topics in chemical engineering.

7960  Special Topics (1 to 5)
   One or more courses offered every year on recent developments in specialized areas of chemical engineering. Possible topics include, but are not limited to, catalysis, properties and reactions of fossil fuels, synthetic fuels, high viscosity fuels, coal conversion, multiphase flow in porous media, combustion, computational reacting turbulent transport, and research seminars in areas of faculty specialization.

7973  Thesis Research: Ph.D. (1 to 12)
   Doctoral degree thesis research.

7983  Faculty Consultation (2)
   Allows doctoral students to continue using University facilities while completing their degrees. To be used only if not otherwise enrolled.

7990  Continuing Registration: Ph.D. (0)
   Allows doctoral students to maintain minimum registration if candidates are not using faculty time or University faciltites except the library.