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1001 Alternative Energy: Sunshine, Bikes,
and Nukes (3) Fulfills Physical/Life Science Foundation.
Energy is an important resource at all levels of social
development. Course examines the dependency of societies on energy resources
and the interaction between social goals, technology, economics, environmental
concerns, and energy resources. Fossil fuels, nuclear energy, and renewable
energy resources are discussed. Natural laws, the scientific method, and
the application of technology are presented in the context of energy production
and efficiency of utilization. Environmental pollution and energy conservation
are stressed. Importance of energy resources in sustaining the world population,
improving the quality of life, and assisting developing countries is also
discussed.
1005 Solutions for a Green Environment
(3) Fulfills Physical/Life 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.
An introduction to the solution of engineering problems
using Excel spreadsheets, the Internet, and MATLAB. Additional topics include
programming using MATLAB. Speakers from industry will discuss careers in
chemical and fuels engineering during several seminars.
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
Material and energy balances, process engineering applications,
degrees of freedom, fundamentals of multi-component phase equilibria, numerical
and graphical calculations, and the use of modern computing tools in process
-engineering calculations.
2853 Thermodynamics I (2) Cross listed
as ME EN 2600. Prerequisite: PHYCS 2210 and MATH 1220.
Thermodynamic properties, open and closed systems, equations
of state, heat and work, first law of thermodynamics, second law of thermodynamics,
Carnot cycle, introduction to power and refrigeration cycles.
3010 Technology and Public Policy (3)
Prerequisite: Any science foundation course. Fulfills Physical/Life 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 and major standing. Recommended Prerequisite:
ME EN 1300 and CHFEN 2853.
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 major 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 major standing. Co-requisite: CHEM
3060. Fulfills Quantitative Intensive BS.
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 3070 and major standing.
Fulfills Quantitative Intensive BS Course. Co-requisite: CHEM 3060. Fulfills
Quantitative Intensive BS.
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 major standing. Co-requisite:
CHEM 3070. Fulfills Quantitative Intensive BS Course. Fulfills Quantitative
Intensive BS.
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.
Meets with CVEEN 6603/CHFEN 6103. 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.
Meets with CVEEN 6604/CHFEN 6104. Laboratory course demonstrating
the principles of fermentation, filtration, centrifugation, chromatography,
and other biochemical principles.
5153 Fundamentals of Combustion (3)
Prerequisite: Instructor's consent.
Meets with CHFEN 6153. 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 State Space Methods (3) Prerequisite:
CHFEN 4203 or ME EN 3210 or equivalent.
Introduction to modeling of multivariable systems in state
space form. System analysis including stability, observability and controllability.
Control system design using pole placement, and linear quadratic regulator
theory. Observer design. Meets with ME EN 5210, ME EN 6210 and CHFEN 6203.
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.
Meets with CHFEN 6303. 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.
Meets with CHFEN 6305. Air-pollution emission sources,
behavior of pollutants in the atmosphere, theory and practice of control
of particulate and gaseous air pollutants at their sources.
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.
Meets with CHFEN 6355 & ME EN 6720. Survey of approaches
including time accurate and steady-state methods, explicit and implicit
techniques. Eulerian and Lagrangian methods, laminar and turbulent flow,
compressible and incompressible approaches, projection methods, stability
considerations, etc. Application of CFD to mixing, heat transfer and reaction.
5403 Introduction to Petrochemicals
(2) Prerequisite: Instructor's consent.
Meets with CHFEN 6403. Process design and methods for
the production of petrochemical feedstocks and intermediates. Includes
engineering evaluation of process alternatives for the production of chemical
products. Economic, geographic, and other market influences are considered.
5405 Refining and Upgrading of Petroleum
and Synthetic Fuels (2) Prerequisite: Instructor's consent.
Meets with CHFEN 6405. Process chemistry, catalysis, and
design concepts applied to the refining of conventional, heavy, and synthetic
crudes. Includes evaluation of crudes, process units, and processing alternative
to meet seasonal market demands and evolving government regulations.
5503 Instrumental Analysis of Process Products
(2) Recommended Prerequisite: CHEM 3070, Major standing.
Meets with CHFEN 6503. Sampling, identification, and analysis
of process related materials using quantitative instrumental and laboratory
techniques. Includes historical and current methods with an emphasis on
adaptability to on-line process monitoring. Method development, data analysis,
and standard laboratory practices are also inc
5553 Introduction to Heterogeneous Catalysis
(2) Prerequisite: CHEM 3070.
Meets with CHFEN 6555. 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
(0.5) Cross listed as GEO 5555, CVEEN 5555, MET E 5555, MG EN 5555.
Meets with GEO 6555, CHFEN 6557, CVEEN 6555, MET E 6555,
MG EN 6555. Provides students the opportunity 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.
5655 Silicon-Chip Processing (3) Prerequisite:
CHFEN 3553 and 3603 as pre- or co-requisites.
Meets with CHFEN 5655. This course introduces chemical
engineers to (1) semiconductor materials and their properties, (2) device
physics, structure and electrical properties, (3) the vocabulary of the
industry, and (4) applications of the fundamentals of chemical engineering
(mass transfer, heat transfer, and reaction kinetics) to problems in semiconductor
processing. The silicon-chip processing steps to be emphasized include
crystal growth, diffusion, implantation, photolithography (with emphasis
on light induced reactions in photo-resists), deposition methodologies
(with emphasis on chemical vapor deposition of various materials) and polishing.
In addition to teaching quantitative ways of analyzing these processes,
this course will focus on how to minimize defects.
5657 Nuclear Engineering I with Laboratory
(4) Cross listed as CVEEN 5700. Prerequisite: MATH 2250 and PHYCS 2210.
Meets with CVEEN 6700/CHFEN 6657. Fundamentals of nuclear
engineering and science; nuclear reactions, radioactive decay, neutron
diffusion, kinetics, energy removal, shielding, health physics, and system
design. Includes Laboratory.
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.
6103 Biochemical Engineering (3) Cross
listed as CVEEN 6603. Prerequisite: CHFEN 3553 and 3603. Recommended Prerequisite
or Co-requisite: BIOL 2001 and CHFEN 5104.
Meets with CVEEN 5603/CHFEN 5103. Introductory course
to biochemical engineering and bioprocessing. Cell biology, enzyme kinetics,
bioreactors, bioseparations and bioprocessing in relation to the medical,
pharmaceutical, environmental, and biochemical industries.
6104 Biochemical Engineering Laboratory
(1) Cross listed as CVEEN 6604. Co-requisite: CVEEN 6603 or CHFEN 6103.
Meets with CVEEN 5604/CHFEN 5104. Laboratory course demonstrating
the principles of membrane systems, fermentation, tissue culture, biological
waste treatment, biosorption, and other biochemical principles.
6153 Fundamentals of Combustion (3)
Prerequisite: Instructor's consent.
Meets with CHFEN 5153. 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.
6203 State Space Methods (3) Prerequisite:
CHFEN 4203 or ME EN 3210 or equivalent.
Introduction to modeling of multivariable systems in state
space form. System analysis including stability, observability and controllability.
Control system design using pole placement, and linear quadratic regulator
theory. Observer design. Meets with ME EN 6210, ME EN 5210 and CHFEN 5203.
6253 Advanced Design (1 to 5)
Offered by arrangement with a professor. Complex chemical-process
problems of interest to students; analysis, synthesis, and optimization.
6303 Environmental Aspects of Fossil Fuels
(3) Prerequisite: Instructor's consent.
Meets with CHFEN 5303. 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.
6305 Air Pollution Control Engineering
(3) Recommended Prerequisite: Intermediate Status in an Engineering discipline
or Senior standing in science.
Meets with CHFEN 5305. Air-pollution emission sources,
behavior of pollutants in the atmosphere, theory and practice of control
of particulate and gaseous air pollutants at their sources.
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.
6355 Computational Fluid Dynamics (3)
Cross listed as ME EN 6720. Prerequisite: (ME EN 2040 and 3700) or (CHFEN
2703 and 3353) and grad status or instructor consent.
Meets with CHFEN 5353 & ME EN 5720. Survey of approaches
including time accurate and steady-state methods, explicit and implicit
techniques. Eulerian and Lagrangian methods, laminar and turbulent flow,
compressible and incompressible approaches, projection methods, stability
considerations, etc. Application of CFD to mixing, heat transfer and reaction.
6403 Introduction to Petrochemicals
(2) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
Meets with CHFEN 5403. Process design and methods for
the production of petrochemical feedstocks and intermediates. Includes
engineering evaluation of process alternatives for the production of chemical
products. Economic, geographic, and other market influences are considered.
6405 Refining and Upgrading of Petroleum
and Synthetic Fuels (2) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
Meets with CHFEN 5405. Process chemistry, catalysis, and
design concepts applied to the refining of conventional, heavy, and synthetic
crudes. Includes evaluation of crudes, process units, and processing alternative
to meet seasonal market demands and evolving government regulations.
6453 Heat Transfer (3) Prerequisite:
CHFEN 3453 or equivalent.
Review of governing equations for conduction with solutions
by separation of variables, Laplace and Fourier transforms, and numerical
techniques. Review of governing equations for convection with applications
to fully developed duct flow, parallel flow, and phase change heat transfer.
Introdution to radiation including exchange between surfaces, directional
and spectral characteristics of surfaces, participating gases, and models
of furnaces.
6503 Instrumental Analysis of Process Products
(2) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
Meets with CHFEN 5503. Sampling, identification, and analysis
of process related materials using quantitative instrumental and laboratory
techniques. Includes historical and current methods with an emphasis on
adaptability to on-line process monitoring. Method development, data analysis,
and standard laboratory practices are also included.
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.
6555 Introduction to Heterogeneous Catalysis
(2) Prerequisite: CHEM 3070.
Meets with CHFEN 5553. Basic principles, adsorption, isotherms,
catalyst geometry, surface reactions, kinetics and mechanisms, selective
and polyfunctional catalysts, geometric and electronic theories, examples
of industrial applications.
6557 Environmental Engineering Seminar
(0.5) Cross listed as GEO 6555, MET E 6555, CVEEN 6555, MG EN 6555.
Meets with GEO 5555, CHFEN 5555, CVEEN 5555, MET E 5555,
MG EN 5555. Seminar intended to provide students from a wide range of backgrounds
with interdisciplinary insight regarding the practice of environmental
engineering. Graduate students will submit additional work.
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.
6655 Silicon-Chip Processing (3) Prerequisite:
CHFEN 3553 and 3603 as pre- or co-requisites.
Meets with CHFEN 5655. This course introduces chemical
engineers to (1) semiconductor materials and their properties, (2) device
physics, structure and electrical properties, (3) the vocabulary of the
industry, and (4) applications of the fundamentals of chemical engineering
(mass transfer, heat transfer, and reaction kinetics) to problems in semiconductor
processing. The silicon-chip processing steps to be emphasized include
crystal growth, diffusion, implantation, photolithography (with emphasis
on light induced reactions in photo-resists), deposition methodologies
(with emphasis on chemical vapor deposition of various materials) and polishing.
In addition to teaching quantitative ways of analyzing these processes,
this course will focus on how to minimize defects.
6657 Nuclear Engineering II with Laboratory
(4) Cross listed as CVEEN 6700. Prerequisite: MATH 2250 and PHYCS 2210.
Meets with CVEEN 5700/CHFEN 5657. Fundamentals of nuclear
engineering and science; nuclear reactions, radioactive decay, neutron
diffusion, kinetics, energy removal, shielding, health physics, and system
design. Physical and mathematical description of production, utilization,
and loss of neutrons in nuclear reactors and other systems. Includes laboratory.
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.
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.
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