Chemical Engineering Courses

CHEG 501. Advanced Transport Phenomena. 3 crs. Advanced treatment of the mechanisms of heat, mass, and momentum transport on a continuum basis.

CHEG 502. Advanced Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics. 3 crs. Advanced treatment of the fundamentals of thermodynamics. Energy, reversibility, concepts and consequences. Thermodynamics of mixtures, phase equilibria, and chemical equilibria.

CHEG 503. Advanced Process Design. 3 crs. Structure of chemical process systems. Process analysis, thermodynamic and kinetic considerations in the selection of process operations and configuration. Process synthesis of networks of heat exchangers, separation schemes, etc. Simulation of chemical process systems, use of general purpose process simulation programs. Process optimization. Engineering in the presence of uncertainty.

CHEG 504. Advanced Mathematics for Chemical Engineers. 3 crs. Use of the basic laws of conservation of momentum, mass and energy to formulate partial differential equations describing chemical engineering processes. Analytical and numerical solution of partial differential equations. Matrices, vector analysis, selected topics.

CHEG 505. Advanced Chemical Reaction Engineering. 3 crs. Advanced treatment of chemical reaction engineering including effects of non-ideal flow and fluid mixing on reactor design. Multi-phase reaction systems of non-heterogeneous catalysis and catalytic kinetics.

CHEG 506. Advanced Process Control. 3 crs. Advanced topics in control, including feed forward control, cascade control, and frequency response analysis. Control of processes using microprocessors and digital computers is introduced. Specification of control systems and on-line process instrumentation is stressed.

CHEG 510. Advanced Topics in ChE. 3 crs. Advanced treatment of several complex topics in ChE (e.g. turbulence modeling, bifurcational analysis, combustion, etc.) and the critical examination of recent literature describing application of these topics to new technology areas.

CHEG 529. Air Pollution Control Engineering. 3 crs. Selection and design of air pollution abatement programs, including alternate process methods and process materials.

CHEG 701. Master of Science Thesis Research I. 3 crs. Thesis guidance for M.S. students. Each student must choose a suitable thesis subject and successfully pass a preliminary thesis examination by the Thesis Committee.

CHEG 702. Master of Science Thesis Research II. 3 crs. Thesis guidance for M.S. students. Each student must present a seminar on his or her thesis work at a regularly scheduled Departmental Graduate Seminar Session.

CHEG 801. Graduate Seminar I. 0 cr. Offered during the fall semester and designed to support course work and research work by exposing students and faculty to distinguished scientific personnel from industry, government and academia.

CHEG 802. Graduate Seminar II. 0 cr. Offered during the spring semester. It is a continuation of Graduate Seminar I.