09 - 10 Undergraduate Catalog | Chemical Engineering Courses

CH EN 170 : Introduction to Chemical Engineering. (2:2:0) (Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

OFFERED:	F, W
PREREQUISITE:	Chem 111 (or 105) or equivalent or concurrent enrollment.
DESCRIPTION:	Principles of chemical processes and analyses with spreadsheets and graphics. Applying chemical engineering to current problems.

CH EN 199R : Academic Internship. (.5-3:ARR:ARR) (Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

PREREQUISITE:	consent of both department chair and cooperative education coordinator.
DESCRIPTION:	Work experience evaluated by supervisor and posted on student's transcript.

CH EN 263 : Computational Tools for Chemical Engineers. (2:2:0) (Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

OFFERED:	F, Sp
PREREQUISITE:	Math 113; Ch En 170 or concurrent enrollment.
DESCRIPTION:	Use of spreadsheets, advanced equation-solving packages, and structured languages to solve engineering problems. Introduction to chemical process principles.
NOTE:	College Lecture attendance required.

CH EN 273 : Chemical Process Principles. (3:3:0) (Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

OFFERED:	W, Sp
PREREQUISITE:	Ch En 170 or equivalent or concurrent enrollment; Ch En 263 or equivalent; Chem 106 or 112; Math 113 or concurrent enrollment.
DESCRIPTION:	Material and energy balances.
NOTE:	College Lecture attendance required.

CH EN 291 : Preprofessional Seminar. (.5:1:0) (Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

OFFERED:	F, W
DESCRIPTION:	Presentations by faculty, advisors, and industrial representatives.
NOTE:	College Lecture attendance required.

CH EN 310 : Energy and the Environment. (3:3:0) (Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

OFFERED:	F
PREREQUISITE:	Ch En 273 or equivalent.
DESCRIPTION:	Energy sources, demands, and processes; costs and environmental studies; case studies of various fossil fuel and alternate energy sources; introduction to combustion and flames.

CH EN 311 : Chemical Engineering and Society. (3:3:0) (Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

OFFERED:	F
PREREQUISITE:	ChEn 273; admission to professional program.
DESCRIPTION:	Responsibility of chemical engineers when interacting with society relative to safety; environment, and ethics.

CH EN 373 : Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics. (3:3:0) (Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

OFFERED:	W
PREREQUISITE:	Ch En 273.
RECOMMENDED:	Chem 461.
DESCRIPTION:	First and second laws of thermodynamics as applied to behavior of real fluids; physical and chemical equilibrium.
NOTE:	College Lecture attendance required.

CH EN 374 : Fluid Mechanics. (3:3:0) (Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

OFFERED:	F
PREREQUISITE:	Ch En 273; Math 214 or 302 or equivalent; Ch En 311 or concurrent enrollment; admission to professional program.
DESCRIPTION:	Basic mass, momentum, and energy relations of fluid flow; design of fluid-handling systems and equipment.
NOTE:	College Lecture attendance required.

CH EN 376 : Heat and Mass Transfer. (3:3:0) (Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

OFFERED:	W
PREREQUISITE:	Ch En 374.
DESCRIPTION:	Heat and mass transfer, including conduction, convection, radiation, diffusion; steady and unsteady state systems; transport analogies; design applications.

CH EN 378 : Science of Engineering Materials. (3:3:0) (Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

OFFERED:	F, Sp
PREREQUISITE:	Chem 351 or instructor's consent.
DESCRIPTION:	Fundamental principles of solid materials and their properties and behavior in engineering applications of metals, polymers, ceramics, and glasses.

CH EN 381 : Introduction to Semiconductor Processing. (3:2:1) (Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

OFFERED:	F
PREREQUISITE:	Chem 105 or 111 or equivalent; Math 303 or equivalent; Ch En 273 or instructor's consent.
DESCRIPTION:	Unit operations related to silicon-based semiconductor processing, including substrate preparation, photolithography, doping, etching, and thin film formation. Lab included.

CH EN 391 : Career Skills. (1:1:0) (Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

OFFERED:	F, W
PREREQUISITE:	Admission to professional program.
DESCRIPTION:	Professional, communication, and lifelong learning skills. Field trip to chemical process facility.

CH EN 400 : Creative Skills in Chemical Engineering. (1:1:0) (Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

OFFERED:	F
DESCRIPTION:	Applications in creativity and technical knowledge from prior course work to solution of relevant, open-ended problems.

CH EN 411 : Air Pollution Control. (3:3:0) (Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

OFFERED:	W alternate years
PREREQUISITE:	Ch En 273 or instructor's consent.
DESCRIPTION:	Causes and effects of air pollution; standards, criteria, and legislation; dispersion, meterorology, and atmospheric chemistry. Includes design project and use of impact statements.

CH EN 412 : Introductory Nuclear Engineering. (3:3:0) (Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

OFFERED:	On demand
PREREQUISITE:	Math 303, Chem 106 or 112.
DESCRIPTION:	Principles and application of nuclear reactor design.

CH EN 436 : Process Control and Dynamics. (3:3:0) (Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

OFFERED:	F
PREREQUISITE:	Math 303, ChEn 376, 478.
DESCRIPTION:	Process systems, associated control systems, and instrumentation. Use of Laplace transforms and complex variables.

CH EN 451 : Chemical Engineering Plant Design and Process Synthesis. (4:4:0) (Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

OFFERED:	W
PREREQUISITE:	ChEn 391, 436, 476, 478.
DESCRIPTION:	Design of chemical engineering machinery; plants and/or processes requiring application of unit operations; chemical process principles; economic analysis. Synthesis and optimization of chemical processes.
NOTE:	College Lecture attendance required.

CH EN 475 : Unit Operations Laboratory 1. (2:1:6) (Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

OFFERED:	F, Sp
PREREQUISITE:	Ch En 374, 376, 391; Engl 316.
RECOMMENDED:	Stat 332.
DESCRIPTION:	Experimental verification of unit operations design principles; data collection and reduction; report preparation.

CH EN 476 : Separations. (3:3:0) (Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

OFFERED:	F
PREREQUISITE:	ChEn 373, 376.
DESCRIPTION:	Stage operations, distillation, extraction, and absorption; design applications.
NOTE:	College Lecture attendance required.

CH EN 477 : Unit Operations Laboratory 2. (2:1:6) (Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

OFFERED:	W, Sp
PREREQUISITE:	Ch En 475, 476, 478.
DESCRIPTION:	Experimental verification of unit operations design principles; data collection and reduction; report preparation.

CH EN 478 : Chemical Reaction Engineering. (3:3:0) (Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

OFFERED:	W
PREREQUISITE:	Ch En 273; Math 303 or 334 or equivalent.
DESCRIPTION:	Fundamental principles and equations of chemical kinetics and reactor design.

CH EN 493R : Special Topics--Undergraduate. (.5-3:3:ARR) (Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

PREREQUISITE:	instructor's consent.
DESCRIPTION:	Classroom study based on student and faculty interest.

CH EN 498R : Undergraduate Research. (.5-3:ARR:ARR) (Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

OFFERED:	F, W, Sp, Su
PREREQUISITE:	faculty committee approval.
DESCRIPTION:	Final report required; 2 hours maximum allowed for degree credit.

CH EN 518 : Biomedical Engineering Principles. (3:3:0) (Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

OFFERED:	W
PREREQUISITE:	Ch En 374, 376; or equivalents.
DESCRIPTION:	Application of chemical engineering principles to model physiologic systems and to solve medical problems.

CH EN 528 : Industrial Catalytic Processes. (2:2:0) (Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

OFFERED:	Sp alt. yr. on dem.
PREREQUISITE:	Chem 106 or 111; 351; Ch En 378, 478; or equivalents.
DESCRIPTION:	Fundamentals of catalytic chemistry and materials; applications to important industrial catalytic processes. Includes catalyst materials and preparation, catalyst characterization, fixed-bed reactor design, and catalyst deactivation.

CH EN 531 : Thermodynamics of Multicomponent Systems. (3:3:0) (Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

OFFERED:	F
PREREQUISITE:	Ch En 373 or Chem 461 or equivalent.
DESCRIPTION:	Fundamental concepts and applications in first and second laws, equilibrium and stability, phase equilibrium, and homogeneous and heterogeneous chemical equilibrium.

CH EN 533 : Transport Phenomena. (3:3:0) (Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

OFFERED:	F
PREREQUISITE:	ChEn 476 or concurrent enrollment.
RECOMMENDED:	Math 347.
DESCRIPTION:	Transport mechanisms and coefficients and fundamental field equations for momentum, heat, and mass transport, with application to system design.

CH EN 535 : Kinetics and Catalysis. (3:3:0) (Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

OFFERED:	F
PREREQUISITE:	Ch En 478 or equivalent.
DESCRIPTION:	Theories and principles of chemical kinetics, including heterogeneous catalysis and reactor design.

CH EN 541 : Computer Design Methods. (3:3:0) (Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

OFFERED:	Alt. yr.
PREREQUISITE:	Math 303, Ch En 376; or equivalents.
DESCRIPTION:	Computer-aided design and numerical methods of chemical engineering processes.

CH EN 578 : Polymer Science and Engineering. (3:3:0) (Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

OFFERED:	W even years, Sp odd years
PREREQUISITE:	Ch En 378 or equivalent.
DESCRIPTION:	Foundation science and theory of polymer chemistry and physics and their implications in engineering applications. Topics include polymerization chemistry, structure-property relationships, polymer physics, and transport properties.

CH EN 593R : Special Topics - Intermediate. (1-3:ARR:ARR) (Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

OFFERED:	On demand.
PREREQUISITE:	Instructor's consent.
DESCRIPTION:	Special topics for advanced undergraduate students and for graduate students.

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