100-Level Courses
CH EN 170 : Introduction to Chemical Engineering.
(2:2:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter |
| 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 191 : Preprofessional Seminar.
(.5:1:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Presentations by faculty, advisors, and industrial representatives. |
| NOTE: | College Lecture attendance required. |
200-Level Courses
CH EN 263 : Computational Tools for Chemical Engineers.
(2:2:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Spring |
| 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)| WHEN TAUGHT: | Winter; Spring |
| PREREQUISITE: | CHEM 106; or CHEM 112; Ch En 170 or equivalent or concurrent enrollment; Ch En 263 or equivalent;; Math 113 or concurrent enrollment |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Material and energy balances. |
| NOTE: | College Lecture attendance required. |
300-Level Courses
CH EN 311 : Chemical Engineering and Society.
(3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall |
| PREREQUISITE: | CH EN 273 & ENG T 231; Admission to professional program. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Responsibility of chemical engineers in society relative to ethics, leadership, safety, environment, and energy. |
CH EN 373 : Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics.
(3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)| WHEN TAUGHT: | Winter |
| 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)| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall |
| 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)| WHEN TAUGHT: | Winter |
| 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)| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Spring |
| 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 386 : Chemical Reaction Engineering.
(3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)| WHEN TAUGHT: | Winter |
| PREREQUISITE: | CH EN 273; Math 303 or 334 or equivalent. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Fundamental principles and equations of chemical kinetics and reactor design. |
CH EN 391 : Career Skills.
(1:1:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Winter |
| PREREQUISITE: | Admission to professional program. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Professional, communication, and lifelong learning skills. Field trip to chemical process facility. |
400-Level Courses
CH EN 400 : Creative Skills in Chemical Engineering.
(1:1:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Applications in creativity and technical knowledge from prior course work to solution of relevant, open-ended problems. |
CH EN 410 : Principles of Reservoir Engineering.
(3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)| WHEN TAUGHT: | Winter On Demand |
| PREREQUISITE: | CH EN 373 & CH EN 374 |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Reservoir engineering principles including a review of rock and fluid properties, material balance in oil and gas reservoirs, fluid flow in porous media, and hydrocarbon production. |
CH EN 412 : Introductory Nuclear Engineering.
(3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)| WHEN TAUGHT: | On Demand |
| PREREQUISITE: | MATH 303 & CHEM 106; or MATH 303 & CHEM 112 |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Principles and application of nuclear reactor design. |
CH EN 433 : Energy Engineering.
(3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)| WHEN TAUGHT: | Winter |
| PREREQUISITE: | CH EN 311 |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Science and engineering of energy production including fossil fuels, nuclear, and renewable. Meeting the challenges of future energy needs of the U.S. and the world. |
CH EN 436 : Process Control and Dynamics.
(3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall |
| PREREQUISITE: | MATH 303 & CH EN 376 & CH EN 386 |
| 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)| WHEN TAUGHT: | Winter |
| PREREQUISITE: | CH EN 386 & CH EN 391 & CH EN 436 & CH EN 476 |
| 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)| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall; Spring |
| PREREQUISITE: | CH EN 374 & CH EN 376 & CH EN 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)| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall |
| PREREQUISITE: | CH EN 373 & CH EN 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)| WHEN TAUGHT: | Winter; Spring |
| PREREQUISITE: | CH EN 386 & CH EN 475 & CH EN 476 |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Experimental verification of unit operations design principles; data collection and reduction; report preparation. |
500-Level Graduate Courses (available to advanced undergraduates)
CH EN 518 : Biomedical Engineering Principles.
(3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)| WHEN TAUGHT: | Winter |
| PREREQUISITE: | Ch En 374, 376; or equivalents. |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Application of chemical engineering principles to model physiologic systems and to solve medical problems. |
CH EN 519 : Biochemical Engineering.
(3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)| WHEN TAUGHT: | Winter Even Yrs. |
| PREREQUISITE: | CH EN 374; Ch En 386 or concurrent enrollment |
| DESCRIPTION:  | Applying chemical engineering principles to biochemical systems. |
CH EN 528 : Industrial Catalytic Processes.
(2:2:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)| WHEN TAUGHT: | Spring On Demand |
| 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)| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall |
| 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)| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall |
| 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)| WHEN TAUGHT: | Fall |
| 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)| 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)| WHEN TAUGHT: | Winter Even Yrs.; Spring Odd Yrs. |
| 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. |