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CHE 801 - Introduction to Polymer Engineering
Credits:
4.00
Principles of polymer chemistry, polymerization kinetics,
polymer rheology, and material characteristics. Design and
analysis of polymer reactors, extruders, molding machines,
and other forming operations. Lab.
CHE 805 - Natural and Synthetic Fossil Fuels
Credits:
4.00
Study of the U.S. and foreign reserves of coal, oil, and
natural gas. Petroleum processing and refining. Coal, oil,
shale, and tar sand. Gasification and liquefaction of coal.
Lab. (Not offered every year.)
CHE 809 - Fundamentals of Air Pollution and Its Control
Credits:
4.00
The origin and fate of air pollutants. Fundamentals of
atmospheric meteorology, chemistry, and dispersion
phenomena. Control of air pollutants and the related
equipment. Current issues. Prereq: differential equations
with linear algebra; general chemistry. Lab.
CHE 812 - Introduction to Nuclear Engineering
Credits:
4.00
Development of nuclear reactors; binding-energy;
radioactivity; elements of nuclear reactor theory;
engineering problems of heat transfer, fluid flow,
materials selection, and shielding; environmental
impacts. (Not offered every year.)
CHE 844 - Corrosion
Credits:
4.00
Fundamentals of corrosion processes in industrial and
environmental settings; thermodynamics, kinetics, and mass
transport in local corrosion cells; protection by
electrochemical, chemical, surface modification, or
barrier methods; instrumental methods in corrosion science.
Lab. (Not offered every year.)
CHE 851 - Process Simulation and Optimization
Credits:
4.00
Techniques for computer-aided analysis of chemical
processing systems. Development of mathematical models
to describe process behavior. Application of optimization
techniques. Prereq: knowledge of FORTRAN programming.
Lab. (Not offered every year.)
CHE 852 - Process Dynamics and Control
Credits:
4.00
Dynamic behavior of chemical engineering processes described
by differential equations; feedback control concepts and
techniques; stability and analysis. Lab.
CHE 861 - Biochemical Engineering
Credits:
4.00
Immobilized enzyme technology, microbial biomass production,
transport phenomena in microbial systems, biological reactor
design, process instrumentation and control, applications in
separation and purification processes. Lab. (Not offered
every year.)
CHE 862 - Biomedical Engineering
Credits:
4.00
Transport phenomena and chemical reactions in physiological
systems. Formulation and interactions of biomaterials.
Artifical kidney, vascular prothesis, drug delivery, protein
and cell adhesion. Introduction to tissue engineering. Lab.
(Not offered every year.)
CHE 872 - Physicochemical Processes for Water and Air Quality Control
Credits:
4.00
Origin and characterization of pollutants. Controls,
including filtration, sedimentation, coagulation and
flocculation, absorption and adsorption. Applied fluid
mechanics, mass transfer, and kinetics. Thermal pollution,
chemical treatment, oil spills on water, and aeration. Lab.
(Not offered every year.)
CHE 899 - Master's Thesis
Credits:
1.00 to 6.00
Cr/F.
CHE 913 - Advanced Fluid Mechanics
Credits:
3.00
Basic equations describing behavior of static and dynamic
fluid systems. The equations of motions and application to
laminar and turbulent flow. Momentum and energy equations
for advanced problems associated with flow inside conduits.
Flow of compressible fluids and boundary layer phenomena.
CHE 915 - Heat Transfer
Credits:
3.00
Steady-state and transient heat conduction in solids; heat
convection; analytical solutions, similarity relations,
boundary layer methods; radiation.
CHE 916 - Diffusive Mass Transfer
Credits:
3.00
Physical aspects of diffusion; theories of diffusion in
dilute gases, dense gases, liquids, and solids; surface
diffusion; mixing processes. Simultaneous heat and mass
transfer.
CHE 923 - Advanced Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics
Credits:
3.00
The multicomponent open system; the volumetric and phase
behavior of pure substances and of multicomponent systems at
physical and chemical equilibrium, fugacity and activity;
thermal properties of equilibrium, chemically reacting
systems; introduction to statistical thermodynamics.
CHE 932 - Advanced Chemical Engineering Kinetics
Credits:
3.00
Specialized applied kinetics problems; catalysis; fast
reaction and shock tubes; combustion and detonation
processes; nonisothermal kinetics; heat and mass transfer in
nonequilibrium, chemically reacting systems.
CHE 996 - Graduate Independent Study
Credits:
2.00 to 4.00
Directed reading or investigation at the advanced level on
topics in chemical engineering.
CHE 999 - Doctoral Research
Credits:
Cr/F.