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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
May be repeated to a maximum of 6 credits. 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.