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CHEE 1131: Challenge of Chemical Engineering Cr. 1. (1-0). Prerequisites: Science or Engineering Majors. The chemical engineering professions. Strongholds and frontiers of chemical engineering. Career opportunities for chemical engineers. Communication skills, and engineering ethics.

CHEE 1331: Computing for Engineers (also CIVE 1331, INDE 1331) Cr. 3. (2-2). Prerequisite: MATH 1431. Credit may not be received for more than one of CHEE 1331, CIVE 1331, and INDE 1331. Introduction to the computing environment; matrix arithmetic; programming essentials; spreadsheets; symbolic algebra tools; solution of typical engineering problems using computer tools. (More details)

CHEE 2331: Chemical Processes Cr. 3 (3-0). Prerequisites: CHEM 1332, CHEE or CIVE 1331, MATH 1432, PHYS 1321 and credit for or concurrent enrollment in MATH 2433, and CHEM 1332. Introduction to chemical engineering, calculations, unit equations, process stoichiometry, material and energy balances, states of matter, case studies. (More details)

CHEE 2332: Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics I Cr. 3 (3-0). Prerequisites: CHEM 1332, MATH 2433, PHYS 1321, CHEE 2331. Fundamental concepts of thermodynamic systems, heat and work, properties of pure substances, first and second laws. (More details)

CHEE 3333: Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics II Cr. 3 (3-0). Prerequisite: CHEE 2332. Multicomponent systems, phase equilibria, and prediction of thermodynamic properties. (More details)

CHEE 3334: Statistical and Numerical Techniques for Chemical Engineers Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: CIVE 1331 or CHEE 1331, CHEE 2332, MATH 3321 or equivalent and credit for or concurrent enrollment in ENGI 3363 or CHEE 3363. Statistics for chemical engineers. Curve fitting. Numerical methods in linear algebra, non-linear algebraic equations, ordinary and partial differential equations, optimization. Special emphasis is placed on problems appearing in chemical engineering applications. (More details)

CHEE 3366: Topics in Physical Chemistry Cr. 3 (3-0). Prerequisite: CHEE 3333. Introduction to various physical-chemical topics; electrochemistry, chemical kinetics, colloid and particle science, macromolecules. (More details)

CHEE 3367: Process-Modeling and Control Cr. 3 (3-0). Prerequisites: CHEE3334, CHEE 3363 or ENGI 3363, MATH 3321, and PHYS 1322. Modeling techniques of chemical engineering problems, with emphasis on process control. (More details)

CHEE 3369: Chemical Engineering Transport Processes Cr. 3 (3-0). Prerequisite: ENGI 3363 or CHEE 3363. Mass transfer in single- and multiphase systems and combined heat- and mass-transfer. Selected topics in heat and mass transfer, and in heat and momentum transfer.  (More details)

CHEE 3399-4399: Senior Honors Thesis Cr. 3 per semester. Prerequisites: senior standing; 3.00 cumulative grade-point average in chemical engineering and overall.

CHEE 3462: Unit Operations Cr. 4 (3-1 [1-2]). Prerequisites: CHEE 3333, ENGI 3363 or CHEE 3363, and credit for or concurrent enrollment in CHEE 3369. Unit operations, with emphasis on distillation, absorption, extraction, and fluid-solid systems.  (More details)

CHEE 4198:4298:4398:4498: Special Problems Cr. 1-4 per semester, or more by concurrent enrollment. Prerequisite: approval of chair.

CHEE 4321:4322: Chemical Engineering Design Cr. 3 per semester (3-0). Prerequisites: CHEE 3333, 3462, 3369, and credit for or concurrent enrollment in CHEE 4367. Computer-aided design of chemical processes, with emphasis on process economics, profitability analysis, and optimum operating conditions.  (More details on 4321), (More details on 4322)

CHEE 4361: Chemical Engineering Practices Cr. 3 (1 1/2-5). Prerequisites: CHEE 3462, CHEE 3367, CHEE 3369, and credit for or concurrent enrollment in CHEE 4367. Design and execution of experiments, with emphasis on heat and mass transport, unit operations, process control, and reactors. Written reports.  (More details)

CHEE 4367: Chemical Reaction Engineering Cr. 3 (3-0). Prerequisites: CHEE 3366, 3369 and 3462. Chemical-reaction kinetics, mechanisms, and reactor design in static and flow systems; introduction to heterogeneous catalytic reactions in flow systems.  (More details)

CHEE 5360: Biochemical Engineering Fundamentals Cr. 3 (3-0). Prerequisite: credit for or concurrent enrollment in CHEE 4367. Analysis and design fundamentals for biochemical process, reactor design, transport phenomena; applications of enzymes and microbial populations.

CHEE 5367: Advanced Process Control Cr. 3 (3-0). Prerequisite: CHEE 3367 or consent of instructor. Application of the use of high-speed computers in the control of chemical processes, reactors, and units.  (More details)

CHEE 5371: Pollution-Control Engineering Cr. 3 (3-0). Prerequisites: credit for or concurrent enrollment in CHEE 4321 and CHEE 4367. Pollution problems and remedies with the earth as an environmentally closed system. Limitations of absorption and self-cleaning for terrasphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere, and their interrelationship.   (More details)

CHEE 5373: Environmental Remediation Cr. 3 (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGI 3363, CHEE 3462, and credit for or concurrent enrollment in CHEE 4367. In situ and ex situ methods of remediation or restoration of contaminated environmental sites. Emphasis is on hydrocarbon contaminants in soil, surface water, and groundwater.

CHEE 5374: Reaction Kinetics for Industrial Processes Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: Credit for or concurrent enrollment in CHEE 4367. Methods for predicting product distribution in practical chemical reactors. Determination of thermochemical and kinetic constants from statistical mechanics and transition-state theory. Applications from vapor-phase processes to catalysis.

CHEE 5375: Chemical Processing in Microelectronics Cr. 3 (3-0). Prerequisite: CHEE 4367 or consent of instructor. Chemical engineering principles applied to micro-electronic device fabrication and processing.  (More details)

CHEE 5376: Solid/Liquid Separation - Environmental Processes Cr. 3 (3-0). Prerequisite: ENGI 3363 or CHEE 3363. Introduction to solid/fluid separation and processing. Particle characteristics. Porous media. Interfacial phenomena. Flow through compactible and granular beds. Sedimentation, clarification, filtration, centrifugation, expression and washing.  (More details)

CHEE 5380: Biochemical Separations Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: Senior standing in chemical engineering or consent of instructor. Addresses the most difficult part of many biotechnological projects-actually producing a cloned protein in useful amounts. Some attention is also give to the use of recombinant DNA methodologies to produce proteins, and to characterization methods.

CHEE 5383: Advanced Unit Operations Cr. 3 (3-0). Prerequisite: Senior standing in chemical engineering or consent of instructor. Property prediction of multicomponent fluids. Advanced principles of heat-exchanger design, multicomponent fractionation, absorption, stripping and extraction.

CHEE 5386: Air-Pollution Problems and Control Cr. 3 (3-0). Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Air-pollutant identification and control technology; estimation of pollutant transport, dispersion, and conversion; computer application for design of control units.

CHEE 5388: Catalytic Processes Cr. 3 (3-0). Prerequisites: credit for or concurrent enrollment in CHEE 4321 and 4367. Process-oriented survey of catalytic technology; catalyst selection and design; catalytic processes, engineering and economics in the petroleum, chemical, and pollution control industries.

CHEE 5397: Selected Topics Cr. 3 (3.0). May be repeated for credit when topics vary. (More details)

CCHEE 6111: Graduate Seminar Cr. 1. (1-0). May be repeated for credit.

CHEE 6197:6297:6397: Selected Topics Cr. 1-3 per semester. (1-0; 2-0; 3-0;). May be repeated for credit.

CHEE 6198:6298:6398:6498:6598: Research Cr. 1-5 per semester, or more by concurrent enrollment. Prerequisite: approval of chair.

CHEE 6289:6389: Chemical Engineering Project Cr. 2 or 3 per semester. (2-0; 3-0). Prerequisite: approval of instructor. May be repeated for credit. Industrial scale chemical engineering economics and/or engineering project.

CHEE 6330: Computational Methods for Chemical Engineers Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Advanced computational and numerical methods for the solution of chemical engineering problems. Solution of linear and nonlinear equations. Conjugate-gradient-like methods. Newton and quasi-Newton techniques. Solutions of elliptic and hyperbolic partial differential equations using finite-difference and finite-element techniques. Applications to chemical engineering problems.

CHEE 6331:6332: Mathematical Methods in Chemical Engineering Cr. 3 per semester. (3-0). Prerequisite: approval of department. Linear methods applied to chemical engineering, matrices, transforms, series, complex variable methods, boundary layer problems.

CHEE 6333:6334: Transport Processes Cr. 3 per semester. (3-0). Prerequisite: CHEE 3369. Advanced principles of fluid mechanics, heat and mass transfer with application to problems in research and design. Emphasis on unified point of view to transport process in laminar and turbulent flow situations.

CHEE 6335:6336 Classical and Statistical Thermodynamics Cr. 3 per semester. (3-0). Prerequisite: CHEE 3460. Advanced methods.

CHEE 6337: Advanced Reactor Engineering Cr. 3. (3-0) Prerequisite: undergraduate kinetics or reactor design course. Introduction to modern concepts and techniques of chemical reactor analysis and design.

CHEE 6350: Finance and Accounting for Industrial and Chemical Processes Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing in chemical engineering or permission from the director of the MChE Program. Finance and accounting procedures for nonfinancial managers with emphasis on cost, working capital, budgeting, cost of capital, long term financing, and financial assets for chemical engineers.

CHEE 6360: Biochemical Engineering Fundamentals Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing or senior with consent of instructor. Analysis and design fundamentals for biochemical processes: introductory biochemistry, microbiology, biological kinetics, reactor design, transport phenomena; applications of enzymes and single mixed microbial populations.

CHEE 6365: Fundamentals of Catalysis Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: CHEE 4367 or equivalent. Theories and experimental procedures in modern heterogeneous catalysis, catalyst preparation and properties, absorption, surface mechanisms, catalyst design, and catalytic processes.

CHEE 6367: Advanced Process Control Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: CHEE 3367 or equivalent or consent of instructor. Application of high-speed computers in the control of chemical processes, reactors, and units.

CHEE 6368: Chemical Process Economics I Cr. 3 (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing in chemical engineering and CHEE 6350. Managerial economics of chemical processes and products; development of decision-making methods using chemical industry examples.

CHEE 6369: Chemical Process Economics II Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: CHEE 6350 and 6368. Study of profitability, process comparison, and risk analysis from an advanced viewpoint, followed by extensive case history studies of managerial economics in process industries.

CHEE 6370: Advanced Topics in Biochemical Engineering Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: CHEE 6360 or consent of instructor. Mathematical modeling and optimization of separation unit operations in biochemical engineering, including chromatography, flocculation, centrifugation, and filtration. Engineering analysis and design of mammalian cell bioreactors.

CHEE 6371: Pollution Control Engineering Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: Credit for or concurrent enrollment in CHEE 4321 and 4367 or equivalent. A general survey of problems and remedies with the earth as an environmentally closed system. Limitations of absorption and self-cleansing of the terrasphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere and their interaction and interrelationship.  (More details)

CHEE 6372: Fluid/Particle Separation Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ENGI 3363 or equivalent. Introduction to heterogeneous, fluid/particle, multi-phase systems. Development of fundamental principles of flow through compactible beds. Application to solid/liquid separation. Brief study of aerosols, coalescence, and flotation.

CHEE 6373: Environmental Remediation Cr. 3 (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGI 3363, CHEE 3462, and credit for or concurrent enrollment in CHEE 4367. In situ and ex situ methods of remediation or restoration of contaminated environmental sites. Emphasis is on hydrocarbon contaminants in soil, surface water, and groundwater.

CHEE 6376: Solid/Liquid Separation - Environmental Processes Cr. 3 (3-0). Prerequisite: ENGI 3363. Introduction to solid/fluid separation and processing. Particle characteristics. Porous media. Interfacial phenomena. Flow through compactible and granular beds. Sedimentation, clarification, filtration, centrifugation, expression and washing.  (More details)

CHEE 6374: Reaction Kinetics For Industrial Processes Cr. 3 (3-0). Prerequisite: credit for or concurrent enrollment in CHEE 4357. Fundamental methods of predicting product distributions in practical chemical reactors. Determination of thermochemical and kinetic constants form statistical mechanics and transition-state theory. Application from vapor-phase processes to catalysis.

CHEE 6375: Chemical Processing for Microelectronics Cr. 3. (3-0). prerequisites: CHEE 4367 or equivalent or consent of instructor. Chemical engineering principles applied to micro-electronic device fabrication and processing.  (More details)

CHEE 6380: Biochemical Separations Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: Senior standing in chemical engineering or consent of instructor. Addresses the most difficult part of many biotechnological projects-actually producing a cloned protein in useful amounts. Some attention is also give to the use of recombinant DNA methodologies to produce proteins, and to characterization methods.

CHEE 6383: Advanced Unit Operations Cr. 3 (3-0). Prerequisite: CHEE 3462. Property prediction of multicomponent fluids. Advanced principles of heat-exchanger design, multicomponent fractionation, absorption, stripping and extraction from a unified point of view.

CHEE 6386: Air-Pollution Problems and Control Cr. 3 (3-0). Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Air-pollutant identification and control technology; estimation of pollutant transport, dispersion, and conversion; computer application for design of control units.

CHEE 6388: Catalytic Processes Cr. 3 (3-0). Prerequisites: credit for or concurrent enrollment in CHEE 4321 and 4367. Process-oriented survey of catalytic technology; catalyst selection and design; catalytic processes, engineering and economics in the petroleum, chemical, and pollution-control industries.

CHEE 6399-7399: Master’s Thesis Cr. 3 per semester.

CHEE 7350: Applied Nonlinear Methods for Engineers Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite:  CHEE 6331, 6332, or consent of instructor. Recent non-linear methods with emphasis on engineering applications. Topics: nonlinear functional analysis, steady-state bifurcation theory, dynamical systems, nonlinear partial differential equations, nonlinear waves, computation methods in bifurcation theory.

CHEE 7397: Selected Topics Cr. 3 per semester. (3-0). May be repeated for credit.