Graduate Chemical Engineering Courses

Transport Processes ChE 510
Transport of mass, energy, and momentum; steady states as applied to chemical processing; macroscopic and microscopic analyses. 3 Credits

Basic Concepts in Catalysis ChE 523
Preparation and characterization of supported heterogeneous catalysts, mechanistic interpretation of surface reaction and chemisorption, deactivation and kinetics from lab experiments. 3 Credits

Polymer Reactor Engineering ChE 525
Reaction engineering applied to polymerization reactions; effects on polymerization rate, molecular weight, and copolymer composition. 3 Credits

Microscopic Thermodynamics ChE 526
Microscopic development of equilibrium; classical and quantum particle statistics; statistical description of real and ideal gases, solids, and liquids. 3 Credits

Advanced Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics ChE 527
Equilibria in physical and chemical systems; generalized prediction of thermodynamic properties, nonideal systems. 3 Credits

Chemical Engineering Kinetics ChE 529
Interpretation of kinetic data and design of nonideal chemical reactors; fundamentals of heterogeneous catalysis, catalyst preparation, characterization, and theory. 3 Credits

Chemcial Engineering Analysis ChE 541
Mathematical analysis of chemical engineering operations and processes; mathematical modeling and computer application. 2 Credits

Mass Transfer Operations ChE 546
Diffusional and equilibrium operations. 3 Credits

Discrete Digital Control ChE 551
Design and implementation of digital control algorithms; Z-transforms; state space methods. 3 Credits

Process Optimization ChE 552
Fundamentals associated with the optimization of chemical process
plants. 3 Credits

Biochemical Engineering ChE 560
Chemical engineering applied to biological systems; fermentation processes, biochemical reactor design, downstream processing, transport phenomena in biological systems, biochemical technology. 3 credits

Fundamentals of Multiphase Environmental Processes ChE 565
Principles of material and energy balances, reaction kinetics, phase equilibria, chemistry and microbiology governing environmental transport
phenomena. 3 credits

Current Topics in Multiphase Environmental Systems ChE 567
Interdisciplinary course focused on reactions and processes at air, water, and soil interfaces in the environment. 3 credits

Advanced Plant Design ChE 571
Design of process plants for optimum cost and economic return; scale-up of pilot plants. 2-3 credits

Protein Biotechnology ChE 574
Biotechnology related to the isolation, modification, and large scale commercial production, patenting and marketing of useful recombinant proteins and
products. 3 credits

Introduction to Biohemical Engineering ChE 575
Graduate level counterpart to ChE 475; additional requirements. Credit not granted for both ChE 475 and 575. 3 credits

Biomedical Engineering Principles ChE 576
The application of chemical engineering principles to biological processes in the human body. 3 credits

Advanced Topics in Chemical Engineering ChE 581
May be repeated for credit; cumulative maximum 9 hours. Filtration, reaction engineering, two-phase flow, non-Newtonian fluids, interfacial phenomena, fluidization, novel separations, biomedical engineering. 1-3 credits

Interfacial Phenomena ChE 585
Chemical and physical nature of the interface including the molecular basis for interfacial forces and resulting macroscopic phenomena. Graduate level counterpart to ChE 485; additional requirements. Credit not granted for both ChE 475 and 575. 3 credits

Research Methods and Presentation I ChE 596
Establish sound practices for graduate research and presentation of results; techniques used for performing thorough literature searching and establishing and testing research hypotheses. 2 credits

Research Methods and Presentation II ChE 597
Establishing sound practices for presentation of research programs and research results. 2 credits

Convective Heat Transfer ME 515
Derivation of the energy conversion equation; laminar and trubulent forced convective heat transfer with internal and external flow; free convection. 1-3 credits