Chemical Engineering

Units: 3

Concepts and techniques for polymerization of macromolecules. Structure, properties, and applications of commercially important polymers.

Offered in Fall and Summer

YEAR: Offered Alternate Years

Units: 3

Enzyme and microbial kinetics and reactor designs for processes involving enzymes and single and mixed cultures. Samples drawn from full range of applications: food processing, single cell proteins, tissue culture and vaccines, monoclonal antibodies, recombinant DNA and hybridomas, artificial organs, biological waste treatment and environmental processes.

Offered in Spring Only

Units: 3

Design of industrial processes which minimize or eliminate wastes. Regulations and the corporate organization of current pollution prevention efforts. Current pollution prevention research. Product life cycle analysis and the application to design of more efficient processes.

Offered in Spring Only

Units: 1 - 3

Offered in Fall and Spring

Units: 1 - 3

Independent study of some phase of chemical engineering or related field.

Offered in Fall Spring Summer

Units: 3

Applications of methods of mathematical analysis to formulation and solution of problems in transport phenomena, process dynamics and chemical reaction engineering.

Offered in Fall Only

Units: 3

In-depth coverage of chemical engineering thermodynamics principles. Application of non-ideal fluid-phase chemical potentials to problems in phase and chemical reaction equilibria. Relations of molecular structure and intermolecular forces to macroscopic thermodynamic properties.

Offered in Fall Only

Units: 3

A theoretical unified study of transport of momentum, energy and matter. Introduction to diffusional operations including coupled heat and mass transfer in light of the theory.

Offered in Spring and Summer

Units: 3

Rates and mechanisms of homogeneous and heterogeneous reactions. Design, analysis and scale-up of batch and continuous chemical reactors.

Offered in Fall Only

Units: 3

Topics relating to design, analysis and operation of homogeneous and heterogeneous chemical reactors.

YEAR: Offered Alternate Years

Units: 3

Survey of mathematical methods for engineers and scientists. Ordinary differential equations and Green's functions; partial differential equations and separation of variables; special functions, Fourier series. Applications to engineering and science. May not be taken for graduate credit by Master's or Ph.D. students in Mathematics or Applied Mathematics. Credit for this course and MA 401 is not allowed.

Offered in Fall Spring Summer

Units: 3

Determinants and matrices; line and surface integrals, integral theorems; complex integrals and residues; distribution functions of probability. Not for credit by mathematics majors. Any student receiving credit for MA 502 may receive credit for, atmost, one of the following: MA 405, MA 512, MA 513

Offered in Spring Only