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Course Number: 1101
Credit Hours: 1 Title: Introduction to Chemical Engineering Course Description: A survey of chemical engineering principles and introduction to the design process with emphasis on chemical engineering hardware and software. |
Course Number: 1301
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Introduction to Chemical Engineering Course Description: A survey of chemical engineering principles and an introduction to the design process with emphasis on teamwork, problem solving, and presentation skills. |
Course Number: 2100
Credit Hours: 1 Title: Computer Aided Modeling Course Description: Introduction to mathematical and chemical process simulation software packages that will be useful to the students in their later chemical engineering courses. |
Course Number: 2140
Credit Hours: 1 Title: Professional Seminar Course Description: Oral and written presentation of selected topics in chemical engineering from recent technical publications. |
Course Number: 2300
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Chemical Engineering Applied Mathematics Course Description: Introduction to mathematical software and techniques including linear algebra as well as chemical process simulation packages that will be useful to the students in their upper-level chemical engineering courses. |
Course Number: 2374
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Thermodynamics I Course Description: The fundamental laws of thermodynamics; properties of systems solids, gases and liquids, and thermodynamic tables. |
Course Number: 3311
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Momentum Transfer Course Description: Fluid-flow concepts are presented through the derivation of the basic equations of continuity, energy and momentum. Engineering aspects of flow measurement, pressure-drop calculations and pumping requirements are considered. |
Course Number: 3320
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Heat Transfer Course Description: Principles of conduction, convection and radiation, and their application to the design of heat transfer equipment and systems. |
Course Number: 3330
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Thermodynamics II Course Description: Application of the First and Second Laws to chemical processes. Thermodynamic properties of pure fluids and mixtures; physical equilibrium. |
Course Number: 3340
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Process Analysis Course Description: Application of mathematics, physics and chemistry to the solution of problems in industrial chemistry. Material and energy balance calculations on processes undergoing physical and chemical changes. |
Course Number: 4150
Credit Hours: 1 Title: Process Control Laboratory Course Description: Experiments in level, flow and temperature control; computer-based adaptive control; PID tutorial program; control valve selection and sizing; interactive process control using the Honeywell TDC-3000 keyboard with a process control simulator. |
Course Number: 4310
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Laboratory I Course Description: Experiments in heat transfer, mass transfer, fluid flow, reaction kinetics and thermodynamics. |
Course Number: 4320
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Mass Transfer Course Description: Principles of diffusion. Simultaneous mass, energy and momentum transfer. Analysis of absorption, extraction and distillation processes. |
Course Number: 4331
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Process Control I Course Description: Basic hardware and instrumentation needed to implement process control; principles of feedback controllers design and tuning; analysis of stability and performance of feedback loops using Laplace and frequency domain techniques. Introduction of advanced control strategies. |
Course Number: 4332
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Process Control II Course Description: This course covers enhanced PID control, multivariable constrained control and statistical process control. Control and simulation software will be used. |
Course Number: 4340
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Plant Design II Course Description: A continuation of CHEN 4360, with emphasis on a major design project. |
Course Number: 4350
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Advanced Analysis Course Description: Development of mathematical equations for chemical engineering applications. Implementation of computer-aided modeling and simulation packages in chemical engineering applications. |
Course Number: 4360
Credit Hours: 3 Title: Plant Design I Course Description: Application of chemical engineering principles to the design of chemical processes and plants. Equipment design and specifications. Economic evaluation of processes and equipment. |
Course Number: 4410
Credit Hours: 4 Title: Reaction Kinetics Course Description: Chemical equilibrium; analysis of experimental data to determine reaction rate parameters in homogeneous, heterogeneous, catalytic and non-catalytic reactions. Development of equations for batch, stirred-tank and tubular flow reactors. Application of differential equations to process and reactor design. |
Course Number: 4420
Credit Hours: 4 Title: Mass Transfer Course Description: Principles of diffusion. Simultaneous mass, energy and momentum transfer. Analysis of absorption, extraction and distillation processes. |