CHE 1112 Introduction to the Engineering of Coffee (LN)
Description: A non-mathematical introduction to the engineering aspects of roasting and brewing coffee. Simple engineering concepts are used to study methods for roasting and processing of coffee. The course will investigate techniques for brewing coffee such as a drip coffee, pour-over, French press, AeroPress, and espresso. Laboratory experiences focus on roasting and brewing coffee to teach introductory engineering concepts to both engineers and non-engineers.
CHE 2023 Introduction to Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics
Description: Systems approach to modeling industrial process, application of first and second laws, properties of substances, separate strategies using thermodynamic principles, and power generation cycles. May not be used for degree credit with ENSC 2213.
CHE 2033 Introduction to Chemical Process Engineering
Description: Application of mathematics and scientific principles to solving chemical engineering problems. Simple material and energy balances applied to process design. The nature and application of unit operations and unit processes to the development of chemical processes.
CHE 2581 Chemical Engineering Seminar I
Description: Through guest lectures and home assignments, preparation and planning for a CHE career and success in the CHE curriculum. Professional growth topics oriented to students in the sophomore-level courses.
CHE 3013 Rate Operations I
Description: Development and application of phenomenological and empirical models to the design and analysis of fluid processing and heat transfer unit operations.
CHE 3113 Rate Operations II
Description: Development and application of phenomenological and empirical models to the design and analysis of mass transfer and separations unit operations.
CHE 3123 Chemical Reaction Engineering
Description: Principles of chemical kinetics rate concepts and data treatment. Elements of reactor design principles for homogeneous systems; introduction to heterogeneous systems. Course previously offered as CHE 4473.
CHE 3202 Interdisciplinary Design and Build for Chemical Systems I
Description: Interdisciplinary design course that provides independent work experience, professional development, and assigned design-build problems.
CHE 3211 Interdisciplinary Design and Build for Chemical Systems II
Description: Continuation of CHE 3202. Interdisciplinary design course that provides independent work experience, professional development, and assigned design-build problems.
CHE 3333 Introduction to Transport Phenomena
Description: Molecular concepts of mass, momentum, and thermal energy diffusion. Theories and correlations for transport properties of viscosity, thermal conductivity, and diffusivity. Shell balance techniques to derive differential equations of change. Application of ODEs to simple transport phenomena problems. Turbulent flow analysis. Use of CFD software for analysis. Course previously offered as CHE 4333.
CHE 3473 Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics
Description: Application of thermodynamics to chemical process calculations. Behavior of fluids, including estimation of properties by generalized methods. Study of chemical thermodynamics, including heats of reaction, chemical reaction, and phase equilibria.
CHE 3543 Introduction to Chemical Process Analytics
Description: Data generation and analysis methods from chemical processes and experiments. Model development using programming. Data interpretation.
CHE 3581 Chemical Engineering Seminar II
Description: Through guest lectures and home assignments, preparation and planning for a CHE career and success in the CHE curriculum. Professional growth topics oriented to students in the junior-level CHE courses.
CHE 4002 Chemical Engineering Laboratory I
Description: Application of CHE fundamentals and unit operation principles to the analysis of bench and pilot-scale equipment. Primarily fluid processing and heat exchange. Design of experiments on non-ideal units to generate credible data useful for validation of principles and for engineering decisions. Interpretation of experimental data and presentation of results.
CHE 4073 Introduction to Tissue Engineering
Description: An overview of the principles of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, including a general understanding of tissue growth and development, and an investigation of the engineering principles needed to design tissues and organs. May not be used for degree credit with CHE 5073.
CHE 4112 Chemical Engineering Laboratory II
Description: A continuation of CHE 4002. Primary reaction and mass transfer processes.
CHE 4124 Chemical Engineering Design I
Description: Economic analysis of process plants and systems of equipment; methods for estimating plant investment requirements and operating costs; economic evaluation and optimal design of chemical process systems; basic equipment and process design calculations.
CHE 4133 Introduction to Catalysis and Photocatalysis
Description: Molecular level insight into catalysis and photocatalysis from the basics of chemistry and chemical engineering. Topics covered include homogeneous catalysis, heterogeneous catalysis, molecular photocatalysis, and photocatalysis on metals and metal oxides. The rational design of catalysts using first-principle (e.g., density functional theory) calculations is covered. Advancements made in the experimental and computational catalysis fields to convert renewable natural resources such as solar light and cellulosic biomass into electricity, fuels, valuable chemicals and pharmaceuticals. May not be used for degree credit with CHE 5133.
CHE 4183 Drug Delivery
Description: The future of medicine seems focused on the technologies for drug delivery and on large, macromolecular drugs such as genes and proteins. This course is intended to give you an overview of macromolecular drugs (i.e., genes and proteins) and the methods for their delivery. May not be used for degree credit with CHE 5183.
CHE 4224 Chemical Engineering Design II
Description: A continuation of CHE 4124. Economic analysis of process plants and equipment. Design of chemical processing equipment and chemical plants. Application of computer techniques to chemical engineering design.
CHE 4283 Bioprocess Engineering
Description: Application of fundamental engineering principles to biochemical and biological processes. Introduction to cellular processes, fermentation technology, biological mass transfer and kinetics, bioreactor design and scale-up and downstream processing. Same course as BAE 4283.
CHE 4293 Biomedical Engineering
Description: Introduction to engineering principles applied to biomedical applications. Biomaterials, drug delivery, artificial organs, transport in biological systems, tissue engineering and modeling of biological systems.
CHE 4303 Introduction to Science and Engineering Research
Description: This course is designed to expose senior level undergraduate students to principles and practice common to research in science and engineering, and accelerate student development towards independent and creative research prowess upon entering a graduate program. May not be used for degree credit with CHE 5303 or CHE 5302. Previously offered as CHE 4302.
CHE 4323 Electrochemical Engineering
Description: An introduction to the fundamental principles of electrochemistry and its applications in different engineering systems for energy, chemical, biomedical, and electronics industries. May not be used for degree credit with CHE 5323.
CHE 4343 Environmental Engineering
Description: Application of science and engineering principles to minimize the adverse effects of human activities on the environment. National and state environmental regulations. Predictive movement and fate of chemicals in the geospheres. Multi-media pollution assessment, analysis and control. Consideration of safety, health and environmental issues from a process standpoint.
CHE 4493 Introduction to Molecular Modeling and Simulation
Description: Theory of statistical mechanics and its application to computing thermodynamic, transport and phase equilibria properties of fluids. Modeling of matter at molecular level and atomistic simulation methods such as Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics. Quantum calculation of thermodynamics for industrially relevant reactions. Software used: Cassandra, Gromacs, LAMMPS, and Gaussian. May not be used for degree credit with CHE 5493.
CHE 4523 Introduction to Colloid Processing
Description: The physics and chemistry governing the behavior of microscopic particles in dilute and concentrated suspensions. Interparticle interaction influence on viscosity, viscoelasticity, yield stress, and shear thinning. Practical applications of colloids principles in industrial practice. No credit for students with credit in CHE 5523. Same course as MSE 4523.
CHE 4533 Colloidal and Interfacial Phenomena
Description: This course surveys applications and fundamental aspects of colloidal and interfacial phenomena, industrial applications include pharmaceuticals, energy, agriculture, and food/beverage, and will explore systems such as surfactants, polymers, emulsions, dispersions, foams, and particles at interfaces. The course includes explorations of emulsion stability mechanisms, interparticle interactions, surfactant behavior, and interfacial stability mechanisms. Experimental techniques used to characterize these systems such as interfacial tenslometry and dispersion sizing will be discussed. May not be used for degree credit with CHE 5533.
CHE 4543 Machine Learning for Chemical Processes
Description: The emphasis of the course will be to utilize concepts from statistics, calculus, and linear algebra to develop machine learning models applicable to a wide range of problems in engineering, natural and social sciences, and finance. Special emphasis will be given to the application of methods in the chemical engineering domain. However, students from other disciplines will find the methods broadly applicable to their areas of interest. Homework assignments and project will provide opportunities to apply the knowledge in a broader context. May not be used for degree credit with CHE 5543.
CHE 4581 Chemical Engineering Seminar III
Description: Through guest lectures and home assignments, preparation and planning for a ChE career and success in the ChE curriculum. Professional growth topics oriented to students in the senior-level ChE courses.
CHE 4603 Introduction to Membrane Separations
Description: Basic principles of membrane technology: membrane synthesis processes and molecular separation mechanisms for different types of membranes. General overview of many different membrane processes. Basic transport equations and fundamental concepts with examples and industrial applications. Includes a project/discussion for a membrane reactor model. May not be used for degree credit with CHE 5603.
CHE 4753 Introduction to Applied Numerical Computing for Scientists and Engineers
Description: Practical software tools for computational problem solving in science and engineering: version control (e.g., Git), mathematical typesetting (e.g., LaTeX), graphical user interfaces, and high level program languages with libraries of solvers and visualization tools (e.g., Python and MATLAB). Application of numerical computing methods to solve systems of differential and algebraic equations and to estimate model parameters using optimization. May not be used for degree credit with CHE 5753.
CHE 4773 Introduction to Computational Fluid-Particle Dynamics
Description: Computational fluid-particle dynamics (CFPD) modeling strategies and simulation of multiphase flow transport phenomena such as particle tracking, deposition, reaction, and erosion. Detailed flow visualization using multiphase flow models on ANSYS CFX and Fluent platforms. Application of numerical techniques to simulate processes defined by first-principles. Application of CFPD for drug formulation optimization, lung aerosol dynamics, separation processes, reactions in stirred tanks and plug flow reactors. May not be used for degree credit with CHE 5773.
CHE 4783 Nanomaterial Synthesis and Characterization
Description: Exposing students to the principles and concepts of nanoscience and nanotechnology with focus on nanomaterial synthesis and characterization, and accelerating student development towards an effective literature review on a selected topic. May not be used for degree credit with CHE 5783.
CHE 4843 Chemical Process Instrumentation and Control
Description: Process instrumentation for measurement and control. Process dynamics and modeling. Linearization. Classical control system analysis and design. Tuning. Communication through block diagrams and P&IDs.
CHE 4880 Special Topics
Description: Training in independent work, study of relevant literature, and experimental investigation of an assigned problem.
Offered for variable credit, 1-5 credit hours, maximum of 5 credit hours.
CHE 4990 Special Problems
Description: Training in independent work, study of relevant literature, and experimental investigation of an assigned problem.
Offered for variable credit, 1-5 credit hours, maximum of 5 credit hours.
CHE 5000 Master's Thesis
Description: Methods used in research and thesis writing.
Offered for variable credit, 1-6 credit hours, maximum of 6 credit hours.
CHE 5030 Professional Practice
Description: Application of chemical engineering principles to the solution of real-life engineering problems in an actual or simulated industrial environment. Includes application of design and testing procedures, economic evaluation and reporting on one or more assigned projects.
Offered for variable credit, 2-6 credit hours, maximum of 8 credit hours.
CHE 5073 Tissue Engineering
Description: Tissue engineering (TE) and the material strategy for different tissue constructs in bone TE, liver TE, neural TE, intestine TE, etc. will be discussed in this course. Same as MSE 5073. May not be used for degree credit with CHE 4703.
CHE 5110 Special Topics in Chemical Engineering
Description: Small group and individual projects in unit operations, unit procedures, chemical kinetics, computer applications, process modeling, or any of a wide range of chemical engineering topics. May be repeated for credit if subject matter varies.
Offered for variable credit, 2-3 credit hours, maximum of 6 credit hours.
CHE 5123 Advanced Chemical Reaction Engineering
Description: Advanced principles and applications of chemical kinetics in catalysis, heterogeneous systems, non-ideal reactions, polymerization, and biological reactions.
CHE 5133 Catalysis and Photocatalysis
Description: Molecular level insight into catalysis and photocatalysis from the basics of chemistry and chemical engineering. Topics covered include homogeneous catalysis, heterogeneous catalysis, molecular photocatalysis, and photocatalysis on metals and metal oxides. The rational design of catalysts using first-principle (e.g., density functional theory) calculations is covered. Advancements made in the experimental and computational catalysis fields to convert renewable natural resources such as solar light and cellulosic biomass into electricity, fuels, valuable chemicals and pharmaceuticals. May not be used for degree credit with CHE 4133.
CHE 5183 Drug Delivery
Description: The future of medicine seems focused on the technologies for drug delivery and on large, macromolecular drugs such as genes and proteins. This course is intended to give you an overview of macromolecular drugs (i.e., genes and proteins) and the methods for their delivery. May not be used for degree credit with CHE 4183.
CHE 5213 Advanced Transport Phenomena
Description: Mechanisms and modeling of mass, momentum and heat transport with an emphasis on chemical, petroleum, and biomedical engineering applications.
CHE 5233 Bioseparations
Description: Study of separations important in food and biochemical engineering such as leaching, extraction, expression, absorption, ion exchange, filtration, centrifugation, membrane separation, and chromatographic separations. Course available online only through AG*IDEA consortium.
CHE 5263 Advanced Biomaterials Science and Engineering
Description: Engineering issue that are implicit in understanding the interactions of living tissue and processed materials will be introduced. Emphasis is on identifying the processes in which cells interact with surfaces and particulate matter and the outcome of these interactions. Highlighted biological responses will include inflammation and coagulation. Also, biomaterial issues related to drug delivery and tissue engineering will be discussed. Same course as MAE 5003.
CHE 5273 Basic Physiology and Physiological System Analysis for Engineers
Description: The goals of this class are: 1) to introduce the basic physiology concepts used widely in biomedical engineering research; 2) to introduce and develop engineering concepts and approaches for quantitative analysis of physiological systems. Engineering principles will be applied to study mechanical properties of various tissue and organ systems under normal and diseased conditions. Knowledge obtained from this class can help engineers to apply engineering principles to the design and development of medical devices for disease treatments. Same course as MAE 5013.
CHE 5283 Advanced Bioprocess Engineering
Description: Application of fundamental engineering principles to biochemical and biological processes. Introduction to cellular processes, fermentation technology, biological mass transfer and kinetics, bioreactor design and scale-up, and downstream processing. Same course as BAE 5283.
CHE 5293 Advanced Biomedical Engineering
Description: Principles and engineering analysis of biomedical processes. Artificial organs, biomaterials, tissue engineering, transport in biological systems, biomedical imaging and drug delivery systems. Same course as MAE 5033.
CHE 5303 Introduction to Science and Engineering Research
Description: This course is designed to expose new graduate students to principles and practice common to research in science and engineering, and accelerate student development towards independent and creative research prowess. May not be used for degree credit with CHE 4302, CHE 4303, and PETE 6813.
CHE 5323 Electrochemical Engineering
Description: An introduction to the fundamental principles of electrochemistry and its applications in different engineering systems for energy, chemical, biomedical, and electronics industries. May not be used for degree credit with CHE 4323.
CHE 5343 Advanced Environmental Engineering
Description: Science and engineering principles to minimize the adverse effects of human activities on the environment. National and state regulations. Predictive movement and fate of chemicals in the geospheres. Multi-media pollution assessment, analysis, and control. Consideration of safety, health, and environment issues from a process standpoint. Special project required. Credit not allowed if CHE 4343 was taken.
CHE 5373 Process Simulation
Description: Computer-aided process synthesis, simulation, analysis and optimization. Systematic tools for developing and screening potential chemical process flow sheets. Use of commercial process simulators to aid in evaluating process designs. Practical problems will be used as examples and case studies.
CHE 5493 Molecular Modeling and Simulation
Description: Theory of statistical mechanics and its application to computing thermodynamic, transport and phase equilibria properties of fluids. Modeling of matter at molecular level and atomistic simulation methods such as Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics. Quantum calculation of thermodynamics for industrially relevant reactions. Software used: Cassandra, Gromacs, LAMMPS, and Gaussian. May not be used for degree credit with CHE 4493.
CHE 5523 Colloid Processing
Description: The physics and chemistry governing the behavior of microscopic particles in dilute and concentrated suspensions. Interparticle interaction influence on viscosity, viscoelasticity, yield stress, and shear thinning. Practical application of colloids principles in industrial practice.
CHE 5533 Colloidal and Interfacial Phenomena
Description: Individual report topics in chemical engineering involving operations, processes, equipment, experiments, literature search, theory, computer use or combinations of these. May not be used for degree credit with CHE 4533.
CHE 5543 Machine Learning for Chemical Processes
Description: The emphasis of the course will be to utilize concepts from statistics, calculus, and linear algebra to develop machine learning models applicable to a wide range of problems in engineering, natural and social sciences, and finance. Special emphasis will be given to the application of methods in the chemical engineering domain. However, students from other disciplines will find the methods broadly applicable to their areas of interest. May not be used for degree credit with CHE 4543. Previously offered as CHE 5990.
CHE 5603 Membrane Separations
Description: Basic principles of membrane technology: membrane synthesis processes and molecular separation mechanisms for different types of membranes. General overview of many different membrane processes. Basic transport equations and fundamental concepts with examples and industrial applications. Includes a project/discussion for a membrane reactor model. May not be used for degree credit with CHE 4603.
CHE 5633 Stagewise Operations
Description: Stagewise separation in binary and multicomponent systems. Development of theoretical techniques with application to typical situations in vapor-liquid, liquid-liquid and solid-liquid systems. Use of digital and analog techniques.
CHE 5703 Optimization Applications
Description: A survey of various methods of unconstrained and constrained linear and non-linear optimization. Applications of these methodologies using hand-worked examples and available software packages. Intended for engineering and science students. Same course as ECEN 5703, IEM 5023 & MAE 5703.
CHE 5723 Plasmonic Photocatalysis
Description: The field of plasmonic photocatalysis grew tremendously in the last decade. In this course, the current state of the art plasmonic photocatalysis are reviewed through the rigorous collection of literature. The advantages of the visible-light-driven plasmonic photocatalysis over the conventional thermal energy-driven heterogeneous catalysis will be discussed. The fundamental insight into photocatalytic mechanisms by which the charge carriers (electrons and holes) are formed and transferred to adsorbates to drive chemical transformations on the surface of plasmonic nanocatalysts will also be discussed. The computational methods used to predict and understand the photocatalytic activity and selectivity in plasmonic photocatalysis will also be reviewed. Finally, the current challenges, new opportunities, and future outlook for plasmonic photocatalysis will be presented.
CHE 5733 Neural Networks
Description: Introduction to mathematical analysis of networks and learning rules and on the application of neural networks to certain engineering problems, image and signal processing and control systems. Same course as ECEN 5733 & MAE 5733.
CHE 5743 Chemical Engineering Process Modeling
Description: Chemical engineering systems and process models. Analytical and numerical methods of solution of resulting equations with computer methods in a chemical engineering context.
CHE 5753 Applied Numerical Computing for Scientists and Engineers
Description: Practical software tools for computational problem solving in science and engineering: version control (e.g., Git), mathematical typesetting (e.g., LaTeX), graphical user interfaces, and high level program languages with libraries of solvers and visualization tools (e.g., Python and MATLAB). Application of numerical computing methods to solve systems of differential and algebraic equations and to estimate model parameters using optimization. May not be used for degree credit with CHE 4753.
CHE 5773 Computational Fluid-Particle Dynamics
Description: Computational fluid-particle dynamics (CFPD) modeling strategies and simulation of multiphase flow transport phenomena such as particle tracking, deposition, reaction, and erosion. Detailed flow visualization using multiphase flow models on ANSYS CFX and Fluent platforms. Application of numerical techniques to simulate processes defined by first-principles. Application of CFPD for drug formulation optimization, lung aerosol dynamics, separation processes, reactions in stirred tanks and plug flow reactors. May not be used for degree credit with CHE 4773.
CHE 5783 Nanomaterial Synthesis and Characterization
Description: Exposing students to the principles and concepts of nanoscience and nanotechnology with focus on nanomaterial synthesis and characterization, and accelerating student development towards an effective literature review to come up with novel idea on a selected topic. May not be used for degree credit with CHE 4783.
CHE 5843 Principles of Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics
Description: Principles of thermodynamics. Properties of fluids and prediction of thermodynamic properties. Phase and chemical equilibrium. Thermodynamics in unit operations.
CHE 5850 Advanced Process Control Laboratory
Description: Instrumentation systems and control strategies on pilot-scale chemical processes. Calibration, filtering, dynamic modeling, tuning, advanced control, and method evaluation. Students will learn industrial practices and cope with many non-idealities.
Offered for variable credit, 2-3 credit hours, maximum of 6 credit hours.
CHE 5853 Advanced Chemical Process Control
Description: General concepts and approaches of model-based control. Studies in the application of process-model-based control and model-predictive control on multivariable, nonlinear, nonstationary, noisy processes.
CHE 5873 Air Pollution Control Engineering
Description: Causes, effects and control of atmosphere pollution. Same course as CIVE 5873.
CHE 5880 Special Problems
Description: Individual report topics in chemical engineering involving operations, processes, equipment, experiments, literature search, theory, computer use or combinations of these.
Offered for variable credit, 1-3 credit hours, maximum of 9 credit hours.
CHE 5990 Special Problems
Description: Individual report topics in chemical engineering involving operations, processes, equipment, experiments, literature search, theory, computer use or combinations of these.
Offered for variable credit, 1-4 credit hours, maximum of 9 credit hours.
CHE 6000 Doctoral Thesis
Description: The doctoral candidate registers for a minimum of 1 semester credit hour to a maximum of 15 semester credit hours in each semester during which dissertation work is in process. Methods used in research and thesis writing. An original investigation of a problem in chemical engineering and its report in a dissertation. Offered for variable credit, 1-15 credit hours, maximum of 54 credit hours.
CHE 6010 Chemical Engineering Seminar
Description: Advanced research and development topics.
Offered for variable credit, 1 credit hour, maximum of 10 credit hours.
CHE 6223 Advanced Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics
Description: Phase equilibrium in multicomponent systems. Irreversible processes. Properties of fluids and the prediction of properties by statistical methods. Application of thermodynamics to unit operations.
CHE 6440 Advanced Topics in Chemical Engineering
Description: Topics in chemical engineering unit operations in design. Advanced mathematical techniques in chemical engineering problems. May be repeated for credit if subject matter varies.
Offered for variable credit, 3-6 credit hours, maximum of 9 credit hours.
CHE 6703 Research Methods in Chemical Engineering
Description: Methods and skills required to successfully conduct chemical engineering research projects. Maintaining research records, experiment design, data validation, results presentation and research ethics.