Chemical Engineering for Humanity
CHEMICAL ENG FOR HUMANITY
Introduction to the role of Chemical Engineering in addressing grand challenges facing humanity. Address challenges illustrating the important role that Chemical Engineers play in solving societal problems, including to those related to climate change, biotechnology and medicine, clean energy, and sustainable manufacturing of chemicals and materials.
- M 4:10 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Allie Obermeyer
h-index: 16 Info - 1 points
Material and Energy Balances
INTRO TO CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
Serves as an introduction to the chemical engineering profession. Students are exposed to concepts used in the analysis of chemical engineering problems. Rigorous analysis of material and energy balances on open and closed systems is emphasized. An introduction to important processes in the chemical and biochemical industries is provided.
- TR 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Christopher Vic S Chen
Info - 3 points
PRIN-CHEM ENGIN-THERMODYNAMICS
Prerequisites: (CHEM UN1403) CHEM C1403 Corequisites: CHEN E3020 Introduction to thermodynamics. Fundamentals are emphasized: the laws of thermodynamics are derived and their meaning explained and elucidated by applications to engineering problems. Pure systems are treated, with an emphasis on phase equilibrium.
- TR 5:15 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Mijo Simunovic
CULPA: 1 h-index: 17 Info - 3 points
PRINCIPLES OF TRANSPORT PHENOMENA
PRINC TRANSPORT PHENOMENA
A mechanistic and mathematical description of the engineering fundamentals of heat and mass transport and fluid mechanics based on mass, momentum and energy balances from the molecular to the continuum to the industrial device scale. Problems and applications will focus on energy, biological and chemical systems and processes.
- MW 10:10 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
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Instructor:
Christopher M Boyce
h-index: 17 Info - 3 points
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH PROJECT
Candidates for the B.S. degree may conduct an investigation of some problem in chemical engineering or applied chemistry or carry out a special project under the supervision of the staff. Credit for the course is contingent upon the submission of an acceptable thesis or final report. No more than 6 points in this course may be counted toward the satisfaction of the B.S. degree requirements.
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Instructor:
Scott Banta
CULPA: 1 h-index: 36 Info -
Instructor:
Kyle Bishop
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Instructor:
Christopher M Boyce
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Instructor:
Jingguang Chen
Wikipedia h-index: 89 Info -
Instructor:
Christopher J Durning
CULPA: 3 Info -
Instructor:
Daniel Esposito
h-index: 22 Info -
Instructor:
Oleg Gang
h-index: 45 Info -
Instructor:
Jingyue Ju
h-index: 77 Info -
Instructor:
Sanat Kumar
CULPA: 4 h-index: 79 Info -
Instructor:
Lauren E Marbella
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Instructor:
Vivian F McNeill
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Instructor:
Allie Obermeyer
h-index: 16 Info -
Instructor:
Ben O'Shaughnessy
CULPA: 3 Info -
Instructor:
Ah-Hyung Alissa Park
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Instructor:
Mijo Simunovic
CULPA: 1 h-index: 17 Info -
Instructor:
Dan Steingart
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Instructor:
Alexander Urban
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Instructor:
Venkat Venkatasubramanian
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Instructor:
Alan West
CULPA: 3 h-index: 48 Info - 0-6 points
UNDERGRADUATE FIELDWORK
Prerequisites: Restricted to Chemical Engineering undergraduate students. Provides work experience on chemical engineering in relevant intern or fieldwork experience as part of their program of study as determined by the instructor. Written application must be made prior to registration outlining proposed internship/study program. A written report describing the experience and how it relates to the chemical engineering core curriculum is required. Employer feedback on student performance and the quality of the report are the basis of the grade. This course may not be taken for pass/fail or audited. May not be used as a technical or nontechnical elective. May be repeated for credit, but no more than 3 points total of CHEN E3999 may be used for degree credit.
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Instructor:
Vivian F McNeill
Info - 1-2 points
ESSENTIALS OF CHEM ENGIN A
Prerequisites: First-year chemistry and physics, vector calculus, ordinary differential equations, and the instructors permission. Part of an accelerated consideration of the essential chemical engineering principles from the undergraduate program, including selected topics from Introduction to Chemical Engineering, Transport Phenomena I and II, and Chemical Engineering Control. While required for all M.S. students with Scientist to Engineer status, the credits from this course may not be applied toward any chemical engineering degree.
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
- F 10 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
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Instructor:
Scott Banta
CULPA: 1 h-index: 36 Info - 3 points
ESSENTIALS OF CHEM ENGIN B
Prerequisites: First-year chemistry and physics, vector calculus, ordinary differential equations, and the instructors permission. Part of an accelerated consideration of the essential chemical engineering principles from the undergraduate program, including topics from Reaction Kinetics and Reactor Design, Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics, I and II, and Chemical and Biochemical Separations. While required for all M.S. students with Scientist to Engineer status, the credits from this course may not be applied toward any chemical engineering degree.
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
- F 11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
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Instructor:
Scott Banta
CULPA: 1 h-index: 36 Info - 3 points
MATH METHODS IN CHEMICAL ENGIN
Prerequisites: CHEN E4230 or equivalent, or instructors permission. Mathematical description of chemical engineering problems and the application of selected methods for their solution. General modeling principles, including model hierarchies. Linear and nonlinear ordinary differential equations and their systems, including those with variable coefficients. Partial differential equations in Cartesian and curvilinear coordinates for the solution of chemical engineering problems.
- MW 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Venkat Venkatasubramanian
h-index: 58 Info - 3 points
PROTECTN OF INDUST/INTELL PROP
SAFGUARDNG INTLCTL-BUS PROPRTY
To expose engineers, scientists and technology managers to areas of the law they are most likely to be in contact with during their career. Principles are illustrated with various case studies together with active student participation.
- M 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Kenneth Spall
Info - 3 points
SOFT CONDENSED MATTER
Prerequisite(s): MSAE E3111, CHEE E3010, or equivalent. Course is aimed at senior undergraduate and graduate students. Introduces fundamental ideas, concepts, and approaches in soft condensed matter with emphasis on biomolecular systems. Covers the broad range of molecular, nanoscale, and colloidal phenomena with revealing their mechanisms and physical foundations. The relationship between molecular architecture and interactions and macroscopic behavior are discussed for the broad range of soft and biological matter systems, from surfactants and liquid crystals to polymers, nanoparticles, and biomolecules. Modern characterization methods for soft materials, including X-ray scattering, molecular force probing, and electron microcopy are reviewed. Example problems, drawn from the recent scientific literature, link the studied materials to the actively developed research areas. Course grade based on midterm and final exams, weekly homework assignments, and final individual/team project.
- W 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Oleg Gang
h-index: 45 Info - 3 points
MECHANISMS OF TRANSPORT
Prerequisites: CHEN E3110 or the equivalent. Continuum frame-work for modeling non-equilibrium phenomena in fluids with clear connections to the molecular/microscopic mechanisms for conductive transport. Continuum balances of mass and momentum; continuum-level development of conductive momentum flux (stress tensor) for simple fluids; applications of continuum framework for simple fluids (lubrication flows, creeping flows). Microscopic developments of the stress for simple and/or complex fluids; kinetic theory and/or liquid state models for transport coefficients in simple fluids; Langevin/Fokker- Plank/Smoluchowski framework for the stress in complex fluids; stress in active matter; applications for complex fluids.
- TR 11:40 a.m.-12:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Christopher J Durning
CULPA: 3 Info - 3 points
STATISTICAL MECHANICS
Prerequisites: (CHEN E3210) or equivalent thermodynamics course, or instructors permission. Fundamental principles and underlying assumptions of statistical mechanics. Boltzmanns entropy hypothesis and its restatement in terms of Helmholtz and Gibbs free energies and for open systems. Correlation times and lengths. Exploration of phase space and observation timescale. Correlation functions. Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein statistics. Fluctuation-response theory. Applications to ideal gases, interfaces, liquid crystals, microemulsions and other complex fluids, polymers, Coulomb gas, interactions between charged polymers and charged interfaces, ordering transitions.
- T 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ben O'Shaughnessy
CULPA: 3 Info - 3 points
ADV CHEM ENGI THERMODYNAMICS
Prerequisites: Successful completion of an undergraduate chemical engineering thermodynamics course. The course provides a rigorous and advanced foundation in chemical engineering thermodynamics suitable for chemical engineering PhD students expected to undertake diverse research projects. Topics include Intermolecular interactions, non-ideal systems, mixtures, phase equilibria and phase transitions and interfacial thermodynamics.
- MW 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Sanat Kumar
CULPA: 4 h-index: 79 Info - 3 points
ENGINEERING SEPARATIONS
CHEM & BIOCHEMICAL SEPARATIONS
Design and analysis of unit operations employed in chemical engineering separations. Fundamental aspects of single and multistaged operations using both equilibrium and rate-based methods. Examples include distillation, absorption and stripping, extraction, membranes, crystallization, bioseparations, and environmental applications.
- MW 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
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Instructor:
Kyle Bishop
h-index: 42 Info - 3 points
ENGIN APPL OF ELECTROCHEMISTRY
Prerequisites: Physical chemistry and a course in transport phenomena. Engineering analysis of electrochemical systems, including electrode kinetics, transport phenomena, mathematical modeling, and thermodynamics. Common experimental methods are discussed. Examples from common applications in energy conversion and metallization are presented.
- TR 8:40 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
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Instructor:
Alan West
CULPA: 3 h-index: 48 Info - 3 points
SURFACE REACTIONS & KINETICS
- TR 1:10 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jingguang Chen
Wikipedia h-index: 89 Info - 3 points
CHEM PROC. CONTROL & SAFETY
Prerequisites: Material and energy balances. Ordinary differential equations including Laplace transforms. Reactor Design. An introduction to process control applied to chemical engineering through lecture and laboratory. Concepts include the dynamic behavior of chemical engineering systems, feedback control, controller tuning, and process stability.
- TR 1:10 p.m.-4 p.m.
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CHEMICAL PROCESS DEVELOPMENT
Prerequisites: (CHEM UN3443) or equivalent, or instructors permission. Process development for new compounds, including fine and specialty chemicals, pharmaceuticals, biologicals and agrochemicals. Experimental strategy and methods for process scale-up from bench to pilot plant. Evaluation of process economics. Hazard and risk evaluation for environmental and industrial hygiene safety. Capture and use of process know-how for process and plant design, regulatory approvals, and technology transfer to first manufacture.
- R 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Elias C Mattas
CULPA: 3 Info - 3 points
PROCESS & PRODUCT DESIGN I
Prerequisites: (CHEN E2100) and (CHEN E4140) CHEN E2100, CHEN E4140. The practical application of chemical engineering principles for the design and economic evaluation of chemical processes and plants. Use of ASPEN Plus for complex material and energy balances of real processes. Students are expected to build on previous coursework to identify creative solutions to two design projects of increasing complexity. Each design project culminates in an oral presentation, and in the case of the second project, a written report.
- W 1:10 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Aaron Moment
Info - 4 points
PROCESS & PRODUCT DESIGN I
Recitation
Prerequisites: (CHEN E2100) and (CHEN E4140) CHEN E2100, CHEN E4140. The practical application of chemical engineering principles for the design and economic evaluation of chemical processes and plants. Use of ASPEN Plus for complex material and energy balances of real processes. Students are expected to build on previous coursework to identify creative solutions to two design projects of increasing complexity. Each design project culminates in an oral presentation, and in the case of the second project, a written report.
- M 1 p.m.-4 p.m.
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Instructor:
Aaron Moment
Info - 4 points
PROCESS SAFETY
Aimed at seniors and graduate students. Provides classroom experience on chemical engineering process safety as well as Safety in Chemical Engineering certification. Process safety and process control emphasized. Application of basic chemical engineering concepts to chemical reactivity hazards, industrial hygiene, risk assessment, inherently safer design, hazard operability analysis, and engineering ethics. Application of safety to full spectrum of chemical engineering operations.
- R 10:10 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
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Instructor:
Robert G Bozic
Info - 3 points
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN CHEMICAL ENGI
AI IN CHEMICAL ENGINEERIN
- TR 2:40 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
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Instructor:
Venkat Venkatasubramanian
h-index: 58 Info - 3 points
PRINCIPLES OF GENOMIC TECHNOL
Prerequisites: Undergraduate-level biology, organic chemistry and instructors permission. Chemical and physical aspects of genome structure and organization, genetic information flow from DNA to RNA to Protein. Nucleic acid hybridization and sequence complexity of DNA and RNA. Genome mapping and sequencing methods. The engineering of DNA polymerase for DNA sequencing and polymerase chain reaction. Fluorescent DNA sequencing and high-throughput DNA sequencer development. Construction of gene chip and micro array for gene expression analysis. Technology and biochemical approach for functional genomics analysis. Gene discovery and genetics database search method. The application of genetic database for new therapeutics discovery.
- M 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Jingyue Ju
h-index: 77 Info - 3 points
TOPICS IN CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
- T 7 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
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Instructor:
Ben O'Shaughnessy
CULPA: 3 Info - 3 points
Biopharmaceutical Process Laboratory
Biopharm. Process Lab
Intended for junior and senior undergraduate and graduate students interested in gaining hands-on experience in biopharmaceutical processing. Processes and unit operations applied widely in the biopharmaceutical industry, including tableting, dissolution, disintegration, fermentation, chromatography, tangential flow filtration, mixing, and crystallization. Process parameters, chemical and molecular properties, process performance, and product attributes. Includes a combination of lectures (given during lab time), experiments, and report writing.
- R 2:40 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
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Instructor:
Aaron Moment
Info - 3 points
CHEMICAL ENGIN RES METHODOLOGY
- F 1 p.m.-2 p.m.
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Instructor:
Kyle Bishop
h-index: 42 Info - 1 points
CHEMICL ENGINEERING COLLOQUIUM
All graduate students are required to attend the department colloquium as long as they are in residence. No degree credit is granted.
- T 4 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Christopher M Boyce
h-index: 17 Info - 0 points
MASTER'S COLLOQUIUM
Required for all M.S. students in residence in their first semester. Topics related to professional development and the practice of chemical engineering. No degree credits granted. Intended for M.S./Ph.D. students or doctoral students.
- W 4 p.m.-5 p.m.
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Instructor:
Aaron Moment
Info - 0 points
MASTERS RESEARCH
Prescribed for M.S. and Ch.E. candidates; elective for others with the approval of the Department. Degree candidates are required to conduct an investigation of some problem in chemical engineering or applied chemistry and to submit a thesis describing the results of their work. No more than 6 points in this course may be counted for graduate credit, and this credit is contingent upon the submission of an acceptable thesis. The concentration in pharmaceutical engineering requires a 2-point thesis internship.
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Instructor:
Scott Banta
CULPA: 1 h-index: 36 Info -
Instructor:
Kyle Bishop
h-index: 42 Info -
Instructor:
Christopher M Boyce
h-index: 17 Info -
Instructor:
Jingguang Chen
Wikipedia h-index: 89 Info -
Instructor:
Christopher J Durning
CULPA: 3 Info -
Instructor:
Daniel Esposito
h-index: 22 Info -
Instructor:
Oleg Gang
h-index: 45 Info -
Instructor:
Jingyue Ju
h-index: 77 Info -
Instructor:
Sanat Kumar
CULPA: 4 h-index: 79 Info -
Instructor:
Lauren E Marbella
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Instructor:
Vivian F McNeill
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Instructor:
Aaron Moment
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Instructor:
Allie Obermeyer
h-index: 16 Info -
Instructor:
Ben O'Shaughnessy
CULPA: 3 Info -
Instructor:
Ah-Hyung Alissa Park
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Instructor:
Mijo Simunovic
CULPA: 1 h-index: 17 Info -
Instructor:
Dan Steingart
CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 36 Info -
Instructor:
Alexander Urban
h-index: 24 Info -
Instructor:
Venkat Venkatasubramanian
h-index: 58 Info -
Instructor:
Alan West
CULPA: 3 h-index: 48 Info - 1-6 points
DOCTORAL RESEARCH
Prerequisites: The qualifying examinations for the doctorate. Open only to certified candidates for the Ph.D. and Eng.Sc.D. degrees. Doctoral candidates in chemical engineering are required to make an original investigation of a problem in chemical engineering or applied chemistry, the results of which are presented in their dissertations. No more than 15 points of credit toward the degree may be granted when the dissertation is accepted by the department.
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Instructor:
Scott Banta
CULPA: 1 h-index: 36 Info -
Instructor:
Kyle Bishop
h-index: 42 Info -
Instructor:
Christopher M Boyce
h-index: 17 Info -
Instructor:
Jingguang Chen
Wikipedia h-index: 89 Info -
Instructor:
Christopher J Durning
CULPA: 3 Info -
Instructor:
Daniel Esposito
h-index: 22 Info -
Instructor:
Oleg Gang
h-index: 45 Info -
Instructor:
Jingyue Ju
h-index: 77 Info -
Instructor:
Sanat Kumar
CULPA: 4 h-index: 79 Info -
Instructor:
Lauren E Marbella
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Instructor:
Vivian F McNeill
Info -
Instructor:
Allie Obermeyer
h-index: 16 Info -
Instructor:
Ben O'Shaughnessy
CULPA: 3 Info -
Instructor:
Ah-Hyung Alissa Park
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Instructor:
Mijo Simunovic
CULPA: 1 h-index: 17 Info -
Instructor:
Dan Steingart
CULPA: 1 Wikipedia h-index: 36 Info -
Instructor:
Alexander Urban
h-index: 24 Info -
Instructor:
Venkat Venkatasubramanian
h-index: 58 Info -
Instructor:
Alan West
CULPA: 3 h-index: 48 Info - 1-15 points