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Graduate Courses16:155:501. (F) Advanced Transport Phenomena I (3).Muzzio. Prerequisite: Undergraduate transport phenomena. Momentum transport processes in laminar and turbulent flow systems. Development and application of steady and unsteady boundary layer processes including growth, similitude principles, and separation. Potential flow theory coupled with viscous dissipation at boundaries. Momentum transport in fixed and fluid bed exchangers and reactors. 16:155:502.
(S) Advanced Transport Phenomena II (3). Energy balances derived from first and second law approaches to open systems, with reaction. Conduction in fluids and solids, both steady and unsteady examples. Convection in laminar and turbulent flow systems. Interphase transport based on film concepts and boundary layer effects. Radiation. Heat exchanger and furnace design. 16:155:503.
(F) Advanced Transport Phenomena III (3). Advanced topics in momentum, heat, and mass transfer. Special emphasis on computational techniques. 16:155:504.
(S) Mixing: Theory Applications (3). Theory of mixing processes in laminar and turbulent flows. Practical aspects of mixing processes (equipment selection, design, scale-up) used in industrial operations. 16:155:507.
Analytical Methods in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering (3).
Analytical solutions to deterministic mathematical models encountered in chemical and biochemical engineering, including environmental and safety systems. Emphasis is on purpose, philosophy, classification, development, and analytical solutions of models occurring in transport phenomena, thermochemical, and reactor systems. 16:155:508.
(F) Chemical Engineering Analysis (3). Mathematical modeling and simulation of chemical and biochemical systems; numerical methods. Solution of ordinary and partial differential equations. Statistical methods of linear and nonlinear regression analysis; optimization methods. Extensive use of digital computers. 16:155:511.
(F) Advanced Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics (3). Basic principles of classical chemical thermodynamics. Chemical and physical equilibria and their relationships in simple and reactive systems. Estimation and correlation of thermodynamic functions, applications of thermodynamic principles to transport and rate processes. Irreversible and statistical thermodynamic topics also introduced. 16:155:512.
Advanced Chemical Engineering Molecular Thermodynamics (3).
Statistical ensembles; ideal and non-ideal gases; liquids; distribution function theories; Ornstein-Zernike equation; computer simulation methods; perturbation theories; engineering semi-empirical equations of state; applications to chemical engineering systems. 16:155:514.
(S) Kinetics, Catalysis, and Reactor Design (3). Principles of applied chemical kinetics, reaction mechanisms and rate laws, and engineering design of reactor vessels. Applications to homogeneous and heterogeneous process reaction systems with internal, transphase, and external mass transfer. Non catalytic gas-solid reaction and gas-liquid absorption with reaction. Micro mixing and macro mixing in reactor systems. 16:155:517.
Advanced Process Control (3). Review of analysis and design of feedback control systems. Advanced process control systems. Control systems for multivariable processes. Process control systems, using computers and artificial intelligence techniques. Intelligent control laboratory. 16:155:518.
Process Systems Engineering (3). Recent developments in process systems engineering, particularly in the area of process synthesis and design. Principles of process synthesis and design, energy integration in chemical processes/complexes, planning and scheduling of batch/continuous processes. Basic steps of problem solving and algorithm generation illustrated in several case studies. 16:155:531.
(F) Biochemical Engineering (3). Integration of the principles of chemical engineering, biochemistry, and microbiology. Development and application of biochemical engineering principles. Analysis of biochemical and microbial reactions. 16:155:532.
(F) Topics in Biochemical Engineering (3). An advanced course devoted to current topics of interest in biochemical and enzyme engineering. Topics include production, isolation, and purification of enzymes; downstream processing; design and analysis of bioreactors; bioprocess economics; modeling, optimization, and scale-up of biochemical systems. Content and format may vary from year to year. 16:155:533.
(S) Bioseparations (3). Fundamental problems of separation processes important to the recovery of products from biological processes. Topics include membrane filtration centrifugation, chromatography, extraction, electrokinetic methods. Emphasis on protein separations. 16:155:534.
(S) Enzyme Engineering (3). Application of biochemical engineering principles to enzyme technology. Enzyme structure and function, biochemical and biophysical properties, enzyme stability, mathematical models for inactivation. Design and analysis of enzyme and fixed microbial cell reactors. Use of enzymes in industrial, environmental, and medical applications. Case studies of commercial enzyme processes. 16:155:542. Chemical Processing of Drugs and Fine Chemicals Chemical process operations and engineering methods used in the development, scale-up and manufacture of drug and fine chemicals. Design and regulatory compliance methods for batch multiproduct plants for such products. 16:155:543 Industrial Chemistry of Drugs and Fine Chemicals Chemical process development, scale-up and regulatory environment of drug and fine chemicals. Strategies and technologies for the synthesis and semi-synthesis of drugs. Transition from the bench to the FDA-approved plant. 16:155:548 Advanced Topics in Pharmaceutical Engineering Thermochemical process safety, Physiochemical methods at the bulk/dosage form interface, and surface chemistry of crystallization, extraction and adsorption. 16:155:551.
(F) Polymer Science and Engineering I (3). Physical and chemical structure of polymers; morphology of polymer crystals; microscopic texture. Mechanical properties; influence of orientation; effects of temperature and environment; engineering applications. 16:155:552.
Polymer Science and Engineering II (3). Emphasis on a modern treatment of polymers, including statistical mechanics scaling concepts and polymer properties and characterization. 16:155:553.
(F) Polymer Science and Engineering Lab (1). Basic structure-property relationships of polymeric materials in their liquid, glassy, and crystalline states including synthesis, molecular weight distribution, morphology, thermal and mechanical properties. 16:155:554.
Polymer Processing (3). Extrusion, transfer, and compression molding; injection molding, thermoforming, and blow molding; thermoset, thermoplastics, and elastomers. Additives and fillers, coatings, laminates, mold designs, heat sealing, and orientation in films and fibers. 16:155:555.
(F) Polymer Physics (3). Introduction to physics of high polymers and their properties in the solid state; discussion of dielectric, mechanical, and nuclear magnetic resonance phenomena and application to relaxation behavior; theories of rubber elasticity and viscoelasticity; yield and fracture behavior. 16:155:556.
(S) Polymer Rheology (3). Introduction to viscosity and rheological phenomena in high polymers; the relation of these to molecular parameters and their applications in polymer physics, polymer engineering, and polymer processing. 16:155:557.
(S) Advanced Polymer Physics (3). Theory of thermoelastic behavior of rubbers, calculations of surface tension for single and multicomponent systems, Gibbs-DiMarzio theory of the glass transitions, effect of pressure on transitions, relaxations, viscoelastic behavior of homopolymer blends, diffusion, viscosity. 16:155:559.
(F) Scattering Methods in Polymer Science (3). Basic scattering theory and its application in studying polymers in solution and solid state: static and dynamic light scattering, small-angle X-ray scattering, and small-angle neutron scattering. 16:155:561.
(F) Applied Surface Chemistry (3). Phenomena and processes relevant to chemical engineering characterized by large interfacial area relative to phase volume. Consideration of fundamental principles of surface chemistry and physics, such as interfacial tension and pressure. Study of the colloidal state and colloidal particles. Theories of the electrical double layer and stability of suspensions. Application of theory to important processes such as foaming, emulsification, detergency, adhesion, ore flotation, and rate processes controlled at a phase interface, including nucleation and crystallization. 16:155:562.
(S) Synthesis and Properties of Solid Polymers (3). Advanced treatment of polymer processes and resultant polymer properties from the interrelated points of view of reaction engineering (including catalytic routes) and materials science (structure-property relationships) appropriate to the modern generation of engineering polymers. 16:155:563.
(F) Semipermeable Membranes (3). The applied physiochemical principles that underlie the frontier applications of barrier diffusion. 16:155:572,573.
Electrochemical Engineering I,II (3,3). An introduction to the principles and applications of electrochemical engineering properties of electrodes. Electrochemical engineering, energy conversion, and storage thermodynamics and design features in primary and secondary fuel cells, and in metallic corrosion, electroforming, and electrolysis. 16:155:574.
(S) Solvent Extraction Engineering (3). Advanced treatment of solvent extraction operations including both practical design approaches and a systematic development based on the fundamental aspects of mass transfer, mass transfer with reaction, and dispersion modeling in various contractor configurations. 16:155:575.
Electrochemical Engineering Techniques (3). A lecture-laboratory course providing theoretical and practical experience in the techniques of studying charge-transfer and mass-transfer controlled reactions in corrosion, electroplating, battery energy conversion, the production of chemicals, and other electrochemical applications. 16:155:601,602.
Chemical Engineering Graduate Seminar (N1,N1). Graduate students are given an opportunity to make a formal presentation on their independent study and/or research. Outside speakers are also invited. 16:155:603,604.
Topics in Advanced Biotechnology (1,1). Oral presentations and discussions of the current literature in biotechnology. Topics will be selected from: tissue, genetic, and protein engineering; growth control; receptor signaling; immunotechnology; neurotechnology; and others. 16:155:701,702. Research in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering (BA,BA).
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