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CHE 7002 -
Quantitative Safety Tech
Description: Quantitative safety analysis, applied to chemical processing: fire and explosion hazards, electrostatic hazards, source and dispersion models, relief requirements, quantitative risk assessment, accident case studies.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2010, Summer 2003, Summer 2000, Fall 1998
CHE 7110 -
Climate Change/Sustainability
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Fall 2009, Fall 2008
CHE 7111 -
Life Cycle/Impact Assessment
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2011, Spring 2010, Spring 2009
CHE 7511 -
Sustainable Industrial Chem
Description: Project based learning experience; three key areas; past discoveries that shaped the industry and its footprint; today's technology and the sustainability issues it faces; future directions based on green chemistry, and bioproduced feedstocks. Industry expert guest lecturers. Industrial site visits.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2011
CHE 7561 -
Air Pollution Control
Description: The causes, effects and control of air pollution, emphasizing fundamental mechanisms: chemistry of pollutant generation, meterorology and atmospheric dispersion, sampling and analysis, data interpretation, theory underlying control systems.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
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CHE 7580 -
CHE Economics
Description: Techniques for economic evaluation of projects and processes; time value of money, return on investment, cost estimation of processes, alternative project evaluations, economic balances and optimization.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2012
CHE 7587 -
Biopharm Facility Design
Description: Design of facilities for the pharmaceutical and bioprocess industries. Equipment selection, economics, team work, and presentations.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2011, Fall 2009
CHE 7591 -
Industrial Waste Management
Description: Analysis of industrial waste disposal: sources of industrial wastes, disposal using physical, chemical and biological processes, overview of governmental regulations to prevent pollution.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
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CHE 7595 -
Special Topics in CHE
Description: Topics of current interest in chemical engineering, (to be announced in advance of offering).
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Credit Hours: 3.0
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CHE 8531 -
Nano, Catalysis & Energy
Description: Properties and classes of nanomaterials, solid state physics semiconductors, characterization techniques, catalysis for energy transformations, fuel cells, batteries, solar cells, biofuels, hydrocarbons and hydrogen.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2011, Spring 2009
CHE 8550 -
Chem Eng Reactors
Description: Overview of homogeneous and heterogeneous chemical kinetics, thermodynamic effects on rate laws and reactor behavior, reactor design for simple and complex reactions, mass and energy balances over reactors, transient and non-ideal reactor behavior.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2010, Fall 2007, Fall 2005, Fall 2003
CHE 8551 -
Chem Kinetics and Catalysis
Description: In-depth look at homogeneous and especially heterogeneous kinetics and catalysis, collision and transition state theories, analysis of reaction sequences, rate laws from experimental data, and heat and mass transport effects on catalyst and reactor performance.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2012, Spring 2008, Spring 2006, Spring 2004
CHE 8555 -
Proc Control Theory I
Description: Fundamental principles and analytical methods of process control systems: linear open-loop and closed dynamic systems, frequency domain design methods, multivariable control, sampled data control theory.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2004, Fall 2002, Fall 2000, Fall 1998
CHE 8556 -
Proc Control Theory II
Description: Application of linear system theory to the design of process control systems in the time domain. Advanced process control techniques, model based process control, the control of chemical engineering processes.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2003, Spring 2001, Spring 1999, Spring 1997
CHE 8558 -
Process Design I
Description: The design of chemical processes: synthesizing a process, organizing material and energy balances for solution, iterative convergence techniques, cost estimation and economic analysis, process improvemment, energy conservation, interaction of process units, process control, designing for safety.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2011, Spring 2010, Spring 2008, Spring 2006
CHE 8564 -
Fluid Dynamics
Description: Theory and applications of fluid dynamics: continuity equation, equation of motion, ideal fluid flow, laminar viscous flow, boundary layer flow, turbulent flow.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2012, Fall 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2006
CHE 8565 -
Heat Transfer
Description: Mechanisms, theory and applications of heat transfer by conduction, convection and radiation.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2007, Spring 2005
CHE 8570 -
Polymer Science & Engineering
Description: Principles of polymer science: nature and structure of organic high-polymers, polymerization reactions, physical and chemical properties, mechanical testing, viscoelasticity, flow and processing applications.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2011, Summer 2009, Fall 2007
CHE 8571 -
Separation Processes I
Description: Distillation processes, from the equilibrium-stage point of view: separation factors, phase equilibrium relationships, analysis of steady state processes such as flash vaporization, binary, multicomponent and azeotropic distillations, batch distillation.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2011, Fall 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2004
CHE 8572 -
Separation Processes II
Description: Separation processes other than distillation, from the equilibrium-stage point of view: gas absorption, extraction, leaching, adsorption, filtration and sedimentation, ultracentrifugation, evaporation.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2012, Spring 2010, Fall 2008, Fall 2006
CHE 8575 -
Thermodynamics
Description: Advanced concepts of thermodynamics: equations of state, physical and chemical equilibrium, estimation of thermodynamic properties.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2011, Fall 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2006
CHE 8579 -
Adv Process Modeling/Analysis
Description: Mathematical techniques for analyzing chemical engineering problems: development of mathematical models of physical and chemical problems, time dependent and position dependent models, solution of model equations by numerical techniques, computer applications
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Fall 2007, Fall 2005, Fall 2003
CHE 8585 -
Optimization
Description: Fundamentals of single and multi-variable optimization by search techniques: constrained and unconstrained optimization, introduction to linear programming, geometric programming and dynamic programming, limits and usefulness of optimization techniques.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2006
CHE 8586 -
Biomaterials & Drug Delivery
Description: Materials for use in medicine and in/on the body, material bulk and surface properties, biological responses to materials, applications, manufacturing processes, cost, sterilization, packaging and regulatory issues. Drug delivery mechanisms, issues, and modeling.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2012, Spring 2010
CHE 8588 -
Biochemical Engineering I
Description: Basics of biochemistry, microbiology, cell biology and molecular biology, as applied to bioproduct formation; enzyme kinetics, immobilized enzymes, diffusion limitations, immobilized enzyme reactors; cell growth kinetics, batch and continuous fermentor operation, bioreactor operation; sterilization, oxygen transfer and scaleup.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2010, Fall 2008, Fall 2006, Fall 2004
CHE 8589 -
Biochemical Engineering II
Description: Fedbatch, continuous, immobilized-cell and other advanced bioreactors; bioreactor monitoring and control; design and operation of downstream processes, including cell disruption, filtration, extraction, chromatography; facility design; validation and regulatory issues.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2011, Spring 2009, Spring 2007, Spring 2005
CHE 8595 -
Special Topics in CHE
Description: Topics of current interest in chemical engineering, (to be announced in advance of offering).
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2011, Spring 2006, Fall 2005, Summer 2004
CHE 8651 -
Biomass Conversion
Description: Technical approaches for converting biomass to energy, fuels, and useful chemicals. New advances, current challenges, industrial applications, important research areas discussed.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2011
CHE 8663 -
Syst Biology: Biofuel Gen
Description: Systems Biology approach for engineering fermentative microorganisms such as E. coli to convert sugar/glycerol to biofuels: chemicals of life, biological reaction network, kinetic modeling and parameter estimation, genome-scale metabolic modeling and simulation, metabolic network analysis, experimental data analysis.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
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CHE 9020 -
CHE Independent Study
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Summer 2011
CHE 9024 -
CHE Thesis I
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Summer 2011
CHE 9025 -
CHE Thesis II
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Summer 2011
CHE 9080 -
Thesis Continuation
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Credit Hours: 0.0
Last Offered: Summer 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Summer 2011
CHE 9085 -
Independent Study Continuation
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Credit Hours: 0.0
Last Offered: Summer 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Summer 2011
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