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CHE 2031 -
Intro Chemical Processes
Description: Application of physical and chemical principles to the solution of steady-state material balances.
Prerequisites: CHM 1156 and MAT 2705
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Fall 2009
CHE 2032 -
Chem Engr Thermo I
Description: Thermodynamics of single component systems: applications of first and second laws, steady-state energy balances, equations of state, thermodynamic properties of fluids, thermochemistry.
Prerequisites: CHE 2031
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010, Spring 2009
CHE 2041 -
Chem Process Calculat
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Credit Hours: 4.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Fall 2005
CHE 2232 -
Fluid Mechanics
Description: Fluid statics, fluid properties, flow of incompressible fluids in conduits, friction factors, meters, pumps, external flow, drag, flow in packed and fluidized beds.
Prerequisites: CHE 2031
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010, Spring 2009
CHE 2432 -
Modeling & Numerical Methods I
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006
CHE 2900 -
Global Pharmaceutical Industry
Description: Fundamental drivers such as new technologies that characterize the global pharmaceutical industry. Includes attention to regulatory harmonization and global access to medicines; as well as elements such as global supply chain management and risk based quality.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2012, Spring 2010
CHE 2910 -
Catholic Soc Thought & the EGR
Description: Overview of the principles of Catholic Social Teaching (CST) and how engineers might incorporate these principles as design parameters when developing solutions to engineering problems. Case studies in which engineers have applied CST principles will be presented and discussed.
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Credit Hours: 1.0
Last Offered: Spring 2011
CHE 3031 -
Heat Transfer
Description: Principles of heat flow, mechanisms of conduction, convection and radiation, correlations for heat transfer coefficients, heat transfer equipment and process applications.
Prerequisites: (CHE 2032 and CHE 2232)
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Fall 2009, Fall 2008
CHE 3032 -
Mass Transfer
Description: Fundamentals of interphase mass transfer: mechanisms, driving force and resistance to transfer, design and analysis of continuous and staged contacting processes, gas absorption and stripping, binary distillation, liquid extraction.
Prerequisites: (CHE 3031 and CHE 3131)
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010, Spring 2009
CHE 3131 -
CHE Thermodynamics II
Description: The fundamental property relation, thermodynamic properties of single and multiple pure phases, homogeneous multicomponent phases, ideal and non-ideal liquid solutions, phase equilibria, chemical reaction equilibria, problem solving techniques, applications.
Prerequisites: CHE 2032
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Fall 2009, Fall 2008
CHE 3232 -
Simulation and Control
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007
CHE 3332 -
ChemE Reactor Engineering I
Description: Principles and methods of chemical kinetics and reactor design. Introduction to heterogeneous systems. Stoichiometry and rate laws for simple and complex reactions, analysis of reaction rates, isothermal reactors, introduction to temperature effects.
Prerequisites: CHE 3131
Corequisites: CHE 3032
Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2012, Spring 2011
CHE 3841 -
Statistical Analysis for CHE
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Credit Hours: 2.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006
CHE 3842 -
Safety Analysis
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Credit Hours: 2.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007
CHE 3911 -
Chem Eng Laboratory I
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Credit Hours: 1.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006
CHE 3922 -
Chem Eng Laboratory II
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Credit Hours: 2.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007
CHE 3931 -
Technical Communications
Description: Oral and written communication skills, reporting and analyzing results of experiments and/or literature investigations, graphical reporting.
Prerequisites: CHE 2032 and CHE 2232
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2011, Fall 2010
CHE 3932 -
ChemE Lab I
Description: Application of chemical engineering principles to laboratory and pilot scale equipment. Oral and written reporting of results.
Prerequisites: CHE 3931 and CHE 3032 and CHE 3332
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2012, Spring 2011
CHE 4031 -
Chem Reaction Engineering I
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2010, Fall 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2007
CHE 4131 -
Process Design I
Description: Application of fundamental principles of chemical engineering to design of industrial chemical processes; use of process simulators (such as Aspentech ASPEN PLUS) for process design.
Prerequisites: CHE 3032
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Fall 2009, Fall 2008
CHE 4232 -
Chemical Process Control
Description: Introduction to process control concepts and applications, computer simulation of processes during transient change, real-time and LaPlace domain analysis of controlled systems.
Prerequisites: CHE 4331
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2012
CHE 4331 -
Process Modeling & Analysis
Description: Application of rate laws and conservation equations to modeling by differential equations of physical and chemical systems.
Prerequisites: CHE 3332 and CHE 3032 and CHE 4131
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2011
CHE 4821 -
Tech Literature Investigation
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Credit Hours: 2.0
Last Offered: Fall 2010, Fall 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2007
CHE 4831 -
Chem Engineering Research I
Description: Independent investigation of a chemical engineering problem, under supervision of a faculty adviser, including a written comprehensive report. (Nine hours per week of independent study).
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Fall 2009, Fall 2008
CHE 4832 -
Chem Engineering Research II
Description: Continuation of CHE 4831. May include further investigation of same problem or a different topic.
Prerequisites: CHE 4831
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Summer 2010, Spring 2010
CHE 4921 -
Chem Eng Laboratory III
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Credit Hours: 2.0
Last Offered: Fall 2010, Fall 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2007
CHE 4931 -
ChemE Lab II
Description: Design and analysis of chemical engineering experiments using laboratory and pilot scale equipment. Oral and written reporting of results.
Prerequisites: CHE 3932 and CHE 4131 and CHE 4331
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2011
CHE 5001 -
Industrial Liq & Sld Waste
Description: Industrial waste management: nature and sources of waste streams, principles underlying chemical and physical treatment methods, case studies of treatment technology.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2011, Fall 2008, Fall 2005, Fall 2004
CHE 5002 -
Prin of Air Pol Control
Description: Causes, effects and control of air pollution, emphasizing abatement technologies: classification and sources of airborne pollutants, particulate control devices, VOC abatement technologies, NOx and SOx abatement, and meteorological effects.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2012, Spring 2008, Spring 2006, Spring 2004
CHE 5032 -
Process Equip Design II
Description: Continuation of CHE 4131, with emphasis on equipment design; use of process simulators (such as Aspentech ASPEN PLUS) for process equipment design.
Prerequisites: CHE 4131
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010, Spring 2009
CHE 5062 -
Chemical Engineering Economics
Description: Methods of economic evaluation & decision making, applied to engineering problems. Cost estimation & indexing, time value of money, depreciation, comparison of alternatives.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2011, Fall 2010
CHE 5131 -
CHE Math and Num Method
Description: Mathematical and numerical method techniques for solving equations of importance to chemical engineering applications.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Fall 1999, Fall 1998, Fall 1997
CHE 5132 -
Transport Phenomena
Description: Unified study of heat, mass and momentum transport: underlying physical laws, mathematical representation of transport laws, analogies between different transport modes, estimation of transport properties, applications.
Prerequisites: CHE 3032
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010, Spring 2009
CHE 5232 -
Chem Reaction Eng II
Description: Principles and methods of chemical kinetics and reactor design applied to heterogeneous reactive systems of industrial importance: catalysis and catalytic reactors, catalyst deactivation, diffusion effects, design of heterogeneous catalytic and non-catalytic chemical reactors.
Prerequisites: CHE 4031 or CHE 3332
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Spring 2010, Spring 2009
CHE 5331 -
Process Control Theory
Description: Mathematical tools for control systems analysis: linear open- and closed-loop systems, frequency response techniques, multi-variable process control, sampled-data control techniques, other advanced topics.
Prerequisites: CHE 3232
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2004, Fall 1998, Fall 1997, Fall 1996
CHE 5332 -
Special Topics in CHE
Description: Selected topics in chemical engineering: recent developments, new technology, applications of other disciplines to chemical engineering problems.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Fall 2009, Spring 2005, Fall 2000
CHE 5532 -
Intro to Biotechnology
Description: Production of commercially useful materials by living organisms, emphasizing emerging technology: biologically important compounds, their relationships to genetics and metabolic pathways, controlled growth of microbes, separation and purification of products.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Fall 2009, Fall 2008
CHE 5533 -
Bioseparations
Description: Factors underlying physical and chemical separations of natural (biological) products: centrifugation and filtration, cell Breakage, precipitation, extraction, adsorption, chromatography and crystallization; process-scale equipment and operations.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010, Spring 2008
CHE 5534 -
Biomaterials
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.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2009
CHE 5632 -
Polymer Sci and Engr
Description: Basic principles of polymer science: nature and structure of organic high-polymers, polymerization reactions, physical and chemical properties, mechanical testing, viscoelasticity, flow and processing applications.
Prerequisites: CHM 2211
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Fall 2009, Fall 2008
CHE 5633 -
Nanomaterials & Surface Scienc
Description: Factors underlying interfacial phenomena and nano-material formation; thermodynamics of surfaces; emulsification, foaming, detergency, nucleation, wetting adhesion, surface films; particle growth, micelles, self-assembled monolayers; unique nanoscale characterization and properties.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010, Spring 2009
CHE 5634 -
Intro to Material Science
Description: Comprehensive introduction to structure/property relationships of engineering materials; atomic & molecular structure of materials; means to control structure; mechanical behavior; electronic behavior; effects of treatment history on properties; effects of usage conditions on properties; material selection.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2011, Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2008
CHE 5715 -
Alternative Energy
Description: Technical, economic, and social evaluations of alternative and sustainable energy sources focusing on liquid fuels as well as other energy sources.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2011, Fall 2010
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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