Graduate Catalog 1993-1994
College of Engineering
Department of Chemical Engineering
Course Descriptions
CHEG 595 Patent Law for Engineers and Scientists 3
Methods of protecting intellectual property. Patents, trademarks,
copyrights, trade secrets and unfair methods of competition,
including analyses of significant court decisions in each area.
Directed to innovators in all fields interested in legal
protection of their ideas.
CHEG 601 Structure and Properties of Polymer Materials 3
See MASC601 for course description.
CHEG 602 Polymer Process Analysis and Design 3
Development of the tools of continuum mechanics necessary for the
quantitative description of viscoelastic media. Use of principles
of chemical kinetics, fluid and continuum mechanics and heat and
mass transfer to describe the production and processing of
polymeric materials.
PREREQ: CHEG342.
CHEG 603 Polymerization Reaction Engineering 3
Introduction to polymer chemistry and reactor design with emphasis
on mechanics and kinetics of polymerization, macromolecular
structure, and the influence of reactor geometry and process
conditions on polymer properties.
PREREQ: CHEM444.
CHEG 604 Introduction to Polymer Science and Engineering II 3
Introduction to polymer physics with emphasis on structure-
property models for bulk polymers, viscoelasticity, polymer
morphology, crystallization and crystallization kinetics, effects
of processing on bulk polymers, and structure-property
correlations for bulk polymers.
PREREQ: CHEG603.
CHEG 605 Multiphase Fluid Mechanics 3
Presents topics in fluid dynamics of practical importance in the
chemical process industries, emphasizing two-phase flow and other
advanced topics. Covers two-phase gas-liquid and solid-liquid
flow, compressible flow, turbulence, non-Newtonian flow and prime
movers.
PREREQ: CHEG341 or other introductory course in fluid mechanics.
CHEG 606 Introduction to Catalysis 3
Industrial catalytic reactions, mechanisms, kinetics and phase
behavior. Theory of catalysis from solutions to non-uniform
surfaces.
PREREQ: CHEM331, CHEM443, CHEM444 and CHEG332.
CHEG 610 Industrial and Engineering Chemistry 3
Investigation of the role of chemistry and engineering in
important industrial processes. Emphasis on innovations in
chemical processing routes based on the interplay between
chemistry and engineering. Flowsheeting of specific routes.
Permission of instructor required.
CHEG 612 Applied Process Heat Transfer 3
Principles of heat transfer by conduction, convection and
radiation illustrated through the case study approach. Emphasis on
analyzing heat balance and heat transfer equations with their
proper boundary conditions.
PREREQ: CHEG342.
CHEG 615 Special Topics in Mixing 3
Introduces basic principles of fluid dynamics, rheology and
turbulence that dictate the mixing behavior required to implement
a desired process result. Agitation in vessels and pipeline and
viscous mixing discussed. Emphasis on recent research on the
effects of mixing on chemical reactions.
CHEG 616 Chemistry and Physics of Surfaces and Interfaces 3
Fundamental and engineering aspects of metal, inorganic and
polymer surfaces; their structure and defects, characterization,
thermodynamics, adsorption and electronic properties. Applications
to catalysis, microelectronics, mechanical properties and
environment sensitive behavior.
May be cross-listed with MASC616.
CHEG 620 Biochemical Engineering 3
Application of chemical engineering principles to design and
analysis of biological reactors and product recovery processes.
Includes introduction to microbiology, biochemistry and molecular
biology with emphasis on recombinant cells.
PREREQ: CHEG332 and CHEG342.
CHEG 635 Air Pollution and Its Control 3
See CIEG635 for course description.
CHEG 650 Biomedical Engineering I 3
Application of engineering concepts and techniques to problems in
biomedicine. Mass transfer and chemical reactions in the body,
drug distribution, kidney and other organ physiology, and
artificial organs.
PREREQ: Upper division or graduate standing in engineering or
equivalent.
CHEG 691 Technical Project Management 3
The organization, planning, and control of technical projects.
Emphasis on the application of quantitative techniques of
management, critical path analysis, linear programming, stochastic
decision making, risk analysis and forecasting.
RESTRICTIONS: Requires permission of instructor.
CHEG 801 Process Control and Dynamics 3
Extension of SISO control concepts to MIMO systems appropriate to
the chemical industry. Direct synthesis methods, internal model
reference control, robust control and control in stochastic
systems.
PREREQ: Undergraduate control course.
CHEG 825 Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics 3
Applications of classical and molecular thermodynamics to
industrial problems in chemical and phase equilibrium. Topics
include nonideal solutions, high pressure systems, complex
reaction equilibria, generalized correlations and equations of
state.
PREREQ: CHEG325 and CHEM444.
CHEG 826 Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics 3
Applications of classical and molecular thermodynamics to
industrial problems in chemical and phase equilibrium. Topics
include nonideal solutions, high pressure systems, complex
reaction equilibria, generalized correlations and equations of
state.
PREREQ: CHEG325 and CHEM444.
CHEG 827 Chemical Engineering Problems 2-3
The application of mathematical methods to the solution of
chemical engineering problems. The use of ordinary and partial
differential equations and of difference equations in fluid flow,
heat transfer, diffusion and other unit operations.
PREREQ: CHEG443 and MATH302.
CHEG 828 Statistical Thermodynamics 2-3
A discussion of the concepts of classical statistical mechanics,
with special emphasis on applications, thermodynamic modeling and
physical properties correlations.
CHEG 830 Fluid Mechanics 3
Use of field equations of motion and a variety of constitutive
assumptions to solve problems involving both laminar and turbulent
flows. Emphasizes polymer processing, fluids transport and
boundary layer theory.
PREREQ: Undergraduate study in fluid mechanics or transport
phenomena.
CHEG 835 Applied Chemical Kinetics 3
The application of modern methods and recent experimental data to
the design of chemical reaction equipment.
PREREQ: Requires undergraduate reaction engineering and physical
chemistry.
CHEG 836 Applied Chemical Kinetics 3
Topics in chemical reaction engineering, applied kinetics and
industrial catalysis.
PREREQ: CHEG835.
CHEG 863 Diffusional Operations 3
Advanced coverage of the latest theoretical and experimental
studies in several fields involving mass transfer. These fields
include humidification, absorption, extraction, distillation, ion
exchange and adsorption.
PREREQ: CHEM444.
CHEG 868 Research 1-9
CHEG 869 Master's Thesis 1-6
Laboratory study of some phase of chemical engineering on which
information is lacking, with the goals of contributing new data
and theory. Although supervised, work will be independent in
nature to encourage the development of initiative.
CHEG 969 Doctoral Dissertation 1-12 PF
UNIV 899 Master's Sustaining 0 PF
UNIV 999 Ph.D. Sustaining 0 PF