COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Spring 2006: updates since Spring 2005 are in red

CME 314 Chemical Engineering CME 401 Separation Technologies I CME Thermodynamics II Fundamentals of separations. Introduction to stan- Equilibrium and the Phase Rule; VLE model and K- dard classical and advanced separation methods and value correlations; chemical potential and phase equi- their relative merits and limitations. Distillation, Chemical and Molecular libria for ideal and non-ideal solutions; heat effects and crystallization, filtration, centrifugation, absorption, Engineering property changes on mixing; application of equilibria and stripping methods. Includes fundamentals of to chemical reactions; Gibbs-Duhem and chemical chromatography. potential for reacting systems; liquid/liquid, Prerequisites: CME major, U3 or U4 standing; CME CME 101 Introduction to Chemical and liquid/solid, solid/vapor, and liquid/vapor equilibria; 323 Molecular Engineering adsorption and osmotic equilibria, steady state flow 3 credits Integrates students into the community of the College and irreversible processes. Steam power plants, inter- of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the major in nal combustion and jet engines, refrigeration cycle CME 402 Separation Technologies II Chemical and Molecular Engineering with a focus on and vapor compression, liquefaction processes. Introduces separation technologies in a plant design. personal and institutional expectations. Emphasizes Prerequisite: CME 304 Principles of supercritical fluids extraction and mem- the interdisciplinary role of the chemical engineering 3 credits brane separation. Packed tower design for separa- profession in the 21st century. Includes consideration tions. Batch versus continuous operation. of professional teamwork and the balance of profes- CME 318 Chemical Engineering Fluid Prerequisite: CME 401 sional growth with issues of societal impact. Mechanics 3 credits 3 credits Introduces fluid mechanics. Dynamics of fluids in motion; laminar and turbulent flow, Bernoulli’s equa- CME 410 Chemical Engineering Laboratory CME 300 Writing in Chemical and tion, friction in conduits; flow through fixed and flu- III: Instrumentation, Material Design, and Molecular Engineering idized beds. Study of pump and compressor perfor- Characterization See “Requirements for the Major in Chemical and mance and fluid metering devices. Includes introduc- Synthesis of unsupported nanosized metal and nano- Molecular Engineering, Upper-Division Writing tion to microfluidics. sized metal in a polymer. Characterization of synthe- Requirement.” Prerequisites: AMS 261 (or MAT 203 or 205); PHY 131 sized nano materials by modern spectroscopic tech- Prerequisites: CME major; U3 or U4 standing; WRT (or 125 or 141) niques (TEM, XRD, FTIR, and XPS). Data analysis 102 3 credits and interpretation. Corequisite: CME 310 Prerequisite: CME 320 S/U grading CME 320 Chemical Engineering Laboratory 2 credits II: Chemical and Molecular Engineering CME 304 Chemical Engineering Introduction and operation of a continuous unit han- CME 420 Chemical Engineering Laboratory Thermodynamics I dling of air-sensitive/water-sensitive materials, sonoly- IV: Directed Research First and second laws of thermodynamics, PVT behav- sis and thermal techniques for materials synthesis, Directed laboratory research or internship in indus- ior of pure substances, equations of state for gases and preparation of polymer nano-composites and nano- try. Includes original research project selection and a liquids, phase equilibria, mass and energy balances sized materials. formal report preparation. for closed and open systems, reversibility and equilib- Prerequisite: CME 310 Prerequisite: CME 410 rium, application of thermodynamics to flow process- 2 credits 2 credits es, heat effects during chemical reactions and com- bustion. CME 322 Chemical Engineering Heat and CME 440 Process Engineering Design I Prerequisites: PHY 132; CHE 132; CSE 130 or ESG 111 Mass Transfer or MEC 112 or ESE 124 Classical methods of chemical process engineering, Heat transfer by conduction, principles of heat flow in advanced mathematical techniques, and computer 3 credits fluids with and without phase change, heat transfer by software for efficient and accurate process design and radiation, heat-exchange equipment. Principles and development. Mini-project design. CME 310 Chemical Engineering Laboratory theory of diffusion, mass transfer between phases, dis- Prerequisites: CME major; U3 or U4 standing; CME I: Unit Operation and Fundamentals tillation, leaching and extraction, fixed-bed membrane 320 and 327 Introduces general safety in a chemical engineering separation, crystallization. 3 credits laboratory handling high pressure equipment. Prerequisite: CME 318 Selection and identification of unit components. Batch 3 credits CME 441 Process Engineering Design II and continuous units. Reactor types: stirred, bubble Major design project: a review of engineering design column, and slurry-phase reactors. Precise measure- CME 323 Reaction Engineering and principles; engineering economics, economic evalua- ments of pressure and temperature variables. Mass Chemical Kinetics tion, capital cost estimation; process optimization; balance in a chemical reaction. Simulated distillation. Introduction to chemical reaction engineering and profitability analysis for efficient and accurate process Prerequisite: CME 304 reactor design. Fundamentals of chemical kinetics for design. Corequisite: CME 300 homogeneous and heterogeneous reactions, both cat- Prerequisites: CME 401 and 440 2 credits alyzed and uncatalyzed. Steady-state approximation. 3 credits Methods of kinetic data collection, analysis, and inter- CME 312 Material and Energy Balance pretation. Transport effects in solid and slurry-phase Introduces analysis of chemical processes using the reactions. Batch and flow reactors including opera- laws of conservation and energy as they apply to non- tions under non-ideal and non-isothermal conditions. reacting and reacting systems. Integration of the con- Reactor design including bioreactors. cepts of equilibrium in physicochemical systems, and Prerequisites: CME major, U3 standing; CME 312 and utilization of basic principles of thermodynamics. 314 Numerical methods used in the design an optimiza- 3 credits tion of chemical engineering processes. Solution of complex chemical engineering problems. CME 327 Molecular Modeling for Chemical Prerequisites: ESG 111 or MEC 112; CHE 132 and 134; AMS 261 or MAT 203; CME 304 Engineers 3 credits Molecular modeling techniques and simulation of complex chemical processes. Use of Monte Carlo methods and Molecular Dynamics methods. Emphasis on the simulation and modeling of biopoly- meric systems. Prerequisites: PHY 132; ESG 111 or MEC 112; AMS 261 or MAT 203; AMS 361 or MAT 303 3 credits

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