Undergraduate Courses

EGPP-101 Introduction to Engineering, 2 Credits
Provides information on engineering education the engineering profession and basic concepts and tools. Introduces the engineering design process and provides the opportunity for students to complete engineering design projects. PREREQ: None.

EGPP-103 Introduction to Engineering Team Adoption, 1 Credit
Adoption of engineering teams; group dynamics; team work. PREREQ: None. * Not Required.

CHEG-102 Introduction to Engineering Design, 3 Credits
Introduction to process synthesis and process design, and simple mass balances. Students develop flow diagram, overall mass balance, and preliminary design of one or more individual pieces of equipment. PREREQ: CHEM-003.

CHEG-201 Chemical Engineering Material Balances, 3 Credits
Analysis and application of material balances to chemical engineering operations and processes, introduces stoichiometric relations, process flow sheeting and correlations of chemical and physical properties. PREREQ: MATH-156; COREQ: MATH-157.

CHEG-202 Chemical Engineering Energy Balances, 3 Credits
Analysis and application of energy balances to chemical engineering operations and processes; stoichiometric relations; first law of thermodynamics, and correlation of chemical and physical properties. PREREQ: CHEG-201, ENGL-003 and MATH-157.

CHEG-301 Fluid Mechanics, 3 Credits
Involves quantitative study of momentum transfer and fluid mechanics; chemical engineering operations involving fluid flow in pipes through porous media; motion of particles in fluids. PREREQ: CHEG-202, PHYS-013

CHEG-302 Heat Transfer, 3 Credits
Involves quantitative study of chemical engineering operations; heat exchange by conduction, convection, and radiation; heat transfer correlations. PREREQ: CHEG-301, MATH-159.

CHEG-303 Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics, 3 Credits
Introduces second law, use of entropy and free energy, properties of pure fluids and mixtures, equations of states, applications to power and refrigeration cycles, and study of phase and chemical equilibria. PREREQ: CHEG-202; PHYS-013.

CHEG-306 Chemical Engineering Analysis, 3 Credits
Treatment of experimental data, with steady state simulation of chemical processes; solution of ordinary differential equations by LaPlace transforms and numerical methods. PREREQ: MATH-l59 and CHEG-30l

CHEG-401 Mass Transfer Operations, 3 Credits
Involves quantitative study of chemical engineering operations; mass transfer and diffusion; and equilibrium stage and differential mass transfer operations. PREREQ: CHEG-302, CHEG-303, CHEM-171.

CHEG-402 Process Control, 3 Credits
Involves methods of process control, dynamic response of chemical processing equipment and systems, modes of control and controller characteristics, and use of mathematical and experimental models. PREREQ: PHYS-014, CHEG-415 or Permission of Instructor.

CHEG-403 Chemical Engineering Kinetics, 3 Credits
Presents the fundamentals of chemical reaction kinetics and application of kinetics, thermodynamics, and transport phenomena to the design of chemical reactors. PREREQ: CHEG-303, CHEM-141, CHEM-171, MATH-159; COREQ: CHEG-302.

CHEG-405 Chemical Engineering Laboratory, 3 Credits
Application of chemical engineering process and unit-operation principles to quantitative experiments in small-scale equipment. PREREQ: CHEM-145 or CHEM-173, ENGL-003; COREQ: CHEG-401

CHEG-406 Introduction to Polymer Systems, 3 Credits
Elective. Modern industrial and commercial processes for production and fabrication of polymer materials. PREREQ: CHEM-l42 and CHEM-l7l; CHEG-303; COREQ: CHEG-302.

CHEG-407 Process Design I, 3 Credits
Involves cost estimation, materials of construction, and fabrication selection in the optimum design of chemical processing systems and equipment along with optimization incorporating the time-value of money and mathematical programming techniques. PREREQ: CHEG-302, CHEG-303, CHEM-171; COREQ: CHEG-401.

CHEG-408 Mathematical Methods in Chemical Engineering, 3 Credits
Elective. Teaches use of the basic laws of conservation of momentum, mass, and energy, including rate expressions to formulate ordinary, partial differential and other fundamental equations describing chemical engineering processes, analytical and numerical solutions of resulting equations. PREREQ: CHEG-415 or permission of instructor.

CHEG-409 Independent Study in Chemical Engineering, 1-3 Credits
Elective. Provides advanced treatment of selected topics in chemical engineering, with independent study subjects arranged to fit the interests of the student and advisor. PREREQ: Senior standing or special permission of instructor.

CHEG-410 Advanced Mass Transfer -- Selected Topics, 3 Credits
Elective. Deals with dynamic sorption operations and newly developing separation techniques, including equilibrium concepts and mass transfer design methods. PREREQ: CHEG-303 and CHEG-401

CHEG-412 Transport Phenomena, 3 Credits
Elective. Provides a unified treatment of momentum, heat, and mass transport, with development of equations of change and application of microscopic and macroscopic balances to a variety of chemical engineering problems. PREREQ: CHEG-415; COREQ: CHEG-40l or permission of instructor.

CHEG-414 Process Design II, 3 Credits
Instruction in the use of chemical engineering and economic principles in solving problems of design and optimization of chemical processing systems and equipment, along with application of optimization methods and computer simulations in determining optimum selection of process variables. PREREQ: CHEG-40l, CHEG-403, CHEG-407, CHEM-142, CHEM-172.

CHEG-416 Fundamentals of Environmental Engineering, 3 Credits
Elective. Introduces students to environmental engineering, hydrology, water and waste water treatment, air pollution and control, solid waste disposal, and hazardous waste treatment and management. PREREQ: CHEG-415 or Permission of Instructor.

CHEG-417 Frontiers in Nanoscience Engineering and Technology, 3 Credits
Elective. Introduces students to the fundamentals of nanoscience and nanotechnology and nanomaterials processing and engineering. PREREQ: Permission of Instructor.

CHEG-422 Polymer Processing, 3 Credits
Elective. Discusses applications of the power law and of linear viscoelasticity to extrusion, injection molding and fiber-spinning. PREREQ: CHEG-412.

CHEG-424 Bioprocess Engineering, 3 Credits
Elective. Introduces students to the basics of the life sciences including microbiology, biochemistry, enzymology, cell biology and genetic engineering; develops the analysis and design of bioreactors and bioseparations processes. PREREQ: CHEG-415 or Permission of Instructor.

CHEG-425 Air Pollution Engineering, 3 Credits
Elective. Deals with thermodynamics and reaction kinetics of primary and secondary air pollutants, transport and diffusion processes in the atmosphere, stack design and plume dispersion modeling, and design of air pollution control equipment for particulates and gases. PREREQ: CHEM-142 and CHEG-415; COREQ: CHEG-401.

CHEG-426 Polymer Rheology, 3 Credits
Elective. Treats viscoelasticity and the generalized Newtonian fluid, including the power law, in fluid mechanics and rheology. Differential and integral constitutive equations. PREREQ: CHEG-412.

CHEG-428 Introduction to Electrochemical Engineering, 3 Credits
Elective. Introduces students to fundamentals of electrochemical engineering. Treats fuels cells, energy generation with some focus on electrochemical membranes. PREREQ: Permission of Instructor.

CHEG-800 Chemical Engineering Seminar, 0 Credit
Presents selected topics of interest to chemical engineering students and professionals and discusses professionalism, careers in chemical engineering, graduate school and AIChE.