CHEE 1331: Computing for Engineers (also CIVE 1331, INDE 1331, MECE 1331)
Cr. 3. (2-2). Prerequisite: MATH 1431. Credit may not be received for more than one of CHEE 1331, CIVE 1331, INDE 1331 and MECE 1331. Introduction to the computing environment; matrix arithmetic; programming essentials; spreadsheets; symbolic algebra tools; solution of typical engineering problems using computer tools.
CHEE 2331: Chemical Processes
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: CHEM 1332, MATH 1432, and PHYS 1321. Introduction to chemical engineering calculations, unit equations, process stoichiometry, material and energy balances, states of matter, and case studies.
CHEE 2332: Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics I
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: CHEM 1332, MATH 2433, PHYS 1321, and CHEE 2331. Fundamental concepts of thermodynamic systems, heat and work, properties of pure substances, first and second laws.
CHEE 3300: Materials Science and Engineering I
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: CHEE 2331, CHEM 1332, PHYS 1321 and credit for or concurrent enrollment in MATH 3321. Properties of materials with emphasis on metals, ceramics, polymers and electronic materials.
CHEE 3333: Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics II
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: CHEE 2332. Multicomponent systems, phase equilibria, and prediction of thermodynamic properties.
CHEE 3334: Statistical/Numerical Techniques for Chemical Engineers
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: CIVE 1331 or CHEE 1331, CHEE 2332, MATH 3321 or equivalent and credit for or concurrent enrollment in ENGI 3363 or CHEE 3363. Statistics for chemical engineers. Curve fitting, numerical methods in linear algebra, non-linear algebraic equations, ordinary and partial differential equations, optimization. Special emphasis is placed on problems appearing in chemical engineering applications.
CHEE 3363: Fluid Mechanics for Chemical Engineers
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ENGI 2304, CHEE 2332, MATH 3321, and credit for or concurrent enrollment in CHEE 3334. Foundations of fluid mechanics, fluid statics, kinematics, laminar and turbulent flow; macroscopic balances; dimensional analysis and flow correlations.
CHEE 3366: Topics in Physical Chemistry
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: CHEE 3333. Introduction to various physical-chemical topics; electrochemistry, chemical kinetics, colloid and particle science, macromolecules.
CHEE 3367: Process Modeling and Control
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: CHEE 3334, CHEE 3363 or ENGI 3363, MATH 3321, and PHYS 1322. Modeling techniques of chemical engineering problems with emphasis on process control.
CHEE 3369: Chemical Engineering Transport Processes
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ENGI 3363 or CHEE 3363. Mass transfer in single and multiphase systems and combined heat and mass transfer. Selected topics in heat and mass transfer, and in heat and momentum transfer.
CHEE 3399-4399: Senior Honors Thesis
Cr. 3 per semester. Prerequisites: senior standing; 3.00 cumulative grade point average in chemical engineering and overall.
CHEE 3462: Unit Operations
Cr. 4. (3-1.5). Prerequisite: CHEE 3333. Unit operations with emphasis on distillation, absorption, extraction, and fluid-solid systems.
CHEE 3466: Biological and Physical Chemistry
Cr. 4. (4-0). Prerequisites: CHEE 3333 and CHEM 3331. Biochemistry and physicochemical topics, including chemical kinetics and adsorption.
CHEE 4198:4298:4398:4498: Special Problems
Cr. 1-4 per semester, or more by concurrent enrollment. Prerequisite: approval of department chair.
CHEE 4300: Physics and Chemistry of Engineering Materials
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: CHEE 3300, 3333, and 3363. Advanced theories of the structure and properties of materials, preparation methods, and applications in electronics, optics, catalysis and fuel cells.
CHEE 4321;4322: Chemical Engineering Design
Cr. 3 per semester. (3-0). Prerequisites: CHEE 3333, 3462, 3369, and credit for or concurrent enrollment in CHEE 4367. Computer-aided design of chemical processes with emphasis on process economics, profitability analysis, and optimum operating conditions.
CHEE 4361: Chemical Engineering Practices
Cr. 3. (1.5-5). Prerequisites: CHEE 3462, 3369, 3367, and credit for or concurrent enrollment in CHEE 4367. Design and execution of experiments with emphasis on heat and mass transport, unit operations, process control, and reactors. Written reports.
CHEE 4366: Biomolecular Engineering Fundamentals
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: BIOE 3440 or CHEE 3466 and credit for or concurrent enrollment in CHEE 4367. Analysis and design fundamentals for biochemical processes: introductory biochemistry, microbiology, biological kinetics, reactor design, transport phenomena; applications of enzymes and single and mixed microbial populations.
CHEE 4367: Chemical Reaction Engineering
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: CHEE 3369 and either CHEE 3366 or CHEE 3466. Chemical reaction kinetics, mechanisms, and reactor design in static and flow systems; introduction to heterogeneous catalytic reactions in flow systems.
CHEE 5323: Fundamentals of Tissue Engineering
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: CHEE 3363 or MECE 3363 or BIOE 3440 and MATH 3321. Credit may not be received for more than one of BIOE 4323, CHEE 5395, or MECE 5323. Fundamental concepts in tissue engineering and cell biology including structure, function, and replication.
CHEE 5360: Biochemical Engineering Fundamentals
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: Credit for or concurrent enrollment in CHEE 4367. Analysis and design fundamentals for biochemical process, reactor design, transport phenomena; applications of enzymes and microbial populations.
CHEE 5367: Advanced Process Control
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: CHEE 3367 or consent of instructor. Application of high-speed computers in the control of chemical processes, reactors, and units.
CHEE 5368: Chemical Process Economics I
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: senior standing and concurrent enrollment in CHEE 4321. Managerial economics of chemical processes and products; development of decision-making methods using chemical industry examples.
CHEE 5369: Chemical Process Economics II
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: senior standing and CHEE 5368. Study of profitability, process comparison, and risk analysis from an advanced viewpoint, followed by extensive case history studies on managerial economics in process industries.
CHEE 5371: Pollution Control Engineering
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: Credit for or concurrent enrollment in CHEE 4321 and CHEE 4367. Pollution problems and remedies with the earth as an environmentally closed system. Limitations of absorption and self-cleaning for terrasphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere and their interrelationship.
CHEE 5373: Environmental Remediation
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: CHEE 3363 or ENGI 3363, CHEE 3462, and credit for or concurrent enrollment in CHEE 4367. In situ and ex situ methods of remediation or restoration of contaminated environmental sites. Emphasis is on hydrocarbon contaminants in soil, surface water and groundwater.
CHEE 5377: Introduction to Polymer Science
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: CHEE 3363 and either 3366 or 3466 or consent of instructor. Synthesis, characterization, physical properties and processing of polymeric materials. Methods to measure and characterize the correlations among structure processing properties of polymeric materials.
CHEE 5379: Safety and Reliability
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: CHEE 3363, 3369, and 3367. Risks, safeguards, and hazards associated with chemical process engineering. Layers of protection, hazard identification, source term models, toxic release and dispersion models, fires and explosions, probabilistic analysis, fault tree analysis, designs to prevent accidents, safety-instrumented systems, and safety-related standards and regulations.
CHEE 5380: Biochemical Separations
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: Senior standing in chemical engineering or consent of instructor. Addresses the most difficult part of many biotechnological projects - actually producing a cloned protein in useful amounts. Some attention is also given to the use of recombinant DNA methodologies to produce proteins, and to characterization methods.
CHEE 5383: Advanced Unit Operations
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: Senior standing in chemical engineering or consent of instructor. Property prediction of multicomponent fluids. Advanced principles of heat exchanger design, multicomponent fractionation, absorption, stripping and extraction.
CHEE 5384: Petrochemical Processes
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: CHEM 3332 and senior standing or consent of instructor. Petrochamical industry in terms of feedstocks, products, companies and trends. Technology, markets, and economics for the major building blocks and derivatives.
CHEE 5386: Air Pollution Problems and Control
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Air pollutant identification and control technology; estimation of pollutant transport, dispersion, and conversion; computer application for design of control units.
CHEE 5387: Plasma Processing: Principles and Applications
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: senior standing in engineering or natural sciences or consent of instructor. Principles of low pressure glow discharge plasmas: plasma generation and maintenance, plasma chemistry, plasma diagnostics. Applications with emphasis on semiconductor manufacturing.
CHEE 5388: Catalytic Processes
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: Credit for or concurrent enrollment in CHEE 4321 and 4367. Process-oriented survey of catalytic technology; catalyst selection and design; catalytic processes, engineering and economics in the petroleum, chemical, and pollution control industries.
CHEE 5389: Transport Phenomena in Physiological Systems
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: BIOE 3440 and CHEE 3363 or equivalents. Fundamental aspects of systems physiology and other life science principles with quantitative analysis of transport phenomena and chemical reactions in cells, organs and the whole body.
CHEE 5390: Energy and the Environment (also CHEE 6390)
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: credit for or concurrent enrollment in CHEE 4321 and 4367. This course surveys modern energy technologies and their impact on the environment. Topics include energy generation from fossil, nuclear, and renewable sources. Energy utilization covers stationary and transportation applications. Optimization of source-to-consumer efficiencies and minimization of emissions are in-cluded, with special emphasis on emerging technologies such as fuel cells. Capstone topics for the course are future developments in the hydrogen economy and the technical-economic-social aspects of global warming.
CHEE 5393: Cellular and Biological Transport Phenomena
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: BIOE 3440 and CHEE 3363 or equivalents. Relates basic cell biology and biophysical chemistry principles to quantitative analysis of transport phenomena and chemical reactions.
CHEE 5397: Selected Topics
Cr. 3. (3-0). May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
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http://www.uh.edu/gs/grad_catalog/egr/chee_courses.html
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