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Cullen College of Engineering

Department of Chemical Engineering

Note: Nonengineering majors may not register for engineering courses except with the written permission of the dean.

Courses: Chemical Engineering (CHEE)

6111: Graduate Seminar
Cr. 1. (1-0). May be repeated for credit.

6197:6297:6397: Selected Topics
Cr. 1-3 per semester.
(1-0; 2-0; 3-0). May be repeated for credit.

6198:6298:6398:6498:6598: Research
Cr. 1-5 per semester, or more by concurrent enrollment. Prerequisite: approval of chair.

6289:6389: Chemical Engineering Project
Cr. 2 or 3 per semester. (2-0; 3-0). Prerequisite: approval of instructor. May be repeated for credit. Industrial scale chemical engineering economics and/or engineering project.

6330: Computational Methods for Chemical Engineers
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Advanced computational and numerical methods for the solution of chemical engineering problems. Solution of linear and nonlinear equations. Conjugate-gradient-like methods. Newton and quasi-Newton techniques. Solutions of elliptic and hyperbolic partial differential equations using finite-difference and finite-element techniques. Applications to chemical engineering problems.

6331:6332: Mathematical Methods in Chemical Engineering
Cr. 3 per semester. (3-0). Prerequisite: approval of department. Linear methods applied to chemical engineering, matrices, transforms, series, complex variable methods, boundary layer problems.

6333:6334: Transport Processes
Cr. 3 per semester. (3-0). Prerequisite: CHEE 3369. Advanced principles of fluid mechanics, heat and mass transfer with application to problems in research and design. Emphasis on unified point of view to transport processes in laminar and turbulent flow situations.

6335:6336: Classical and Statistical Thermodynamics
Cr. 3 per semester. (3-0). Prerequisite: CHEE 3460. Advanced methods.

6337: Advanced Reactor Engineering
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: undergraduate kinetics or reactor design course. Introduction to modern concepts and techniques of chemical reactor analysis and design.

6350: Finance and Accounting for Industrial and Chemical Processes
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing in chemical engineering or permission from the director of the MChE Program. Finance and accounting procedures for nonfinancial managers with emphasis on cost, working capital, budgeting, cost of capital, long term financing, and financial assets for chemical engineers.

6360: Biochemical Engineering Fundamentals
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing or senior with consent of instructor. 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.

6365: Fundamentals of Catalysis
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: CHEE 4367 or equivalent. Theories and experimental procedures in modern heterogeneous catalysis, catalyst preparation and properties, absorption, surface mechanisms, catalyst design, and catalytic processes.

6367: Advanced Process Control
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: CHEE 3367 or equivalent or consent of instructor. Application of high-speed computers in the control of chemical processes, reactors, and units.

6368: Chemical Process Economics I
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing in chemical engineering and CHEE 6350. Managerial economics of chemical processes and products; development of decision-making methods using chemical industry examples.

6369: Chemical Process Economics II
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: CHEE 6350 and CHEE 6368. Study of profitability, process comparison, and risk analysis from an advanced viewpoint, followed by extensive case history studies of managerial economics in process industries.

6370: Advanced Topics in Biochemical Engineering
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: CHEE 6360 or consent of instructor. Mathematical modeling and optimization of separation unit operations in bio-chemical engineering, including chromatography, flocculation, centrifugation, and filtration. Engineering analysis and design of mammalian cell bioreactors.

6371: Pollution Control Engineering
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: Credit for or concurrent enrollment in CHEE 4321 and CHEE 4367 or equivalent. A general survey of problems and remedies with the earth as an environmentally closed system. Limitations of absorption and self-cleaning of the terrasphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere and their interaction and interrelationship.

6372: Fluid/Particle Separation
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ENGI 3363 or equivalent. Introduction to heterogeneous, fluid/particle, multiphase systems. Development of fundamental principles of flow through compactible beds. Application to solid/liquid separation. Brief study of aerosols, coalescence, and flotation.

6374: Reaction kinetics For Industrial Processes
Cr. 3 (3-0). Prerequisite: credit for or concurrent enrollment in CHEE 4357. Fundamental methods of predicting product distributions in practical chemical reactors. Determination of thermochemical and kinetic constants form statistical mechanics and transition-state theory. Application from vapor-phase processes to catalysis.

6375: Chemical Processing for Microelectronics
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: CHEE 4367 or equivalent or consent of instructor. Chemical engineering principles applied to micro-electronic device fabrication and processing.

6383: Advanced Unit Operations
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: CHEE 3462. Property prediction of multicomponent fluids. Advanced principles of heat exchanger design, multicomponent fractionation, absorption, stripping, and extraction from a unified point of view.

6386: Air Pollution Problems and Control
Cr. 3. (3-0). Air pollutant identification and control technology; estimation of pollutant transport, dispersion, and conversion; computer application for design of control units.

6388: Catalytic Processes
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: CHEE 4367 or consent of instructor. Process-oriented survey of catalytic technology; catalyst selection and design; catalytic processes, engineering, and economics in the petroleum, chemical, and pollution control industries.

6399-7399: Master's Thesis
Cr. 3 per semester.

7350: Applied Nonlinear Methods For Engineers
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: CHEE 6331, CHEE 6332, or consent of instructor. Recent nonlinear methods with emphasis on engineering applications. Topics: nonlinear functional analysis, steady-state bifurcation theory, dynamical systems, nonlinear partial differential equations, nonlinear waves, computation methods in bifurcation theory.

7397: Selected Topics
Cr. 3 per semester. (3-0). May be repeated for credit.

8198:8298:8398:8498:8598: Doctoral Research
Cr. 1-5 per semester, or more by concurrent enrollment. Prerequisite: approval of chair.

8399:8699:8999: Doctoral Dissertation
Cr. 3, 6, or 9 hours depending on the semester.