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Cullen College of Engineering

Department of Chemical & Biomolecular 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. (1-0; 2-0; 3-0). May be repeated for credit.

6198:6298:6398:6498:6598: Research
Cr. 1-5. Prerequisite: approval of chair.

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

6323: Fundamentals of Tissue Engineering
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: CHEE 3300, CHEE 3334 and CHEE 3369 and graduate standing, or consent of instructor. Fundamental concepts in tissue engineering and cell biology. Tissue structure, function, and replication.

6300: Physics and Chemistry of Engineering Materials
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of instructor. Advanced theories of the structure and properties of materials, preparation methods, and applications in electronics, optics, catalysis and fuel cells.

6327: Experimental Methods in Chemical Engineering
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate standing and/or consent of instructor. Experimental methods used in chemical and biomolecular research such as error analysis, experimental design, microsopy (optical, electron, atomic force), scattering, spectroscopic analysis, bioanalysis, electrochemical analysis, and x-ray diffraction.

6331:6332: Mathematical Methods in Chemical Engineering
Cr. 3. (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. (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. (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.

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. 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 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.

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.

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.

6377: Introduction to Polymer Science
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: consent of instructor. Introduction to the synthesis, characterization, physical properties and processing of polymeric materials. The course thematically revolves around methods to measure, characterize and tailor structure, processing, property correlations for polymeric materials.

6379: Safety and Reliability
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: CHEE 3363, CHEE 3369 & CHEE 3367. An overview of risk, 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.

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.

6384: Petrochemical Processes
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: CHEE 3332 and graduate standing or consent of instructor. Petrochemical industry in terms of feedstocks, products, companies and trends. Technology, markets, and economics for the major building blocks and derivatives.

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.

6390: Energy and the Environment
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: Graduate standing in Chemical Engineering or consent of instructor. 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 included, 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.

6391: Transport Phenomena in Physiological Systems
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor. 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.

6393: Cellular and Biological Transport Phenomena
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor. Combines basic cell biology and biophysical chemistry principles with quantitative analysis of transport phenomena and chemical reactions.

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.

7387: Plasma Processing: Principles and Applications
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: graduate 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.

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

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

8399:8699:8999: Doctoral Dissertation
Cr. 3, 6, 9 per semester.