Graduate Courses: Cullen College of Engineering

Courses: Chemical Engineering (CHEE)

 

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

111: 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.

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.

6307: Elements of Well Design
Cr. 3. (3-0) Prerequisites: Graduate standing in Petroleum Engineering. Recommended concurrent enrollment with: PWE 6309, PWE 6318. Fundamental engineering and operations of well design with emphasis on geology of reservoirs, types of oil and gas bearing formations, depositional environments, structural features and their development and production operations.

6309: Well Management Fundamentals
Cr. 3. (3-0) Prerequisites: Graduate standing in Petroleum Engineering.  Credit for or Concurrent enrollment: PWE 6307 or PETR 6318. Fundamental aspects of well management including performance improvement, budgeting and its embedment, the bidding and contracting, process and engineering software used for engineering computations.

6317: Well Operations
Cr. 3. (3-0) Prerequisites: PWE 6309 or Instructor Approval.  Recommended concurrent enrollment: PWE 6342 or PETR 6372 and PWE 6322. Types of fluids commonly produced, their physical and chemical properties, processing at the surface, production operations as an integrated system, working in an H2Senvironment, and well integrity management.

6318: Well Equipment I
Cr. 3. (3-0) Prerequisites: Graduate standing in Petroleum Engineering. Recommended concurrent enrollment: PWE 6307 or PETR 6368and PWE 6309. Functions and operating principles of: Equipment and instrumentation deployed at well sites, bits for different drilling operations, equipment deployed for circulation and processing of the fluids used in drilling.

6319: Introduction to Nanotechnology
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: CHEE 333 or equivalent, engineering post baccalaureate or graduate standing in engineering. Field of nanotechnology. Fundamental concepts underlying various nanotechnologies which serves as a leveling course.

6320: Introduction Nanomaterials Engineering
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: CHEE 6319 or equivalent or consent of instructor. Engineering of nanomaterials with emphasis on structural, optical, photonic, magnetic, and electronic materials. Synthetic methods and analytical characterization with design for applications will be emphasized.

6321: Nano Design & Fabrication
Cr. 3 (3-0). Prerequisite: ECE 6320 or CHEE 6320 or MECE 6320 or consent of instructor. Design and fabrication at the nanoscale. Effects of nanoscale phenomena on device scaling; technological advantages and challenges. Design, fabrication, metrology, and devices integration at nanoscale.

6322: Topics in Colloid and Interfacial Science
Cr. 3. (3-0).  Prerequisites: consent of instructor.  This interdisciplinary course discusses the basics of colloidal interactions, dynamics, self-assembly, and characterization techniques for a wide range of materials and their applications, spanning areas of biotechnology, energy and nanotechnology.

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.

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, microscopy (optical, electron, atomic force), scattering, spectroscopic analysis, bioanalysis, electro chemical analysis, and x-ray diffraction.

6330: Foundations of Mathematical Methods in Chemical Engineering
Cr. 3. (3-0).  Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.  Introductory graduate level mathematical methods used in linear system analysis, solution of ordinary and partial differential equations, and model parameter estimation for various problems encountered in chemical engineering.

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.

6332: Mathematical Methods in Chemical Engineering II
Cr. 3. (3-0) Prerequisites: CHEE 6331 or consent of instructor. Solution of initial value problems, linear and non-linear equations. Solution of boundary value problems.  Solutions of elliptic, parabolic and hyperbolic partial differential equations using finite-difference and finite-element techniques. 

6333: 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.

6334: Well Construction
Cr. 3. (3-0) Prerequisites: PWE 6332. Recommended concurrent enrollment: PWE 6336, PWE 6354. Engineering and operational aspects of well construction including components of a drill string, use of bits, engineering computations and industry standards, drilling hydraulic and transport drillcuttings to the surface.

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

6336: Well Control
Cr. 3. (3-0) Prerequisites: PWE 6332. Recommended concurrent enrollment: PWE 6334, PWE 6354. Well control, factors causing loss of well control, and methods and equipment used to avoid and remedy including fluid pressure and wellbore pressure.

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.

6338: Well Construction II
Cr. 3. (3-0) Prerequisites: Recommended concurrent enrollment: PWE 6340or PETR 6387 and PWE 6356. Theory, methods and practices for well casing installation, cementing operations, directional drilling and well surveying.

6340: Advanced Well Technologies
Cr. 3. (3-0) Prerequisites: PWE 6336. Recommended concurrent enrollment: PWE 6338, PWE 6356. Novel technological innovations and advancements in drilling process including underbalanced drilling, its applications and critical engineering considerations.

6342: Completion Operations
Cr. 3. (3-0) Prerequisites: Recommended concurrent enrollment: PWE 6342or PETR 6372 and PWE 6322 or Instructor Approval. Engineering considerations in designing well completions, including the computations of stresses acting on the tubing and other equipment used for well completion and their engineering requirements and installation.

6344: Completion Operations II
Cr. 3. (3-0) Prerequisites: PWE 6342 or PETR 6372. Recommended concurrent: PWE 6355, PWE 6346 or Instructor Approval. Engineering design and requirements of pumping fluids into the wellbore at high pressure, including fracturing, gas/water shut-off treatments, and sand control.

6346: Well Intervention I
Cr. 3. (3-0) Prerequisites: PWE 6317, PWE 6322 or Instructor Approval. Recommended concurrent: PWE 6344 or PETR 6308 and PWE 6355. Tools and engineering technologies to maintain well control, well operations and services. Well testing operations with emphasis on role of generated data and methodologies and equipment.

6348: Well Intervention II
Cr. 3. (3-0) Prerequisites: WE 6346 or Instructor Approval. Recommended concurrent: PWE 6349, PWE 6357. Engineering design of equipment and operations and engineering computations required for operations performed using wire lines, electric lines and coiled tubing systems.

6349: Production Control
Cr. 3. (3-0) Prerequisites: PWE 6344 or PETR 6308 and PWE 6346 or Instructor Approval. Recommended concurrent enrollment: PWE 6348, PWE 6357.Engineering aspects of reservoir fluid inside a wellbore, lifting the oil from the reservoir to the surface, mechanics of hydrate formation and the elements of a managing production from the wellbore.

6354: Well Design Capstone I
Cr. 3. (3-0) Prerequisites: PWE 6317, PWE 6322, PWE 6332. Credit or concurrent enrollment: PWE 6334, PWE 6336. Demonstrate engineering methods required for well design and engineering, and ability to integrate these coherently and comprehensively toward the completion of an engineering project.

6355: Completion and Intervention Capstone I
Cr. 3. (3-0) Prerequisites: Graduate standing in Petroleum Engineering. Credit for or concurrent enrollment: PWE 6344 or PETR 6308 or Instructor Approval. Demonstration of engineering skills required for well completion and intervention, and ability to integrate these coherently and comprehensively towards the completion of an engineering project.

6356 Well Design Capstone II
Cr. 3. (3-0) Prerequisites: PWE 6354. Credit or concurrent enrollment: WE 6338 or PETR 6316, and PWE 6340 or PETR 6387. Demonstration of engineering methods required for well design and engineering, and ability to integrate these coherently and comprehensively towards the completion of an engineering project.

6357: Completion and Intervention Capstone II
Cr. 3. (3-0) Prerequisites: PWE 6355. Credit for or concurrent enrollment: PWE 6348, PWE 6349. Demonstration of engineering skills required for well completion and intervention, and ability to integrate these coherently and comprehensively toward the completion of an engineering projects.

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 multi-component fluids. Advanced principles of heat exchanger design, multi-component 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 feed stocks, 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.

Catalog Publish Date: January 14, 2013
This Page Last Updated: November 13, 2012