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CHEM E 260 Thermodynamics (4) NW
Introduction to the basic principles of thermodynamics from a macroscopic point of view. Emphasis on the First and Second Laws and the State Principle, problem solving methodology. Prerequisite: either CHEM 140, CHEM 142, or CHEM 145; either MATH 126, MATH 129, or MATH 136; PHYS 121. Offered: AWSpS.
Instructor Course Description:
William B. Baratuci
CHEM E 301 Leadership Seminar (1) Stuve
Forum for industrial, academic, and government leaders to share their experiences and insights with students. Includes topics related to leadership in the chemical engineering profession including career planning, management skills, interpersonal skills, effective planning, entrepreneurship, ethics, and strategic decisions. Credit no credit only. Offered: A.
Instructor Course Description:
Eric M Stuve
CHEM E 309 Creativity and Innovation (2) VLPA Allan
Understanding creativity and creative thinking; its challenges and dynamics through knowledge, judgment, planning, and observation. Techniques of creative thinking. Design and development of creative games. Computer-aided creative thinking. Creation, protection, and exploitation of a useful idea, including bargaining and negotiations. Offered: jointly with PSE 309; Sp.
Instructor Course Description:
Richard D Champion
CHEM E 310 Material and Energy Balances (4)
Chemical and physical process calculations: steady- and unsteady-state material and energy balances with specific examples in vapor-liquid contact operations and multiphase extraction, and introductory thermochemistry. Prerequisite: either CHEM E 260 or ENGR 260 with either ENGR 142 or CSE 142. Offered: A.
CHEM E 326 Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics (4)
Phase equilibria and chemical equilibria in multicomponent systems; theories of solution; chemical reaction analysis. Prerequisite: CHEM E 310 with either CHEM E 260 or CHEM 456. Offered: W.
Instructor Course Description:
Kevin T Hodgson
CHEM E 330 Transport Processes I (5)
Diffusive transport of momentum, heat and mass; general aspects of fluid flow; the Navier-Stokes equations; one-dimensional flow with engineering applications. Prerequisite: CHEM E 310; either MATH 136 or MATH 307. Offered: W.
Instructor Course Description:
Felix Nhanchau Nguyen
CHEM E 340 Transport Processes II (4)
Heat transfer, basic principles, and applications. Conduction, convection, and radiation. Prerequisite: CHEM E 330. Offered: Sp.
CHEM E 341 Energy and Environment (3) NW Malte
Energy use. Fossil energy conversion. Oil, gas, coal resources. Air impacts. Nuclear energy principles, reactors, fuel cycle. Prerequisite: either MATH 112, MATH 124, or Q SCI 291; either CHEM 120, CHEM 142, PHYS 114, or PHYS 121. Offered: jointly with ENVIR 341/M E 341; A.
Instructor Course Description:
Philip C Malte
CHEM E 345 Introduction to Fuel Cells (3) Adler, Schwartz, Stuve
Overview of fuel cells, fuel cell efficiency, types of fuel cells, applications of fuel cells, and fuels for fuel cells. Intended for students in science and engineering and fuel cell professionals desiring a technical knowledge of fuel cells. No credit available, if already given for CHEM E 445. Prerequisite: CHEM 162; PHYS 122; recommended CHEM E 260. Offered: A.
Instructor Course Description:
Neil L Ricker
CHEM E 355 Biological Frameworks for Engineers (3)
For engineers with no prior experience in the biological sciences. Hands-on, project-based course covers fundamental concepts and language of biology, from an engineering perspective. Topics inclue functions of life, information processing, proteins, DNA, genetic variability, control loops, energetics, tissues, organisms, ecosystems. Prerequisite: CHEM 142; PHYS 123; MATH 307; recommended: CHEM 220. Offered: A.
CHEM E 375 Chemical Enginering Computer Skills (2) Finlayson
Use Excell, Matlab, and AspenPlus to solve typical chemical engineering problems. Solve realistic problems and explore alternatives that would be inaccessible for hand calculations. Includes equations of state, chemical equilibrium of simultaneous reactions, phase equilibria, plug flow reactors, heat transfer in 1-D, and time-dependent heat transfer. Credit/no credit only. Offered: W.
Instructor Course Description:
Bruce A Finlayson
CHEM E 435 Transport Processes III (4)
Mass transfer, basic principles, and applications to equipment design. Physical separation processes. Prerequisite: CHEM E 326; CHEM E 340. Offered: A.
CHEM E 436 Chemical Engineering Laboratory I (3)
Lectures on statistics, experimental design, instrumentation, laboratory safety, and report writing; laboratory experiments on fluid mechanics and heat transfer. Emphasis on teaming, experimental planning, procedures, report writing, and oral presentations.. Prerequisite: CHEM E 326; CHEM E 340 which may be taken concurrently; T C 231; recommended: T C 333. Offered: ASp.
Instructor Course Description:
Neil L Ricker
CHEM E 437 Chemical Engineering Laboratory II (3)
Continuation of 436. Laboratory investigation of chemical engineering principles applied to equipment design with emphasis on mass transfer operations and chemical reactors. Prerequisite: CHEM E 435; CHEM E 436; CHEM E 465. Offered: W.
CHEM E 442 Renewable Energy (4) NW Malte
Introduction to renewable energy. Principles and practices: solar, wind, water, and biomass energy conversion. Prerequisite: either MATH 112, MATH 124, or Q SCI 291; either CHEM 120, CHEM 142, PHYS 115, or PHYS 122. Offered: jointly with M E 442/ENVIR 442; W.
Instructor Course Description:
Philip C Malte
CHEM E 445 Fuel Cell Engineering (3)
Introduction to electrochemical fuel cells for use in transportation and stationary power applications. Topics covered include types of fuel cells, single cell operation, stack engineering, overall system design, and safety, with emphasis on proton exchange membrane and solid oxide fuel cells. Prerequisite: CHEM E 330.
CHEM E 455 Surface and Colloid Science Laboratory (1/3, max. 3) Berg
Laboratory techniques, equipment, and underlying fundamentals in surface and colloid science. Experiments in the measurement of surface tension, adsorption, wetting and spreading, colloid properties, emulsion preparation and stability, electrophoresis, and interfacial hydrodynamics. Recommended: CHEM E 326; CHEM E 330; CHEM 461. Offered: Sp.
Instructor Course Description:
Felix Nhanchau Nguyen
John C. Berg
CHEM E 458 Surface Analysis (3)
Understanding of solid surfaces for research and development in microelectronics, catalysis, adhesion, biomaterials science, wear, and corrosion science. Newer methods available to study surfaces of materials. Electron emission spectroscopies (ESCA, Auger): ion scattering, ion spectroscopic, photon spectroscopic, and thermodynamic methods. Offered: jointly with BIOEN 492; W.
CHEM E 461 Electrochemical Engineering (3) Schwartz
Explores role of thermodynamics, charge transfer kinetics, and mass transfer on behavior of electrochemical systems. Includes cell thermodynamics, faradaic and non-faradaic rate processes, ionic transport, nucleation and growth theories. Applications to chemical sensors, batteries, corrosion, thin film deposition. In-class demonstrations to illustrate concepts. Offered: W.
Instructor Course Description:
Daniel T. Schwartz
CHEM E 465 Reactor Design (4)
Application of chemical kinetics and transport phenomena to the design of chemical reactors; characterization of batch and continuous-flow reactors in homogeneous and heterogeneous systems. Prerequisite: CHEM E 326; CHEM E 340. Offered: A.
Instructor Course Description:
Daniel T. Schwartz
CHEM E 467 Biochemical Engineering (3) Baneyx
Application of basic chemical engineering principles to biochemical and biological process industries such as fermentation, enzyme technology, and biological waste treatment. Rapid overview of relevant microbiology, biochemistry, and molecular genetics. Design and analysis of biological reactors and product recovery operations. Prerequisite: CHEM E 340; either CHEM 223, CHEM 237, or CHEM 335; recommended: CHEM E 465. Offered: jointly with BIOEN 467; W.
CHEM E 468 Air-Pollution Control Equipment Design (3)
Designs to control air pollutants from stationary sources. Procedures for calculating design and operating parameters. Fundamental mechanisms and processes of gaseous and particulate control equipment for absorption and adsorption of gaseous pollutants; electrostatic precipitation and filtration of particular pollutants. Actual case studies. Offered: jointly with CEE 494/M E 468; W.
Instructor Course Description:
Michael J Pilat
CHEM E 470 Chemistry of Wood (3)
Chemical and physical properties of cellulose, lignin, hemicellulose, and extractives; wood as a raw material for the chemical industry. Prerequisite: either CHEM 220, CHEM 238, or CHEM 336. Offered: A.
CHEM E 471 Pulping and Bleaching Processes (3)
Conversion of wood to mechanical and chemical pulps. Kraft, sulfite, and semichemical pulping processes. Chemical recovery systems. Bleaching of mechanical and chemical pulps. Offered: jointly with PSE 476; W.
CHEM E 472 Papermaking Processes (3)
Fiber sources and properties. Secondary fibers. Stock preparation, sheet forming, water removal, finishing. Coating, lamination, and printing. Paper products. Offered: jointly with PSE 477; A.
CHEM E 473 Pulp and Paper Laboratory (2)
Laboratory experiments in chemical and semichemical pulping of wood. Bleaching of chemical and high-yield pulps. Physical and chemical characteristics of pulp fibers. Prerequisite: PSE 476. Offered: jointly with PSE 478; Sp.
CHEM E 480 Process Dynamics and Control (4)
Dynamics of process units and systems; instrumentation and control system design and analysis. Includes weekly laboratory. Prerequisite: CHEM E 435; CHEM E 465. Offered: W.
Instructor Course Description:
Neil L Ricker
CHEM E 481 Process Optimization (3)
Concepts and techniques of optimizing chemical engineering processes and systems, including classical and direct methods of search, linear and nonlinear programming, dynamic programming, statistical experimental design, and evolutionary operation. Offered: Sp.
CHEM E 482 Advanced Topics in Process Control (3) Holt, Ricker
Current topics in process control design and analysis. Possible topics include robustness analysis and design, time delay compensation, modern frequency response techniques, discrete control, adaptive control, model-based control, and nonlinear control. Prerequisite: CHEM E 480.
CHEM E 484 Electronic and Optoelectronic Polymers (3) Jenekhe
Covers the chemistry, physics, materials science, and engineering applications of semiconducting and metallic conjugated polymers. Examines the structural origins of the diverse electronic and optoelectronic properties of conjugated polymers. Exemplifies applications by light-emitting diodes, lasers, solar cells, thin film transistors, electrochromic devices, biosensors, and batteries. Prerequisite: either CHEM 237, CHEM 455, CHEM E 340, or MSE 310. Offered: A.
CHEM E 485 Process Design I (4)
Applied economics in chemical engineering design and operations; measures of profitability; capital and operating cost estimates; introduction to design and design strategies. Prerequisite: CHEM E 480 which may be taken concurrently. Offered: W.
CHEM E 486 Process Design II (5)
Comprehensive design of a specific process, including economic feasibility studies, utilization of market survey and plant location studies, process equipment design and optimization, and overall plant integration and layout. Prerequisite: CHEM E 485. Offered: Sp.
CHEM E 490 Engineering Materials for Biomedical Applications (3) Hoffman
Combined application of the principles of physical chemistry, biochemistry, materials engineering, mass transfer, and fluid mechanics to biomedical problems. Case studies include considerations of the selection of materials, the design and the operation of instruments, components of, or entire, artificial organs (heart, kidney, lung) and artificial structural elements (bone, teeth, skin), all for use in contact with body fluids. Offered: jointly with BIOEN 490; W.
CHEM E 491 Controlled Release Systems-Principles and Applications (3) Hoffman
Mechanisms or controlled release of active agents and the development of useful systems for this purpose. Release mechanisms include diffusive, convective, or erosive driving forces. Applications to the biomedical, agricultural, forestry, and oceanography fields. Some special case studies covered in detail. Offered: jointly with BIOEN 491; even years; W.
Instructor Course Description:
Suzie H Pun
CHEM E 497 Special Projects in Chemical Engineering Design ([1-6]- max. 12)
Chemical engineering design instruction and experience in special projects, such as industrially motivated, timely, or interdisciplinary projects. Project subject and content varies. Majors only. Prerequisite: CHEM E 340.
CHEM E 498 Special Topics in Chemical Engineering (1-4, max. 12)
Topics of current interest in the field. Subject matter changes from quarter to quarter.
Instructor Course Description:
Rene M Overney
Eric M Stuve
CHEM E 499 Undergraduate Research ([1-6]-, max. 12)
Independent research projects in chemical engineering. Offered: AWSpS.
CHEM E 510 Mathematical Foundations of Systems Theory (4)
Mathematical foundations for system theory presented from an engineering viewpoint. Includes set theory; functions, inverse functions; metric spaces; finite dimensional linear spaces; linear operators on finite dimensional spaces; projections on Hilbert spaces. Applications to engineering systems stressed. Prerequisite: graduate standing or permission of instructor. Offered: jointly with A A 510/E E 510/M E 510; A.
CHEM E 511 Biomaterials Seminar (1) Hoffman, Horbett, Ratner
Presentation of student research results. Credit/no credit only. Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Offered: jointly with BIOEN 511; AWSp.
CHEM E 512 Methods of Engineering Analysis (3)
Applications of mathematics to problems in chemical engineering; vector calculus; properties and methods of solution of first and second order partial differential equations; similarity transforms, separation of variables, Laplace and Fourier transforms. Prerequisite: MATH 205, MATH 307 or AMATH 351, MATH 324 or permission of instructor. Offered: jointly with AMATH 512; A.
CHEM E 515 Experimental Methods in Chemical Engineering Research (3) Baneyx, Berg, Jiang
Lecture and laboratory studies in current research methods of chemical engineering. Includes surface science, biochemical engineering, collodial chemistry, light scattering, and nanoscience techniques.
CHEM E 523 Seminar in Chemical Engineering (1)
Topics of current interest in chemical engineering. Credit/no credit only. Offered: AWSp.
CHEM E 525 Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics (4)
Review of principles of thermodynamics. Applications to problems in multiphase and multicomponent systems; theories of solutions. Prerequisite: undergraduate thermodynamics. Offered: A.
CHEM E 526 Topics in Thermodynamics (3)
Classical and molecular thermodynamics of phase equilibria, solution theory, thermodynamic stability, and critical phenomena. Prerequisite: CHEM E 525 or permission of instructor.
CHEM E 530 Momentum, Heat, and Mass Transfer I (4)
Derivation of the differential equations for mass, energy, and momentum transport. Principles of fluid mechanics; creeping flow, turbulence, boundary-layer theory. Offered: A.
CHEM E 531 Momentum, Heat, and Mass Transfer II (3)
Continuation of 530. Flows of fluid-particle systems; convective heat transfer, natural convection. Prerequisite: CHEM E 530. Offered: W.
Instructor Course Description:
Stuart B. Adler
CHEM E 554 Nanoscale Science I: Contact Mechanics and Rheology on the Nanoscale (3) Overney
Introductory nanoscale science with emphasis on contact mechanics, principle and concept of forces, scanning force microscopy, tribology (friction, wear, lubrication), rheology, ultrathin organic films, physical properties of polymers, and computer simulation.
CHEM E 557 Research in Interfacial and Colloid Science (1) Berg
Weekly research seminar and discussion of scientific literature pertaining to interfacial and colloid science. Credit/no credit only. Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Offered: AWSp.
CHEM E 558 Surface Analysis (3) Ratner
Understanding of solid surfaces for research and development in microelectronics, catalysis, adhesion, biomaterials science, wear, and corrosion science. Newer methods available to study surfaces of materials. Electron emission spectroscopies (ESCA, Auger); ion scattering, ion spectroscopic, photon spectroscopic, and thermodynamic methods. Offered: jointly with BIOEN 592; W.
CHEM E 560 Reactions at Solid Surfaces (3) Stuve
Fundamental studies of adsorption systems and reactions that occur at surfaces with application toward heterogeneous catalysis, electrochemistry, etching, and corrosion. Analysis of reaction poisons and promoters, acid-base theory of metal surfaces, jellium theory of metals, and water and ion adsorption, plus other topics of current interest. Recommended: CHEM E 558 or CHEM 560.
CHEM E 562 Hazardous Air Pollution (3)
Control of emission of hazardous or toxic air pollutants. Government regulations, determination of needed control efficiency. Emission control by thermal incineration, catalytic incineration, flares, condensation, carbon adsorption, and adsorption (wet and dry). Hazardous waste incinerators. Case studies. Offered: jointly with CEE 556; W.
CHEM E 564 Applications of Chemical Kinetics (3)
Fast reactions and highly energetic reactions with applications to combustion, explosions, and lasers. Coupling of transport processes and reaction rates, photochemical kinetics, intermolecular energy transfer, free radical, and chain reaction kinetics. Rate plasmas, flames, and biological systems.
CHEM E 565 Kinetics and Catalysis (3) Finlayson, Krieger, Stuve
Homogeneous and heterogeneous systems with emphasis on chemical engineering principles applied to industrial reactor design. Prerequisite: CHEM E 525. Offered: W.
CHEM E 566 Control of Gaseous Air Pollutants (3) Pilat
Physical and chemical processes used to control gaseous air pollutants. Absorption into liquids. Aqueous spray dryer scrubbers. Adsorption beds. Control of sulfur oxide and nitrogen oxide. Case studies of control systems. Prerequisite: CHEM E 435 or CHEM E 468 or permission of instructor. Offered: jointly with CEE 558; even years; Sp.
Instructor Course Description:
Michael J Pilat
CHEM E 567 Control of Particulate Air Pollutants (3) Pilat
Processes used to control emissions of particulate air pollutants. Use of settling chambers, cyclones, fabric filters, wet scrubbers, and electrostatic precipitators to control aerosol particles. Case studies of particulate air-pollutant control systems. Prerequisite: CHEM E 468 or permission of instructor. Offered: jointly with CEE 559; odd years; A.
CHEM E 570 Chemistry of High Polymers (3, max. 6) Allan
Fundamentals of high polymer chemistry, including kinetics of addition and condensation polymerization, the determination of average molecular weights and chain length distributions, solution properties and the relationship between molecular structure and plastic film and fiber properties of various polymers. Prerequisite: an undergraduate sequence in organic chemistry. Offered: W.
CHEM E 575 Nonlinear Analysis in Chemical Engineering (3) Finlayson
Comparison of numerical techniques: similarity, perturbation, finite difference, Galerkin, orthogonal collocation methods as applied to nonlinear chemical engineering problems.
Instructor Course Description:
Bruce A Finlayson
CHEM E 584 Electronic and Optoelectronic Polymers (3) Jenekhe
Covers the chemistry, physics, materials science, and engineering applications of semiconducting and metallic conjugated polymers. Examines the structural origins of the diverse electronic and optoelectronic properties of conjugated polymers. Exemplifies applications by light-emitting diodes, lasers, solar cells, thin film transistors, electrochromic devices, biosensors, and batteries. Prerequisite: either CHEM 237, CHEM 455, CHEM E 340, or MSE 310. Offered: A.
CHEM E 588 Research in Applied Microbiology (1) Lidstrom
Weekly research seminar and discussion of scientific literature pertaining to applied microbiology. Credit/no credit only. Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Offered: jointly with MICROM 588; AWSpS.
CHEM E 590 Advanced Topics in Biomaterials (3)
Major, controversial issues in application of synthetic materials to medical problems. Blood compatibility, bioadhesion, intraocular lenses, contact lenses, polyurethanes, biodegradation, protein adsorption, corrosion, bone fixation, new materials, artificial heart, medical device regulation. Prerequisite: CHEM E 490 or BIOEN 490. Offered: jointly with BIOEN 590; odd years; Sp.
CHEM E 591 Robotics and Control Systems Colloquium (1, max. 3)
Colloquium on current topics in robotics and control systems analysis and design. Topics presented by invited speakers as well as on-campus speakers. Emphasis on the cross-disciplinary nature of robotics and control systems. Credit/no credit only. Offered: jointly with A A/E E/M E 591; AWSp.
CHEM E 599 Current Topics in Chemical Engineering (1-3, max. 12)
Readings or lectures and discussions of topics of current interest in the field of chemical engineering. Subject matter changes from year to year. Prerequisite: permission of instructor.
CHEM E 600 Independent Study or Research (*)
Offered: AWSpS.
CHEM E 700 Master's Thesis (*)
Offered: AWSpS.
CHEM E 800 Doctoral Dissertation (*)
Offered: AWSpS.
