Undergraduate Course Descriptions
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If you don't know what this is now, you will after Engineering Statics (ENES 102), where you'll learn how different materials respond to a variety of forces. Curious? See the course description or learn more about freshman year in the Clark School. |
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ENCH 215: Chemical Engineering Analysis (3)
Fall Semester - Prerequisites: CHEM 133 or CHEM 113. Pre- or corequisite: MATH 141. Introduction to methods of chemical engineering calculations and analysis. Stoichiometric relations, material and energy balances, and behavior of gases, vapors, liquids and solids. Analytical and computer methods are presented.
ENCH 250: Computer Methods in Chemical Engineering (3)
Spring Semester - Prerequisite: ENES 100 and ENCH 215. Corequisite: MATH 246. Algorithm development and application of software to the analysis of chemical engineering problems. File management and editing, graphics and numerical methods. Use of spreadsheets, statistics/math software and process simulators for the design of chemical process equipment.
ENCH 300: Chemical Process Thermodynamics (3)
Fall Semester - Prerequisites: CHEM 241 and ENCH 215. Pre- or corequisite: MATH 241 and ENCH 250. Principles of thermodynamics and their application to engineering problems. First and second laws of thermodynamics, properties of gases, liquids and solids, phase equilibrium, flow and non-flow systems, energy conversion, production of work from heat, thermodynamic analysis of processes, equilibrium stage operations and the thermodynamics of chemically reacting systems.
ENCH 333: Chemical Engineering Seminar (l)
Spring and Fall Semesters - Prerequisite: Junior standing. Oral and written reports on recent developments in chemical engineering and the process industries.
ENCH 400: Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics (3)
Fall Semesters - Prerequisite: PHYS262, ENCH250, and ENCH300. The course emphasizes contemporary trends in chemical engineering thermodynamics, bridging the gap between fundamentals and applications. Thermodynamic analysis of non-ideal and structured systems; such as complex fluids, strongly fluctuating and nanoscale systems, dissipative systems, biosystems, and systems under extreme conditions.
ENCH 422: Transport Processes I (3)
Fall Semester - Prerequisites: ENCH 215 and ENCH 250. Pre- or corequisites: MATH 241 and MATH 246. Principles of fluid dynamics as applied to model development and process design. Mass, momentum and energy conservation. Statics and surface tension. Eqn. of Continuity and Navier-Stokes Eqn. with application to laminar flow. Dimensional analysis. Macroscopic balances, Bernoulli Eqn. and friction factors with application to turbulent flow.
ENCH 424: Transport Processes II (3)
Spring Semester - Prerequisite: ENCH 300 and ENCH 422. Principles of mass & heat transfer as applied to model development and process design. Species continuity equation with application to diffusion, and convection in laminar flow. Macroscopic balances and mass transfer coefficients with application to turbulent flow. Microscopic equation of energy with application to heat conduction, and convection in laminar flow. Macroscopic energy balance and heat transfer coefficients with application to turbulent flow. Heat exchanger design.
ENCH 426: Transport Processes III (3)
Fall Semester - Prerequisite: ENCH 300. Separation by staged operations. Rate dependent separation processes. Design applications in distillation, gas absorption, liquid extraction, drying, adsorption and ion exchange.
ENCH 437: Chemical Engineering Laboratory (3)
Fall Semester - Prerequisites: ENCH 424, ENCH426, ENCH 440, and ENCH 442. Application of chemical engineering process and unit operation principles in small scale semi-commercial equipment. Data from experimental observations are used to evaluate performance efficiency of operations. Emphasis is placed on correct presentation of results in report form.
ENCH 440: Chemical Engineering Kinetics (3)
Spring Semester - Prerequisites: ENCH400 and ENCH 422. Fundamental of chemical reaction kinetics and their application to the design and operation of chemical reactors. Reaction rate theory, homogeneous reactions in batch and flow systems, absorption, heterogeneous reactions and catalysis electrochemical reactions. Catalytic reactor design.
ENCH 442: Chemical Engineering Systems Analysis (3)
Spring Semester - Prerequisites: ENCH 300 and ENCH 422. Corequisites: ENCH 440. Dynamic response applied to process systems. Goals and modes of control, Laplace transformations, analysis and synthesis of simple control systems, closed loop response, dynamic testing.
ENCH 444: Process Engineering Economics and Design I (3)
Fall Semester - Prerequisites: ENCH 424, ENCH426, and ENCH 440. Principles of chemical engineering economics and process design. Emphasis on equipment types, equipment design principles, capital cost estimation, operating costs, and profitability.
ENCH 446: Process Engineering Economics and Design II (3)
Spring Semester - Prerequisite: ENCH 444. Application of chemical engineering principles for the design of chemical processing equipment. Typical problems in the design of chemical plants. Comprehensive reports are required.
ENCH 450: Chemical Process Development (3)
Prerequisites: ENCH 424. Chemical process industries from the standpoint of technology, raw materials, products and processing equipment. Operations of major chemical processes and industries combined with quantitative analysis of process requirements and yields.
ENCH 452: Advanced Chemical Engineering Analysis (3)
Prerequisites: MATH 246, ENCH 426, and ENCH 440. Application of digital and analog computers to chemical engineering problems. Numerical methods, programming, differential equations, curve fitting, amplifiers and analog circuits.
ENCH 453: Applied Mathematics in Chemical Engineering (3)
Fall Semester - Prerequisites: MATH 246, ENCH 426, and ENCH 440. Mathematical techniques applied to the analysis and solution of chemical engineering problems. Use of differentiation, integration, differential equations, partial differential equations and integral transforms. Application of infinite series, numerical and statistical methods.
ENCH 454: Chemical Process Analysis and Optimization (3)
Spring Semester - Prerequisites: MATH 246, ENCH 426, and ENCH 440. Co-requisite: ENCH 426. Applications of mathematical models to the analysis and optimization of chemical processes. Models based on transport, chemical kinetics and other chemical engineering principles will be employed. Emphasis on evaluation of process alternatives.
ENCH 455 (ENCH 468Z): Model Predictive Control (3)
Spring Semester - Prerequisite: ENCH 442. Introduction to sampled-data systems and the z-transform. Dynamic response of discrete systems. Impulse and step response model identification from process data. Formulation of process control as a linear least squares problem involving model prediction. Multi-input multi-output processes. Robustness with respect to modeling error. Extension to constrained and nonlinear processes.
ENCH 456 (ENCH 468L): Plant-wide Process Control (3)
Fall Semester - Prerequisite: ENCH 442. An introduction to the problem of designing plantwide control system architectures. Steady state gain calculation, singular value decomposition, relative gain array, niederlinski index, cascade control, averaging level control loop tuning, dynamic simulation, model based control. The Tennessee Eastman challenge problem is used throughout the course to illustrate the methods discussed.
ENCH 468: Research (1-3)
Fall and Spring Semesters - Prerequisite: Senior standing and permission of the staff. Investigation of a research project under the direction of a faculty member. Comprehensive reports are required.
ENCH 470: Soft Nanotechnology: The Science of Colloidal, Macromolecular, and Self-Assembled Systems (3)
Fall Semester - Prerequisites: ENCH 300 or equivalent, CHEM 482. Introduction to soft structured matter and its building blocks: amphiphiles, polymers, colloids, nanoparticles. Length, time, and energy scales in soft matter. Thermodynamics of surfaces and interfaces. Spreading and Marangoni flows. Langmuir-Blodgett films. Self-assembly into micelles, vesicles, bilayers. Polymer solution thermodynamics. Coil-to-globule transition. Polymer size and persistence length. Reptation and visco-elasticity. Polymer gels and rubber elasticity. Self-assembly of block copolymers. Brownian motion and the Stokes-Einstein equation. Static and dynamic light scattering. Intermolecular forces. DLVO theory. Steric stabilization. Bridging and depletion flocculation. Fractal clusters. Electrokinetic effects. Thermotropic and lyotropic liquid crystals.
ENCH 471 (ENCH 468I): Particle Science And Technology (3)
Spring Semester - Prerequisites: None. Theory and modeling techniques for particle formation and particle size distribution dynamics. Science and technology of multiphase systems, powder and aerosol technology. Industrial, environmental, and occupational applications: dry powder delivery of drugs, aerosol generation methods, nanoparticles, biowarfare agent detection, dry powder mixing, particulate emissions. Design particle synthesis and processing systems, particle removal systems.
ENCH 472 (ENCH 468D): Control of Air Pollution (3)
Spring Semester - Prerequisite: None. Effects and sources of air pollutants, legislation and regulatory trends. Dimensional analysis, ambient and workplace standards, health effects, visibility, statistical overview poission distribution, legislation and laws. Meteorology: atmospheric dispersion models. Lapse rate, stability classes, plumes, poisson distribution, atmospheric dispersion, gaussian distribution, plume rise equation, line sources. Fundamentals of two-phase flow: distribution functions, particle size distributions, Stokes number, Stokes diameter combustion fundamentals, photochemical reactions. Particulate control: Instrumentation, sedimentation, cyclones and wet scrubbers, filters, and bag houses, electrostatic precipitators. Gas and vapor control: adsorption, absorption, NOx control and S02.
ENCH 475 (ENCH 468E): Ethics in Science and Engineering (3)
Prerequisite: 12 credit hours of laboratory science or engineering, permission of instructor. The course examines ethical issues in science and engineering and their resolutions. The main topics are ethics and scientific truth (which will include issues of proper data analysis, proper data presentation, and record-keeping), ethics and other scientists and engineers (which will include issues of attribution, confidentiality, conflict of interests, mentoring, and inclusion of underrepresented groups), and ethics and society (which will include funding priorities, moral issues, responsibilities of engineers to clients, ecological issues, and human and animal subjects). Class meetings are organized around discussions, case studies, and student reports.
ENCH 476 (ENCH 468G): Statistics and Experimental Design (3)
Spring Semester. - Prerequisite: None. Intelligent design of experiments for research, for process control, and for quality control requires an understanding of the application of statistical analysis. This course will lead students to a facility with these methods. Probability, probability distribution, error analysis; data collection, sampling, graphing; variance, significant tests. Cluster analysis and pattern recognition. Factorial design, combinatorial methods.
ENCH482: Biochemical Engineering (3)
Fall Semester - Prerequisites: ENCH 440. Introduction to biochemical and microbiological application to commercial and engineering processes, including industrial fermentation, enzymology, ultrafiltration, food and pharmaceutical processing and resulting waste treatment. Enzyme kinetics, cell growth, energetics and mass transfer.
ENCH 483 (ENCH 468A): Bioseparations (3)
Spring Semester - Prerequisites: None. Engineering fundamentals of separations and purification of biological molecules. Case studies and examples illustrate principles and practice of centrifugation, precipitation, crystallization, filtration, membrane separations, chromatography, and affinity separation of recombinant proteins and other biomolecules. Process scale-up and economics of biotechnology products and processes are mentioned in the context of their impact on purification development.
ENCH 484 (ENCH 468B): Environmental Aspects of Biochemical Engineering (3)
Spring Semester - Prerequisites: None. The design of innovative solutions to complex environmental contamination problems requires an interdisciplinary approach. This course will integrate basic biological and biochemical engineering principles as applied to bioremediation. The course will provide an overview of bioremediation fundamentals and its current use. Topics to be discussed include transport of contaminants in various environments, aerobic and anaerobic biodegradation, bioremediation reactor design (both ex situ and in situ), reaction kinetics, process optimization, and modeling. The course will end with discussions on the current regulatory issues governing the use of bioremediation processes.
ENCH 485: Biochemical Engineering Laboratory (3)
Spring Semester - Prerequisite: ENCH 482. Techniques of measuring pertinent parameters in fermentation reactors, quantification of production variables for primary and secondary metabolites such as enzymes and antibiotics, the insolubilization of enzymes for reactors, and the demonstration of separation techniques such as ultrafiltration and affinity chromatography.
ENCH 490: Introduction to Polymer Science (3)
Fall Semester - Prerequisites: ENCH 424 and ENCH 440. The elements of the chemistry, physics, processing methods, and engineering applications of polymers.
ENCH 494: Polymer Technology Laboratory (3)
Spring Semester - Prerequisite: ENCH 490. One hour of lecture and four hours of laboratory per week. Polymer processing and characterization of polymer products. Extrusion, injection molding, blown film production with mechanical, thermal and rheological characterization.
ENCH 495 (ENCH 468M): Manufacturing with Polymers (3)
Fall Semester - Prerequisites: ENES 230 or permission of Department. This course introduces students to the broad spectrum of issues associated the use, manufacturing and processing of polymers, which includes addressing issues of blending of materials, design and production of a polymer formulation and the characterization of material properties. The participants of the course will be organized into teams to work for a semester on an open ended design problem of producing and characterizing a polymer formulation for advanced materials use.
ENCH 496: Processing of Polymer Materials (3)
Spring Semester - Prerequisite: ENCH 424. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: ENCH 496 or ENMA 496. A comprehensive analysis of the operations carried out on polymeric materials to increase their utility. Conversion operations such as molding, extrusion, blending, film forming, and calendaring. Development of engineering skills required to practice in the high polymer industry.
ENCH 497 (ENCH 468R): Recycling of Waste Materials (3)
Prerequisites: ENCH 250 or equivalent, ENCH 300 or equivalent, ENCH 424 and ENCH 426 or equivalent. Introduction of municipal and industrial waste recycling technology. Unit operations and governing mathematical models for predicting equipment performance. Role of engineers in the recycling industry.
ENCH 468K: Environmental Energy Engineering (3)
Spring Semester - Prerequisite: None. The course is composed of four parts. In the first part, after a brief review of thermodynamics and power plant operational principles, effects of waste heat to maximize power plant efficiencies with minimum environmental impact will be covered. The second part deals with the minimization and control of harmful emissions of air pollutants from utility and cogeneration power plants and waste?to?energy facilities. The goal is to identify the type and concentration of the major air pollutants and to discuss the available technologies for the minimization and control of these pollutants. In the third part, the impact of energy conversion on the environment, global warming and ozone depletion phenomena, air and water pollution control will be covered. In the last part of the course the laws and regulations for Environmental Compliance through Pollution Prevention are covered and case studies are discussed.
ENCH 468P: Molecular Modeling Methods (3)
Prerequisite: None. The course focuses on teaching elementary Statistical Mechanics applied to the prediction of equilibrium and non-equilibrium properties of fluids and solids. The primary tool we will use is numerical simulation, using primarily the Monte Carlo method, and also some Molecular Dynamics. We will briefly discuss intermolecular potential models, methods for determination of free energies and phase transitions and specialized algorithms for polymers. The graduate version of the course (648P) will include more complex computing assignments.
