Chemical and Biochemical Engineering

College of Engineering

Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Courses

General Topics

052:000 Cooperative Education Training Assignment: Chemical Engineering	0 s.h.
Chemical engineering students participating in the Cooperative Education Program register for this course during work assignment periods; registration provides a record of participation in the program on the student's permanent record. Prerequisites: admission to Cooperative Education Program and consent of co-op faculty advisor.

052:029 First-Year Seminar	1 s.h.
Small discussion class taught by a faculty member; topics chosen by instructor; may include outside activities (e.g., films, lectures, performances, readings, visits to research facilities, field trips). Prerequisite: first- or second-semester standing.

052:041 Process Calculations	3 s.h.
Solutions of industrial problems using material and energy balances; stoichiometric and nonstoichiometric chemical reactions, changes of state, solutions, mixing problems; computer applications. Prerequisite: 22M:031 or equivalent.

052:090 CBE Departmental Seminar	0 s.h.
Introduction to the profession; presentations, visits to laboratories, industries.

052:091 Professional Seminar: Chemical Engineering	0 s.h.
Professional aspects of chemical engineering presented through lectures and discussions by guest speakers, field trips, films, panel discussions. Prerequisites: 052:041 and sophomore standing.

052:092 Senior Enriching Activities Seminar	0 s.h.
Experiences to develop multidisciplinary team skills and increase understanding of the impact of engineering practice both locally and globally; written and oral discussion of student enrichment. Prerequisite: senior standing.

052:098 Individual Investigations: Chemical Engineering	arr.
Individual projects for chemical engineering undergraduate students, such as laboratory study, engineering design project, analysis and simulation of an engineering system, computer software development, research. Prerequisite: consent of faculty advisor.

052:103 Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics	3 s.h.
Applications of thermodynamic principles to chemical and physical processes; prediction of material properties; phase equilibria and chemical equilibrium applied to mixtures and reacting systems. Prerequisites: 052:041 and 059:009.

052:107 Sustainable Systems	3 s.h.
New and emerging concepts in sustainable systems design and assessment. Same as 053:107.

052:109 CEBC Colloquium	1 s.h.
Sustainable development issues addressed by guest speakers from chemical industries; process economics, environmental impact assessment.

052:117 Intermediate Thermodynamics	3 s.h.
Fundamental principles of thermodynamics as applied to phase equilibrium; properties of fluids, first and second law, variable composition systems, behavior of real fluids, mathematical techniques for solution thermodynamics. Prerequisite: 052:103 or 058:040 or graduate standing. Same as 058:140.

052:118 Mathematical Methods in Engineering	3 s.h.
Same as 053:113, 058:113.

052:171 Thermodynamics/Transport Laboratory	3 s.h.
Error analysis, propagation of errors, experimental design, data collection techniques, report writing, oral presentations, laboratory safety; laboratory investigations of thermodynamics, fluid flow, heat transfer, fluid rheology. Prerequisites: 052:103 and 052:151. Corequisite: 052:161.

052:172 Chemical Reaction Engineering/Separations Laboratory	2 s.h.
Experimental design, data collection techniques, report writing, oral presentations; laboratory investigations of chemical reaction engineering and separations; experiments with plug flow and batch reactors, CSTRs, distillation, extraction, evaporation. Prerequisites: 052:161 and 052:171. Corequisite: 052:105.

052:173 Senior Laboratory Experience	2 s.h.
Experimental design, emphasis on communication skills; open-ended independent laboratory projects consistent with elective focus area. Prerequisite: 052:172.

052:187 Chemical Process Safety	3 s.h.
Application of transport phenomena, thermodynamics, chemical kinetics to study of safety, health, loss prevention; government regulations, toxicology/industrial hygiene, relief sizing, runaway reactions, toxic release and dispersion models, source models, fires and explosions, risk assessment, hazard identification, case studies and accident investigation, incorporation of safety into design; laboratory experiments. Prerequisites: 052:151 and 052:161. Corequisite: 052:105.

052:192 Special Topics	1 s.h.
Research techniques for graduate students in chemical and biochemical engineering. Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of instructor.

052:195 Contemporary Topics: Chemical and Biochemical Engineering	arr.
Research techniques for graduate students in chemical and biochemical engineering. Prerequisite: graduate standing or consent of instructor.

052:196 Photopolymerization Topics	1 s.h.
Seminars presented by faculty members, research assistants, students.

052:215 Introduction to Literature Review and Proposal Writing	3 s.h.
Tools for reviewing literature, skills for critical reading of publications, training in successful proposal writing; experience drafting a proposal that can be used as a starting point for the Ph.D. comprehensive.

052:224 Teaching College-Level Engineering and Science	1 s.h.
Critical examination of course content and teaching strategies; preparation of courses that address learning needs of diverse student populations; participation in weekly inclass workshops and symposia on the practice of unit design and delivery; participation in a teaching practicum experience, faculty sponsor for each student.

Biochemical Engineering

052:108 Introduction to Biochemical Engineering	3 s.h.
Biochemistry, cellular biology, recombinant DNA and hybridoma technologies; emphasis on engineering aspects of biotechnology, including enzyme kinetics, cell growth kinetics, transport phenomena in bioreactors, bioreactor design, bioseparations, formulation and sterilization of growth media, commercial applications of biotechnology. Prerequisite: 052:105.

052:181 Bioseparations	3 s.h.
Introduction to separation/purification techniques in biochemical engineering; filtration, centrifugation, chromatography, extraction, electrophoresis, crystallization, cell disruption for intracellular product recovery. Prerequisite: 052:161.

052:222 Advanced Biochemical Engineering	3 s.h.
Advanced concepts in the behavior of biological systems used in modern technologies (e.g., food processing, pharmaceutical production, environmental remediation, chemical synthesis); application of biochemical engineering principles to design, development, and analysis of processes that use biocatalysis. Prerequisite: 052:108.

052:223 Introduction to Biocatalysis	3 s.h.
Applications of biological catalysis in varied industries; potential of biological catalysis to address future challenges in science and engineering.

052:225 Biotechnology of Extremophiles	3 s.h.
Evolution and engineering of biocatalysis under extreme conditions; physiological, kinetic, and molecular behavior of systems that perform under extremes of temperature, pH, salinity, pressure, solvent concentrations.

052:226 Engineering Aspects of Animal Cell Culture	3 s.h.
Applications of animal cell culture (insect and mammalian) in biochemical engineering, with emphasis on recombinant protein synthesis; special considerations of animal cell cultures (e.g., sensitivity to hydrodynamic stress), scale-up of attachment-dependent and attachment-independent cell cultures, medium development, hybridoma cultures, protein processing in animal cells. Prerequisite: 052:108.

052:227 Tissue Engineering	3 s.h.
Introduction to tissue engineering; scaffolds, fundamentals, principles. Same as 046:290, 051:175.

052:275 Perspectives in Biocatalysis	1-3 s.h.
Applied enzymology, protein design, structure-activity relationships, biosensor technology, microbial transformations, biodegradation of environmental pollutants. Repeatable. Prerequisite: graduate standing. Same as 004:275, 046:275, 053:275, 061:275, 099:275.

Environmental Engineering

052:231 Environmental Chemistry I	3 s.h.
Principles of general, physical, organic chemistry applied in water and air systems; emphasis on qualitative and quantitative understanding of chemical kinetics and equilibrium; acid-base reactions, complex formation, precipitation, dissolution, oxidation-reduction reactions, organic nomenclature. Prerequisite: 004:012. Same as 053:152.

052:235 Air Pollution Control Technology	3 s.h.
Sources, environmental and health impacts, regulations and modeling of air pollution; processes and alternative strategies for control; global climate considerations. Prerequisite: 053:050 or consent of instructor. Same as 053:159.

052:236 Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics	3 s.h.
Principal chemical and physical processes affecting atmospheric trace gas and pollutant cycles; emphasis on atmospheric photochemistry, aerosol science, major sources, removal processes. Prerequisite: 052:105. Same as 053:161.

052:237 Green Chemical Engineering	3 s.h.
Strategies for pollution prevention for chemical processes studied at the macroscale (industrial sector), the mesoscale (unit operations), and the microscale (molecular level); case studies. Prerequisite: 052:105. Corequisite: 052:187.

Reaction Engineering

052:105 Chemical Reaction Engineering	3 s.h.
Application of chemical reaction kinetics to design of chemical reactors: batch reactors, mixed flow reactors, plug flow reactors; reversible and irreversible single reactions; parallel, series, and mixed reactions; temperature and pressure effects on reactor design; heterogeneous catalysis; transport in porous catalysts. Prerequisite: 052:161.

052:211 Intermediate Chemical Reaction Kinetics	3 s.h.
Stoichiometry and equilibria of multiple reactions, kinetics of elementary and composite reactions, heterogeneous catalytic kinetics, transition-state theory, linear free-energy relations, reactor analysis, transport in porous catalysts. Prerequisite: 052:105.

Transport Phenomena

052:151 Engineering Flow and Heat Exchange	3 s.h.
Fundamentals of fluid flow and heat transfer; fluid rheology, boundary layer theory, potential flow, dimensional analysis, laminar and turbulent flow in pipes, flow through packed beds, fluidized beds, pumps, flow measurement, filtration, heat exchanger design, evaporator design, and conductive, convective, and radiative heat transfer. Prerequisite: 052:041.

052:161 Mass Transfer and Separations	3 s.h.
Mechanisms of diffusional and convective mass transfer; solution of industrial problems, including the design of distillation, extraction, absorption, leaching, humidification, adsorption, drying, and chromatography processes; mechanical separations. Prerequisites: 052:103 and 052:151.

052:217 Transport Phenomena I	3 s.h.
Unified treatment of momentum, mass, energy transport in chemical engineering problems; use of vector and tensor notations in expressing equations of continuity, motion, energy.

052:272 Diffusive Transport	3 s.h.
Diffusive transport of heat, mass, and momentum; phenomenological laws and analogies, analytical and numerical solution techniques, inverse heat conduction, multiphase and multicomponent systems. Prerequisite: 058:145 or consent of instructor. Same as 058:245.

Materials Science

052:140 Polymer Fundamentals	1 s.h.
Basic knowledge of polymers required as a foundation for other UI courses on polymers: basic polymer terminology, polymer groups, polymerization mechanisms, molecular weight determination. Five weeks. Same as 051:168.

052:141 Polymer Science and Technology	3 s.h.
Uses, properties of industrially important polymeric materials; polymer chemistry, polymer structure, characterization, polymer processing. Prerequisite: 004:122. Corequisite: 052:105.

052:156 Scanning Electron Microscopy and X-Ray Microanalysis	arr.
Theory, operation, application of scanning electron microscopy and X-ray microanalysis for advanced students, staff, investigators who use these techniques in their research. Same as 012:156, 060:156.

052:241 Polymer Science and Technology	3 s.h.
Prerequisite: 004:122. Corequisite: 052:105.

052:242 Polymer Chemistry	3 s.h.
Monomer reactivity and polymerization reactions; step, radical, ionic, and ring-opening polymerizations. Prerequisite: 004:122.

Process Dynamics, Design, Analysis

052:185 Process Dynamics and Control in Design	3 s.h.
Theory and application of process dynamics to the design of chemical process control systems; mathematical models of unit operations, transfer functions, feedback and feed-forward control, stability, instrumentation, digital control systems; computer methods, including simulation and commercial software use; laboratory focus on process analysis and design. Prerequisite: 052:105.

052:186 Chemical Engineering Process Design	3 s.h.
Design of chemical process plants, including application of process calculations, thermodynamics, kinetics, process synthesis, energy efficiency in separations, heat-exchanger network synthesis, physical property estimation, safety, computer-aided design, unit operations theory, process control, economics, economic optimization. Prerequisites: 052:185 and 052:187.

Graduate Seminars, Advanced Topics, Research

052:191 Seminar in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering	1 s.h.
Presentation and discussion of recent advances and research in chemical and biochemical engineering by guest lecturers, faculty, students. Prerequisite: graduate standing.

052:198 Individual Investigations: Chemical and Biochemical Engineering	arr.
Individual projects for chemical and biochemical engineering graduate students; may include laboratory study, engineering design project, analysis and simulation of an engineering system, computer software development, research. Prerequisites: graduate standing and consent of supervising faculty advisor.

052:199 M.S. Thesis Research: Chemical and Biochemical Engineering	arr.
Experimental and/or analytical investigation of an approved topic for partial fulfillment of requirements for M.S. with thesis in chemical and biochemical engineering. Prerequisites: graduate standing and consent of faculty advisor.

052:299 Research: Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Ph.D. Dissertation	arr.
Experimental and/or analytical investigation of an approved topic for Ph.D. in chemical and biochemical engineering. Prerequisite: consent of advisor.

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