Cross-listing of New Course Numbers

ChE 6615 - ADVANCED THERMODYNAMICS
Development of the thermodynamic laws and derived relations. Application of the relations to the properties of pure and multicomponent systems at equilibrium in the gaseous, liquid, and solid phases. Prediction and calculation of phase and reaction equilibria in practical systems. (Prerequisite: Undergraduate-level thermodynamics or instructor approval)

ChE 6618 - CHEMICAL REACTION ENGINEERING
Fundamentals of chemical reaction kinetics and mechanisms; experimental methods of determining reaction rates; introduction to heterogeneous catalysis; application of chemical kinetics, along with mass-transfer theory,fluid mechanics,and thermodynamics, to the design and operation of chemical reactors. (Prerequisite: ChE 625 and 665)

ChE 6625 - TRANSPORT PROCESSES
Integrated introduction to fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and mass transfer. Development of the basic equations of change for transport of momentum, energy, and mass in continuous media. Applications with exact solutions,consistent approaches to limiting cases and approximate solutions to formulate the relations to be solved in the more complicated problems. (Prerequisite: Undergraduate transport processes)

ChE 6630 - MASS TRANSFER
Fundamental principles common to mass transfer phenomena, with emphasis on mass transfer in diverse chemical engineering situations. Detailed consideration of fluxes, diffusion with and without convection, interphase mass transfer with chemical reaction, and applications. (Prerequisite: ChE 625 and 665)

ChE 6442 - APPLIED SURFACE CHEMISTRY
Factors underlying interfacial phenomena, with emphasis on thermodynamics of surfaces, structural aspects, and electrical phenomena; applications such as emulsification, foaming, detergency, sedimentation, flow through porous media, fluidization, nucleation, wetting, adhesion, flotation, electrocapillarity. (Prerequisite: Instructor permission)

ChE 6447 - BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING
Introduction to properties, production, and use of biological molecules of importance to medicine and industry, such as proteins, enzymes, and antibiotics. Topics may include fermentation and cell culture processes, biological mass transfer, enzyme engineering, purification techniques, and implications of recent advances in molecular biology, genomics, and proteomics. (Prerequisite: Instructor permission)

ChE 6448 - BIOSEPARATIONS ENGINEERING
Principles of bioseparations engineering including specialized unit operations not normally covered in regular chemical engineering courses.  Processing operations downstream of the initial manufacture of biotechnology products, including product recovery, separations, purification, and ancillary operations such s sterile processing, clean-in place and regulatory aspects.  Bioprocess integrtion and design aspect.  (Prerequisite: instructor permission)

ChE 6449 - POLYMER CHEMISTRY AND ENGINEERING
Analyzes the mechanisms and kinetics of various polymerization reactions; relations between the molecular structure and polymer properties, and the influence of polymerization processing; fundamental concepts of polymer solution and melt rheology; and application of these principles and heat and mass transfer to polymer processing operations such as extrusion, molding and fiber spinning. (Prerequisite: Instructor permission)

ChE 6665 - TECHNIQUES FOR CHEMICAL ENGINEERING ANALYSIS AND DESIGN
Methods for analysis of steady state and transient chemical engineering problems arising in fluid mechanics, heat transfer, mass transfer, kinetics, and reactor design. (Prerequisite: Undergraduate differential equations, transport processes, and chemical reaction engineering.)

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