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a special project under the supervision of the
staff. Credit for the course is contingent upon
the submission of an acceptable thesis or final
report. No more than 6 points in this course may
be counted toward the satisfaction of the B.S.
degree requirements.
CHEN E4010x Chemical process analysis
3 pts. Lect: 3. Not offered in 2011–2012.
Open to undergraduates only with the instructor’s
permission. Application of selected mathematical
methods to solution of chemical engineering
problems.
CHEN E4020x Protection of industrial and
intellectual property
3 pts. Lect: 3. Professor Pearlman.
To expose engineers, scientists and technology
managers to areas of the law they are most
likely to be in contact with during their career.
Principals are illustrated with various case
studies together with active student participation.
CHEE E4050y Principles of industrial
electrochemistry
3 pts. Lect: 3. Not offered in 2011–2012.
Prerequisites: CHEE E3010 or equivalent. A
presentation of the basic principle underlying
electrochemical processes. Thermodynamics,
electrode kinetics, and ionic mass transport.
Examples of industrial and environmental
applications illustrated by means of laboratory
experiments: electroplating, refining, and
winning in aqueous solutions and in molten
salts; electrolytic treatment of wastes; primary,
secondary, and fuel cells.
CHEN E4110x Transport phenomena, III
3 pts. Lect: 3. Professor Durning.
Prerequisite: CHEN E3120. Tensor analysis;
kinematics of continua; balance of laws for onecomponent
media; constituitive laws for free
energy and stress in one-component media;
exact and asymptotic solutions to dynamic
problems in fluids and solids; balance laws for
mixtures; constitutive laws for free energy, stress
and diffusion fluxes in mixtures; solutions to
dynamic problems in mixtures.
CHAP E4120x Statistical mechanics
3 pts. Lect: 3. Professor O’Shaughnessy.
Prerequisites: CHEE E3010 or equivalent
thermodynamics course, or instructor’s
permission. Fundamental principles and
underlying assumptions of statistical mechanics.
Boltzmann’s entropy hypothesis and its
restatement in terms of Helmholtz and Gibbs
free energies and for open systems. Correlation
times and lengths. Exploration of phase space
and observation timescale. Correlation functions.
Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein statistics.
Fluctuation-response theory. Applications to ideal
gases, interfaces, liquid crystals, microemulsions
and other complex fluids, polymers, Coulomb
gas, interactions between charged polymers and
charged interfaces, ordering transitions.
CHEE E4140x Engineering separations
processes
3 pts. Lect: 3. Professor Park.
Prerequisites: CHEN E3100, E3120, and
E3210 or permission of instructor. Design
and analysis of unit operations employed in
chemical engineering separations. Fundamental
aspects of single and multistaged operations
using both equilibrium and rate-based methods.
Examples include distillation, absorption and
stripping, extraction, membranes, crystallization,
bioseparations, and environmental applications.
CHEN E4201x Engineering applications of
electrochemistry
3 pts. Lect: 3. Not offered in 2011–2012.
Prerequisites: Physical chemistry and a course
in transport phenomena. Engineering analysis
of electrochemical systems, including electrode
kinetics, transport phenomena, mathematical
modeling, and thermodynamics. Common
experimental methods are discussed. Examples
from common applications in energy conversion
and metallization are presented.
CHEN E4230y Reaction kinetics and reactor
design
3 pts. Lect: 3. Professor Leshaw.
Prerequisites: CHEE E3010. Reaction
kinetics, applications to the design of batch
and continuous reactors. Multiple reactions,
nonisothermal reactors. Analysis and modeling of
reactor behavior. Recitation section required.
CHEE E4252x Introduction to surface and
colloid chemistry
3 pts. Lect: 3. Professor Somasundaran.
Prerequisites: Elementary physical chemistry.
Thermodynamics of surfaces, properties
of surfactant solutions and surface films,
electrostatic and electrokinetic phenomena at
interfaces, adsorption; interfacial mass transfer
and modern experimental techniques.
CHEN E4300x Chemical engineering control
2 pts. Lab: 2. Professors Bedrossian and West.
Prerequisites: Material and energy balances.
Ordinary differential equations including Laplace
transforms. Reactor Design. An introduction to
process control applied to chemical engineering
through lecture and laboratory. Concepts include
the dynamic behavior of chemical engineering
systems, feedback control, controller tuning, and
process stability.
CHEN E4320x Molecular phenomena in
chemical engineering
4 pts. Lect: 4. Professor O’Shaughnessy.
This course located strategically at the end of the
curriculum is intended to provide students with
a molecular basis for the engineering concepts
covered in the curriculum. It is meant to both
validate the basic science and math foundations
developed earlier and to stimulate the student
toward applying modern molecular concepts of
chemical engineering that will define their future.
Recitation section required.
CHEN E4330y Advanced chemical kinetics
3 pts. Lect: 3. Professor McNeill.
Prerequisite: CHEN E4230 or instructor’s
permission. Complex reactive systems.
Catalysis. Heterogeneous systems, with an
emphasis on coupled chemical kinetics and
transport phenomena. Reactions at interfaces
(surfaces, aerosols, bubbles). Reactions in
solution.
CHEN E4500x Process and product design, I
4 pts. Lect: 4. Professors Hill, Kumar, and
Leshaw.
Prerequisites: CHEE E4140, CHEN E3100. An
introduction to the process engineering function.
The design of chemical process, process
equipment, and plants and the economic and
ecological evaluation of the chemical engineering
project. Use of statistics to define product quality
is illustrated with case studies. Recitation section
required.
CHEN E4510y Process and product design, II
4 pts. Lect: 4. Professors Hill and Leonard.
Prerequisite: CHEN E4500. Students carry out a
semester long process or product design course
with significant industrial involvement. The
project culminates with a formal written design
report and a public presentation. Recitation
section required.
CHEE E4530y Corrosion of metals
3 pts. Lect: 3. Professor Duby.
Prerequisite: CHEE E3010 or equivalent. The
theory of electrochemical corrosion, corrosion
tendency, rates, and passivity. Application to
various environments. Cathodic protection and
coatings. Corrosion testing.
CHEN E4600x Atmospheric aerosols
3 pts. Lect: 3. Professor McNeill.
Prerequisite: CHEN E3120 or instructor’s
permission. Atmospheric aerosols and their
effects on atmospheric composition and
climate. Major topics are aerosol sources and
properties, field and laboratory techniques
for characterization, gas-aerosol interactions,
secondary organic aerosols, aerosol direct and
indirect effects on climate.
CHEN E4620x Introduction to polymers and
soft materials
3 pts. Lect: 3. Professor Durning.
Prerequisite: An elementary course in physical
chemistry or thermodynamics. Organic
chemistry, statistics, calculus and mechanics
are helpful, but not essential. An introduction
to the chemistry and physics of soft material
systems (polymers, colloids, organized
surfactant systems and others), emphasizing the
connection between microscopic structure and
macroscopic physical properties. To develop
an understanding of each system, illustrative
experimental studies are discussed along with
basic theoretical treatments. High molecular
weight organic polymers are discussed first
(basic notions, synthesis, properties of single
polymer molecules, polymer solution and blend
thermodynamics, rubber and gels). Colloidal
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