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CHEN E6620y Physical chemistry of
macromolecules
3 pts. Lect: 3. Professor Koberstein.
Prerequisite: CHEN E4620 or the instructor’s
permission. Modern studies of static and
dynamic behavior in macromolecular systems.
Topics include single-chain behavior adsorption,
solution thermodynamics, the glass transition,
diffusion, and viscoelastic behavior. The
molecular understanding of experimentally
observed phenomena is stressed.
CHEN E6630x Special topics in soft
condensed matter
3 pts. Lect: 3. Not offered in 2011–2012.
Tutorial lectures on selected topics in soft
condensed matter.
CHEN E6910y Theoretical methods in
polymer physics
3 pts. Lect: 3. Not offered in 2011–2012.
Prerequisite: CHAP 4120 or equivalent statistical
mechanics course, or instructor’s permission.
Modern methods for understanding polymeric
liquids and critical phenomena are introduced
and applied in detail. Scaling and universality.
Relationship of high polymer physics to critical
phenomena. Landau theory, self-consistent field
method. Scaling approach. Renormalization
group theory. Epsilon expansion for polymer and
other critical exponents. Applications to polymer
statics and dynamics, and to other complex fluids.
CHEN E6920y Physics of soft matter
3 pts. Lect: 3. Not offered in 2011–2012.
Prerequisites: Instructor’s permission. Physics
of polymers, biopolymers (especially DNA),
membranes, gels, and other types of soft matter.
Statistical mechanics, scaling theory, selfconsistent
field theory; experimental surveys.
Dilute, semidilute, and concentrated polymer
solutions. Mesophases and self-assembly in
soft matter. Polymers at interfaces, polymermembrane
interactions. Fluctuating double helix
models of DNA, DNA melting, pattern recognition
in DNA. Polyelectrolytes, charged biopolymers,
DNA charge-induced condensation.
CHEN E8100y Topics in biology
3 pts. Lect: 3. Professor O’Shaughnessy.
Prerequisites: Instructor’s permission. This
research seminar introduces topics at the
forefront of biological research in a format and
language accessible to quantitative scientists
and engineers lacking biological training.
Conceptual and technical frameworks from both
biological and physical science disciplines are
utilized. The objective is to reveal to graduate
students where potential lies to apply techniques
from their own disciplines to address pertinent
biological questions in their research. Classes
entail reading, criticism and group discussion of
research papers and textbook materials providing
overviews to various biological areas including:
evolution, immune system, development and cell
specialization, the cytoskeleton and cell motility,
DNA transcription in gene circuits, protein
networks, recombinant DNA technology, aging,
and gene therapy.
CHEN E9000x and y Chemical engineering
colloquium
0 pts. Col: 1. Professor Banta.
All graduate students are required to attend the
department colloquium as long as they are in
residence. No degree credit is granted.
CHEN E9400x and y Master’s research
1–6 pts. Members of the faculty.
Prescribed for M.S. and Ch.E. candidates;
elective for others with the approval of the
Department. Degree candidates are required
to conduct an investigation of some problem in
chemical engineering or applied chemistry and
to submit a thesis describing the results of their
work. No more than 6 points in this course may
be counted for graduate credit, and this credit is
contingent upon the submission of an acceptable
thesis. The concentration in pharmaceutical
engineering requires a 2-point thesis internship.
CHEN E9500x and y–S9500 Doctoral research
1–15 pts. Members of the faculty.
Prerequisites: The qualifying examinations for
the doctorate. Open only to certified candidates
for the Ph.D. and Eng.Sc.D. degrees. Doctoral
candidates in chemical engineering are required
to make an original investigation of a problem
in chemical engineering or applied chemistry,
the results of which are presented in their
dissertations. No more than 15 points of credit
toward the degree may be granted when the
dissertation is accepted by the department.
CHEN E9600x and y Advanced research
problems
2–10 pts. Members of the faculty.
Prerequisites: Recommendation of the professor
concerned and approval of the master’s research
department. For postdoctoral students and other
qualified special students who wish to pursue
research under the guidance of members of the
department. Not open to undergraduates or to
candidates for the degrees of Ch.E.,M.S., Ph.D.,
or Eng.Sc.D.
CHEN E9800x and y Doctoral research
instruction
3, 6, 9 or 12 pts. Members of the faculty.
A candidate for the Eng.Sc.D. degree in
chemical engineering must register for 12 points
of doctoral research instruction. Registration in
CHEN E9800 may not be used to satisfy the
minimum residence requirement for the degree.
CHEN E9900x and y–S9900 Doctoral
dissertation
0 pts. Members of the faculty.
Open only to certified doctoral candidates. A
candidate for the doctorate in chemical engineering
may be required to register for this course in every
term after the student’s course work has been
completed, and until the dissertation has been
accepted.
engineering 2011–2012