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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING: THIRD AND FOURTH YEARS
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SEMESTER V SEMESTER VI SEMESTER VII SEMESTER VIII
REQUIRED
COURSES
CHEN E3110 (4) CHEN E3120 (4) CHEN E4500 (4) CHEN E4510 (4)
Transp. phenomena I Transp. phenomena II Process & product design I Process & product
design II
CHEE E3010 (4) CHEN E3210 (4) CHEN E4140 (3)
Principles of chem. Chem. eng. Chem. & biochem. CHEN E4320 (4)
eng. thermodynamics thermodynamics separations Molecular phenomenon
in chem. eng.
CHEN E4230 (3) CHEN E4300 (2)
Reaction kinetics & Chem. eng. control
reactor design
REQUIRED LABS
CHEN C3543 (3) 1 CHEN 3810 (4)
Org. chem. lab
Chem. eng. lab
REQUIRED
ELECTIVES
NONTECH
TECH 2
3 points 3 points 3 points
3 points 3 points 3 points 3 points
TOTAL POINTS
(normal track)
17 17 15 14
1 May be taken in Semester III with adviser’s permission if CHEN E3100: Material and energy balances is taken in Semester V.
2 The total of 12 points of required technical electives must include one chemical engineering course, one engineering course outside of chemical engineering, and 6
points of “advanced natural science” courses (i.e., chemistry, physics, biology, materials science, and certain chemical engineering courses—contact a departmental
adviser for details).
Genomic Engineering. Genomic engineering
may be defined as the development
and application of novel technologies
for identifying and evaluating the significance
of both selected and all nucleotide
sequences in the genomes of organisms.
An interdisciplinary course concentration
in genomic engineering is available to
graduate students, and to selected
undergraduate students. The National
Science Foundation is sponsoring the
development of this concentration, which
is believed to be the first of its kind.
Courses in the concentration equip students
in engineering and computer science
to help solve technical problems
encountered in the discovery, assembly,
organization, and application of genomic
information. The courses impart an
understanding of the fundamental goals
and problems of genomic science and
gene-related intracellular processes;
elucidate the physical, chemical, and
instrumental principles available to
extract sequence information from the
genome; and teach the concepts used
to organize, manipulate, and interrogate
the genomic database.
The concentration consists of five
courses that address the principal areas
of genomic technology: sequencing and
other means of acquiring genomic information;
bioinformatics as a means of
assembling and providing structured
access to genomic information; and
methods of elucidating how genomic
information interacts with the developmental
state and environment of cells
in order to determine their behavior.
Prof. E. F. Leonard directs the program
and teaches CHEN E4750. The other
instructors are Profs. D. Anastassiou
(ECBM E4060), Jingyue Ju (CHEN
E4700, CHEN E4730), and C. Leslie
(CBMF W4761). The departments of
Chemical, Biomedical, and Electrical
Engineering and of Computer Science
credit these courses toward requirements
for their doctorates. Students
may take individual courses so long as
they satisfy prerequisite requirements or
have the instructor’s permission. All lecture
courses in the program are available
through the Columbia Video Network,
which offers a certificate for those
students completing a prescribed set
of the courses.
The course Introduction to genomic
information science and technology
(ECBM E4060) provides the essential
concepts of the information system paradigm
of molecular biology and genetics.
Principles of genomic technology (CHEN
E4700) provides students with a solid
basis for understanding both the principles
that underlie genomic technologies
and how these principles are applied.
The Genomics sequencing laboratory
(CHEN E4760) provides hands-on experience
in high-throughput DNA sequencing,
as conducted in a bioscience
research laboratory. The genome and
the cell (CHEN E4750) conveys a broad
but precise, organized, and quantitative
overview of the cell and its genome:
how the genome, in partnership with
extragenomic stimuli, influences the
behavior of the cell and how mecha-
SEAS 2008–2009