2008-2009 Bulletin – PDF - SEAS Bulletin - Columbia University

CHEN E4010x Chemical process analysis
Lect: 3. 3 pts. Professor Leonard.
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
Lect: 3. 3 pts. 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 careers.
Principles are illustrated with various case studies,
together with active student participation.
CHEE E4050y Principles of industrial electrochemistry
Lect: 3. 3 pts. Professor Duby.
Prerequisite: CHEN E3010. 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
Lect: 3. 3 pts. Professor Shapley.
Prerequisite: CHEN E3120. Tensor analysis;
kinematics of continua; balance 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
Lect: 3. 3 pts. Professor O’Shaughnessy.
Prerequisite: CHEN E3010 or equivalent thermodynamics
course, or the 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.
CHEN E4140x Chemical and biochemical
separations
Lect: 3. 3 pts. Professor Banta.
Prerequisites: CHEN E3100, E3120, and E3210,
or the instructor’s permission. Design and analysis
of unit operations employed in chemical and
biochemical separations. Emphasis is placed on
learning the fundamental aspects of distillation,
gas adsorption, and crystallization through a combination
of lectures, open-ended problem solving,
self-learning exercises, and computer process
simulation.
CHEN E4201x Engineering applications of
electrochemistry
Lect: 3. 3pts. Professor West.
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
Lect: 3. 3 pts. Professor Leonard.
Prerequisite: CHEN E3010. Reaction kinetics,
applications to the design of batch and continuous
reactors. Multiple reactions, non-isothermal
reactors. Analysis, modeling of reactor behavior.
Required recitation.
CHEE E4252x Introduction to surface and
colloid chemistry
Lect: 3. 3 pts. Professor Somasundaran.
Prerequisite: 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
Lab: 2. 2 pts. Professor West.
Prerequisites: Ordinary differential equations
(including Laplace transforms), CHEN E3100, and
CHEN E4230. 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
Lect: 3. 4 pts. Professor O’Shaughnessy.
This new 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.
CHEN E4410x Environmental control technology
Lect: 3. 3 pts. Professor Zudkevitch.
Prerequisite: CHEN E3010 or the equivalent.
Causes of pollution and effect on life. Legal
aspects, OSHA and EPA rules. Pollution at home
and at work; radon, fumes, and dust; ventilation,
dust collection, carbon adsorption. Fuel and acid
gases, smog and dispersion. Treatment of
ground, saline, and waste water. Primary and
secondary (biological) treatment. Tertiary water
treatment with membranes, ion exchange, carbon,
and sieves. Solid and hazardous waste.
Visit New York City waste water treatment plant.
CHEN E4500x Process and product design, I
Lect: 3. 4 pts. Professor Kumar.
Prerequisites: CHEN E4140 and 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.
CHEN E4510y Process and product design, II
Lect: 4. 4 pts. Professors Kumar and Hill.
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.
CHEE E4530y Corrosion of metals
Lect: 3. 3 pts. Professor Duby.
Prerequisite: CHEN E3010. The theory of electrochemical
corrosion, corrosion tendency, rates,
and passivity. Application to various environments.
Cathodic protection and coatings. Corrosion testing.
CHEN E4620y Introduction to polymers and
soft materials
Lect: 3. 3 pts. Professor Durning.
Prerequisites: 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 materials 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
systems are treated next (dominant forces in
colloidal systems, flocculation, preparation and
manipulation of colloidal systems) followed by a
discussion of self-organizing surfactant systems
(architecture of surfactants, micelles and surfactant
membranes, phase behavior).
CHEN E4640x or y Polymer surfaces and
interfaces
Lect: 3. 3 pts. Not given in 2008–2009.
Prerequisites: CHEN E4620 or the instructor’s
permission. A fundamental treatment of the thermodynamics
and properties relating to polymer
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