Permission of the instructor and consent of the student's adviser are required for enrollment in all chemical engineering courses.

801. Introduction to Polymer Engineering

Principles of polymer chemistry, polymerization kinetics, polymer rheology, and material characteristics. Design and analysis of polymer reactors, extruders, molding machines, and other forming operations. Lab. 4 cr.

805. Natural and Synthetic Fossil Fuels

Study of U.S. and foreign reserves of coal, oil, and natural gas. Petroleum processing and refining. Coal, oil shale, and tar sand. Gasification and liquefaction of coal. Lab. 4 cr. (Not offered every year.)

809. Fundamentals of Air Pollution and Its Control

The origin and fate of air pollutants. Fundamentals of atmospheric meteorology, chemistry, and dispersion phenomena. Control of air pollutants and the related equipment. Current issues. Prereq: differential equations with linear algebra; general chemistry. Lab. 4 cr.

812. Introduction to Nuclear Engineering

Development of nuclear reactors; binding-energy; radioactivity; elements of nuclear reactor theory; engineering problems of heat transfer, fluid flow, materials selection, and shielding; environmental impacts. 4 cr. (Not offered every year.)

822. Introduction to Microfluidics

Fundamentals and applications of microfluidics; scaling laws; microfabrication technology; hydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics interfacial phenomena; capillary effects and diffusion; microvalves; micropumps; lab-on-a-chip systems; biochips. Prereq: fluid mechanics course or permission of instructor. Lab. 4 cr.

844. Corrosion

Fundamentals of corrosion processes in industrial and environmental settings; thermodynamics, kinetics, and mass transport in local corrosion cells; protection by electrochemical, chemical, surface modification, or barrier methods; instrumental methods in corrosion science. Lab. 4 cr. (Not offered every year.)

851. Process Simulation and Optimization

Techniques for computer-aided analysis of chemical processing systems. Development of mathematical models to describe process behavior. Application of optimization techniques. Prereq: knowledge of FORTRAN programming. Lab. 4 cr. (Not offered every year.)

852. Process Dynamics and Control

Dynamic behavior of chemical engineering processes described by differential equations; feedback control concepts and techniques; stability and analysis. Lab. 4 cr.

854. Graphical, Numerical, and Finite Element Applications in Chemical Engineering

Computational methods for solving differential equations resulting from the modeling of a process or physical phenomenon. Graphical display of results of data and of curve-fitted equations. Use of interactive graphics and the solution of boundary-value problems. Applications of finite element analysis and discussion of other software available. Prereq: permission; knowledge of FORTRAN programming. 4 cr. (Not offered every year.)

861. Biochemical Engineering

Immobilized enzyme technology, microbial biomass production, transport phenomena in microbial systems, biological reactor design, process instrumentation and control, applications in separation and purification processes. Lab. 4 cr. (Not offered every year.)

872. Physicochemical Processes for Water and Air Quality Control

Origin and characterization of pollutants. Controls, including filtration, sedimentation, coagulation and flocculation, absorption and adsorption. Applied fluid mechanics, mass transfer, and kinetics. Thermal pollution, chemical treatment, oil spills on water, and aeration. Lab. 4 cr. (Not offered every year.)

904. Radiative Heat Transfer

Heat transmission in high-temperature operations and interaction of radiative and other transport mechanisms; radiation geometry; application of matrix algebra to radiative transfer in enclosures; zoning methods of temperature measurements. Analytical and empirical approximations of engineering use. Quantitative design of several furnaces and high-temperature systems. 3 cr. (Not offered every year.)

913. Advanced Fluid Mechanics

Basic equations describing behavior of static and dynamic fluid systems. The equations of motions and application to laminar and turbulent flow. Momentum and energy equations for advanced problems associated with flow inside conduits. Flow of compressible fluids and boundary layer phenomena. 3 cr.

914. Fluidization Engineering

Fluidization regimes, fluid mechanics of particle suspensions, motion of single and multi-bubbles in fluidized beds. Heat and mass transfer and gas-solid reactions in fluidized beds. Applications in design of noncatalytic reactors and heat transfer equipment. 3 cr. (Not offered every year.)

915. Heat Transfer

Steady-state and transient heat conduction in solids; heat convection; analytic solutions, similarity relations, boundary layer methods; radiation. 3 cr.

916. Diffusive Mass Transfer

Physical aspects of diffusion; theories of diffusion in dilute gases, dense gases, liquids, and solids; surface diffusion; mixing processes. Simultaneous heat and mass transfer. 3 cr.

923. Advanced Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics

The multicomponent open system; the volumetric and phase behavior of pure substances and of multicomponent systems at physical and chemical equilibrium, fugacity and activity; thermal properties of equilibrium, chemically reacting systems; introduction to statistical thermodynamics. 3 cr.

932. Advanced Chemical Engineering Kinetics

Specialized applied kinetics problems; catalysis; fast reaction and shock tubes; combustion and detonation processes; nonisothermal kinetics; heat and mass transfer in nonequilibrium, chemically reacting systems. 3 cr.

990. Literature Report

Instruction in the use of the library for chemical engineering research, culminating in the preparation of a literature report on a topic of mutual interest to the student and the chemical engineering faculty. 1 cr.

996. Graduate Independent Study

Directed reading or investigation at the advanced level on topics in chemical engineering. 2-4 cr.

899. Master's Thesis

Variable credit; 6 credits required.

999. Doctoral Research