Activities of the Student Chapter of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (for junior and senior year chemical engineering students). Lecture, one hour per week.

An intoduction to computational tools used in chemical engineering, such as Microsoft Excel, MATLAB, and Aspen.

Fundamentals of thermodynamics, review of first law, second and third laws, VL, LL and SL equilibria, homogeneous and heterogeneous chemical reaction equilibria.

Individual work on some selected problems in the field of chemical engineering. May be taken three times for a total of 9 credit hours.

Applications of principles of material and energy balances, thermodynamics, heat and mass transfer, physical chemistry and numerical methods to problems in separation and transport processes and reactive systems.

Fundamental principles of conduction and convective heat transfer, and diffusional and convective mass transfer. Design applications to heat exchanges and packed bed absorbers.

A laboratory course emphasizing experimental work in fluid flow, separations, heat transfer, and mass transfer. A majority of this course will focus on lab report writing, statistics, experimental design and safety in the laboratory.

A lecture and problem-solving course intended to combine the principles of chemical engineering with optimization as they apply to the design of chemical processes. Results of each design case studied will be presented by both oral and written reports.

Basic theory of automatic control devices and their application in industrial chemical plants is emphasized. Identification of control objectives, appropriate measurements and manipulations, and possible loops between these, requires integration of the control system with the original process design. Interactions between process units are analyzed using well-known analytical tools and design strategies.

Modern composite materials and their applications. Basic concepts and definitions. Fundamental properties of fibers and polymer resins. Manufacturing methods. Analysis and design of laminated and chopped fiber reinforced composites. Micro- and macro-mechanical analysis of elastic constants. Failure theory of composite materials. Computational design of composites.