Supervised individual graduate research projects on selected issues in community and leadership development. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits. Research Learning contract must be filed with Director of Graduate Studies. May be repeated to a maximum of 6 credit hours.
This is a survey course in U.S. health policy and law. It begins by describing the basic machinery of policymaking and legal process that underpin the individual health care and health systems and then turns to an exploration of many of the fundamental problems and contemporary issues in health policy and law. Students will learn to think systematically about these issues and the various methods available to public and private policymakers to solve them.
This course covers strategic human resources management concepts for contemporary healthcare environments. Students will explore the relationship between human resources management and strategic advantage. Topics such as human resources functions, compensation and benefits, personnel planning, recruitment and selection, training and development, employee appraisal and discipline, and union-management relations will be covered.
An introduction to the chemical engineering profession including: problem solving techniques, use of computers, computer problems and lectures by practitioners.
A course in material and energy balances, units, conversions, tie elements, recycle, bypass, equations of state, heat effects, phase transitions, and the first and second laws of thermodynamics applications in separation processes involving equilibrium reactions and energy exchange.
Introduction to the physical properties of fluids, fluid statics. Equations of conservation of mass, momentum and energy for systems and control volumes. Dimensional analysis and similarity. Principles of inviscid and real fluid flows; flow through pipes and around bodies. Application and design of fluid handling systems.
Synthesis, structure, and processing of polymers, useful geometric forms, mechanical and thermal properties, crystallinity, polymer blends, evaluation of polymers for specific applications (aerospace, automotive, biomedical), laboratory activities for each of the above.
Separations based on both equilibrium stage concepts and mass transfer rate control are addressed for a range of chemical process operations, including distillation, gas absorption, extraction, adsorption, and membrane-based processes. Design problems are conceived to require computer-aided modeling and analysis.
A continuation of CME 432. A laboratory course emphasizing more detailed experiments in fluid flow, separations, heat transfer, mass transfer, and chemical reaction kinetics with more extensive data collection and analysis as well as a design component based on the experimental results.
A lecture and problem solving course emphasizing process economic evaluation, product design, and process synthesis as they apply to chemical units and systems. Appropriate use of software for simulation and design of chemical systems will also be emphasized.
