A lecture and problem-based course on standards of sustainability, ethics, and safety as they relate to the engineering profession. Emphasis will be on global sustainability, safety in plant design, and safety practices and regulations in laboratory and plant operation. Sociologic issues inherent with air, water, and waste management and professional ethics will be addressed.
The application of differential and integral equations to traditional and non-traditional chemical engineering problems.
Overview of technologies used for generating electricity from location, recovery, transportation and storage of fuel to the types of technologies used to convert the fuel to electricity. Included is a discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of each technology and how they must adapt to be viable in the future. Technologies covered include coal, natural gas, nuclear, biomass, wind, solar and advanced technologies.
A lecture and problem-based course on chemical kinetics, chemical reactor design, and the interrelationship between transport, thermodynamics, and chemical reaction in open and closed systems. Students will construct models and employ mathematical tools to design reactors for a wide variety of chemical reaction systems.
The criteria for physical and chemical equilibria, including: predictive equations, solution theory, chemical activity, coupled chemical equilibria, and external constraints. Emphasis may be on vapor-liquid equilibrium, chemical reaction equilibrium, or complex ionic equilibria in dilute aqueous solutions and suspensions.
The material covered in CNU/NS 601 consists of three major emphasis areas: (1) review of carbohydrate, lipid, and protein structure, synthesis, absorption, and metabolism, (2) the impact of nutritional influences on macronutrient metabolism to health and disease, (3) the influence of micronutrient metabolism on the regulation of energy balance. The objective of this course is to provide students a strong knowledge base related to macronutrient metabolism in the context of select chronic diseases and energy balance.
This course enables students to develop a working knowledge of applied nutrition. Specific topics include federal feeding programs, food policy, surveillance, use of online nutrition and research tools, current dietary guidelines, and diet assessment.
Emphasis is directed toward the scientific underpinnings and evidence- based applied nutrition strategies for human performance. General focus areas will be categorized as nutrition needs for chronic training or acute phases (i.e. before, during and post acute training sessions and competition) in competition and sport. Targeted focus areas are: macronutrient metabolism, energy availability and expenditure, body composition, the metabolic basis of weight management in sport, micro- nutrient needs, ergogenic aids, disordered eating and eating disorders, and water and electrolyte balance.
The purpose of this course is to stimulate thinking and discussion about the ethical dilemmas facing biomedical and clinical research today. This class was developed in response to changes in societal perception and regulatory issues in biomedical research. By discussing the many facets of realistic ethical challenges, we will be able to respond in the most thoughtful and appropriate manner allowed by the situation.
The material covered in CNU 612 is designed to help students select and use appropriate anthropometric, biochemical, clinical, dietary, functional, and socioeconomic assessment techniques to identify and prioritize the nutritional problems and needs of populations and communities. The course will outline intervention strategies to guide students through the process of improving nutritional problems in target populations while using critical thinking skills.
