1998-1999 Undergraduate Catalog Course Descriptions - Chemical Engineering |
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1998-1999 Undergraduate Catalog Course Descriptions - Chemical Engineering |
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| CH E 101. Stoichiometry and Mass Balances (f, s) | 3 cr. | |
Chemical engineering information, communication, basic problem- solving skills and engineering ethics; flow sheeting; data analysis; unit conversions; elementary stoichiometry; material balances; and design strategy with emphasis on innovation. Chemical engineering majors must make C or better in this course. Corequisite: MATH 191.
| CH E 101H. Introduction to Chemical Engineering | Honors (f, s) | 3 cr. | |
Same as CH E 101. Additional work will be arranged. Corequisite: MATH 191.
| CH E 111. Introduction to Computer Calculations in Chemical Engineering (f, s) | 3 cr. (2+3P) | |
Introduction to C programming and Windows applications including word processors, spreadsheets, and symbolic equation solvers. Information retrieval from the Internet. Introduction to operating time-shared systems and microcomputers. Satisfies General Education computer science alternative requirement. Chemical engineering majors must earn C or better in this course. Prerequisite: MATH 191.
| CH E 131. Introduction to Environmental Management | 3 cr. | |
The role of science and the various branches of engineering in protecting our environment. Includes guest lectures from various departments and industry.
| CH E 191. Orientation to the Chemical Industry (su I) | 1 cr. (3P) | |
On-site inspection of selected chemical manufacturing plants representing a cross section of process types. Requires written report describing processes studied; one week of travel with the class to a major chemical manufacturing area with cost of travel, lodging, and meals paid for by student; and compliance with security/safety rules for each plant visited. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
| CH E 201. Chemical Process Calculations (f, s) | 4 cr. (3+3P) | |
Energy balances; combined energy and material balances including those with chemical reaction, purge and recycle; thermochemistry; application to unit operations. Sources of data. Introduction to the first law of thermodynamics and its applications. Computer applications including spreadsheets, symbolic equation solving programs, and introduction to flow sheeting. Chemical engineering majors must earn C or better in this course. Prerequisites: CHEM 111, CH E 101, and CH E 111. Corequisite: MATH 291.
| CH E 201H. Chemical Process Calculations | Honors (f, s) | 4 cr. (3+3P) | |
Same as CH E 201. Additional work to be arranged. Prerequisites: CHEM 111, CH E 101, and CH E 111. Corequisite: MATH 291.
| CH E 298. Special Problems | 1-3 cr. | |
Directed individual study. Written report covering work required. Prerequisite: consent of instructor and department head. May be repeated for a maximum of 3 credits under different subtitles. Restricted to majors.
| CH E 301. Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics I (s) | 3 cr. | |
Applications of the first and second law to chemical process systems, especially phase and chemical equilibria and the behavior of real fluids. Development of fundamental thermodynamic property relations and complete energy and entropy balances. Chemical engineering majors must earn C or better in this course. Prerequisite: CH E 201.
| CH E 302. Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics II (f) | 3 cr. | |
Continuation of CH E 301. Chemical engineering majors must earn C or better in this course. Prerequisite: CH E 301.
| CH E 305. Transport Operations I: Fluid Flow (s) | 3 cr. | |
Theory of momentum transport. Unified treatment via equations of change. Shell balance solution to 1-D problems in viscous flow. Analysis of chemical engineering unit operations involving fluid flow. General design and operation of fluid flow equipment and piping networks. Chemical engineering majors must earn C or better in this course. Prerequisites: CH E 201 and MATH 291. Corequisite: MATH 392.
| CH E 306. Transport Operations II: Heat and Mass Transfer (f) | 3 cr. | |
Theory of heat and mass transport. Unified treatment via equations of change. Analogies between heat and mass transfer. Shell balance solution to 1-D problems in heat and mass transfer. Analysis of chemical engineering unit operations involving heat transfer. Design principles for mass transfer equipment. Chemical engineering majors must earn C or better in this course. Prerequisite: CH E 305.
| CH E 307. Transport Operations III: Staged Operations (s) | 3 cr. | |
Theory of mass transport. Mass transfer coefficients. Analysis of chemical engineering unit operations involving mass transfer and separations. Equilibrium stage concept. General design and operation of mass-transfer equipment and separation sequences. Chemical engineering majors must earn C or better in this course. Prerequisite: CH E 306.
| CH E 315L. Process Instrumentation Laboratory (f) | 2 cr. (6P) | |
Experiments with written reports in measurement of mass, pressure, temperature, and volume; enthalpy of reactions; mass and heat balances; principles of process instrumentation and control equipment as they are applied to laboratory operation. Study of measurement error, statistical estimation and analysis. Chemical engineering majors must earn C or better in this course. Prerequisites: CH E 201.
| CH E 315H. Process Instrumentation Laboratory | Honors (f) | 2 cr. (6P) | |
Same as CH E 315L. Additional work to be arranged. Prerequisites: CH E 201.
| CH E 321. Unit Operations Technology | 5 cr. (3+6P) | |
Study of chemical engineering unit operations involving fluid flow, heat transfer, mass transfer, staged operations, and chemical reactors from the operating technician's point of view. Design and operation of equipment. Laboratory includes hands-on experiments on maintenance, operation and control of pilot scale equipment with written reports. Chemical engineering majors will not receive credit for this course. Prerequisite: CH E 201. Restricted to nonchemical engineering majors.
| CH E 330. Environmental Seminar I | 1 cr. | |
Seminar on environmental subjects (technical as well as legal), risk analysis, public policy, etc.
| CH E 351. The Chemical Industry | 3 cr. | |
Quantitative description and analysis of the business aspects of the world-wide production of chemicals and related products by firms in the chemical-processing industries. Includes guest speakers. Prerequisite: CHEM 112, CHEM 114, or CHEM 116.
| CH E 361. Engineering Materials (f, s) | 3 cr. | |
Bonding and crystal structure of simple materials. Electrical and mechanical properties of materials. Phase diagrams and heat treatment. Corrosion and environmental effects. Application of concepts to metal alloys, ceramics, polymers, and composites. Selection of materials for engineering design. Prerequisite: CHEM 111, or CHEM 114, or equivalent. Same as CH E 361H.
| CH E 361H. Engineering Materials | Honors (f, s) | 3 cr. | |
Same as CH E 361. Additional work to be arranged. Prerequisite: CHEM 111, or CHEM 114, or equivalent.
| CH E 391. Industrial Employment | 1-2 cr. | |
Employment in chemical, petroleum, food, biotechnology, materials, environmental or pharmaceutical industry with opportunity for professional experience and training in chemical engineering. Requires written report covering work period approved by employer. Prerequisites: consent of instructor and department head. Course subtitled. May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credits. Arrangements must be made prior to employment. Restricted to majors.
| CH E 398. Special Projects | 1-2 cr. | |
Directed individual projects. Written and oral reports covering work required. Prerequisites: consent of instructor and department head. Course subtitled. May be repeated for a maximum of 4 credits. Restricted to majors.
| CH E 407L. Transport Operations Laboratory (s) | 2 cr. (6P) | |
Bench scale experiments with written reports in thermodynamics; momentum, heat, and mass transport. Includes selected experiments in determination of thermodynamic properties, transport properties and heat and mass transfer coefficients. Study of measurement error, statistical estimation, and analysis. Prerequisites: CH E 307 and CH E 315L.
| CH E 407H. Transport Operations Laboratory | Honors (s) | 2 cr. (6P) | |
Same as CH E 407L. Additional work to be arranged. Prerequisites: CH E 307 and CH E 315L.
| CH E 411. Introduction to Engineering Analysis | 3 cr. | |
Development of phenomenological and dynamic process models and their numerical and analytical solution. Includes linear models and their vector-matrix forms; vector-tensor analysis, Green's and Stoke's theorems applied to transport equations; dynamic models and their Laplace transforms. Prerequisites: MATH 392. Same as CH E 511.
| CH E 412. Process Dynamics and Control (f) | 3 cr. | |
Process modeling, dynamics, and feedback control. Linear control theory and simulation languages. Application of Laplace transforms and frequency domain theory to the analysis of open-loop and closed-loop process dynamics. Stability analysis and gain/phase margins. Controller modes and settings. Design of systems for control of level, flow, heat exchangers, reactors and elementary multivariable systems. Prerequisites: CH E 441. Same as CH E 512.
| CH E 422L. Unit Operations and Process Control Laboratory (f) | 2 cr. (6P) | |
Design of procedure and operation of pilot-scale equipment including use of computer data acquisition and closed-loop process control. Requires written reports. Unit operations selected from such areas as: pumps, tanks and fluid-flow networks; heat exchangers; distillation columns; liquid-liquid extraction; evaporators; and chemical reactors. Application of measurement error, statistical estimation and analysis to process data. Prerequisites: CH E 307 and CH E 407L. Corequisite: CH E 412. Same as CH E 422H.
| CH E 422H. Unit Operations and Process Control LaboratoryHonors (f) | 2 cr. (6P) | |
Same as CH E 422L. Additional work to be arranged. Prerequisites: CH E 307 and CH E 407L. Corequisite: CH E 412.
| CH E 424. Fundamentals of Petroleum Engineering | 3 cr. | |
Petroleum production, computations in multiphase flow in porous media and reservoir engineering design calculations. Prerequisites: CHEM 112 and consent of instructor. Same as CH E 524.
| CH E 425. Novel Commercial Separation Techniques | 3 cr. | |
Introduction to the design of commercially important novel separation techniques. Mathematical treatment of linear and nonlinear sorption theories, crystallization from solution and from the melt (freezing and zone melting), and membrane and electromembrane processes. Prerequisites: CH E 302, CH E 306, and CHEM 433. Same as CH E 525.
| CH E 426. Solids Processing and Particle Technology | 3 cr. | |
Characterization, behavior, production, separation, and modeling of particulate systems. Topics include: particle size distributions and their measurement, population balance models, fluidization, dust and mist collection, and flow sheet modeling of processes involving solids. Prerequisites: CH E 307 and consent of instructor. Same as CH E 526.
| CH E 430. Environmental Seminar II | 1 cr. | |
Advanced seminar on environmental subjects; technical as well as legal, risk analysis, public policy, etc.
| CH E 432. Chemical Engineering Applications to Environmental Clean-Up | 3 cr. | |
Solution of environmental problems, particularly those involving chemical separations and/or reaction. Application of chemical engineering principles. Flow and dispersion through porous media, water flow through particulate solids, chemistry of radioactive waste, in-situ site remediation, ex-situ site remediation, colloid and surface chemistry. Prerequisites: CH E 307 and CH E 441. Same as CH E 532.
| CH E 433. Air Pollution Modeling | 3 cr. | |
Introduction to air pollution modeling. Major features of the atmosphere. Fundamental flow and transport equations. Factors impacting air pollution. Conventional models used for regulatory compliance. Discussion of research problems. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Same as CH E 533.
| CH E 435. Industrial Waste Treatment and Environmentally Benign Manufacturing | 3 cr. | |
Control of gaseous, liquid, and solid wastes. Regulations and management procedures. Waste minimization and resource recovery. Separations and reaction engineering approaches to design of zero-discharge plants and environmentally benign chemical manufacturing. Design and selection of industrial waste treatment facilities. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Same as CH E 535.
| CH E 436. Environmental Process Design I (f) | 3 cr. (9P) | |
Environmental clean-up and/or waste treatment process design. Participation in team solution to the WERC environmental contest problem, or equivalent, according to rules of contest. Design, construction, and operating demonstration of a bench or pilot scale facility to clean up a specified environmental problem. Written and oral reports covering work required. Open to all science, engineering, and business majors. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credits. Same as CH E 536.
| CH E 437. Environmental Process Design II (s) | 3 cr. (9P) | |
Continuation of CH E 436. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credits. Same as CH E 537.
| CH E 438. Environmental, Occupational Safety and Health in Chemical Plants | 3 cr. | |
Plant, personnel, environmental, occupational safety and health concerns in the design and operation of processes. Includes concerns of regulations and public policy. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Same as CH E 538.
| CH E 441. Chemical Kinetics and Reactor Engineering (s) | 3 cr. | |
Analysis and interpretation of kinetic data and catalytic phenomena. Applied reaction kinetics; ideal reactor modeling; non-ideal flow models. Mass transfer accompanied by chemical reaction. Application of basic engineering principles to design, operation, and analysis of industrial reactors. Chemical engineering majors must earn C or better in this course. Prerequisite: CHEM 312. Corequisite: CH E 307. Same as CH E 541.
| CH E 443. Polymerization Kinetics and Reactor Design | 3 cr. | |
Overview of the polymer industry. Polymer science concepts and kinetic treatment of polycondensation, gelation, inhibition/retardation, copolymerization, radical, catalytic, cationic/anionic, suspension, emulsion and plasma polymerizations. Introduction to polymerization reaction engineering through mathematical treatment of polymer reactor design, stability, and control. Prerequisite: CH E 441. Same as CH E 543.
| CH E 451. Engineering Economy (f, s, su) | 3 cr. | |
Same as IE 451.
| CH E 452. Process Design, Analysis, and Simulation (f) | 4 cr. (3+3P) | |
Computer-aided design and analysis of unit operations equipment, chemical reactors and integrated chemical process plants. Steady-state flow sheet simulation of processes. Design for optimum operability, safety, reliability, and control. Chemical engineering majors must earn a C or better in this course. Prerequisites: CH E 441 and CH E 451.
| CH E 455. Plant Design (s) | 2 cr. (6P) | |
Topics in design and economics. Requires individual solution of the AICHE student contest problem, or equivalent, according to rules of contest. Written report covering work required. Prerequisites: CH E 452.
| CH E 455H. Plant Design | Honors (s) | 2 cr. (6P) | |
Same as CH E 455. Requires individual design project and special report. Additional work will be arranged. Prerequisites: CH E 452.
| CH E 461. Polymers, Composites and Their Mechanical Behavior | 3 cr. | |
Same as CHEM 461 and M E 461.
| CH E 462. Ceramic and Metallic Composites | 3 cr. | |
Mechanical and thermal properties of refractory materials, especially ceramics and metals. Composite applications of these materials. Prerequisite: CH E 361 or consent of instructor. Same as CH E 562.
| CH E 463. Corrosion Topics in Material Science | 3 cr. | |
For senior and graduate students in engineering: training to identify and analyze corrosive environments. Estimation of the rate of corrosive attack, cost-effective materials, and procedures to resolve the problem. Prerequisite: CH E 361 or consent of instructor.
| CH E 465. Process Technology of Solid-State Materials Devices | 3 cr. | |
Materials properties for semiconductors. Diffusion and forced diffusion processes. Fabrication of circuit elements on semiconductor substrates. Traditional semiconductor growth techniques. Prerequisite: CH E 361 or consent of instructor.
| CH E 475. Fundamental Biochemical Engineering (s) | 3 cr. | |
Fundamentals of biochemical engineering for production of primary and secondary metabolites such as food ingredients, enzymes, drugs, fine chemicals, and fuels. Prerequisite: CH E 441 or consent of instructor. Same as CH E 575.
| CH E 476. Biotechnology Processes | 3 cr. | |
Design and analysis of bioreactors, instrumentation and control, product recovery operations and bioprocess economics. Prerequisite: CH E 475 or consent of instructor. Same as CH E 576.
| CH E 478. Special Methods in Industrial Microbiology | 3 cr. | |
Selection and development of strains for industrial microbiological processes. Substrates for industrial fermentation, growth kinetics, fermenter systems, gas exchange and mixing, scale-up, product recovery, and unit operations. Prospects for future development. Prerequisite: CH E 475, or consent of instructor. Same as CH E 578.
| CH E 479. New Mexico Fermentation Industries | 3 cr. | |
Design and analysis of large-scale fermentation processes for production of wine, beer, and dairy products. Field trips and laboratory demonstrations. Prerequisite: CH E 475 or consent of instructor. Same as CH E 579.
| CH E 481. Food Engineering for Food Technologists | 3 cr. | |
Engineering concepts and unit operations applied to food processing. Systems of units utilized in engineering. Material and energy balances and principles of fluid flow, heat transfer and mass transfer in industrial food processes. Applications of distillation, extraction and leaching in the food industry. Restricted to nonchemical-engineering majors. Same as CH E 581.
| CH E 482. Food Process Engineering I | 3 cr. | |
Application of chemical engineering principles to the quantitative analysis of food processing systems. Physical, chemical, and engineering properties of foods and food systems. Refrigeration and freezing of foods. Dehydration of foods including air, drum, flash and freeze drying. Applications of filtration to food processing. Prerequisite: CH E 441 or consent of instructor. Same as CH E 582.
| CH E 483. Food Process Engineering II | 3 cr. | |
Continuation of CH E 482. Prerequisite: CH E 482. Same as CH E 583.
| CH E 490. Senior Seminar | 1 cr. | |
Orientation to professional practice. Oral presentations by invited speakers, faculty, and students. Prerequisite: senior standing. Restricted to majors.
| CH E 491. Special Topics | 1-4 cr. | |
Lecture and/or laboratory instruction on special topics in chemical engineering. Prerequisites: consent of instructor and department head. May be repeated to a maximum of 6 credits under different subtitles listed in the Schedule of Classes. Restricted to majors. Same as CH E 491H.
| CH E 491H. Special Topics | 1-4 cr. | |
Same as CH E 491. Requires additional special report.
| CH E 498. Undergraduate Research | 1-3 cr. (6-9P) | |
Provides an opportunity for undergraduate students to work in research or areas of special interest such as design problems and economic studies under the direction of a faculty member. Written report and oral presentation in CH E 490, Senior Seminar, covering work required. Prerequisite: consent of instructor and department head. Approval of written application. Maximum of 3 credits per semester. May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credits.
| CH E 498H. Undergraduate Research | Honors | 1-3 cr. (6-9P) | |
Same as CH E 498. Additional work to be arranged.