CHEME 201 Chemical Engineering: Classroom to Careers (2)
Explores chemical engineering curricula, current problems relevant to chemical engineers, and chemical engineering careers. Students experience hands-on examples of chemical engineering fundamentals and applications via laboratory demonstrations and tours. Includes department alumni panels, and opportunity to meet with department alumni. Students also identify career directions of interest and participate in job and career preparation activities. Credit/no-credit only.
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CHEM E 301 Leadership Seminar (1)
Forum for industrial, academic, and government leaders to share their experiences and insights with students. Includes topics related to leadership in the chemical engineering profession including career planning, management skills, interpersonal skills, effective planning, entrepreneurship, ethics, and strategic decisions. Credit/no-credit only. Offered: A.
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CHEM E 309 Creativity and Innovation (2) A&H
Understanding creativity and creative thinking; its challenges and dynamics through knowledge, judgment, planning, and observation. Techniques of creative thinking. Design and development of creative games. Computer-aided creative thinking. Creation, protection, and exploitation of a useful idea, including bargaining and negotiations. Offered: jointly with BSE 309.
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CHEM E 325 Energy and Entropy (4)
Introduction to the basic principles of thermodynamics from both microscopic and macroscopic points of view. Emphasis on equilibrium phenomena, and the trade-off of energy and disorder in determining structure and properties. Applications of thermodynamics in process design and analysis. Prerequisite: CHEM E 310. Offered: A.
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CHEM E 375 Chemical Engineering Computer Skills (3)
Introduces common software packages in chemical engineering. Covers essential computer skills for chemical engineers, scientific programming for solving math problems requiring computer solutions, and introduction to chemical process simulators. Offered: Sp.
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CHEM E 445 Fuel Cell Engineering (3)
Introduction to electrochemical fuel cells for use in transportation and stationary power applications. Topics covered include types of fuel cells, single cell operation, stack engineering, overall system design, and safety, with emphasis on proton exchange membrane and solid oxide fuel cells. Prerequisite: CHEM E 330.
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CHEM E 455 Surface and Colloid Science Laboratory (3)
Laboratory techniques, equipment, and underlying fundamentals in surface and colloid science. Experiments in the measurement of surface tension, adsorption, wetting and spreading, colloid properties, emulsion preparation and stability, electrophoresis, and interfacial hydrodynamics. Offered: ASp.
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CHEM E 460 Polymer chemistry Laboratory (3)
Laboratory techniques, equipment, and underlying fundamentals in polymer chemistry, synthesis, and design. Quantitative understanding of polymerization reaction engineering will be developed through careful examination of kinetics and structure-property relationships. Selection of laboratory polymerization and characterization techniques, as well as recent innovations in polymer research, will be highlighted. Prerequisite: CHEM 238. Offered: Sp.
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CHEM E 461 Electrochemical Engineering (3)
Explores role of thermodynamics, charge transfer kinetics, and mass transfer on behavior of electrochemical systems. Includes cell thermodynamics, faradaic and non-faradaic rate processes, ionic transport, nucleation and growth theories. Applications to chemical sensors, batteries, corrosion, thin film deposition. In-class demonstrations to illustrate concepts.
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CHEM E 481 Process Optimization (3)
Concepts and techniques of optimizing chemical engineering processes and systems, including classical and direct methods of search, linear and nonlinear programming, dynamic programming, statistical experimental design, and evolutionary operation. Offered: A.
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CHEM E 482 Advanced Topics in Process Control (3)
Current topics in process control design and analysis. Possible topics include robustness analysis and design, time delay compensation, modern frequency response techniques, discrete control, adaptive control, model-based control, and nonlinear control. Prerequisite: CHEM E 480.
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CHEM E 484 Electronic and Optoelectronic Polymers (3)
Covers the chemistry, physics, materials science, and engineering applications of semiconducting and metallic conjugated polymers. Examines the structural origins of the diverse electronic and optoelectronic properties of conjugated polymers. Exemplifies applications by light-emitting diodes, lasers, solar cells, thin film transistors, electrochromic devices, biosensors, and batteries. Prerequisite: either CHEM 237, CHEM 455, CHEM E 340, or MSE 310. Offered: A.
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CHEM E 486 Process Design II (5)
Comprehensive design of a specific process or product, including economic feasibility studies, utilization of market survey and plant location studies, process equipment design and optimization, and overall plant integration and layout. Prerequisite: CHEM E 485. Offered: Sp.
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CHEM E 490 Engineering Materials for Biomedical Applications (3)
Combined application of principles of physical chemistry and biochemistry, materials engineering, to biomedical problems and products. Applications include implants and medical devices, drug delivery systems, cell culture processes, diagnostics, and bioseparations. Offered: jointly with BIOEN 490; A.
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CHEM E 491 Controlled-Release Systems (3)
Mechanisms for controlled release of active agents and the development of useful drug delivery systems for this purpose. Release mechanisms considered include diffusive, convective, and erosive driving forces. Delivery routes include topical, oral, and in vivo. Some special case studies covered in detail. Offered: jointly with BIOEN 491; W.
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CHEM E 493 Advanced Surface Analysis (3)
Covers the latest advanced in surface analysis instrumentation and methodology, including advanced methods of biorecognition AFM, surface Plasmon resonance, x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, sum frequency generation spectroscopy, time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry, and multivariate analysis. Prerequisite: either CHEM E 458 or BIOEN 492. Offered: jointly with BIOEN 493; W.
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CHEM E 497 Special Projects in Chemical Engineering Design ([1-6]-, max. 12)
Chemical engineering design instruction and experience in special projects, such as industrially motivated, timely, or interdisciplinary projects. Project subject and content varies. Majors only. Prerequisite: CHEM E 340.
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CHEM E 510 Mathematical Foundations of Systems Theory (4)
Mathematical foundations for system theory presented from an engineering viewpoint. Includes set theory; functions, inverse functions; metric spaces; finite dimensional linear spaces; linear operators on finite dimensional spaces; projections on Hilbert spaces. Applications to engineering systems stressed. Offered: jointly with A A 510/E E 510/M E 510.
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CHEM E 514 Advanced Chemical Engineering Laboratory (3)
Instrumentation and laboratory techniques for chemical, biological, clean energy, and nano technologies. Experiments include surface modification, this film formation, nanoparticle synthesis, micro/nanoscale fabrication, protein adsorption, microorganism identification, and photovoltaic device fabrication/evaluation using advanced instrumentation. Offered: W.
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CHEM E 515 Experimental Methods in Chemical Engineering Research (3)
Lecture and laboratory studies in current research methods of chemical engineering. Includes surface science, biochemical engineering, collodial chemistry, light scattering, and nanoscience techniques. Offered: A.
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CHEM E 535 Nanomaterials Chemistry and Engineering (3)
Rigorous overview of fundamental chemical and physical concepts important to nanomaterials science and engineering. Focus on luminescent, plasmonic, magnetic nanomaterials. Students will learn basic concepts prevalent in the nanomaterials literature, and develop rigorous mathematical understanding of fundamental principles that govern many of the advanced materials that are currently under development in the field. Prerequisite: CHEM 455; MATH 207; and CHEM E 326; recommended: classical physics, quantum mechanics, thermodynamics, and ordinary and partial differential equations Offered: jointly with CHEM 587; Sp.
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CHEM E 540 Energy Materials, Devices, and Systems (3)
Provides project based training for synthesis & characterization of new energy materials, for generation and storage, and the integration of renewables into energy systems using instruments at the Clean Energy Research Training Testbed. Topics include nanoparticle synthesis, solar cells, impedance analysis, characterization with solar simulator, coin cell battery assembly & testing, photochemistry, semiconductor w/ 2D materials, grid simulation Offered: jointly with CHEM 566/MSE 566; A.
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