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Department of Chemical Engineering
R. G. Anthony, A. J. Appleby, P. B. Balbuena, J. T. Baldwin, M. A. Bevan, D. B. Bukur, Z. Cheng, R. R.Davison, M. M. El-Halwagi*, P. T. Eubank, D. M. Ford, G. F. Froment, C. J.Glover, T. A. Good, J. Hahn, K. R. Hall (Head), J. C. Holste, M. T. Holtzapple, A. Jayaraman, Y. Kuo, M. S. Mannan, J. M. Seminario, E. M. Sevick-Muraca, D. F. Shantz, J. C. Slattery, V. M. Ugaz
* Graduate Advisor
The Department of Chemical Engineering offers three graduate degrees: Master of Science, Master of Engineering (non-research) and Doctor of Philosophy. Also, the department offers courses and faculty supervision for students pursuing the Doctor of Engineering degree. A special program leading to our regular graduate program is available for BS degree holders in science or other engineering disciplines.
The graduate program in chemical engineering includes education in research. Information about specific departmental requirements for course work and examinations is available upon request from the graduate advisor.
Some of the research areas available within the department include: advanced materials, applied fluid mechanics and transport phenomena, biochemical engineering, catalysis, environmental process engineering, kinetics and reaction engineering, microelectronics and plasma processing, membrane separations, natural gas conversion, polymers, process control, process safety and design, system identification, thermodynamics and molecular simulation. Modern equipment is available in numerous laboratories to perform research in these and other areas.
Additional details about the programs, faculty, facilities and financial assistance are available from the graduate advisor in the department and on the website at www-chen.tamu.edu.
(CHEN)
601. Chemical Engineering Laboratory Safety and Health. (1-0). Credit 1.
Control of hazards associated with chemical engineering research laboratories and the chemical process industry; causes and prevention of accidents, emergency procedures, safety codes, health effects of toxic substances and experimental design for safety. Prerequisite: Graduate classification.
604. Chemical Engineering Process Analysis I. (4-0). Credit 4.
Development and analysis of chemical process models that involve systems of algebraic equations, ordinary differential equations and partial differential equations. Prerequisite: MATH 308 or approval of instructor.
605. Chemical Engineering Process Analysis II. (3-0). Credit 3.
Formulation of mathematical models and solution of resulting mass and energy balance equations by modern computational techniques, applications to separation processes, chemical kinetics, reaction engineering, heat and mass transfer. Prerequisite: CHEN 320 or approval of instructor.
614. Advanced Transport Phenomena I. (4-0). Credit 4.
First part of a two-semester sequence covering advanced transport phenomena; emphasis is placed on momentum transfer or fluid mechanics applied to chemical engineering problems. Prerequisite: Approval of instructor.
615. Advanced Transport Phenomena II. (3-0). Credit 3.
Advanced energy and mass transfer in chemical engineering processes. Prerequisite: Approval of instructor.
623. Applications of Thermodynamics to Chemical Engineering. (4-0). Credit 4.
Application of thermodynamics to chemical engineering operations and processes. Prerequisite: CHEN 354 or approval of instructor.
624. Chemical Engineering Kinetics and Reactor Design. (4-0). Credit 4.
Rates and mechanisms of chemical reactions. Thermal and catalytic reactions both homogeneous and heterogeneous. Prerequisite: CHEN 464 or approval of instructor.
629. Transport Phenomena. (3-0). Credit 3.
Principles of transfer of momentum, energy and mass studied by application to advanced chemical engineering problems. Theoretical analogy of these three modes of transfer. Prerequisite: CHEN 424 or approval of instructor.
631. Process Dynamics I. (3-0). Credit 3.
Dynamics, simulation and control of linear models of fluid, thermal and mass transfer processes for chemical industries by means of transient and frequency response analysis and design methods. Prerequisite: CHEN 461 or approval of instructor.
633. Theory of Mixtures. (3-0). Credit 3.
Basic relations of statistical thermodynamics, intermolecular forces, liquid state, theory of mixtures, critical state, theory of conformal solutions, orientational effects, theorem of corresponding states and applications to distillation and extraction. Prerequisite: CHEN 623 or approval of instructor.
634. Multiphase Reactors. (3-0). Credit 3.
Laboratory reactors; mixing phenomena in multiphase reactors; tracer techniques in chemical reactor characterization; trickle bed reactors; two phase and three phase fluidized bed reactors; bubble columns; slurry reactors. Prerequisite: CHEN 624 or approval of instructor.
640. Rheology. (3-0). Credit 3.
Principles of stress, deformation and flow; vector and tensor equations of fluid mechanics. Behavior of Newtonian, non-Newtonian and viscoelastic fluids. Prerequisite: MATH 601 or approval of instructor.
641. Polymer Engineering. (3-0). Credit 3.
Principles and practice of polymer structure, synthesis, reaction mechanisms and kinetics; polymer characterization, chemical and physical properties degradation and recycling, melt and solid mechanical and rheological properties. Technology of production and processing operations. Prerequisite: Graduate classification.
643. Applied Statistical Mechanics of Fluids. (3-0). Credit 3.
Application of molecular theories and computer simulation techniques to describe the thermodynamics and transport properties of fluids and fluid mixtures. Prerequisite: CHEN 623 or approval of instructor.
651. Biochemical Engineering. (3-0). Credit 3.
Integration of principles of engineering, biochemistry and microbiology; application to the design, development and improvement of industrial processes that employ biological materials. Engineering discipline directed toward creative application of interdisciplinary information to the economic processing of biological and related materials. Prerequisite: Approval of instructor.
655. Process Safety Engineering. (3-0). Credit 3.
Applications of engineering principles to process hazards analysis including source and dispersion modeling, emergency relief systems, fire and explosion prevention and mitigation, hazard identification, risk assessment, process safety management, etc. Prerequisite: Approval of instructor. Cross-listed with SENG 655.
658. Fundamentals of Environmental Remediation Processes. (3-0). Credit 3.
Fundamental approach to various remediation technologies, topics in environmental thermodynamics and mass transfer, adsorption, desorption, ion exchange, air stripping, extraction, chemical oxidation, biodegration. Prerequisite: Graduate classification in engineering.
661. Optimization of Chemical Engineering Processes. (3-0). Credit 3.
Methods of optimization applied for the design and control of chemical engineering processes. Prerequisite: Approval of instructor.
675. Microelectronics Process Engineering. (3-0). Credit 3.
State-of-art process engineering principles on microelectronics, especially for the fabrication of very large scale integrated circuits (VLSICs); fundamental unit processes, such as thin film deposition, thermal growth, lithography, etching and doping, material structures and properties, and basic device operation principles. Prerequisites: CHEN 623 and 624 or approval of instructor.
681. Seminar. (1-0). Credit 1.
Graduate students will be required to attend discussions covering problems of current importance in chemical engineering research.
684. Professional Internship. Credit 1 to 4 each semester.
Engineering research or design experience in industrial setting away from Texas A&M campus; projects supervised jointly by faculty and industrial representative. Prerequisite: Graduate classification.
685. Directed Studies. Credit 1 to 12.
One or more of numerous problems in chemical engineering processes and operations. Prerequisite: Approval of department head.
689. Special Topics in... Credit 1 to 4.
Selected topics in particular areas of chemical engineering. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisites: Approval of department head and instructor.
691. Research. Credit 1 or more each semester.
Problems of unit operations and unit processes. For maximum credit, comprehensive thesis must be prepared of sufficiently high calibre to permit publication in scientific and technical journals. Prerequisite: Approval of department head.
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