Chemical Engineering

Courses

CHE 1102: Material Balances

Credits 3

Introduction to chemical engineering processes and modeling them with material balances.

Prerequisites

EGR 1200

Prerequisite Courses
Last Offered
Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022
Effective Term
202030

CHE 2101: Thermodynamics 1

Credits 3

Thermodynamics of single component systems: applications of first and second laws, steady-state energy balances, equations of state, thermodynamic properties of fluids, thermochemistry.

Prerequisites

CHE 1102

Prerequisite Courses
Last Offered
Fall 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
Effective Term
202120

CHE 2102: Thermodynamics 2

Credits 3

The fundamental property relation, thermodynamic properties of single and multiple pure phases, homogeneous multicomponent phases, ideal and non-ideal liquid solutions, phase equilibria, chemical reaction equilibria, problem solving techniques, applications.

Prerequisites

CHE 2101

Prerequisite Courses
Last Offered
Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022
Effective Term
202130

CHE 2201: Fluid Dynamics

Credits 3

Fluid statics, fluid properties, flow of incompressible fluids in conduits, friction factors, meters, pumps, external flow, drag, flow in packed and fluidized beds.

Prerequisites

CHE 1102 and MAT 2705 :Y

Prerequisite Courses
Last Offered
Fall 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
Effective Term
202120

CHE 2202: Heat Transfer

Credits 3

Principles of heat flow, mechanisms of conduction, convection and radiation, correlations for heat transfer coefficients, heat transfer equipment and process applications.

Prerequisites

CHE 2201 and CHE 2101

Prerequisite Courses
Last Offered
Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022
Effective Term
202130

CHE 2301: ChE Computational Methods

Credits 3

Introduction to the software and computational tools necessary for chemical engineers, including MathCAD, MatLAB, ASPEN, and others.

Prerequisites

CHE 1102

Prerequisite Courses
Last Offered
Fall 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
Effective Term
202120

CHE 2402: Technical Communications

Credits 3

Oral and written communication skills, reporting and analyzing results of experiments and/or literature investigations, graphical reporting.

Prerequisites

CHE 2301

Prerequisite Courses
Last Offered
Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022
Effective Term
202130

CHE 3201: Mass Transfer

Credits 3

Fundamentals of interphase mass transfer: mechanisms, driving force and resistance to transfer, design and analysis of continuous and staged contacting processes, gas absorption and stripping, binary distillation, liquid extraction.

Prerequisites

CHE 2202

Prerequisite Courses
Last Offered
Fall 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
Effective Term
202120

CHE 3202: Reactor Design

Credits 3

Principles and methods of chemical kinetics and reactor design. Introduction to heterogeneous systems. Stiochiometry and rate laws for simple and complex reactions, analysis of reaction rates, isothermal reactors, introduction to temperature effects.

Prerequisites

CHE 2202

Prerequisite Courses
Last Offered
Fall 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
Effective Term
202230

CHE 3301: ChE Applied Mathematics

Credits 3

Application of differential equations, linear algebra and conversation laws to model complex chemical processes (including non-steady state, and multi-dimentsional examples).

Prerequisites

CHE 3202

Prerequisite Courses
Last Offered
Spring 2025, Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021
Effective Term
202220

CHE 3401: Unit Operations Lab 1

Credits 3

Application of chemical engineering principles to laboratory and pilot scale equipment. Oral and written reporting of results.

Prerequisites

CHE 2402

Prerequisite Courses
Last Offered
Fall 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
Effective Term
202220

CHE 3402: Unit Operations Lab 2

Credits 3

Design and analysis of chemical engineering experiments using laboratory and pilot scale equipment. Oral and written reporting of results.

Prerequisites

CHE 3401

Prerequisite Courses
Last Offered
Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022
Effective Term
202230

CHE 4201: Process Design

Credits 3

Application of fundamental principles of chemical engineering to design of industrial chemical processes; use of process simulators (such as Aspentech ASPEN PLUS) for process design.

Prerequisites

CHE 3202 and CHE 3201

Prerequisite Courses
Last Offered
Fall 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
Effective Term
202320

CHE 4202: Process Controls

Credits 3

Introduction to process control concepts and applications, computer simulation of processes during transient change, real-time and LaPlace domain analysis of controlled systems.

Prerequisites

CHE 4201 :Y and CHE 3301 :Y

Prerequisite Courses
Last Offered
Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
Effective Term
202330

CHE 4831: Senior Project Studio I

Credits 3

Independent investigation of a chemical engineering problem, under supervision of a faculty advisor, or industry sponsor, including a written comprehensive report. (Nine hours per week of independent study).

Last Offered
Fall 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
Effective Term
202010

CHE 5001: Industrial Liq & Sld Waste

Credits 3

Industrial waste management: nature and sources of waste streams, principles underlying chemical and physical treatment methods, case studies of treatment technology.

Last Offered
Spring 2024, Spring 2022, Fall 2020, Spring 2019
Effective Term
199520

CHE 5002: Prin of Air Pol Control

Credits 3

Causes, effects and control of air pollution, emphasizing abatement technologies: classification and sources of airborne pollutants, particulate control devices, VOC abatement technologies, NOx and SOx abatement, and meteorological effects.

Last Offered
Fall 2024, Fall 2022, Spring 2021, Fall 2019
Effective Term
199520

CHE 5032: Equipment Design & Spec.

Credits 3

Equipment design and specification based on theoretical and practical knowledge of unit operations. Analysis and design of several types of process equipment. Mandatory tours of chemical process facilities will be scheduled on Friday afternoons based on student interest.

Prerequisites

CHE 3201 and CHE 3202

Prerequisite Courses
Last Offered
Spring 2023, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2015
Effective Term
202010

CHE 5062: Chemical Engineering Economics

Credits 3

Methods of economic evaluation & decision making, applied to engineering problems. Cost estimation & indexing, time value of money, depreciation, comparison of alternatives.

Last Offered
Summer 2020, Fall 2018, Fall 2016, Fall 2014
Effective Term
201020

CHE 5132: Transport Phenomena

Credits 3

Unified study of heat, mass and momentum transport: underlying physical laws, mathematical representation of transport laws, analogies between different transport modes, estimation of transport properties, applications.

Prerequisites

CHE 3201

Prerequisite Courses
Last Offered
Spring 2025, Spring 2023, Spring 2016, Spring 2014
Effective Term
202330

CHE 5133: Brewing Science & Tech

Credits 3

The science in the suds: the course covers the science of malt, hops, and fermentation, flavor chemistry, and the technology of brewing beer. This course requires an understanding of organic chemistry.

Prerequisites

CHM 2211

Prerequisite Courses
Last Offered
Fall 2025, Spring 2024, Fall 2022, Spring 2022
Effective Term
202020

CHE 5232: Industrial Catalytic Processes

Credits 3

Principles and methods of chemical kinetics and reactor design applied to heterogeneous reactive systems of industrial importance: catalysis and catalytic reactors, catalyst deactivation, diffusion effects, design of heterogeneous catalytic and non-catalytic chemical reactors.

Prerequisites

CHE 3202

Prerequisite Courses
Last Offered
Fall 2023, Fall 2021, Fall 2012, Spring 2011
Effective Term
201530

CHE 5332: Special Topics in CHE

Credits 3

Selected topics in chemical engineering: recent developments, new technology, applications of other disciplines to chemical engineering problems. RESTRICTION: Must have Chair's Permission.

Last Offered
Fall 2025, Summer 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024
Effective Term
201930

CHE 5530: Gene Therapy Methods &Research

Credits 3

Lectures on common cloning methods and DNA sequencing/ analysis techniques, along with labs that require students to design/construct a mammalian gene expression plasmid and evaluate it in animal cells.

Last Offered
Fall 2025, Fall 2023, Fall 2021, Fall 2019
Effective Term
202020

CHE 5532: Intro to Biotechnology

Credits 3

Production of commercially useful materials by living organisms, emphasizing emerging technology: biologically important compounds, their relationships to genetics and metabolic pathways, controlled growth of microbes, separation and purification of products.

Last Offered
Spring 2024, Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2019
Effective Term
199520

CHE 5533: Bioseparations

Credits 3

Factors underlying physical and chemical separations of natural (biological) products: centrifugation and filtration, cell Breakage, precipitation, extraction, adsorption, chromatography and crystallization; process-scale equipment and operations.

Last Offered
Spring 2025, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021
Effective Term
200410

CHE 5534: Biomaterials

Credits 3

Materials for use in medicine and in/on the body, material bulk and surface properties, biological responses to materials, applications, manufacturing processes, cost, sterilization, packaging and regulatory issues.

Last Offered
Fall 2024, Fall 2022, Fall 2020, Fall 2018
Effective Term
200920

CHE 5535: Bioengineering Lab Techniques

Credits 3

Fundamental concepts of current biotechnology techniques; demonstration and application of laboratory methods encountered in industry or academia, including genetic engineering, bacterial/mammalian cell culture, and protein expression, purification, and characterization.

Prerequisites
Last Offered
Spring 2024, Spring 2022, Spring 2020, Fall 2017
Effective Term
202430

CHE 5536: Biochemical Data Analysis

Credits 3

Analysis techniques applied to process biochemical data, including basic R programming, hypothesis testing, regression and ODE modeling, and multivariate statistical data analysis. Practical term projects to analyze literature data using learned techniques.

Last Offered
Fall 2025, Fall 2023
Effective Term
202310

CHE 5540: Cellular Engineering

Credits 3

An overview of genome editing, manipulation, and sequencing techniques. Various applications of genetic engineering in microbes, plants, animals, and humans are also discussed.

Last Offered
Spring 2025, Spring 2023
Effective Term
202310

CHE 5545: Tissue Engineering

Credits 3

This course introduces students to tissue engineering methods that apply physical, mechanical, and chemical manipulation of materials to direct cell and tissue function Students will learn about stem cells, material-cell interactions, and problem-solving in biomedical engineering to enhance human health.

CHE 5550: Synthetic Biology

Credits 3

Synthetic Biology is the generation of novel biological systems that serve a purpose in society. In this course, you will learn how to use iterative design-build-test-learn cycles to optimize biological systems in a project-focused format with lab and lecture meetings.

CHE 5632: Polymer Sci and Engr

Credits 3

Basic principles of polymer science: nature and structure of organic high-polymers, polymerization reactions, physical and chemical properties, mechanical testing, viscoelasticity, flow and processing applications.

Prerequisites

CHM 2211 :D-

Prerequisite Courses
Last Offered
Spring 2024, Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017
Effective Term
200020

CHE 5633: Nanomaterials & Surface Scienc

Credits 3

Factors underlying interfacial phenomena and nano-material formation; thermodynamics of surfaces; emulsification, foaming, detergency, nucleation, wetting adhesion, surface films; particle growth, micelles, self-assembled monolayers; unique nanoscale characterization and properties.

Prerequisites
Last Offered
Fall 2025, Fall 2023, Fall 2021, Fall 2017
Effective Term
200410

CHE 5634: Intro to Material Science

Credits 3

Comprehensive introduction to structure/property relationships of engineering materials; atomic & molecular structure of materials; means to control structure; mechanical behavior; electronic behavior; effects of treatment history on properties; effects of usage conditions on properties; material selection.

Last Offered
Spring 2025, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021
Effective Term
200820

CHE 5715: Alternative Energy

Credits 3

Technical, economic, and social evaluations of alternative and sustainable energy sources focusing on liquid fuels as well as other energy sources.

Last Offered
Fall 2024, Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020
Effective Term
201410

CHE 5720: Petroleum Engineering

Credits 3

Overview of the upstream petroleum industry, including technical aspects of finding, producing and refining petroleum products; issues related to fossil fuel usage; the role of petroleum-based fuels and related products as a key driver in world development.

Effective Term
202330

CHE 5725: Carbon Capture and Utilization

Credits 3

This course explores opportunities to reinvent the utility and petrochemical industries to address climate change and decarbonization by learning and applying a suite of new technologies and sustainable engineering practices at a at a scale that could be commercialized.

CHE 5730: Green Engineering

Credits 3

This course explores the application of green engineering principles to process and product design. Green engineering metrics will be a central focus, providing methods to quantify the sustainability and environmental impact of different chemical technologies, processes, and products.

CHE 6000: CBE Co-Op

Credits 6

CBE Co-Op is an optional technical elective to be completed with a company for 6 months during a student's final summer and fall semesters. The Co-Op must be chemical engineering-related and provide real world experiences. RESTRICTION: Must have chair's permission.

Prerequisites

CHE 3202

Prerequisite Courses
Last Offered
Fall 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023
Effective Term
202520