Course Number: 5301
Credit Hours: 3
Title: Special Topics

Course Description:
An investigation into specialized study in advanced areas of engineering under guidance of a faculty member. This course may be repeated for credit when topics of investigation differ.

Course Number: 5302
Credit Hours: 3
Title: Transport Phenomena

Course Description:
Analysis of transport with respect to fluid dynamics, heat arid mass transfer. Derivation of Navier-Stokes equation and its application to flow phenomena. Boundary layer flows, molecular interpretation of viscosity, and interfacial tension and its relation to slip/non-slip condition. Interdependence of fluid flow, heat transfer, and mass transfer. Tensor and vector notation will be presented and employed.

Course Number: 5352
Credit Hours: 3
Title: Advanced Process Control

Course Description:
Modem control theory concerning state-space formulation, multivariable control, optimal control, and discrete control for Jumped/distributed parameter systems is addressed. Applications of control theory and the implementation of control strategies for the chemical processing industries are demonstrated

Course Number: 5357
Credit Hours: 3
Title: Process Simulation

Course Description:
Steady state chemical and refining processes simulation using state-of-the-art computer software.

Course Number: 5358
Credit Hours: 3
Title: Advanced Process Simulation

Course Description:
In depth coverage of chemical and refining processes using state-of-the-art steady-state computer simulation software. Advanced topics and fundamentals are emphasized.

Course Number: 5371
Credit Hours: 3
Title: Materials Science and Engineering

Course Description:
Materials preparation processes and applications in various chemical engineering processes, such as fuel cells, energy storage, corrosion protection, and oxygen membrane separation will be discussed in the class. Students will learn both theory and application of modern analytical method for material characterization.

Course Number: 5372
Credit Hours: 3
Title: Chemical Process Safety

Course Description:
This course aims to provide the undergraduate and graduate students with the knowledge, ability and skill of chemical process safety including the engineering principles, safety management concepts, leading and lagging metrics for process safety, techniques for process hazard analysis, risk assessment and accident investigation.

Course Number: 5373
Credit Hours: 3
Title: Numerical Methods for Engineers

Course Description:
This course will teach graduate students to develop and implement numerically stable and accurate algorithms for all the advanced tasks of computational chemical engineering.

Course Number: 5374
Credit Hours: 3
Title: Bio-Process Engineering

Course Description:
This course provides students with basic concepts and prepares them to meet the challenges of the new and emerging biotechnology industry. this course aims to provide the graduate students with the knowledge and skills of basic biological systems.

Course Number: 5375
Credit Hours: 3
Title: Plant Safety and Security

Course Description:
This course aims to provide the undergraduate and graduate students with the knowledge, ability and skill of plant safety and security including OSHA Process Safety Management (PSM), EPA Risk Management Program (RMP), DHS Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS), DOT Chemical Transportation Safety and Security, Plant Operation and work Permit System.

Course Number: 5378
Credit Hours: 3
Title: Data Analysis for Chem Egr

Course Description:
This course will provide a variety of methods to help chemical engineers analyze data sets, uncover important information and make good decisions.

Course Number: 5379
Credit Hours: 3
Title: Applied Bioprocess and Fermentation Engineering

Course Description:
This course applies fluid flow, heat transfer, mass transfer, chemical kinetics and conservation of mass and energy to bioprocess unit operations applicable to the fields of food, pharmaceutical and brewery engineering. The course also introduces bioprocess design and simulation software to simulate bioprocesses and fermentation operations.

Course Number: 5389
Credit Hours: 3
Title: Applied Bioprocess and Fermentation Laboratory

Course Description:
This course applies fundaments of Engineering (mass transfer, heat transfer, fluid mechanics, mass & energy balances), chemistry and analytical to design and analyze the treatment and conversion of raw materials to final process streams. Operations from the brewing industry will be used to demonstrate these phenomena. The lab is a hands-on exercises in the safety, operation and maintenance of process equipment; cell culture maintenance; and analysis of product using techniques from analytical chemistry.

Course Number: 5390
Credit Hours: 3
Title: Thesis

Course Description:
Prerequisite: Approval of graduate advisor. Must complete both for required 6 credits. Offered: Fall, Spring

Course Number: 5391
Credit Hours: 3
Title: Thesis

Course Description:
Prerequisite: Approval of graduate advisor. Must complete both for required 6 credits. Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer

Course Number: 5392
Credit Hours: 3
Title: Intermolecular Forces w/Appl

Course Description:
An introduction to the various intermolecular and inter-particle interactions in solutions and in colloidal systems: van der Waals, electrostatic, hydrophobic. Polymers in solutions, surfactants in solutions, colloidal systems in electrolyte environment, with surfactants and with polymers. Surfaces and interfaces: surface energy, surface tension, wetting, biological surfaces and cell membranes, and how polymers interact with cell membrane.

Course Number: 5394
Credit Hours: 3
Title: Wetting Phenomena & Transport

Course Description:
Young-Dupre approach to wetting and the relation between Marangoni Effect and the spreading coefficient. Covers the concept of complete wetting, partial wetting, and non-wetting systems. Follows some experimental methods related to wetting.

Course Number: 6110
Credit Hours: 1
Title: Professional Seminar

Course Description:
Advanced topics suitable for research along with research procedures will be discussed. Field study organization and content together with doctoral research problems and progress will be represented. Topics will vary each semester and course may be repeated for credit. Registration and completion for three semesters is required of all doctoral candidates.

Course Number: 6301
Credit Hours: 3
Title: Special Topics

Course Description:
An investigation into specialized study in advanced areas of engineering under guidance of a faculty member. This course may be repeated for credit when topics of investigation differ.

Course Number: 6302
Credit Hours: 3
Title: Transport Phenomena

Course Description:
Analysis of transport with respect to fluid dynamics, heat and mass transfer. Derivation of Navier-Stokes Equation and its application to flow phenomena. Boundary layer flows, molecular interpretation of viscosity, and interfacial tension and its relation to slip/non-slip condition. Interdependence of fluid flow, heat transfer, and mass transfer. Tensor and vector notation will be presented and employed.

Course Number: 6343
Credit Hours: 3
Title: Kinetics and Reactor Design

Course Description:
Emphasis is placed on complex reactor design, Attention is devoted to chemical kinetics and catalysis as well as to the engineering aspects of both homogeneous and heterogeneous reactors. Mixing problems in terms of residence, time distribution. The importance of temperature effects is stressed.

Course Number: 6345
Credit Hours: 3
Title: Fundamentals of Sustainability

Course Description:
This course examines the scientific basis and technology details of sustainability, defined as minimization of the effect of entropy on society. Emphasizes the interface among engineering, environment, and economics. Incorporates the ideas of sustainability into chemical engineering fields such as process and product design, manufacturing, and value chain management for the purpose of minimizing both resource utilization and adverse environmental impact.

Course Number: 6347
Credit Hours: 3
Title: Advanced Thermodynamics

Course Description:
Derivation of thermodynamic laws and application to physical chemical phenomena. Development of ideal and non-ideal gas, liquid, and solid solution behaviors for physical and chemical equilibria. Course credit in chemistry is optional.

Course Number: 6348
Credit Hours: 3
Title: Adv Chem Engineering Math

Course Description:
The course covers the fundamentals and numerical techniques for Linear Systems of Equations, Nonlinear Systems of Equations, Numerical ifferentiation/Integration, Regression Analysis, Systems of Ordinary Differential Equations, and Partial Differential Equations, for modeling and analysis of chemical engineering systems.

Course Number: 6349
Credit Hours: 3
Title: Advanced Air Pollution Control

Course Description:
Air pollution fundamentals and design principles; absoprtion, incineration, atmospheric dispersion modeling and particulate matter (PM)/volatile organic compounds (VOC's) sulfur dioxide (SO2)/nitrogen oxides (NOx)/odor/carbon dioxide emissions control.

Course Number: 6352
Credit Hours: 3
Title: Advanced Process Control

Course Description:
Learn the fundamentals in advanced PID control and be able to perform dynamic model fitting, advanced PID controller configuration/tuning with Control Station software. Learn to install a multi-loop, constraint controller to control a process and learn the fundamentals of dynamic modeling, constraint optimization, and multivariable control. Specifically, be able to apply the concepts of Linear Algebra, Regression Analysis, and Linear Programming through Dynamic Matrix Control workshop exercises (Fractionator, LP-Cost, Dynamic Tuning).

Course Number: 6357
Credit Hours: 3
Title: Process Simulation

Course Description:
The successful student will be able to perform complete and accurate simulations of flow sheets ranging from single units to entire plants by means of the techniques covered in this class.

Course Number: 6358
Credit Hours: 3
Title: Advanced Process Simulation

Course Description:
Learn the use of computer software for full-scale plant process simulation. Learn the fundamentals (Thermodynamics, Convergence, Optimization, Dynamics).

Course Number: 6361
Credit Hours: 3
Title: Process Optimization

Course Description:
Linear and non-linear optimization. Introduction to optimization technique and concepts.

Course Number: 6368
Credit Hours: 3
Title: Art Neural Networks/FZ Logic

Course Description:
Study of various Artificial Neural Network architectures for real-world applications. Massive parallel computation, fault tolerance and adaptation characteristics. Emphasis on computer simulation of ANN-architectures and their applications.

Course Number: 6371
Credit Hours: 3
Title: Materials Science and Engineering

Course Description:
Materials preparation processes and applications in various chemical engineering processes, such as fuel cells, energy storage, corrosion protection and oxygen membrane separation will be discussed in this class. Students will learn both theory and application of modern analytical method for material characterization.

Course Number: 6372
Credit Hours: 3
Title: Chemical Process Safety

Course Description:
This course aims to provide doctoral students with the knowledge, ability and skill of chemical process safety including the engineering principles, safety management concepts, leading and lagging metrics for process safety, techniques for process hazard analysis, risk assessment, and accident investigation.

Course Number: 6373
Credit Hours: 3
Title: Numerical Methods for Engineers

Course Description:
This course will teach doctoral students to develop and implement numerically stable and accurate algorithms for all of the advanced tasks of computational chemical engineering.

Course Number: 6374
Credit Hours: 3
Title: Bio-Process Engineering

Course Description:
This course provides students with basic concepts and prepares them to meet the challenges of the new and emerging biotechnology industry. This course aims to provide doctoral students with the knowledge and skills of basic biological systems.

Course Number: 6375
Credit Hours: 3
Title: Plant Safety and Security

Course Description:
This course aims to provide doctoral students with the knowledge, ability and skill of plant safety and security - including the programs of OSHA, PSM, EPA RMP, DHS CFAT and DOT CTSS. Doctoral students are required to conduct advanced research and study on plant safety and security/abnormality management on national and global challenges for the chemical industry.

Course Number: 6378
Credit Hours: 3
Title: Data Analysis for Engineering

Course Description:
This course will provide a variety of methods to help chemical engineers analyze data sets, uncover important information and make good decisions. Doctoral students are required to apply the techniques of data analysis to conduct advanced research and study on national and global challenges for the chemical industry.

Course Number: 6380
Credit Hours: 3
Title: Research

Course Description:
A Ph.D. student must enroll in at least 12 hours of research courses (CHEN 6680) for conducting research project prior to admission to candidacy.

Course Number: 6390
Credit Hours: 3
Title: Dissertation

Course Description:
A continuous enrollment for at least six dissertation credit hours each semester upon advancement to candidacy; direct supervised research. Graded on a credit (CR) or no-credit (F) basis. Award of credit for the final dissertation course is contingent upon successful defense of the dissertation. Minimum of 18 credit hours is required.

Course Number: 6391
Credit Hours: 3
Title: Dissertation II

Course Description:
Continuous enrollment for at least six dissertation credit hours each semester upon advancement to candidacy; direct supervised research. Graded on a credit (CR) or no-credit (F) basis. Award of credit for the final dissertation course is contingent upon successful defense of the dissertation. Minimum of 18 credit hours is required.

Course Number: 6680
Credit Hours: 6
Title: Research

Course Description:
A Ph.D. student must enroll in at least 12 hours of research courses (CHEN 6380) for conducting research project prior to admission to candidacy.

Course Number: 6690
Credit Hours: 6
Title: Ph. D. Dissertation

Course Description:
A continuous enrollment for at least six dissertation credit hours each semester upon advancement to candidacy; direct supervised research. Graded on a credit (CR) or no-credit (F) basis. Award of credit for the final dissertation course is contingent upon successful defense of the dissertation. Minimum of 18 credit hours is required.

Course Number: 6691
Credit Hours: 6
Title: Ph. D. Dissertation

Course Description:
Continuous enrollment for at least six dissertation credit hours each semester upon advancement to candidacy; direct supervised research. Graded on a credit (CR) or no-credit (F) basis. Award of credit for the final dissertation course is contingent upon successful defense of the dissertation. Minimum of 18 credit hours is required.