ChE 10
Introduction to Chemical Engineering
3 units (2-0-1)
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second term
A series of weekly seminars given by chemical engineering faculty or an outside speaker, on a topic of current research. Topics will be presented at an informal, introductory level. Graded pass/fail.
ChE 63 ab
Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics
9 units (3-0-6)
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second, third terms
A comprehensive treatment of classical thermodynamics with engineering and chemical applications and an introduction to statistical thermodynamics. First and second laws. Applications to closed and open systems. Equations of state. Thermochemical calculations. Properties of real fluids. Power generation and refrigeration cycles. Multicomponent systems, excess properties, fugacities, activity coefficients, and models of nonideal solutions. Chemical potential. Phase and chemical reaction equilibria. Introductory statistical thermodynamics.
Instructors:
Flagan, Wang
ChE 64
Principles of Chemical Engineering
9 units (3-0-6)
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first term
Prerequisites: ChE 63 ab.
Systems approach to conservation of mass and energy. Equilibrium staged separations.
Instructor:
Seinfeld
ChE 80
Undergraduate Research
Units by arrangement
Research in chemical engineering offered as an elective in any term other than in the senior year. Graded pass/fail.
ChE 90 ab
Senior Thesis
9 units (0-4-5)
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first, second, third terms
A research project carried out under the direction of a chemical engineering faculty member. A grade will not be assigned to ChE 90 prior to completion of the thesis, which normally takes two terms. A P grade will be given for the first term and then changed to the appropriate letter grade at the end of the course.
Ch/ChE 91
Scientific Writing
3 units (1-0-2)
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third term
Training in the writing of scientific research papers. Each student must complete a 3,000-word paper styled after an article in the Journal of the American Chemical Society on a subject of chemical or biochemical relevance. The manuscript may be based on a paper submitted by the student for a previous class or on a SURF report, but it must be the student's original writing and be within the intellectual scope of the chemistry and chem- ical engineering division. Each student will work individually with a faculty member under the supervision of the course instructor. Fulfills the Institute scientific writing requirement.
Instructor:
Weitekamp
ChE 101
Chemical Reaction Engineering
9 units (3-0-6)
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second term
Prerequisites: ChE 63 ab and ChE 64.
Elements of chemical kinetics and chemically reacting systems. Homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis. Chemical reactor analysis.
Instructor:
Arnold
ChE 103 abc
Transport Phenomena
9 units (3-0-6)
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first, second, third terms
Prerequisites: ACM 95/100 abc or concurrent registration.
A rigorous development of the basic differential equations of conservation of momentum, energy, and mass in fluid systems. Solution of problems involving fluid flow, heat transfer, and mass transfer.
Instructors:
Kornfield, Vicic
ChE 105
Dynamics and Control of Chemical Systems
9 units (3-0-6)
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third term
Prerequisites: ChE 101 or equivalent, ACM 95 abc or concurrent registration.
Analysis and design of dynamic chemical systems, spanning biomolecular networks to chemical processing. Topics include control strategies for regulating dynamic performance, formulation of mechanistic and empirical models, linear analysis of feedback systems, introduction to multivariate control.
Instructor:
Asthagiri
ChE 110 ab
Optimal Design of Chemical Systems
9 units (3-0-6)
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second, third terms
Prerequisites: ChE 63, ChE 101, ChE 103, or equivalents.
Introduction to process design; flow sheets for chemical processes; synthesis of multicomponent separation sequences and reaction paths; synthesis of heat exchange networks; optimization; process economics; simulation of chemical processes; design of a major process. Not offered 2007-08.
ChE 126 ab
Chemical Engineering Laboratory
9 units (1-6-2)
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first, second terms
Prerequisites: ChE 63, ChE 101, ChE 103, or equivalents.
Projects illustrative of problems in transport phenomena, unit operations, surface and gas-phase chemical reactions/kinetics, process monitoring and control, and reactor design are performed. Micro- reactor concepts and applications in gas conversion. Short-term, open-ended research projects emphasizing hands-on experience, oral presentations, and journal-style written reports of scientific results.
Instructors:
Vicic, Giapis
ChE 130
Biomolecular Engineering Laboratory
9 units (1-5-3)
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third term
Prerequisites: ChE 63 ab, ChE 101 (concurrently) or instructor's permission.
Design, construction, and characterization of engineered biological systems that will be implemented in bacteria, yeast, and cell-free systems. Research problems will fall into the general areas of biomolecular engineering and synthetic biology. Emphasis will be on projects that apply rational and evolutionary design strategies toward engineering biological systems that exhibit dynamic, logical, or programmed behaviors.
Instructors:
Smolke, Vicic
Ch/ChE 140 ab
Principles and Applications of Semiconductor Photoelectrochemistry
6 units (4-0-2)
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second, third terms
Prerequisites: APh/EE 9 or instructor's permission.
The properties and photoelectrochemistry of semiconductors and semiconductor/liquid junction solar cells will be discussed. Topics include optical and electronic properties of semiconductors; electronic properties of semiconductor junctions with metals, liquids, and other semiconductors, in the dark and under illumination, with emphasis on semiconductor/liquid junctions in aqueous and nonaqueous media. Problems currently facing semiconductor/liquid junctions and practical applications of these systems will be highlighted. The course will meet for four one-hour lectures per week and will be in a tutorial format with instruction predominantly from graduate students and postdoctoral fellows with expertise in the field. Given in alternate years; part b not offered 2007-08.
Instructor:
Lewis
Ch/ChE 147
Polymer Chemistry
9 units (3-0-6)
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second term
Prerequisites: Ch 41 abc.
An introduction to the chemistry of polymers, including synthetic methods, mechanisms and kinetics of macromolecule formation, and characterization techniques. Given in alternate years; offered 2007-08.
Instructor:
Grubbs
ChE/Ch 148
Polymer Physics
9 units (3-0-6)
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third term
Prerequisites: Ch/ChE 147 or instructor's permission.
An introduction to the physics that govern polymer structure and dynamics in liquid and solid states, and to the physical basis of characterization methods used in polymer science. The course emphasizes the scaling aspects of the various physical properties. Topics include conformation of a single polymer chain under different solvent conditions; dilute and semi-dilute solutions; thermodynamics of polymer blends and block copolymers; rubber elasticity; polymer gels; linear viscoelasticity of polymer solutions and melts; glass transition and crystallization. Given in alternate years; not offered 2007-08.
Instructor:
Wang
ChE 151 ab
Physical and Chemical Rate Processes
12 units (3-0-9)
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first, second terms
The foundations of heat, mass, and momentum transfer for single and multiphase fluids will be developed. Governing differential equations; laminar flow of incompressible fluids at low and high Reynolds numbers; forced and free convective heat and mass transfer, diffusion, and dispersion. Emphasis will be placed on physical understanding, scaling, and formulation and solution of boundary-value problems. Applied mathematical techniques will be developed and used throughout the course.
Instructor:
Brady
ChE 152
Heterogeneous Kinetics and Reaction Engineering
9 units (3-0-6)
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first term
Prerequisites: ChE 101 or equivalent.
Survey of heterogeneous reactions and reaction mechanisms on metal and oxide catalysts. Characterization of porous catalysts. Reaction, diffusion, and heat transfer in heterogeneous catalytic systems.
Instructor:
Davis
ChE/Ch 155
Chemistry of Catalysis
9 units (3-0-6)
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third term
Discussion of homogeneous and heterogeneous catalytic reactions, with emphasis on mechanistic principles and on the relationships between the two areas. Topics include homogeneous hydrogenation; catalysis by metals; homogeneous oxidation; catalysis by metal oxides; acid-base catalysis and zeolites. Not offered 2007-08.
ChE/ESE 158
Aerosol Physics and Chemistry
9 units (3-0-6)
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second term
Prerequisites: Open to graduate students and seniors with instructor's permission.
Fundamentals of aerosol physics and chemistry; aerodynamics and diffusion of aerosol particles; condensation and evaporation; thermodynamics of particulate systems; nucleation; coagulation; particle size distributions; optics of small particles.
Instructor:
Seinfeld
ChE/BE 163
Introduction to Biomolecular Engineering
9 units (3-0-6)
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third term
Prerequisites: Bi/Ch 110 or instructor's permission.
The course introduces rational design and evolutionary methods for engineering functional protein and nucleic acid systems. Rational design topics include molecular modeling, positive and negative design paradigms, simulation and optimization of equilibrium and kinetic properties, design of catalysts, sensors, motors and circuits. Evolutionary design topics include evolutionary mechanisms and tradeoffs, fitness landscapes, directed evolution of proteins, and metabolic pathways.
Instructors:
Arnold, Pierce
ChE/Ch 164
Introduction to Statistical Thermodynamics
9 units (3-0-6)
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second term
Prerequisites: Ch 21 abc or equivalent.
An introduction to the fundamentals and simple applications of statistical thermodynamics. Foundation of statistical mechanics; partition functions for various ensembles and their connection to thermodynamics; fluctuations; noninteracting quantum and classical gases; heat capacity of solids; adsorption; phase transitions and order parameters; linear response theory; structure of classical fluids; computer simulation methods.
Instructor:
Wang
ChE/Ch 165
Chemical Thermodynamics
9 units (3-0-6)
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first term
Prerequisites: ChE 63 ab or equivalent.
An advanced course emphasizing the conceptual structure of modern thermodynamics and its applications. Review of the laws of thermodynamics; thermodynamic potentials and Legendre transform; equilibrium and stability conditions; metastability and phase separation kinetics; thermodynamics of single-component fluid and binary mixtures; models for solutions; phase and chemical equilibria; surface and interface thermodynamics; electrolytes and polymeric liquids.
Instructor:
Smolke
ChE/BE 169
Biomolecular Cell Engineering
9 units (3-0-6)
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first term
Quantitative analysis of molecular mechanisms governing mammalian cell behavior. Topics include topology and dynamics of signaling and genetic regulatory networks, receptor-ligand trafficking, and biophysical models for cell adhesion and migration. Given in alternate years; offered 2007-08.
Instructor:
Asthagiri
ChE 174
Special Topics in Transport Phenomena
9 units (3-0-6)
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third term
Prerequisites: ACM 95/100, ChE 151 ab. May be repeated for credit.
Advanced problems in heat, mass, and momentum transfer. Introduction to mechanics of complex fluids; physicochemical hydrodynamics; microstructured fluids; colloidal dispersions; microfluidics; selected topics in hydrodynamic stability theory; transport phenomena in materials processing. Other topics may be discussed depending on class needs and interests. Not offered 2007-08.
ChE 189
Special Topics in Materials Processing
9 units (3-0-6)
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third term
Prerequisites: ChE 63, ChE 103, or equivalent.
Fundamental physics and chemistry of partially ionized, chemically reactive, low-pressure plasmas and their roles in electronic materials processing. Basic plasma equations and equilibrium. Plasma and sheath dynamics. Gas-surface interactions. Plasma diagnostics and monitoring. Plasma-assisted etching and deposition in integrated circuit fabrication. Given in alternate years; offered 2007-08.
Instructor:
Giapis
ChE 280
Chemical Engineering Research
Offered to Ph
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D
Main lines of research now in progress are covered in detail in section two.
Published Date:
July 28, 2022