(2 credits) Participants will prepare themselves to take the role of educational leader by creating and delivering an opening day convocation to their staff.
(2 credits) Participants will journey to Boston to experience the atmosphere of the Founding Fathers and will generate their own educational philosophies and policy agendas.
(2 credits) Participants will examine the way their school communicates with the community and they will devise continued self development strategies for themselves.
(2 credits) Participants will demonstrate their transformation as leaders by presenting a final product that demonstrates their learning to an authentic audience at a conference that they will coordinate.
(1 credits) This course is required at the beginning of the Organizational Leadership Program where students will be oriented to the Masters of Education with a Specialization in Organizational Leadership. They will learn how the program is organized, meet their professors, and learn how to use the online learning system. They will also have the opportunity to get to know their fellow cohort members.
(1 credits) This course is required at the end of the Organizational Leadership Program where students will present their portfolios to an authentic audience of their superintendents, colleagues and peers at a conference they will organize in the Capstone Conference. Portfolios will contain evidence of their work in their schools and in community organizations.
(4 credits) Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing in chemical engineering or permission of instructor. Principles of chemical engineering thermodynamics applied to advanced problems, first and second law, property relations, equilibrium and stability, mixtures, phase and chemical equilibria, systems under stress, and surface phases. Offered every year.
(4 credits) Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing in chemical engineering or permission of instructor. Flow patterns in ideal and real reactors. Residence time distribution as a reactor design tool. Reactor design for multiple reactions, yield and selectivity concepts. Parametric sensitivity. Reactor dynamics and stability. Introduction to high-temperature non-catalytic reactions.
(4 credits) Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing in chemical engineering or permission of instructor. The fundamental theories governing momentum transport, energy, and mass transport are studied with an aim at investigating the analogies that exist among them.
(4 credits) Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing in chemical engineering or permission of instructor. Traditional and developmental advanced separation techniques. Multicomponent distillation, multicomponent absorption/stripping, membrane separations, adsorptive separations, and hybrid systems.
(4 credits) Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing in chemical or civil engineering, or permission of instructor. Basic principles determining the atomic and crystal structures of materials. Topics include instrumental and structural analysis techniques, evolution of microstructures (phases/phase diagrams), processing (diffusive, solidification, mechanical working) techniques and their influence on microstructures. Cross-listed with MME 510.
(3 credits) Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing in engineering or permission of instructor. An interdisciplinary course in agile manufacturing. Emphasis is placed on re-configurable self-directed work teams, flexible structures, adoption of advanced technology, and quality improvements.
(3 credits) Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing in chemical engineering or permission of instructor. The application of engineering principles to the analysis and control of air pollution includes techniques of air sampling and analysis, atmospheric chemistry and transport, air quality standards, and methods of air pollution abatement.
(3 credits) Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing in chemical engineering or biology, or permission of instructor. Introduction to the fundamental concepts in biochemical engineering. Topics include enzyme kinetics, immobilized enzymes, genetic engineering, cell growth kinetics, and batch and continuous reactor design.
(3 credits) Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing in chemical engineering or permission of instructor. Review of the basic principles of transport of momentum, heat, and mass with applied problems. Numerical methods for solving more complex problems of transport phenomena and kinetics.
(3 credits) Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing in chemical engineering or permission of instructor. An in-depth study of the chemical principles governing the adsorption of molecules onto the chemically active surfaces of catalysts and determining how this adsorptive interaction causes chemical reactions to be promoted. Emphasizes the study of catalysts in industrially significant reactions, such as in petroleum refining.
(3 credits) Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing in chemical engineering or permission of instructor. Isothermal and non-isothermal analysis of kinetic data for gas-solid catalytic and non-catalytic reacting systems. Design of packed bed, fluidized bed, and moving bed reactors.
(3 credits) Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing in chemical engineering or permission of instructor. Diffusion and mass transfer as applied to stagewise and continuous operations. Emphasis on multicomponent, non-isothermal, and unsteady-state operations. A considerable amount of time is devoted to computer programs.
(3 credits) Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing in Chemical Engineering or Permission of Instructor. Connection between mechanics and thermodynamics, statistical mechanics. Intermolecular forces. Basic principles, molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulation. Corresponding states and phase equilibrium from molecular simulation. Optional special topics. Examples of computer codes. Students who have passed CHE 478 may not register for CHE 578.
(3 credits) Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing in chemical engineering or permission of instructor. Use of fundamental principles in design and analysis of advanced materials processing, such as fabrication of semiconductor devices, optical materials fabricated by sol-gel processes, ceramic-metal composites, and control of morphology at submicron levels. Statistical treatment and analysis of experimental/plant data.
(3 credits) Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing in chemical engineering or permission of instructor. Develops a foundation in combustion phenomena, including transport and other mechanisms in homogeneous and heterogeneous combustion. Environmental implications of combustion. Elementary modeling and preliminary design calculations in industrial and modern applications of combustion, such as hazardous waste incineration, gas turbines, catalytic converters, and coal combustion systems. Regulatory concerns, stoichiometry, thermochemistry, incinerators, and air pollution control.
(3 credits) Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing in chemical engineering or permission of instructor. Rheological models for non-Newtonian fluids. Study of principles of equipment design.
(3 credits) Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing in chemical engineering or permission of instructor. Emphasis on polymer molecular structure and its relation to physical properties, such as molecular weight distributions, gel point, glass transition, heat capacity, and viscosity. Other topics include polymerization kinetics; condensation esterification; emulsion polymerization; and methods of analysis, such as X-ray diffraction, infrared spectroscopy, and other important basic engineering properties of polymers.
CHE 594 - Selected Topics in Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
(1-3 credits) Prerequisite(s): Admittance to Accelerated Program, or permission from the Program. Advanced selected topics in Chemical and Biomedical Engineering. Offered on sufficient demand. May be repeated for credit with change of topic. Cross-listed with BME 594.
(1-3 credits) Prerequisite(s): Admittance to Accelerated Program, or permission from the Program. Student will be involved in an engineering research or development project under the personal supervision of a faculty member. The specific responsibilities of the student will be arranged by mutual consent of the student, the student’s research advisor, and the department’s graduate advisor. May be repeated for credit.
(3 credits) Prerequisite(s): CHE 502 and CHE 506. Physical and chemical principles of adsorption, thermodynamics of adsorption, single and multicomponent equilibria, kinetics of adsorption, adsorption column dynamics, and a review of industrially important adsorption processes. An emphasis on zeolites and their applications.
(3 credits) Prerequisite(s): CHE 504 or equivalent. Advanced reaction engineering principles applied to the design and operation of multiphase reactors. Multiple reactions and heat effects in gas-solid, gas-liquid, and gas-solid-liquid reacting systems. Optimization of chemical reactors.
(3 credits) Prerequisite(s): CHE 504 or equivalent. Consideration of the fundamentals of homogeneous and heterogeneous reacting systems. Discussion of kinetic mechanisms, non-isothermal kinetics, enzyme kinetics, and solid phase reactions.
(3 credits) Prerequisite(s): CHE 506 or equivalent. Multicomponent diffusion considered in detail; experimental data interpreted by film and penetration theories; discussion of unsteady-state and unconventional diffusional processes such as thermal diffusion.
(3 credits) Prerequisite(s): CHE 506 or equivalent. Investigation of theory and methods of heat transfer of interest to chemical engineers. Topics include transient conduction, thermal boundary layer, forced convection, free convection, and radiative heat transfer.
(3 credits) Prerequisite(s): CHE 504, CHE 506, and CHE 582, or equivalents. Examination of systems that utilize combustion for generation of mechanical and thermal energy for specific applications. Representative systems, such as turbines and fluid bed units, are examined in detail.
(3 credits) Prerequisite(s): CHE 506 or equivalent. In-depth study of fundamentals of turbulent flow. Phenomenological theories of turbulence. Experimental methods of measuring turbulence. Recent topics of research interest in turbulence.
(3 credits) Prerequisite(s): CHE 506 or equivalent. Modern numerical procedures in approximation theory, matrix eigenvalues, initial and boundary value problems, and partial differential equations. Skill in selecting appropriate procedures for particular problems is developed. Required projects consist of programming solutions to engineering problems.
(3 credits) Prerequisite(s): CHE 616 or equivalent. An introduction to optimization theory and methods. Examination of the application to process design. Study of the formulation of the engineering optimization problem. A design optimization project is required.
(3 credits) Prerequisite(s): CHE 502 and CHE 504. In-depth study of solid catalysts and catalytic process analysis and design. Kinetics of elementary steps and overall reactions. Kinetics of two-step reactions on non-uniform surfaces. Structure-sensitive and structure-insensitive reactions. Parasitic phenomena.
(3 credits) Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing in chemical engineering or permission of instructor. Understanding the terms and concepts of biomechanical engineering as it relates to medical needs and patients, including topics in artificial joints, mechanics and modeling of soft tissue, properties of blood, cardiac valves, heart function and heart assist replacement, biomechanical issues in rehabilitation equipment and prosthetics, renal function, and oxygen transport. Cross-listed with BME 651.
(3 credits) Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing in chemical engineering or permission of instructor. Essential concepts and technologies in cellular and molecular biology, as relevant to the design, application, and evaluation of biological constructs in tissue engineering, with preliminary understanding of commercial applications. Cross-listed with BME 653.
(3 credits) Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing in chemical engineering or permission of instructor. An introduction to materials in medicine designed to develop an understanding of the terms and concepts that relate basic and applied biomaterials engineering research to medical devices. Cross-listed with BME 655.
(3 credits) Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing in engineering. Comprehensive overview of issues surrounding medical device design and regulation, including characteristics, function, in vitro testing, evaluation, and intellectual property. Cross-listed with BME 657.
(3 credits) Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing in engineering or permission of instructor. A practical approach to learning the process and principles for medical device design. Students will learn the basic concepts of designing medical devices and through a hands-on approach. Teams of students will work together on a design project including concepts such as needs identification, FDA regulation, record-keeping, reverse engineeing, human factors, prototyping, and validation. Cross-listed with BME 658.
(3 credits) Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing in chemical engineering or approval by instructors. Introduction to the principles of X-Rays, Ultrasound, Radio nuclide Imaging, and Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Description of data acquisition and image reconstruction techniques; Introduction to image processing techniques; Clinical applications and industrial procedures and regulations. Cross-listed with BME 659.
(3 credits) Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing in engineering or approval by instructor. Signals and biomedical signal processing; the Fourier transform; image filtering, enhancement, and restoration; edge detection and image segmentation; wavelet transform; clustering and classification; processing of biomedical signals; processing of biomedical images. Cross-listed with BME 670.
(3 credits) Prerequisite(s): CHE 658 Medical Device Design and graduate standing in engineering or consent of instructor. This is a two-semester course and students must take both courses in sequence to receive a grade. Students will work in teams over the two semesters to identify a medical device need, perform a market analysis, and develop a working prototype for the product.
(3 credits) Prerequisite(s): CHE 658 Medical Device Design and graduate standing in engineering or consent of instructor. This is a two-semester course and students must take both courses in sequence to receive a grade. Students will work in teams over the two semesters to identify a medical device need, perform a market analysis, and develop a working prototype for the product.
CHE 692 - Chemical and Biomedical Engineering Internship
(1 credits) Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing, completion of at least one full-time academic year in the Masters in Chemical Engineering/Doctor of Engineering Program, and permission of advisor. This course is intended to provide students with practical experience in chemical or biomedical engineering. Students will be required to submit periodic progress reports, in addition to submitting a Final Project Report at the end of the term. May be taken up to two times for credit. Graded on a pass/fail (S/U) basis. Cross-listed with BME 692.
CHE 694 - Selected Topics in Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
(1-4 credits) Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing in chemical engineering or permission of instructor. Advanced selected topics in chemical engineering. Offered on sufficient demand. May be repeated for credit with change of topic. Cross-listed with BME 694.
(1-4 credits) Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing in chemical engineering or permission of instructor. Analysis of a specific problem in an area of mutual interest to the student and instructor. A formal written report is required.
(1-12 credits) Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing in chemical engineering or permission of instructor. The Thesis/Dissertation proposal approval form must be on file in the College of Graduate Studies prior to enrollment. Research under the guidance of a faculty member, culminating in the writing of a thesis.
(3 credits) Prerequisite(s): CHE 502 and CHE 506. Physical and chemical principles of adsorption, thermodynamics of adsorption, single and multi-component equilibria, kinetics of adsorption, adsorption column dynamics, and a review of industrially important adsorption processes. An emphasis on zeolites and their applications.
(3 credits) Prerequisite(s): CHE 504 or equivalent. Advanced reaction engineering principles applied to the design and operation of multiphase reactors. Multiple reactions and heat effects in gas-solid, gas-liquid, and gas-solid-liquid reacting systems. Optimization of chemical reactors.
(3 credits) Prerequisite(s): CHE 504 or equivalent. Consideration of the fundamentals of homogeneous and heterogeneous reacting systems. Discussion of kinetic mechanisms, non-isothermal kinetics, enzyme kinetics, and solid phase reactions.
(3 credits) Prerequisite(s): CHE 506 or equivalent. Multi-component diffusion considered in detail; experimental data interpreted by film and penetration theories; discussion of unsteady-state and unconventional diffusion processes, such as thermal diffusion.
(3 credits) Prerequisite(s): CHE 506 or equivalent. Investigation of theory and methods of heat transfer of interest to chemical engineers. Topics include transient conduction, thermal boundary layer, forced convection, free convection, and radiation heat transfer.
(3 credits) Prerequisite(s): CHE 510 or equivalent. Gibbs phase rule binary diagrams and their correlation with Gibbs free energy; influence of pressure on binary diagrams. Ternary equilibrium diagrams for condensed systems. Methods of presentation of equilibrium diagrams of four and more components.
(3 credits) Prerequisite(s): CHE 504, CHE 506, and CHE 582, or equivalents. Examination of systems that utilize combustion for generation of mechanical and thermal energy for specific applications. Representative systems, such as turbines and fluid bed units, are examined in detail.
(3 credits) Prerequisite(s): CHE 506 or equivalent. In-depth study of fundamentals of turbulent flow. Phenomenological theories of turbulence. Experimental methods of measuring turbulence. Recent topics of research interest in turbulence.
(3 credits) Prerequisite(s): CHE 506 or equivalent. Modern numerical procedures in approximation theory, matrix eigenvalues, initial and boundary value problems, and partial differential equations. Skill in selecting appropriate procedures for particular problems is developed. Required projects consist of programming solutions to engineering problems.
(3 credits) Prerequisite(s): CHE 716 or equivalent. An introduction to optimization theory and methods. Examination of the application to process design. Study of the formulation of the engineering optimization problem. A design optimization project is required.
(3 credits) Prerequisite(s): CHE 502 and CHE 504. In-depth study of solid catalysts and catalytic process analysis and design. Kinetics of elementary steps and overall reactions. Kinetics of two-step reactions on non-uniform surfaces. Structure-sensitive and structure-insensitive reactions. Parasitic phenomena.
(3 credits) Understanding the terms and concepts of biomechanical engineering as they relate to medical needs and patients, including topics in artificial joints, mechanics and modeling of soft tissue, properties of blood, cardiac valves, heart function and heart assist replacement, biomechanical issues in rehabilitation equipment and prosthetics, renal function, and oxygen transport. Cross-listed with BME 751.
(3 credits) Prerequisite(s): Standing in Engineering Doctoral program. Essential concepts and technologies in cellular and molecular biology, as relevant to the design, application, and evaluation of biological constructs in tissue engineering with preliminary understanding of commercial applications. Cross-listed with BME 753.
(3 credits) Prerequisite(s): Standing in Engineering Doctoral program. An introduction to materials in medicine designed to develop an understanding of the terms and concepts that relate basic and applied biomaterials engineering research to medical devices. Cross-listed with BME 755.
(3 credits) Prerequisite(s): Standing in Engineering Doctoral program. Comprehensive overview of issues surrounding medical device design and regulation, including characteristics, functioning vitro testing, evaluation, and intellectual property. Fundamental properties of many of the materials that are used in medical devices. Cross-listed with BME 757.
(2 credits) Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing in Engineering or permission of instructor. The process and principles of medical device design, including concepts such as needs identification, FDA regulation, intellectual property, record-keeping, reverse engineering, human factors, prototyping, and validation. Cross-listed with BME 758.
(3 credits) Prerequisite(s): Standing in engineering doctoral program or permission of instructor. Ultrasound, Radio nuclide Imaging, and Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Description of data acquisition and image reconstruction techniques; Introduction to image processing techniques; Clinical applications and industrial procedures and regulations. Cross-listed with BME 759.
(3 credits) Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing in Engineering or permission of the instructor. Signals and biomedical signal processing; the Fourier transform; image filtering, enhancement, and restoration; edge detection and image segmentation; wavelet transform; clustering and classification; processing of biomedical signals; processing of biomedical images. Cross-listed with BME 770.
CHE 794 - Selected Topics in Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
(1-4 credits) Prerequisite(s): Standing in Engineering Doctoral program or permission of instructor. Advanced selected topics in chemical engineering. Offered on sufficient demand. Cross-listed with BME 794.
(1 credits) Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing in Engineering or permission of the instructor. A seminar series presenting current research in biomedical engineering. Topics may include kinesiology, tissue biomechanics, cardiovascular devices, tissue engineering, modeling metabolism, medical imaging, bioMEMS, biosensors, cellular therapy, neural control, advanced biomaterials, automated recording keeping, etc. Cross-listed with BME 850.
CHE 892 - Chemical and Biomedical Engineering Internship
(1 credits) Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing, completion of at least one full-time academic year in the Masters in Chemical Engineering/Doctor of Engineering Program, and permission of advisor. This course is intended to provide students with practical experience in chemical or biomedical engineering. Students will be required to submit periodic progress reports, in addition to submitting a Final Project Report at the end of the term. May be taken up to two times for credit. Graded on a pass/fail (S/U) basis. Cross-listed with BME 892.
(1-12 credits) Prerequisite(s): Standing in Engineering Doctoral program or permission of instructor. Analysis of a specific problem in an area of mutual interest to the student and instructor. A formal written report is required. Up to 10 credits may be used toward the dissertation credit requirement.
(1-12 credits) Prerequisite(s): Successful completion of candidacy examination. The dissertation proposal approval form must be on file in the College of Graduate Studies prior to enrollment. Research under the guidance of a faculty member, culminating in the writing of a dissertation.
(2 credits) Prerequisite(s): CHM 332 or equivalent. Use of the chemical literature, automated chemical filing systems, and computerized library searches.
(3 credits) Prerequisite(s): CHM 332, Organic Chemistry II. Chemistry of carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, nucleic acids, vitamins and hormones, with major emphasis on biochemical processes in human cells and organs, enzyme kinetics.
(3 credits) Prerequisite(s): CHM 502, Biochemistry I. Metabolism of carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, nucleic acids, vitamins and hormones, with major emphasis on metabolism within human cells.
(3 credits) Prerequisite(s): CHM 331 or equivalent. Chemical aspects of environmental problems: energy, air, and water pollution; solid waste; toxic substances; and related topics.
(3 credits) Prerequisite(s): One year of natural sciences or permission of instructor. Various topics on the impact of environmental pollutants on humans.
CHM 510 - Electronics for Chemical Instrumentation
(4 credits) Introductory modular approach to analog and digital electronics, processing of signals, display of results, and control of experimental parameters.
(3 credits) Prerequisite(s): CHM 311 or equivalent; Co-requisite: CHM 516. Advanced theory and techniques of modern instrumental analysis with emphasis on optical spectroscopies, potentiometry, amperometry, and coulometry.
(3 credits) Prerequisite(s): CHM 411 or CHM 511. A general overview of the prevalent chemical principles, methods, and instrumentation involved in the analysis of physical evidence.
(4 credits) Prerequisite(s): CHM 322 or equivalent. Fundamentals of statistical mechanics and distribution laws; development and application of partition functions to the evaluation of thermodynamics properties of chemical substances.
(4 credits) Prerequisite(s): CHM 322 or equivalent. Principles of rate processes considered and applied to chemical kinetics; investigation of unimolecular and bimolecular reactions and effects of isotopic substitution.