Courses

601 Chemical Engineering Laboratory Safety and Health. (1-0). Credit 1.
Control of hazards associated with chemical engineering research laboratories and chemical process industry; causes and prevention of accidents, emergency procedures, safety codes, health effects of toxic substances, and experimental design for safety. Prerequisites: graduate classification.
604 Chemical Engineering Process Analysis I. (3-0). Credit 3.
Development and analysis of chemical process models that involve systems of algebraic equations, ordinary differential equations and partial differential equations. Prerequisites: MATH 308 or approval of instructor. Fall Only.
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 Prerequisites: CHEN 320 or approval of instructor. Spring Only.
614 Advanced Transport Phenomena I. (3-0). Credit 3.
First part of a two-semester sequence covering advanced transport phenomena; emphasis is placed on momentum and transfer or fluid mechanics applied to chemical engineering problems. Prerequisites: Approval of instructor.
615 Advanced Transport Phenomena II. (3-0). Credit 3.
Advanced energy and mass transfer in chemical engineering processes. Prerequisites: Approval of instructor.
623 Applications of Thermodynamics to Chemical Engineering. (3-0). Credit 3.
Application of thermodynamics to chemical engineering operations and processes. Prerequisites: CHEN 354 or approval of instructor.
624 Chemical Engineering Kinetics I. (3-0). Credit 3.
Rates and mechanisms of chemical reactions. Thermal and catalytic reactions both homogeneous and heterogeneous. Prerequisites: 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. Prerequisites: CHEN 424 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 analyses and design methods. Prerequisites: 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. Prerequisites: CHEN 623 or CHEM 611 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. Prerequisites: CHEN 624 or approval of instructor.
640 Rheology. (3-0). Credit 3.
Principles of stress, deformation and flow; vector and transfer equations of fluid mechanics. Behavior of Newtonian, non-Newtonian and viscoelastic fluids. Prerequisites: MATH 601 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. Prerequisites: 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 nad fluid mixtures. Prerequisites: CHEN 623 or approval of instructor.
644 Colloidal Materials and Interfacial Phenomena. (3-0). Credit 3.
Overview of materials and systems dominated by interfacial phenomena, including colloidal suspensions, surfactant systems, spread monolayers; detailed study of the chemistry, thermodynamics, and transport phenomena of interfacial systems, including contact angles and wetting, surface pressure, and absorption. Prerequisites: 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. Prerequisites: Approval of instructor. Cross-listed with AGEN 651.
652 Biochemical Processing Technology. (3-0). Credit 3.
Introduction for engineers to biochemistry, microbiology and genetic engineering; important processes in biotechnology such as enzymes, food, pharmaceuticals, waste treatment, fuels and chemicals, agricultural products and biotransformations. Prerequisites: AGEN 651 or CHEN 651 or approval of instructor. Cross-listed with AGEN 652.
653 Bioreactor Design. (3-0). Credit 3.
Kinetics of enzyme reactions and cell growth applied to bioreactor design; media formulation, cell culture conditions, oxygen transfer, and sterilization. Prerequisites: CHEN 651 or AGEN 651 or approval of instructor. Cross-listed with AGEN 654
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. Prerequisites: Approval of instructor. Cross-listed with SENG 655.
657 Environment Risk Analysis. (3-0). Credit 3.
Treatment of major environmental risks and concerns with managers and engineers of the chemical  industry must deal in today’s society; mathematical models of risk of cancer formation developed from first principles; fundamental biochemical point of view, then applied to risk assessment analyses. Prerequisites: Graduate Classification
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. Prerequisites: 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. Prerequisites: 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. Engineering research of design experience in industrial setting away from Texas A&M campus; projects supervised jointly by faculty and industrial representative. Variable credit 1 to 4. Prerequisites: Graduate Classification.
685 Problems. Credit 1 to 12.
One or more of numerous problems in chemical engineering processes and operations. Prerequisites: 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.
- Microelectronics Process Engineering
- Particle Technology
- Materials Science in Biology and Medicine
691 Research. Credit 1 or more each semester.
Problems of unit operations and unit processes. For maximum credit, comprehensive thesis must be prepared of sufficient high calibre to permit publication in scientific and technical journals. Prerequisites: Approval of department head.Â