Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: *Chemical Engineering*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CHEMICAL ENGINEERING FUNDAMENTALS ***** Use of basic mathematical concepts, physical laws, stoichiometry, and the thermodynamic properties of matter to obtain material and energy balances for steady and unsteady state systems. Required for sophomores intending to major in chemical engineering.

Department: *Chemical Engineering*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Laboratory

Credit Hours: 2

Description: COMPUTER PROGRAMMING IN CHEMICAL ENGINEERING ***** An introduction to computer programming for chemical engineering applications using MATLAB, FORTRAN and Maple. Course is a co-requisite for students enrolled in CENG 301.

Department: *Chemical Engineering*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): CENG 301 AND CENG 303

Description: COMPUTATIONAL METHODS IN CHEMICAL ENGINEERING ***** Introduction to modern practice and chemical engineering applications of scientific computing: linear algebra (review); computer-aided solution of systems of linear equations:(direct, iterative); evalutation of integrals; systems of nonlinear algebraic equations; systems of ordinary differential equations; one-dimensional boundary value problems; stability and accuracy of computational methods; computational software libraries. Principles illustrated through chemical engineering examples. ***** Prerequisite(s): Ceng 301 and Ceng 303.

Department: *Chemical Engineering*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Laboratory

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CHEMICAL ENGINEERING LAB I ***** Experiments demonstrating principles presented in core chemical engineering courses.

Department: *Chemical Engineering*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 4

Description: KINETICS & REACTOR DESIGN ***** Principles and significance of chemical kinetics; procedures for evaluating kinetic parameters from reaction rate data; application of these methods to design and predict the performance of various types of ideal and nonideal chemical reactors.

Department: *Chemical Engineering*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: TRANSPORT PHENOMENA I ***** Fundamental principles of heat, mass, and momentum transport applied to the continuum; analysis of macroscopic physical systems based on the continuum equations; applications in chemical engineering practice.

Department: *Chemical Engineering*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: TRANSPORT PHENOMENA II ***** Continuation of CENG 401.

Department: *Chemical Engineering*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 4

Description: DESIGN FUNDAMENTALS ***** Product and process design fundamentals. Economic analysis. Use of modern simulation tools for chemical engineering design.

Department: *Chemical Engineering*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 4

Description: PRODUCT AND PROCESS DESIGN ***** Strategies for optimal product and process design. Industrial economic principles. Special process or product design projects in small groups.

Department: *Chemical Engineering*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THERMODYNAMICS I ***** Development and application of the first and second laws of thermodynamics.

Department: *Chemical Engineering*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THERMODYNAMICS II ***** Advanced treatment of chemical and phase equilibri in multicomponent systems. Includes a detailed study of nonideal solutions.

Department: *Chemical Engineering*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: BIOSYSTEMS TRANSPORT AND REACTION PROCESSES ***** Application of the basic principles of transport and reaction to analyze momentum, heat, and mass transport, and reaction processes in the human body. Includes mathematical modeling to describe physiologic function, to understand pathological conditions, and to design bioartificial organs with emphasis on the quantification of biomedical systems in relation to underlying molecular mechanisms and cellular behavior. Also offered as BIOE 420.

Department: *Chemical Engineering*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CHEMICAL ENGINEERING LAB II ***** Experiments demonstrating principles presented in core chemical engineering courses, operations, and thermodynamic principles as covered in CENG 401, 402, 411.

Department: *Chemical Engineering*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING ***** Design, operation, and analysis of processes in the biochemical industries. Topics include enyme kinetics, cell growth kinectics, energetics, recombiant DNA technology, microbial, tissue and plant cell cultures, bioreactor design and operation, down stream processing. ***** Also offered as BIOE 460. ***** Instructor(s): San

Department: *Chemical Engineering*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: PROCESS DYNAMICS & CONTROL ***** Modeling of dynamic processes. Response of uncontrolled systems. Transfer functions. Feedback controllers; response and stability of controlled systems; frequency response. Design of feedback controllers. Cascade, feedforward and multivariable control systems. Introduction to computer control. Use of simulators to design feedback controllers. Required for B.S. majors in chemical engineering. ***** Prerequisite(s): CENG 301; MATH 211, 212; PHYS 101,102

Department: *Chemical Engineering*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH ***** Independent investigation of a specific topic or problem in modern chemical engineering research under the direction of a selected faculty member. ***** Prerequisite(s): Permission of the department. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: *Chemical Engineering*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: FLUID MECHANICS AND TRANSPORT PROCESSES ***** Advanced study in fluid mechanics and transport processes including analytical and numerical approximation methods, boundary layer theory, and potential flow theory.

Department: *Chemical Engineering*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: AIR POLLUTION CONTROL ***** Examines sources, characterization, and effects of atmospheric pollutants O3, CO, HC, VOC, NOX, SOX, and particulates; regulatory issues and pollution standards; dispersion models and meteorology; and techniques, with emphasis on those employing catalysts, used in pollution control.

Department: *Chemical Engineering*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MOLECULAR ASPECTS OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING ***** An integrated engineering course in process analysis and product design that combines molecular chemistry, property-based thermodynamic descriptions, and a focus on intermolecular energetics. The course paradigm is demonstrated through case studies involving molecular, macromolecular, supramolecular, and biomolecular systems.

Department: *Chemical Engineering*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: STATISTICAL MECHANICS ***** A development of the principles of statistical mechanics with applications.

Department: *Chemical Engineering*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1

Description: INTRODUCTION TO BIOENGINEERING ***** A seminar course introducing current research areas in Bioengineering and Biotechnology. Taught in a tutorial manner to help acquaint students with the research activities of various laboratories at Rice and the Texas Medical Center.

Department: *Chemical Engineering*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: INTERFACIAL PHENOMENA ***** Interfacial tension, wetting and spreading, contact angle hysteresis, interaction between colloid particles, stability of interfaces, flow and transport near Interfaces.

Department: *Chemical Engineering*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: FLOW AND TRANSPORT THROUGH POROUS MEDIA I ***** Study of the geology, chemistry, and physics of multicomponent, multiphase fluids in porous media. Includes hydrostatic and hydrodynamic properties of fluids in soils and rocks and the simulation of fundamental transport processes in one dimension.

Department: *Chemical Engineering*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: KINETICS, CATALYSIS, AND REACTION ENGINEERING ***** Review of kinetics and reactor design equations; heterogeneous catalysis; catalyst preparation, characterization, testing; catalytic reaction mechanisms; diffusion and reaction in catalyst pellets; conservation equations; reactor analysis.

Department: *Chemical Engineering*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: POLYMER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING ***** Basic concepts in macromolecular chemistry and their application in the synthesis and chemical modification of polymers.

Department: *Chemical Engineering*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: PROPERTIES OF POLYMERS ***** Study of the molecular organization and physical properties of polymeric materials. Includes elatomeric, semicrystalline, and glassy polymers, as well as the processing and technology of polymeric systems. ***** Also offered as MSCI 594.

Department: *Chemical Engineering*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: POLYMER SYNTHESIS, SOFT NANOMATERIALS AND NANOCOMPOSITES ***** The course will cover methods of characterization and some basic synthetic polymer methods (step growth and chain growth approaches). New synthetic polymer methods will be presented including ATRP, ADMET, ROMP, metallocene catalysts and the development of flame retardant polymer blends. Carbon-carbon composites will be discussed along with the functionalization of carbon nanotubes and their use in nanocomposites. ***** Also offered as MSCI and CHEM 597. ***** Prerequisite(s): CHEM 211, 212. ***** Course offered Spring. ***** Instructor(s): Tour, Barrera. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: *Chemical Engineering*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 1 TO 12

Description: MASTER OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH ***** Independent investigation of a topic or problem in modern chemical engineering research under the direction of a selected faculty member. ***** Prerequisite(s): Permission of department. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: *Chemical Engineering*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: FLUID MECHANICS AND TRANSPORT ***** Advanced study in one of several areas of fluid mechanics or transport, including tensor analysis, continuum mechanics, rheology, and mathematical methods of special interest in fluid mechanics.

Department: *Chemical Engineering*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: PHYSICO-CHEMICAL HYDRODYNAMICS ***** Topics in hydrodynamics including areas such as waves on liquid surfaces, convection and diffusion in liquids, motion of drops and bubbles, and electrophoresis.

Department: *Chemical Engineering*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: RHEOLOGY ***** Calculus and time derivatives of directed quantites. Elastic solid, Newtonian liquid. Shear and extensional flows. Linear Viscoelaticitiy. Non-linear viscoelasticity: rate- and time-dependent shear and extensional viscosity, normal stressess in shear. Elementary theories of non-linear viscoelastic behavior. Isotrophy, objectivity, frame-indifference. Shear and extensional rheometry. Special topics: thermodynamics of microstructured materials; fine-grained theories of polymer dynamics; computational rheology.

Department: *Chemical Engineering*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ADVANCED TOPICS-THERMODYNAMICS ***** An advanced treatment of the thermodynamics of pure and multicomponent systems. Topics range from classical thermodynamics to a discussion of modern developments, and include an introduction to statistical thermodynamics.

Department: *Chemical Engineering*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: APPL OF MOLECULAR SIMULATION AND STATISTICAL MECHANICS ***** Introduction to molecular simulation techniques and applications of statistical mechanics-based theory to engineering problems. Projects involve topics of current research interest. Students are expected to know thermodynamics and to have had some introduction to statistical mechanics.

Department: *Chemical Engineering*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: TISSUE ENGINEERING ***** This course will focus on cell-cell interactions and the role of the extracellular matrix in the structure and function of normal and pathological tissues. Includes strategies to regenerate mebabolic organs and repair structural tissues, as well as cell-based therapies to deliver proteins and other therapeutic drugs, with emphasis on issues related to cell and tissue transplantation such as substrate properties, angiogenesis, growth stimulation, cell differentiation, and immunoprotection. ***** Also offered as BIOE 620.

Department: *Chemical Engineering*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CHEMICAL ENGINEERING OF NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS ***** Overview of materials with structural features on the nanometer scale. Discussion of general concepts of synthesis, characterization and applications. Hightlight advances found in recent literature.

Department: *Chemical Engineering*

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 1

Description: GRADUATE SEMINAR ***** No description. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: *Chemical Engineering*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1

Description: GRADUATE SEMINAR ***** No description. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: *Chemical Engineering*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: FLOW AND TRANSPORT THROUGH POROUS MEDIA II ***** Calculation of multicomponent-multiphase transport in one to three dimensions using finite difference methods. Includes development of multidimensional models of systems and representation and estimation of geological heterogeneity.

Department: *Chemical Engineering*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: APPLIED MATHEMATICS I ***** Vector Spaces. Linear Transformations. Existence and uniqueness of solutions for linear equations. Numerical solution of linear equations. Gauss elimination, band matrices, finite differences. Determinants. Inner products, norms, orthogonality.

Department: *Chemical Engineering*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: NUMERICAL METHODS FOR DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS IN ENGINEERING AND BIOLOGY ***** The class focuses on the numerical analysis of various times integration techniques for ordinary differential equations, as well as spatial and temporal discretization methods for hyperbolic and parabolic partial differentioal equaitons that describe processes in engineering and biology, homeworks and projects aim at the comparative evaluation of the various schemes discussed in class. ***** Prerequisite(s): Knowledge of a programming language (Fortran preferably) elementary P.D.E.'s, basic concepts of calculus.

Department: *Chemical Engineering*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 1 TO 15

Description: M.S. RESEARCH AND THESIS ***** No description. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: *Chemical Engineering*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 1 TO 15

Description: SPECIAL TOPICS IN CHEMICAL ENGINEERING I ***** A course which covers various special topics in chemical engineering. Offered at irregular intervals on demand. Enrollment requires approval of the instructor. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: *Chemical Engineering*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 15

Description: BAYLOR/RICE MD/PHD PROGRAM ***** Departmental permission required. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: *Chemical Engineering*

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 1 TO 15

Description: GRADUATE RESEARCH ***** No description. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: *Chemical Engineering*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1

Description: SPECIAL TOPICS IN CHEMICAL ENGINEERING II ***** Summer internship in an area related to thesis research or professinal broadening. Permission of thesis advisor and department chair required.