CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
MAJOR IN SPECIALIZED CURRICULUM IN CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
The chemical engineering curriculum is arranged in a flexible manner to permit students to use their elective hours and to substitute courses in order to arrange programs incorporating various specific areas of chemical engineering or interdisciplinary areas. For example, sequences can be set up in conjunction with the student's adviser to emphasize environmental engineering, bioengineering, computer science, or one of many other options. It will be advantageous to the student to plan course sequences with an adviser as early in the student's academic career as possible.
Students entering without adequate preparation in mathematics and chemistry may find it difficult to complete the chemical engineering curriculum in four years. A typical program, including all required courses and electives, is shown below. Individual students may vary the order in which the various courses are taken to suit their individual needs. However, care must be exercised in scheduling to ensure that necessary course prerequisites are met.
Students in the curriculum of chemical engineering must maintain a 2.5 general average, excluding military training in order to be accepted by the department as juniors and seniors.
For information regarding the cooperative education program in the School of Chemical Sciences, see the Chemistry major in the Science and Letters Curriculum on page 142.
Degree title: Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering
General education: All campus general education requirements must be satisfied.
Minimum hours required for graduation: 129 hours including 16 hours of approved social sciences and humanities sequences
Departmental distinction: A student is recommended for departmental distinction on the basis of grade-point average and work presented in CH E 292-Senior Thesis or CH E 390 Projects.
First year
HOURS FIRST SEMESTER 3
CHEM 1071-Accelerated Chemistry, I 1
CHEM 109-Accelerated Chemistry Laboratory, I 5
MATH 120-Calculus and Analytic Geometry, I 4
RHET 105 or 108-Composition I writing requirement 3
Elective2,3 16
Total
SECOND SEMESTER 3
CHEM 108-Accelerated Chemistry, II 2
CHEM 110-Accelerated Chemistry Laboratory, II 3
MATH 130-Calculus and Analytic Geometry, II 3
C S 101-Introduction to Computing for Engineering and Physical Science 4
PHYCS 111-General Physics (Mechanics) 1
CH E 161-The Chemical Engineering Profession 16
Total Second year
HOURS FIRST SEMESTER 3
CH E 261-Introduction to Chemical Engineering 4
CHEM 236-Fundamental Organic Chemistry, I 2
CHEM 237-Structure and Synthesis 4
MATH 242-Calculus of Several Variables 16
PHYCS 112-General Physics (Electricity and Magnetism)
Total
SECOND SEMESTER 4
CH E 370-Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics 3
CHEM 3364-Fundamental Organic Chemistry, II 2
MATH 2255-Introductory Matrix Theory 2
PHYCS 114-General Physics (Waves and Quantum Physics) 3
MATH 285-Differential Equations and Orthogonal Functions 3
Electives2,6 17
Total Third year
HOURS FIRST SEMESTER 4
CH E 371-Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer 4
CHEM 342-Physical Chemistry, I 2
CHEM 319-Instrumental Characterization of Chemical Systems Laboratory 2
CHEM 321-Instrumental Characterization of Chemical Systems 3
Electives2,6 15
Total
SECOND SEMESTER 4
CH E 373-Mass Transfer Operations 4
CHEM 344-Physical Chemistry, II 9
Electives2,6 17
Total
Fourth year
HOURS FIRST SEMESTER 3
CH E 389-Chemical Process Control and Dynamics 4
CH E 374-Chemical Engineering Laboratory 3
CH E 381-Chemical Rate Processes and Reactor Design 6
Electives2,6 16
Total
SECOND SEMESTER 2
CH E 390-Individual Chemical Engineering Projects 4
CH E 377-Synthesis and Design of Chemical Systems 10
Electives2,6 16
Total
1. Students who do not place into CHEM 107, or who do not satisfy the mathematics prerequisite for CHEM 107, may substitute the sequence CHEM 101, 102, 223, and 224 for CHEM 107, 108, 109, and 110.2. All Campus General Education requirements must be satisfied, including those in approved coursework in the Humanities/Arts, Social/Behavioral Sciences, and Cultural Studies, including the Western, Non-Western and/or U.S. Minorities components. The requirements for the Campus General Education categories Natural Sciences/Technology, Quantitative Reasoning I, and Composition I and II are fulfilled through required course work in the curriculum.
3. One year of college credit in one foreign language is required. Two years of high school credit in one foreign language are equivalent to one year of college credit.
4. BIOCH 350 may be substituted for CHEM 336.
5. Students may substitute MATH 315 for MATH 225. Students electing to do so should be certain that they have the prerequisites for MATH 315.
6. Students must take at least 18 hours of technical electives in fields such as chemical engineering science. These must include at least 5 hours of chemical engineering electives plus at least 3 additional hours of 300-level electives (or CH E 292). Students should consult their departmental advisers for a current list of courses that may be used to satisfy this requirement.