Coursework Taught at Lafayette

CHE 222 / ES 254 : Thermodynamics (Lecture)

FA15, SP16, FA16, SP17, FA17, SP18, SP19, Scheduled FA22.

This course will present fundamental analysis of substances and processes using thermodynamic properties, property relationships, and conservation laws. These concepts will be applied in setting up and solving problems for non-reactive chemical engineering systems. Properties will be estimated via empirical correlations, tabulated data, and equations of state, addressing ideal and non-ideal behavior at measurable and molecular levels. Processes will be analyzed for closed, open, and cyclic systems. Applied topics include power generation and refrigeration. (Prerequisites: CHEM 121, CHEM 122, and MATH 263, Multivariable Calculus.)

CHE 324 : Process Control (Lecture)

SP16, SP17, SP18, Scheduled FA22.

Analysis of dynamic process and control systems including controllers, measuring elements, control elements, and system components. Design of controlled systems. Analytical and experimental evaluation of process dynamics. Dynamic simulation and stability analysis. (Prerequisites: CHE 211, Material & Energy Balances, and MATH 264, Differential Equations.)

CHE 412 : Integrated Chemical Engineering (Lab)

FA15, FA17, FA18, SP21, SP22.

Principles of separation processes, mass transfer, reaction kinetics in developed and emerging applications illustrated by multi-scale laboratory experiments.  Emphasis on analysis of safe practices, hazards analysis, equilibrium separations, reacting systems, computer simulation, technical writing, and oral presentation. (Corequisites: CHE 411 ,Mass Transfer, Separations and Bioseparations, and CHE 413, Reaction Kinetics and Reactor Design.)

CHE 342 : Atmospheric Engineering and Science (Elective)

SP19, FA20, SP22.

This course acts as an introduction to foundational principles of physics, chemistry, and thermodynamics that occur in atmospheric processes. Students will explore governing mass and energy balances present in the atmosphere, and their application to fundamental weather, air quality, and climatological phenomena. Topics include basic atmospheric dynamics, cloud formation and microphysical behavior, radiative forcing, and chemistry in gas/condensed-phase systems. (Prerequisites: CHEM 122, General Chemistry II.)

FYS 143 : Coffee (First Year Seminar)

FA18, FA21.

Coffee has a ubiquitous and somewhat unique role in our society. While some tend to think of it merely as a vehicle for caffeine, it is also the basis on which café culture originated and exists, a highly-traded commodity crop with huge economic impacts and worldwide sourcing, and a finely-calibrated culinary subfield that draws on myriad engineering and chemical approaches to generate wildly different sensory experiences. The sheer level of integration of coffee into every aspect of our lives makes it a highly suitable interdisciplinary topic to consider and explore. This course aims to train students in information literacy via the investigation of coffee from several scholarly angles: a social approach, where students ask themselves (and others) the values and importance of the ritualistic nature of coffee and how it fits into their everyday lives; a scientific approach, where different flavor and texture experiences are explored; an engineering approach, where aspects of a coffee extraction are modulated to yield vastly different results; and finally, a humanist approach, which ties together what they have observed over the semester, and asks them to express their ideas of what defines a positive coffee experience.

CHE 312 : Experimental Design I (Lab)

FA15.

Statistical analysis of data from laboratory experiments which illustrate the basic principles of thermodynamic and transport properties. Emphasis on laboratory safety, statistical analysis of data, and technical writing. (Corequisite: CHE 311, Transport Phenomena.)

CHE 322 : Experimental Design II (Lab)

FA21.

Statistical design of laboratory experiments which illustrate the principles of fluid flow and heat transfer culminating in integrated separations processes in pilot-scale equipment. Emphasis on statistical experimental design and analysis of data, instrumental analysis, technical writing, and oral presentations. (Corequisite: CHE 321, Applied Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer.)

ES 101 : Intro to Engineering (Lecture)

FA20.

This course teaches the fundamentals of engineering design methodology. Students will use engineering design processes to aid them in: recognizing the need for an engineering solution, defining constraints, specifying requirements, and modeling an engineering solution, among other aspects of engineering design. Instructors integrate societal contexts of engineering practice into the projects and examine the implications of engineering solutions.

CHE 422 : Design Synthesis (Capstone)

SP21.

This capstone design course provides opportunities for the application of all prior course work in the resolution of an industrially realistic or derived chemical process design problem in a team format. Teams demonstrate a practical ability to define the required technical challenge, develop relevant criteria to evaluate alternatives, and present the resolution of the technical challenge in both oral and written formats. (Prerequisites: CHE 411, Mass Transfer, Separations and Biosepartions, CHE 413, Reaction Kinetics and Reactor Design, and CHE 415/416, Design/Green Design Analysis.)