All courses carry four credit hours unless otherwise noted.
Chemical Engineering Fundamentals 411. Applied Mathematical Methods and Computer-Aided Analysis Mathematical and numerical methods applied to chemical engineering processes. Linear system dynamics, solutions of differential equations by eigenfunction expansions, nonlinear optimization and computer-based Monte Carlo methods for problems with statistical uncertainty. Thermodynamics Thermodynamic stability theory and its relationship to the first and second laws of thermodynamics. The use of the Legendre function formalism to derive all relevant thermodynamic potentials and the Gibbs-Duhem equation.