Applications to foods, pharmaceuticals, and waste treatment. Provides an intensive examination of the scientific and engineering aspects of the environmental problems that face society, directing the student toward recognition of existing technical solutions and the development of new solutions. Presents an engineering approach to analyze natural environmental systems and to develop specific techniques and methods to treat or eliminate existing environmental problems. Students will be required to formulate a design and make a presentation of a technical solution to a specific environmental problem from actual practice. The electronic and atomic structure of materials, properties characterized by electron motion, properties associated with atomic motion, applications and synthesis of fundamentals to several real problems.
Course includes guest speakers, site visits and a term project.
A laboratory course demonstrating the characteristics of sensing and control devices and their interactions when incorporated into process control systems. A study in the merging of chemical process design of a chemical plant, complete with plant location, plot plan, equipment specifications, and estimations of plant costs and profitability. The design, analysis, and interpretation of experimental results to obtain the desired information within reasonable constraints of time and expense. Testing predictions and making reliable decisions utilizing graphical, numerical, and statistical techniques. A comprehensive study of physical and chemical equilibrium, with special emphasis on nonideality.