Required of all chemical engineering graduate students. May be repeated for credit. Fundamental relations governing mass, momentum, and energy transfer within fluids, with special emphasis on simultaneous transport, process applications, and numerical methods of analysis. In-depth study of fundamental laws of thermodynamics, property relations for pure material and mixtures, and phase and chemical equilibrium principles. The development of current numerical methods for application to modeling of chemical engineering systems.
Primary emphasis is placed upon steady state and unsteady state chemical reaction systems.
The science and art of manufacturing with plastic materials. Polymerization reactions, mechanisms, and kinetics, large-scale synthesis, scope of polymer processing, and fabrication technology. Fundamentals of polymer science and engineering. Solution properties, chain conformation and molecular mass characterization. Rubber elasticity and viscoelastic behavior.