Have the skills to follow specified experimental protocol to illustrate scientific and engineering principles. Be able to operate instrumentation and chemical engineering process equipment. Be able to develop experimental procedures, identify operating conditions, configure equipment, and conduct measurements to acquire useful engineering design or process information. Be able to examine laboratory data for reliability and accuracy. Have the skills, including statistical analysis, to apply process models to experimental data to obtain useful process or design information.
Students complete requirements for chemistry laboratory courses.
Coursework includes chemical engineering laboratory experiments which use a variety of process equipment. Verify that each student has opportunity to supervise actual operation of equipment. Coursework includes laboratory experiments in which only the desired outcome is specified. Faculty provide training in statistical analysis of experimental data, including regression, error, and sensitivity analyses. Students complete laboratory experiments wherein process models must be implemented to calculate desired parameters or quantities from experimental data.