CHEMICAL ENGINEERING / 111


composition, microstructure, and morphology of organic materials with macroscopic
engineering properties.
CHE 651-MACROMOLECULAR MATERIALS. 3 credits
 Formation, structure, and physical and chemical properties of macromolecules.
Polymerization and processing methods. Commercial techniques in forming. Appli-
cations.
CHE 662-MASS TRANSFER OPERATIONS. 3 credits
 Process design of equipment for mass transfer operations based on performance
and economic optima.
CHE 663-HEAT TRANSFER OPERATIONS. 3 credits
 Process design of equipment for heat transfer operations based on performance
and economic optima.
CHE 665-STAGEWISE SEPARATIONS PROCESSES. 3 credits
 Theory, design, and evaluation of staged separation processes such as distillation
columns, extractors, and absorbers. Multicomponent-multistage distributions using
rigorous digital computer computational methods. Real-time modeling for process
automation.
CHE 671-PROCESS ENGINEERING. 3 credits
 Application of chemical engineering operations and processing to industrial
operations, such as petroleum refinery, manufacture of phosphates and fertilizers,
and paper pulp processing.
CHE 672-PROCESS EQUIPMENT DESIGN. 3 credits
 Unit operations, with emphasis on design of equipment to perform the service
required, considering capacity, materials, equipment, and economics.
CHE 673-PROCESS AND PLANT DESIGN. 3 credits
 Techniques in the design of various complex chemical processes and plants.
CHE 676-PROCESS ECONOMY ANALYSIS. 3 credits
 Prerequisite: CHE 576. Economics in design and operation of chemical en-
gineering equipment. Analysis for decision under conditions of certainty and un-
certainty with applications of queuing, Monte Carlo, Markov processes, and
geometric and dynamic programming.
CHE 677-BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING. 3 credits
 Physical and chemical peculiarities of living organisms and their products.
Material and energy transfer in living systems, unit operations in biological proc-
esses, and industrial biochemical engineering processes.
CHE 678-INTERFACIAL PHENOMENA 1. 3 credits
 Prerequisites: CY 204, PS 213. Air-liquid and liquid-liquid interfaces; surface-
active molecules, adsorption at interfaces, foams, micro- and macro-emulsions, re-
tardation of evaporation and damping of waves by films, surface chemistry of
biological systems.
CHE 679-INTERFACIAL PHENOMENA 2. 3 credits
 Prerequisites: CY 204, PS 213. Solid-gas, solid-liquid, solid-solid interfaces:
Adsorption of gases and surface-active molecules on metal surfaces, contact angle
and spreading of liquids, wetting and dewetting, lubrication, biolubrication, flotation,
adhesion, biological applications of surfaces.
CHE 680--ADVANCED SEMINAR IN CHEMICAL ENGINEERING. 2 credits
 Research and current literature in chemical engineering. May be repeated with
change of content up to a maximum of 6 credits.
CHE 681-ADVANCED SEMINAR IN PROCESS CONTROL. 2 credits