Introduction to Chemical Engineering provides an overview of the field, covering career types, industries, and skills needed for degree completion and professional entry.
Process Synthesis introduces inventing processes for large-scale, low-cost processing of materials like water, chemicals, petroleum products, food, drugs, and wastes.
The course required lengthy weekly homework assignments, and exams were described as hard and often too long for the time provided. Students also reported receiving homework on material not yet covered in class.
Students described exams as difficult and noted that one reviewer felt the tests covered topics only vaguely related to classwork, with no practice exams provided.
Introductory Transport Phenomena covers mass, momentum, and energy transport, including transport coefficients, viscous flow, heat conduction, diffusion, and dimensional analysis.
The class involved a significant amount of homework that often took a long time to complete. Exams were described as tough and expected high standards, though they were generally considered fair and well-prepared for.
Analysis of chemical engineering operations involving fluid flow and heat transfer, covering flow through ducts/porous media, particulate motion, and conductive/convective/radiative heat exchange with/without phase change.
Homework and exams were heavily lecture-based, with the textbook serving mostly as a reference. Students recommended heavily utilizing the textbook and TA office hours to prepare.
Statistics for Chemical Engineers covers concepts and techniques from statistics, data science, and machine learning applied to chemical engineering problems, including random variables, estimation, and decision-making under uncertainty.
Mass Transfer Operations covers analysis of chemical engineering operations involving mass transfer, including differential and stagewise separation processes, simultaneous heat and mass transfer, and design of mass-transfer equipment.
Chemical Kinetics and Reactor Design covers analysis of kinetic data, catalytic phenomena, and application of engineering principles to chemical reactor design.
Project information was scattered across five to six different PDFs, and the class consistently ran behind schedule, requiring students to manage fragmented materials.
Systematic introduction to dynamic behavior and automatic control of industrial processes. Labs use conventional hardware and real-time digital computers for instrumentation and control.
HONORS IN RESEARCH covers undergraduate honors research projects supervised by faculty members for students declared in the Chemical Engineering Honors in Research Program.
Heterogeneous Catalysis: Principles and Applications discusses catalytic phenomena, extends to reactor design and catalyst characterization, and uses examples from current problems in catalysis.
Chemical Engineering and the Community connects students with local communities by developing and implementing two research-based hands-on engineering demonstrations for middle school after-school science programs.
One student found the exams difficult and niche, noting there were no practice problems or study guides provided, only over 1,000 slides of lecture content to review.
Instrumental Analysis for Chemical Engineers covers spectroscopic, optical, electrochemical, chromatographic, thermal, and microscopic methods for chemical and physical processes.
Special Problems in Chemical Engineering involves research or independent study where students conduct and report on independent chemical engineering research.
Intermediate Transport Phenomena covers mass, momentum, and energy transport, kinetic theory, equations of change, boundary layers, turbulence, and multicomponent diffusion.
The class was one of the hardest courses the student had ever taken, though they attributed the difficulty to the challenging material rather than poor teaching.
Microhydrodynamics, Brownian Motion, and Complex Fluids covers foundations for understanding microscale flow and transport phenomena in multiphase and complex fluids, plus modeling and simulation tools for their dynamics.
Past student reviews · Jeannine Szczech, Stephen Block
Past students reported that Dr. Szczech’s tests were very difficult, while Dr. Block’s labs took over six hours to complete and were described as unforgiving and poorly managed.
General Chemistry II covers chemical equilibrium, coordination chemistry, electrochemistry, kinetics, nuclear chemistry, introductory organic chemistry, and laboratory skills.
Past student reviews · Jeremiah Duncan, Paula Piccoli
Exams were frequently cited as difficult, with some students noting they were poorly worded. Success often depended on doing practice problems and reviewing material before lectures.