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2015-2016 General Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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The following is a listing of all courses of instruction offered by departments at LSU. This listing was up-to-date and as correct as possible at the time of publication of this catalog.

Since this catalog was prepared well in advance of its effective date, some courses may have been added, others may have been dropped, and/or changes in content may have been made.
 

Chemical Engineering

Chemistry, Physics, Life Sciences and Mathematics Proficiency • A grade of “C” or better in each of the basic sciences preparatory courses–BIOL 1201 ; CHEM 1201  and CHEM 1202 ; PHYS 2110  and PHYS 2113 ; MATH 1550 , MATH 1552 , and MATH 2090 –is required before students may register for any chemical engineering course other than CHE 2162  and CHE 2171 .
  

  • CHE 1100 Introduction to Chemical Engineering (1)

    Overview of what chemical engineers do, including guiding principles of the discipline and basics of large-scale chemical engineering problem solving.
  

  • CHE 2162 Introduction to Computer Modeling and Simulation of Chemical Engineering Systems (2)

    Prereq.: MATH 1550 . Introduction to basic concepts of simulation in engineering, programming techniques, and software tools used in the simulation of chemical engineering problems. Data analysis and visualization using computers.
  

  • CHE 2171 Chemical Engineering Fundamentals: Material and Energy Balances (3)

    Prereq.: MATH 1550 , CHEM 1202 , and CHE 1100 .
    Emphasis on basic principles and concepts used to make chemical engineering calculations; techniques used in these calculations applied to typical industrial problems.
  
  

  • CHE 3100 Chemical Equilibrium and Kinetics of Environmental Processes (3)

    Also offered as EVEG 3120 . Prereq.: CHEM 2060 ; EVEG 2000 . Not open to chemical engineering majors. Introductory chemical thermodynamic concepts extended to heterogeneous equilibrium, dilute solutions, surfaces and colloids of significance in environmental engineering processes; chemical reaction kinetics concepts applied to the environment; applications to waste treatment process design; property estimations for elucidating the fate and transport of chemicals in the environment.
  
  

  • CHE 3102 Transport Sciences: Heat and Mass Transfer (4)

    Prereq.: CHE 3101  or CE 2200  and MATH 2065  or MATH 2090 . Fundamentals of heat and mass transfer; similarities of heat, mass and momentum transfer and their interrelation; engineering applications.
  
  

  • CHE 3171 Process Economics and Optimization (3)

    Prereq.: CHE 2176  and credit or registration in CHE 3102  and CHE 3173 . Application of optimization principles to the economic design of chemical engineering unit operations.
  
  

  • CHE 3173 Heterogeneous Equilibrium (3)

    Prereq.: CHE 3172 . Theory of vapor-liquid, liquid-liquid, and solid-liquid equilibrium, including the effects of chemical reactions; application of thermodynamic theory to the correlation of equilibrium data and the prediction of equilibrium compositions.
  

  • CHE 4151 Unit Operations Design (4)

    Prereq.: CHE 3102 , CHE 3171 , and CHE 3173 . 3 hrs. lecture; 3 hrs. lab. Unit operations analyzed as applications of chemical engineering fundamentals and transport sciences; use of these principles in design calculations.
  

  • CHE 4162 Unit Operations Laboratory (3)

    Prereq.: CHE 3104  and credit or registration in CHE 4151 . 1 hr. lecture; 6 hrs. lab. Obtaining and interpreting data needed to solve typical problems in design or operation of chemical engineering equipment.
  

  • CHE 4172 Process Design (4)

    Prereq.: CHE 4151  and CHE 4190 . 3 hrs. lecture; 3 hrs. lab. Chemical plant design from initial concept through preliminary estimate; flow diagrams, equipment cost estimation, economic analysis, safety, and environmental issues; computer-aided process design.
  

  • CHE 4190 Chemical Reaction Engineering (3)

    Prereq.: CHE 3102  and CHE 3173  or equivalent. Credit will not be given for both this course and CHE 3100 . Basic principles of reactor design; selection of best design alternatives; achievement of optimum reactor operation.
  

  • CHE 4198 Process Dynamics (3)

    Prereq.: CHE 3171  and credit or registration in CHE 4151 . Principles and practices of process dynamics and automatic control; mathematical modeling of process dynamics, feedback control and feed forward control.
  

  • CHE 4210 Industrial Catalysis (3)

    Prereq.: credit or registration in CHE 4190 . Principles of the industrial utilization of heterogenous catalysis; topics include absorption phenomena, methodology in catalyst preparation, characterization and evaluation of catalysts, diffusion and reaction in porous catalysts and a survey of major industrial processes.
  

  • CHE 4221 Senior Research (1)

    Prereq.: credit or registration in CHE 3102 , CHE 3104  and CHE 3173 , GPA of at least 2.8 (in CHE) and consent of instructor. Not open to graduate students. Comprehensive research or development project of a theoretical or experimental nature, involving a team effort over two semesters (spring and fall periods).
  

  • CHE 4222 Senior Research (2)

    Prereq.: CHE 4221  Not open to graduate students. 6 hrs. lab. Comprehensive research or development project of a theoretical or experimental nature, involving a team effort over two semesters (spring and fall periods).
  

  • CHE 4253 Introduction to Industrial Pollution Control (3)

    Prereq.: CHE 3102  or equivalent introductory course in transport science. Quantitative application of chemical engineering principles to removal of objectionable components from effluents, with emphasis on industrial processing effluents; currently available techniques for controlling air and water pollution and solid wastes; concept of pollution control through basic process alterations developed by specific examples.
  

  • CHE 4260 Biochemical Engineering (3)

    Prereq.: credit or registration in CHE 4190  or equivalent. Application of chemical engineering fundamentals to microbiological and biochemical systems; problems peculiar to industrial operations involving microbial processes; growth conditions and requirements, metabolisms, product separations, enzyme catalysis, sterilization and aseptic operations.
  

  • CHE 4263 Environmental Chemodynamics (3)

    Prereq.: CHE 3102  or equivalent introductory course in transport science. Environmental chemodynamics: interphase equilibrium, reactions, transport processes and related models for anthropogenic substances across natural interfaces (air-water-sediment-soil) and associated boundary regions.
  

  • CHE 4270 Processing of Advanced Materials (3)

    Prereq.: CHE 3102  or equivalent transport course. Treatment of coupled chemical reaction and mass, energy and momentum transport in the manufacturing and processing of semiconductors and advanced ceramic materials; engineering models for chemical and physical vapor deposition methods and condensed phase processes.
  

  • CHE 4272 Chemical Processing of Nanomaterials (3)

    Prereq.: CHE 3102  or equivalent introductory course in transport science. Chemical engineering principles applied to preparation, handling and applications of nanomaterials. Emphasis will be on manufacturing and processing steps. Case studies will be developed to focus on specific device or material applications.
  

  • CHE 4275 Electrochemical Engineering (3)

    Prereq.: CHE 3102  or equivalent. Introductory course in transport science. Principles of electrochemistry applied to engineering problems; potential distribution theory, kinetics, mass transport and thermodynamic principles; quantification of controlling factors in microfabrication, corrosion, battery design and electrochemical synthesis.
  

  • CHE 4285 Principles of High Polymers (3)

    Prereq.: CHE 3172  and CHEM 3491 . Solution and solid-state properties of high polymers; microstructure of polymer chains and effect on macromolecular physical properties of the final plastics.
  

  • CHE 4410 Special Topics in Chemical Engineering Design (3)

    May be taken for a max. of 6 sem. hrs. when topics vary. One or more phases of current chemical engineering design.
  

  • CHE 4420 Special Topics in Chemical Engineering Science (3)

    May be taken for a max. of 6 sem. hrs. when topics vary. One or more phases of current chemical engineering science.
  

  • CHE 7100 Chemical Engineering Fluid Mechanics (3)

    Foundations of continuum fluid mechanics and the equations of motion; solution methods for lubrication flows, creeping flows, boundary layer problems, laminar flows with strong convection; introduction to selected topics including: turbulence, non-Newtonian fluids, interfacial flows, computational fluid dynamics, microfluidics, particle motion, droplet dynamics.
  

  • CHE 7110 Mathematical Methods in Chemical Engineering (3)

    Review of physicochemical problem formulation; analytical and approximate techniques for the solution of linear and nonlinear differential equation models in chemical engineering systems.
  

  • CHE 7120 Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics (3)

    Thermodynamic properties, first and second laws of thermodynamics, entropy, Maxwell relations, and relationship of thermodynamic properties to intermolecular forces; physical equilibrium with emphasis on partial free energy, fugacity, Raoult’s law, K-values, equations of state, and activity coefficients; chemical equilibrium and free energies; fundamentals of statistical mechanics.
  

  • CHE 7130 Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transport (3)

    Foundations of heat and mass transport in continua; modeling and solution techniques; transport by diffusion, convection, and turbulence; forced convection; buoyancy-driven transport; introduction to computational modeling.
  

  • CHE 7140 Chemical Reactor Design Methods (3)

    Basic principles of chemical kinetics, fluid flow, heat transfer and mass transfer used in design of chemical reactors; chemical equilibria, chemical kinetics, design of isothermal reactors, effects of nonideal flow, nonisothermal reactors and solid-gas catalytic reactions.
  

  • CHE 7314 Optimization (3)

    Techniques of optimization including analytical methods, linear and nonlinear programming, geometric and dynamic programming and variational methods with application to systems of interest to chemical engineers.
  

  • CHE 7542 Catalysis (3)

    Prereq.: CHE 7140  or equivalent. Heterogeneous catalysis; adsorption phenomena, physical methods, solid state spectroscopies and reaction mechanisms as applicable to fundamental and industrially significant processes.
  

  • CHE 7592 Design Problems in Chemical Engineering (3)

    Prior to registration students should discuss a prospective design problem with faculty member under whom they plan to study and obtain departmental approval. Design problem cannot be directly related to student’s research. Integration of technology into design of systems or plants for accomplishing specific objectives; emphasis on producing a design package considering technical, economic, manning and scheduling aspects of the project.
  

  • CHE 7700 Advanced Topics in Chemical Engineering (3)

    May be taken for a max. of 9 hrs. of credit with consent of instructor. One or more phases of advanced chemical engineering practice.
  

  • CHE 7901 Speaking of Macromolecules (1)

    See CHEM 7901 .
  

  • CHE 8000 Thesis Research (1-12 per sem.)

    “S”/”U”grading.
  

  • CHE 9000 Dissertation Research (1-12 per sem.)

    “S”/”U”grading.