Undergraduate courses in Chemical Engineering

Open to all undergraduates. Overview of and careers in chemical engineering; opportunities to develop networks with working professionals. Panel discussions on career paths and post-graduation opportunities available. Areas include biotechnology, electronics, energy, environment, management consulting, nanotechnology, and graduate school in business, law, medicine, and engineering.

1 unit, Aut (Jaramillo, T)

CHEMENG 20. Introduction to Chemical Engineering

(Same as ENGR 20.) Overview of chemical engineering through discussion and engineering analysis of physical and chemical processes. Topics: overall staged separations, material and energy balances, concepts of rate processes, energy and mass transport, and kinetics of chemical reactions. Applications of these concepts to areas of current technological importance: biotechnology, production of chemicals, materials processing, and purification. Prerequisite: CHEM 31. GER:DB-EngrAppSci

3 units, Spr (Hwang, L)

CHEMENG 25. Biotechnology

(Same as ENGR 25.) Interplay among biology, technology, and society. Topics include biological fundamentals, genetic engineering, protein production, pharmaceuticals, antibodies, plant biotechnology, vaccines, transgenic animals, and stem cells. The role of intellectual property, business, government regulations, and ethics in biotechnology. GER:DB-EngrAppSci

3 units, Spr (Wang, C)

CHEMENG 35N. Renewable Energy for a Sustainable World

(F,Sem) Stanford Introductory Seminar. Preference to freshmen. An overall world energy assessment, projections, and technologies. How to assess good and bad potential impacts of leading renewable energy candidates: benefit versus impact ratio using quantitative cradle-to-grave approach. Technologies suitable for near-term application in developing economic systems. Governmental policies, governmental versus private sector investments, raw materials supply issues, and impact of cultural influences on technology choices and speed of implementation.

3 units, Aut (Swartz, J)

CHEMENG 60Q. Environmental Regulation and Policy

(S,Sem) Stanford Introductory Seminar. Preference to sophomores. How environmental policy is formulated in the U.S. How and what type of scientific research is incorporated into decisions. How to determine acceptable risk, the public's right to know of chemical hazards, waste disposal and clean manufacturing, brownfield redevelopment, and new source review regulations. The proper use of science and engineering including media presentation and misrepresentation, public scientific and technical literacy, and emotional reactions. Alternative models to formulation of environmental policy. Political and economic forces, and stakeholder discussions. GER:DB-EngrAppSci

3 units, Aut (Robertson, C; Libicki, S)

CHEMENG 70Q. Masters of Disaster

(S,Sem) Stanford Introductory Seminar. Preference to sophomores. For students interested in science, engineering, politics, and the law. Learn from past disasters to avoid future ones. How disasters can be tracked to failures in the design process. The roles of engineers, artisans, politicians, lawyers, and scientists in the design of products. Failure as rooted in oversight in adhering to the design process. Student teams analyze real disasters and design new products presumably free from the potential for disastrous outcomes. GER:DB-EngrAppSci

3 units, Aut (Robertson, C; Moalli, J)

CHEMENG 80Q. Art, Chemistry, and Madness: The Science of Art Materials

(S,Sem) Stanford Introductory Seminar. Preference to sophomores. Chemistry of natural and synthetic pigments in five historical palettes: earth (paleolithic), classical (Egyptian, Greco-Roman), medieval European (Middle Ages), Renaissance (old masters), and synthetic (contemporary). Composite nature of paints using scanning electron microscopy images; analytical techniques used in art conservation, restoration, and determination of provenance; and inherent health hazards. Paintings as mechanical structures. Hands-on laboratory includes stretching canvas, applying gesso grounds, grinding pigments, preparing egg tempera paint, bamboo and quill pens, gilding and illumination, and papermaking. GER:DB-EngrAppSci

3 units, Spr (Frank, C; Loesch-Frank, S)

CHEMENG 100. Chemical Process Modeling, Dynamics, and Control

Mathematical methods applied to engineering problems using chemical engineering examples. The development of mathematical models to describe chemical process dynamic behavior. Analytical and computer simulation techniques for the solution of ordinary differential equations. Dynamic behavior of linear first- and second-order systems. Introduction to process control. Dynamics and stability of controlled systems. Prerequisites: CHEMENG 20 or ENGR 20; CME 102 or MATH 53.

3 units, Aut (Hwang, L)

CHEMENG 110. Equilibrium Thermodynamics

Thermodynamic properties, equations of state, properties of non-ideal systems including mixtures, and phase and chemical equilibria. Prerequisite: CHEM 171 or equivalent.

3 units, Win (Bao, Z)

CHEMENG 120A. Fluid Mechanics

The flow of isothermal fluids from a momentum transport viewpoint. Continuum hypothesis, scalar and vector fields, fluid statics, non-Newtonian fluids, shell momentum balances, equations of motion and the Navier-Stokes equations, creeping and potential flow, parallel and nearly parallel flows, time-dependent parallel flows, boundary layer theory and separation, introduction to drag correlations. Prerequisites: junior in Chemical Engineering or consent of instructor; 100 and CME 102 or equivalent.

4 units, Win (Hwang, L)

CHEMENG 120B. Energy and Mass Transport

General diffusive transport, heat transport by conduction, Fourier's law, conduction in composites with analogies to electrical circuits, advection-diffusion equations, forced convection, boundary layer heat transport via forced convection in laminar flow, forced convection correlations, free convection, free convection boundary layers, free convection correlations and application to geophysical flows, melting and heat transfer at interfaces, radiation, diffusive transport of mass for dilute and non-dilute transfer, mass and heat transport analogies, mass transport with bulk chemical reaction, mass transport with interfacial chemical reaction, evaporation. Prerequisite 120A or consent of instructor.

4 units, Spr (Spakowitz, A)

CHEMENG 130. Separation Processes

Analysis and design of equilibrium and non-equilibrium separation processes. Possible examples: distillation, liquid-liquid extraction, flash distillation, electrophoresis, centrifugation, membrane separations, chromatography, and reaction-assisted separation processes.

3 units, Spr (Jaramillo, T)

CHEMENG 140. Microelectronics Processing Technology

(Same as CHEMENG 240.) Microelectronics processing technologies in industrial sectors such as semiconductor, biotechnology, and energy. The chemistry and transport of microelectronics device fabrication. Solid state materials and electronic devices and chemical processes including crystal growth, chemical vapor deposition, etching, oxidation, doping, diffusion, metallization, plasma processing. Micropatterning involving photolithography and nanopatterning using unconventional soft lithography and self assembly. Recommended: CHEM 33, 171, and PHYSICS 55.

3 units, Spr (Bao, Z)

CHEMENG 150. Biochemical Engineering

Systems-level combination of chemical engineering concepts with biological principles. The production of protein pharmaceuticals as a paradigm to explore quantitative biochemistry and cellular physiology, the elemental stoichiometry of metabolism, recombinant DNA technology, synthetic biology and metabolic engineering, fermentation development and control, product isolation and purification, protein folding and formulation, and biobusiness and regulatory issues. Prerequisite: CHEMENG 181 (formerly 188) or BIO 41 or equivalent.

3 units, Aut (Hwang, L)

CHEMENG 160. Polymer Science and Engineering

(Same as CHEMENG 260.) Interrelationships among molecular structure, morphology, and mechanical behavior of polymers. Topics include amorphous and semicrystalline polymers, glass transitions, rubber elasticity, linear viscoelasticity, and rheology. Applications of polymers in biomedical devices and microelectronics. Recommended: CHEM 33 and 171, or equivalent.

3 units, Win (Hwang, L)

CHEMENG 170. Kinetics and Reactor Design

Chemical kinetics, elementary reactions, mechanisms, rate-limiting steps, and quasi-steady state approximations. Ideal isothermal and non-isothermal reactors; design principles. Steady state and unsteady state operation of reactors; conversion and limitations of thermodynamic equilibrium. Enzymes and heterogeneous catalysis and catalytic reaction mechanisms. Prerequisites: 110, 120A, 120B.

3 units, Aut (Bent, S)

CHEMENG 174. Environmental Microbiology I

(Same as CHEMENG 274, CEE 274A.) Basics of microbiology and biochemistry. The biochemical and biophysical principles of biochemical reactions, energetics, and mechanisms of energy conservation. Diversity of microbial catabolism, flow of organic matter in nature: the carbon cycle, and biogeochemical cycles. Bacterial physiology, phylogeny, and the ecology of microbes in soil and marine sediments, bacterial adhesion, and biofilm formation. Microbes in the degradation of pollutants. Prerequisites: CHEM 33, 35, and BIOSCI 41, CHEMENG 181 (formerly 188), or equivalents.

3 units, Aut (Krieger, C), Sum (Staff)

CHEMENG 180. Chemical Engineering Plant Design

Open to seniors in chemical engineering or by consent of instructor. Application of chemical engineering principles to the design of practical plants for the manufacture of chemicals and related materials. Topics: flow-sheet development from a conceptual design, equipment design for distillation, chemical reactions, heat transfer, pumping, and compression; estimation of capital expenditures and production costs; plant construction.

3 units, Spr (Pavone, A)

CHEMENG 181. Biochemistry I

(Same as BIO 188, BIO 288, CHEMENG 281, CHEM 181.) (CHEMENG offerings formerly listed as 188/288.) Chemistry of major families of biomolecules including proteins, nucleic acids, carbohydrates, lipids, and cofactors. Structural and mechanistic analysis of properties of proteins including molecular recognition, catalysis, signal transduction, membrane transport, and harvesting of energy from light. Molecular evolution. Prerequisites: CHEM 135 or 171. GER: DB-NatSci

3 units, Win (Zare, R; Altman, D)

CHEMENG 183. Biochemistry II

(Same as BIO 189, BIO 289, CHEMENG 283, CHEM 183.) (CHEMENG offerings formerly listed as 189/289.) Metabolism. Glycolysis, gluconeogenesis, citric acid cycle, oxidative phosphorylation, pentose phosphate pathway, glycogen metabolism, fatty acid metabolism, protein degradation and amino acid catabolism, protein translation and amino acid biosynthesis, nucleotide biosynthesis, DNA replication, recombination and repair, lipid and steroid biosynthesis. Medical consequences of impaired metabolism. Therapeutic intervention of metabolism. Prerequisite: BIO 188/288 or CHEM 181 or CHEMENG 181/281 (formerly 188/288). GER: DB-NatSci

3 units, Spr (Dunn, A)

CHEMENG 185A. Chemical Engineering Laboratory A

Experimental aspects of chemical engineering science. Emphasizes laboratory work and development of communication skills. Lab work in student groups. Student presentations. Prerequisites: 120A,B. Corequisite: 170. WIM

4 units, Aut (Bent, S)

CHEMENG 185B. Chemical Engineering Laboratory B

Methods and techniques of biochemical engineering. Emphasis is on team organization, communication skills, experimental design, and project execution. Presentations, experiments, and demonstrations of biotechnology designed for high school students. Prerequisite: BIOSCI 41, CHEMENG 181 (formerly 188), or equivalent.

2-4 units, Win (Wang, C)

CHEMENG 190. Undergraduate Research in Chemical Engineering

Laboratory or theoretical work for undergraduates under the supervision of a faculty member. Research in one of the graduate research groups or other special projects in the undergraduate chemical engineering lab. Students should consult advisers for information on available projects.

1-6 units, Aut (Staff), Win (Staff), Spr (Staff), Sum (Staff)

CHEMENG 190H. Undergraduate Honors Research in Chemical Engineering

For department approved Chemical Engineering B.S. with honors majors who have obtained faculty approval for a research proposal. Research for at least 3 quarters, concluding thesis, and oral presentation of work. May be repeated for credit.

1-5 units, Aut (Staff), Win (Staff), Spr (Staff), Sum (Staff)

CHEMENG 191H. Undergraduate Honors Seminar

For Chemical Engineering majors approved for honors research. May be repeated for credit. Corequisite: 190H.

1 unit, Aut (Hwang, L), Win (Hwang, L), Spr (Hwang, L), Sum (Hwang, L)

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