Any experimental courses offered by CH E can be found at: registrar.iastate.edu/faculty-staff/courses/explistings/
Courses
Courses primarily for undergraduates:
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Prereq: Enrollment in Chemical Engineering Learning Team
(1-0) Curriculum in career planning and academic course support for Freshmen learning team.
(2-2) Cr. 3. F.S.
Prereq: (MATH 143 or satisfactory scores on mathematics placement examinations); credit or concurrent enrollment in MATH 165
Formulation and solution of engineering problems. Significant figures. Use of SI units. Graphing and curve-fitting. Flowcharting. Introduction to material balances, engineering economics, and design. Use of spreadsheet programs to solve and present engineering problems. Solution of engineering problems using computer programming languages. Chemical Engineering examples. Satisfactory placement scores can be found at: https://math.iastate.edu/academics/undergraduate/aleks/placement/.
Only one of ENGR 160, A B E 160, AER E 160, CH E 160, C E 160, CPR E 185, E E 185, I E 148, M E 160, and S E 185 may count towards graduation.
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Professionalism in the context of the engineering/technical workplace. Introduction to chemical engineering career opportunities. Process and workplace safety. Development and demonstration of key workplace competencies: teamwork, professionalism and ethical responsibility, ability to engage in life-long learning, and knowledge of contemporary issues. Resumes; professional portfolios; preparation for internship experiences. Restricted to CHE majors.
Offered on a satisfactory-fail basis only.
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Prereq: Enrollment in Chemical Engineering Learning Team
Curriculum and career planning, academic course support for learning community.
Cr. R. F.S.
Prereq: Credit or concurrent enrollment in CH E 160; CHEM 178; MATH 166
Assessment of proficiency in general chemistry, calculus (including infinite series and applications of derivatives and integrals), and material balances, and an ability to use the principles of science and mathematics to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems.
Offered on a satisfactory-fail basis only.
(Cross-listed with B M E). (3-0) Cr. 3. S.
Prereq: BIOL 212; (CHEM 167 or CHEM 177); (A B E 160 or AER E 160 or C E 160 or CH E 160 or CPR E 185 or E E 185 or ENGR 160 or I E 148 or M E 160 or S E 185); MATH 166; PHYS 232; PHYS 232L
Engineering analysis of basic biology and engineering problems associated with living systems and health care delivery. The course will illustrate biomedical engineering applications in such areas as: biotechnology, biomechanics, biomaterials and tissue engineering, and biosignal and image processing, and will introduce the basic life sciences and engineering concepts associated with these topics.
Cr. 1. Repeatable, maximum of 2 credits. F.S.SS.
Prereq: Permission of Instructor
Introduction to independent study with emphasis on skills necessary to pursue further independent study of a topic of special interest to student and faculty. Topics may include introductions to laboratory safety, standard operating procedures, design of experiments, data analysis, computational methods, literature searches, and professional communications. Pre-enrollment contract between student and instructor required.
Offered on a satisfactory-fail basis only. Not applicable to the B.S. in Chemical Engineering degree.
(3-0) Cr. 3. F.S.
Prereq: CH E 356
Conduction and diffusion, convective heat and mass transfer, boiling and condensation, radiation, and design of heat exchange equipment. Introduction to diffusion.
Credit for only FS HN 351 or CH E 357 may be applied toward graduation for the Food Science major or Food Science minor
(3-0) Cr. 3. F.S.
Prereq: CH E 310; CH E 357; CH E 381
Diffusion and mass transfer in fluids. Analysis and design of continuous contacting and multistage separation processes. Binary and multicomponent distillation, absorption, extraction, evaporation, membrane processes, and simultaneous heat and mass transfer.
(3-0) Cr. 3. S.
Prereq: CH E 357; CH E 381; (credit or concurrent enrollment in ENGL 309 or ENGL 312 or ENGL 314 or JL MC 347)
Offered on a satisfactory-fail basis only. Credit for graduation allowable only upon completion of Ch E 392.
Meets International Perspectives Requirement.
(Dual-listed with CH E 506). (3-0) Cr. 3.
Prereq: CHE 357; CH E 381
Examines the mechanisms and rates of chemical transport across air, water, and soil interfaces. Applications of transport and thermodynamic fundamentals to movement of chemicals in the environment.
(Dual-listed with CH E 508). (3-0) Cr. 3.
Prereq: CH E 381
Examines the factors underlying interfacial phenomena, with an emphasis on the thermodynamics of surfaces, structural aspects, and electrical phenomena. Application areas include emulsification, foaming, detergency, sedimentation, fluidization, nucleation, wetting, adhesion, flotation, and electrophoresis.
(Dual-listed with CH E 510). (3-0) Cr. 3. F.
Prereq: CH E 357; CH E 381; CH E 382
Electrochemical engineering principles in thermodynamics, electrode kinetics, charge and mass transport; modeling and simulation; electrocatalysis; electrochemical reactions; applications of electrochemical engineering in fuel cells, batteries and electrolyzers.
(3-0) Cr. 3. S.SS.
Prereq: CHEM 325; MATH 267; PHYS 231; PHYS 231L
Survey of the engineering science fundamentals in chemical engineering. Topics include material balances, energy balances, thermodynamics, transport phenomena, and reaction engineering.
Credit for ChE 412 may not be applied to any undergraduate or graduate degree programs in chemical engineering.
(3-0) Cr. 3. F.S.
Prereq: CH E 357; CH E 381
Application of transport phenomena, thermodynamics, and chemical kinetics to the study of safety, health, and loss prevention. Government regulations, industrial hygiene, relief sizing, runaway reactions, toxic release, and dispersion models will be used. Fires, explosions, risk assessment, hazard identification, case studies, accident investigations, and design considerations will be studied.
(Dual-listed with CH E 540). (Cross-listed with B M E). (3-0) Cr. 3.
Prereq: (CH E 210 or CH E 220); (MATH 266 or MATH 267); PHYS 232
Applications of material and energy balances, transport phenomena, chemical reaction engineering, and thermodynamics to problems in biomedical engineering and applied physiology; survey of biomedical engineering; biomaterials; biomedical imaging.
(0-18) Cr. 1-6. Repeatable, maximum of 6 credits.
Prereq: Permission of Department
Investigation of topics of special interest to student and faculty with a final written report or presentation. Election of course and topic must be approved in advance by Department with completion of Study Proposal.
No more than 6 credits of ChE 490 may be counted towards technical electives.
(0-18) Cr. 1-6. Repeatable, maximum of 6 credits.
Prereq: Permission of Department
Investigation of topics of special interest to student and faculty with a final written report or presentation. Election of course and topic must be approved in advance by Department with completion of Study Proposal.
No more than 6 credits of ChE 490 may be counted towards technical electives.
Cr. 3. Repeatable, maximum of 6 credits. F.S.
Prereq: CH E 205; CH E 210; Permission Instructor
Application of core chemical engineering concepts to solve industrially-sponsored process design problems in teams. Introduction to literature review and analysis, intellectual property, and project management.
Courses primarily for graduate students, open to qualified undergraduates:
(Dual-listed with CH E 406). (3-0) Cr. 3.
Prereq: CHE 357; CH E 381
Examines the mechanisms and rates of chemical transport across air, water, and soil interfaces. Applications of transport and thermodynamic fundamentals to movement of chemicals in the environment.
(Dual-listed with CH E 408). (3-0) Cr. 3.
Prereq: CH E 381
Examines the factors underlying interfacial phenomena, with an emphasis on the thermodynamics of surfaces, structural aspects, and electrical phenomena. Application areas include emulsification, foaming, detergency, sedimentation, fluidization, nucleation, wetting, adhesion, flotation, and electrophoresis.
(Dual-listed with CH E 410). (3-0) Cr. 3. F.
Prereq: CH E 357; CH E 381; CH E 382
Electrochemical engineering principles in thermodynamics, electrode kinetics, charge and mass transport; modeling and simulation; electrocatalysis; electrochemical reactions; applications of electrochemical engineering in fuel cells, batteries and electrolyzers.
(Dual-listed with CH E 440). (3-0) Cr. 3.
Prereq: (CH E 210 or CH E 220); (MATH 266 or MATH 267); PHYS 232
Applications of material and energy balances, transport phenomena, chemical reaction engineering, and thermodynamics to problems in biomedical engineering and applied physiology; survey of biomedical engineering; biomaterials; biomedical imaging.
(3-0) Cr. 3.
Prereq: CHEM 331 or a polymers class
Polymeric biomaterials, overview of biomaterial requirements, different classes of polymers used as biomaterials, specific bioapplications of polymers.
(4-0) Cr. 4. F.
Prereq: CH E 357, CH E 381, MATH 267, credit or enrollment in CH E 545
Conservation equations governing diffusive and convective transport of momentum, thermal energy and chemical species. Transport during laminar flow in conduits, boundary layer flow, creeping flow. Heat and mass transport coupled with chemical reactions and phase change. Scaling and approximation methods for mathematical solution of transport models. Diffusive fluxes; conservation equations for heat and mass transfer; scaling and approximation techniques; fundamentals of fluid mechanics; unidirectional flow; creeping flow; laminar flow at high Reynolds number; forced-convection heat and mass transfer in confined and unconfined laminar flows.
(3-0) Cr. 3.
Prereq: CH E 357 or advanced standing in a science major
Principles and techniques for separation and recovery of biologically-produced molecules, especially proteins. Relationship between the chemistry of biological molecules and efficient separation and preservation of biological activity. Includes centrifugation and filtration, membrane processing, extraction, precipitation and crystallization, chromatography, and electrophoresis.
(Cross-listed with AER E). (3-0) Cr. 3.
Prereq: AER E 541 or M E 538
Qualitative features of turbulence. Statistical representation of turbulent velocity fields: averages, moments, correlations, length and time scales and the energy cascade. Averaged equations of motion, closure requirements, Reynolds averaged models. Homogeneous shear flows, free shear flows, boundary layers. Numerical simulation of turbulence: DNS, LES, DES.
(3-0) Cr. 3. F.
Prereq: CH E 381
Application of thermodynamic principles to chemical engineering problems. Thermodynamic properties of non-ideal fluids and solutions; phase and chemical-reaction equilibria/stability.
(3-0) Cr. 3. S.
Prereq: CH E 382
Analysis of complex reactions and kinetics. Fixed bed, fluidized bed, and other industrial reactors. Analysis and design of non-ideal flow mixing, and residence times. Heterogeneous reactors.
Cr. 2-6. Repeatable.
Investigation of an approved topic on an individual basis.
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Courses for graduate students:
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Offered on a satisfactory-fail basis only.
(3-0) Cr. 3.
Prereq: CH E 382, CHEM 331
Principles of metabolic engineering. Emphasis on emerging examples in biorenewables and plant metabolic engineering. Overview of biochemical pathways, determination of flux distributions by stoichiometric and labeling techniques; kinetics and thermodynamics of metabolic networks; metabolic control analysis; genetic engineering for overexpression, deregulation, or inhibition of enzymes; directed evolution; application of bioinformatics, genomics, and proteomics.
(Cross-listed with M E). (3-0) Cr. 3. Alt. S., offered even-numbered years.
Prereq: M E 538
Single particle, mutliparticle and two-phase fluid flow phenomena (gas-solid, liquid-solid and gas-liquid mixtures); particle interactions, transport phenomena, wall effects; bubbles, equations of multiphase flow. Dense phase (fluidized and packed beds) and ducted flows; momentum, heat and mass transfer. Computer solutions.
(3-0) Cr. 3.
Prereq: CH E 545
Principles of statistical physics. General features of molecular simulations including Monte Carlo (MC) methods, molecular mechanics (MM), and molecular dynamics (MD). Overview of intermolecular and interatomic potentials. Evaluation of phase equilibria, free energies, and surface/interfacial properties. Coarse-grained methods.
(3-0) Cr. 3.
Prereq: CH E 382
Principles and applications of heterogeneous and homogeneous catalysis. Adsorption. Reaction kinetics and mass transfer effects. Catalyst characterization. Industrial catalytic processes.
Cr. 2-6. Repeatable.
Investigation of an approved topic on an individual basis. Election of course and topic must be approved in advance by Program of Study Committee.
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Prereq: Permission of major professor, graduate classification
One semester and one summer maximum per academic year professional work period.
(1-0) Cr. 1. F.S.SS.
Prereq: Graduate student classification and permission of instructor
Offered on a satisfactory-fail basis only.
(1-0) Cr. 1. F.
Prereq: Graduate student classification and permission of instructor
Discussions intended to foster the development of graduate students as teaching assistants and future chemical engineering instructors. Topics include classroom and laboratory instruction, grading, and developing a teaching philosophy.
Offered on a satisfactory-fail basis only.
(1-0) Cr. 1. Repeatable. F.S.SS.
Prereq: CH E 698A
Participation in the instruction of a CH E course under the mentorship of a CBE faculty member. Typical activities may include lecture preparation and delivery, laboratory instruction, design of assessments, problem-solving sessions, office hours, and grading.
Offered on a satisfactory-fail basis only.
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Advanced topic for thesis/dissertation.