Basic Principles (Capstone)
Students will perform a capstone design and demonstrate their familiarity with chemical processes, units, and corresponding equipment.
Relating Chemical Engineering to Other Disciplines (Capstone
Students will gain appreciation and respect for other disciplines and a knowledge of how chemical engineering relates to other disciplines through the capstone design problem.
Solving Balances
Students will be able to solve steady-state, overall, material and energy balances for systems which include one or more of the following: recycle, multiple units, chemical reactions.
Solution Thermodynamics Applications
Students will be able to apply solution thermodynamics fundamentals to solve VLE, LLE, SLE, and GLE problems including bubble point, dew point and flash calculations.
Interpreting Graphical Data
Students will demonstrate effective interpretation of graphical data.
Use Process Simulators to Develop Diagrams
Students will be able to use a process simulator to develop process flow diagrams.
Commercial Process Simulation Software
Students will be able to use commercial process simulation software for process development.
Using Information for Problem Solving
Students will be able to use appropriate information skills, standard office applications, and tools (e.g. WWW, electronic and reference book library searches, modern property databases) to assist in problem solving.
Basic Problem-Solving
Students will demonstrate an ability to solve engineering problems.
Topic Integration for Problem Solving
Students will be able to integrate topics from various Chemical Engineering courses to solve realistic problems.
Thinking Skills
Students will exhibit critical and creative thinking skills for analysis and evaluation of problems and cause-effect relationships.
Appropriately Using Information
Students will be able to obtain and evaluate appropriate input information/data from databases, handbooks, correlations, experiments, literature, etc.
Rationalizations, Estimates, and Assessments
Students will be able to rationalize units, make order of magnitude estimates, assess reasonableness of solutions, and select appropriate levels of solution sophistication.
Safety
Students will be dedicated to safe engineering practices; demonstrate knowledge of pertinent safety laws and regulations; understand and have a basic knowledge of how safety considerations are incorporated into engineering problem solving.
Application of Safety Principles (Capstone)
Students will incorporate applicable safety and environmental considerations as part of a capstone design project.
Environmental Considerations
Students will be dedicated to environmentally responsible engineering; demonstrate knowledge of pertinent environmental laws and regulations; understand and have a basic knowledge of how environmental considerations, including green engineering strategies, are incorporated into engineering problem solving.
Impact of Solutions
Students will understand the impact of engineering solutions, including environmental and economic impacts, in a global context (across cultures and societies) AND in a societal context (within a society).
Presentations
Students will be able to give effective, well organized oral presentations of technical material in both business and engineering formats including the handling of questions and the use of appropriate visual aids.
Reports
Students will be able to write effective, well organized technical reports, including formal engineering reports and short letter reports.
Teamwork
Students will practice good teamwork principles.
Teamwork Experience
Students will demonstrate experience working together in teams.
Reactor Selection
Students will be able to select and size isothermal reactors for series and/or parallel systems of reactions.
Basic Reactor Principles
Students will understand practical considerations of reactor design including materials of construction, mixing, heat transfer, and economics.
Cost Estimation for Heat Exchangers
Students will be able to size and estimate the capital costs of heat exchangers.
Selecting Tools
Students will be able to select pumps, turbines, and valves for a specific application.
Selecting Tools
Students will be able to select pumps, turbines, and valves for a specific application.
Column Design
Students will be able to design tray-type columns (e.g., number of trays, tray efficiency, column height, column diameter, product specs) and/or packed columns (e.g., height of column, packing material, column diameter, flooding velocity).
Nonideal Phase Behavior
Students will understand the implications of nonideal phase behavior and the practical constraints of pressure, temperature, and available utilities on distillation column design.
Valves
Students will understand the interaction of valves with other process components.
Design Calculations for Turbines/Compressors
Students will be able to perform design (sizing) calculations for turbines and compressors (e.g., involving delta H, delta S, work, heat, efficiencies).
Hierarchies
Students will understand design hierarchy rationale and be able to apply it to the design of a process.
Understand Safety in Accordance with HAZOPS
Students will understand safety constraints and be able to use HAZOPS and fault-tree analyses in process design.
Process Synthesis Constraints
Students will understand environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability, and sustainability constraints and be able to incorporate these into process synthesis.
Multiple-Unit Processes
Students will be able to design multiple unit processes and be able to optimize them with respect to energy efficiency and economics.
