Approved Courses
The following list includes undergraduate courses that have been approved as of June 2010. Courses added after that date do not appear in this list. Courses eliminated after that date may still appear. Not every course is offered regularly. Students should consult the Schedule of Classes at www.testudo.umd.edu to ascertain which courses are actually offered during a given semester.
COURSE NUMBERING SYSTEM
| Number |
|
Eligibility |
| 000-099 |
|
Non-credit course |
| 100-199 |
|
Primarily freshman course |
| 200-299 |
|
Primarily sophomore course |
| 300-399 |
|
Junior, senior course not acceptable for credit toward graduate degrees |
| 386-387 |
|
Campus-wide internship courses; refer to information describing Experiential Learning |
| 400-499 |
|
Junior, senior course acceptable for credit toward some graduate degree |
| 500-599 |
|
Professional School course (Dentistry, Architecture, Law, Medicine) or post-baccalaureate course |
| 600-899 |
|
Course restricted to graduate students |
| 799 |
|
Master Thesis credit |
| 899 |
|
Doctoral Dissertation credit |
Use the search box below to view the approved courses.
Courses in "CHBE-Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering"
CHBE - Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
CHBE 101 Introduction to Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (3)
Prerequisite: CHEM135; or students who have taken courses with similar
or comparable course content may contact the department. Corequisite:
Concurrently enrolled in MATH141. Restriction: Must be in Engineering:
Chemical program; or permission of ENGR-Chemical & Biomolecular
Engineering department. Credit only granted for: CHBE101 or ENCH215.
Formerly: ENCH215.
Introduction to methods of chemical engineering calculations and
analysis. Stoichiometric relations, material and energy balances, and
behavior of gases, vapors, liquids and solids. Analytical and computer
methods.
CHBE 250 Computer Methods in Chemical Engineering (3)
Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion/recitation per week.
Prerequisite: CHBE101; and completed or be concurrently enrolled in
MATH246. Restriction: Must be in a major within ENGR-Chemical &
Biomolecular Engineering department. Credit only granted for: CHBE250 or
ENCH250. Formerly: ENCH250.
Algorithm development and application of software to the analysis of
chemical engineering problems. File management and editing, graphics and
numerical methods. Use of spreadsheets, statistics/math software and
process simulators for the design of chemical process equipment.
CHBE 301 Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Thermodynamics I (3)
Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion/recitation per week.
Prerequisite: CHBE101. Corequisite: Concurrently enrolled in CHBE250 and
MATH241. Restriction: Must be in Engineering: Chemical program; and
permission of ENGR-Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering department.
Credit only granted for: ENCH300 or CHBE301. Formerly: ENCH300.
Principles of thermodynamics and their application to engineering
problems. First and second laws of thermodynamics, properties of gases,
liquids and solids, phase equilibrium, flow and non-flow systems,
energy conversion, production of work from heat, thermodynamic analysis
of processes, equilibrium stage operations and the thermodynamics of
chemically reacting systems.
CHBE 302 Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Thermodynamics II (3)
Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion/recitation per week.
Credit only granted for: CHBE302 or ENCH400. Formerly: ENCH400.
Contemporary trends in chemical engineering thermodynamics that bridge
the gap between fundamentals and applications. Thermodynamic analysis of
non-ideal and structured systems; such as complex fluids, strongly
fluctuating and nanoscale systems, dissipative systems, biosystems, and
systems under extreme conditions.
CHBE 333 Chemical Engineering Seminar (1)
Credit only granted for: CHBE333 or ENCH333. Formerly: ENCH333.
To develop oral communication skills through a series of class
presentations of current chemical engineering topics.
CHBE 410 Statistics and Design of Experiments (3)
Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion/recitation per week.
Credit only granted for: CHBE410 or ENCH476. Formerly: ENCH476.
An introduction to probability, statistics, and design of experiments
for chemical engineers.
CHBE 422 Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Transport Phenomena I (3)
Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion/recitation per week.
Credit only granted for: CHBE422 or ENCH422. Formerly: ENCH422.
Principals of fluid dynamics as applied to model development and process
design. Mass, momentum and energy conservation. Statics and surface
tension. Equation of Continuity and Navier-Stokes Equation with
application to laminar flow. Dimensional analysis. Macroscopic balances,
Bernoulli Equation and friction factors with application to turbulent
flow.
CHBE 424 Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Transport Phenomena II (3)
Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion/recitation per week.
Corequisite: Concurrently enrolled in CHBE302. Restriction: Must be in
Engineering: Chemical program; and permission of ENGR-Chemical &
Biomolecular Engineering department. Credit only granted for: CHBE424 or
ENCH424. Formerly: ENCH424.
Principles of mass and heat transfer as applied to model development and
process design. Species continuity equation with application to
diffusion, and convection in laminar flow. Macroscopic balances and mass
transfer coefficients with application to turbulent flow. Microscopic
equation of energy with application to heat conduction, and convection
in laminar flow. Macroscopic energy balance and heat transfer
coefficients with application to turbulent flow. Heat exchanger design.
CHBE 426 Chemical and Biomolecular Separation Processes (3)
Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion/recitation per week.
Corequisite: Concurrently enrolled in CHBE302. Restriction: Must be in
Engineering: Chemical program; and permission of ENGR-Chemical &
Biomolecular Engineering department. Credit only granted for: CHBE426 or
ENCH426. Formerly: ENCH426.
Separation by stages operations. Rate dependent separation processes.
Design application in distillation, gas absorption, liquid extraction,
drying, adsorption and ion exhange.
CHBE 437 Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Laboratory (3)
Four hours of laboratory and one hour of discussion/recitation per week.
Credit only granted for: CHBE437 or ENCH437. Formerly: ENCH437.
Application of chemical engineering process and unit operation
principals in small-scale semi-commercial equipment. Data from
experimental observations are used to evaluate performance and
efficiency of operations. Emphasis on correct presentation of results
inreport form.
CHBE 440 Chemical Kinetics and Reactor Design (3)
Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion/recitation per week.
Prerequisite: CHBE301. Restriction: Must be in Engineering: Chemical
program; and permission of ENGR-Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
department. Credit only granted for: CHBE440 or ENCH440. Formerly:
ENCH440.
Fundamentals of chemical reaction kinetics and their application to the
design and operation of chemical reactors. Reaction rate theory,
homogeneous reactions and catalysis electrochemical reactions. Catalytic
reactor design.
CHBE 442 Chemical and Biomolecular Systems Analysis (3)
Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion/recitation per week.
Credit only granted for: CHBE442 or ENCH442. Formerly: ENCH442.
Dynamic response applied to process systems. Goals and modes of control,
Laplace transformations, analysis and synthesis of simple control
systems, closed loop response, dynamic testing.
CHBE 444 Process Engineering Economics and Design I (3)
Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion/recitation per week.
Credit only granted for: CHBE444 or ENCH444. Formerly: ENCH444.
Principles of chemical engineering economics and process design.
Equipment sizing and costing. Economic evaluation of projects. Flowsheet
synthesis. Introduction to flowsheet simulators and concepts of
flowsheet optimization. Synthesis of Heat Exchanger Networks and
Distillation Sequences.
CHBE 446 Process Engineering Economics and Design II (3)
Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion/recitation per week.
Credit only granted for: CHBE446 or ENCH446. Formerly: ENCH446.
Application of chemical engineering principles for the design of
chemical processing equipment. Representative problems in the design of
chemical plants will be the focus of this capstone design class.
Comprehensive reports are required.
CHBE 451 Photovoltaics: Solar Energy (3)
Restriction: Permission of ENGR-Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
department. Credit only granted for: ENCH468L or CHBE451. Formerly:
ENCH468L.
The emphasis of the class is on developing a conceptual understanding
of the device physics and manufacturing processes of crystalline and
thin-film photovoltaic cells, and to develop elementary computational
skills necessary to quantify solar cell efficiency. The class material
includes detailed, system-level energy balances necessary to understand
how solar energy fits into the complete energy generation, conversion,
and storage picture. Quantitative comparisons of PV technology to solar
chemical conversion processes and biofuels are made.
CHBE 453 Applied Mathematics and Distributive Parameter Systems (3)
per week. Credit only granted for: CHBE453 or ENCH453. Formerly:
ENCH453.
Mathematical techniques applied to the analysis and solution of chemical
engineering problems. Use of differentiation, integration, differential
equations, partial differential equations and integral transforms.
Application of infinite series, numerical and statistical methods.
CHBE 454 Chemical Process Analysis and Optimization (3)
Credit only granted for: CHBE454 or ENCH454. Formerly: ENCH454.
Application of mathematical models to the analysis and optimization of
chemical processes. Models based on transport, chemical kinetics and
other chemical engineering principles will be employed.
CHBE 455 Model Predictive Control (3)
Credit only granted for: CHBE455 or ENCH455. Formerly: ENCH455.
Empirical model identification from process data. Step and impulse
response models. Linearization of nonlinear first principles models.
Single variable Model Predictive Control. Robustness with respect to
modeling error. MPC based tuning of PID controllers. Feedforward
control. Multi-input multi-output processes. Multi-loop decentralized
control. Centralized multivariable Model Predictive Control via on-line
optimization.
CHBE 470 The Science and Technology of Colloidal Systems (3)
Credit only granted for: CHBE470 or ENCH470. Formerly: ENCH470.
Introduction to colloidal systems. Preparation, stability and
coagulation kinetics of colloidal suspensions. Introduction to DLVO
theory, electrokinetic phenomena, rheology of dispersions,
surface/interfacial tension, solute absorption at gas-liquid,
liquid-liquid, liquid-solid and gas-solid interfaces and properties of
micelles and other microsturctures.
CHBE 471 Particle Science and Technology (3)
Prerequisite: Knowledge of undergraduate engineering thermodynamics, and
transport phenomena; knowledge of numerical methods for solving systems
of ordinary differential equations. Restriction: Must be in a major
within ENGR-Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering department; or
permission of ENGR-Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering department.
Credit only granted for: CHBE471 or ENCH471. Formerly: ENCH471.
Particles are everywhere. We breathe them, eat them, and use them to
make many non-particulate materials. Knowledge of particle science and
technology is important for manufacturing, for occupational health and
safety, as well as environmental considerations. In this
multidisciplinary course, the focus will be on the study of science and
technology relevant to multiphase systems consisting of solid and/or
liquid particles surrounded by a gas. These topics fall loosely under
the headings of powder and aerosol technology. Team design projects will
be an integral component.
CHBE 473 Electrochemical Energy Engineering (3)
Restriction: Permission of ENGR-Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
department. Credit only granted for: ENCH468K or CHBE473. Formerly:
ENCH468K.
The lecture will start from the basic electrochemical thermodynamics
and kinetics, with emphasis on electrochemical techniques, fundamental
principle and performance of batteries, and supercapacitors.
CHBE 475 Ethics in Science and Engineering (3)
Credit only granted for: CHBE475 or ENCH475. Formerly: ENCH475.
Ethical issues in science and engineering and their resolutions are
examined. The main topics will be ethics and scientific truth (including
issues of proper data analysis, proper data presentation, and
record-keeping), ethics and other scientists and engineers (including
issues of attribution, confidentiality, conflicts of interest,
mentoring, and inclusion of under-represented groups), ethics and the
practice of engineering (including responsibilities of engineers to
clients, ecological issues, and conflicts of interest), and ethics and
society (including funding priorities, moral issues, and human and
animal subjects). Class meetings will be organized around discussions,
case studies, and student reports. The course is aimed at postdoctoral
students, graduate students and advanced undergraduate students who wish
to ponder the important contemporary questions about the ethics of how
science and engineering get done.
CHBE 476 Molecular Modeling Methods (3)
Restriction: Permission of ENGR-Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
department. Credit only granted for: ENCH468P or CHBE476. Formerly:
ENCH468P.
Statistical mechanics will be introduced to give the fundamental
background for atomic to mesoscale molecular modeling. Classical
atomic-level simulations methods (Monte Carlo and Molecular Dynamics)
and the procedures to develop intra- and intermolecular potentials will
be covered. This course will also discuss the theory and application of
coarse-grained molecular simulations, mesoscale simulations and other
modern simulation techniques. A broad range of applications will be
included throughout the semester, e.g., phase behavior of small
molecules, kinetics, and biophysics.
CHBE 477 Mesoscopic and Nanoscale Thermodynamics (3)
Credit only granted for: CHBE477 or ENCH468Q. Formerly: ENCH468Q.
Interdisciplinary course primarily for graduate and senior undergraduate
students from engineering or science departments. New emerging
technologies deal with bio-membrane and gene engineering, microreactor
chemistry and microcapsule drug delivery, micro-fluids and porous media,
nanoparticles and nanostructures, supercritical fluid extraction and
artifical organs. Engineers often design processes where classical
thermodynamics may be insufficient, e.g., strongly fluctuating and
nanoscale systems, or dissipative systems under conditions far away from
equilibrium.
CHBE 480 Bionanotechnology: Physical Principles (3)
Prerequisite: BIOE120 or BSCI105. And BCHM461; or students who have
taken courses with similar or comparable course content may contact the
department. Restriction: Permission of ENGR-Chemical & Biomolecular
Engineering department.
Physics at nano/micro scales. Biomolecular building blocks. Simplest
biomolecular assembly: protein folding. Nanoscale intermolecular
interactions important for biology. Protein-ligand binding. Protein
higher-order assembly: filaments, networks. Protein filaments and
motility. DNA, RNA and their assembly assisted by proteins. Viral
capsid assembly. Lipid assembly into micelles, bilayers. Lipid-protein
co-assembly in membranes. Lipid and polymer structures useful in
medicine. Targeted delivery of drugs, genes by nano/micro structures.
Cellular assembly in the eye, in insect wings. Cellular assembly at
surfaces: gecko feet, duck feathers. Cellular assembly in the presence
of crystals: biomineralization.
CHBE 481 Transport Phenomena in Small and Biological Systems (3)
Restriction: Permission of ENGR-Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
department. Credit only granted for: ENCH468W or CHBE481. Formerly:
ENCH468W.
Interdisciplinary course primarily for senior undergraduate and
graduate students from engineering or science departments. The course's
main goal is to make the students familiar with the fundamental physics
and modeling of transport phenomena in small and biological systems,
and their current scientific and engineering utilization in
microfluidics, nanofluidics and biological systems.
CHBE 482 Biochemical Engineering (3)
Credit only granted for: CHBE482 or ENCH482. Formerly: ENCH482.
Introduction to biochemical and microbiological applications to
commericail and engineering processes, including industrial
fermentation, enzymology, ultrafiltration, food and pharmaceutical
processing and resulting waste treatment. Enzyme kinetics, cell growth,
energetics and mass transfer.
CHBE 483 Bioseparations (3)
Restriction: Permission of ENGR-Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
department. Credit only granted for: ENCH483 or CHBE483. Formerly:
ENCH483.
Engineering fundamentals of separations and purification of biological
molecules. Case studies and examples illustrate principles and practice
of centrifugation, precipitation, crystallization, filtration, membrane
separations, chromatography, and affinity separation of recombinant
proteins and other biomolecules. Process scale-up and economics of
biotechnology products and processes.
CHBE 485 Biochemical Engineering Laboratory (3)
Credit only granted for: CHBE485 or ENCH485. Formerly: ENCH485.
Techniques of measuring pertinent parameters in fermentation reactors,
quantification of production variables for primary and secondary
metabolites such as enzymes and antibiotics, the insolubilization of
enzymes for reactors, and the demonstration of separation techniques
such as ultrafiltration and affinity chromatography.
CHBE 487 Tissue Engineering (3)
Also offered as: BIOE411. Credit only granted for: BIOE411, CHBE487, or
ENCH468T. Formerly: ENCH468T.
A review of the fundamental principles involved in the design of
engineered tissues and organs. Both biological and engineering
fundamentals will be considered. Specific tissue systems will be
emphasized at the end of the course.
CHBE 490 Introduction to Polymer Science (3)
Also offered as: ENMA495. Credit only granted for: CHBE490, ENCH490, or
ENMA495. Formerly: ENCH490.
The elements of the polymer chemistry and industrial polymerization,
polymer structures and physics, thermodynamics of polymer solutions,
polymer processing methods, and engineering applications of polymers.
CHBE 496 Processing and Engineering of Polymers (3)
Credit only granted for: CHBE496 or ENCH496. Formerly: ENCH496.
A comprehensive analysis of processing and engineering techniques for
the conversion of polymeric materials into useful products. Evaluation
of the performance of polymer processes, design of polymer processing
equipment.
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