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 |
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Courses in "ENCH-Engineering, Chemical"
ENCH - Engineering, Chemical
ENCH 250 Computer Methods in Chemical Engineering (3)
Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion/recitation per week.
Prerequisite: ENES100 and ENCH215. Corequisite: Concurrently enrolled in
MATH246.
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.
ENCH 333 Chemical Engineering Seminar (1)
Restriction: Junior standing or higher.
Oral and written reports on recent developments in chemical engineering
and the process industries.
ENCH 386 Experiential Learning (3-6)
Restriction: Learning Proposal approved by the Office of Experiential
Learning Programs, faculty sponsor, and student's internship sponsor;
and Junior standing or higher.
ENCH 400 Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics (3)
Prerequisite: PHYS261, ENCH250, ENCH300, and PHYS260.
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.
ENCH 422 Transport Processes I (3)
Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion/recitation per week.
Prerequisite: ENCH250 and ENCH215; and completed or be concurrently
enrolled in MATH246 and MATH241.
Principles 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.
ENCH 424 Transport Processes II (3)
Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion/recitation per week.
Prerequisite: ENCH300 and ENCH422.
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 coeffecients with application to turbulent flow. Mircroscopic
equation of energy with application to heat conduction, and convection
in laminar flow. Macroscopic energy balance and heat transfer
coeffecients with application to turbulent flow. Heat exchanger design.
ENCH 426 Transport Processes III (3)
Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion/recitation per week.
Prerequisite: ENCH300.
Separation by staged operations. Rate dependent separation processes.
Design applications in distillation, gas absorption, liquid extraction,
drying, adsorption and ion exchange.
ENCH 437 Chemical Engineering Laboratory (3)
Six hours of laboratory per week. Prerequisite: ENCH440, ENCH424,
ENCH442, and ENCH426.
Application of chemical engineering process and unit operation
principles 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 in
report form.
ENCH 440 Chemical Engineering Kinetics (3)
Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion/recitation per week.
Prerequisite: ENCH422 and ENCH400.
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.
ENCH 442 Chemical Engineering Systems Analysis (3)
Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion/recitation per week.
Prerequisite: ENCH300 and ENCH422.
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.
ENCH 444 Process Engineering Economics and Design I (3)
Prerequisite: ENCH426, ENCH440, and ENCH424.
Principles of chemical engineering economics and process design.
Emphasis on equipment types, equipment design principles, capital cost
estimation, operating costs, and profitability.
ENCH 446 Process Engineering Economics and Design II (3)
Prerequisite: ENCH444.
Application of chemical engineering principles for the design of
chemical processing equipment. Typical problems in the design of
chemical plants.
ENCH 453 Applied Mathematics in Chemical Engineering (3)
Prerequisite: ENCH426, MATH246, and ENCH440.
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.
ENCH 454 Chemical Process Analysis and Optimization (3)
Prerequisite: ENCH426, MATH246, and ENCH440.
Applications 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. Emphasis on
evaluation of process alternatives.
ENCH 455 Model Predictive Control (3)
One hour of lecture and six hours of laboratory per week. Prerequisite:
ENCH422. Credit only granted for: ENCH455 or ENCH468Z. Formerly:
ENCH468Z.
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.
ENCH 456 Plantwide Process Control (3)
Prerequisite: ENCH442. Credit only granted for: ENCH442 or ENCH468L.
Formerly: ENCH468L.
An introduction to the problem of designing plantwide control system
architectures. Steady state gain calculation, singular value
decomposition, relative gain array, niederlinski index, cascade control,
averaging level control loop tuning, dynamic simulation, model based
control. The Tennessee Eastmen challenge problem is used throughout the
course to illustrate the methods discussed.
ENCH 468 Research (1-3)
Restriction: Permission of ENGR-Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
department; and permission of instructor. Repeatable to 6 credits.
Investigation of a research project under the direction of a faculty
member. Comprehensive reports are required.
ENCH 470 The Science and Technology of Colloidal Systems (3)
Prerequisite: ENCH426, CHEM482, ENCH400, and ENCH424. Credit only
granted for: ENCH468C or ENCH470. Formerly: ENCH468C.
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 microstructures.
ENCH 471 Particle Science and Technology (3)
Credit only granted for: ENCH468I or ENCH471. Formerly: ENCH468I.
Theory and modeling techniques for particle formation and particle size
distribution dynamics. Science and technology of multiphase systems,
powder and aerosol technology. Industrial, environmental and
occupational applications: dry powder delivery of drugs, aerosol
generation methods, nanoparticles, biowarfare agent detection, dry
powder mixing, particulate emissions. Design particle synthesis and
processing systems, particle removal systems.
ENCH 472 Control of Air Pollution (3)
Credit only granted for: ENCH468D or ENCH472. Formerly: ENCH468D.
Effects and sources of air pollutants, legislation and regulatory
trends; meteorology, atmospheric dispersion models; distribution
functions, particle size distributions; particulate control.
ENCH 475 Ethics in Science and Engineering (3)
Restriction: Senior standing. Credit only granted for: ENCH468E or
ENCH475. Formerly: ENCH468E.
Ethical issues in science and engineering and their resolutions.
Scientific truth: proper data analysis, proper data presentation, and
record-keeping. Human aspects: attribution, confidentiality, conflict
of interests, mentoring and inclusion of underrepresented groups.
Societal aspects: funding priorities, moral issues, responsibilities of
engineers to clients, ecological issues, and human and animal subjects.
Class meetings are organized around discussions, case studies, and
student reports.
ENCH 476 Statistics and Experiment Design (3)
Credit only granted for: ENCH468G or ENCH476. Formerly: ENCH468G.
Intelligent design of experiments and statistical analysis of data.
Probability, probability distribution, error analysis; data collection,
sampling, graphing; variance, significant tests. Cluster analysis and
pattern recognition. Factorial design, combinatorial methods.
ENCH 482 Biochemical Engineering (3)
Prerequisite: ENCH440.
Introduction to biochemical and microbiological applications to
commercial and engineering processes, including industrial fermentation,
enzymology, ultrafiltration, food and pharmaceutical processing and
resulting waste treatment. Enzyme kinetics, cell growth, energetics and
mass transfer.
ENCH 484 Environmental Biochemical Engineering (3)
Credit only granted for: ENCH468B or ENCH484. Formerly: ENCH468B.
Interdisciplinary solutions to complex environmental contamination
problems; basic biological and biochemical engineering principles as
applied to bioremediation. Transport of contaminants in various
environments, aerobic and anaerobic biodegradation, ex situ and in situ
bioremediation reactor design, reaction kinetics, process optimization,
and modeling. Current regulatory issues governing the use of
bioremediation processes.
ENCH 485 Biochemical Engineering Laboratory (3)
Six hours of laboratory per week. Prerequisite: ENCH482.
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.
ENCH 490 Introduction to Polymer Science (3)
Prerequisite: ENCH440 and ENCH424. Also offered as: ENMA495. Credit only
granted for: ENCH490 or ENMA495.
The elements of the chemistry, physics, processing methods, and
engineering applications of polymers.
ENCH 495 Manufacturing with Polymers (3)
Prerequisite: ENES230. Credit only granted for: ENCH468M or ENCH495.
Formerly: ENCH468M.
Introduction to issues associated with the use, manufacturing and
processing of polymers; blending of materials, design and production of
a polymer formulation, characterization of material properties. Teams
work on an open-ended design problem of producing and characterizing a
polymer formulation for advanced materials use.
ENCH 496 Processing of Polymer Materials (3)
Prerequisite: ENCH424. Credit only granted for: ENCH496 or ENMA496.
A comprehensive analysis of the operations carried out on polymeric
materials to increase their utility. Conversion operations such as
molding, extrusion, blending, film forming, and calendaring. Development
of engineering skills required to practice in the high polymer industry.
ENCH 497 Recycling of Waste Material (3)
Prerequisite: ENCH426 and ENCH424. Credit only granted for: ENCH468R or
ENCH497. Formerly: ENCH468R.
Introduction of municipal and industrial waste recycling technology.
Unit operations and governing mathematical models for predicting
equipment performance. Role of engineers in the recycling industry.
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