Chemical Engineering Program Courses Objectives

School of Chemical Engineering, January 21, 2005

In order to reveal the progressive development of skills, this listing of CHE courses is presented in the same sequence prescribed in the curriculum.

The course objectives are separated into two broad categories. One includes the “hard” mathematically based science and technical fundamentals of the technical material of the course. The other includes the “soft” human skills that are required for an engineer to be able to be successful within the human environment. Students need to progress in both in a planned, sequential manner as they progress from High School persona to professional partner.

The course objectives are stated as a description of the student’s attributes at the end of the course, and are expected to form the basis of end-of-course assessment of student achievement.

The objectives are general, overview statements; or else they would require many pages and create an inflexible curriculum that would not make best use of the instructors’ special talents. However, the objectives need to reveal sufficient detail to fully describe exactly what is meant (for instance: the specific technical analysis procedures, engineering tools, engineering science topics, writing approaches) and what level of proficiency or integration is expected. This set will not exactly translate to the course objectives as stated on the syllabus, but provides a substantive guide of expected role of each CHE course. While instructors are allowed to adapt the course, these objectives are to be taken as the minimal expected outcomes.

The EC2000 outcomes that any particular course objective meets are listed in parenthesis.

The examples listed are characteristic of the topics, and can be changed as the professor finds that outcomes are improved.

All course objectives reflect student performance (skill/knowledge and level) expected upon completion of the course. While this included course topics, the focus is not on listing course topics or on the instructor’s activities. Objectives are written to complete the sentence, “Upon completion of the course, students are expected to be able to …”

Please click on a class below to view objectives for the course:

CHE 1 – Sophomore Spring

CHE 2033 (Intro to ChE)

 

CHE 2 Junior Fall

CHE 3013 Rate Operations I

CHE 3333 Transport Phenomena

CHE 3473 Chemical Thermodynamics

 

CHE 3 – Junior Spring

CHE 3113 Rate Operations II

CHE 3123 Reaction Kinetics and Reactor Design

CHE 4002 Unit Operations Laboratory I

 

CHE 4 – Senior Fall

CHE 4112 Unit Operations Laboratory II

CHE 4124 Chemical Engineering Design I

CHE 4293 Introduction to Biomedical Engineering

CHE 4581 Seminar

 

CHE 5 – Senior Spring

CHE 4224 Chemical Engineering Design II

CHE 4283 Biochemical Engineering

CHE 4343 Environmental Engineering

CHE 4843 Process Instrumentation and Control