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Curriculum and Core Skills
Skill Sets Are Cumulative – Building And Expanding Each Term
Freshman Year SKILLS OBTAINED
• First Year Experience • Laboratory safety
• General Chemistry I or Principles in • Use common lab equipment
Chemistry & Lab • Statistical analysis of
• Economic Principles experimental data
• Written & Oral • Preparation of solutions
Communications I • Acid-base titration curves
• Calculus I • Conductivity measurements
• General Chemistry II & Lab • Gravimetric analysis
• Intro to Chemical Engineering • Electrochemistry
• Calculus II • Determine reaction rates, reaction
• Newtonian Mechanics & Lab order, rate constants &
activation energy
• Determination of heats of reaction
• UV/Vis spectrophotometry
Sophomore Year SKILLS OBTAINED
• Organic Chemistry I & Lab • Crystallization &
• Mass & Energy Balances recrystallization techniques
• Multivariate Calculus • Extraction & Distillation techniques
• Electricity & Magnetism & Lab • Determination of chemical/
• Organic Chemistry II physical properties
• Differential Equations & • Functional group tests
Laplace Transforms • Multi-step synthesis, isolation &
• Chemical Engineering characterization of organic reactions
Thermodynamics I • Catalysis
• Intro to the Humanities or • Analytical techniques such as TLC,
Social Science GC, GC/MS, HPLC, FTIR, NMR, and
UV/Vis spectrophotometry
State-of-the-Art • Literature Searches
LAB • Process Analysis
Get in the Labs FACILITIES • Chemical engineering calculations/
problem solving
• In our Chemistry labs, you’ll learn
the fundamentals of chemical Junior Year SKILLS OBTAINED
properties and interactions — and • Physical Chemistry I & Lab • Sample preparation techniques
get a chance to perform experiments • Fluid Dynamics and heat • Calibration & optimization of
analytical methods
with instrumentation not seen by Transfer & Lab • Determination of phase transitions
most undergraduates. You’ll get • Algorithm & & phase diagrams
Computer Programming
hands-on experience with a 400 • Intro to the Humanities or • Calorimetry experiments
MHz Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Social Science • Equipment design
Spectrometer in your sophomore • Reaction Engineering & Lab • Heat transfer, mixing, & fluid
year as you unravel molecular • Chemical Engineering flow processes
structures of organic component Thermodynamics II • Sizing pumps
• Heat exchangers
and organometallic complexes. • Written & Oral Communications II
• Advanced Humanities or Social • Reaction engineering
• You will delve deeper into Science Elective • Kinetics of reactions &
reaction mechanisms
Chemical Engineering through • Free Elective
hands-on lab experiments in Senior Year SKILLS OBTAINED
absorption, adsorption, filtration, • Mass Transfer & Separations & Lab • Process optimization
distillation, reaction engineering, • Advanced Chemical • Chemical toxicology
heat exchange and recovery, Engineering Elective • Chemical safety
process controls, transport • Applied Electrical Circuits • Process economics
phenomena, viscosity/rheology and • Signals for Mechanical Systems Lab • Surface chemistry
chemisorption. Your senior capstone • Advanced Humanities • Distillation & mass transfer
• Vapor liquid equilibrium
experience will utilize all of your • Process Control & Lab • Solid & liquid extractions, filtering,
• Senior Chemical Engineering Design I
undergrad knowledge and will • Probability & Statistics purification, & absorption
focus on plant design. • Free Elective • Design of plant reactors
• Senior Chemical Engineering Design II • Experimental design
• With facilities like these, it’s no • Applied Transport Phenomena & Lab • Aspen simulation software
surprise that we attract some of • Senior Seminar
the brightest and best Chemical • Two Technical Elective
Engineering students. • Culminating Undergraduate
Experience
