توصيف المقررات - College of Engineering
CHE 211 - Principles of Chemical Engineering I
Pre-requisites: CHEM 103, PHYS 105
This course covers the fundamentals of chemical engineering that includes history and classification of chemical processes and units and dimensions analysis. The course also covers processes components, variables and data representation as well as material balance for simple and complex processes.
CHE 223- Principles of Chemical Engineering II
Pre-requisites: CHE221
This course covers energy balances for non-reactive, open and closed systems including mixing operations as well as reactive systems that comprises heat of formation, reaction and combustion. It also covers analysis of thermodynamic data for both non-reactive and reactive systems.
CHE 221 - Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics
Pre-requisites: CHE 211, MATH 203
This course covers principles and laws of thermodynamics, concepts of energy, enthalpy and heat effects. It also covers thermodynamic processes and mechanical work, chemical energy liberation, equations of state and behavior of gases and liquids as well as heat of reactions.
CHE 222 - Fluid Mechanics
Pre-requisites: MATH 204-3
This course covers fluids properties and characteristics, fluid statics, fluid in motion that comprises mass, energy and momentum balance equations. It also covers the analysis of laminar and turbulent flow in pipes, flow in orifice, nozzle, Venturi systems and flow through beds, valves, pumps and compressors.
CHE 314 - Mass Transfer
Pre-requisites: MATH 204, CHE 221, CHE 223
This course focuses on the fundamentals of mass transfer, steady-state and unsteady-state chemical processes including convective mass transfer and mass transfer equipment. It also covers interphase equilibrium and correlations for convective mass transfer coefficients as well as analysis of phase equilibrium.
CHE 312 - Heat Transfer
Pre-requisites: CHE 222, CHE 223
This course covers the mechanisms of heat transfer that includes conduction, convection and radiation. It contains steady state conduction analysis for heat transfer through fixed and variable area. It also covers heat transfer through multiple walls of different materials and heat transfer during phase change for boiling and condensation.
CHE- 313 Phase and Chemical Equilibria
Pre-requisites: CHE 331
This course covers phase fluid properties, behavior of pure fluids, phase and chemical equilibria for systems of variable composition. It also covers the phase equilibria of homogeneous, heterogeneous reactive systems, and multi-reaction equilibria.
CHE-421 Chemical Engineering Lab 1
CHE-321 Separation Processes
Pre-requisites: CHE 411, CHE 412, CHE 413
This course covers the main separation processes including basic separation concepts and single equilibrium stages of binary, multicomponent and multiphase systems. It also covers separation by phase addition, distillation, liquid-liquid extraction and leaching.
CHE 322 - Kinetics and Reactors Design
Pre-requisites: CHE 221, CHEM 230
This course covers the theory of chemical kinetic mechanisms and the derivation of overall reaction rate expressions. It contains the analysis, sizing and design of ideal, isothermal and non-isothermal reactors. It also covers catalysis, homogenous and heterogeneous reactions and reactor design.
CHE 311 - Industrial Safety
Pre-requisites: CHE 223
This course covers the safety practices related to personnel and environment in chemical industries that contains hazards identification, assessment and prevention. It also covers measures of fire prevention and fighting, emergency incident preparedness and waste characterization and management.
CHE-421 Chemical Engineering Lab 2
CHE 423- Biology for Engineers
Pre-requisites: NA
This course focuses on the basics of bio-related processes in the chemical engineering field. These processes includes fermentation, enzymatic reactions and dialysis for various applications such as energy, environmental and bio-medical treatments.
CHE 412- Chemical Engineering Design
Pre-requisites: CHE 321
This course covers technical and economic aspects of chemical engineering design that includes feasibility studies, process flow diagrams, process design, equipment sizing, materials selection and cost estimation using CAD software. It also covers applications in petroleum, petrochemicals, emerging chemical industries and water treatment.
CHE 413- Materials of Chemical Engineering
Pre-requisites: NA
This course covers fundamental physical and chemical properties of amorphous materials, alloys, semiconductors and polymers. It also covers treatment methods for material structure and stability including intermolecular modifications, acids treatments and calcination as in catalysis and adsorption.
CHE-491 Graduation Project 1
Pre-requisites: Level 11
This course aims to apply knowledge gained from previous courses to a project where students choose a specific industry or a chemical process to investigate different aspects of the process, and study the technical and economics of the project in a presented formal report.
CHE-492 Graduation Project 2
Pre-requisites: Level 12
This course aims to apply knowledge gained from previous courses to a project where students choose a specific industry or a chemical process to investigate different aspects of the process, and study the technical and economics of the project in a presented formal report.
CHE 411 - Chemical Process Dynamics and Control
Pre-requisites: CHE 321, CHE 322
This course covers measurements of process variables and dynamics and modelling of linear and non-linear systems. It comprises analysis and design of transfer functions, linearization of non-linear systems, design of different types of controller, stability and tuning analysis methods for closed loop systems.
CHE 421- Nanotechnology
Pre-requisites: CHE 413
This course covers structure, surface morphology and size distribution of nanomaterials, catalytic and non-catalytic synthesis methods, quantitative and qualitative characterization techniques. It also covers applications in energy, hybrid materials and environmental remediation.
CHE-422 Advanced Material and Energy
Pre-requisites: CHE 422
This course covers oil recovery, refining and major petrochemical processes such as crude distillation and catalytic cracking, as well as polymer industry. Moreover, it will introduce modern energy processes such as biofuel, solar, wind power, energy management and storage.