BYU Class Schedule & Catalog
Undergraduate Courses
ChE 170: Introduction to Chemical Engineering
Principles of chemical processes and analyses with spreadsheets and graphics. Applying chemical engineering to current problems.(F,W) 2 Credits.
ChE 263: Problem Solving Techniques for Chemical Engineers
Use of spreadsheets, advanced equation solving packages, and structured languages to solve engineering problems. Introduction to chemical process principles. College lecture attendance required.(F,Sp) 2 Credits.
Material Balances. College lecture attendance required.(W,Sp) 3 credits.
ChE 291: Pre- professional Seminar
Presentations by faculty, advisors, and industrial representatives. College lecture attendance required. Required one semester of freshman year.(F,W) 1/2 Credit.
Energy sources, demands, and processes; costs and environmental studies; case studies of various fuel and alternate energy sources; introduction to combustion and flames.(F) 3 credits.
ChE 311: Chemical Engineering & Society
Responsibility of chemical engineers when interacting with society relative to safety, environment, and ethics. College lecture attendance required.(F) 3 credits.
ChE 373: Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics
First and second laws of thermodynamics as applied to behavior of real fluids; physical and chemical equilibrium. College lecture attendance required.(W) 3 credits.
ChE 374: Fluid Mechanics
Basic mass, momentum, and energy relations of fluid flow; design of fluid handling systems and equipment. College lecture attendance required.(F) 3 credits.
Heat and mass transfer, including conduction, convection, radiation, diffusion; steady and unsteady state systems; transport analogies; design application.(W) 3 credits.
ChE 378: Science of Engineering Material
Fundamental principles of solid materials and their properties and behavior in engineering applications of metals, polymers, ceramics, and glasses.(F) 3 credits.
Basic introduction to semiconductors and principles involved in semiconductor production. (F) 3 credits.
ChE 391: Junior Seminar
Seminar for Juniors. Presentations by faculty, advisors, and industrial representatives. (W) 1 credit.
ChE 400: Creative Skills in Chemical Engineering
Application of creativity and technical knowledge from prior course work to solution of relevant, open-ended problems.(F) 1 Credit
ChE 411: Air Pollution Control
Causes and effects of air pollution; standards, criteria, and legislation; dispersion, meteorology, and atmospheric chemistry. Includes design project and use of impact statements.(altW) 3 credits.
ChE 412: Nuclear Engineering
Principles and applications of nuclear reactor design.(Based on instructor avalability) 3 credits.
ChE 436: Process Control and Dynamics
Process systems, associated control systems , and instrumentation. Use of Laplace transforms and complex variables. College lecture attendance required.(F) 3 credits.
ChE 451: Chemical Engineering Plant Design and Process Synthesis
Design of chemical engineering machinery; plants and/or processes requiring application of unit operations; chemical process principles; economic analysis. Synthesis and optimization of chemical processes. College lecture attendance required.(W) 4 credits.
Experimental verification of unit operations design principles; data collection and reduction; report preparation. Stage operations, distillation, extraction, and absorption; design applications.(475:F,Sp; 477:W,Sp) 2 Credits.
Stage operations, distillation, extraction, and absorption; design applications.(F) 3 credits.
Fundamental principles and equations of chemical kinetics and reactor design.(W) 3 credits.
ChE 493R: Special Topics-Undergraduate
Classroom study based on student and faculty interest. Variable Credits.
ChE 498R: Undergraduate Research
Final report required; 2 hours max allowed for degree credit
ChE 499R: Undergraduate Thesis Research
Graduate Classes
Application of chemical engineering principles to model physiologic systems and to solve medical problems.(W) 3 Credits.
ChE 528: Industrial Catalytic Processes.
Fundamentals of catalytic chemistry and materials; applications to important industrial catalytic processes. Includes catalyst materials and preparation, catalyst characterization, fixed-bed reactor design, and catalyst deactivation. (Sp alt. yr.) 2 Credits.
ChE 531: Thermodynamics of Multicomponent Systems
Fundamental concepts and applications in first and second laws, equilibrium and stability, phase equilibrium, and homogeneous and heterogeneous chemical equilibrium.(F) 3 Credits.
ChE 533: Transport Phenomena
Transport mechanisms and coefficients and fundamental field equations for momentum, heat and mass transport, with applications to system design.(F) 3 Credits.
ChE 535: Kinetics and Catalysis
Theories and principles of chemical kinetics, including heterogeneous catalysis and reactor design. 3 credits
ChE 541: Computer Design Methods
Computer-aided design and numerical methods of chemical engineering processes. 3 Credits.
ChE 578: Polymer Science and Engineering
Fundamentals of polymer chemistry and physics and their implications in engineering applications; topics include polymerization chemistry, structure-property relationships, polymer physics, and transport properties. (W) 3 Credits.
ChE 601: Directed Graduate Studies
Guided preparation for department's comprehensive exams for formulation of research prospectus.(W) 2 Credits.
ChE 610: Principles of Reservoir Engineering
Reservoir and hydrocarbon classification; fluid flow; primary oil and gas recovery mechanisms; enhanced oil recovery. 3 Credits.
ChE 631: Applied Statistical Mechanics
Fundamentals of statistical mechanics and their application to calculating thermodynamic and transport properties of fluids and fluid mixtures. 3 Credits.
ChE 633: Combustion Processes
Fundamentals of transport processes in reacting flow systems with specific applications of various combustion processes. 3 Credits.
ChE 634: Advanced Mass Transfer
Fundamental mass trandfer for multicomponent and flow systems. Includes influence of species activities and temerature gradients. 3 Credits.
Theory of combustion systems and quantitative procedures for computing performance of combustion chambers. Applications include turbulent combustion of gases, sprays, and particulates. 3 Credits.
ChE 674: Advanced Thermodynamics
Advanced topics in thermodynamics, including electrolytes, phase equilibrium modeling, nonequilibium thermodynamics, and calorimetry. 2 Credits.
ChE 685: Chemical Engineering for Chemistry Students
Intensive treatment of fundamentals of material and energy balances, fluid flow, and heat and mass transfer, with application to design and analysis of engineering systems. 6 Credits.
Technical presentations by graduate students, faculty members, and guests. Combined with 791R 0.5 Credits.
ChE 693R: Special Topics-Graduate
ChE 697R: Special Problems-Graduate
ChE 698R: Masters Project
ChE 699R: Masters Thesis
Fundamentals of coal combustion and gasification processes, including particle mechanics, devolatilization, heterogeneous oxidation, radiative heat transfer, and combustion of coal in practical flames. 3 Credits.
Technical presentations by graduate students, faculty members, and guests. Combined with 691R. 0.5 Credits.
ChE 793R: Selected Topics in Chemical Engineering
Topics vary according to student-faculty research interests.
ChE 799R: Doctoral Dissertation
