Teaching

Undergraduate Courses

CM 2200 - Intro Minerals and Materials (Fall 2022) 

Fundamentals of minerals processing, raw materials production, and extractive metallurgy, including primary metals production.

CM3230 Thermodynamics for Chemical Engineers (Fall 2019) 

First and second law applied to closed and open systems. Topics include energy conversion, power cycles, entropy and enthalpy calculations on engineering systems; property estimation for non-ideal vapors, liquids, and other substances, non-ideal multicomponent equilibria, chemical reaction equilibria.

CM3110 Transport/Unit Operation 1 (Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021)  

Develop an understanding of the processes of momentum transfer and heat transfer. Presents the basic equations of microscopic momentum and heat transfer, along with macroscopic transport equations that can be used in engineering analysis. 

CM 4510 Interfacial Engineering (Spring 2019, Spring 2021, Spring 2023)

Examines the physics and chemistry of interfaces, and the relevance of these principles in mineral processing, petroleum, water treatment, and other engineering applications. It may include liquid surfaces, electric double layer, surface forces, contact angle phenomena, surfactants, adsorption, surface energy, emulsions. [Syllabus]

Graduate Courses

CM 5200 Advanced CM Thermodynamics (Fall 2017; Fall 2018; Fall 2019; Fall 2020)  

Emphasis in phase equilibria and related concepts, such as molecular or statistical thermodynamics, nonideal fluids and solids.  [Syllabus]

CM 5510 Advanced Interfacial Engineering (Spring 2019, Spring 2021)

Examines the physics and chemistry of interfaces, and the relevance of these principles in engineering applications. It may include liquid surfaces, electric double layer, surface forces, contact angle phenomena, surfactants, adsorption, surface energy, emulsions. Reading journal articles and writing a short term paper will be required. [Syllabus]