Semester: Spring
This course focuses on an introduction to both fluid flow and heat transfer. In the first part of the course, mass and force balances on control volumes are considered in both static and dynamic situations. Hydrostatic effects on manometers and static forces are calculated. Head losses and pumping requirements are considered in piping systems. Friction factors for internal flows are also studied and utilized in force balances on solids. In the second half of the course, fundamentals of heat transfer are introduced from a point-wise yet continuum perspective involving conduction, convection, and radiation. Simplifying approximations of conduction, convection, and radiation dominated heat transfer are introduced, and combined modes of transfer are analyzed.
Semester: Fall
Much of the modern research takes place at the interface of physical and life sciences. Soft matter systems bridge scientific communication across disciplines and produce a unique synergy between theory and experiments. Principles of soft matter are highly visual and easily extended to biological self-assembly and food science. CHME-789 provides essential tools to understand the behavior of soft matter at the meso- and micro- scale. This course will also provide representative examples of the latest experimental research with soft matter systems (e.g., DNA, proteins, particle tracking, active matter, and external force field activation). Specialized guest lectures and exposure to open-source software will be featured along the course.
Semester: Fall
This course provides the student with an overview of structure, properties, and processing of metals, polymers, ceramics and composites. Structural imperfections, atom packing, and phase diagrams are also discussed. The course develops a basic understanding of the structure/properties relationship in materials and introduces the principles governing phenomena occurring on the smallest continuum scales. Topics include force fields and interatomic bonding, crystallography, microscopy, order-disorder transitions and solidification phenomena. Conventional chemical engineering analyses topics, such as transport processes and thermodynamics, are adjusted and extended to the micro[nano]-scale.