printer friendly pageCHEMENG 10: The Chemical Engineering Profession
Open to all undergraduates. Overview of and careers in chemical engineering; opportunities to develop networks with working professionals. Panel discussions on career paths and post-graduation opportunities available. Areas include biotechnology, electronics, energy, environment, management consulting, nanotechnology, and graduate school in business, law, medicine, and engineering.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 1
Instructors:
Frank, C. (PI)
CHEMENG 31N: When Chemistry Meets Engineering
Preference to freshmen. Chemistry and engineering are subjects that are ubiquitous around us. But what happens when the two meet? Students will explore this question by diving into experimental problems that scientists and engineers have to face on a daily basis. Many processes that are taken for granted have been developed by understanding science at a very fundamental level and then applying it to large and important industrial processes. In this seminar, students will explore some of the basic concepts that are important to address chemical engineering problems through experimental work. Students will build materials for energy and environmental applications, understand how to separate mixtures into pure compounds, produce fuels, and will learn to look at the chemical properties of molecules that are part of daily life with a different eye.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: WAY-SMA
Instructors:
Cargnello, M. (PI)
;
Yang, A. (TA)
CHEMENG 60Q: Environmental Regulation and Policy
Preference to sophomores. How does government, politics and science affect environmental policy? We examine environmental policy including the precautionary principal, acceptable risks, mathematical models, and cost-effectiveness of regulation. You will learn how data is changing environmental regulation and how different administrations mold environmental policy in real-time. We examine the use of science and engineering, its media presentation and misrepresentation, and the effect of public scientific and technical literacy. You will learn how to participate in the process and effect change.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-EngrAppSci, WAY-AQR
Instructors:
Libicki, S. (PI)
CHEMENG 90Q: Dare to Care: Compassionate Design
Imagine yourself with your abundant creativity, intellect, and passion, but your ability to move or speak is diminished. How would you face the world, how would you thrive at Stanford, how would you relay to people your ideas and creations? How would you share yourself and your ideas with the world? nThere are more than 50 million individuals in America with at least one disability, and in the current world of design, these differences are often overlooked. How do we as designers empower people of diverse physical abilities and provide them with means of self-expression?nnIn Compassionate Design, students from any prospective major are invited to explore the engineering design process by examining the needs of persons with disabilities. Through invited guests, students will have the opportunity to directly engage people with different types of disabilities as a foundation to design products that address problems of motion and mobility, vision, speech and hearing. For example, in class, students will interview people who are deaf, blind, have cerebral palsy, or other disabling conditions. Students will then be asked, using the design tools they have been exposed to as part of the seminar, to create a particular component or device that enhances the quality of life for that user or users with similar limitations.nnPresentation skills are taught and emphasized as students will convey their designs to the class and instructors. Students will complete this seminar with a compassionate view toward design for the disabled, they will acquire a set of design tools that they can use to empower themselves and others in whatever direction they choose to go, and they will have increased confidence and abilities in presenting in front of an audience.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP
Instructors:
Moalli, J. (PI)
CHEMENG 100: Chemical Process Modeling, Dynamics, and Control
Mathematical methods applied to engineering problems using chemical engineering examples. The development of mathematical models to describe chemical process dynamic behavior. Analytical and computer simulation techniques for the solution of ordinary differential equations. Dynamic behavior of linear first- and second-order systems. Introduction to process control. Dynamics and stability of controlled systems. Prerequisites:
CHEMENG 20 or
ENGR 20;
CME 102 or
MATH 53.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Hwang, L. (PI)
;
Ludwig, T. (TA)
CHEMENG 150: Biochemical Engineering (BIOE 150)
Systems-level combination of chemical engineering concepts with biological principles. The production of protein pharmaceuticals as a paradigm to explore quantitative biochemistry and cellular physiology, the elemental stoichiometry of metabolism, recombinant DNA technology, synthetic biology and metabolic engineering, fermentation development and control, product isolation and purification, protein folding and formulation, and biobusiness and regulatory issues. Prerequisite:
CHEMENG 181 (formerly 188) or
BIOSCI 41 or equivalent.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Swartz, J. (PI)
;
Rohovie, M. (TA)
CHEMENG 162: Polymers for Clean Energy and Water (CHEMENG 262)
The first five weeks of this course will be devoted to the fundamental aspects of polymers necessary to understand the applications in energy and the environment. These include: polymer chain configuration, morphology of semi-crystalline and amorphous solids, thermal transition behavior, thermodynamics of polymer blends and block copolymers, and the time/temperature dependence of linear viscoelasticity. The remaining five weeks of class will be devoted to applications, with special emphasis on membrane transport, including ion transport in fuel cell exchange membranes, gas transport in hydrogen enrichment membranes, and water transport in desalination membranes. In addition, completely degradable biocomposites will be discussed. nPrerequisites:
CHEM 31 A,B or
CHEM 31X,
CHEM 33,
CHEM 171
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Frank, C. (PI)
;
Mackanic, D. (TA)
CHEMENG 170: Kinetics and Reactor Design
Chemical kinetics, elementary reactions, mechanisms, rate-limiting steps, and quasi-steady state approximations. Ideal isothermal and non-isothermal reactors; design principles. Steady state and unsteady state operation of reactors; conversion and limitations of thermodynamic equilibrium. Enzymes and heterogeneous catalysis and catalytic reaction mechanisms. Prerequisites: 110, 120A, 120B.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Bent, S. (PI)
;
de Paula Teixeira, C. (TA)
CHEMENG 181: Biochemistry I (CHEM 181, CHEMENG 281)
Structure and function of major classes of biomolecules, including proteins, carbohydrates and lipids. Mechanistic analysis of properties of proteins including catalysis, signal transduction and membrane transport. Students will also learn to critically analyze data from the primary biochemical literature. Satisfies Central Menu Area 1 for Bio majors. Prerequisites:
CHEM 35 and 135 or 171.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER: DB-NatSci
Instructors:
Cegelski, L. (PI)
;
Hull, S. (TA)
CHEMENG 185A: Chemical Engineering Laboratory A
First quarter of two-quarter sequence. Experimental aspects of chemical engineering. Experimental research skills will be developed and practiced through guided lab modules. Emphasizes laboratory work, experimental design, and development of communication skills. In addition to lectures, students are required to attend one weekly lab section (5 hours each) where lab work will be conducted in student pairs. Students must enroll in a lab section on Axess. Final project will be a written research proposal prepared by student teams to be carried out in the following quarter in
CHEMENG185B. Satisfies the Writing in the Major (WIM) requirement. Prerequisites:
CHEMENG 120A,
CHEMENG 120B,
CHEMENG 181.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
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