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Course Syllabus

ENGR 1704 Introduction to Chemical Engineering Lab

  • Division: Natural Science and Math
  • Department: Computer Science & Engineering
  • Credit/Time Requirement: Credit: 1; Lecture: 0; Lab: 2
  • Corequisites: ENGR 1703
  • Semesters Offered: TBA
  • Semester Approved: Fall 2024
  • Five-Year Review Semester: Summer 2029
  • End Semester: Summer 2030
  • Optimum Class Size: 8
  • Maximum Class Size: 12

Course Description

Introduction to fundamental principles of chemical engineering and development of problem-solving skills through laboratory experiments and/or computer simulations.

Justification

This is a freshman chemical engineering lab designed to be taken concurrently with ENGR 1703 that is required for chemical engineering majors. This lab provides hands on examples of material covered in lecture and is an introduction to chemical engineering profession and survey of the topics covered in the whole curriculum.

Student Learning Outcomes

  1. Students will gain a familiarity with the chemical engineering field, career options, and potential job functions.
  2. Students will gain familiarity with and be able to solve problems related to a broad survey of chemical engineering topics including: materials balances, mechanical energy balances, heat transfer, and reaction kinetics.
  3. Students will be able to put chemical engineering and chemical engineering problems into a real-world context involving economic, safety, and environmental concerns.
  4. Students will learn teamwork and engineering design principles through an in-depth team project involving open-ended design to solve an engineering problem.

Course Content

Topics include units, mass and energy balances, fluid dynamics, mass transfer, kinetics and reactor design, heat transfer, process control and economics. Provides an introduction to the solution of problems using spreadsheets, MATLAB, Python and Visual Basic Applications.