Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering

http://engineering.tamu.edu/chemical

Head: F. Khan

Graduate Advisor: H. Wu

The Department of Chemical Engineering offers three graduate degrees: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Master of Science (MS), and Master of Engineering (MEng). The PhD and MS degree programs include a significant research component in addition to graduate coursework. Information about specific departmental requirements for coursework and examinations is available upon request from the graduate advisor and on our website, http://engineering.tamu.edu/chemical.

Some of the research areas available within the department include: Biomedical and Biomolecular engineering, Catalysis and Reaction engineering, Energy, Materials and Nanoscale, Process Safety, Process Systems, and Sustainability. Modern equipment is available in numerous laboratories to perform research in these and other areas.

Chemical Engineering
Safety Engineering

Chemical Engineering

CHEN 601/SENG 601 Laboratory Safety for Chemical Engineers

Credit 1. 1 Lecture Hour. Overview of hazards associated with chemical engineering research laboratories and the chemical process industry; causes and prevention of accidents, emergency procedures, safety codes, health effects of toxic substances and experimental design for safety. Prerequisite: Graduate classification. Cross Listing: SENG 601/CHEN 601.

CHEN 604 Chemical Engineering Process Analysis I

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Development and analysis of chemical process models that involve systems of algebraic equations, ordinary differential equations and partial differential equations. Prerequisite: MATH 308 or approval of instructor.

CHEN 610 Humanitarian Engineering

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Basic concepts of humanitarian engineering; application of engineering and technology for the benefit of humanity and especially disadvantaged communities; understanding the role of engineers in achieving sustainable development goals; Identification, formulation and solution of related engineering and design problems considering historical, cultural, ethical and practical perspectives. Prerequisite: Graduate classification or approval of instructor.

CHEN 623 Applications of Thermodynamics to Chemical Engineering

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Application of thermodynamics to chemical engineering operations and processes. Prerequisite: CHEN 354 or approval of instructor.

CHEN 624 Chemical Engineering Kinetics and Reactor Design

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Rates and mechanisms of chemical reactions; thermal and catalytic reactions both homogeneous and heterogeneous. Prerequisite: CHEN 464 or approval of instructor.

CHEN 629 Transport Phenomena

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Principles of transfer of momentum, energy and mass studied by application to advanced chemical engineering problems; theoretical analogy of these three modes of transfer. Prerequisite: CHEN 424 or approval of instructor.

CHEN 631 Process Dynamics and Advanced Process Control

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Modeling, analysis, and simulation of linear and nonlinear process systems; model-based control techniques for achieving desired process dynamics. Prerequisite: CHEN 461 or approval of instructor.

CHEN 635 Advanced Nanostructured Materials

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Chemical synthesis and characterization of materials with structures and properties in the nano-scale; emphasis on the fundamental science and engineering of understanding and manipulating "bottom-up" material formation. Prerequisite: Approval of instructor.

CHEN 636 Resilience and Sustainability of Industrial Supply Chains

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Overview of integrated energy and manufacturing supply chains and their key functions, the financial impacts and levers, while further describing the major challenges in managing efficiently next-generation data-driven supply chains (further discussing the value of tradeoffs among efficiency, resilience, flexibility and resilience); various strategic and tactical supply chain components and relevant quantitative models and decision-making tools, such as planning and inventory management strategies, distribution and fulfillment strategy, outsourcing, sourcing and procurement, value of information, customer value, supply chain risk management and resilience, and supply chain sustainability. Prerequisites: Graduate classification in engineering.

CHEN 639 Biomass Processing

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Introduction to the principles and applications of magic of photosynthesis through which plants remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to create biomass, a sustainable and infinitely renewable carbonaceous feedstock; fundamental and applied skills to process biomass into commodity chemicals (e.g., alcohols, ketones, carboxylic acids, esters, ethers, aldehydes, olefins, aromatics, cyclics) and carbon-based fuels (e.g., alcohols, gasoline, jet fuel, diesel). Prerequisite: Graduate classification in engineering.

CHEN 641 Polymer Engineering

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Principles and practice of polymer structure, synthesis, reaction mechanisms and kinetics; polymer characterization, chemical and physical properties degradation and recycling, melt and solid mechanical and rheological properties; technology of production and processing operations. Prerequisite: Graduate classification.

CHEN 642 Colloidal and Interfacial Systems

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Fundamental principles related to interactions, dynamic, and structure in colloidal and interfacial systems; concepts covered include hydrodynamics, brownian motion, diffusion sedimentation, electrophoresis, colloidal forces, surface forces, polymeric forces, aggregation, deposition, equilibrium phase behavior, rheology, and experimental methods.

CHEN 645 Fundamentals of Catalysis with Applications

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Principles of catalyst preparation, methods of characterization, catalyst deactivation and regeneration techniques; effect of physical transport processes on the rate of catalytic heterogeneous reactions; kinetics of heterogeneous reactions; laboratory and industrial reactors; application to selected industrial processes. Prerequisites: CHEN 354; CHEN 464 or approval of instructor.

CHEN 647 Chemical and Biological Sensors

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Theory, design, and applications of sensors for chemical and biological detection. Prerequisites: Graduate classification.

CHEN 649 Nanomaterials for Energy Conversion

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Instruction in ultra-small materials useful for fabricating next-generation energy conversion devices (e.g., thermoelectrics, and photovoltaics) synthesized in various forms including nanoparticles and quantum dots, nanowires and nanotubes, and thin films; exploration of the fabrication and assembly of these materials; involves the use of both traditional materials syntheses approaches (e.g., chemical vapor deposition) and newer syntheses approaches (e.g., template-assisted syntheses of nanomaterials); materials syntheses, characterization and assembly of these nanomaterials; exploration of the basics of crystal structures, necessary for understanding structure-property relationships in materials. Prerequisites: Graduate classification.

CHEN 650 Introduction to Microfabrication and Microfluidics Technology

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) technology; study the fundamentals of fluidics, heat and mass transfer, surface chemistry, and electrochemical interactions.

CHEN 651 Biochemical Engineering

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Integration of principles of engineering, biochemistry and microbiology; application to the design, development and improvement of industrial processes that employ biological materials; engineering discipline directed toward creative application of interdisciplinary information to the economic processing of biological and related materials. Prerequisite: Approval of instructor.

CHEN 655/SENG 655 Process Safety Engineering

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Applications of engineering principles to process hazards analysis including source and dispersion modeling, emergency relief systems, fire and explosion prevention and mitigation, hazard identification, risk assessment, process safety management, etc. Prerequisite: Graduate classification; approval of instructor. Cross Listing: SENG 655/CHEN 655.

CHEN 656 Advanced Process Chemical Optimization I

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. State-of-the-art optimization based techniques for process synthesis, process design and process operability; emphasis on mathematical modeling via mixed integer and continuous optimization formulations; application to heat integration problems; use of modeling/optimization software systems. Prerequisites: Graduate classification; or approval of instructor.

CHEN 659 Natural Gas Processing from Upstream to Downstream

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Upstream natural gas production; emphasis on natural gas midstream and downstream processing plants; natural gas monetization routes and economics and risks facing monetization pathways. Prerequisite: Graduate classification in chemical, petroleum, or mechanical engineering, or approval or instructor.

CHEN 660 Risk Engineering

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Fundamental concepts, techniques, and applications of risk assessment and risk management for engineering systems; current industry practices for risk assessment of industrial facilities using qualitative and quantitative approaches are demonstrated through exercises and case studies from diverse engineering fields. Prerequisites: Graduate classification. Cross Listing: SENG 660 and ISEN 660.

CHEN 663 Systems Biology

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Introduction to experimental and computational techniques in systems biology; includes high throughput experiments, data analysis, modeling and simulation; discussion in the context of specific applications such as signal transduction. Prerequisite: Approval of instructor.

CHEN 665 Sustainable Design of Chemical Processes

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Sustainability in chemical engineering; includes sustainable approaches to design and development of processes, products, energy usage; issues and roles of chemical engineers, service learning. Prerequisite: Graduate and senior classification in engineering or approval of instructor.

CHEN 668 Zymology

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Application of fundamental principles of chemical engineering in the production of fermented foods, specifically the beer brewing process; exploration of the basics of food fermentation and fermented beverage preparation technology as well as providing fundamental knowledge in beer production methods and processes. Prerequisites: Graduate classification in chemical engineering or approval of instructor.

CHEN 673 Electrochemical Science and Engineering

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Examination of basic principles of electrochemistry, electroanalytical characterization, and electrochemical devices; exploration of electrochemical processes in the context of kinetics, thermodynamics, and transport. Prerequisites: Graduate classification.

CHEN 675 Microelectronics Process Engineering

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. State-of-art process engineering principles on microelectronics, especially for the fabrication of very large scale integrated circuits (VLSICs); fundamental unit processes, such as thin film deposition, thermal growth, lithography, etching and doping, material structures and properties, and basic device operation principles. Prerequisites: CHEN 623 and CHEN 624 or approval of instructor.

CHEN 676 Sustainable Design through Process Integration

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Systematic and state-of-the-art techniques for the sustainable design of chemical processes; emphasis on holistic and systematic approaches using process integration for the conservation of natural resources and the enhancement of process performance; includes visualization, algebraic and mathematical optimization approaches. Prerequisites: Graduate classification in engineering.

CHEN 678 Advance Process Economics and Finance for Chemical Engineers

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Overview of building financial models to evaluate projects; concepts on how a company is valued; overview of risk, uncertainty, and statistics. Prerequisites: Graduate classification in Chemical Engineering or approval of instructor and Department Head.

CHEN 679 Process Synthesis, Integration and Intensification

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Systematic methods for the synthesis, integration and intensification of chemical processes; special focus given to systematic process intensification for energy and the environment with applications to carbon capture and storage, energy systems, gas separation, and utility networks Prerequisites: Graduate classification in engineering or approval of instructor.

CHEN 681 Seminar

Credits 0-1. 0-1 Lecture Hours. Presentations and discussions covering problems of current importance in chemical engineering research.

CHEN 684 Professional Internship

Credit 1. 1 Other Hour. Engineering research experience in industrial setting away from Texas A&M campus; projects supervised jointly by faculty and industrial representative. Prerequisites: Approval of student's advisory committee chair and department head.

CHEN 685 Directed Studies

Credits 1 to 12. 1 to 12 Other Hours. Limited investigations in fields other than those chosen for thesis or dissertation research and not covered by other formal courses. Prerequisite: Approval of department head.

CHEN 689 Special Topics in...

Credits 1 to 4. 1 to 4 Lecture Hours. 0 to 4 Lab Hours. Selected topics in particular areas of chemical engineering. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisites: Approval of department head and instructor.

CHEN 691 Research

Credits 1 to 23. 1 to 23 Other Hours. Research for thesis or dissertation. Prerequisite: Approval of department head.

CHEN 695 Graduate Mentoring Seminar I

Credit 1. 1 Lecture Hour. Development of skills to compliment formal research and coursework training; includes improvement of communication and interaction skills; development of technical writing and presentation skills. Prerequisites: Four chemical engineering core graduate courses; graduate advisor approval.

CHEN 696 Graduate Mentoring Seminar II

Credit 1. 1 Lecture Hour. Development of a variety of skills to compliment formal research and coursework training; includes improvement to communication/ interaction with students in a classroom setting, and improvement and development of teaching skills. Prerequisites: Approval of graduate advisor.

Safety Engineering

SENG 601/CHEN 601 Laboratory Safety for Chemical Engineers

Credit 1. 1 Lecture Hour. Overview of hazards associated with chemical engineering research laboratories and the chemical process industry; causes and prevention of accidents, emergency procedures, safety codes, health effects of toxic substances and experimental design for safety. Prerequisites: Graduate classification. Cross Listing: CHEN 601/SENG 601.

SENG 640 Material Safety in Semiconductor Manufacturing

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. In-depth understanding of hazardous materials commonly used in semiconductor manufacturing processes; focus on the significance of hazardous materials handling and the safe way to do it; safe handling practices, storage requirements, emergency response procedures, and regulatory compliance specific to hazardous materials in semiconductor facilities; modeling and management techniques for different consequences (e.g., toxicity, fire, and explosion). Prerequisites: Graduate classification.

SENG 641 Process Safety in Semiconductor Manufacturing

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Comprehensive understanding of chemical process safety principles and practices specifically tailored to the semiconductor manufacturing industry; overview of how to identify and mitigate hazards associated with chemical processes, develop emergency response plans, and gain insights into safety management systems within semiconductor facilities. Prerequisites: Graduate classification.

SENG 642 Vapor Phase Techniques for Semiconductor Manufacturing

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Comprehensive understanding of physical vapor deposition (PVD) and chemical vapor deposition (CVD) techniques and their crucial roles in semiconductor manufacturing; understanding of the principles, processes, and applications of PVD and CVD, with a specific focus on mass transport, heat transport, chemistry for CVD, epitaxy, vapor phase exchange, and CVD reactor design; topics include how to distinguish between PVD and CVD methods, effectively choose the most suitable CVD techniques for specific industrial applications, perform calculations related to mass transport, analyze heat transfer mechanisms, anticipate chemical reactions within deposition processes, apply epitaxial growth principles, optimize vapor phase exchange mechanisms, and engineer custom CVD reactor systems tailored to industry requirements; various aspects of semiconductor manufacturing, research, and development; exploration of the efficiency of film deposition processes, exert control over film characteristics, and actively contribute to the continuous advancement of semiconductor technology. Prerequisites: Graduate classification.

SENG 655/CHEN 655 Process Safety Engineering

SENG 660 Risk Engineering

SENG 665 Reliability Engineering

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Fundamental concepts, techniques and application of reliability engineering; reliability data collection and analysis; methods of modeling systems for reliability, availability and maintainability analysis; failure analysis and reliable system and safety instrumented system design; system reliability design analysis and application through case studies and/or projects. Prerequisites: Graduate classification.

SENG 670 Safety Management Systems

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Fundamentals concepts and principles of safety management; demonstration of practical application of management techniques to ensure safe operation of industrial processes; current safety management system standards and regulations. Prerequisite: Graduate classification or approval of instructor.

SENG 674 System Safety Engineering

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Current system safety engineering analysis techniques; failure mode and effect and fault tree analysis; engineering economic analysis is reviewed to develop skills for the safety engineer in presenting alternate solutions to management.

SENG 677 Consequence and Impact Analysis

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. Theory of flammability, fire and combustion; fire and explosion models; modeling consequence scenarios using available commercial software; fire protection principles; fire protection equipment, design, analysis; automatic extinguishing systems; design project. Prerequisites: Graduate classification.

SENG 680 Fundamentals of Safety

Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. General concepts and techniques of safety engineering upon which more detailed and advanced applications may be based; applications of safety engineering principles to industrial and commercial systems; the concept of designing optimally safe systems. Prerequisite: Graduate classification or approval of instructor.

SENG 681 Seminar

Credit 1. 1 Other Hour. Formal presentations in industrial hygiene and safety engineering by students and professional industrial representatives.

SENG 684 Professional Internship

Credits 1 to 6. 1 to 6 Other Hours. Training under the supervision of practicing engineers in settings appropriate to the student's professional objectives. Prerequisites: Approval of chair of student's advisory committee and department head.

SENG 685 Directed Studies

Credits 1 to 12. 1 to 12 Other Hours. Investigation of topics not within the scope of thesis or dissertation research and not covered by other formal courses.

SENG 689 Special Topics in...

Credits 1 to 4. 1 to 4 Lecture Hours. Selected topics in an identified area of safety engineering and industrial hygiene. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: Approval of instructor.

SENG 691 Research

Credits 1 to 23. 1 to 23 Other Hours. Research in industrial hygiene, safety engineering or related topics for thesis or dissertation.

Abbassi, Rouzbeh, Professor
Chemical Engineering
PHD, Memorial University, 2010

Abdel-Wahab, Ahmed I, Professor
Chemical Engineering-Qatar Campus
PHD, Texas A&M University, 2003

Akbulut, Mustafa, Professor
Chemical Engineering
PHD, University of California at Santa Barbara, 2007

Alam, Mohammad S, Senior Lecturer
Chemical Engineering
PHD, University of Hong Kong, 1999

Amin, Md Tanjin, Visiting Lecturer
Chemical Engineering
PHD, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2022

Aristidou, Aristos A, Professor
Chemical Engineering
PHD, William Marsh Rice University, 1995

Aydogmus, Turkan, Associate Professor of the Practice
Chemical Engineering
PHD, Texas A&M University, 2004

Balbuena, Perla B, Professor
Chemical Engineering
PHD, The University of Texas at Austin, 1996

Barteau, Mark A, Professor
Chemical Engineering
PHD, Stanford University, 1981

Djire, Abdoulaye, Assistant Professor
Chemical Engineering
PHD, University of Michigan, 2016

Economou, Ioannis, Professor
Chemical Engineering-Qatar Campus
PHD, Johns Hopkins University, 1993

El-Halwagi, Mahmoud M, Professor
Chemical Engineering
PHD, University of California at Los Angeles, 1990

Elabd, Yossef A, Professor
Chemical Engineering
PHD, Johns Hopkins University, 2001

Elbashir, Nimir O, Professor
Chemical Engineering-Qatar Campus
PHD, Auburn University, 2004

Green, Micah, Professor
Chemical Engineering
PHD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007

Hasan, M M Faruque, Professor
Chemical Engineering
PHD, National University of Singapore, 2010

Hilaly, Ahmad K, Professor of the Practice
Chemical Engineering
PHD, Colorado State University, 1992

Holtzapple, Mark T, Professor
Chemical Engineering
PHD, University of Pennsylvania, 1981

Hu, Chelsea, Assistant Professor
Chemical Engineering
PHD, Cornell University, 2018

Jayaraman, Arul, Professor
Chemical Engineering
PHD, University of California at Irvine, 1998

Jeong, Hae-Kwon, Professor
Chemical Engineering
PHD, University of Minnesota, 2004

Khan, Faisal Irshad, Professor
Chemical Engineering
PHD, Pondicherry University, 1998

Kravaris, Costas, Professor
Chemical Engineering
PHD, California Institute of Technology, 1984

Kwon, Joseph, Associate Professor
Chemical Engineering
PHD, University of California at Los Angeles, 2015

Lele, Pushkar P, Professor
Chemical Engineering
PHD, University of Delaware, Newark, 2010

Linke, Patrick, Professor
Chemical Engineering
PHD, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, 2001

Linke, Patrick, Professor
Chemical Engineering-Qatar Campus
PHD, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, 2001

Lutkenhaus, Jodie L, Professor
Chemical Engineering
PHD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007

Mashuga, Chad V, Associate Professor of the Practice
Chemical Engineering
PHD, Michigan Technological University, 1999

Mittal, Jeetain, Professor
Chemical Engineering
PHD, The University of Texas at Austin, 2007

Pistikopoulos, Efstratios, Professor
Chemical Engineering
PHD, Carnegie Mellon University, 1988

Rahmani, Nazmul, Professor of the Practice
Chemical Engineering
PHD, University of Alberta, 2004

Reeves, Baley A, Visiting Professor of the Practice
Chemical Engineering
PHD, Princeton University, 2010

Reeves, Greg, Associate Professor
Chemical Engineering
PHD, Princeton University, 2008

Rodden, John B, Professor of the Practice
Chemical Engineering
PHD, Texas A&M University, 1988

Salama, Ghada H, Instructional Professor
Chemical Engineering-Qatar Campus
PHD, Cairo University, 2001

Seminario, Jorge M, Professor
Chemical Engineering
PHD, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 1987

Sentmanat, Martin L, Professor of the Practice
Chemical Engineering
PHD, McGill University, 1995

Shetty, Manish M, Assistant Professor
Chemical Engineering
PHD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017

Shin, Jiho, Assistant Professor
Chemical Engineering
PHD, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 2018

Sun, Qing, Associate Professor
Chemical Engineering
PHD, University of Delaware, 2010

Sun, Rui, Research Assistant Professor
Chemical Engineering
PHD, Texas A&M University, 2020

Tamamis, Phanourios, Associate Professor
Chemical Engineering
PHD, University of Cyprus, 2010

Tseregounis, Spyros I, Professor of the Practice
Chemical Engineering
PHD, University of California at Los Angeles, 1984

Ugaz, Victor M, Professor
Chemical Engineering
PHD, Northwestern University, 1999

Vaddiraju, Sreeram, Associate Professor
Chemical Engineering
PHD, University of Louisville, 2006

Vechot, Luc N, Professor
Chemical Engineering-Qatar Campus
PHD, Ecole Natinale Superieure des Mines de Saint Etienne, France, 2007

Wang, Qingsheng, Professor
Chemical Engineering
PHD, Texas A&M University, 2010

Wilhite, Benjamin A, Associate Professor
Chemical Engineering
PHD, University of Notre Dame, 2003

Woodard, Susan L, Senior Lecturer
Chemical Engineering
PHD, Colorado State University, 1992

Wu, Hung-Jen, Associate Professor
Chemical Engineering
PHD, Texas A&M University, 2006

Xie, Shuyi, Assistant Professor
Chemical Engineering
PHD, University Of Minnesota-Twin Cities, 2020

Zhou, Aifen, Research Associate Professor
Chemical Engineering
PHD, Shandong University, 1999

Zhu, Xuejun, Assistant Professor
Chemical Engineering
PHD, University of California, Berkeley, 2017