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368 Course Descriptions/Chemical Engineering685. Directed Studies. Credit 1 to 4 each semester. Directed study of selected problems using recentdevelopments in business research methods. Classification 6 students may not enroll in this course.Prerequisite: Approval of instructor and department head.689. Special Topics in... Credit 1 to 4. Selected topics in an identified area of business administration.Prerequisite: Approval of instructor.693. Professional Study. Credit 1 to 6. Approved professional study project as part of the Mays MBAProgram. Enrollment limited to Business Administration G7 students.Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineeringwww.che.tamu.eduHead: M. N. Karim; Graduate Advisor: A. JayaramanThe 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 programsinclude a significant research component in addition to graduate coursework. Information about specificdepartmental requirements for coursework and examinations is available upon request from thegraduate advisor and on our website: www.che.tamu.edu.Some of the research areas available within the department include: advanced materials, appliedfluid mechanics and transport phenomena, biochemical engineering, catalysis, environmental processengineering, kinetics and reaction engineering, microelectronics and plasma processing, nanotechnology,natural gas conversion, polymers, process modeling and control, process optimization, processsafety and design, systems biology, thermodynamics, tissue engineering, and molecular simulation.Modern equipment is available in numerous laboratories to perform research in these and other areas.There is no foreign language requirement for the PhD program in chemical engineering.Chemical Engineering(CHEN)601. Chemical Engineering Laboratory Safety and Health. (1-0). Credit 1. Control of hazards associatedwith chemical engineering research laboratories and the chemical process industry; causes andprevention of accidents, emergency procedures, safety codes, health effects of toxic substances andexperimental design for safety. Prerequisite: Graduate classification.604. Chemical Engineering Process Analysis I. (3-0). Credit 3. Development and analysis of chemicalprocess models that involve systems of algebraic equations, ordinary differential equations and partialdifferential equations. Prerequisite: MATH 308 or approval of instructor.605. Chemical Engineering Process Analysis II. (3-0). Credit 3. Formulation of mathematical modelsand solution of resulting mass and energy balance equations by modern computational techniques,applications to separation processes, chemical kinetics, reaction engineering, heat and mass transfer.Prerequisite: CHEN 320 or approval of instructor.614. Advanced Transport Phenomena I. (4-0). Credit 4. First part of a two-semester sequence coveringadvanced transport phenomena; emphasis is placed on momentum transfer or fluid mechanics appliedto chemical engineering problems. Prerequisite: Approval of instructor.615. Advanced Transport Phenomena II. (3-0). Credit 3. Advanced energy and mass transfer in chemicalengineering processes. Prerequisite: Approval of instructor.623. Applications of Thermodynamics to Chemical Engineering. (3-0). Credit 3. Application of thermodynamicsto chemical engineering operations and processes. Prerequisite: CHEN 354 or approval ofinstructor.624. Chemical Engineering Kinetics and Reactor Design. (3-0). Credit 3. Rates and mechanisms ofchemical reactions. Thermal and catalytic reactions both homogeneous and heterogeneous. Prerequisite:CHEN 464 or approval of instructor.629. Transport Phenomena. (3-0). Credit 3. Principles of transfer of momentum, energy and mass studiedby application to advanced chemical engineering problems. Theoretical analogy of these three modes oftransfer. Prerequisite: CHEN 424 or approval of instructor.631. Process Dynamics and Advanced Process Control. (3-0). Credit 3. Modeling, analysis, and simulationof linear and nonlinear process systems; model-based control techniques for achieving desiredprocess dynamics. Prerequisite: CHEN 461 or approval of instructor.