Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.

Radiochemistry for nuclear reactors and nuclear fuel reprocessing; nonproliferation issues through detection and monitoring, nuclear fuel reprocessing and design, waste vitrification and storage facilities, safety issues in nuclear fuel reprocessing.

Discussion of the complex issues related to biomedical-device infections. Investigation of the impact of biomaterials, microbiology, detection, and device regulation to reduce biomedical-device infections.

Introduction to experimental methods, procedures and research techniques through projects at participating government facilities, industrial entities or Syracuse University.

Applicability of chemical-engineering unit operations and unit processes in fluid-waste treatment. Membrane process, including electrodialysis and reverse osmosis, IPC (independent physical and chemical) process of waste treatment, coagulation, deep-bed filtration, and carbon-column operation.

Polymer structure, physical properties, and applications of polymers. Polymer synthesis, characterization of molecular structure, and copolymerization and blending. Unique physical properties of polymeric materials. Processing and applications of polymers.

Occurrence, nature and properties, major sources and quantities of contaminants. Ambient air concentration levels, community distribution patterns, and control of air pollution.

Fundamental principles of pollution control, design of control processes and equipment. Criteria for selection of control processes and equipment for gaseous and particulate pollutants.

Modeling and linearization of process dynamics. Transfer functions. Performance and stability of feedback control loops. Introduction to multivariable and digital controls.

Review of environmental regulations. Evaluating the environmental fate of chemicals. Techniques for improving environmental performance of processes. Methods for evaluating environmental performance, design of unit operations, and flowsheets for pollution prevention. Environmental cost accounting.

Offered through SUAbroad by educational institution outside the United States. Student registers for the course at the foreign institution and is graded according to that institution's practice. SUAbroad works with the S.U. academic department to assign the appropriate course level, title, and grade for the student's transcript.

Conversion and reactor sizing, isothermal reactor design for flow and batch systems, rate laws and stoichiometry, analysis of rate data, multiple reactions, introduction to heterogeneous reactor design.

Selected topics in research and new areas of competence in chemical engineering.

Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.

Selected topics in bioengineering. Presentations by internal and external speakers, discussions with students.

Explores the application of professional norms to ethical decision making in engineering and scientific research. Includes examination of cases in light of the requirements of the Responsible Conduct of Research.

Introduction to microbiology, biochemical kinetics. Biochemical-reactor design, including methods for oxygen transfer and control. Introduction to separation processes in biochemical engineering. Additional work for graduate students.

Establish working knowledge of experimental tools to characterize solid materials (catalysts, metals, semiconductors). Theory for each technique, information provided for various research topics, experimental parameters, and data interpretation will be discussed. Additional work required of graduate students.

Mechanical, electrical, and physiochemical behavior of aerosol particles. Theories of deposition and filtration of particles from gases. Experimental methods for measuring particle size distributions.

Integration of biology, chemistry, and engineering to understand how pharmaceuticals are delivered to, and behave within, the body. Includes drug formulation, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, controlled release, and targeted delivery. Additional work is required of graduate students.

Exploration into the physical properties of polymers focusing on polymer theoretical physics, characterization of their physical properties, and the importance of their structure-property relationships in various applications.

This interdisciplinary class for science and engineering students provides an introduction to the quantitative description of biological systems and processes. The focus is on the biological and physical aspects of structure and function of cells and their subsystems.

In this seminar course on soft and biological materials and interfaces, teams from science and engineering will identify, discuss and assess current articles from the literature. Writing skills related to publishing peer-reviewed research are introduced.

Review of undergraduate fluids; kinematics, vorticity; dynamics, stresses, Euler and Navier-Stokes equations; energy, Bernoulli's equation; potential flows; Stokes flows; boundary layers; flow separation; other applications.

Parallel, systematic treatment of momentum, energy, and mass transfer processes. Problem formulation by "shell balances" and the use of general conservation equations. Applications include the description of velocity, temperature, and concentration profiles.

Students will analyze the human health impact of exposure to toxic chemicals in air, water, and soil according to USEPA Risk Assessment Guidance for Superfund. Additional work required of graduate students.

Classical and molecular thermodynamics in chemical equilibrium, with applications. Emphasis on concepts of statistical mechanics and correlation with properties of gases and condensed matter. Additional work required of graduate students.

Materials related to energy technologies and existing energy resources. Topics include: geologic fuels; photovoltaics; wind energy; thermoelectrics; electrical energy storage; hydrogen production, storage, and use; solid-state lighting; nuclear energy. Additional work required of graduate students

An introduction to chemical principles in natural and engineered environmental systems. Thermodynamics and kinetics of reactions; acid-base chemistry; environmental organic chemistry; treatment process design applications. Includes selected laboratory exercises. Additional work is required of graduate students.

Survey of modern technologies available for the production of transportation fuels from abundant natural resources. Additional work required of graduate students.

Surface chemistry and modern methods in analysis of catalytic systems. Special consideration will be given to green chemistry and sustainability.

Participation in a discipline or subject related experience. Student must be evaluated by written or oral reports or an examination. Permission in advance with the consent of the department chairperson, instructor, and dean. Limited to those in good academic standing.

Use of fundamental physical, chemical and mathematical principles involving chemical engineering problems. Problems associated with transport theory and chemical kinetics requiring the solution of partial differential equations using orthogonal function expansions. Duhammel's theorem and other techniques.

General Principles and application of environmental microbiology and microbial processes. Role of microbes in water pollution control, environmental health, and element cycling in the environment. Additional work is required of graduate students.

Students learn the governing principles of conventional and advanced manufacturing techniques, which are adapted/modified to engineer living tissues/organs, biomedical products and test-platforms for investigating fundamental cell biology. Additional work required for grad students.

Chemical Engineering Masters Project, to be completed by each student as an individual advanced design project, involving a chemical process synthesis. Students are expected to apply mathematical and engineering concepts to complete the design calculations.

Exploration of a problem, or problems, in depth. Individual independent study upon a plan submitted by the student. Admission by consent of supervising instructor(s) and the department.

Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.

Tensor analysis. Reynold's transport theorem. Constitutive equations for stress. Momentum transport equations. Creeping flow, nonviscous flow, boundary layer flow. Flow through porous media. Turbulence. Energy transport equation. Conduction, natural and forced convection solutions. Boundary layer heat transfer.

Multicomponent molecular and convective diffusion. Associated boundary value problems. Limitations of analogies for heat, mass, and momentum transfer. Boundary layer calculations. Eddy diffusion. Interphase energy and mass transport. Interfacial phenomena.

Selected topics, such as "Introduction to Statistical Theory of Turbulence." Probability theory, statistical mechanical concepts. Cartesian tensors. Correlation functions. Energy spectrum. Turbulent diffusion. Diffusion and reaction in boundary layers.

Foundations of chemical equilibrium computation. Mathematical structure of the chemical equilibrium problem. Methods based on optimization techniques. Methods based on the solution of non-linear equations. Consideration of nonideality and condensed phases. Industrial application.

Introduction to flow phenomena in polymeric fluids; the non-Newtonian rheological behavior of polymer solutions and melts; constitutive relations for the flow properties; applications in polymer processing; characterization of polymer mechanical properties, morphology and structure.

Diffusion as a kinetic-molecular phenomenon. Steady-state cascade theory. The ideal cascade. Squared-off and square cascades. Criteria of cascade optimization. Gaseous diffusion processes. Membrane separation processes, selective permeation of gases, vapors, and liquids; reverse osmosis and water desalination, electrodialysis.

Multicomponent distillation. Extractive and azeotropic distillation. Gas adsorption and stripping, cryogenic separation and purification processes. Fixed-bed gas and vapor adsorption. Unsteady-state behavior of cascades.

Homogenous reactions: tubular and stirred reactors, axial and radial transport. Residence time distribution. Heterogenous reactions-catalytic: rates, pores, transport, in fixed and fluid beds, non-catalytic reaction and growth of new phases.

Multicomponent mass transport with reaction in two-phase dispersions, particularly liquid extractions. Convective diffusion with reaction, turbulent mass transport, population balance and simulation models, two-phase flow models, reactor/extractor design. Application of models to design gas-liquid-solid slurry may also be covered.

Recent advances in chemical engineering science.

Recent advances in chemical engineering research, including experimental techniques.

Exploration of a problem, or problems, in depth. Individual independent study upon a plan submitted by the student. Admission by consent of supervising instructor(s) and the department.

Preliminary research and investigation on a topic of interest under supervision of a member of the faculty.

Investigation of a chemical engineering problem. An oral defense is required in accordance with current departmental guidelines. Required of all students electing the non-thesis option for a master¿s degree.

Independent investigation on a topic of interest under supervision of a member of the faculty.