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Program Requirements
Thesis Courses (31 credits)
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CHEE 697 Thesis Proposal (6 credits)
Overview
Chemical Engineering : Independent work under the supervision of the thesis advisor(s) leading to a thesis proposal.
Terms: Fall 2016, Winter 2017, Summer 2017
Instructors: Servio, Phillip (Fall) Servio, Phillip (Winter) Servio, Phillip (Summer)
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CHEE 698 Thesis Research 1 (12 credits)
Overview
Chemical Engineering : Ongoing research pertaining to thesis.
Terms: Fall 2016, Winter 2017, Summer 2017
Instructors: Servio, Phillip (Fall) Servio, Phillip (Winter) Servio, Phillip (Summer)
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CHEE 699 Thesis Research 2 (13 credits)
Overview
Chemical Engineering : Ongoing research pertaining to thesis.
Terms: Fall 2016, Winter 2017, Summer 2017
Instructors: Servio, Phillip (Fall) Servio, Phillip (Winter) Servio, Phillip (Summer)
Prerequisite: CHEE 698
Required Courses (4 credits)
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CHEE 681 Laboratory Safety 1 (1 credit)
Overview
Chemical Engineering : The basics of laboratory safety in a chemical engineering laboratory. Mandatory safety orientation (administration, contacts, fire, waste, emergency procedures) and official WHIMIS training.
Terms: Fall 2016, Winter 2017, Summer 2017
Instructors: Maric, Milan (Fall) Maric, Milan (Winter) Maric, Milan (Summer)
The course must be completed by the end of the first semester in which the course is offered during the student's program.
Restriction: Restricted to Chemical Engineering students.
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CHEE 682 Laboratory Safety 2 (1 credit)
Overview
Chemical Engineering : Demonstration of the safety of students' thesis experiments to the departmental safety committee.
Terms: Fall 2016, Winter 2017, Summer 2017
Instructors: Maric, Milan (Fall) Maric, Milan (Winter) Maric, Milan (Summer)
M.Eng. students must complete the course by the end of the first year of their degree. Ph.D. students must complete the course by the end of the third term of their degree.
Corequisite: CHEE 681
Restriction: Restricted to Chemical Engineering students.
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CHEE 687 Research Skills and Ethics (2 credits)
Overview
Chemical Engineering : The course provides a foundation in three areas: (i) integrity and ethical conduct, (ii) knowledge dissemination and translation, and (iii) research management. Ethical considerations in situations involving conflict of interest, authorship, and intellectual property attributions are discussed. Students will gain experience in identifying and selecting key information for different situations. Best practices in data reporting, maintenance of research notebooks and legal aspects of data ownership and rights are discussed.
Terms: Fall 2016
Instructors: Tufenkji, Nathalie (Fall)
Restriction(s): Restricted to graduate students registered in the Department of Chemical Engineering.
Complementary Courses (10 credits)
4 credits from the following:
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CHEE 611 Heat and Mass Transfer (4 credits)
Overview
Chemical Engineering : General conservation equations for volumes and interfaces; scaling analysis and approximate solutions to diffusion problems; reaction-diffusion processes; phase changes; convective heat and mass transfer; selected advanced topics.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2016-2017 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2016-2017 academic year.
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CHEE 621 Thermodynamics (4 credits)
Overview
Chemical Engineering : Theory and application of phase and chemical equilibria in multicomponent systems.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2016-2017 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2016-2017 academic year.
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CHEE 631 Foundations of Fluid Mechanics (4 credits)
Overview
Chemical Engineering : Rigorous derivation of equations of motion; creeping flow inviscid flow; boundary layer theory; hydrodynamic stability; turbulent flow, separated flows, drag on submerged bodies.
Terms: Fall 2016
Instructors: Leask, Richard L (Fall)
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CHEE 641 Chemical Reaction Engineering (4 credits)
Overview
Chemical Engineering : Interpretation of chemical reaction data, especially for heterogeneous systems. Residence time, complete segregation, maximum mixedness, other advanced concepts. Reactor design.
Terms: Winter 2017
Instructors: Berk, Dimitrios (Winter)
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CHEE 651 Advanced Biochemical Engineering (4 credits)
Overview
Chemical Engineering : The use of chemical engineering and biological principles in the study, design, use and creation of biologically-based processes and products. Topics: biochemical thermodynamics, protein engineering, manipulation of gene expression, transport phenomena and bioreactor design.
Terms: Winter 2017
Instructors: Hoesli, Corinne (Winter)
Restriction: Restricted to graduate students
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CHEE 662 Computational Methods (4 credits)
Overview
Chemical Engineering : Methods of weighted residuals; solution to non-linear algebraic equations; stability in nonlinear equations; bifurcations; mesh refinement strategies; convection dominated transport; hyperbolic equations, particle simulation methods.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2016-2017 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2016-2017 academic year.
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CHEE 672 Process Dynamics and Control (4 credits)
Overview
Chemical Engineering : Process representation and identification and simulation; sensor stability; sensitivity of feedback control systems; feedward control; discrete representation of continuous systems; controller tuning; adaptive control.
Terms: Fall 2016
Instructors: Perrier, Michel (Fall)
Prerequisite: CHEE 455
A minimum of 3 credits of Chemical Engineering courses at the 500, 600, or 700 level.
Any remaining complementary course credit requirements may be fulfilled by completing Chemical Engineering or other Engineering or Science courses at the 500, 600, or 700 level.
Faculty of Engineering—2016-2017 (last updated Aug. 26, 2016) (disclaimer)