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Yale Course Listings
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The Chemical Engineering Major at Yale
The Chemical Engineering curriculum starts from a solid foundation in the basic sciences of chemistry, physics, and mathematics which students take during their first two years. From those foundations, a systematic approach to problem solving is taught focusing on the fundamental engineering sciences. To complete the training process, many students choose to start laboratory research with faculty members and often publish.
Prerequisites: MATH 112a or b, 115a or b, and 120a or b; PHYS 180a, 181b; CHEM 114 and 116L, or 118a; ENAS 130b. Students with advanced high school preparation may reduce the number of prerequisites.
BS Degree in Chemical Engineer ABET: 18 course credits Required: ENAS 194a or b; CHEM 220a or 225b; 221b or 227a; 332a, 333b and 331L (fall term); MENG 361a; CENG 210a, 300a, 301b, 315b, 411a, 412b, 416b 480a
BS Degree in Engineering Science (Chemical): 10 Course Credits Required: ENAS 194a or b; CHEM 220a or 225b, and 221b or 227a; or 332a, 333b; MENG 361a; CENG 210a, 300a, 301b, 315b, 411a, 490a or b
Example Schedule
Freshman Year
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CHEM 114
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CHEM 114
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MATH 115
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MATH 120
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CHEM 116L
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CHEM 116L
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Sophomore Year
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CHEM 220
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CHEM 221
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ENAS 194
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ENAS 130
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PHYS 180
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PHYS 181
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CENG 210
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Junior Year
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CHEM 332
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CHEM 333
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MENG 361
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CENG 301
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CENG 300
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CENG 315
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CHEM 331L
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Junior Elective
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Senior Year
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CENG 411
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CENG 412
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CENG 480
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CENG 416
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Senior Elective
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Senior Elective
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Chemical Engineering Courses
CENG 120: Introduction to Environmental Engineering
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Introduction to engineering principles related to the environment, with emphasis on causes of problems and technologies for abatement. Topics include air and water pollution, global climate change, hazardous chemical and radioactive wastes, and green technologies.
CENG 210: Principles of Chemical Engineering and Process Modeling
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Analysis of the transport and reactions of chemical species as applied to problems in chemical, biochemical, and environmental systems. Emphasis on the interpretation of laboratory experiments, mathematical modeling, and dimensional analysis. Lectures include classroom demonstrations.
CENG 300: Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics
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Analysis of equilibrium systems. Topics include energy conservation, entropy, heat engines, Legendre transforms, derived thermodynamic potentials and equilibrium criteria, multicomponent systems, chemical reaction and phase equilibria, systematic derivation of thermodynamic identities, criteria for thermodynamic stability, and introduction to statistical thermodynamics.
CENG 301: Chemical Kinetics and Chemical Reactors
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Physical-chemical principles and mathematical modeling of chemical reactors. Topics include homogeneous and heterogeneous reaction kinetics, catalytic reactions, systems of coupled reactions, selectivity and yield, chemical reactions with coupled mass transport, nonisothermal systems, and reactor design. Applications from problems in environmental, biomedical, and materials engineering.
CENG 315: Transport Phenomena
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Unified treatment of momentum, energy, and chemical species transport including conservation laws, flux relations, and boundary conditions. Topics include convective and diffusive transport, transport with homogeneous and heterogeneous chemical reactions and phase change, and interfacial transport phenomena. Emphasis on problem analysis and mathematical modeling, including problem formulation, scaling arguments, analytical methods, approximation techniques, and numerical solutions.
CENG 351: Biomedical Engineering I — Quantitative Physiology
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Together with the companion course BENG 352b, a yearlong presentation of the fundamentals of biomedical engineering. Demonstration of the use of engineering analysis and synthesis in problems in the life sciences and medicine; focus on modeling of molecular physiological processes and design of artificial organs. Lectures are coordinated with BENG 350a to illustrate how engineering analysis can be used to understand physiological processes. Additional topics include pharmacokinetics, heat and mass transfer in physiological systems, hemodialysis, drug delivery, and tissue engineering.
CENG 373: Air Pollution Control
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Kinetics, thermodynamics, and transport of chemical reactions of common air pollutants including suspended particulate matter. The role of surface chemistry and transport phenomena in air pollution. Pollutant dispersion modeling. Technology available to prevent or control air pollutants.
CENG 377: Water Quality Control
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Study of the preparation of water for domestic and other uses and treatment of waste water for recycling or discharge to the environment. Topics include processes for removal of organics and inorganics, regulation of dissolved oxygen, and techniques such as ion exchange, electrodialysis, reverse osmosis, activated carbon adsorption, and biological methods.
CENG 411: Separation and Purification Processes
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Theory and design of separation processes for multicomponent and/or multiphase mixtures via equilibrium and rate phenomena. Topics include single-stage and cascaded absorption, adsorption, extraction, distillation, partial condensation, filtration, and crystallization processes. Applications to environmental engineering (air and water pollution control), biomedical-chemical engineering (artificial organs, drug purification), food processing, and semiconductor processing.
CENG 412: Chemical Engineering Laboratory
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Basic experiments in chemical engineering science, including interpretation, analysis, and modeling of experimental results. Typical experiments include liquid level control, convective heat transfer, electrophoresis of colloidal particles, surface tension, surface wettability measurements, particle sedimentation, microfiltration, and flow in porous media.
CENG 471: Independent Research
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Faculty-supervised individual student research and design projects. Emphasis on the integration of mathematics with basic and engineering sciences in the solution of a theoretical, experimental, and/or design problem.
CENG 480: Chemical Engineering Process Control
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Transient regime modeling and simulations of chemical processes. Conventional and state-space methods of analysis and control design. Applications of modern control methods in chemical engineering. Course work includes a design project.
CENG 490: Senior Research Project
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Individual research and/or design project supervised by a faculty member in Chemical Engineering, or in a related field with permission of the director of undergraduate studies. (Mainly for non-ABET degrees)
MENG 361 Mechanical Engineering II: Fluid Mechanics
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Mechanical properties of fluids, kinematics, Navier-Stokes equations, boundary conditions, hydrostatics, Euler's equations, Bernoulli's equation and applications, momentum theorems and control volume analysis, dimensional analysis and similitude, pipe flow, turbulence, concepts from boundary layer theory, elements of potential flow.
ENAS 130: Introduction to Computing for Engineers and Scientist
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An introduction to the use of the Fortan and C++ programing languages and the software packages Mathematica and MATLAB to solve a variety of problems encountered in matermatics, the natural sciences, and engineering. Topics include general problem-solving techniques, object-oriented programming, elementary numerical methods, data analysis, and a brief introduction to numerical simulations.