88 courses with the subject CEN, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
CEN 200Selected Topics1-6
Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.
CEN 212Experimental Methods in Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering3
Statistical analysis and presentation of experimental data. Parameter estimation. Design of experiments. Hardware and software for computer interfacing. Collection, analysis, and reporting of laboratory data.
Material balances for single units and multistage processes. Recycle and bypass streams. Introduction to phase equilibrium. Energy balances including latent and sensible heat effects, heats of reaction.
Review of first law. Second law and thermodynamic analysis of processes. Power and refrigeration cycles. Thermodynamic properties of pure substances and homogeneous mixtures. Phase behavior of ideal solutions.
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.
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.
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.
Introduction to report writing and laboratory safety. Experiments on fluid mechanics and heat transfer. Analysis of experimental data. Engineering reports, summary reports, and oral presentations required.
Best practices for recognizing and managing chemical process safety hazards, preventing accidents and chemical exposures, and promoting safe work culture. Process safety administration, risk assessment, hazard analysis, case studies and safe process design methodologies.
Fluid statics. Shear stress and viscosity. Energy and momentum balances for flow systems. Dimensional analysis. Friction and drag coefficients. Turbulent flow of compressible and incompressible fluids. Non-Newtonian fluids.
Principles of heat and mass transfer. Conduction, convection, and radiation. Thermal properties of materials. Solutions of steady state and transient heat and mass transfer problems. Diffusion with chemical reaction. Convective mass transfer.
Thermodynamics of homogeneous mixtures and mixing processes. Phase equilibrium for nonideal solutions. Equilibrium stage separations with applications including distillation and extraction. Chemical reaction equilibria.
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.
Report writing and laboratory safety. Statistical analysis and experimental design. Experiments on reaction kinetics, separations, and mass transfer. Engineering reports, summary reports, and oral presentations required.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 principles for plant design and optimal process operation. Cost estimation and profitability analysis. Shortcut and computer-aided process design techniques. Environmental impact and health and safety concerns.
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.
In-depth exploration of a problem or problems. Individual independent study upon a plan submitted by the student. Admission by consent of supervising instructor or instructors and the department.
CEN 520Radiochemistry, Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing and Nonproliferation3
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.
CEN 540Experiential Studies in Nuclear Technology3
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.
CEN 573Principles and Design in Air Pollution Control3
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.
CEN 602Ethical Issues in Engineering and Research1-3
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.