Lecture 14Chemical Engineering

Director of Undergraduate Studies:

Professor Kofke, 510 Furnas

Director of Graduate Studies:

Professor Mountziaris, 905 Furnas

Chair

Professor Lund, 306 Furnas

Looking Back to the Turn of the Last Century...

Fear that soon it would not be possible to feed all the people in the world.

Chemical Engineers solved the problem– Haber (1918 Nobel Prize)/Bosch (1931 Nobel Prize)– Process for synthesis of ammonia

» 350 to 500 ºC & ~ 1.1 Tons/in2

And now at the turn of the 20th century:– Global warming– Protection of the environment– Depletion of natural resources (synthetic fuels)

Ammonia Synthesis Plant

Jobs CEs Do Flow (pump/compressor size, pipe size,

pressure drops through equipment) Reactor Design/ Reaction Engineering Heating, Cooling, Refrigeration, Heat

Transfer Materials (polymers, metals, ceramics,

catalysts) synthesis and/or selection Separation (reactants, final products) by

many methods (distillation, absorption, adsorption, crystallization, etc.)

Jobs CEs Do

Plant Design / Process Optimization Safety Plant Operation Environmental / Waste Treatment Sales, Marketing, Distribution Law, Medicine, Management Education

Tools CEs Use Mathematics (algebra, calculus, differential

equations, numerical methods) Chemistry (inorganic, organic, physical) Mass, Energy and Momentum Balances Thermodynamics and Kinetics Transport Phenomena / Transfer Operations Unit Operations Process Control & Optimization Process Simulators Modeling and Computation

Chemical Engineering Facts

U.S. Initial Placement of CE’s, 1998– Industry 57.2%– Government 2.2%– Graduate School 14.4%– Returned Overseas 1.7%– Unemployed 6.6%– Other 4.2%– Unknown 13.6%

Industries that Employ CEs Petroleum, petrochemical, chemical Plastics / polymers Pharmaceutical Fine and high performance chemicals Food Microelectronics Biotechnology Automobile Education and Professional

Industry Employment 1998

Chemical 26.1% Fuels 10.8% Electronics 11.4% Food/Consumer Products 14.6% Design & Construction 7.2% Materials 6.0% Biotechnology (Pharmaceuticals) 4.6% Environmental 2.6% Pulp & Paper 2.9% Public Utilities 0.8% Other Industries 13%

The CE CurriculumFreshmen

Fall– Calculus I– Chemistry– Eng. Solutions– General Education (2)

Spring– Calculus II– Physics I– Chemistry II– General Education (2)

The CE CurriculumSophomore

Fall– Calculus III– Physics II– Engineering Thermo– CE 212 (Mass &

Energy Balances)– General Education

Spring– Differential Equations– Statics– CE Thermo– EAS 230– Technical Elective

(Communications)

The CE CurriculumJunior

Fall– Organic Chemistry I– CE Design– Transport Processes I– CE laboratory I– General education

Spring– Organic Chemistry II– Physical Chemistry &

lab– CE Unit Operations I– Transport Processes II– CE laboratory II– General education

The CE CurriculumSenior

Fall– CE Unit Operations II– CE Reaction

Engineering– Material Science &

Corrosion– CE laboratory III– CE Technical Elective– General education

Spring– CE Plant Design– CE laboratory IV– CE Technical Elective– Technical Elective– Engineering Elective

CE Electives (Courses)

Rheology of fluids Introduction to polymers Engineering and process economics Process analysis and synthesis Process control Biochemical engineering Colloid and surface phenomena Frontiers of chemical technology

CE Electives & Programs

Internship, ECI, Co-op Independent Study NSF REU in Environmentally Benign

Processing BS/MEng dual degree program BS/MBA program

CE Program Quality

Student AIChE Chem-E Car Team– First and Second Places in Northeast– Compete at nationals in November– Last year, 3rd at nationals in environmental design

competition Most SUNY Chancellor’s Award Winners in EAS

– 4 of 8 tenured professors Nationally ranked 29th

– out of 93 that were ranked and 161 total Only CE in SUNY

CE Faculty Quality

AIChE Directory lists 161 Chem. Eng. Depts.; ours is ranked 29th in most recent NRC

NRC Ranking is 13th on per faculty basis: (Chem. Eng. Ed. 33, 72, 1999)

10th in the world in “publication records of Chem. Eng. Depts: Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

7th in the U.S. in citation impact: Institute for Scientific Information (University Science Indicators)

Externally Supported Research (1999-2000FY):$1,224,136

U.S. Medal of Science winner National Academy of

Engineering member National Society Awards:

7 National Science Foundation (NSF) Young Investigator Awards (PYI, etc.), R. H. Wilhelm Award (AIChE), Alpha Chi Sigma Award (AIChE), National Science Foundation Creativity Award, Kendall Award (ACS), Walker Award (AIChE), Norman Hackerman Award in Solid State Science and Technology (Electrochemical Society), Langmuir Distinguished Lecturer Award (ACS), E. V. Murphree Award in Industrial & Engineering Chemistry (ACS), AT&T Foundation Award (ASEE),, 2 National Institute of Health (NIH) First Awards, 3 Dow Outstanding New Faculty Award (ASEE), Cray Research Award for Supercomputing Applications, 7 SUNY Chancellor’s Awards for Teaching Excellence