Chemical and Petrochemical Engineering Program (CPE)
The chemical and petrochemical engineering program is looking for strengthen its position in areas where it is viewed as preeminent, including: chemical process industries, unit operation, separation processes, transport phenomena, catalysis and reaction engineering, pharmaceutical engineering, advanced process modeling and process simulations. Continue to build upon our strong foundation in areas including green chemistry, clean production and renewable energy (e.g., solar, biofuels, energy storage) and to some extent in pharmaceutical and biomedical engineering, with the aim of becoming recognized as a top-tier program for education and research in these areas.
Specialization outcomes
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the fundamentals, basic characteristics and features of organic and inorganic reactions, and their application in chemical process industries including petroleum refining, natural gas processing, petrochemicals industry, electrochemistry, fertilizers and ceramics, etc.
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the principles of chemical engineering including chemical reaction equilibrium and thermodynamics; mass and energy balance; transport processes; separation processes, mechanical unit operations and process control.
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of general principles of design techniques specific to particular products and processes including reactor and vessel design.
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of environmental impact of various industries, waste minimization and treatment of industrial facilities.
- Integrate processing steps into a sequence and apply analysis technique such as energy and mass balance.
- Collect data, draw simplified equipment flow sheets, charts and curves and interpret data derived from laboratory observation.
- Perform complete mass and energy balances for chemical engineering plants.
- Conduct troubleshooting in chemical engineering plants.
- Use chemical engineering IT tools and programming in design.
- Determine the characteristics and performance of measurement and control systems.
- CPE 415 Senior Project I
- CPE 420 Senior Project II
PROGRAM COURSES
Compulsory Courses: (Each course weights 3 credit hours)
| CPE 213 | Material and Energy Balance |
| CPE 311 | Seminar on CPE (2Cr.hr) |
| CPE 312 | Thermodynamics for Chemical Eng. |
| CPE 313 | Chemical Process Technologies I (Organic.) |
| CPE 314 | Chemical Process Technologies II (Inorganic) |
| CPE 315 | Chemical Reaction Kinetics |
| CPE 316 | Separation Processes |
| CPE 321 | Project Based Learning on CPE (2Cr.hr) |
| CPE 322 | Chemical Process Technologies III (Gas and Petrochemicals) |
| CPE 323 | Corrosion and Electrochemical Eng. |
| CPE 324 | Chemical Process Modeling |
| CPE 325 | Mechanical Separation Process |
| CPE 411 | Unit operations Laboratory |
| CPE 412 | Chemical Process control |
| CPE 421 | Clean Production and Sustainable Development |
| CPE 422 | Plant Design and Process simulation |
| CPE 450 | Industrial Training |
Elective Courses (Each course weights 3 credit hours)
| CPE421 | Petroleum Engineering |
| CPE422 | Polymers Engineering |
| CPE423 | Catalysis Engineering |
| CPE424 | Desalination Technologies |
| CPE425 | Design of Waste Treatment Units |
| CPE426 | Biofuel Engineering |
| CPE427 | Chemical Engineering Computer Skills |
| CPE428 | Renewable Energy Resources and Engineering |
| CPE429 | Fuel Cell Engineering |
| CPE430 | Surface Analysis |
| CPE431 | Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology |
| CPE432 | Process Optimization |
| CPE433 | Air Pollution Control |
| CPE434 | Chemical Process Safety |
| CPE435 | Introduction to Nanotechnology |
| CPE436 | Biochemicals and food Industry |
| CPE 437 | Chemical Engineering Materials |
| CPE 438 | Unit operations in Pharmaceutical Industry |
| CPE 439 | Seminar in chemical Engineering (II) |
Graduation Project Thesis:
Industrial training
CPE 450 Industrial Training (3 credit hours)