General Curriculum Core Courses for MS and PhD
155:501 Advanced Transport Phenomena
Momentum transport processes in laminar- and turbulent-flow systems. Development and application of steady and unsteady boundary-layer processes, including growth, similitude principles, and separation. Potential flow theory coupled with viscous dissipation at boundaries. Momentum transport in fixed- and fluid-bed exchangers and reactors. Prerequisite: Undergraduate transport phenomena or instructor's permission.
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155:502 Advanced Transport Phenomena II
Energy balances derived from first and second law approaches to open systems, with reaction. Conduction in fluids and solids, both steady and unsteady examples. Convection in laminar- and turbulent-flow systems. Diffusion and its treatment in stagnant and flowing media. Two-phase systems, coupled reaction, and mass transfer. Interphase transport. Prerequisite: Undergraduate transport phenomena or instructor's permission.
155:507 Analytical Methods in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
Analytical solutions to deterministic mathematical models encountered in chemical and biochemical engineering, including environmental and safety systems. Emphasis is on purpose, philosophy, classification, development, and analytical solutions of models occurring in transport phenomena, thermochemical, and reactor systems. Prerequisites: Undergraduate differential and integral calculus and differential equations or permission of the graduate director.
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Basic principles of classical chemical thermodynamics. Chemical and physical equilibria and their relationships in simple and reactive systems. Estimation and correlation of thermodynamic functions, applications of thermodynamic principles to transport and rate processes. Irreversible and statistical thermodynamic topics also introduced. Prerequisite: Undergraduate or graduate degree in engineering or chemistry. Prerequisites: Undergraduate thermodynamics or instructor's permission.
Prerequisites: Undergraduate kinetics or instructor's permission.
ME Core Courses
155:545 Synthesis, Separation and Sterile Processing in the Pharmaceutical Industry
155:546 Pharmaceutical Unit Operations
An introduction to the essential operations used in the manufacture of pharmaceutical products. The pharmaceutical product life cycle, variability, testing, and specifications of pharmaceutical ingredients. Unit operations including blending, granulation, fluidized bed operations, milling, capsule filling, compaction, tablet coating, and other processes will be addressed. How the output of one process is the input to the next process, and how deviations can cascade along the production sequence until they cause process failures. Design, scale-up, troubleshooting, and optimization.
155:547 Statistical Analysis and Design of Pharmaceutical Operations
An introduction to statistical analysis and experimental design methods and their applications to designing and optimizing pharmaceutical processes. Classic statistical concepts and methods using pharmaceutical examples including product/process development scenarios, routine in-process and finished product testing, and failure investigations. Regulatory requirements for test of samples, sampling plans, tablet and capsule assay, content uniformity, hardness, friability, dissolution, and bioavailability tests.
16:155:549 Advanced Engineering Pharmaceutical Kinetics, Thermodynamics and Transport Processes (Pharmaceutical Development, Administration and Absorption)