The chemical processing option focuses on courses in Chemical Engineering. Environmental engineers trained in this area emphasize waste minimization during chemical processing, such as petroleum refining. They also have expertise in reactor designs to treat wastes from chemical processing industries, such as pharmaceuticals and plastics.
OPTION COURSES
• CHEN 3220 Chemical Engineering Separations & Mass Transfer (required for this option, 3 credit hours, S;
prerequisites: CHEN 3200, CHEN 3320; co-requisite: CHEN 3210 or MCEN 3022; or equivalents)
• CHEN 4330 Chemical Engineering Reaction Kinetics (required for this option, 3 credit hours, S;
prerequisites: CHEN 3320, CHEN 3210 or MCEN 3022)
Students select remaining 3 credits from among the following:
• CHEM 3311 Organic Chemistry 1 (4 credit hours; prerequisite: CHEN 1211; co-requisite: CHEM 3321 or 3361)
• CHEM 3331 Organic Chemistry 2 (4 credit hours; prerequisite CHEM 3311 or 3351; co-requisite CHEM 3341 or 3381)
• CHEN 4670 Environmental Separations (3 credit hours, every other S; prerequisite: CHEN 2120, senior or graduate)
• CHEN 4680 Environmental Process Engineering (3 credit hours; senior or graduate standing) CHEMISTRY MINOR
You may want to consider getting a minor in chemistry. The minimum 23 credits required for this minor can be largely included in the 128 EVEN degree with chemical processing option. If you plan carefully use your free elective and technical electives as chemistry courses that fulfill the minor requirements, only 3 additional credits on top of the 128 would be needed. See details of the chemistry minor here.
Specifically you will take:
CHEM 1131-5 General Chemistry 2(apply toward free elective and lower division technical elective in EVEN); CHEM 3311-4 Organic Chemistry 1 (petition EVEN to replace CVEN 4424 requirement); CHEM 3321-1 Laboratory in Organic Chemistry 1 (use as tech elective); CHEM 3331-4 Organic Chemistry 2 (use toward chemical processing option in EVEN + tech elective); CHEM 3341-1 Laboratory in Organic Chemistry 2 (use as tech elective in EVEN); CHEM 4521-3 Physisical Chemistry for Engineers (req'd for minor and EVEN degree), and CHM 4531-3 Physical Chemistry 2 orCHEM 4011-3 Modern Inorganic Chemistry (this is required for minor but won't fit into EVEN 128 credits). Note that you must take an upper division earth science course for your final technical elective (3 credits).
