Chemical Engineering 401–402: Senior Laboratory
Course Description
Our Senior laboratory is (or can be) one of the CAPSTONE courses in your education in chemical engineering. It exposes you to a series of experiments, each of which reflects a combination of concepts that you have learned in different courses: thermodynamics, mass balances, fluid mechanics, heat & mass transfer, kinetics, separations, control and dynamics, design, etc. Specific topics such as polymerization, catalysis, and bioengineering are represented in the experiments, which are examples of chemical engineering concepts important in industry and research. You will learn to apply combinations of the principles you have learned in class to real processes.
You will find that there are often practical differences between the idealized concepts that you learned in class and the reality of these concepts as seen in the laboratory. This is a crucial aspect of your education. The concepts are sound and correct, but often involve one or more assumptions or approximations that will not hold perfectly in the laboratory. As an engineer, you are challenged to evaluate the application of these principles to complex (i.e., real) processes. Read more. . . .
Labs
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| Distillation | Polymerization Kinetics | Heat Exchanger |
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| Methanation |
Polymer Processing: |
Ion Exchange |
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| Membrane Separation | Bioseparations Manual | Biodiesel pH Control |
Groups
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| Fantastic Four | Godel Team | Plastics |
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| Puffton Chemical | The Group | Three ChemEteers |
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| ADP | A-Team | ATES |
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| Awesome | Best Judgement | Catalytic Activity |
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| MBD2 | Name | That Team |
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Instructors
Prof. Wm. Curtis , Jr.
105 Goessmann Lab
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Massachusetts Amherst
686 N Pleasant St.
Amherst, MA 01003-3110
1 413 545 0316 (office)
1 413 545 1647 (FAX)
E-mail: wconner@ecs.umass.edu
Prof. David Ford
Office: 209 Goessmann Lab
Department of Chemical Engineering
Unniversity of Massachusetts Amherst
686 N Pleasant St.
Amherst, MA 01003-9303
1 413 577 0134 (office)
1 413 545 1647 (FAX)
E-mail: ford@ecs.umass.edu
Prof. T. J. (Lakis) Mountziaris
Office: 159 Goessmann Lab
Department of Chemical Engineering
Unniversity of Massachusetts Amherst
686 N Pleasant St.
Amherst, MA 01003-9303
1 413 545 2507 (office)
1 413 545 3540 (FAX)
E-mail: tjm@ecs.umass.edu
Teaching Assistants
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ELAB II E-mail: aatmuri@ecs.umass.edu Phone: (57)7 2591 (office) Responsibilites: Injection molding, Extrusion |
Sheng Chu ELab II E-mail: schu@ecs.umass.edu Phone: (57)7 2591 (office) Responsibilities: Protein Separation, Polymerization |
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211 Goessmann Lab E-mail: pkaranjkar@ecs.umass.edu Phone: Responsibilities: |
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ELab II E-mail: swilson@ecs.umass.edu Phone: (57)7 2591 (office) Responsibilities: Fermentation, Ion Exchange |
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155 Goessmann Lab E-mail: smaindarkar@ecs.umass.edu Phone: (57)7 0137 (office) Responsibilities: pH control, Peer reviews, Website, SPARK, Manuals |