What is Chemical Engineering?

Chemical engineering is the management of processes which are used to up-grade materials by changing their physical and chemical properties. It is a key engineering discipline, which combines knowledge of basic chemistry and mathematics with engineering principles and real world economic considerations.

 

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Better grades mean better pay for new graduates

Overall grade point average     Chemists   Chemical engineers
 A $32,000 $49,000
 A- $32,000 $48,000
 B $30,000 $45,700
 C $29,300 $40,000

 

Note: Median starting salaries for graduates with full-time permanent employment and less than 12 months of technical experience prior to graduation. Source:  ACS starting salary survey 1999

 

The correlation between class attendance and the total grade achieved for the 2009 Spring Semester.

 

 

 

Last Updated 19/03/2010

 

  • 19/03/2010: Homework 2: Textbook Problems: 1.11, 1.18, 2.13, 2.17, 4.5, 5.6, 5.12, 5.14 Due Date: 29.03.2010 Monday.

  • 19/03/2010: Solution of Quiz 1 is added to the lecture notes.

 

  • 12/03/2010: Grades of Homework 1 are announced.

  • 12/03/2010: Attendance list is updated.

 

  • 11/03/2010: Homework 1 hint 1: For the "Prediction of the Energy Consumption", you should only fit a trendline to the  graph of "total energy consumption versus population". Do not try to add any trendlines to the graph of "Consumption of petroleum, natural gas, coal and renewable energy versus year".

  • 11/03/2010: Homework 1 hint 2: Since, two decimals for the  the linear, 2nd and 3rd order polynomials is not adequate for the trendline  of the graph "total energy consumption versus population", you can increase the decimal numbers. Or alternatively, you can change the unit of population (i.e. 40.000.000 people to 40 millions of people), in that case two decimals will be sufficient.  For the exponential trendline there is no such problem.

 

  • 05/03/2010: Homework 1: Statistical Analysis on the Energy Consumption in Turkey from 1980 to 2008. Download the excel file (Office 2007 compatible), or the excel file (Office 2003 compatible). Follow the instructions in the first worksheet. Deadline: 12/03/2010 Friday 12.30 pm (KB405)

  • 05/03/2010: Lecture notes are updated. An excel problem is added. Please also download the power point slide "Introduction 2".

 

  • 01/03/2010: Lecture notes are updated. The introduction is modified. Please download the new version.

  • 26/02/2010: Lecture notes are updated. An excel tutorial is added.

  • 23/02/2010: Check the lecture notes and download the power point slide "CHE110-Introduction".

  • 23/02/2010: Download the documents given under the link Chemical Engineering.

  • 23/02/2010: Please read the course outline under "Course Information".

 

 

 

Course Syllabus

 

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Important Dates

 

Lecture Notes

 

 

Grades

 

 

What is Chemical Engineering?

 

21 Definitions of Engineering

 

Salary of Chemical Engineers

 

Important Documents