Department: Chemical Engineering

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CHEMENG100 Chemical Process Modeling, Dynamics, and Control Mathematical methods applied to engineering problems using chemical engineering examples. The development of mathematical models to describe chemical process dynamic behavior. Analytical and computer simulation techniques for the solution of ordinary...
CHEMENG105 Applied Mathematics in Chemical Engineering Applied Mathematics in Chemical Engineering
CHEMENG110A Introduction to Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics Thermodynamics of single-component systems: laws of thermodynamics, thermodynamic properties, equations of state, properties of ideal and real fluids, phase transitions and phase equilibrium, design of thermodynamic processes including refrigeration...
CHEMENG110B Multi-Component and Multi-Phase Thermodynamics Statistical mechanics for mixtures of ideal gases and simple liquids, covering both closed and open ensembles, is introduced. Molecular interactions underlying the non-ideal gaseous and liquid properties and nontrivial equations of states are surveye...
CHEMENG120A Fluid Mechanics The flow of isothermal fluids from a momentum transport viewpoint. Continuum hypothesis, scalar and vector fields, fluid statics, non-Newtonian fluids, shell momentum balances, equations of motion and the Navier-Stokes equations, creeping and potenti...
CHEMENG120B Energy and Mass Transport General diffusive transport, heat transport by conduction, Fourier's law, conduction in composites with analogies to electrical circuits, advection-diffusion equations, forced convection, boundary layer heat transport via forced convection in laminar...
CHEMENG12SC An Exploration of Art Materials: The Intersection of Art and Science There is growing interest in the intersection of art and science, whether from artists adapting technology to suit their visions or from scientists and engineers seeking to explain various visual effects. To take advantage of possible creative spark...
CHEMENG130A Microkinetics - Molecular Principles of Chemical Kinetics This course will cover the basis of chemical kinetics that are used to design chemical processes and reactor design. Topics include: origin of rate expression in chemical reactions; experimental generation and analysis of kinetic data; relationship b...
CHEMENG130B Introduction to kinetics and reactor design Introduction to kinetics and reactor design. Identification and comparison of different reactors. Application of rate laws, pseudo steady-state, quasi-equilibrium, and other non-reactive components to develop mathematical models describing different...
CHEMENG150 Biochemical Engineering Combines biological knowledge and methods with quantitative engineering principles. Quantitative review of biochemistry and metabolism as well as recombinant DNA technology and synthetic biology (metabolic engineering). The course begins with a revie...
CHEMENG160 Soft Matter in Biomedical Devices, Microelectronics, and Everyday Life The relationships between molecular structure, morphology, and the unique physical, chemical, and mechanical behavior of polymers and other types of soft matter are discussed. Topics include methods for preparing synthetic polymers and examination of...
CHEMENG170X Mechanics of Soft Matter: Rheology Soft matter comes in many forms and includes polymeric materials, suspensions, emulsions, foams, gels, and living tissue. These materials are characterized by being easily deformed and possessing internal relaxation time spectra. They are viscoelasti...
CHEMENG174 Environmental Microbiology I Basics of microbiology and biochemistry. The biochemical and biophysical principles of biochemical reactions, energetics, and mechanisms of energy conservation. Diversity of microbial catabolism, flow of organic matter in nature: the carbon cycle, an...
CHEMENG175X Electrochemical Water Treatment: Materials and Processes Humans generate teraliters of wastewater every day, of which 80% is discharged without treatment. While societies struggle to manage waste, natural environmental cycles reuse any 'waste' product as starting material elsewhere. Polluted water threaten...
CHEMENG177 Data Science and Machine Learning Approaches in Chemical and Materials Engineering Application of Data Science, Statistical Learning, and Machine Learning approaches to modern problems in Chemical and Materials Engineering. This course develops data science approaches, including their foundational mathematical and statistical basis...
CHEMENG180 Chemical Engineering Plant Design Open to seniors in chemical engineering or by consent of instructor. Application of chemical engineering principles to the design of practical plants for the manufacture of chemicals and related materials. Topics: flow-sheet development from a concep...
CHEMENG181 Biochemistry I Structure and function of major classes of biomolecules, including proteins, carbohydrates and lipids. Mechanistic analysis of properties of proteins including catalysis, signal transduction and membrane transport. Students will also learn to critica...
CHEMENG183 Biochemistry II Focus on metabolic biochemistry: the study of chemical reactions that provide the cell with the energy and raw materials necessary for life. Topics include glycolysis, gluconeogenesis, the citric acid cycle, oxidative phosphorylation, photosynthesis,...
CHEMENG185A Chemical Engineering Laboratory A Open to seniors in chemical engineering or by consent of instructor. This is the first course in a two-quarter sequence that focuses on critical thinking in experimental aspects of chemical engineering. Critical thinking skills will be developed and...
CHEMENG185B Chemical Engineering Laboratory B Open to seniors in chemical engineering or by consent of instructor. This is the second course in a two-quarter sequence that focuses on critical thinking in experimental aspects of chemical engineering. Students will work in teams to prepare and rev...
CHEMENG189 Career Building: Entrepreneurship / Intrapreneurship, People, Innovation, Decision-Making and Impact This course is designed to enable graduate students and advanced undergraduate students in science and engineering to hone strategies for career success. Drawing strongly on entrepreneurial principles and lessons from industry, the course complements...
CHEMENG190 Undergraduate Research in Chemical Engineering Laboratory or theoretical work for undergraduates under the supervision of a faculty member. Research in one of the graduate research groups or other special projects in the undergraduate chemical engineering lab. Students should consult advisers for...
CHEMENG190H Undergraduate Honors Research in Chemical Engineering For Chemical Engineering majors pursuing a B.S. with Honors degree who have submitted an approved research proposal to the department. Unofficial transcript must document BSH status and at least 9 units of 190H research for a minimum of 3 quarters Ma...
CHEMENG191H Undergraduate Honors Seminar For Chemical Engineering majors approved for B.S. with Honors research program. Honors research proposal must be submitted and unofficial transcript document BSH status prior to required concurrent registration in 190H and 191H. May be repeated for...
CHEMENG193 Interdisciplinary Approaches to Human Health Research For undergraduate students participating in the Stanford ChEM-H Undergraduate Scholars Program. This course will expose students to interdisciplinary research questions and approaches that span chemistry, engineering, biology, and medicine. Focus is...
CHEMENG196 Creating and Leading New Ventures in Engineering and Science-based Industries Open to seniors and graduate students interested in the creation of new ventures and entrepreneurship in engineering and science intensive industries such as chemical, energy, materials, bioengineering, environmental, clean-tech, pharmaceuticals, med...
CHEMENG199 Undergraduate Practical Training Only for undergraduate students majoring in Chemical Engineering. Students obtain employment in a relevant industrial or research activity to enhance their professional experience. Students submit a concise report detailing work activities, problems...
CHEMENG20 Introduction to Chemical Engineering Overview of chemical engineering through discussion and engineering analysis of physical and chemical processes. Topics: overall staged separations, material and energy balances, concepts of rate processes, energy and mass transport, and kinetics of...
CHEMENG250 Biochemical Engineering Combines biological knowledge and methods with quantitative engineering principles. Quantitative review of biochemistry and metabolism as well as recombinant DNA technology and synthetic biology (metabolic engineering). The course begins with a revie...
CHEMENG274 Environmental Microbiology I Basics of microbiology and biochemistry. The biochemical and biophysical principles of biochemical reactions, energetics, and mechanisms of energy conservation. Diversity of microbial catabolism, flow of organic matter in nature: the carbon cycle, an...
CHEMENG277 Data Science and Machine Learning Approaches in Chemical and Materials Engineering Application of Data Science, Statistical Learning, and Machine Learning approaches to modern problems in Chemical and Materials Engineering. This course develops data science approaches, including their foundational mathematical and statistical basis...
CHEMENG281 Biochemistry I Structure and function of major classes of biomolecules, including proteins, carbohydrates and lipids. Mechanistic analysis of properties of proteins including catalysis, signal transduction and membrane transport. Students will also learn to critica...
CHEMENG283 Biochemistry II Focus on metabolic biochemistry: the study of chemical reactions that provide the cell with the energy and raw materials necessary for life. Topics include glycolysis, gluconeogenesis, the citric acid cycle, oxidative phosphorylation, photosynthesis,...
CHEMENG289 Career Building: Entrepreneurship / Intrapreneurship, People, Innovation, Decision-Making and Impact This course is designed to enable graduate students and advanced undergraduate students in science and engineering to hone strategies for career success. Drawing strongly on entrepreneurial principles and lessons from industry, the course complements...
CHEMENG296 Creating and Leading New Ventures in Engineering and Science-based Industries Open to seniors and graduate students interested in the creation of new ventures and entrepreneurship in engineering and science intensive industries such as chemical, energy, materials, bioengineering, environmental, clean-tech, pharmaceuticals, med...
CHEMENG299 Graduate Practical Training Only for graduate students majoring in Chemical Engineering. Students obtain employment in a relevant industrial or research activity to enhance their professional experience. Students submit a concise report detailing work activities, problems worke...
CHEMENG300 Applied Mathematics in the Chemical and Biological Sciences Mathematical solution methods via applied problems including chemical reaction sequences, mass and heat transfer in chemical reactors, quantum mechanics, fluid mechanics of reacting systems, and chromatography. Topics include generalized vector space...
CHEMENG310 Microhydrodynamics Transport phenomena on small-length scales appropriate to applications in microfluidics, complex fluids, and biology. The basic equations of mass, momentum, and energy, derived for incompressible fluids and simplified to the slow-flow limit. Topics:...
CHEMENG31N When Chemistry Meets Engineering Preference to freshmen. Chemistry and engineering are subjects that are ubiquitous around us. But what happens when the two meet? Students will explore this question by diving into experimental problems that scientists and engineers have to face on a...
CHEMENG320 Chemical Kinetics and Reaction Engineering Theoretical and experimental tools useful in understanding and manipulating reactions mediated by small-molecules and biological catalysts. Theoretical: first classical chemical kinetics and transition state theory; then RRKM theory and Monte Carlo s...
CHEMENG340 Molecular Thermodynamics The courses is divided into three moduli. (1) The first modulus discusses the criteria for systems to be thermally, mechanically, and chemically stable. The conditions are expressed in terms of the familiar state functions, the derived equations of s...
CHEMENG345 Fundamentals and Applications of Spectroscopy Theoretical basis and experimental aspects of atomic and molecular spectroscopy, including spectroscopic transitions, transition probabilities, and selection rules. Applications of rotational, vibrational, and electronic spectroscopies emphasize the...
CHEMENG355 Advanced Biochemical Engineering Combines biological knowledge and methods with quantitative engineering principles. Quantitative review of biochemistry and metabolism; recombinant DNA technology and synthetic biology (metabolic engineering). The production of protein pharaceuticals...
CHEMENG399 Graduate Research Rotation in Chemical Engineering Introduction to graduate level laboratory and theoretical work. Performance in this course comprises part of the mandatory evaluation for pre-candidacy standing and suitability to continue in the chemical engineering Ph.D. program.
CHEMENG420 Growth and Form Advanced topics course examining the role of physical forces in shaping living cells, tissues, and organs, making use of D'Arcy Thompson's classic text On Growth and Form. The course begins with a review of relevant physical principles drawn from sta...
CHEMENG424 Structure and Reactivity of Solid Surfaces The structure of solid surfaces including experimental methods for determining the structure of single crystal surfaces. The adsorption of molecules on these surfaces including the thermodynamics of adsorption processes, surface diffusion, and surfac...
CHEMENG432 Electrochemical Energy Conversion Electrochemistry is playing an increasingly important role in renewable energy. This course aims to cover the fundamentals of electrochemistry, and then build on that knowledge to cover applications of electrochemistry in energy conversion. Topics to...
CHEMENG442 Suspension Mechanics The course will begin with a brief recap of low-Reynolds number hydrodynamics and the analytical foundations for the study of pair-level particle interactions in a Newtonian solvent. Extension to many-body interactions will be covered in detail, with...
CHEMENG443 Principles and practice of heterogeneous catalysis Principles and practical aspects of heterogeneous catalysis. Preparation of catalytic solids. Techniques for the structural characterization of catalysts, including in-situ and operando. Best practices in both structural and catalytic characterizatio...
CHEMENG444 Electronic Structure Theory and Applications to Chemical Kinetics Fundamentals of electronic structure theory to describe materials properties and chemical reactivity. Learning objectives: Understand the basis for modern electronic structure calculations, understand the relationship between electronic structure,...
CHEMENG450 Advances in Biotechnology Overview of cutting edge advances in biotechnology with a focus on therapeutic and health-related topics. Academic and industrial speakers from a range of areas including protein engineering, immuno-oncology, DNA sequencing, the microbiome, phamacoge...
CHEMENG454 Synthetic Biology and Metabolic Engineering Principles for the design and optimization of new biological systems. Development of new enzymes, metabolic pathways, other metabolic systems, and communication systems among organisms. Example applications include the production of central metabolit...
CHEMENG456 Microbial Bioenergy Systems Introduction to microbial metabolic pathways and to the pathway logic with a special focus on microbial bioenergy systems. The first part of the course emphasizes the metabolic and biochemical principles of pathways, whereas the second part is more...
CHEMENG460 Interfacial Engineering of Soft Matter Interfacial engineering is a culmination of a century of interdisciplinary science and engineering. The foundation is provided by the thermodynamics of surface tension, surface chemistry and adsorption, which govern the properties of catalysts, collo...
CHEMENG462 Complex Fluids and Non-Newtonian Flows Definition of a complex liquid and microrheology. Division of complex fluids into suspensions, solutions, and melts. Suspensions as colloidal and non-colloidal. Extra stress and relation to the stresslet. Suspension rheology including Brownian and no...
CHEMENG464 Polymer Chemistry Polymer material design, synthesis, characterization, and application. Topics include organic and kinetic aspects of polymerization, polymer characterization techniques, and structure and properties of bulk polymers for commercial applications and em...
CHEMENG466 Polymer Physics Concepts and applications in the equilibrium and dynamic behavior of complex fluids. Topics include solution thermodynamics, scaling concepts, semiflexibility, characterization of polymer size (light scattering, osmotic pressure, size-exclusion chrom...
CHEMENG469 Solid Structure and Properties of Polymers Fundamental structure-properties relationships of solid polymers in bulk and thin films. Topics include chain conformations in bulk amorphous polymers, glass transition, crystallization, semi-crystalline morphology, liquid crystalline order, polymer...
CHEMENG470 Mechanics of Soft Matter: Rheology Soft matter comes in many forms and includes polymeric materials, suspensions, emulsions, foams, gels, and living tissue. These materials are characterized by being easily deformed and possessing internal relaxation time spectra. They are viscoelasti...
CHEMENG475 Electrochemical Water Treatment: Materials and Processes Humans generate teraliters of wastewater every day, of which 80% is discharged without treatment. While societies struggle to manage waste, natural environmental cycles reuse any 'waste' product as starting material elsewhere. Polluted water threaten...
CHEMENG482 The Startup Garage: Design (Same as STRAMGT 356) The Startup Garage is an experiential lab course that focuses on the design, testing and launch of a new venture. Multidisciplinary student teams work through an iterative process of understanding user needs, creating a point o...
CHEMENG484 The Startup Garage: Testing and Launch This is the second quarter of the two-quarter series. In this quarter, student teams expand the field work they started in the fall quarter. They get out of the building to talk to potential customers, partners, distributors, and investors to test an...
CHEMENG500 Special Topics in Protein Biotechnology Recent developments and current research. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: graduate standing and consent of instructor.
CHEMENG501 Special Topics in Semiconductor Processing Recent developments and current research. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: graduate standing and consent of instructor.
CHEMENG503 Special Topics in Biocatalysis Recent developments and current research. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: graduate standing and consent of instructor.
CHEMENG505 Special Topics in Microrheology Recent developments and current research. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: graduate standing and consent of instructor.
CHEMENG507 Special Topics in Polymer Physics and Molecular Assemblies Recent developments and current research. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: graduate standing and consent of instructor.
CHEMENG510 Special Topics in Transport Mechanics Recent developments and current research. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: graduate standing and consent of instructor.
CHEMENG513 Special Topics in Functional Organic Materials for Electronic and Optical Devices Recent developments and current research. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: graduate standing and consent of instructor.
CHEMENG514 Special Topics in Biopolymer Physics Recent developments and current research. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: graduate standing and consent of instructor.
CHEMENG515 Special Topics in Molecular and Systems Biology Recent developments and current research. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: graduate standing and consent of instructor.
CHEMENG516 Special Topics in Energy and Catalysis Recent developments and current research. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: graduate standing and consent of instructor.
CHEMENG517 Special Topics in Microbial Physiology and Metabolism Recent developments and current research. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: graduate standing and consent of instructor.
CHEMENG518 Special Topics in Advanced Biophysics and Protein Design Recent developments and current research. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: graduate standing and consent of instructor.
CHEMENG519 Special Topics in Interface Science and Catalysis Recent developments and current research. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: graduate standing and consent of instructor.
CHEMENG520 Special Topics in Biological Chemistry Recent developments and current research. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: graduate standing and consent of instructor.
CHEMENG521 Special Topics in Nanostructured Materials for Energy and the Environment Recent developments and current research. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: graduate standing and consent of instructor.
CHEMENG522 Special Topics in Soft Matter and Molecular Physics Recent developments and current research. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: graduate standing and consent of instructor.
CHEMENG523 Special Topics in Suspension Dynamics Recent developments and current research. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: graduate standing and consent of instructor.
CHEMENG524 Special Topics in Electrochemistry and Water Treatment Recent developments and current research. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: graduate standing and consent of instructor.
CHEMENG55 Foundational Biology for Engineers Biology, physics, and chemistry are the substrates for the modern engineer. Whether you are interested in developing the next generation of medicines or would like the next material or catalyst you design to be inspired by solutions found in Nature,...
CHEMENG600 Graduate Research in Chemical Engineering Laboratory and theoretical work leading to partial fulfillment of requirements for an advanced degree. Course may be repeated for credit.
CHEMENG60Q Environmental Regulation and Policy Preference to sophomores. How does government, politics and science affect environmental policy? We examine environmental policy including the precautionary principal, acceptable risks, mathematical models, and cost-effectiveness of regulation. You w...
CHEMENG65Q Chemical Engineering for Sustainability Do you want to make the world more sustainable? How will we address the tremendous challenges that climate change brings? How can we reduce carbon emissions and not have huge disruptions in society? This class is for anyone who wants to create sustai...
CHEMENG699 Colloquium Weekly lectures by experts from academia and industry in the field of chemical engineering. Course may be repeated for credit.
CHEMENG802 TGR Dissertation No Description Set
CHEMENG90Q Dare to Care: Compassionate Design Imagine yourself with your abundant creativity, intellect, and passion, but your ability to move or speak is diminished. How would you face the world, how would you thrive at Stanford, how would you relay to people your ideas and creations? How would...