GMC462Advanced Transport Phenomena
3 credits | Pre-requisite: GMC451
The course provides theoretical and practical basis for understanding and quantifying mass, momentum and energy transport motivated by examples and applications relevant to environmental engineering problems. Both molecular and macroscopic principles will be discussed highlighting unifying principles underlying transport processes and properties. Students will develop proficiency in problem formulation, making simplifying assumptions, and using a range of analytical and numerical solution methods. Coupled transport processes will be explored primarily through the self-study as part of class project requirements.
GCH415Applied Organic Chemistry
3 credits | Pre-requisite: GCH310
Industry of organic chemistry: major sources of raw materials (coal, oil & petrochemstry,…). Classification of oils.Fractional distillation of petroleum. The olefins. Oxidized derivates of ethylene. Benzene hydrocarbons, production and processing. Synthetic polymers. The detergents.
GCH435Chemical Kinetics and Reactor Design
3 credits | Pre-requisite: GCH350 And MAT227
Chemical reaction engineering is a combination of chemical kinetics and design and analysis of reactors to apply and optimize the desired reaction. A thorough understanding of the numerical aspects of chemical kinetics is fundamental to designing and selecting the appropriate chemical reactor for the studied system.This course presents first the kinetics of homogeneous and heterogeneous systems kinetic rate expressions are developed and integrated for simple reactions, multiple reactions systems. Adsorption isotherms may be introduced to develop kinetic rate expressions for heterogeneous catalytic systems.The course then proceeds with chemical reactor design of ideal, isothermal and non-isothermal reactors. The basic steady-state design principles and equations of different ideal reactors models (discontinuous, Continued Stirred Tank Reactor CSTR and plug flow). Selectivity is introduced to increase the yield of the desired product. The course discusses later the reactor safety through non steady state reactors.Throughout this course, the principles are illustrated using examples taken from organic chemistry, industrial, and/or catalytic reactions in the liquid phase and gaseous phase.
GCH465Design of Chemical Reactors
3 credits | Pre-requisite: GCH435
This course deals with the interpretation of the evolution of different systems (with one reactor or multiple reactors), the ideal reactors designs and the possible shifts from ideal behaviors, the effect of transport phenomena in reactive systems, the definition of steady state and stability analysis. Another part will deal with reactors optimization, analysis of heterogeneous reactors and an introduction on industrial reactive system simulation and modeling.
GMC320Dynamics of particles
3 credits | Pre-requisite: MAT227
This course presents the fundamentals of engineering dynamics. It covers the following topics: Kinematics of a particle: absolute and relative motion, description of motion in various systems of coordinates. Kinetics of a particle: force and acceleration: Newtons second law of motion; work and energy: principle of conservation of energy; impulse and momentum: conservation of linear momentum.
GEL211Electric Circuits
3 credits
This course presents the basics of electric circuits’ analysis: Introduction to theory, circuit variables and elements (dependent and independent voltage and current sources, resistors, inductors, capacitors…), basic analysis and design of resistive circuits and different analysis techniques: Node-Voltage analysis, Mesh-Current analysis, Source transformations, Thevenin’s and Norton’s equivalent, Maximum power transfer, and Superposition methods.Introduction to capacitance, inductance, and mutual inductance; current-voltage relation; RC, RL and RLC circuits analysis: natural and step responses.Topics also include ideal operational amplifiers; circuit simplification, steady-state and transient analysis, phasors, frequency response, Kirchhoff’s laws and Thevenin’s and Norton’s equivalent represented in the frequency domain, Laplace transform and an introduction to Transfer functions.
GEL271Electric circuits Lab
1 credits
This course presents the basics of electric circuits’ analysis: Introduction to theory, circuit variables and elements (dependent and independent voltage and current sources, resistors, inductors, capacitors…), basic analysis and design of resistive circuits and different analysis techniques: Node-Voltage analysis, Mesh-Current analysis, Source transformations, Thevenins and Nortons equivalent, Maximum power transfer, and Superposition methods. Introduction to capacitance, inductance, and mutual inductance; current-voltage relation; RC, RL and RLC circuits analysis: natural and step responses. Topics also include ideal operational amplifiers; circuit simplification, steady-state and transient analysis, phasors, frequency response, Kirchhoffs laws and Thevenins and Nortons equivalent represented in the frequency domain, Laplace transform and an introduction to Transfer functions.
GCH440Environment and Security in chemical industry
3 credits | Pre-requisite: GCH350
This aim of this course is to provide to students conceptual and practical tools to preserve the quality of the environment and avoid accidents in the industry. Risks and environmental indicators of air pollution, water and soil quality criteria and standards, methods and procedures for characterizing environments. Risk analysis, evaluation procedures, fault tree analysis, risk reduction and preventive remedies levels, corrective and curative.
GCH596Final Project I
1 credits
This course pushes the student to demonstrate your preparedness to start his career as a professional engineer by undertaking an investigation of a research topic relevant to the profession and by appraising its practical experience. The research topic will give the student the opportunity to marshal the relevant knowledge and skills from various courses and laboratories of the program and apply them to the investigation of an approved research topic and then to produce a report of a professional standard.
GCH597Final Project II
3 credits | Pre-requisite: GCH596
This course pushes the student to demonstrate your preparedness to start his career as a professional engineer by undertaking an investigation of a research topic relevant to the profession and by appraising its practical experience. The research topic and applied developed product or study will give the student the opportunity to marshal the relevant knowledge and skills from various courses and laboratories of the program and apply them to the investigation of an approved research topic and then to produce a report of a professional standard. This course requires from the student to exhibit / develop a proactive approach to manage, orient and present a project.
GMC430Fluid Mechanics
3 credits | Pre-requisite: GMC340
This course consists of a concise and clear presentation of fundamental topics in fluid mechanics, which deals with energy transportation by a fluid. These topics concern the development and application of control volume and differential form analysis and applications of fluid flows. Topics include fundamental concepts, basic equations in integral form for a control volume, introduction to differential analysis of fluid motion, potential flow, incompressible flow, and internal and external viscous flows including boundary layers concepts.
GMC451Heat Transfer
3 credits | Pre-requisite: GMC430
The objective of this course is to extend the thermodynamics and fluid analysis considering the rates of the heat transfer modes, namely, conduction, convection, and radiation and their applications. Thus, the course will cover steady and transient heat conduction, extended surfaces, external and internal forced convection of laminar and turbulent flows, natural convection, heat exchanger principles, thermal radiation, view factors and radiation exchange between diffuse and gray surfaces. Further, numerical simulations in one and two-dimensional problems will be developed.
GMC435Hydraulics
2 credits | Pre-requisite: GMC430
This course deals with basic concepts of hydraulics, namely, the continuity, energy and momentum equations. This includes Hydrostatics, internal viscous with application of Bernoulli equation and losses. Further, it covers physical modeling (dimensionless analysis and similarities), hydraulic pumps, and turbines.
GCH480Industry Project
1 credits
In order to register to this course, the student spends first a minimum of two months experience in the industry or a company and lives a real practical experience in the field of practice that he or she has chosen. Afterwards, the student has to present his/her “job” and what he/she learned from it in a well-structured and well-written scientific report.
GCH455Interfacial Phenomena and Colloids
2 credits | Pre-requisite: GCH450 and GCH435
This course examines the factors underlying interfacial phenomena and focuses on the thermodynamics of surfaces, structural aspects, and electrical phenomena. Some applications are discussed in the domains of emulsion, detergency, foams, fluidization, sedimentation, nucleation, wetting, adhesion, flotation, and electrophoresis.
GCH581Internship II
1 credits
In order to register to this course, the student spends first a minimum of two months experience in the industry or a company and lives a real practical experience in the field of practice that he or she has chosen. Afterwards, the student has to present his/her “job” and what he/she learned from it in a well-structured and well-written scientific report.
GCH350Introduction to Chemical Engineering
2 credits | Pre-requisite: GMC340
This course deals with the following topics : it starts by the flow sheet symbols and drawings, followed by the mass and energy balances for steady-state reacting and non-reacting systems; Composition variables and mass and energy flow rates; Material balances in non-reacting systems and in systems with one or more chemical reactions; Degree of freedom analysis for non-reacting and reacting systems; Enthalpy of chemical reaction, heats of formation, heat capacities, dew points and bubble points; Numerous examples with process flow sheets to illustrate each topic. The student will learn to draw a flowsheet and construct and to solve chemical balance equations around multi-unit systems, and then extend it to other units.
GIN221Introduction to programming
3 credits
This introductory course in programming allows engineering students to learn the methods of rigorous software development solutions in the object-oriented paradigm. The course is supplemented by laboratory sessions for the application of programming concepts studied in the Eclipse integrated development environment.
GCH371Laboratory of organic Chemistry
1 credits | Pre-requisite: CHM270
This course provides to students the principals’ techniques in organic chemistry. The experiments concern many examples of reactions having in interest in the industrial Organic chemistry.
GEL425Linear Control Systems
3 credits | Pre-requisite: GEN428
This course is designed to provide the student with the fundamental principles of the control of dynamical systems. It covers the following topics: Linear system modelling (electrical systems, mechanical systems, electro-mechanical systems), transfer function; time response of first order and second order linear systems, error, stability of a feedback system; Root locus analysis; Frequency response, Bode diagram, Nyquist diagram; Correction of linear systems, gain and phase margins, P, PI, PD and PID corrections.
GCH347Materials Chemistry
3 credits | Pre-requisite: CHM212 Or CHE212
This course introduces fundamental concepts in materials science. The main purpose of this course is to provide a good understanding of the materials science and engineering. Topics covered include: Introduction to materials science, atomic structure and interatomic bonding, crystalline structure, crystal defects, diffusion, phase diagrams, mechanical properties of metals, ceramics, polymers and composite materials, corrosion and degradation of materials.
GCH310Organic Chemistry
3 credits | Pre-requisite: CHM212 Or CHE212
The aim of the course is to give students a basic knowledge of the nomenclature, the molecular structures and the reaction mechanisms of organic chemistry, as well as methods of organic synthesis. The following topics are covered: the structure of organic molecules, the geometry of organic molecules, stereoisomerism, the electronic structure of molecules, reactions and their mechanisms, nomenclature, alkanes, alkenes, alkynes, Aromatic hydrocarbon, derivatives halogens, aldehydes, ketones and carboxylic acids.
GCH410Physical Chemistry
3 credits | Pre-requisite: GMC340
This course covers the following topics: real gas: intermolecular interactions, molecular collisions, the critical temperature, the real gas state’s equation, gases liquefaction. The first principle of thermodynamics: definition of enthalpy, enthalpy of formation, enthalpy of chemical transformations. The second principle of thermodynamics: entropy, spontaneous transformation, the Gibbs energy, the equilibrium reactions. The equilibrium phase change: phase diagrams, properties of non-electrolytes, phase diagrams of mixtures. Fundamental links between electrochemistry and thermodynamics redox reaction, electrochemical affinity electrode potential.
GCH470Process Design and Control
3 credits | Pre-requisite: GEL425 And GCH450 And GCH435
A course covering the concepts of feedback control systems in the chemical and process industry. The course involves dynamic modeling, design and analysis of dynamic control systems.
GCH472Process engineering Laboratory
1 credits | Pre-requisite: GCH450
This laboratory offers to the student the opportunity to use all the basic knowledge to design, explore and optimize many basic operations. During this laboratory, the student will study the effect of corrosion on metals and desalting water by ion exchange columns. The student will use chemical reactors (tubular, continuous and discontinuous), he will learn as well how to control temperature, pressure and flows (manually and using digital programs). Another part of this lab deals with a deep bed filtration apparatus to study the pressure drop.
GEN499Seminars and Conferences
Each semester, the Faculty of Engineering organizes several seminars and conferences in which leading figures in the professional and academic world target future engineers with a speech presenting scientific, technical, and/or industrial topics, etc. and showing them the various aspects of the engineering profession.
GCH471Separation and Spectroscopic Techniques Lab
2 credits | Pre-requisite: GCH310
This module provides an overview of the current methods of analysis in diverse sectors as the chemical and food industries, medical analysis laboratories, environmental sciences, etc. The idea is to connect the practical aspects of each studied method to its basic scientific concepts. Students will learn through this module, good laboratory practices as well as the various separation methods (different chromatographic techniques) and spectroscopic techniques (IR, UV, NMR, fluorescence, atomic absorption and emission).
GCH450Separation processes
3 credits | Pre-requisite: GCH350 And GCH410
The main topics discussed in this course represent the main unit operation in the Engineering fields: Distillation process (atmospheric and vacuum distillations, rectification,…) – the graphic method of Mc Cabe Thiele is largely discussed and applied with a material balance equations. Liquid – Liquid Extraction process (binary and ternary mixtures and diagrams) - Mc Cabe Thiele Methods to estimate the total number of theoretical successive extractions. Filtration: different types of filtrations and the mechanisms occurring and the parameters to control to achieve it. Mainly the deep bed filtration and cake filtration will be discussed. Decantation operation will be as well introduced.
GMC471Thermal Laboratory
1 credits | Pre-requisite: GMC435 And GMC451
The objective of this laboratory is to expose the student to different experiments in thermal sciences. The student will investigate the laws and theories of thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and heat transfer using diverse methods of measurements including limitations and boundaries of each theory.
GMC340Thermodynamics
3 credits | Pre-requisite: CHM212 Or CHE212
This course is designed to provide a fundamental understanding of the transformation of thermal energy and the behavior of its physical quantities. Such transformation is the conversion of heat into work. Engineers are generally interested in studying systems and how they interact with their surroundings. Its use becomes indispensable in our society.