RALPH E. MARTIN DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING (CHEG),
Thomas O. Spicer, III
Head of the Department
3202 Bell Engineering Center
479-575-4951
Visit the official website at: http://www.cheg.uark.edu/
Distinguished Professor Havens
Distinguished Professors Emeriti Gaddy, Thatcher
University Professor Emeritus Turpin
Professors Babcock, Beitle, Clausen, King, Penney, Spicer, Thoma, Ulrich
Professors Emeriti Couper, Welker
Research Professors Cross, Silano
Associate Professor Ackerson
Assistant Professors Hestekin C., Hestekin J.
Instructor Myers
Adjunct Associate Professor Eason
Visiting Assistant Professor Teo
Adjunct Professors Muralidhara, Siebenmorgen
Chemical engineering deals with the creation, design, operation, and optimization of processes that derive practical benefits from chemical or physical changes. The profession is quite broad and has traditionally provided the technology for: supplying energy and fuel; synthesizing materials such as plastics, chemicals, fertilizers, and pharmaceuticals; and managing environmental and safety concerns of physical and chemical processes.
Chemical engineers have a variety of traditional job opportunities in industries such as petroleum production and refining, chemical and petrochemical manufacturing, mining, pharmaceutical production, and equipment manufacturing. Job opportunities may involve research, development, design, manufacturing, sales, or teaching as professional activities. The chemical engineer can also move easily into environmental engineering, nuclear engineering, oceanography, biomedical engineering, pharmacology, medicine, or other multidisciplinary fields.
In chemical engineering, the student obtains a broad foundation in chemistry, mathematics, physics, communication skills, economics, and the humanities. Courses in material and energy balances, thermodynamics, reaction kinetics, fluid mechanics, heat and mass transfer, process control, computer methods, safety, and design provide students with the background and learning skills required of the practicing chemical engineer. The curriculum includes elective courses that enable a student to prepare for immediate employment or further study at the graduate level. The chemical engineering program also serves as an excellent preparation for medical, dental, pharmacy, or law school.
The educational objective of the chemical engineering undergraduate program is to provide students with an adequate foundation in science, the humanities and social sciences, engineering sciences, engineering design methods, and specific chemical engineering skills, and to thereby prepare them, in a global context, to face the challenges of todays complex and difficult problems.
The educational outcomes of our four-year curriculum are to assure that each student has had the opportunity to perform the following:
- apply a knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering;
- identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems including, for example, development of the critical thinking process and the solution of mass and energy balances;
- design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs including, for example, determining the capital and operating costs for chemical process equipment and performing technical economic projections;
- locate, interpret, and use physical property data; when data are unavailable, design and conduct experiments, and interpret the resulting data;
- understand professional and ethical responsibility;
- use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice including, for example, writing structured computer programs and using commercially available technical computer software;
- develop and use effective written and oral communication skills;
- function in multi-disciplinary teams;
- recognize the need to engage in life-long learning;
- understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global or societal context including, for example, being conscious of social, environmental, and safety concerns; and
- be familiar with contemporary issues.
These outcomes are reinforced and demonstrated in a senior capstone safety and design sequence.
To see a list of courses required for the Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering degree and a suggested sequence please see the catalog of studies.
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