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Separation processes in mixtures are essential in chemical, petroleum, food, biochemistry and pharmaceutical industries. In this course students will use fundamen- tals of phase equilibrium, transport phenomena and Thermodynamics in order to distinguish separation processes using graphic and analytic methods. By using this knowledge, students will develop skills to select useful equipment for these processes.

The unit operations are each of the actions required in an industrial process to transform, adapt or transport materials. They can be considered as design proce- dures common to industrial processes, which are frequently applied in the field of chemical engineering.

The purpose of the chemical engineering laboratory is to help students understand the importance and role of a pilot plant as fundamental part of processes and products design. Likewise, the purpose is to reinforce student skills to suggest and administer projects, design experiments, work effectively as a team, conduct verbal and written presentations and integrate the theoretical knowledge of basic science and engineering into the resolution of actual problems. Pilot plant practice is conducted in the course, which involves distillation, drying, adsorption, reaction, solid-liquid extraction and evaporation processes, among others.

This course, Process Plan Design, introduces students to techniques and methods related to process and product design. Students should recognize development elements in a process. Students should apply different courses learned in their Chemical En- gineering major. They must complement this knowledge by developing simulation work and process calculation. Students must establish solutions to specific problems.

The course objective is to provide students with the appropriate tools to model and simulate particular situations of chemical engineering, using a programming language or specific software. The course covers the following topics: differential equations (ordinary and partial) and borderline conditions, numeric methods, finite differences, solution convergence, error and time to calculate conventional differential equation solution methods.

This course introduces concepts of optimization, specifically process optimization with applications in the chemical industry. By the end of the course students will recognize application areas of numerical optimization. Students will be able to formulate and solve optimization problems, applying the main algorithms and some commercial tools in order to solve these kinds of problems.

The purpose of this course is to have students prepare a research project on a topic of interest applying scientific research methods. We expect that the project com- pleted during this course will help each student with graduation project. Students present this graduation project to meet basic requirements in order to obtain their chemical engi- neering degree.

This course develops and evaluates last-semester student abilities to confront a problem autonomously while using methods and procedures for solutions in En- gineering. It is expected that the students can integrate previously acquired competencies and knowl- edge in different areas of the learning process while developing their Graduation Project. ,English,-

The objective of this course is to generate in the student the skills necessary to design and build solutions in mobile devices, using a specific software development process. Students deal with heterogeneity in development and deployment. Here is understood by non-conventional, when there are restrictions in one or more of the following dimensions of execution environments: hardware, real time, storage, processing, power, weight, interfaces, visualization and communication.

Chemical kinetics and reactor design constitute one of the key compo- nents for the synthesis of most chemicals. It is the knowledge of reaction engineering aspects what distinguishes chemical engineering from other engineering programs. The principles, methods and techniques learned in this class provide the student with basic elements and tools to solve a significant number of problems. Such applications cover a wide range of ar- eas including petrochemical, pharmaceutical, agrochemical, bio-processes, environmental remediation, microelectronics, nanotechnology and living systems, among others.

Description of the local and global environmental problems in industrial processes. Identification of regulatory framework to solve different environmental problems. Define scope, action framework and harmonization of various engineering disciplines in the resolution of environmental problems. Specification of product, its environmental destination, release and exposure. Process input and output. Assessment of potential emissions and impacts. Identification of opportunities to prevent contamination. Environmental performance in a flow diagram. Environmental cost evaluation in a production process.

This course is designed to promote reading and writing skills that allow students to properly face the intellectual challenges that they will find in their academic and professional lives. Firstly, the course encourages students to read articles, reports or books written for a specialized audience. Secondly, it stimulates students to make connections between various sources and compare different types of explanations. Thirdly, it exhorts students to construct academic arguments based on substantiated, independent and critical positions.

Introduction to materials science, with emphasis on inspection and testing of the materials most commonly employed in civil engineering. In the class sessions, the course studies in detail the mechanical properties and the production processes (or treatment) of structural steel, hydraulic concrete, masonry, wood, and plastics. The course is accompanied by laboratory tests used in civil engineering and its relationship to the analysis of the material mechanical behavior. Topics being discussed include: cementitious materials, portland cement, concrete water content, aggregates in concrete, properties of fresh and hardened concrete, concrete mix design, ferrous materials, wood, and plastics.

This course will expose the student through a realistic design project to the local reality of a region and to the role of civil engineering professional practice. The project consists in the resolution of a civil engineering-related problem that is characterized for being framed in a complex context. The course is based on the execution of a design project by stages, in which students work in teams to integrate and apply the acquired concepts in the fundamental and intermediate courses of the Civil Engineering Program.

The course objective is to establish physical and mathematical bases used in rheology to understand the behavior of a fluid when subjected to an external force. Therefore, the course seeks to provide students an analysis tool to study complex fluids, such as a polymer, a suspension or an emulsion.

The objective of this course is to link the student to the real situation and regional problems through a design project; directed towards the resolution of a Environmental Engineering problem in an open, real and complex context. The course is based on the execution by stages of a project, in which the students will have to efficiently work in teams, to integrate and apply the acquired concepts in the fundamental and intermediate courses of the Environmental Engineering Program.

This course, Special Project, promotes students abilities to develop a Project within the framework of Chemical Engineering. Students will have a tutor who will assist them. In this special project, students will integrate and apply knowledge and competences from different experiences.