Masters of Science in
Chemical Engineering
Program of Study
The
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering offers a M.S. degree in Chemical
Engineering. The Chemical Engineering faculty provide instruction and
research in the areas of supercritical and compressed fluids for separations
and material modification, combustion synthesis and processing of advanced ceramics
and intermetallics, modeling of reactive systems, crystallization phenomena,
process control, chemical kinetics,pollution phenomena and control, surface
science, polymer composites investigation with vibrational spectroscopy and
scanning probe microscopy and polymer processing.
The
30 credit hour thesis option requires 24 credits of course work and 6 thesis
credits which result in the presentation of an original investigation.
The 32 credit Non-Thesis Executive Program includes up to 30 credit hours of
course work and at least 2 credit hours of an applied project. In the
Executive program, which is oriented toward industrial needs, students take
at least one course in technology management as part of their required courses
for the M.S. in Chemical Engineering. For more information on the university,
please visit http://www.sdsmt.edu/
Facilities
The Department and University have a variety
of state-of-the art analytical instruments and
laboratories available for instruction and research
(see table below). Chemical Engineering students
have easy access to all of these.
State-of-the-art
Laboratories Available for Use in Research
- Microscopy Laboratory
- Scanning Electron
Microscope with energy dispersive
X-rayand image analyzer (SEM /
EDX)
- Transmission
Electron Microscope (TEM)
- Atomic Force
Microscope (AFM)
- Interfacial
Force Microscope (IFM, one of 1/2 dozen inthe world)
- Mechanical and Thermal Testing
Laboratory
- MTS Mechanical
Tester
- Setaram Microcalorimeter
- Cincinnati Micron
Injection Molding Machine
- Process Design and System Analysis
Computer Laboratory
- IBM RISC / 6000
Workstations
- AspenPlus Model
Manager (steady state process simulator)
- AspenPlus Speedup
(dynamic simulator)
- HYSYS Process
(steady state and dynamic process
simulator)
- Personal Computer
Laboratory (Gateway 2000 Multimedia
Pentium computers)
- HSC software
- Process Control Laboratory
- Camile 3000
Controller and Data Acquisition
System
- Analytical
Laboratory
- FT-IR spectrometer
with microscope
- FT-IR spectrometer
with Attenuated Total Reflection
(ATR)system
- Laser-Raman spectrometer
- HP 6890 gas
chromatograph
- others (UV-Vis
spectrometer,AA, ICP, Ion chromatograph)
- Reaction
and Separation Engineering Laboratory
- Combustion synthesis reactor
- Centrifugal combustion synthesis reactor
- SHS reactor
- Supercritical extractor
- Supercritical equilibrium, and variable volume
view cell
- Supercritical reactor
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Faculty
There are currently seven full time chemical engineering faculty in the Department of
Chemical Engineering. These individuals form a cohesive group of experts
who are willing to help students. Their goal is to provide the best education
possible. Listed below are each of the faculty with a link to a web page containing a
brief descriptions of their teaching and research interests.
Full-time
Chemical Engineering Faculty
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If you have questions about an MS in Chemical Engineering or would like
additional information contact Dr. Jan Pusyznski.
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