CENG 301:
Material and Energy Balances
Instructor Syllabus Texbook Course Organization
     

Instructor:

Sam Davis
AL B238
Email: shdavis at rice.edu
Kyriacos Zygourakis
AL B217
Phone: 713-348-5208
Email: kyzy at rice.edu

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Syllabus:

 

Careers in Chemical Engineering - 1.4 MB Quicktime movie

2003 CENG 301 Class Pictures

 

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Textbook:

R. M. Felder and R. W. Rousseau "Elementary principles of Chemical Processes," Third Edition, John Wiley and Sons, Inc. (2000)

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Course Organization:

Homework:

Homework will be assigned regularly by Friday of most weeks (8 to 10 HW assignments total). The nth assignment may be found by looking at or listing the file:


~ceng301/hw/an

where n is the assignment number. Each homework is due on the Friday (1 pm) after it is assigned. Please turn your work in during class or in the mailbox for Ceng 301 outside of Dr. Chapman's (AL B228) office.

 

Project:

The course project is required for all students to complete during the second half of the semester. Click here to see this year's project..

 

Grading Policy:

There will be two quizzes and a final. In all three, you will be allowed to use your texts, class notes and any other hand copied notes you deem helpful. All three are take home exams so that a computer may be used during them. Specific instruction on the possible use of computers will be given on each eaxam.

There is also a project, which will involve library searches, report, and a presentation.

Course Grade: = 0.2 HW + 0.4 (Quiz Average) + 0.1 Project + 0.3 Final

All grades are stored in the file:

~ceng301/grade/record

and may be seen by listing the file. Student names are replaced by id numbers in this file.

Occasional sessions or labbie hours will be held to assist students in the use of Owlnet, Unix, X-Windows, MATLAB and Maple for this course. These are topics that are now covered in some detail in Ceng 303 . The sessions will primarily be used to acquaint you with the use of Maple and the MATLAB programs written for this course.

Any student with a disability requiring accommodations in this class is encouraged to contact the instructor after class or during office hours. Additionally, students should contact the Coordinator for Disabled Student Services in the RMC Cloisters.

 

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Chemical Engineering Department MS-362
Rice University P.O. Box 1892
Houston, TX 77251
Tel: (713) 348-4902
Fax: (713) 348-5478
Email: ceng@rice.edu