06-052 Fundamentals of Chemical Engineering Practice

9 units, Carnegie Mellon University

This course is offered to Carnegie Mellons sixweek Advanced Placement Early Admissions APEA summer program. The course provides advanced high school students with an introduction to Chemical Engineering practice. The course goals are 1 to provide students with a broad knowledge of the engineering sciences Chemical Engineers utilize 2 to increase facility with computational tools used by engineers and 3 to apply chemical engineering sciences to problems in chemical process and product design. The course will cover a selection of topics, including mass and energy balances, Thermodynamics, Fluid Mechanics, Heat and Mass Transfer, and Unit Operations. Laboratory time will reinforce learning inductively and will feature openended problems. Precollege APEA students only

Prerequisites: none listed

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