Department of Chemical Engineering

The Department of Chemical Engineering adopted the ABEEK (Accreditation Board for Engineering Education in Korea) system in 2006 and started offering a general chemical engineering program and a specialized chemical engineering program. The students acquire theoretical knowledge and practical skills by using the latest analytical instrument and experimental equipment and the Department offers an effective curriculum to support students’ diverse career paths and research.

Location : Rm.710, Bima Hall

Tel : 82-2-940-5170

Website : http://chemng.kw.ac.kr/

Course Descriptions

Polymer Science

Students learn formation and synthesize technique for polymer synthesize materials, and physical and chemical characteristics of polymer materials. Students also learn how to use the polymer materials.

Chemical Process Control 1, 2

Students learn elements of chemical process control, chemical process control theory, stability recognition technique, control technique, and design & application of controller.

Nano-Bio Technology

This course covers principles of nano-bio technology, vital-nano structure and function, nano chip, bio sensor, nano medicine, nano medicine transmitter, cell nano process, nano organism materials, nano energy, and nano environment.

Unit Operation

This course deals with separation process in overall chemical engineering process for purification and refinement of chemical products. It deals with transportation technique for liquid products, and core theories on chemical engineering, including separation of liquid from liquid, vapor from liquid, and solid from liquid. Using the theory on separation process, the course allows students to apply knowledge acquired from this course to real lab situations by designing separation equipment, extracting production elements and conducting distillation tower experiments.

Inorganic Chemical Engineering

This course introduces the product usage and chemical engineering processes developed for acid and alkali industry. It studies principles and theories that are used in the industry. It teaches about fertilizer industry, and encourage students to cultivate scientific approach and ability to apply knowledge to the subject matter to allow them to adapt into fast changing industrial society.

Physical Chemistry

This course deals with various chemical equipment design, analysis and reproduction of process, economic feasibility of process, and optimization of process. Using basic physics theories, such as chemical characteristics and structure of materials, standard and standard phase change, principles and laws of heat mechanics, this course approaches the course subject from a chemical engineering perspective.

Mass-transfer

This course mainly deals with mass-transfer, and it also covers principles of movement phenomenon, and computer technologies used in designing of evaporation, suction, extraction, and distillation equipment.

Chemical Reaction Engineering

This course covers theories on velocity of chemical reaction, design of reactor, and production factors.

Chemical Reaction Engineering 2

This course is designed to establish basic theory for the design and operation of reactor by utilizing basic concepts and reaction equations, which make up the core part of chemical process.

Life Science Engineering

This course is designed to apply biological knowledge to engineering. It covers origin and nature of life, mechanism of cell operation, and biochemistry.

Bio-informatics

This course is designed to examine and forecast the role of genes by studying genetic sequence database that is known so far. It also covers three dimensional estimate technique using protein arrangement database, and interpretation and analysis of bio-metabolism.

Biochemical Engineering

This course deals with announced reaction velocity theory for the industrial use of microorganism, lime powder and continuous fermentation, fermenter design, and movement phenomenon theory from a chemical engineering perspective.

Heat Transfer

This course deals with overall heat transfer mechanism, including heat transfer mechanism in normal situation, and convection current transmission using reflection theory. It also covers structures and principles of heat exchanger and evaporation tube.

Organic Chemical Engineering

Students learn practical techniques by studying basic theory on each area of organic chemical engineering, organic compound composition method and by understanding of organic chemical engineering's structure, characteristic, and response mechanism.

Organic Chemistry

This course offers introduction on characteristics and reaction of organic compound, characteristics that are related to functional group and reaction tools.

Organic Chemistry 2

Followed by Organic Chemistry 1, this course covers naming method for organic compounds and chemical characteristics, chemical reactions, and chemical mechanism of organic compounds. It offers in-depth explanation on characteristics and reactions of aromatic compound through the understanding of conjugation & resonance. It also deals with stereo chemistry.

Fluid Mechanics

This course enables students to make conceptual and quantitative interpretation regarding calculation of energy needed for transporting fluid materials, and characteristics of fluid by applying theory on practical situations.

Clean Engineering

This course deals with concept of clean engineering, and environmental pollution prevention and pollution prevention techniques using state-of-the-art pollution processing techniques, such as waste minimization process, separation partition application technology, and plasma application technology.

Environmental Engineering

This course offers basic and yet comprehensive knowledge on environmentally-friendly materials, and characteristics, content, structure, and manufacturing process of these materials. It offers lively discussion on relationship between the structure and composition/ characteristics/ property of environmentally-friendly materials.

Basic Chemical Engineering Laboratory 1, 2

As a basic chemical engineering laboratory course, this course enables students to conduct a lab session independently, by allowing them to participate in property measurement, basic physical chemistry, and analytical chemistry experiments to become familiar with basic experiment operation techniques, experiment data processing, and interpretation of experiment data.

Design of Chemical Process

Students learn basic knowledge on materials and composition element of design technique for chemical engineering equipment. Students also learn optimum design technique for actual equipment, which takes into account process selection, and economic feasibility.

Chemical Engineering Safety

This course offers explanation on chemical process risk assessment techniques, including frequency, intensity, and influence analysis.

Chemical Engineering Calculation

This course offers explanation on basic concepts used in engineering calculation, such as units, temperature, and pressure. It deals with basic interpretation and expression of chemical process, description and correlation technique for calculating physical amount, and substance and energy level calculation for chemical engineering system in normal and abnormal state.

Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics 1

This course teaches the relationship between different thermodynamic functions that fall within chemical mechanics law 1.2.3., which apply to all engineering studies. This course deals with application techniques that can be used in ever-changing real processing practices, and teaches modern method on mechanics of new dynamics cycle and new refrigerants.

Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics 2

Since the beginning of the 21st century, new materials, liquid and gas products have been developed. This course deals with thermodynamic interpretation theory on these newly developed materials. This course teaches how to interpret energy flows when materials are manufactured or applied in a thermodynamic perspective by classifying the test materials into optimum and non-optimum groups.

Chemical Process Laboratory 1, 2

Students learn about organic and industry by conducting basic experiments and major synthesis process experiments.

Chemical Engineering Laboratory 1, 2

Students learn basic research and experiment techniques by conducting experiments on statics, liquid flow phenomenon, heat transfer, and material movement phenomenon.

Environmental Chemical Engineering

This course emphasizes correlation between natural purification theories, based on understanding of environment and general chemical engineering concept, as well as theories adopted by process engineering. This course deals with application techniques related to design and operation of chemical engineering, which forms the basis of environmental science and engineering system.

Water and Wastewater Treatment Facilities Design

This course deals with operation of experiment equipment and optimum wastewater treatment facility design to find out operating factors that affect the efficiency of each process for water and wastewater treatment.

Energy Engineering

This course deals with relationship between the use of fossil fuel and air pollution. It covers characteristics of fuels, calculation on combustion reaction and thermodynamics, and a basic theory on clean energy production process, which can be used in reducing air pollutant emission.

Aerosol Engineering

This course deals with particle size, and particles' physiochemical characteristics, including electric and optical characteristics. It also deals with design and operation theory of dust removal process, such as centrifugal force dust collector, gravity precipitator, filter dust collector, and electric dust collector.

Toxic Gas Treatment Engineering

This course covers theories on reducing the level of various air pollutants generated by industries. It deals with theories for designing pollution treatment equipment, including adhesive, absorption, and catalytic tower.

Harmful Chemical Substance Control Technologies

This course deals with harmful substance control technologies, including physiochemical, biological, stabilization, solidification, incineration, and reclamation technology.

Waste Engineering 1

This course offers explanation on development of waste treatment and management techniques and related laws. It deals with source of urban waste, including composition and characteristics of urban waste, collection, and intermediate waster treatment.

Waste Engineering 2

This course deals with basic engineering aspects of urban waste, such as reshipment, collection, final treatment. It offers explanation on landfill process, including actual design and maintenance of landfills, and cost calculation.

Wastewater Treatment Engineering 2

This course deals with treatment theory and unit processing, including water quality control within the supply pipe networks on hard-to-handle materials, that cannot be treated with commonly used techniques to improve the efficiency of water production process.

Unit Operation in Environmental Engineering

This course offers explanation on three basic knowledge, i.e. movement phenomena of hydromechanics, substance transfer, and heat transfer to make students understand substance and energy transfer in environmental process.

Environmental Microbiology

It it necessary to understand the types, characteristics and roles of microorganism to apply biological treatment technique, which has been getting good response from the industry in cleaning polluted environment(air, water, wastes and soil). This course is designed to help students apply biological treatment technique by teaching basic knowledge used in the environmental engineering field.

Advanced Environmental Reaction Engineering

This course offers basic knowledge on calculation method for chemical engineering and chemical reaction theory to enable students to understand and interpret environmental process design.

Advanced Environmental Reaction Engineering Laboratory

This course offers basic knowledge on calculation method for chemical engineering and chemical reaction theory to enable students to understand and interpret environmental process design.

Environment Remediation Modeling

This course deals with hydraulics and movement of pollutants related to groundwater. It covers groundwater contamination, solute transport by advection, solute transport by diffusion, advection-dispersion transport and models, multiphase flow and hydrocarbon recovery.

Environmental Chemistry

This course teaches concepts on basic chemical reactions found in nature and polluted environment, and examples of pollution treatment reactions.

Topics in Topology

This course deals with technique for getting and interpreting numerical solutions for problems found in various engineering fields using mathematical analysis and software programming languages. It puts emphasis on teaching mathematical theories needed for solving problems related to natural science, engineering, and social science, and carrying out small group-based projects.

Applied Mathematics Lab

This course deals with technique for getting and interpreting numerical solutions for problems found in various engineering fields using mathematical analysis and software programming languages. It puts emphasis on teaching mathematical theories needed for solving problems related to natural science, engineering, and social science, and carrying out small group-based projects.

Topics in Applied Mathematics

This course deals with technique for getting and interpreting numerical solutions for problems found in various engineering fields using mathematical analysis and software programming languages. It puts emphasis on teaching mathematical theories needed for solving problems related to natural science, engineering, and social science, and carrying out small group-based projects.

Instrumental Analysis 2

This course teaches analysis technique on chemical instrument by utilizing both theoretical and experimental approach. It teaches electro-chemical and various chromatography techniques.

Physical Chemistry 1

This course allows students to nurture in-depth view on natural phenomena by providing knowledge on basic thermodynamics, chemical equilibrium, and phase equilibrium.

Physical Chemistry 2

By utilizing knowledge learned from thermodynamics, students learn characteristics of liquid, concept of movement, basic electro-chemistry, chemical mechanics, and movement of substances and quantitative understanding on basic concepts used in chemistry.

Physical Chemistry 3

Students learn about quantum theory, which is the basis of modern science and technology, and quantitative analysis on the structure of atom and molecule.

Physical Chemistry 4

This course teaches theories on various spectroscopy technologies, which are used in revealing molecule structure.

Analytical Chemistry 2

Students learn state-of-the-art analysis techniques, and techniques used in analytical chemistry through actual case studies.

Biochemistry 2

This course deals with a variety of biochemistry issues that are related to the latest genetic engineering.

Polymer Chemistry 2

This course covers various chemical issues that are related to new chemical materials, which are receiving spotlight from the industry, and discusses state-of-the-art technologies that use these chemical materials.

Organic Synthesis

This course covers synthesize theory for organic compound, analysis on complex compound materials, synthesize technology, and new synthesize technology.

Organic Chemistry 1

This course allows students to widen their understanding on materials that are the basis of all state-of-the-art chemical and organic materials, by offering basic studies on non-metallic compounds, including C, H, N, O, S, P, combinations and reactions.

Organic Chemistry 2

This course covers organic combination's reaction and structure determination and characteristics of spectroscopy. It also deals with characteristics, structure, and combination techniques for stereochemistry, carbohydrate, peptide, and hetero cycle combination.

Organic Chemistry 3

This course comprehensively deals with basic theories on various organic reaction mechanism and organic composition.

Organic Chemistry 4

This course allows students to develop an ability to design new materials independently by teaching state-of-the-art theories on organic reaction mechanism using various literatures.

Individual Research

Students select advising professors for their study, and learn independent research techniques under their guidance. This course allows students to study sectors that they plan to major in at graduate school on a deeper level.

Special Topics in Chemistry 1, 2

This course is designed to help students select courses related to what they plan to major in at graduate school, by dealing with hot issues in physics, organic chemistry, analytical chemistry and inorganic chemistry.

ACADEMICS KW University