CHME 4703 — Chemical Process Design Capstone
4 semester hoursUndergraduateLectureNUpath CENUpath EINUpath WIusually offered: fall, springtypical days: MBostonTraditional
Offers students an opportunity to participate in an open-ended, project-based design course where teams design innovative solutions of a comprehensive chemical process. Considers public health, safety, and welfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors. Students apply engineering knowledge from their undergraduate academic studies to design a chemical process that handles mass and energy balances. Requires proof of concept data from prototypes, experiments, or simulations of the process to show the design is feasible and that use of the data improves the design. Team presentations, in multiple formats, are shared with the chemical engineering community for feedback and evaluation. Requires multiple progress reports, submitted by the team, which results in the final design report at the end of the semester.
Prerequisites
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Corequisites (same term)
Offering history
| Term | Sections | Enrolled | Capacity | Full | Open seats/section |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall 2023 | 1 | 13 | 28 | 46% | 15.0 |
| Spring 2024 | 3 | 85 | 106 | 80% | 7.0 |
| Fall 2024 | 1 | 11 | 28 | 39% | 17.0 |
| Spring 2025 | 3 | 65 | 84 | 77% | 6.3 |
| Fall 2025 | 1 | 17 | 25 | 68% | 8.0 |
| Spring 2026 | 3 | 75 | 92 | 82% | 5.7 |
Snapshots from scheduled scrapes — not live seat availability. "Full" can exceed 100% when sections over-enroll.
Meeting times
Share of recent sections by weekday: M 68% · T 23% · W 30% · Th 35% · F 32%
Common patterns: MR (35% of sections), MW (26% of sections), TF (23% of sections), M (6% of sections), F (5% of sections), WF (4% of sections) — in patterns, R means Thursday
Professors
Fall
- Magda Barecka (100% of students) · reviews
Spring
- Courtney Pfluger (100% of students) · reviews
Percentages are each professor's average share of the season's enrolled students in recent terms.
Links
Official catalog (CHME course descriptions) · Student reviews on RateMyHusky · All CHME courses · Plan it at numap.app