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374-375-376: Chemical Engineering Laboratory:

The student demonstrates to himself essential features of the unit operations
of chemical engineering, by constructing and testing with his own hands
suitable apparatus for the illustration of principles in the parallel classroom
work. Under minimum supervision, he plans, builds, and tests such equipment as
orifices and other measuring apparatus, fluid flow devices verifying Fanning's

equation, apparatus for determination of heat transfer coefficients in the more
common cases, model vacuum pan sufficient to demonstrate the ordinary relationships
of evaporation, and packed columns for the absorption of gases in liquids.

The primary object of this course is to teach the students how to obtain
the data necessary for the interpretation of the unit operations in chemical
engineering. It is inevitable that at the same time, he gains a clearer understanding
of these operations, as well as facility in shop work and the use of his
hands, the preparation of working drawings, and the reduction of his results
to writing in the form of an acceptable report. Whether the apparatus is particularly
efficient, or even practicable from a production standpoint, is not regarded
as important at this stage.

The students work in small groups in order to make better use of the time,
and the results obtained by each group are made available to all through dependent
problem work in the classroom. 6 hours per week. (Fall, Winter,
Spring.) (This course will be required beginning 1936.)

Associate Professor Hitchcock.