Academic Form-38: PROGRAM MATRIX

Faculty Engineering
Program Chemical Engineering
Award Bachelor in Chemical Engineering
Credit Units 69
Academic Year 2023/2024

Semester 1 Semester 2
Level

Pre-requisite Core/ Pre-requisite Core/

Course Code Course Name Units Course Code Course Name Units
Elective Elective
ENGG1013 Engineering None Core 1 ELEC1100 Principles of None Core 2
Drawing and Electrical Circuits
Computer drafting
UNIR1100 Communication None Core 2 MATH1100 Calculus & Linear MATH1000 Core 2
Skills I Algebra
1 MATH1000 Mathematical SET 3 MATH Core 2 ENGG1010 Applied Mechanics None Core 2
Foundations
CHEM1020 General Chemistry None Core 2 ENGG1023 Engineering of None Core 2
Materials
COMP1500 Introduction to None Core 2 UNIR1001 Oman & Islamic None Core 1
Programming Culture

MATH2100 Calculus & MATH1100 Core 2 CHEM2002 Process Systems None Core 2
Statistics Analysis
CHEM2000 Chemistry for CHEM1020 Core 2 CHEM2056 Physical & CHEM1020 Core 2
Engineers Surface Chemistry
CHEM2001 Introduction to None Core 2 CHEM2004 Fundamentals of None Core 2
2 Chemical Fluid Mechanics
Engineering
ELEC2113 Instrumentation & ELEC1100 Core 2 UNIR2100 Communication None Core 2
Measurement Skills II
UNIR2001 Entrepreneurship None Core 2 UNIR1002 Arabic Language None Core 1
Skills

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 CHEM3011 Separation CHEM2001 Core 2 CHEM3012 Separation CHEM2001 Core 2
Processes I Processes II
CHEM3008 Chemical Process None Core 2 CHEM3010 Process Modeling CHEM2001 Core 2
Industries and Dynamics
CHEM3000 Heat Transfer None Core 2 CHEM3003 Process None Core 2
3
Engineering
Thermodynamics
ENGG3700 Numerical None Core 2 UNIR3100 Communication None Core 2
Analysis & Skills III
Optimization

ENGG4801A Thesis Project None Core 2 ENGG4801B Thesis Project None Core 2
CHEM4005 Reaction CHEM3003 Core 2 ENGG4000 Renewable & None Core 2
Engineering Sustainable
4 Energy
CHEM4004 Process & Control CHEM3010 Core 2 CHEM4015 Waste treatment None Core 2
Systems Design processes
CHEM4007A Process Design CHEM2002 Core 2 CHEM4007B Process Design CHEM4007A Core 2
Practice Practice

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 Level 1 Course Requirement
MATH1000: This course aims to cover four Modules that will be necessary for any engineering degree
or career including: functions, limits, derivatives and its applications, integration and its
application, complex numbers vectors, and as well as applicable methods. The course
covers many aspects of analyzing functional relationships. Graph sketching is useful in
Shared (Faculty)
picking trends and modeling economic or physical systems. The course will cover limits and
continuity of functions. Carrying on from this, the calculus of derivatives and its applications
will be introduced. Furthermore, theories and applications of integration, complex numbers
and vectors will be explored.
ENGG1010: To develop a broad understanding of the way in which forces affect bodies either at rest or
in motion. In addition, to teach the fundamentals of objects in a state of force equilibrium Shared (Faculty)
and objects in motion.
ENGG1013: The course aim is designed to be covered in 4 modules which will broadly focus on the Shared (Faculty)
basics of engineering drawing utilising free hand sketching, engineering drawing, and
computer aided drafting and solid modelling. The fundamental principles of orthographic
projection as well as the topics of dimensioning, sectional views, isometric and perspective
pictorials views. In addition, Computer Aided Drafting is also covered and practiced using
AutoCAD.
CHEM1020: General Chemistry deals with the Properties of gases, solids, & solutions, phase changes, Shared (Faculty)
Thermochemistry, Equilibria with applications to acid – base chemistry & to solubility of
salts, Electrochemistry and kinetics. This course will introduce the students the fundamental
concepts about various states of matter. It will enhance their knowledge on mass and
energy conversion. In general terms it covers the basic principles of chemistry.
ENGG1023: To introduce students to the fundamentals of structures, processes and properties of
Shared (Faculty)
engineering materials.
ELEC1100: The course provides the necessary skills in the analysis and design of electrical circuit and Shared (Faculty)
components, which are fundamental to the study of electrical systems, electronics,
computer systems and communications systems. The course covers the fundamental
parameter of electrical system such as Voltage, current, power, energy, resistance,
capacitance, and inductance. DC Circuit analysis theorems such as Ohms law Kirchhoff's
laws node analysis, mesh analysis, Thevenin's theorem, Norton's theorem are covered. The
concept of AC circuit including sinusoidal waveform interpretation and the basic RLC circuit
analysis also covered.

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 MATH1100: The course provides an exposition of appropriate results in the study of basic differential Shared (Faculty)
equations, matrices, and vector calculus with emphasis on methods and techniques that
have proved relevant in a wide variety of applications.
COMP1500: The aim of the course is to expose the student to the concept of computer programming for Shared (Faculty)
engineers by learning the essential techniques of programming in C++ language.
UNIR1001: ‫ والمعالم الثقافية‬،‫ ومقوماتها‬،‫ ومصادرها وخصائصها‬،‫ وأهميتها‬،‫يتضمن هذا المقرر عرضا ً لمدخل دراسة الثقافة اإلسالمية‬ University Requierment
‫ وكيفية مواجهة التحديات المعاصرة التي تعصف باألمة المسلمة‬،‫ ودور الثقافة اإلسالمية في بناء الشخصية المسلمة‬،‫التي امتازت‬
‫ ودور‬،‫ وأبرز مالمح الثقافة اإلسالمية في المجتمع العماني‬،‫ كما يستعرض إسالم أهل عمان‬،‫ وأساليب الغزو الفكري‬،‫اليوم‬
‫ وإسهاماتهم في المجالين التجاري والحضاري‬،‫العمانيين في بناء الحضارة اإلسالمية ونشر اإلسالم‬.
UNIR1100: This course is designed to provide students with the required skills required to communicate University Requierment
effectively and efficiently at their future work place and increase their career prospects.
Being directed towards the work environment, the course intends not just to familiarize
students with the functional language they will need to employ in their future jobs, but also
to build up their confidence in communicating in English and increase their fluency.
Level 2 Course Requirement
CHEM2000: This course provides details on: Intermolecular Forces: Liquids, Solids, and Phase
Changes, The Properties of Mixtures: Solutions and Colloids, Organic Chemistry: Saturated
Shared (Program)
Hydrocarbons, Unsaturated Hydrocarbons, Polymers, Alcohols, Ethers, Phenols, and
Thiols, Aldehydes and Ketones, Carboxylic Acids and Esters.
CHEM2001: This course introduces students to the basic analysis tools of process engineers – mass
and energy balances. It also exposes students to the way process engineers work, think
and communicate their ideas. It is the cornerstone course for all process engineering Shared (Program)
disciplines and introduces students to teaching and learning approaches in the Division of
Chemical Engineering.
CHEM2002: The course introduces a systems approach to understanding and analysing the structure
and behaviour of industrial processes. The context and needs that give rise to process
systems are examined along with the concepts of unit operations & unit processes.
Understanding the nature of individual units and complex flowsheets is done through
Shared (Program)
analysis of degrees of freedom & solvability issues. Techniques for the decomposition of
large, complex systems to smaller problems are developed. Application of computer-aided
flowsheeting tools facilitate process analysis, which includes economic & environmental
impacts.
CHEM2004: This is an introductory course to the fundamentals of fluid mechanics and their applications Shared (Program)
to engineering problems. Among the main topics considered are: Introduction to basic fluid

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 properties, Fluid static and hydrostatic forces analysis, Bernoulli equation and its
applications in fluid energy and head calculations, fluid kinematics and flow classifications,
effects of fluid friction on pressure and velocity distributions with emphasis on pipe flow,
dimensional analysis, and different pump types and calculating system head requirements.
CHEM2056: Physical & Surface chemistry course attempts to understand matter by observing how it
behaves under different conditions, and how it interacts with its environment. It underpins
a number of other areas of science, including materials science, nanotechnology and
Shared (Program)
biotechnology. This subject covers a number of key areas of physical chemistry, focusing
on thermochemistry, rates of chemical reactions, acid-base and ionic equibria, the
properties of surfaces and phase changes.
MATH2100: This course aims to introduce four major topics to engineering students namely: types of Shared (Faculty)
series and test their convergence, descriptive statistics and data presentation, probability
concepts, and convolution, integral, and partial differential equations (PDEs). The series
analysis includes arithmetic, geometric series and their applications. Descriptive statistics
cover mean, median, range, mode and standard deviation. Probability themes include
experiments, outcomes, events, permutations and combinations, Random variables,
probability distributions. In particular, the following themes will be introduced within the last
topic: Laplace transform definition, Inverse Laplace Transform, linearity, shifting,
Transforms of derivatives and integrals, differential equations, Unit step function, second
shifting theorem, Dirac's Delta function, Differentiation and integration of transforms,
Convolution and integral equations.
ELEC2113: This course introduces the fundamentals of measurement. It will introduce the students to Shared (Faculty)
the meter’s construction and application, transducer and sensors operation, data
Acquisition system and Signal Processing of measured signal. It allows the student to
design and develop instrumentation system, data acquisition system using modern
equipment and tools.
UNIR2001: This course is an introductory course in entrepreneurship and innovation. The course aims University Requierment
to expose undergraduate students of various academic backgrounds to business venturing
and entrepreneurial activity. Students will apply themselves through developing their own
business ideas and assessing them using knowledge and skills acquired during the course.
UNIR2100: The purpose of the course is to equip students with the necessary language skills that are
required in communicating in an effective way. A major focus of the course will be on writing
skills including paragraph organization, structure and using appropriate language for oral University Requierment
communication. This course also aims to familiarize students with the use of relevant
language elements for describing graphs, charts and their trends.

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 UNIR1002: ‫ كما يعتني بتقنيات الكتابة‬،‫ وما يتعلق بها من قواعد نحوية وإمالئية‬،‫يعتني هذا المقرر بتطور مهارات اللغة العربية لدى الطلبة‬
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‫ وكتابة التقرير‬،‫ وعرض الكتاب وتقده‬،‫ كالسيرة الذاتية‬،‫في مجموعة من األنماط الوظيفية‬.
Level 3 Course Requirement
CHEM3000: This course is an introduction to engineering heat transfer. The course will cover the basics
of heat conduction and convective heat transfer, and some very basic radiative heat
transfer. The topics covered include steady and transient heat conduction, forced
Shared (Program)
convection, natural convection, heat exchangers and radiation heat transfer. The text
contains a large number of interesting applications such as heat transfer from different
soruces, insulation, heat exchangers and heat dissipation using fins..
CHEM3003: This course provides an insight into to the fundamental principles, concepts, and Shared (Program)
laws/postulates of classical thermodynamics to applications that require quantitative
knowledge of thermodynamic properties from a macroscopic to a molecular level. It covers
their basic postulates of classical thermodynamics and their application to transient open
and closed systems, criteria of stability and equilibria, as well as constitutive property
models of pure materials and mixtures emphasizing molecular-level effects using the
formalism of statistical mechanics. Chemical equilibria principles will be applied to reacting
systems in order to analyze the equilibrium product compositions of these systems.
CHEM3008: This course introduces and reviews the chemical engineering knowledge as applied to the Shared (Program)
chemical and petrochemical process industries, with particular emphasis on applications to
Sultanate of Oman.
CHEM3010: This course builds on the knowledge learned in Mathematical process modeling for design
and control. Conservation principles, development of constitutive equations in models &
Shared (Program)
analysis of resultant models for use in control & diagnosis of process faults. Model
verification, calibration & validation based on process data.
CHEM3011: This course covers the topics: Diffusion, convective and interfacial mass transfer, and its Shared (Program)
application to continuous contact operations. Design of equilibrium-stage separation
processes including distillation, gas-liquid absorption and stripping, liquid-liquid extraction,
leaching and humidification. Equipment simulation using Aspen-HYSYS.
CHEM3012: This course deals with the change of substances (gases, liquids, solids) by means of Shared (Program)
physical, chemical and biological processes for industrial purposes. This definition shows
that chemical engineering is a very large and diverse field. The number of these basic Unit
Operations is not very large and relatively few of them are involved in any particular process.
The complexity of chemical engineering results from the variety of conditions as to
temperature, pressure, etc., under which the unit actions must be carried out in different

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 processes and from the limitations as to materials of construction and design of apparatus
imposed by the physical and chemical character of the reacting substances. The further
development of the 'Unit Operations' concept showed that the process of abstraction can
be carried on by analyzing unit operations in terms of fundamental principles such as mass
and energy balances, phase equilibria, and transport of momentum, energy and mass.
ENGG3700: The course is designed to be covered in 4 Topics which will broadly focus on Modeling and Shared (Faculty)
error analysis: Mathematical model, Round off error and Truncation error. Roots of
equations: Bracketing methods, Open methods and Root of polynomials. Optimization and
curve fitting: One-Dimensional Unconstrained Optimization, Least-Squares Regression and
Interpolation. Numerical differentiation and integration: Newton-Cotes Integration Formulas,
Integration of Equations and Numerical Differentiation
UNIR3100: The purpose of the course is to reinforce essay composition skills and introduce students to
the practice of writing for academic purposes. It further develops academic writing skills
including: note taking, paraphrasing, summarizing, direct quotation and Harvard style University Requierment
citation. The course will place equal or greater emphasis on composition skills such as:
essay structure, paragraph structure, coherence and general language skills.
Level 4 Course Requirement
CHEM4004: This course introduces students to the synthesis of a process flowsheet & process control Shared (Program)
system. Flexibility and operability of design. Control system synthesis for an entire
flowsheet, basic instrumentation, feedback & feedforward control system design. Integration
of process modeling skills.
CHEM4005: Reaction engineering deals with the performance analysis and design of equipment for
carrying out chemical reactions. The analysis involves principles of chemical kinetics,
thermodynamics, heat and mass transfer as well as fluid mechanics. In the present course
it will be started with basic principles of chemical kinetics and reaction equilibrium, and then Shared (Program)
consider various ideal reactors in which the complexities arising from resistances
associated with fluid flow as well as heat and mass transfer are gradually added. Both
homogeneous as well as heterogeneous catalytic systems will be considered.
CHEM4007A: This is the capstone course in the chemical engineering curriculum, and its goal is to
integrate the many skills that students have acquired from prior chemical engineering
principles courses toward the goal of learning how to design a chemical process. Principles
Shared (Program)
of chemical process design and conception. Computer-aided design and analysis.
Representation of the structure of complex, interconnected chemical processes with recycle
streams. Detailed heat and mass transfer equipment design. Comprehensive integrated

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 plant design. Optimal design. Ethics and professionalism. Health, safety, and the
environmental issues
CHEM4007B: This is the capstone course in the chemical engineering curriculum, and its goal is to
integrate the many skills that students have acquired from prior chemical engineering
principles courses toward the goal of learning how to design a chemical process.
Engineering and economic analysis of integrated chemical processes, equipment, and
systems. Comprehensive integrated plant design is delivered. Optimal design, Profitability.
Shared (Program)
Methods of analyzing risk are provided, and the basic types of health, safety, and
environmental regulations are explained, with references to government databases.
Pollution prevention strategies and the assessment of plant safety are introduced through
their relationships to hazard and operability (HAZOP) studies, the Dow Fire and Explosion
Index, the Dow Chemical Hazards Index and to life-cycle analysis
CHEM4015: In this course, Conceptual design wastewater treatment plants, critical analysis of existing
designs, energy considerations, nutrient balances and space and economic constraints are
clearly discussed. Treatment requirements of wastewater streams, based on Shared (Program)
physicochemical and biological wastewater parameters as derived from quantitative
characterisation method are explained.
ENGG4000: The course cover Energy and Sustainable Development, Non-Renewable Energy, Shared (Program)
Renewable Energy, Solar Energy, Photovoltaic, Wind Energy, OTEC Energy, Biomass
Energy, Geothermal Energy, Fuel Cells, Hydrogen Economy, Energy Systems, Climate
Change & Energy, Life Cycle Analysis, Atmospheric Pollution, Energy Sustainability
Metrics, Energy Conservation & Optimization, Energetics/Exergetics, Sustainability and
Business, Energy Storage & Management.
ENGG4801A: This course develops student's research and problem solving skills. The course involves Shared (Program)
specification, development and evaluation of an individual research project on a specific
topic or problem within the broad fields of Engineering. The student is expected to
systematically plan and manage the project, and to clearly present the work and its
contribution in context of the current literature and prior art.
ENGG4801B: This course develops student's research and problem solving skills. The course involves Shared (Program)
specification, development and evaluation of an individual research project on a specific
topic or problem within the broad fields of Engineering. The student is expected to
systematically plan and manage the project, and to clearly present the work and its
contribution in context of the current literature and prior art.

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 1 University requirement: a compulsory course for all students enrolled in the university.
2 Faculty requirement: a compulsory course for all students enrolled in the Faculty.
3 Programme requirement: a compulsory course for all students enrolled in the programme (a specialization course).
4 Programmes shared: a shared course across programmes.

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