William R. Wilcox      


Bio/CV

Chemical engineering design information

·         General information sources

·         Properties of chemicals and mixtures

·         Chemical process equipment Types, descriptions, design, selection, sizing.  Heuristics, fluid handling, reactors, separation equipment, bioprocessing, instrumentation, control.

·         Safety and environmental Pollution control, design and operation for safety, green chemistry, sustainability, government regulations.

·         Cost estimation and engineering economics Sources of cost information for equipment, chemicals, utilities, waste treatment, wages.  Cost estimation methods and engineering economic calculations.

Excel and Gnumeric:

·         Tutorials, exercises and explanations

·         How to enter Greek letters, symbols, superscripts and subscripts into Excel

MATLAB:

·         Relationships between mathematical and MATLAB expressions

·         Tutorial on symbolic methods for calculus, graphing, and solution of equations

·         Tutorials on analysis and plotting of data

·         Tutorial on numerical solution of equations                

Design of Experiments and Analysis of Data: On-line information

Other educational materials

·         How to make a professional presentation

·         Common conversion factors for units

Professional information Professional advancement, ethics, licensing, application to graduate school, intellectual property.

The founding of CAMP

Clarkson University's Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering


Last modified January 27, 2012.
Comments and suggestions welcomed.