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PROGRAM CRITERIA FOR CHEMICAL, REFINERY, PROCESS, ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY AND SIMILARLY NAMED PROGRAMS

Lead Society: American Institute of Chemical Engineers

These program criteria apply to engineering technology programs that include

chemical, process, plant, or similar modifiers in their titles.

Applicability
These program criteria apply to engineering technology programs that include

chemical, process, plant, or similar modifiers in their titles.

Objectives
An accreditable program will prepare graduates with the technical and managerial skills necessary to enter careers in design, manufacturing, marketing, operation, and maintenance in the field of chemical engineering technology. Graduates of baccalaureate degree programs typically have strengths in their knowledge of laboratory applications, design, technical service and supervision. Graduates of associate degree programs typically have strengths in their knowledge of operations,

maintenance, and manufacturing.

 
Outcomes
The field of chemical engineering technology is dependent upon the application of chemistry in an industrial setting. The program must demonstrate that graduates have a working knowledge and ability to solve technical problems by the industrial application of inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, analytical chemistry; physics, and process stoichiometry. The program must also demonstrate that graduates of the baccalaureate program possess a deeper and broader knowledge which enables them to solve technical and managerial problems of a more complex nature than those expected of graduates of associate degree programs.

In the field of chemical engineering technology, the operation of chemical processes is extremely important. The program must demonstrate that graduates have the ability to apply:

The concepts of chemical engineering unit operations such as mass transfer, heat transfer, distillation, and evaporation to the design, operation, and maintenance of chemical processes,

The principles of thermodynamics; process control and instrumentation, computer applications, and materials science to the design, operation, and maintenance of chemical processes.

The nature and level

These program criteria apply to engineering technology programs that include chemical, refinery, process or similar modifiers in their titles.

I. PROGRAM CRITERIA FOR ASSOCIATE LEVEL PROGRAMS

Curriculum

The curriculum must provide associate degree graduates with instruction in the knowledge, techniques, skills, and use of modern equipment in chemical engineering technology.   Graduates typically enter the profession as process, maintenance or laboratory/quality control technicians.  Graduates of associate degree programs have strengths in the safe operation, maintenance and sampling/analysis of chemical processes.  The following curriculum topics are required:

a.       operating principles, including testing and troubleshooting, of chemical processes and equipment in accordance with applicable safety (including process hazards), health and environmental standards;

b.      application of chemical engineering principles, such as fluid mechanics, heat transfer, reactions, and separations, to the operation of chemical processes and appropriate to program educational objectives;

c.       application of instrumentation and process control, quality control, and computer applications to the operation of chemical processes; and

d.      chemistry with laboratory experience and coursework topics in both inorganic and organic chemistry.


II. PROGRAM CRITERIA FOR BACCALAUREATE LEVEL PROGRAMS

Curriculum

The curriculum must provide baccalaureate degree graduates with instruction in the knowledge, techniques, skills, and use of modern equipment in chemical engineering technology.  Graduates of baccalaureate degree programs build on the strengths of associate degree programs by gaining the knowledge, skills and abilities for careers in process design and management.  The following curriculum topics are required:

a.       operating principles, including testing and troubleshooting, of chemical processes and equipment in accordance with applicable safety (including process hazards), health and environmental standards;

b.      application of chemical engineering principles, such as fluid mechanics, material and energy balances, heat transfer, reactions, thermodynamics, and separations to the design, improvement, and operation of chemical processes and appropriate to program educational objectives;

c.       application of instrumentation and process control, quality control, computer applications, and materials of construction to the design, improvement, and operation of chemical processes;

d.      chemistry with laboratory experience and coursework topics in both inorganic and organic chemistry; and

e.      application of statistical process and quality control to chemical operations.

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