Course Instructors 2003:
S. H. Davis Office: AL B238
Phone: 713-348-3536 userid: shdavis@rice.edu
K. Zygourakis Office: AL B216
Phone: 713-348-5208 userid: kyzy@rice.edu
Texts: I Richard M. Felder and Rousseau, Ronald W. Elementary Principles
of Chemical Processes, Third Edition
II S. H. Davis, J. V. Shanks and K. Zygourakis, Chemical Engineering
Fundamentals: Fall, 2003 Edition
(located on-line at http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~ceng301)
Homework will be assigned regularly by Friday of most weeks (8 to 10 HW assignments total). The nth assignment may be found by looking at or listing the file:
Each homework is due on the Friday (1 pm) after it is assigned. Please turn your work in during class or in the mailbox for Ceng 301 outside of Dr. Chapman's (AL B228) office.
The course project is required for all students to complete during the second half of the semester.
This year's project will be posted in October, 2002.
There are two quizzes and a final. In all three, you will be allowed to use your texts, class notes and any other hand copied notes you deem helpful. All three are take home exams so that a computer may be used during them. There is also a project, which will involve library searches, report, and a presentation.
Short messages for both Ceng 301 and Ceng 303 will be displayed in the Message of the Day for the course.
All grades are stored in the file:
and may be seen by listing the file.
Student names are replaced by id numbers in this file.
Occasional sessions or labbie hours will be held to assist students in the use of Owlnet, Unix, X-Windows, MATLAB and Maple for this course. These are topics that are now covered in some detail in Ceng 303 . The sessions will primarily be used to acquaint you with the use of Maple and the MATLAB programs written for this course.
Any student with a disability requiring accommodations in this class is encouraged to contact the instructor after class or during office hours. Additionally, students should contact the Coordinator for Disabled Student Services in the RMC Cloisters.
If you have any questions about any parts of this course,
including all assignments and exams: ask the instructor, or
labbies. You are encouraged to do this by visits during office
hours and electronically. You may send messages to the instructors to
their userids via the Owlnet mail system: shdavis@rice.edu
and kyzy@rice.edu. If you do not
know how to do this, attend one of the Owlnet labbie sessions to see
a demonstration.
Before using the Owlnet system for work on problems in this course, you should type in an xterm window the following:
wsname% register ceng301
You need to do this only once. In addition to then having access to the programs used in the course, you will also see the message of the day when you log into Owlnet. You will also find that you have created a directory called ceng301 that plays a very important role in both Ceng 301 and Ceng 303. This directory is protected so no one except, you, the course instructors and the course teaching assistants may access files in it. You must store all your results used for examinations in Ceng 301 and test problems in Ceng 303 in that directory or in a subdirectory under it. It is a violation of Rice's honor code to store such files in a publicly readable place on the system.
If you decide that you do not want your environment to include that of ceng301, type:
wsname% drop ceng301