ADMISSION
Acceptance to this program follows the established procedures and standards for admission to Master of Engineering degree graduate programs at McMaster University. Application materials and an explanation of the admission process can be found in the Department of Chemical Engineering’s Brochure of Graduate Studies and Research.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS
The student will be granted a Graduate Diploma in Colloid, Polymer and Surface Science and Engineering upon the completion of 4 half courses within a three year period with a minimum passing grade of B- for each course. The courses must be selected from the following list and at least two of the courses must be at the 700-level. Exceptions to these course requirements must be granted by special permission of the Faculty of Engineering Graduate Admissions and Study Committee.
Courses
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
*6B03 / Polymer Reaction Engineering
/ J.F. MacGregor, S. Zhu
Kinetics of polymerization: step growth
and chain-growth (free-radical, anionic, anionic coordination and cationic).
Polymerization processes: solution/bulk, suspension, emulsion, gas-phase,
slurry and reactive processing. Principles of polymer process and reactor
design, optimization and control.
*6X03 / Polymer Processing / J. Vlachopoulos
An introduction to the basic principles
of polymer processing, stressing the development of models. Rheology of
polymers, extrusion, molding, films, fibers, and mixing. Reactive processing.
*6Z03 / Interfacial Engineering / R.H.
Pelton
The physics and chemistry at the “nano”
scale including interactions forces, colloids, surface active systems,
wetting, adhesion, and flocculation.
*730 / Fluid Mechanics / J. Vlachopoulos,
P.E. Wood
Vectors, tensors, dyadics, Cartesian index
notation, stress analysis. The conservation of mass, momentum and energy.
Constitutive equations. Boundary layer flow theory. Potential flow. Stokes
flow. Turbulence.
*740 / Synthetic Polymeric Membranes
/ J.M. Dickson
Transport phenomena in synthetic membranes,
prediction of membrane performance, design of membrane systems, characterization
of membrane polymers, structure/fabrication/performance relationships,
qualitative and quantitative description of membrane formation and recent
topics in mem brane science and engineering.
*772 / Polymer Rheology / J. Vlachopoulos
Rheology of thermoplastic melts, conservation,
and constitutive equations. Viscoelasticity. Complex flows, die swell,
melt flow instability. Continuum and molecular theories including reptation.
The role of rheology in processing.
*790 / Selected Topics in Colloid and
Surface Science / R. Pelton
Introduction to surface tension, surface
activity, contact angles, surfactant structure, colloid stability, electrostatic
stabilization, steric stabilization and flocculation kinetics. This course
is an introduction to colloid and surface science for engineers as scientists.
Emphasized are the properties of polymer colloids (latexes) in aqueous
and nonaqueous media.