Teaching
Two core courses
(EECE401 Process Control; EECE506 Bioprocess Engineering)
>50 REU students and
high school students supervised
External Academic
Review of the Environmental Engineering and Science Program at the Air Force
Institute of Technology
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Teaching at Washington University
Process Control EECE401 (2008~2021);
Bioprocess Engineering EECE506 (2013~2022);
Biology EECE306 (2022):
Fluid Mechanics Transport 1 ChE367 (2013);
Metabolic Engineering ChE596 (2010, 2011, 2012);
International Experience ChE401 (2012 in Brazil);
Advanced Energy Lab EECE439 (2011, teach 2-week lab course);
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Bioprocess Engineering
Topics: Basics of microbiology, genetics and Enzyme kinetics; Cell
metabolisms; Bio-reaction and kinetic Models; Molecular Biology and Systems
Biology; Bioreactor operations; Bio-separation; Animal/Plant cell culture;
Mixed cultures and Wastewater treatment; Biofuel topics; Proposal writing and
MATLAB based computer simulations
Chemical Process Dynamics and Control
Topics: steady and unsteady-state behavior of chemical processes; transfer function and block diagram; fundamental feedback and feedfoward control strategies; control design and applications; process optimization; process modeling and problem solving with Excel, MATLAB and Simulink; process data analysis and empirical modeling (e.g., machine learning). After taking this course, students should be able to: 1) understand and apply process control theory; 2) develop and resolve models for chemical processes; 3) analyze and regulate the process dynamics; 4) learn how to use MATLAB and Simulink.
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Old Class Materials
Fluid Mechanics (Transport 1, ChE367)
Course Coverage: Laminar and turbulent flow; Reynolds number: Flow transition criteria; Friction factor; Pipe roughness parameter; Friction factor charts: Pipe flow pressure drop; Concept of fully developed flow; Relation between wall shear stress and pressure drop for a fully developed flow; Newtonain vs non-Newtonain fluids; Speed of sound Mach number; Incompressibilty criteria; Surface tension; Contact angle; Level rise in a capillary; Laplace-Young equation; Pressure inside a bubble; Shear stress; Pressure variation in a column of liquid; Pressure force on a plane surface; Center or pressure concept; Pressure force on a curved surface; Linear acceleration; Rigid body rotation; Compressible gas pressure with depth; Resultant force on a plane surface; Streamlines in steady flow; Streamwise acceleration Normal acceleration; ;Newton's law along a streamline; Bernoulli equation; Newton's law normal to a streamline; Stagnation point and pressure; Pressure profile in a tornado; Continuity equation; Free jet and draining of a tank; Flow meter equation; Sluice gate equation; Use of head balance; Modified Bernoulli equation; Sudden expansion; Cavitation; Streamline calculation for 2-D steady state flows; Oscillating manometer; Macroscopic momentum balances; Sudden expansion revisited; Jet flowing along a vane; Rocket acceleration analysis; Sluice gate momentum balance; Momentum correction factor; Angular momentum balance; Macroscopic balances examples; Angular momentum; Converging-diverging nozzle; Velocity field, Eulerian and Lagrangian flow description, streakline/pathline/streamline, Steady flow; Acceleration field and unsteady effects, Concept of streamline coordinates; Reynolds Transport Theorem, Fluid element motion and deformation, Volumetric dilatation, Angular motion and fluid rotation/irrotation, Conservation of mass and continuity equation; Continuity equations for incompressible fluid, Cylindrical coordinate, Stream function/Streamlines, Conservation of linear Momentum, Navier-Stokes equation; Laplace equation; Source-sink pair; Model simplification via dimensionless; Poiseuille's Law; Fully developed flow; Laminar flow pressure drop; Turbulent flow shear stress, Viscous sublayer, Dimensional Analysis of pipe flow; Turbulent velocity profiles; Turbulent pressure drop; Major and minor head loss; Modified Bernoulli equation; Moody chart; Life and Drag coefficients; Boundary layer definitions; Effect of Re on Drag,
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WUSTL and MSU are working together to improve teaching in systems biology (2012)
Dolan KD, Tang YJ, Liao W 'Improvement of Bioengineering Courses through Systems Biology and Bioprocess Modeling'. 121 Annual conference of American Society for Engineering Education. Indiana. 2014. http://www.asee.org/public/conferences/32/registration/view_session?session_id=3412
We shared Class Materials with Dr. Wei Liao and Dr. Kirk Dolan from Michigan State University. More MATLAB lectures can be found at the website below: http://tang.eece.wustl.edu/MATLAB_WUSTL.htm