Transport Phenomena II is where the subject stops using correlations and starts deriving them. The statewide description: molecular mechanisms for momentum, heat and mass transport; differential balance equations for conservation of momentum, energy and mass; application to steady and unsteady-state chemical processes involving diffusive and convective mass transfer in solids, liquids and gases; interphase transfer mechanisms; boundary layer theory and turbulent transport.
⚠⚠ This is the hardest mathematics in the degree. Shell balances become partial differential equations, and the work is in choosing a coordinate system, identifying the boundary conditions and knowing which terms may honestly be dropped. Students who arrive without fluency in differential equations and vector calculus meet the consequences in week three.
Carried by three Florida public institutions.
Named on the Chemical Engineer career path. This course is the gateway to graduate study in chemical engineering — a doctoral programme assumes it from day one — and industrially it underpins reactor design, membrane and separation technology, and any modelling or simulation role.
Florida runs two parallel numbering families through the analytical core of this degree, and the University of Florida is alone on one side of it:
| FAMU, FSU, USF | University of Florida |
|---|---|
ECH3266 Transport Phenomena I | ECH3264 Elementary Transport Phenomena |
ECH4267 Transport Phenomena II | ECH3203 Fluid and Solid OperationsECH3223 Energy Transfer Operations |
ECH3418 Separations Processes (USF: ECH4418) | ECH4403 Separation and Mass Transfer Operations |
⚠ Same material, two schemes, and no number in common. Nothing in the identifier signals it, so an evaluator matching on course numbers finds nothing to match. On transfer between Florida chemical engineering programmes, send a topic list and a syllabus rather than a course number.
Chemical engineering is awarded by four Florida public institutions in three cities: the University of Florida (110 bachelor’s degrees a year), the University of South Florida (73), Florida State (27) and Florida A&M (4). Florida State and Florida A&M share the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, a single joint college in Tallahassee, which is why their records for this prefix are identical down to the title.
⚠⚠ So a carrier count in this prefix overstates how many independent programmes exist. A course carried by “FAMU and FSU” is one programme’s course, not two institutions agreeing. Read the hedging on this page accordingly, and treat anything stated about content as a description of a small number of specific curricula rather than a Florida-wide norm.
⚠ Neither UCF nor FIU awards a chemical engineering degree — the two largest universities in the state by enrolment. See the Chemical Engineer career path for what that means if you live in Orlando or Miami.
All four Florida programmes are accredited by ABET’s Engineering Accreditation Commission, which is what employers screen on and what carries the four-year route to Professional Engineer licensure under s. 471.013(1)(a), Florida Statutes. ⚠ Accreditation attaches to a named programme at a named institution, not to a course list — verify the specific programme in ABET’s own search.
Most chemical engineers never license: process plants fall under the industrial exemption. ⚠ The Florida exceptions are environmental and water engineering consulting, where work is sealed for public clients. Sit the FE examination in your final year regardless — the chemical FE is written for the curriculum you have just finished and will never be easier.
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