Process Control Laboratory is where the transfer functions meet real equipment that does not behave the way the model says. Students tune controllers on physical processes — typically level, flow, temperature and pressure loops — and learn that identification, noise and valve behaviour matter as much as the mathematics.
%s This is the most directly employable single credit in the degree. Tuning a real loop, reading a trend, and recognising a saturating valve are things employers ask about at interview and that no lecture can teach.
Carried by three Florida public institutions.
Named on the Chemical Engineer career path. Hands-on control experience distinguishes a graduate applying for a plant process or controls role, and it is the sort of thing to put on a résumé specifically rather than leaving inside a course title.
A 1-credit laboratory typically meets for three hours a week, and the report writing generally takes at least as long again. Students plan their terms around credits and are caught by hours. Treat this as a three-to-six hour commitment, not a one-hour one.
Where a lecture and its laboratory each list the other as a corequisite, neither can be taken alone and failing either means repeating both. That is a cohort problem rather than a term problem in a small programme where the course runs once a year. Ask before you register.
USF carries ECH4323 without a matching ECH4323L; its laboratory work sits in ECH3240L and ECH4241L. ⚠ This is packaging, not a missing requirement — but it does mean a transfer student can arrive with a control course and no control laboratory, or the reverse, and a degree audit will notice.
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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