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USC Catalogue 2025-2026 
    
USC Catalogue 2025-2026

CHE 538 Transport Processes I

Units: 4
Terms Offered: Fa
Fundamentals of transport processes - momentum, heat and mass transfer - in systems of interest to chemical engineering.
Recommended Preparation: Knowledge of mathematical modeling for chemical processes on the level of CHE 501 ; knowledge of fluid mechanics on the level of CHE 443 ; knowledge of heat and mass transport on the level of CHE 445 
Duplicates Credit in former CHE 540, former CHE 541 and former CHE 544
Instruction Mode: Lecture
Grading Option: Letter