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| Core Modules |
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During the course work in semester one and two the students have to complete 5 core modules. Each module has 45 contact hours. They will take place at facilities at NUS by Professors of TUM or NUS. |
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essential modules |
lecturers |
modular credits |
sem |
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Organometallic and Coordination Chemistry |
TBD |
9 |
TBD |
| TBD |
Bioorganic Chemistry |
TBD |
9 |
TBD |
| CM 5103 |
Chemical Reaction Technology |
Prof Petzny
Dr Jentys |
9 |
TBD |
| CM 5105 |
Chemical Business Administration |
Prof Kaserer
Dr. Boeckelmann |
6 |
TBD |
| TBD |
Business and Technical English |
Prof Heah
Ms Li |
3 |
TBD | |
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| Specialization Modules |
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| Specialization 1: Petroleum and Petrochemistry |
| module code |
modules |
lecturers |
modular credits |
sem |
| TBD |
Molecular and Heterogeneous Catalysis |
TBD |
6 |
TBD |
| TBD |
Petroleum and Petrochemical Processes |
TBD |
6 |
TBD |
| TBD |
Unit Operations |
TBD |
6 |
TBD |
| Specialization 2: Biochemistry |
| module code |
modules |
lecturers |
modular credits |
sem |
| TBD |
Biochemistry |
TBD |
6 |
TBD |
| TBD |
Cell Biology |
TBD |
6 |
TBD |
| TBD |
Bioprocessing/Biotechnology |
TBD |
6 |
TBD |
Specialization 3: General
Students under this specialization will choose 1 module each from specialization 1 and 2 and 1 module from the list of *elective modules. | |
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*Please note that Elective modules are subjected to changes. |
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| Elective Modules |
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The student has to choose 4 of the following electives: |
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| Faculty of Chemistry (TUM): |
| module code |
TUM electives |
lecturers |
modular credits |
sem |
| TUM 2 |
Building Chemistry & Construction Chemicals |
Prof Plank |
6 |
TBD |
| TUM 3 |
Water Chemistry & Industrial Requirements |
Prof Niessner
Prof Horn
Prof Lee |
6 |
TBD |
| TUM 4 |
Industrial Chemical Marketing |
Prof Warzelhan
Dr Mueller |
6 |
TBD |
| TUM 5 |
Production Planning in Chemical Industry |
Dr Zeltinger |
6 |
TBD | |
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| Department of Chemical & Biochemical Engineering (NUS): |
| module code |
NUS electives |
modular credits |
sem |
| CN5010 |
Mathematical Methods in Chemical and Environmental Engineering |
6 |
TBD |
| CN5020 |
Advanced Reaction Engineering |
6 |
TBD |
| CN5111 |
Optimization of Chemical Processes |
6 |
TBD |
| CN5131 |
Colloids & Surfaces |
6 |
TBD |
| CN5172 |
Biochemical Engineering |
6 |
TBD |
| CN5251/CN6251 |
Membrane Science and Technology |
6 |
TBD |
| SH5000 |
Basic Sciences for SHE |
6 |
TBD |
| SH5002 |
Fundamentals in Industrial Safety (Principles and Practices) |
6 |
TBD |
| SH5101 |
Industrial Toxicology |
6 |
TBD |
| SH5102 |
Occupational Ergonomics |
6 |
TBD |
| SH5203 |
Emergency Planning |
6 |
TBD |
| SH5402 |
Advanced SHE Management |
6 |
TBD |
| CN5222 |
Pharmaceutical & Fine Chemicals |
6 |
TBD | |
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| Cross-discipline Modules |
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| module code |
module name |
lecturers |
modular credits |
sem |
| CD 5130 |
Legal Aspects in the Chemical Industry |
Dr Trenner |
1 |
1 |
| CD 5131 |
International Patent Law |
Mr. Marian Majer |
1 |
1 |
| CD 5170 |
Selected Topics in Business Administration |
Dr Rossbach |
1 |
1 |
| CD 5180 |
Selected Topics in Management Methods |
Dr Chow |
1 |
2 |
| CD 5030 |
Aspects of European and Asian History and Culture |
Dr Woebs |
1 |
2 | |
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| Core Modules |
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| Chemical Reaction Technology |
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Applied Kinetics and Process Technology
Petroleum and Petrochemical Processes
Sustainability of Industrial Processes and Environmental Chemistry
Learning objectives:
After reading this course, students will have a clear understanding of the applications of physical chemistry for the design of chemical processes. Particularly, concepts of environmental stewardship and "responsible care" and its incorporation in the plant and process design will be at the centre of the course. |
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| Chemical Business Administration |
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| Finance |
(financial information, financial analysis and understanding financial accounting statements) |
| Marketing |
(marketing analysis and marketing strategies such as communications, distribution channel pricing, product and quality policy) |
| Supply Chain Management |
(operation capabilities, process design, logistics and service operations) |
| Organisational Behaviour |
(interpersonal relationships, conflict analysis and development of organisations) |
Learning objectives:
The student learns the basic aspects of industrial business in this module. He recognizes that the economical success of chemical companies requires much more than excellent research and development. The complex challenges for the globally acting chemical industry are included in this module as well. |
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| Specialization Modules |
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| Petroleum and Petrochemical Processes |
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The scope of the course module is to enable students to understand the principal processes involved in petroleum processing, in the interface between petroleum refining and a petrochemical plant and in major petrochemical operations. This includes: Basics of crude oil chemistry, Distillation of crude oil, Catalytic conversion and upgrading processes, Thermal conversion and upgrading processes, Production and managing hydrogen, Basic Petrochemical Processes.
The course teaches the chemical and engineering basics underlying the processing options and processes. The successful participant should be able to understand the options and limits of adjusting reaction conditions and to develop improved or alternative reaction routes. The insight into these chemical and engineering aspects should help to understand the complexity of the processes in the two areas and the options for designing the appropriate interface between a petroleum complex and the making of basic petrochemicals. |
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| Unit Operations |
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The scope of the course module is to enable students to understand the principals and the applications of unit operations involved in Petroleum and Petrochemical Processes. This is aimed at providing the skills in the following fields: Thermal unit operations, Mechanical unit operations, Reactor Technology.
The course teaches the qualitative and quantitative basics engineering principles used to design and to operate mechanical, thermal, and chemical units of a process plant. The successful participant will be able to understand the basic layout of these units and to quantitatively predict the performance of these units. This will help to understand the applicability, potential, and limitations of different unit operations. |
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| Biochemistry |
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| The basics of DNA and protein structure, i.e. nucleotides, amino acids – structure and properties. How is information encoded in DNA, how is it accessed and how are genes regulated. From genes to proteins. How are genes transcribed and how is this information translated into proteins (transcription and translation). This topic covers the field of Genomics and Proteomics and in proteomics will be a focus on metabolic processes, called Metabolomics. How do cells get energy, how is this energy stored and consumed? How do cells react to energy shortage? |
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| Cell Biology |
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| With the basics in genomics, proteomics and metabolomics, the cell biology part focuses on the compartments of a cell. From archaea and bacteria (prokaryotes) to mammalian cells (eukaryotes), it will be determined how compartments in a cell are used for specific biochemical reactions, e.g. how gradients over membranes are used to create energetic substrates. How are substances transported within cells (the microtubuli system), how do cells migrate and how do cells grow and divide (cell cycle). An important point is the cell cycle regulation and defects that may lead to tumorgenesis. Oncogenes will be discussed and their role in pathobiochemistry. And finally, how do cells form complex organs and how do they communicate – signal transduction is one of the most fascinating fields in modern cell biology. Topics include the structure, function and regulation of the hormone system, the nervous system and the immune system. How do cells die in a programmed way, how do they defend intruders like virusus? How do hormones regulate behavior and physiological functions of organs and organisms? |
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| Bioprocessing/Biotechnology |
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| This topic will include biotechnological applications based on Genomics, Proteomics and Metabolomics research. Genes can be changed by cloning and organisms like bacteria or yeast can be used to produce large quantities of a recombinant protein. Enzymes are widely used in industrial applications. A focus will be the understanding of enzyme kinetics and modern technologies to modify genes and expression patterns of proteins. Analytical technologies will be discussed, from the analysis of genes to proteins and purification and identification technologies (like Mass Spectroscopy, NMR, X-ray crystallography, Spectroscopic and Fluorescent assays etc.). |
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| Elective Modules |
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| Pharmceuticals & Fine Chemicals |
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| The objective of this module is to provide an overview of the chemical reaction engineering aspects of pharmaceutical and fine chemical synthesis. Emphasis is placed on the importance of controlling chemo-regio-and stereoselectivity. Most pharmaceutical and fine chemical syntheses are performed in the liquid phase. As preliminaries, a number of relevant physicalchemical concepts are introduced. Since many liquid syntheses are heterogeneous. This naturally leads to a host of important environmental issues. This is a postgraduate module targeted at students who have are interested chemical reaction engineering and particularly the special considerations required for the pharmaceutical and fine chemical industries. |
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| Advanced Reaction Engineering |
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| The module aims to train the students in the fundamentals of reaction engineering and their application to the design and analysis of reactor. The concepts and theory in reaction kinetics are applied to reactor design of single phase reaction system. These are extended to multiphase reaction systems, incorporating the effects of physical rate processes and the interfacial equilibrium leading to the formulation of procedure for the design performance and stability analysis of reactors. This postgraduate module is targeted at students with interests in reaction systems. Background in chemical kinetics and transport phenomena will be beneficial. |
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| Mathematical Methods In Chemical & Environmental Engineering |
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This module is targeted at postgraduate students, who are interested in process modeling and simulation for various chemical and environmental engineering processes.The course covers both analytical and numerical techniques in solving the associated algebraic as well as differential equations. Analytical methods such as eigenvalue-eigenvector and Green's function method, and numerical methods such as finite difference, collocation and finite element methods are discussed.
All fundamental concepts are introduced with applications related to chemical and environmental engineering using modern software tools. Some background knowledge in analytical methods and numerical analysis from undergraduate modules will be beneficial. |
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| Modern Analytical Techniques |
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| Sample preparation, including miniaturised procedures of extraction; advanced coupled chromatography/mass spectrometry; advanced mass spectrometric techniques. Capillary electrophoresis; different modes of capillary electrophoresis, injection techniques, detection techniques and column technology. Scanning probe microscopy:scanning tunneling microscopy, atomic force microscopy, scanning electrochemical microscopy and scanning near-field optical microscopy. Determination of crystal and molecular structures by single crystal x-ray diffraction techniques. |
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| Biomaterials |
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| Biomaterials: polymers - composites, metals, ceramics, natural polymers. Biomaterials evaluation - from conception to clinical trials; interplay of product concept with in vitro and in vivo methods of evaluating a device. Applications - soft tissue, hard tissue, implants, drug delivery, examples of devices that are in the market, new developments and trends in biomaterials. |
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| Topics in Supramolecular Chemistry |
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| Origin and importamce of supramolecular chemistry; interdisciplinary aspects of the field; brief overview of the structure and functions of natural systems such as proteins and enzymes (only relevant topics towards molecular recognition will be discussed); host-guest principles, design and synthesis of various hosts, crown ethers, cryptands, calixarenes and cavitands; complexation studies: definition of stability constants; applicants of host-guest chemistry in research and industry. |
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| Trace Analysis |
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At the end of this module, you should be able to identify the major sources of errors in trace analysis, understand the advantages and limitations of sample preparation and detection techniques, and be able to design a suitable method for the analysis of a given sample by taking into account the sample matrix, properties and concentration.
Topics discussed include analysis at trace levels: general considerations and principles, sampling, sample preparation and sample pretreatment; selected advanced techniques of extraction and detection, applications in environmental, biomedical, etc. analyses; chemosensors and biosensors. The module is directed towards students majoring in chemistry and related disciplines. |
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| Advance Organic Synthesis |
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| Biomimetic reactions, the application of organometallics to organic synthesis, synthesis of complex molecules, and other emerging areas in organic synthesis. Students will be required to write a proposal and a review on any topic related to organic synthesis. |
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| Advance Organic Synthesis and Spectroscopy |
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| This module will introduce students to the uses high-field multidimensional NMR techniques for the structure elucidation of complex naturally occurring organic molecules. Methods for the determination of absolute configuration will also be discussed. This module will also introduce students to synthetic methods of C-C bond formation with an emphasis on reactions which lead to control of stereochemistry. Topics covered include 2D and 3D NMR, MS, octant rule, exciton coupling, Horeau method; Cope and related rearrangements; organophosphorous,organosulphur and organosilicon rearrangements. The module is directed towards students majoring in chemistry and related disciplines. |
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