B. Sc. Program of Science and Technology of Sugar and ...B. Sc. Program of Science & Technology of Sugar Industry, Assiut University 9 Distribution of Courses Suggested Study Plan

B. Sc. Program of Science & Technology of Sugar Industry, Assiut University

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B. Sc. Program of

Science and Technology of Sugar and

Integrated Industries

Study Program Scheme and

Course Contents

(Credit Hours System)


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Mission

The Faculty of Sugar and Integrated Industries Technology (FSIIT) is

the only graduate research faculty of its kind in Egypt and the Arab

region. As a unique member of the nationally is driven from the Assiut

University’s devotion to education, research and community services.

The faculty is meant to be a graduate research faculty targeting the

promotion of knowledge and multidisciplinary research in areas related

to industrial activities with particular emphasis on sugar and its

integrated industries. The faculty’s strategy is based on in-depth

cooperation with stakeholders and industries interested in hiring

graduates with specific professional skills and balanced

multidisciplinary field to participate effectively in sugar industry.

Vision

To achieve the adopted mission, the faculty’s vision for the future

depends on the following principles:

The faculty provides high quality state of the art educational

program.

The graduates are targeted to serve our stakeholders in accordance

with the national strategies.

The faculty adopts applied research programs closely related to the

sugar and integrated industries.

The faculty relies on high academic standards in terms of education,

research, and community services.

The faculty believes in mutual cooperation with the beneficiary

industries to maximize gains of the industrial society.

The faculty adopts the concept of maximizing the benefit of its

resources.

The faculty recognizes cooperation, devotion and pride as their

main values that should be adopted by all personnel.


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Continuous development of all resources of the faculty whether

physical, staff, assistants, or students.

Objectives

To carry out the mission stated herein, in coherent with our vision, the

following strategic goals are meant to be achieved:

To provide high-quality undergraduate program in science and

technology of sugar and integrated industries.

To offer superior graduate programs in technical multidisciplinary

professional fields that respond the needs of Egyptian industries, as

well as to the needs of the Arab region, Africa and the world.

To engage in research that advance learning and provide solutions

of stakeholder problems.

To cooperate with industrial and governmental institutions to

transfer knowledge in science and technology.

To offer continuing education and training programs aiming at

personnel enrichment, professional upgrading, and career

advancement for its graduates of the those graduated from other

related scientific background; and

To make available to national communities and public agencies the

expertise of the faculty in a consistent manner with the primary

teaching and research functions and contribute to social,

intellectual, and economic development in Egypt, Arab region,

Africa and the world.


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Study Plan

The Department of Science and Technology of Sugar Industry offers a

specialization in sugar industry leading to a B.Sc. in the same major.

Students must complete 136 credit hours successfully. These include:

14 cr. hrs university requirements, 122 cr. hrs faculty requirements.

The graduation requirements

The minimum total credit hours required for the conferring of the

Bachelor’s degree are 140. A detailed distribution of the minimum

credit hours required is shown below:

Classifications Credit hours

Compulsory Elective Total

University requirements 6 8 14

Faculty requirements 102 24 126

Total 108 32 140

Course coding

Numbering system

The course code consists of five alphanumeric digits (ABCXY)

The AB characters: represent the subject field.

The C digit: represents the course level or the year at which

the course is offered in the study plan.

The XY digits: represent the course sequence number within the

subject field.

Abbreviations of subject fields

The following abbreviations of subject fields are used in the Degree

offered and Graduation Requirements and Course Summary

Description sections. They are listed below in an alphabetical order:

BS – Basic Sciences

BE – Basic Engineering

BA – Basic Agriculture

SI – Sugar Industry


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LH – Language, Humanities and Social Science (Shared faculties:

Arts (A), Commerce (C) and Law (L))

I. University requirements: 14 credit hours

I.1. Compulsory courses: 6 credit hours

Course

code Course title

Cre

dit

ho

urs

Detailed

distribution of

credit hours Prerequ

isite

Lecture Practical

LHC 100 Economics and Management 2 2 - -

LHA 100 English Language 2 2 - -

LHL 100 Human Rights - - - -

LHC 102 Marketing Research 2 2 - -

Total 6 6

I.2. Elective courses: 8 credit hours

At least four credit hours (4 cr. hrs) from the following list of the

elective courses

Course

code Course title

Cre

dit

hou

rs Detailed

distribution of

credit hours Prereq

uisite

Lecture Practical

LHA 102 Selected Topics in Modern

Egyptian History

2 2 - -

LHC 200 Accounting and Finance 2 2 - -

LHE 100 Management of Energy Resources 2 2 - -

LHC 101 Teams and Work Groups 2 2 - -

LHA 103 Academic English for Science

Students

2 2 - -

LHC 104 Quality Assurance 2 2 - -

LHA101 History of Science & Technology 2 2 - -

LHC 105 Communication Skills 2 2 - -

LHC103 Risk Assessment and Management 2 2 - -


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II. Faculty requirements: 126 credit hours

II.1. Compulsory courses: 102 credit hours

Course

code Course title

Cre

dit

hou

rs Detailed

distribution of

credit hours Prerequ

isite

Lecture Practical

BS 100 Mathematics 4 3 3 -

BS 101 General Chemistry (I) 3 2 3 -

BS 103 General Chemistry (II) 4 3 3 BS 101

BS 102 Computer (I) 3 2 3 -

BS 104 Physics 4 3 3 -

BE 100 Computer Aided Technical

and Construction Drawing

3 2 3 BS 102

BS 200 Thermodynamics & Kinetics 4 3 3 BS 103

BS 201 Inorganic Chemistry 3 3 - BS 101

BS 202 Organic Chemistry 3 2 3 BS 101

BS 203 Electrochemistry 2 2 - BS 103

BA 200 Sugar Crops Production 3 3 - -

BS 206 Surface and Colloid

Technology 4 3 3 BS 200

BS 207 Analytical Chemistry 3 2 3 BS 103

BS 208 Solid State Chemistry 2 2 - BS 103

BE 200 Unit Operation 2 2 - -

BE 202 Fluid Mechanics 2 2 - BS 100

BS 300 Industrial Organic Chemistry 3 2 3 BS 202

BS 301 Analytical Chemistry

Techniques 3 2 3 BS 207

BA300 Biotechnology (I) 3 3 - BS 202

BA 301 Fundamental of Crops and 4 3 3 BA 200


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Plant Breeding

BE 302 Boilers and Heat Exchangers 2 2 - BE 200

BE 300 Heat and Mass Transfer 2 2 - BS 200

SI 300 Unit Processes 2 2 - BE 202

SI 301 Sugar Technology (I) 3 3 - BS 201

SI 302 Sugar Technology (II) 3 3 - SI 301

SI 303 Pollution Control in Sugar

Industry 2 2 - BS 302

SI 304 Field Training and Industrial

Safety 1 - -

Complet

ion of

90 cr.hrs

BA 400 Biotechnology (II) 4 3 3 BA 300

BS 400 Industrial Fermentation 2 2 - BS 300

BE 400 Basics of Industrial

Maintenance 3 3 - -

BE 401 Plant Equipment Planning 2 2 - BE 100

SI 400 Sugar Technology (III) 4 3 3 SI 302

SI 401 Graduation Project 2 - 6 S.S*

SI 402 Quality Control in Sugar

Industry 3 3 - BS 301

SI 403 Utilization of Sugar Industry

Wastes 3 3 - SI 400

Total 102

* Those courses required a senior standing (S.S*) Status, (completion

of 100 cr. hrs.).


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II.2. Elective courses: 12 credit hours

At least twelve credit hours (12 cr. hr) from the following list elective

courses.

Course

code Course title

Cre

dit

hou

rs Detailed

distribution of

credit hours Prerequis

ite

Lecture Lecture

LHL 300 Company Laws and Work

Legislation 2 2 - -

BS 204 Information Technology 2 1 3 BS 102

BS 205 Phase Rule & Thermal Analysis 2 2 - BS 200

BA 201 Statistics 2 2 - BS 100

BE 201 Renewable Energy Resources 2 2 - -

BE 203 Technical Writing 2 2 - -

BE 204 Material Handling System 2 2 - -

BE 205 Material and Energy Balance 2 2 - BS 200

BS 302 Environmental Biotechnology 2 2 - BS

201,202

BS 303 Polymer Technology 2 2 - BS 202

BS 304 Industrial Physical chemistry 2 2 - BS 206

BS 305 Chemistry of Carbohydrates 2 2 - BS 202

BS 306 Chromatographic Analysis and

Spectroscopy 2 2 - BS 301

BE 301 Pumps and Hydrolyic Systems 2 2 - -

BE 303 Drying and its Applications in

Sugar Industry 2 2 - BE 202

BS 401 Corrosion and Protection of

Metallic Materials 2 2 - BS 203

BS 404 Wastewater Treatment 2 2 - BS 207

BS 402 Environmental Protection 2 2 - BS 302

BS 401 Food Chemistry 2 2 - BS 300

BS 403 Applied Catalysis 2 2 - BS 206

BE 402 Total Quality Management 2 2 - SI 400

BA 402 Biofuels 2 2 - BS 400

BA 403 Flavor Chemistry & Technology 2 2 - BS 300


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Distribution of Courses Suggested Study Plan for the Science

and Technology of Sugar Industry

First Semester

a – Compulsory courses

Course

code Course title

Cr.

H Lec. Prac.

Exams Gra

de

Prere

quisite Y.w Prac Oral Wr.

BS 100 Mathematics 4 3 2 80 - - 120 200

BS 101 General Chemistry (I) 3 2 3 45 30 - 75 150 -

BS 102 Computer (I) 3 3 3 45 30 - 75 150 -

LHC 100 Economics and

Management 2 2 - 30 - 10 60 100 -

LHA 100 English Language 2 2 - 30 - 10 60 100 -

Elective Course 2 2 - 30 - 10 60 100 -

Elective Course 2 2 - 30 - 10 60 100 -

Total 18 900

b – Elective courses

Course

code Course title

Cr.

H Lec. Prac.

Exams Grade

Prereq

uisite Y.w Prac Oral Wr.

LHA 102 Selected Topics in Modern

Egyptian History 2 2 - 40 - - 60 100 -

LHE 100 Management of Energy

Resources 2 2 - 30 - 10 60 100 -

LHC 101 Teams and Work Groups 2 2 - 30 - 10 60 100 -

LHA 101 History of Science and

Technology 2 2 - 30 - 10 60 100 -


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Second Semester


Course

code Course title

Cr.

H Lec. Prac.

Exams Grade

Prerequ

isite Y.w Prac Oral Wr.

BS 102 General Chemistry (II) 4 3 3 60 40 - 100 200 SITBS

101

BS 104 Physics 4 3 3 60 40 - 100 200 -

BE 100

Computer Aided

Technical and

Construction Drawing

3 2 3 45 30 - 75 150 SITBS

102

LHL 100 Human Rights - - - - - - - 100 Pass/

fail

LHC 102 Marketing Research 2 2 - 40 - - 60 100 -

Elective Course 2 2 - 40 - - 60 100 -

Elective Course 2 2 - 40 - - 60 100 -

Total 17 950


Course

code Course title

Cr.

H Lec. Prac.

Exams Grade

Prereq


LHA 103 Academic English for

Science Students 2 2 - 30 - 10 60 100 -

LHC 103 Risk Assessment and

Risk Management 2 2 - 40 - - 60 100 -

LHC 104 Quality Assurance 2 2 - 40 - - 60 100 -

LHC 105 Communication Skills 2 2 - 30 - 10 60 100 -


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Third Semester


Course

code Course title

Cr.

H Lec. Prac.

Exams Grade

Prereq

uisite Y.w Pra. Oral Wr.

BS 200 Thermodynamics and

Kinetics 4 3 3 80 20 20 100 200

BS

103

BS 201 Inorganic Chemistry 3 3 - 45 - 15 90 150 BS

101

BS 202 Organic Chemistry 3 2 3 40 20 15 75 150 BS

101

BS 203 Electrochemistry 2 2 - 30 - 10 60 100 BS

103

BA 200 Sugar Crops

Production 3 3 - 45 - 15 90 150 -

Elective Course 2 2 - 30 - 10 60 100 -

Elective Course 2 2 - 30 - 10 60 100 -

Total 19 950


Course

code Course title

Cr.

H Lec Prac.

Exams Grade

Prereq

uisite Y.w rac. Oral Wr.

BS 204 Information

Technology 2 1 2 10 30 10 50 100

BS

102

BS 205 Phase Rule and

Thermal Analysis 2 2 - 30 - 10 60 100 -

BE 201 Renewable Energy

Resource 2 2 - 40 - - 60 100 -

LHC

200

Accounting and

Finance 2 2 - 40 - - 60 100 -


12

Fourth Semester


Course

code Course title

Cr.

H Lec. Prac.

Exams Grade

Prereq


BS 206 Surface and Colloid

Technology 4 3 3 60 20 20 100 200

BS

200

BS 207 Analytical Chemistry 3 2 3 40 20 15 75 150 BS

103

BS 208 Solid State Chemistry 2 2 - 30 - 10 60 100 BS

103

BE 200 Unit Operation 2 2 - 30 - 10 60 100 -

BE 202 Fluid Mechanics 2 2 - 30 - 10 60 100 BS

100

Elective Course 2 2 - 30 - 10 60 100 -

Elective Course 2 2 - 30 - 10 60 100 -

Total 17 850


Course

code Course title

Cr.

H Lec. Prac.

Exams Grade

Prerequ


BS 201 Statistics 2 2 - 30 - 10 60 100 BS 100

BE 203 Technical Writing 2 2 - 40 - - 60 100

BE 204 Material Handling

System 2 2 - 30 - 10 60 100 -

BE 205 Material and

Energy Balance 2 2 - 30 - 10 60 100 BS 200


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Fifth Semester


Course

code Course title

Cr.

H Lec. Prac.

Exams Grade

Prereq


BS 300 Industrial Organic

Chemistry 3 2 3 40 20 15 75 150

BS

202


Techniques 3 2 3 40 20 15 75 150

BS

207

BE 300 Heat and Mass Transfer 2 2 - 30 - 10 60 100 BS

200

SI 300 Unit Processes 2 2 - 30 - 10 60 100 BE

200

SI 301 Sugar Technology (I) 3 3 - 45 - 15 90 150 BS

201

Elective Course 2 2 - 30 - 10 60 100 -

Elective Course 2 2 - 30 - 10 60 100 -

Total 17 850


Course

code Course title

Cr.

H Lec Prac

Exams Grade

Prereq


BS 302 Environmental

Biotechnology 2 2 - 30 - 10 60 100 -

BS 303 Polymer Technology 2 2 - 30 - 10 60 100 BS 202

BE 301 Pumps and Hydrolylic

Systems 2 2 - 30 - 10 60 100 -

LHL300 Company Laws and Work

Legislation 2 2 - 40 - - 60 100 -


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Sixth Semester


Course

code Course title

Cr.

H Lec. Prac.

Exams Grade

Prereq


BA 300 Biotechnology (I) 3 3 - 45 - 15 90 150 BS

202

BA 301 Fundamental Of Crops

And Plant Breeding 4 3 3 20 60 20 100 200 -

BE 302 Boilers and Heat

Exchanger 2 2 - 45 - 15 90 150 -

SI 302 Sugar Technology (II) 3 3 - 45 - 15 90 150 SI 301

SI 303 Pollution Control in

Sugar Industry 2 2 - 30 - 10 60 100 -

SI 304 Field Training and

Industrial Safety 1 - - - - - 50

100

work

hours

Compl

etion

of 90

Cr.hrs

Elective Course 2 2 - 30 - 10 60 100 -

Elective Course 2 2 - 30 - 10 60 100 -

Total 15 750


Course

code Course title

Cr.

H Lec Prac

Exams Grade

Prere

quisite Y.w Prac Oral Wr.

BS 304 Industrial Physical

Chemistry 2 2 - 30 - 10 60 100

BS

206

BS 305 Chemistry of

Carbohydrates 2 2 - 30 - 10 60 100

BS

202

BS 306 Chromatographic Analysis

& Spectroscopy 2 2 - 30 - 10 60 100

BS

301

BE 303 Drying & its Applications

in Sugar Industry 2 2 - 30 - 10 60 100

BE

202


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Seventh Semester


Course

code Course title

Cr.

H Lec. Prac.

Exams Grade

Prerequ


BA 400 Biotechnology (II) 4 3 3 60 20 20 100 200 BA300

BS 400 Industrial Fermentation 2 2 - 30 - 10 60 100 BS 300

SI 400 Sugar Technology (III) 4 3 3 30 30 20 120 200 SI 302

SI 401 Graduation Project 2 - 6 - - - - - S.S*

Elective Course 2 2 - 30 - 10 60 100 -

Elective Course 2 2 - 30 - 10 60 100 -

Total 16 700


Course

code Course title

Cr.

H Lec Prac.

Exams Grade

Prereq


BS 401 Corrosion and Protection

of Metallic Materials 2 2 - 30 - 10 60 100

BS

203

BS 402 Environmental Protection 2 2 - 30 - 10 60 100 BS

301

BA 401 Food Chemistry 2 2 - 30 - 10 60 100 BS

300

BS 403 Applied Catalysis 2 2 - 30 - 10 60 100 BS206


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Eighth Semester


Course

code Course title

Cr.

H Lec. Prac.

Exams Grade

Prerequ


BE 400 Basics of Industrial

Maintenance 3 3 - 45 - 15 90 150 -

BE 401 Plant Equipment

Planning 2 2 - 30 - 10 60 100 BE 100

SI 401 Graduation Project

(Cont.) 2 - 6 50 - 50 - 100 -

SI 402 Quality Control in

Sugar Industry 3 3 - 45 - 15 90 150 BS 301

SI 403 Utilization of Sugar

Industry Wastes 3 3 - 45 - 15 90 150 SI 400

Elective Course 2 2 - 30 - 10 60 100 -

Elective Course 2 2 - 30 - 10 60 100 -

Total 17 850


Course

code Course title

Cr.

H Lec Prac.

Exams Grade

Prereq


BS 404 Waste Water Treatment 2 2 - 30 - 10 60 100 BS

207

BE 402 Total Quality

Management 2 2 - 30 - 10 60 100 SI 400

BA 402 Biofuels 2 2 - 30 - 10 60 100 BS

400

BA 403 Flavor Chemistry and

Technology 2 2 - 30 - 10 60 100

BS

300


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Courses Contents

LHC 100 Economics and Management

Principles and rules of production economics, economic and productive

efficiency, risk and uncertainty, economic of scale, technological

changes of industries, planning of factories using some operation

research tools, such as linear programming method and transportation

models, practical and applied management of factories, economic

feasibility study of factories and its financial analysis.

LHA 100 English Language

Characteristics of technical English Language, revision of grammar,

rules of style and features of the sentence, showing common mistakes

in writing the technical English sentence, building-up paragraphs, kinds

of paragraphs, explaining the main idea in a text, developing skills of

communication through reading and analyzing extracts of technical

writing in the various branches of chemistry and engineering.

LHA 101 History of Sciences and Technology

Definition of arts, sciences and engineering technology, cultures

development and its relation to natural and human sciences and society,

history of technology and engineering, historical interrelation between

science and technology, relations between the engineering and

environmental development socially, economically and civilization.

LHA 102 Selected Topics in Modern Egyptian History

Topics to be chosen according to specific interest, such as: making

modern Egyptian nation, cities, towns and villages in modern Egyptian

history; social and cultural history of modern Egypt.

LHC 200 Accounting and Finance

Account and the formula of debit and credit, entry and posting, trial

balance and adjustment, financial statement, balance sheet, sales,

journal, a statement of basic accounting theory, cash, accounting


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control and administrative control, bank reconciliation, short-term

investment, inventory.

LHE 100 Management of Energy Resources

Energy resources and their distribution, solar thermal energy systems,

biomass energy conversion systems, biogas production systems,

nuclear energy systems, wind energy systems, conventional thermal

power plants, economics of power plants, heat recovery systems,

management of different energy resources.

LHC 101 Teams and Work Groups

Teams as a concept, types of teams and their functions, team building,

team effectiveness, team measurements.

LHA 103 Academic English for Science Students

English language skills, science concepts and IT skills are integrated

through a project-based approach. The aims are: to motivate students to

use their English, to build confidence in using English in written and

spoken forms, to highlight problem areas, to point to sources of

information, to recommend improvement through the use of English

language skills rather than mastery of a corpus of rules.

LHC 103 Risk Assessment and Risk Management

Risk detention, risk management, risk assessment, reducing risk.

LHC 104 Quality Assurance

In this course, students examine the practice standards in relation to

various fields pertaining to construction and environmental law,

supervision and management, students learn to identify the

requirements for various standards, relate how quality assurance

practices are integral to codes and standards interpretation, understand

international competition opportunities, and assess quality assurance

requirements for implementation.

LHL 100 Human Rights

Basic concepts about human rights, what is the human rights,

importance of Human Rights study, Human Rights and Peoples Rights,


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Human Rights initiation and resources, evolution and initiation

resources, national resources, international resources, types of Human

Rights and their constrains rights, civilian and politician rights,

economic and social rights, Human Rights in Islamic laws and other

laws constrains, constrains under ordinary circumstances, constrains

and expecional circumstances, mechanisms of Human Rights

protection, organizational mechanisms, legislative mechanisms at

national and international levels, applied aspects of Human Rights in

medical, engineering, agriculture, intellectual and educational and in

science and research fields, local and global Human rights case studies.

LHC 105 Communication Skills

Basic principles of communication theory, theory and practice of

speech communication, preparation, presentation, communication

interaction, and evaluation of different speech situations and

negotiations, aspects in intercultural communication, English

communication skills applied in the situations of introduction,

clarifying meaning, job preferences, hotel check-in, office routines,

making appointments, recent experiences, locations, directions,

describing processes, complaints, giving advice, asking for permission,

future plans.

LHC 102 Marketing Research

The students examine the principles and procedures associated with the

collection and analysis of relevant information in the context of solving

practical marketing problems, students have the opportunity to apply

these principles at each stage of marketing research process: problem

definition, research design, data collection, data analysis, and report

preparation.

LHL 300 Company Laws and Work Legislation

Law of work, individual and group work contracts, decrees of

syndicates and companies, delimitations of employing delinquents and

women, foreigners working for Egyptians and Egyptians working for

foreigners, Arabic and international work agreements, law of social

insurance, kinds of social insurance, study of decrees related to special


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kind of insurance, distinguishing between decrees of social insurance

and other kinds of Insurance.

BS 100 Mathematics

Differential calculus with emphasis on rates of change in problems

concerning the chemical sciences, applied maxima and minima

problems, indefinite integrals, the definite integral as a tool to find area

under a curve and mean values elementary differential equations and

separation of variables, first and second order equations with constant

coefficients, steady state and transient solutions, solution by numerical

methods, systems modeling with applications to mixing and dilution,

heat and pressure changes, use of computer software (e.g. Maple and/or

Excel) to solve relevant chemical sciences applications curve fitting,

systems of linear equations, algebraic and transcendental equations and

numerical integration.

BE 100 Computer Aided Technical and Construction Drawing

Interpretation of engineering drawing, representation of machine parts,

simpolic representation of piplines networks, technical drawing

representation of electric circuits networks, assembly drawing all using

AutoCAD.

BS 101 General Chemistry (I)

Introduction to atomic theory, chemical formula, chemical equations,

electronic structure of atoms, properties of atoms, ionic bonds, covalent

bonds, molecular geometry, molecular orbitals.

BS 103 General Chemistry (II)

Gases, liquids, solids, solutions, reactions in aqueous solution,

chemical kinetics, chemical equilibrium, theories of acids & bases,

elements of chemical thermodynamics, electrochemistry.

Conducting laboratory experiments related to the above topics.

BS 102 Computer (I)

Introduction to computer, data representation in computers,

introduction to operation systems, focusing on windows, Microsoft


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windows XP, Microsoft word 2000, Microsoft PowerPoint 2000,

Microsoft excel, Microsoft access.

BS 104 Physics

Kinematics, dynamics, friction, statics, energy, power, circular motion,

properties of solids and fluids, heat, electricity and magnetism, and

wave motion, electricity and magnetism including electrostatics, DC

circuits, magnetic fields, magnetic induction, AC circuits and

semiconductors, heat including heat and temperature, heat transfer,

ideal gases and thermodynamics, wave motions including light and

sound, mathematical treatment.

BE 203 Technical Writing

Stages of preparation of scientific reports (define the object-

information gathering- studies preparation-runny experiments- writing

drift of report), studying the styles of writing reports, use of word

processing, spread electronic sheets, electronic mail, data presentation

in tables, figures and, charts, (case studies, technical letters, design

reports, final reports), conducting laboratory experiments and writing

their reports. use of email to write short reports and technical letters,

conducting field studies and preparing posters, working in groups of

students.

BS 204 Information Technology

An introduction to information technology: networking and

communications, introduction to the world wide web, searching on the

world wide web, world wide web standards, files and databases, web

page authoring, electronic commerce and E-business, security issues.

BS 200 Thermodynamics and Kinetics

Thermodynamics concepts, states, properties, systems, control volume,

processes, cycles, units, tables of properties, work and heat, first law,

internal energy and enthalpy, conservation of mass, steady–state and

uniform state processes, second law, heat engines and refrigerators,

reversible processes, Carnot cycle, entropy, Clausius inequality,

efficiencies, irreversibility and availability, Helmholtz and Gibbs


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functions, vapor, air power and refrigeration cycles, mixtures of gas

and vapor, combustion, enthalpy of formation, heat of reaction heat

pump, bomb calorimeter, conversion of work to heat, concepts of

chemical kinetics, reaction rates, basic experiment methods, effect of

temperature on reaction rates, theory of reaction rates.

Conducting laboratory experiments related to thermodynamics and

chemical kinetics.

BS 201 Inorganic Chemistry

Transition and non-transition metals, electronic structure, compounds

and properties, coordination compounds and organometallics and their

preparation, industrial applications.

BE 201 Renewable Energy Resources

Green chemistry and sustainably, primary production and raw

materials, energy from renewable resources (bio-energy), identification

and quantification, renewable crop materials, industrial products from

carbohydrates, wood and fibers, occurrence, junctions and biosynthesis,

non-carbohydrate biopolymers.

BS 202 Organic Chemistry

Structure and bonding, functional groups, nomenclature and drawing of

organic compounds, stereochemistry, reactivity and mechanism, alkyl

halides, alkenes and alkenes, benzenes, carbonyl compounds,

aldehydes and ketones, carboxylic acids and their derivatives,

spectroscopy, natural products and synthetic polymers, structures and

main reactions of carbohydrates.

Conducting laboratory experiments related to the identification of

function groups of organic compounds

BE 200 Unit Operation

Heat transfer, diffusive mass transfer, convective mass transfer, mass

transfer coefficients, mass transfer columns, absorption, distillation,

extraction, drying, mixing, hydrodynamics, crystallization.


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BS 203 Electrochemistry

Introductory concepts: electrochemical systems, energy of a particle in

a phase, energy and structure of electrolytic solutions, electrochemical

equilibria: thermodynamics of electrochemical systems,

electrochemical stoichiometry, transport properties of electrolytic

solutions, structure of the electrode/electrolyte solution interface,

electrochemical kinetics: fundamental parameters, reaction mechanism,

technique for the study of the electrochemical phenomena.

BE 204 Material Handling Systems

General properties of material, general theory for operating material

handling system, relation between industrial process and handling

system, method of selection, auxiliary equipment, control and

equipment, case study.

BA 200 Sugar Crops Production

Production of sugar cane: economic importance, history and current

status of cane in Egypt, origin and classification of sugar cane, growth

stages, sugar formation, cultural practices, harvest, core of rations,

mechanization of cane, production of sugar beet: economic importance,

world distribution, status in Egypt-origin, botany and classification,

sugar beet environment, thermal and light responses, growth relations

and stages, flowering and seed setting, cultural practices in Egypt.

Storage of cane/beet losses during transport and storage.

Diseases of sugar crops:

Bacterial diseases, Fungi diseases, Viruses diseases, Nematodes

diseases in sugar beet, Control methods.

BE 202 Fluid Mechanics

Classification of fluids, definition of viscosity, relationships of

pressure, density and heat in stationary fluid, manometers and

barometers, pressures, effect of stationery fluid on subjected flat and

bended plates, points of effect, Archimedes law, floating bodies, stream

lines, velocity and acceleration in two dimensional flow, angular

velocity, continuity equation, Bernoulli’s equation and its application

for ideal fluid, newton’s law for fluids and its application in simple


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cases, laminar and turbulent flow in pipes, Ronald's experiments,

similarity flow fields and their relations, dimensional analysis, steady

flow in pipes, pressure losses in joints and exit connections.

BE 205 Material and Energy Balance

Systems of units and measurement scales, steady state mass balances,

mass balances for continuous and batch processes, industrial

applications of mass balances, principles of energy conservation,

enthalpy, standard reaction heat, fuels and combustion process,

unsteady state mass and energy balances, applications of mass and

energy balances to industry.

BS 205 Phase Rule and Thermal Analysis

Phase rule: one component systems, two component systems, three

component systems, applications.

Thermal analysis: thermogravimetric analysis, differential thermal

analysis, differential scanning calarimetry, applications.

BS 206 Surface and Colloid Technology

Surface chemistry: goal, definition of a surface and definition of

porosity, SBET theory and its extensions, characterization and

measurement of porosity, characterization methods for solid surface,

spectroscopy, photo-electronic spectroscopy, thermo-gravimetric

analysis, adsorption methods, diffraction methods, basic groups of

porous materials and their applications.

Colloids: preparation, properties, the constitution of sols: the electrical

double layer, electro-kinetic and electrochemical properties of sols, the

stability of hydrophobic and hydrophilic sols, gelatinous precipitates

and jellies of organic and inorganic substances, emulsions: preparation,

properties and stability, foams: formation and stability, foams

prevention and destruction, applications of colloidal solutions.

Conducting laboratory experiments related to the surface activity and

colloidal solutions.


Introduction, treatment of analytical data, acid-based titrationin non-

aqueous solvents, analytical applications of precipitation reactions,


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analytical applications of oxidation-reaction reactions, methods of

separation, applications of solvent-solvent extraction, application of

solvent-solid extraction, classical methods in environmental analysis.


BA 201 Statistics

Descriptive statistics including central tendency and dispersion, and

graphical presentation of data using software (e.g. EXCEL), concepts

of probability, parametric inferential statistics and regression all with

real-data chemical science applications, the rudiments of quality

control including an introduction to statistical process control charts

will be incorporated, the emphasis will interpretation including

suitability of method of analysis.

BS 208 Solid State Chemistry

The growth and form of crystals, lattices and crystal structures,

crystallization from different solutions, methods of crystallization,

types of sucrose crystallization, solid analysis of sugar crystals, factors

affecting quality of sugar crystallization.

BS 300 Industrial Organic Chemistry

Industrial production of alcohols, ingredients for the modern perfumery

industry, perfume ingredients derived from terpenes ionones and

related compounds musics, perfume ingredients derived from benzene,

toluene, phenol, naphthalene, aliphatic materials, cyclopentanone,

dicyclopentadiene, application of fragrances, safety and toxicology of

fragrances, isomerization, degradation, Millard reaction, glutamine

decomposition.


BE 301 Pumps and Hydrolytic Systems

Theories of hydraulic systems, theories of valves, theories of pumps,

pumps, valve relations in hydraulic circuits, valve selection, design of

hydraulic circuits, case study.


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BS 302 Environmental Biotechnology

Comprehensive overview on processes of environmental biotechnology

for liquid, solid and gaseous waste treatment. Introduction with respect

to the bacterial metabolism in relevant waste systems and discussion of

advanced technologies for the application of biological catalysts.

Aerobic, anaerobic waste water treatment systems, Nitrification,

Denitrification, Desulfurication, Modeling of waste water treatment

processes, Soil remediation processes, Bioremediation, Composting,

Landfilling, Biofilter, Bioscrubber, Biotrickling filters.

BE 302 Boilers and Heat Exchangers

Boilers: (types, fuels, accessories, type of air and water flows, products

of combustion, performance and maintenance evaluation feed water

and heater),

Heat Exchangers: types of heat exchangers, functions and applications,

evaluation of the performance of heat exchangers for a given operating

conditions, consideration of selection and design of a heat exchanger,

heaters and evaporation of chemical solutions, condensers (water and

solutions vapors), cooling towers and radiators, case study (evaluation

of performance and rough estimate calculations).

SI 300 Unit Processes

Process flow sheets and control, mass ad energy balances, batch and

semibatch reactors, ideal tubular continuous reactors, continuous stirred

tank reactors, residence time distribution function in continuous

reactors, models of real continuous reactors, reactors for gas-liquid,

gas-solid and triphasic systems, safety in chemical plants, simple

computer programs for the simulation of chemical reactors.

BS 301 Analytical Chemistry Techniques

Electroanalytic chemistry: potentiometric methods, conductimetric

methods, polarographic methods spectrophotometric methods: atomic

and emission spectroscopy, molecular ultraviolet/visible absorption

spectroscopy, molecular chemiluminescence, infrared and Raman

absorption spectroscopy.


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Conducting laboratory experiments related to the application of the

above instruments in sugar industry.

BE 300 Heat and Mass Transfer

Modes of heat transfer, heat conduction, determination of heat transfer

coefficient by convection, radiation heat transfer in gases, heat transfer

during condensation and evaporation, applications in furnaces and heat

exchangers, introduction of mass transfer, mass diffusion, Fick’s law,

equation of mass balance in chemical reaction, applications of mass

transfer in physical and chemical operations in sugar industry,

applications of combined mass and heat transfer.

SI 301 Sugar Technology (I)

Definition of sugar manufacture and introduction on manufacture steps,

cane preparation, extraction of the juice by milling and diffusion,

filtration of mixed juice, heating of the juice, clarification of the juice

after treatment by precipitation, filtration of scum, filtration of clarified

juice outside clarification tanks, juice concentration by evaporation of

water by multiple evaporation, explain design principles of multiple,

cleaning heat surface of heaters, bodies of multiple evaporation of pan

boiling, preparation of super-phosphate solution, preparation of lime

solution, design and calculation capacity of instrument for each steps

which mention previously.

BS 303 Polymer Technology

Introduction to principles of polymer chemistry, terminology, polymer

structure, molecular weight systems, and an introduction to the

relationship of chemical structure and properties, vinyl polymers, free

radical polymerization, cationic polymerization, anionic

polymerization, Ziegler-Natta polymerization, and recently developed

polymerization methods, non-vinyl polymers, polyethers, polyamides,

polyurethanes, heterocyclic polymers, etc, heterochain polymers,

polysiloxanes, etc, traditional thermoset polymers, phenolics, etc, more

information on relationship of structure to polymer properties,

elastomers, etc.


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BE 303 Drying and its Applications in Sugar Industry

General principles, rate of drying (constant rate period, first falling rate

period, second falling rate period, time for drying), the mechanism of

moisture movement during drying (falling rate period, capillary theory

of drying), drying operations (batch drying, the mechanism of batch

drying, continuous drying), dryers (classification and selection, layout

and performance data, prediction of drying rates, prediction of

residence times with prescribed material flow, prediction of residence

times with non-prescribed material flow, practical dryer design), drying

of sugar, drying of bagasse.

SI 302 Sugar Technology (II)

Juice clarification and purification of impurities and non sugar

substances which adverse crystallization process, analysis and chemical

composition of cane juice as well as physical properties, different

methods of clarification as: use of lime solution and P2O5 (source of

P2O5 is tri-calcium phosphate), use of lime solution and CO2 after its

purification to produce active calcium carbonate, details of chemical

reactions in each method, advantages and defects of each method,

sulphitation of syrup, refining of Egyptian raw sugar and imported,

affination of raw sugar to remove film of non sugar from crystals in

centrifuges and soluble sugar to solution, chemical treatment using lime

and CO2 (carbonation), chemical reaction which cause and factors,

affect on reactions, purification of CO2 and its chemical neutralization,

use of phosphatation method to clarification sugar soluble solution,

decolorization of sugar soluble solution by bone char, activated carbon,

resins advantage and defects of each method, boiling system refining

factories.

BA 300 Biotechnology (I)

Principles of biocatalysts with enzymes and whole microbial cells,

preferential use of hydrolases and oxidoreductases, biocatalysts for

amino acid production and modification of β-lactam antibiotics, im-

mobilization of biocatalysts, enzymes in organic solvents, reaction

mechanisms, tailor made biocata-lysts, protein engineering (protein


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design, directed evolution of enzymes), catalytically active antibody-

ies, principles of microbial biotechnology, bioprocess engineering.

SI 303 Pollution Control in Sugar Industry

Sources of air pollution and emission, environmental impact of air

pollution, thermodynamics, chemical kinetics and air pollution,

meteorology and natural purification processes, engineered system for

air pollution control, particles, its measurements and control,

measurements and analysis of air pollutants, sources and control of

water pollution in sugar industry, system for water pollution control.

BS 304 Industrial Physical Chemistry

Transport phenomena: physical properties of fluids and their

measurement, energy balance, dissipation of energy, motion of fluids in

pipes, fluidization of beds of particles, nozzles, filtration, transport of

heat, stationary and unstationary heat conduction, convection, heat

exchanges, evaporation and evaporators, transfer by radiation.

Introduction to Catalysis: definitions, absorption, kinetics of catalytic

reactions, preparation and characterization of solid catalysts, and

catalytic reactors.

SI 304 Field Training and Industrial Safety

Practical work for at least 50 hours, on a specific practical technology

and biotechnology problem in industrial, service, or consulting

establishments under the supervision of a faculty member and an

engineer or chemist from the selected establishment.

BS 305 Chemistry of Carbohydrates

Monosaccharides, oligosaccharides, disaccharides, trisaccharides,

polysaccharides, methods of molecular weight determination, studies

on some sugar derivatives e. G. Vitamin c (ascorbic acid) and its

biosynthesis, glycosides, nucleic acids and their derivatives, sugar

alternatives, sucrose, sucrose hydrolysis, monosaccharides degradation.


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BS 306 Chromatographic Analysis and Spectroscopy

Nuclear magnetic Resonance spectroscopy 1H,

13C, theory,

instrumentation and measurements, applications, mass spectroscopy,

theory, instrumentation, applications, gas chromatography (GC): types,

mechanism of separation, factors influencing separation processes,

application in qualitative and quantitative analysis, high Performance

liquid chromatography (HPLC), mechanism of separation, factors

influencing separation processes, application in qualitative and

quantitative analysis, ion-exchange chromatography, exclusion

chromatography.

BA 301 Fundamental of crops and plant breeding

Introduction , crops taxonomy, origin centers of crops and

environmental factors, crop rotation, principals of plant breeding, male

sterility and self incompatibility hybridization, hybrid vigor and

heritability, general methods of plant breeding , selection methods.

BA 400 Biotechnology (II)

Introduction into enzyme technology, classification of enzymes,

enzyme function and its general mechanism, thermodynamics and

kinetics of enzymatic reactions, basic principles of enzyme production,

purification and engineering, application in solution and as

immobilized biocatalyst, characterization of native and immobilized

biocatalysts (enzymes and microorganisms), use in organic chemistry,

reactor types and configurations including process technology.

BE 400 Basics of Industrial Maintenance

Maintenance and its terminology, maintenance planning, preventive

maintenance, maintenance mathematical models-symbolic models in

maintenance, planning and scheduling in maintenance, planning and

management of spare parts, work evaluation in maintenance, incentives

in maintenance, data base in maintenance, reliability engineering and

maintenance, applications and case studies, rules of maintenance for

mechanical and electrical units.


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SI 400 Sugar Technology (III)

Study of relationship between degree of sucrose solubility, temperature

and pressure, definite types of different sugar solutions, theory of

sucrose crystallization in pure and impure sugar solutions, sucrose

crystallization by concentration of sugar solutions under vacuum,

sucrose crystallization by cooling mass cute, boiling system in different

sugar factories, separation of sugar crystals from mother liquor

(centrifuges), types, models, use of each centrifuge, sugar drying,

explain theory of drying different types of dryers, carbonation of dry

sugar, separation of crystal clumps, types and usage importance, weight

and sugar packing, degree of accuracy of weight, conveyor (transport)

of packing sugar and storage methods, design and calculation capacity

of different instrument for each steps which mention previously.

Conducting laboratory experiments related to the juice properties,

treatments and quality.

BS 401 Corrosion and Protection of Metallic Materials

An introduction to the principles of corrosion and protection of metals

and alloys, mechanisms of, corrosion including electrochemical

principles, mixed potentials theory and short circuited galvanic cells

theory, metallic passivity, characteristics of corrosion including

discussions on the developments of the occluded cell, pitting,

intergranular corrosion, environmentally sensitive fracture corrosion

fatigue and selective dissolution, high temperature oxidation, hydrogen

embrittlement corrosion industry, soil, atmosphere, marine

environment and organic solvents, rebar corrosion in concrete, methods

for combating corrosion, cathodic and anodic protection, corrosion

inhibitors, corrosion testing and evaluation techniques, information

sources, cost of corrosion.

BE 401 Plant Equipment Planning

Design and building up of chemical plants, material and heat balance in

projection, utilization of static and dynamic simulations in design

Transport and dimension of traffic in chemical plants, energy transfer,

heating, cooling, separation processes in inorganic technology,

absorbers and their characteristics, drying, types and characteristics of


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driers, crystallization, types and characteristics of equipments, reactors,

design and bases for calculation, simple calculation of ideal reactors,

project equations for tube and batch reactors, calculation of non-

isothermal and non-adiabatic tube reactors.

SI 401 Graduation Project (I)

The course provides an introduction to research methodology, ways of

making literature review, the manner of writing technical reports, and

specifying topic of graduation project, in addition, this course is mainly

a study and an analysis of a specific problem in a field determined

jointly by the student and his/her advisor.

BS 400 Industrial Fermentation

Introduction to fermentation, microorganisms used in industrial

fermentation, equipments of fermentation, substances, media and

solutions used as well as the methods of their preparation, production

of lactic acid, production of ethyl alcohol, production of citric acid,

production of gluconic acid, microbial production of lipids, protein,

vitamins and growth hormones, methods for diagnosis of fermentation

products.

BE 402 Total Quality Management

Fundamentals and philosophy of total quality management in industry

and government, includes implementation of quality function

deployment and the tools of off-line quality assurance procedures.

SI 402 Quality Control in Sugar Industry

Definitions and expressions used in chemical control and processing

control, gravimetric methods used in chemical control, apparatus used

in processes of chemical control and quality control, methods used in

collection of different samples, chemical reagents used in chemical

analysis, general analytical methods, analytical methods of different

products in sugar manufacture, calculation methods used in chemical

analysis.


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BS 403 Waste Water Treatment

Treatment introduction to water and waste water characteristics, basic

design methodology and operational features, common physical,

chemical and biological processes for the treatment, waters and waste

waters, consideration of industrial process modifications and waste

water treatment options.

SI 403 Utilization of Sugar Industry Wastes

Bagasse drying, bagasse chemical composition, bagasse charcoal,

activated carbon, production of methane (biogas), fibrous products,

xylan, production of furfural, production of furfuryl alcohol, production

of furan resins, production of alpha-cellulose, production of xylitol,

thermoplastic resins, carboxymethyl cellulose, diacetyl, alcohol from

cellulose, hydrogasification (ammonia or methanol), filter muds as a

fertilizer, bagasse as animal feed, cane wax from filter muds, vinasse.

BS 402 Environmental Protection

Overview on the economic, ecological and political basic conditions for

the introduction of sustainable technologies. Bases of the balancing of

and methods of environmental protection. Selected examples of the

integration of sustainable technologies from chemical (Sulfuric acid,

Soda, Letter acids), food (Sugar production) and biotechnological

(Mannite, β-lactam-antibiotics, enzymes) industries. In this context

principles of green chemistry will be discussed as well as the different

types of optimization procedures concerning existing ‘processes (raw

materials, reactor types, solvents, catalysts, recycling, end of pipe

technologies.

BA 401 Food Chemistry

Water, enzyme utilization in food industry, amino acids, peptides,

proteins, lipids, carbohydrates, aroma substances, vitamins, minerals,

food additives, food contamination.


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BA 402 Biofuels

Introduction to bioenergy, the perspective & bioenergy, world energy

consumption and possibilities & biomass for energy supply, biofuels

technology, application and market, bioethanol, biodiesel, biogas.

SA 403 Flavor Chemistry and Technology

History and introduction of flavors, flavor technology, artificial

flavoring materials, flavor legislation and religious dietary rules,

quality control.

BS 403 Applied Catalysis

General aspects and history of catalysis, homogeneous and

heterogeneous catalysis, role of catalytic reactions in the chemical

industry, poisoning and regeneration of catalysts, modern methods of

studying catalysts, synthesis of methyl alcohol from carbon dioxide and

hydrogen, synthesis of different chemicals from ethyl alcohol,

esterification reactions.

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