Differences in Chemical Engineering Curriculums

The course listed as “ChE 301: Transport” will cover fluid mechanics and heat/mass transfer. Typically, in chemical engineering curricula, fluid mechanics and heat/mass transfer are rolled up into one course called something along the lines of “transport phenomena.”

Almost everywhere with which I am familiar, fluid mechanics is a 300-level course. Some departments (especially aerospace departments) have a 200-level introductory course that covers some of the basic fluids before hitting the meat of it at the 300-level. It wouldn’t make sense otherwise, because fluids requires you to have taken vector calculus, differential equations, and thermodynamics, several of which are also typically 300-level.