A Premium Course by Kevin Braza

Chemical engineering is one subject. Most curricula teach it as five.

Thermodynamics. Transport. Reaction engineering. Process design. Each taught in isolation. But the underlying physics is unified. This course teaches you to see the field that way — as one coherent system — before you spend years learning the pieces without the map.

Why chemical engineering feels harder than it should

The standard ChemE curriculum splits the field into disconnected courses: thermodynamics in one semester, transport in another, reactors after that. Each has its own notation, its own textbook, its own exam format. By the time you're done, you've solved hundreds of problems but you still can't explain how the pieces fit together.

This isn't a failure of intelligence. It's a failure of structure. Nobody gives you the map before handing you the details.

This course is the map.

One equation runs the whole field

Every governing equation in chemical engineering is an instance of the general balance. Every rate law is a gradient times a conductance. Every equilibrium is a free energy minimum.

The General Balance
Accumulation = In − Out + Generation − Consumption

This single statement, applied to mass, energy, momentum, and moles, generates every design equation in the field.

Conservation Laws
Gradients
Fluxes
Kinetics
Free Energy

Who this is for

Incoming grad students

You want to arrive at your program with a coherent conceptual framework rather than hoping one emerges from the first two years of coursework.

Advanced undergrads

Your courses feel like islands with no bridges. You can solve the homework but you can’t explain what it means or why it connects to anything else.

Adjacent-field scientists

You come from chemistry, physics, materials science, or bioengineering and need a rigorous but navigable introduction to chemical engineering thinking.

This is not the right course if you're looking for exam prep, formula sheets, or shortcuts. It is the right course if you want to understand the field.

This isn't another lecture series

Textbooks

Comprehensive, no intuition

  • 900 pages per subject
  • Derivation-first, meaning-second
  • No unifying thread across courses

YouTube / MOOCs

Intuition, no rigor

  • Good at individual topics
  • No coherent sequence
  • Skips the hard parts

This course

Rigorous + conceptual + unified

  • Intuition first, then formalism
  • One framework across all five modules
  • Equations appear after you understand what they must say

Your instructor

Kevin Braza

PhD student in computational materials chemistry. Experienced STEM teacher. Someone who spent years teaching advanced math and chemistry before starting a graduate program.

I built this course because I watched capable students struggle not with intelligence, but with orientation — no one had given them the map. I'm building it while I learn, which means the content reflects someone actively working through the material, not someone reciting it from memory twenty years later.

If you want a professor with forty years of experience, this is not that. If you want a rigorous, honest teacher who is deeply invested in your understanding, this is.

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Ready to build the foundation?

One course. Five modules. 45+ lessons covering the conceptual core of chemical engineering. Lifetime access, including all future content additions.

Enroll — $997

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