Minimizing Environmental Impact of Chemical Manufacturing Processes

该奖项在琼·布雷内克博士的指导下，向圣母大学、西弗吉尼亚大学和里诺的内华达大学提供资金，以支持一个名为“将化学制造过程对环境的影响降至最低”的综合研究和课程开发项目。该项目将把最近和正在进行的对环保化学品制造工艺的研究成果纳入化学和冶金工程课程。该项目旨在培养学生对化学过程中污染物释放的影响以及污染物最小化或消除的环境、生态和长期经济效益的认识。它还将使学生掌握正在开发的技术的活跃知识，以最大限度地减少化学制造过程对环境的影响。这将通过让学生参与研究工作，并将研究结果纳入两门新的选修课和将整合到整个化学工程课程的教学模块中来实现。该项目的最终目标是培养具有意识、知识和能力的化学工程专业人员，以最大限度地减少他们监督的化学制造过程对环境的影响。

EEC-9700537 Brennecke Abstract The award provides funding to the University of Notre Dame, West Virginia University and the University of Nevada at Reno, under the direction of Dr. Joan Brennecke, for the support of a Combined Research-Curriculum Development project entitled, "Minimizing Environmental Impact of Chemical Manufacturing Processes." This project will incorporate the results of recent and ongoing research on environmentally conscious chemical manufacturing processes into the chemical and metallurgical engineering curricula. The project will seek to develop the students' appreciation of the impact of pollutant release from chemical processes and of the environmental, ecological and long term economic benefits of pollutant minimization or elimination. It will also equip students with an active knowledge of the technology being developed to minimize the environmental impact of chemical manufacturing processes. This will be accomplished through involving students in the research efforts and by incorporating the results of that research into two new elective courses and into instructional modules that will be integrated throughout the chemical engineering curriculum. This project's ultimate goal is to produce chemical engineering professionals who are equipped with the awareness, knowledge and ability to minimize the environmental impact of the chemical manufacturing processes that they oversee.