Integrating Experiential Teaching with a Contemporary Chemical Engineering Curriculum

工程（53）本项目正在开发一种新的教学策略，利用体验活动，同时开放式的问题，以提高化学工程课程的质量。正在重新设计运输/分离课程主题，以便利用实验室和示范单元，并采用体验式战略，通过发现、开发和设计（三维方法）引入不同的学习模式。在发现实验中，学生在课堂上详细解释之前发现与原理相关的概念。在发展性实验中，学生将发展提供反馈的技术，以扩展现有的实验，说明课堂上涉及的原理。在设计性实验中，学生设计实验来说明一个原理。新的尖端技术（即，微流体、生物分离技术、纳米材料和电化学材料配方和方法学）是令学生兴奋的，并提高了对现代工程背景和职业的认识。在外部评估人员的帮助下设计和实施的评估和反馈计划，确保模块开发和实施的持续改进。该项目是评估学生的理解，知识的保留，以及相对于对照组暴露于标准的运输课程的现代化学工程背景下的意识。

Engineering (53) This project is developing a new teaching strategy that utilizes experiential activities simultaneously with open-ended problems to enhance the quality of the chemical engineering curriculum. The Transport/Separations curriculum theme is being redesigned to utilize laboratory and demonstration modules with an experiential strategy that introduces different modes of learning through discovery, development and design (3D approach). In discovery experiments students are discovering a concept related to a principle prior to a detailed explanation in the classroom. In development experiments students are developing techniques to provide feedback to expand an existing experiment that illustrates a principle covered in class. In design experiments, students are designing the experiment to illustrate a principle. New cutting edge technologies (i.e., microfluidics, bioseparation techniques, nanomaterials and electrochemical materials formulations and methodologies) are exciting students and increasing awareness of modern engineering context and careers.An assessment and feedback plan, designed and implemented with the help of an external evaluator, ensures continuous improvement of the module development and implementation. The project is assessing student understanding, retention of knowledge, and awareness of modern chemical engineering context relative to a control group exposed to the standard transport curriculum.