Development of Learning Tools to Bridge Modern Economics with Chemical Engineering

开发连接现代经济学与化学工程的学习工具

• 批准号: 0737182
• 负责人: Georgia Kosmopoulou
• 金额: $ 14.99万
• 依托单位: University of Oklahoma Norman Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-05-15 至 2011-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0737182&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Development; Learning; Tools; Bridge; Modern

Engineering-Chemical (53)This collaborative project between faculty in Chemical Engineering and Economics addresses significant issues that chemical engineering students face upon entrance into the workforce (decision making under uncertainty, managing risk etc.) which are often not covered in curricula or textbooks for engineering design or engineering economics. Such challenges include (a) the management and operation of companies and plants under conditions of extreme uncertainty (due to natural disasters, international disputes, terrorism and vulnerable energy supply), (b) the move by major corporations towards the production of specialty products with high profit margins instead of commodities and chemicals, (c) the formulation of new interdisciplinary areas of professional activity, such as product design, and (d) the expected development of new products that utilize technological breakthroughs (e.g., nanotechnology, renewable energy). The project is using modern developments in Economics to address these challenges with well developed tools, such as decision theory, risk analysis, forecasting analysis, price theory etc. At the same time, analysis and simulation techniques that are being used commonly in Chemical Engineering are being utilized in this project to provide a fresh perspective for the advancement of several areas of Industrial Organization and Microeconomics. The project is accomplishing four specific objectives: (a) integrating modern economics techniques into the teaching of Engineering Design; (b) transferring analysis techniques from Chemical Engineering to Microeconomics; (c) developing illustrative classroom experiments and case studies that showcase the above and can be used in existing and in new classes; (d) assessing and improving the classroom experiments and the learning material developed throughout the project. Completion of this project is impacting the curricula in two disciplines, with the incorporation of new material in existing classes and with the creation of material for a new interdisciplinary class. In addition, the learning material generated through this project is being made available to the community through a web server. Evaluation of the project results is being conducted in peer institutions with the use of the beta versions.

工程化学化学（53）化学工程教师与经济学之间的合作项目解决了化学工程专业学生在劳动力入口时面对的重大问题（在不确定性，管理风险等下进行决策），这些问题通常不受课程或工程设计或工程经济学的教科书的涵盖。此类挑战包括（a）在极端不确定性条件下公司和工厂的管理和运营（由于自然灾害，国际争端，恐怖主义和脆弱的能源供应），（b）主要公司向具有高利润率的特殊产品而不是商品和化学品生产具有高利润率的专业产品，（c）新的跨学科活动的产品，例如新的产品，以及诸如新的产品，（c）采用了新的跨学科领域的产品，并采用了新的跨学科领域。 （例如，纳米技术，可再生能源）。该项目正在利用经济学的现代发展来解决这些挑战，例如决策理论，风险分析，预测分析，价格理论等。同时，在该项目中使用了在化学工程中通常使用的分析和仿真技术，以提供用于工业组织和微观经济学几个领域的新观点。该项目正在实现四个具体目标：（a）将现代经济学技术整合到工程设计的教学中； （b）从化学工程到微观经济学的转移分析技术； （c）开发说明性的课堂实验和案例研究，以展示上述内容，并且可以在现有和新课程中使用； （d）评估和改进课堂实验和整个项目中开发的学习材料。该项目的完成正在影响两个学科的课程，并在现有班级中纳入了新材料，并为新的跨学科班级创造了材料。此外，通过该项目生成的学习材料通过Web服务器提供给社区。通过使用Beta版本，正在同行机构中对项目结果进行评估。