Collaborative Research: CCL1: Educational Materials to Enhance Chemical Engineering Curricula with Applications in Biological Engineering

工程化学-(53)化学工程教育(CHE)需要一个范式转变，以满足现代工业的需要，该工业正在利用生物技术方法创造新产品。例如，生物催化和生物加工在化学工业中的应用越来越多，这需要熟悉入门级化学工程师的概念。简单地将生物学课程添加到CHE本科教学组合中是一种划分的方法，不能解决这一缺陷，因为它不提供工程学背景下的内容。在整个CHE核心课程中整合适当的教育材料将帮助学生获得和加强将工程原理应用于生物、生物化学或其他基于生物的(BIOX)过程所需的技能。目前，由于缺乏将BIOX纳入课程的课本和其他教育材料，这一转变受到阻碍。这个项目的目标是为整个CHE课程创建、收集、传播和评估这样的材料。具体地说，该项目创建新的学习材料和教学策略，发展教师专业知识，实施教育创新，并评估学生的成绩。该项目的成果将作为其他现代跨学科应用程序整合到各种工程领域的范例。

Engineering Chemical - (53)Chemical engineering education (ChE) requires a paradigm shift to address the needs of a modern industry that is utilizing biotechnological approaches to create new products. For example, biocatalysis and bioprocessing are increasingly finding application in the chemical industry, requiring a familiarity with such concepts of entry-level chemical engineers. Simply adding biology courses to the portfolio of ChE undergraduate instruction is a compartmentalized approach that does not address this deficiency because it does not present content within an engineering context. Integrating appropriate educational materials throughout the ChE core curriculum would help students acquire and reinforce the skills necessary to apply engineering principles to biological, biochemical, or other bio-based (bioX) processes. Such a transformation is currently hindered by the lack of texts and other educational materials for integrating bioX into the curriculum. The goal of this project is to create, collect, disseminate, and evaluate such materials for the entire ChE curriculum. Specifically, the project creates new learning materials and teaching strategies, develops faculty expertise, implements educational innovations and assesses student achievement. The results of this project will serve as a paradigm for other modern, interdisciplinary applications to be integrated into a variety of engineering fields.