Collaborative Research: Integration of Conceptual Learning throughout the Core Chemical Engineering Curriculum

该项目开发和推广使用网络基础设施，美国化学工程师协会（AIChE）概念仓库，可用于整个核心化学工程课程（材料和能量平衡，热力学，运输现象，动力学和反应器设计，材料科学）。目标是在化学工程学科内创建一个专注于基于概念的教学的学习社区。概念问题，无论是概念清单和概念测试，将通过一个互动的网站，通过AIChE，该学科的主要专业学会的教育司维护。它使用灵活的、查询驱动的信息存储系统，以便项目和教师可以部署概念学习，因为它最适合他们的课程和文化。总体目标是降低使用概念为基础的教学和评估的障碍，使更多的化学工程教师纳入概念为基础的学习到他们的类。研讨会将提供给教师和部门管理人员，以解释概念为基础的教学的价值和方法。

This project develops and promotes the use of a cyber-enabled infrastructure, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Concept Warehouse, that could be used throughout the core chemical engineering curriculum (Material and Energy Balances, Thermodynamics, Transport Phenomena, Kinetics and Reactor Design, and Materials Science). The goal is to create a community of learning focused on concept-based instruction, within the discipline of chemical engineering. Conceptual questions, both as Concept Inventories and Concept Tests, will be available through an interactive website maintained through the Education Division of the AIChE, the discipline's major professional society. It uses a flexible, query-driven information storage system so that conceptual learning can be deployed by programs and instructors as it best fits into their curriculum and culture. The overall objective is to lower the barrier for using concept-based instruction and assessment so that more chemical engineering faculty incorporate concept-based learning into their classes. Workshops will be offered to faculty and department administrators to explain the value and methods of concept-based instruction.