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

该项目开发并促进了网络基础设施的使用，即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、传输现象、动力学和反应堆设计以及材料科学）。我们的目标是在化学工程学科中创建一个以概念为基础的学习社区。概念性问题，包括概念清单和概念测试，将通过一个互动网站提供，该网站由该学科的主要专业协会美国科学与技术学会的教育司维护。它使用一种灵活的、查询驱动的信息存储系统，因此，概念学习可以由项目和教师部署，因为它最适合他们的课程和文化。总体目标是降低使用基于概念的教学和评估的障碍，以便更多的化学工程教师将基于概念的学习纳入他们的课堂。将为教师和部门管理人员提供讲习班，解释基于概念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.