A Laboratory Course to Teach Chemical Manufacturing

主导化学制造业的规划、增长和成功的两个关键问题是产品质量和环境。传统的本科化学工程教育强调基础知识，但考虑到产品质量和环保意识的化学品制造的过度制造问题尚未纳入课程。 该项目提供了一系列相互关联的实验，重点是制造和评估熟悉的化学产品（即聚甲基丙烯酸甲酯）的质量。这些实验可以纳入一个2学期的单元操作实验室序列。这个项目继续采用现有的，非常成功的教学科学和工程基础的范例。与此同时，它允许将产品质量和环境责任的原则纳入实验室。此外，该项目还改进了其他几门必修和选修课程，因为基于实验的简短教学模块可以传播到这些课程中，在本科教育的几个学期中不断加强化学制造的基础知识。该项目位于化学工程系，但可以通过跨学科选修课和南卡罗来纳州荣誉学院提供这些实验和教学模块的元素来影响其他学科，最显着的是机械工程。

Two critical issues that dominate planning, growth, and success of the chemical manufacturing industry are product quality and the environment. Traditional undergraduate chemical engineering education emphasizes fundamentals, but consideration of the over-reaching manufacturing issues of product quality and environmentally conscious chemical manufacturing has not been integrated into the curriculum. This project provides an interrelated series of experiments centered upon manufacturing and evaluating the quality of a familiar chemical product, namely poly(methyl methacrylate). These experiments can be incorporated into a 2-semester unit operations laboratory sequence. This project continues to employ the existing, highly successful paradigm of teaching science and engineering fundamentals. At the same time, it allows for the integration of the principles of product quality and environmental accountability into the laboratory. Furthermore, this project improves several other required and elective lecture courses, as short teaching modules based on the experiments can be disseminated into those courses, providing continual reinforcement of the fundamentals of chemical manufacturing throughout several semesters of undergraduate education. This project is located in the Department of Chemical Engineering but can affect other disciplines, most notably Mechanical Engineering, by offering elements of these experiments and the teaching modules through interdisciplinary electives and the South Carolina Honors College.