Introduction to the Foundations of Chemical Engineering: Synthesis, Modeling, Analysis of Products and Processes

工程-化学(53)在本科化学工程核心课程中，传统的教学重点是分析，即对给定过程的行为进行演绎。在相关练习中，除了选择要使用的预定义模型方程和解析解技术外，学生几乎不需要做出其他决定。结果，学生们没有准备好面对与生俱来的决策自由，也没有机会在他们的职业生涯中培养所需的创造力。这个项目的目标是编写和传播必要的教材，以改进和更新入门课程的教学方法，并在这一倡议下，为随后修改整个核心化学工程课程的范围奠定基础。为了实现这一目标，该项目正在开发以下教材：(A)通过一系列过程和产品设计案例研究，介绍基本化学工程概念的教科书，帮助学生培养解决工程问题的必要技能(即综合、建模和分析)的软件系统，以及(B)与教科书的教材相结合的软件系统，它通过向学生提供：一个虚拟实验室，以获得关于微观现象和观察到的宏观行为的直觉，一个协作解决问题的环境，并帮助协调可用于工程设计的大量数据资源，从而拓宽了学生综合建模分析能力的范围。评估正在麻省理工学院和几个考点进行，包括特拉华大学、休斯顿大学、俄克拉何马大学、俄亥俄州立大学和罗文大学。这些材料将技术整合到本科化学工程教育中，通过教师发展讲习班在全国范围内传播这些材料，培训教育工作者正确使用这些材料。

Engineering - Chemical (53)The traditional focus of instruction in the core undergraduate chemical engineering curriculum has been analysis, i.e. the deduction of the behavior of a given process. In associated exercises, few decisions are required of the student other than selection of which predefined model equations and analytical solution techniques are to be used. As a result, students are left unprepared to face the inherent freedom of decision-making and do not have the opportunity to cultivate creativity as required in their professional careers. The objective of this project is to develop and disseminate the educational material necessary to revamp and update the pedagogical approach of the introductory course, and with this initiative, set the stage for subsequent revamping of the scope of the entire core chemical engineering curriculum.To meet this objective, the project is developing the following educational material: (a) A textbook that introduces the fundamental chemical engineering concepts, contextually, through a series of process and product design case studies, which helps students develop the necessary skills (i.e., synthesis, modeling and analysis) for solving engineering problems, and (b) A software system, which is integrated with the educational material of the textbook, and which broadens the range of the students' synthetic-modeling-analytic abilities by providing to them: a virtual laboratory to gain intuition regarding microscopic phenomena and observed macroscopic behavior, a collaborative problem-solving environment, and help in coordinating the vast resources of data available for engineering design.Evaluation is being carried out at MIT and at several test sites, including the University of Delaware, the University of Houston, the University of Oklahoma, Ohio State University, and Rowan University. National dissemination of these materials, which integrate technology into undergraduate chemical engineering education, is maintained through faculty development workshops that train educators in the appropriate pedagogical use of these materials.