SGER: Team-Based, Challenge Learning in Chemical Engineering with Atypical Students

这项探索性研究（SGER）的小额赠款将调查适应化学工程专业视力受损的技术。 本研究的目的是1. 为了了解如何团队为基础，挑战学习发生时，视力受损 学生被归入一个组。2. 为了确定视障学生以何种方式对 整体设计流程和团队内部沟通能力的培养。 学生将完成化学工程设计课程的典型任务（设计检查和基层设计）。 该项目将产生洞察力的过程中，一个愿景非典型的学生功能在一个开放式的问题设计团队。 软件改编，通信媒体和获得的知识将广泛传播到工程学院。 PI还将展示如何通过非典型愿景学生实现工程和技术认证委员会（ABET）认为必要的三项成果，即多学科团队中的职能开发和使用有效的书面和口头沟通技能，并使用必要的技术、技能和现代工程工具工程实践。 这项研究也将鼓励其他非典型学生考虑工程教育。

This Small Grant for Exploratory Research (SGER) will investigated techniques for accommodating vision impaired in chemical engineering majors. The objectives of the study are 1. To understand how team based, challenge learning occurs when a vision impaired student is included in a group. 2. To determine in what manner a visually impaired student contributes to the overall design process and the developing communication skills within the team. Students will accomplish the tasks typical of a chemical engineering design course (debottlenecking and grass roots design). The project will yield insights into the process by which a vision atypical student functions within a design team on open ended problems. Software adaptations, communication media, and knowledge gained will be broadly disseminated to engineering faculty. The PI will also demonstrate how three outcomes deemed necessary by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) are achieved with atypical vision students, namely function in multidisciplinary teams develop and use effective written and oral communication skills and use the techniques, skills and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice. This study will also encourage other atypical students to consider an engineering education.