TY - JOUR
T1 - Enhancing core chemical engineering courses with computationally-intense course modules
AU - Dahm, Kevin D.
AU - Ramachandran, Ravi P.
AU - Bouaynaya, Nidhal Carla
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © American Society for Engineering Education, 2018.
PY - 2018/6/23
Y1 - 2018/6/23
N2 - This paper presents two new course modules that have been developed for junior-level Chemical Engineering core courses: Chemical Reaction Engineering and Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics II. As currently offered at Rowan University, both of these courses integrate simulation and computer lab activities in which students devise models of key physical systems, and then interrogate the models to study cause-and-effect in these physical systems. These computer labs are an integral part of both courses, but the scope (one 160-minute period) limits the complexity of the models that can be used, if the students are required to build the model themselves. In the course modules described here, students will study two physical systems that are significant in chemical engineering by making use of more complex models that have already been built. The modules were developed during the 2016/2017 academic year and are being implemented in classes for the first time during the Spring 2018 semester. Assessment results are therefore not available at time of writing but will be presented at the conference in June 2018.
AB - This paper presents two new course modules that have been developed for junior-level Chemical Engineering core courses: Chemical Reaction Engineering and Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics II. As currently offered at Rowan University, both of these courses integrate simulation and computer lab activities in which students devise models of key physical systems, and then interrogate the models to study cause-and-effect in these physical systems. These computer labs are an integral part of both courses, but the scope (one 160-minute period) limits the complexity of the models that can be used, if the students are required to build the model themselves. In the course modules described here, students will study two physical systems that are significant in chemical engineering by making use of more complex models that have already been built. The modules were developed during the 2016/2017 academic year and are being implemented in classes for the first time during the Spring 2018 semester. Assessment results are therefore not available at time of writing but will be presented at the conference in June 2018.
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M3 - Conference article
SN - 2153-5965
VL - 2018-June
JO - ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings
JF - ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings
T2 - 125th ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition
Y2 - 23 June 2018 through 27 December 2018
ER -