Pillars of Chemical Engineering: A Block Scheduled Curriculum

化学工程的支柱：一整套预定课程

• 批准号: 0342713
• 负责人: Joseph McCarthy
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Pittsburgh
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-09-15 至 2008-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0342713&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Pillars; Chemical; Engineering; Block; Scheduled

This project will undertake department level reform of the Chemical Engineering program at the University of Pittsburgh. The goals of the new curriculum are to (a) Give the students a strong fundamental foundation by concentrating on the essential core of scientific and engineering basics in a given discipline.(b) Enhance systems thinking by helping students to integrate their knowledge across courses and disciplines so that they are better prepared to address open-ended problems; and (c) Prepare and provide for continuing education and life-long learning. Specifically, the project will:1. Modularize and integrate the critical "core" of Chemical Engineering (including massbalances, thermodynamics, kinetics, separations, transport phenomena, process systems,control, laboratory, and design) into six Pillar courses.2. Re-evaluate and re-align supporting courses (mathematics, chemistry, physics, andbiology) and elective courses into application-focused tracks.3. Re-align each individual course so that, in addition to the traditional macroscopic andcontinuum-level descriptions, we also include "sub-continuum", molecular or "fundamental unit" analysis.The intellectual merit in the proposal lies both in the integration of successfulpedagogical techniques from K-12 education -- Block Scheduling -- into the Universityenvironment, as well as in our state-of-the-art assessment of these efforts. Overall theproposal will introduce emerging Chemical Engineering knowledge/practice (molecular andmulti-scale focus as well as track-based case studies/electives), eliminate legacymaterial, expose students to practical computational methods (including integration ofCAD-based macroscopically focused software -- e.g., ASPEN -- as well as molecularlyfocused software -- e.g., Accelrys -- into most courses), and allow the time toeffectively incorporate modern teaching methods (team-based and experience-based learning, computer simulation, etc.).The broader impact of the work lies in integration of research and teaching, enhancementof diversity, infrastructure development, and the fostering of partnerships. During thecourse of the project numerous undergraduate students will work closely with faculty andinstructional designers. The courseware developed to support the 6 Pillar courses will be made readily available on our departmental web site, so that it may be utilized (and modified) by other institutions -- fostering partnerships. The proposed work will enhance infrastructure through the generation of course materials that are easily portable to many institutions. Findings of the research will be disseminated at national societal conferences (AIChE, ASEE) as well as on our departmental web page (http://www.che.pitt.edu). Additionally, results will be published in traditional engineering education journals (JEE, CEE, etc.).

该项目将在匹兹堡大学进行化学工程计划的部门改革。 新课程的目标是（a）通过专注于给定学科的科学和工程基础知识的基本核心来为学生提供强大的基础。（b）通过帮助学生跨课程和纪律融合知识，以便他们可以更好地解决开放式问题来增强系统思考； （c）准备并提供继续教育和终身学习。 具体而言，该项目将：1。将化学工程的关键“核心”模块化并整合到六个支柱课程中。2。重新评估和重新调整支持课程（数学，化学，物理学和生物学）以及选修课程中以应用程序为中心的轨道。3。 Re-align each individual course so that, in addition to the traditional macroscopic andcontinuum-level descriptions, we also include "sub-continuum", molecular or "fundamental unit" analysis.The intellectual merit in the proposal lies both in the integration of successfulpedagogical techniques from K-12 education -- Block Scheduling -- into the Universityenvironment, as well as in our state-of-the-art assessment of these efforts. Overall theproposal will introduce emerging Chemical Engineering knowledge/practice (molecular andmulti-scale focus as well as track-based case studies/electives), eliminate legacymaterial, expose students to practical computational methods (including integration ofCAD-based macroscopically focused software -- e.g., ASPEN -- as well as molecularlyfocused software -- e.g., Accelrys -- into most courses), and allow the time效率地纳入现代教学方法（基于团队和基于经验的学习，计算机模拟等）。这项工作的更广泛影响在于研究和教学的整合，增强多样性，基础架构发展以及促进伙伴关系。在该项目的研究期间，众多本科生将与教师和教师设计师紧密合作。 为支持6个支柱课程而开发的课程将在我们的部门网站上容易提供，以便可以由其他机构（促进合作伙伴关系）使用（并修改）。拟议的工作将通过易于移植到许多机构的课程材料来增强基础设施。这项研究的结果将在国家社会会议（AICHE，ASEE）以及我们的部门网页（http://www.che.pitt.edu）上传播。此外，结果将发表在传统工程教育期刊（JEE，CEE等）中。