Conference Session

E-Learning in Chemical Engineering

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christi Patton Luks, University of Tulsa

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

Blending Online Learning with a Traditional Course Christi L. Patton The University of TulsaAbstractAs class sizes in a chemical engineering problem solving class outgrew the available rooms andone teacher’s ability to maintain a personal relationship with students and to safely managehands-on design projects, a new class management philosophy was needed. Two credit-hours ofthis three-credit-hour course were conducted electronically while students met in a classroom ina group of 10 – 12 students for the remaining one-hour-per-week lecture. Blackboard LearningSystem – Vista Enterprise was used to post video lectures, manage quizzes and homeworkassignments.This paper looks at

Conference Session

New Trends in CHE Education I

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Hanyak, Bucknell University; Timothy Raymond, Bucknell University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

taught to about 28 to 32 first-year majors over a 14-week period in the spring semester.Prior to 2008, this course was taught to sophomore majors in the fall semester. Since 2008, ithas been taught to freshmen majors in the spring semester. Under the PBL format, the studentswork for a fictitious company that has hired them at the entry-level position of provisionalsophomore engineer. The following two paragraphs extracted from the syllabus introduce thestudents to the continuing educational course in this company on the first day of class. “Welcome to the Internship Program in the Process Engineering Department of BEEF, Inc., the Bison Engineering and Evaluation Firm. Based on feedback from our Human Resources