Collection

2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Paul Blowers

prior courses thatare not formulaic, they often rate them as being harder or complicated. The transition ofbecoming more broad-thinking in problem approaches is a difficult one, even for very hardworking and bright students. Concept maps enable instructors and students to more concretelydescribe connections among different course topics and to place new knowledge into acomprehensive problem solving framework.Examples of concepts maps from a series of chemical engineering courses are used to discusshow the idea of concept maps can be used in different ways. Concept maps built over thesemester for a sophomore material and energy balances course are used to highlight how layeringof new concepts and an inherent increase in complexity leads to a

Collection

2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors