Conference Session

ChE: Departmental Issues and Integrating Freshmen into the ChE Program

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pedro Arce, Tennessee Technological University; Donald Visco, Tennessee Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

wereprovided.Class 5: Soft-Skills DayTennessee Tech has a Freshman Experience course with a few faculty who teach this course. 7 Wedecided to use their expertise on the generic topic of soft skills to facilitate this session.Highlights were provided on time management skills and locus of control. Based on the contentcovered, future offerings of this section can be performed by chemical engineering faculty.Class 6: Hands-on Experiment #2: Ice Cream!Colligative properties are something that most people are familiar with and, of course, areimportant for chemical engineers. In this session, we decided to explore boiling point elevationand freezing point depression of water. For the former, we filled two, one-liter, beakers ofdistilled water and placed them on a

Conference Session

ChE: Innovation in Existing Courses

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Golter, Washington State University; Bernard Van Wie, Washington State University; Jonathan Windsor, Washington State University; Gary Held, Washington State University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

, non-electronic flow meters, manometers, pressure transducers and temperature probes withsmall-scale readouts.IntroductionThere is a well known need to re-visit the way in which engineers are trained to better preparethe next generation of engineers for the challenges of our changing society. [1] This can be doneeither by adding more courses, and thus more years, to engineering curricula or by utilizingalternate pedagogical techniques that can simultaneously enhance learning of core concepts anddevelop traditionally neglected ‘soft’ skills such as good communication practices.Alternate pedagogies include cooperative, hands-on, active and problem-based learning. Usually these pedagogies are applied