Conference Session

ChE: Safety, Sustainability, and Global Opportunities

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Allyson Frankman, Brigham Young University; Jacob Jones, Brigham Young University; W. Vincent Wilding, Brigham Young University; Randy Lewis, Brigham Young University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

students themselves, and they wanted the mentors to play a moreactive role. The class was initially designed to be a “hands-off” environment for the professorsand mentors, giving the students the opportunity to pro-actively determine internal deadlines, thedetails of the problems and ways to find them. The mentors and professors were availablealways, but students had to actively seek them out. This structure is something that students arenot used to, and had a hard time adjusting to.Key lessons learned to be implemented in next years class, are that more structure and classinstruction upfront are needed. This will give students the “tool-kit” necessary to solve open-ended problems. In addition, mentors will establish overall project timelines and

Conference Session

ChE: Innovations in the Classroom

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Marlin, McMaster University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

here with reference to these three categories.2.1 Learning Goals for the Design CourseDesign plays a central role in engineering education, giving a capstone experience to integrateand apply prior learning to a large-scale project. A typical process design course achieves a setof learning objectives, including the following components. Attitudes Knowledge Skills • Design is goal oriented, • Process synthesis • Defining and the result must satisfy a • Flowsheeting completing an open- student-prepared • Engineering economics ended project specification • Equipment sizing and