Conference Session

ECE Poster Session

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Asad Azemi, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

by the students. Centra system was chosen due to students’familiarity with the system and the ability to download the recordings as an executable file.Implementation PlanThis section describes, in detail, our implementation plan including the hardware-software. Theidea behind using Tablet PC and Centra system came after our successful experience in flexibledelivery system using Centra.Hardware-Software requirementsThe software and hardware requirements includes: Centra, Multisim, MATLAB, one Tablet PCfor the instructor and one for each team, consisting of 2-3 students, and Internet-camera for theinstructor. Wireless Internet connection is also an important issue as it should be capable ofhandling the required bandwidth.Teaching ProcessA

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sharlene Katz, California State University-Northridge; Robert Alldredge, Allan Hancock College

Technology degree to be offered in the region. Page 13.1207.3 • The consortium collaborated with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department to find a creative solution to their high unmet demand for electronics technicians.Objective 4: Develop and implement a model assessment plan to measure longitudinally the success of the educational experience. • In cooperation with community college researchers, CREATE continues to follow the successes of students who have taken CREATE courses. • Continuing studies have shown that since CREATE’s initial NSF funding in 1999-2000, over 22,000 students have taken at least one CREATE credit

Conference Session

Engineering Education in the Mid-East / Asia

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Stanton, United States Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

International

be accustomed to at their own universities. However, course designs and subsequentinstructor preparation must account for associated challenges. For instance, the instructors atNMAA experienced difficulties transitioning to an open source version of the MySQL databasemanagement system since the faculty only had experience using Microsoft Access. They wereable to overcome the challenge, but it took additional time for the course design and preparation. The status of the internal and external network will also adjust planning. If there is nointernal network, the approach to classroom preparation and the dissemination of lessonmaterials must account for the absence. Directory services and shared file storage providetremendous benefits if

Conference Session

Two Year College Tech Session II

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dan Dimitriu, San Antonio College; Jerry O'Connor, San Antonio College

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

of the required work for thiscourse is comprised of team projects. The service learning project required each team towork in a different area of urban housing renovation. One team would work on foundations,another team on plumbing, another team on electrical wiring, and so on. The teamassignments were made by the Instructor in consultation with the contractor in order to assureequivalent workloads for each team.. The project concluded with a report and a presentationby each team to the class. The team presentations and reports covered a broad area ofengineering applications related to residential construction that also provided a forum toexchange ideas and lessons learned during the project.. The planning, implementation, andresults of this

Collection

2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Ali Setoodehnia; Kamal Shahrabi; Anthony Manno

personal problems, not academic problem. For this reasonall those involved need to understand the policies and procedures that affect students'financial aid as well as have a clear understanding of how to effectively advise thosestudents in financial need.The career development center on campus needs to go beyond their traditional role aswell. They need to help students understand how their chosen study plan will learn aninteresting career that pays well. If they understand their career options/goals then theywill have a better focus on their classes. Career services should also organize shortseminars to help students better make the connection between their academic planningand their career goals.Another way to help make that connection is by

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2008 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Ali Setoodehnia; Kamal Shahrabi; Anthony Manno

personal problems, not academic problem. For this reasonall those involved need to understand the policies and procedures that affect students'financial aid as well as have a clear understanding of how to effectively advise thosestudents in financial need.The career development center on campus needs to go beyond their traditional role aswell. They need to help students understand how their chosen study plan will learn aninteresting career that pays well. If they understand their career options/goals then theywill have a better focus on their classes. Career services should also organize shortseminars to help students better make the connection between their academic planningand their career goals.Another way to help make that connection is by

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Ali Setoodehnia; Kamal Shahrabi; Anthony Manno

personal problems, not academic problem. For this reasonall those involved need to understand the policies and procedures that affect students'financial aid as well as have a clear understanding of how to effectively advise thosestudents in financial need.The career development center on campus needs to go beyond their traditional role aswell. They need to help students understand how their chosen study plan will learn aninteresting career that pays well. If they understand their career options/goals then theywill have a better focus on their classes. Career services should also organize shortseminars to help students better make the connection between their academic planningand their career goals.Another way to help make that connection is by

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Teaching Part Three

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Collins, J.P. Morgan Chase; Gerard Lennon, Lehigh University; John Ochs, Lehigh University; Richard Weisman, Lehigh University; Vincent Munley, Lehigh University; Joseph Sterrett, Lehigh University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

. In the Industrial Engineering Senior Project he worked with Fragrance Manufacturing Incorporated of Bethlehem, PA. Michael was also a member of the Integrated Learning Experience during fall 2007 which provided consulting on Lehigh’s master plan for their athletic campus.Gerard Lennon, Lehigh University Gerard P. Lennon is Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Associate Dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Science. He earned a BS from Drexel University, and an MS and a PhD from Cornell University. He authored over 70 papers, and his groundwater research has been funded by five different federal and state agencies, including an NSF investigation of ocean

Conference Session

Continuous Improvement & Assessment of ET Programs

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nirmal Das, Georgia Southern University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

. Page 13.235.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Assessment and Evaluation of Engineering Technology Program Outcomes Using Direct MeasuresAbstractIn order to ensure the quality of a program on an ongoing basis, it is essential that a program hasa sound and viable Continuous Improvement Plan. The two key elements of the plan areassessment and evaluation. The term “assessment” means one or more processes that identify,collect, use and prepare data that can be used to evaluate achievement of program outcomes andeducational objectives. The term “evaluation” characterizes one or more processes forinterpretation of the data and evidence accumulated through assessment practices that (a)determine the extent

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Gerlick, Washington State University; Denny Davis, Washington State University; Steven Beyerlein, University of Idaho; Jay McCormack, University of Idaho; Phillip Thompson, Seattle University; Olakunle Harrison, Tuskegee University; Michael Trevisan, Washington State University

present a course structure for assessing design processes and products in engineering capstone design courses. • To present a methodology for designing assessment instruments for design processes and products in capstones.The research plan for this paper is to review literature on design processes, products, and currentassessment practices in capstone design courses, and then use this as the basis for assessmentdevelopment. A description and synthesis of common design processes and resulting productswill be presented to identify those particular to capstone courses. Following, a brief review ofcurrent assessment practices for design processes and products in capstone courses will suggestappropriate assessments for

Conference Session

Learning from Entrepreneurship Programs

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey Blessing, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Kristen Mekemson, Kern Family Foundation; David Pistrui, Illinois Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

universities withABET-approved undergraduate engineering programs. Twenty of the original universitiesreceived $5,000 planning grants to develop proposals to implement curricular and extra-curricular components to augment their undergraduate engineering programs in support of theKEEN mission. Twelve universities submitted KEEN Phase I proposals to the Kern FamilyFoundation and eleven were funded with $50,000 to develop their engineering entrepreneurshipprograms. Each grant recipient named two Kern Fellows, with one of the fellows designated asthe Principle Investigator (PI) responsible for administering the grant.Of the eleven KEEN Phase I universities, four had already established entrepreneurship

Conference Session

Writing and Portfolios

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jung Oh, Kansas State University-Salina; Judith Collins, Kansas State University-Salina

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

common goal to solve a problem, contribute information, and share tools.Students were asked to take the initiative of assigning roles within a team (e.g. a file manager, acommunicator, an editor). The chemistry faculty identified the students from the technicalwriting course who had previously taken the chemistry course and encouraged their contributionsas “knowledgeable peer”/“experienced peer” with their chromatography lab experiences.Technical writing course students wrote summaries of relevant information based on retrievedarticles, and posted the original and the summary to “group files”. Students were to read eachothers work in preparation for planning and building a PowerPoint presentation. The softwareautomatically labeled each uploaded

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Poster Session

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jenna Carpenter, Louisiana Tech University; C. Diane Matt, WEPAN Inc.

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

Advancement of Women and Minorities in Science,Engineering, and Technology in 2000, providing quality input to a complex discussion andreport (CAWMSET, 2002). A minimum of eight white papers are planned. These workingpapers will address and illuminate key issues relating to women in engineering, by synthesizingresearch results, putting data and statistics into context, drawing connections among research andbest and promising practices, and acting as the foundation for engaging a community of practicefor the purpose of bringing more usable data, information, knowledge and wisdom to the task ofpolicy making, practice improvement. Working papers will include: overviews of existingpractices and research stressing applicability to problem solving; briefs

Conference Session

Focus on High School Girls in Engineering

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eugene Rutz, University of Cincinnati; Michelle Shafer, Mt Notre Dame High School; Brian Lien, Princeton High School; Carolyn Rost, Mother of Mercy High School

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

expectation was that the schools would cover the topics on thesyllabus so as to provide a breadth of understanding of various engineering disciplines andconcepts but the depth to which each was addressed was guided by the needs and resources ofeach school.Affordable – the schools needed to be able to offer the course with existing resources and staff.No new teachers would be hired and there were limited resources for training or purchasingsupplies or materials. With our goal of providing many project-based experiences, carefulattention in selecting projects was required. Fortunately there are a number of very goodresources that provide freely available project plans, many of which are now linked to state andnational educational standards. Table 2

Conference Session

Reaching Students: Innovations to Curriculum in ET

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sergio Sgro, Eastern Kentucky University; Steve Freeman, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

) and ultimately reorganizeelements into new patterns, structures, or purposes (Create). Asking students to recall chemicalsymbols and atomic numbers is a lower-order skill (Remember). If those chemical symbols andatomic numbers are used to demonstrate how different chemicals react or bond with one anotherin a predictable pattern (Apply) or students mathematically and logically evaluate their owncompounds based on the memorized chemicals, they demonstrate higher-order skills (Evaluateand Create).Understanding by Design (UbD)Understanding by Design (UbD) or the Backward Design Process is so called because of thesuggested format of designing curriculum beginning with desired results. Learning experiencesand instruction are planned to help

Conference Session

Innovation in Construction Engineering Education II

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Shaurette, College of Technology - Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Construction

Internet-based two-way audio and video job site communication withthe classroom. To make use of these advances as a substitute for field visits, hardware andsoftware that offer simplicity of use and affordability to the community of CM educators wereidentified. Issues and challenges of implementation and use were investigated. Finally, objectivemeasurement of successful applications was examined in anticipation of future large-scaleimplementation of the practice.The study sought to answer four research questions as follows:1. Which webcam technologies and configurations would provide cost-effective implementation of real-time jobsite communication experiences to the classroom?2. Which curricular planning and implementation issues must be

Conference Session

Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma in Manufacturing Education 2

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Phil Waldrop, Georgia Southern University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

until pricing is established; • Pricing is defined through use of a financial break-even analysis that cannot be performed without input of direct and indirect expenses. • None of this can occur without Production Planning and Control input that depends on Product Engineering specifications and subsequent Purchasing research on materials and part costs.MotivationThe pragmatic “learning by doing” educational philosophy of John Dewey (1859-1952)continues to be highly relevant today. One is not as motivated or as able to learn a sport or careerskills through books and lecture alone. The merits of simulation are presented in numerouspapers presented at recent ASEE conferences. In one such paper4, the authors quote ABET 2000

Conference Session

Learning to Communicate with Engineers and Non-Engineers

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Ross, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

under thegeneral heading of liberal education, humanities, or (generally) optional courses outsideengineering – has contributed to the improved quality of portfolios and to their perceived valueas documentation of past accomplishments, benchmarks of current expertise, and planning forfuture professional development in a changing world. 3, 6, 7, 9Table 1 summarizes the “evolution” of portfolio thinking in the program for which the author isthe internship coordinator. This is not a unique paradigm, but it may serve as a useful overviewfor future “portfolio thinking.”Table 1. “Portfolio” ThinkingStage of Primary Perceived Purpose Base of Knowledge orPortfolio Emphasis For Portfolio

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Don Sweat, Prairie View A&M University; Teasa Northern, Prairie View A&M University; Brandon Green, Prairie View A&M University; James Northern, Prairie View A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

underrepresentedminorities in the field of electrical and computer engineering. This paper describes the effortsand results of a plan for actively retaining minorities and women students in undergraduatecomputer engineering programs at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU). It alsodescribes a series of activities aimed at producing leaders for tomorrow in industry andacademia. Such programs for the retention of women and minorities are critical to the country’sefforts to increase the number of engineering professionals, and are a priority at largerinstitutions and HBCUs.IntroductionFor decades, one of the top priorities for America’s higher education leaders has been to raise thenumber of students enrolling in college [1,2,3]. The second priority has

Conference Session

Off the Beaten Path

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Seth Norberg, United States Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

advantage of the lecturer. Variation in pitch, intensity, and pace of thelecture, and visual cues such as gestures, facial expression, movement to the blackboard,the use of demonstrations or audiovisual aids—all of these recruit and maintain attention Page 13.301.2to the lecture.—McKeachie [6].Expanding on McKeachie’s statement and focusing on changing the environment, Irealized that many of the demonstrations, slide shows, movies, and stories could be pre-planned to coincide with lulls in the lecture. The primary means of instruction waswriting on the blackboard. Based on McKeachie’s recommendation, the commercialbreak served as a means to change the

Conference Session

Global Cooperative Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Akins, Georgia Institute of Technology; Debbie D. Gulick, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jack Lohmann, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

AC 2008-2807: MODELS ON INDUSTRY AND UNIVERSITY GLOBALCOLLABORATION THROUGH CO-OP AND INTERNSHIPSThomas Akins, Georgia Institute of Technology Tom Akins is the Executive Director of the Division of Professional Practice at the Georgia Institute of Technology, a position he has held since 2002. Prior to that, Tom was the Director of the Cooperative Division, also at Georgia Tech. He holds a Bachelor of Industrial Engineering degree (Co-op Plan) from Tech, and a MBA from Georgia State University. A 27 year member of ASEE, Mr. Akins is the recipient of the Cooperative Education Division's Alvah K. Borman Award and ASEE's Clement J. Freund Award.Debbie D. Gulick, Georgia Institute of TechnologyJack

Conference Session

Innovations in Manufacturing Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Priya Manohar, Robert Morris University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

discipline of Manufacturing Engineering. The role and function of themanufacturing engineer are introduced in the context of the production, inspection, qualitycontrol, and enterprise environments. Manufacturing engineering methods, techniques andalgorithms are introduced, and engineering ethics issues are also discussed. Applicable ABETOutcomes are: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, and 11. Applicable Track-Specific ABET Outcomes are: M1,M2, M3, and M4.Product and Tool Design (Junior Year Spring Term): This course provides an introduction toproduct design issues including design for manufacturing and assembly, the producibility index,process planning and tolerance selection. The course also covers the design and engineering ofjigs, fixtures, and tooling used

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patricia Campbell, Campbell-Kibler Associates, Inc; Eann Patterson, Michigan State University; Ilene Busch-Vishniac, McMaster University; Tom Kibler, Campbell-Kibler Associates, Inc

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

already been found to increase women’s recruitment and retention at CarnegieMellon in computer science6 and at Drexel in engineering7.As part of an National Science Foundation-sponsored project to change the undergraduate MEcurriculum to make it more attractive to a diverse student community, the use of “real life”applications to teach fundamental ME concepts was explored. A series of applications-basedlesson plans—covering concepts in solids, fluids, and design—were developed by ME facultymembers from eight participating universities and tested in terms of their impact on students andon participating faculty. The participating colleges and universities were Johns HopkinsUniversity; California State University, Los Angles; Michigan State

Conference Session

Diversity and K-12 Issues

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Seyed Allameh, Northern Kentucky University; Thomas Brackman, Northern Kentucky University; C. Dale Elifrits, Northern Kentucky University; Morteza Sadat-Hossieny, Northern Kentucky University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

the outcome.Engineering Summer Camp Objectives • To help realize goals and objectives set in the Northern Kentucky’s Vision 2015 (a community developed strategic plan for society, business and industry, and edition P – 20 in Northern Kentucky) • To increase the enrollment of female undergraduates in Physics, Pre-engineering, and Engineering Technology Programs at Northern Kentucky University (NKU) • To establish ties between NKU and local high schools • To raise public awareness about the most recent developments in the educational programs at NKU in the fields of micro-, nano-technology and biomimicking • To disseminate scientific knowledge and technical expertise among women and provide

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Javier Paez Saavedra; Lina Margarita Prada Angarita

Tagged Divisions

International

AC 2008-226: DUAL DEGREE PROGRAMS WITH UNIVERSITIES IN THESTATE OF FLORIDA - USA AN INTERNATIONALIZATION STRATEGY OF THEENGINEERING COLLEGE IN UNIVERSIDAD DEL NORTE, COLOMBIAJavier Páez Saavedra, Universidad del NorteLina Margarita Prada Angarita, Universidad del Norte Page 13.454.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Dual Degree programs with universities in the State of Florida - USA an internationalization strategy of the Engineering College in Universidad del Norte, ColombiaAbstractUniversidad del Norte is a private institution located in Barranquilla, Colombia. As part of theinstitutional development plan, the engineering

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2008 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Kurt Colvin; Robert Crockett

, including academia, government, and private or-ganizations. Individual plans of study for participants will depend on many factors, including,but not limited to, their professional goals, course location/time/delivery method, ability to re-ceive reimbursement under company educational reimbursement policies, etc. There is no moni-toring of progress, exit exams, certifications or degrees awarded under this program. While thismay lack the perceived coherence and control of a more formal program, in this instance, the endgoals of a student’s continuing education is entirely defined by the student. While this is appro-priate for working professionals, the lack of a single end point such as a degree or certificate cre-ates an inherent challenge in

Collection

2008 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Edward J. Smaglik

impacted by thedesign. To address this disconnect, a series of lectures and laboratory exercises havebeen incorporated into coursework at the university level. This material has beendemonstrated useful for orienting students to field issues that should be considered duringdesign, and may be useful to introduce other engineers whose responsibilities for trafficissues are not substantiated by their prior engineering experience.IntroductionAs a subset of Civil Engineering, Transportation Engineering has several sub-disciplines,ranging from urban planning and transportation systems analysis to highway design andtraffic operations. Materials are available for teaching theory in all of these areas,however, the application of traffic theory into applied

Conference Session

Sustainability and Engineering Courses

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Curtis Larimer, University of Pittsburgh; Michaelangelo Tabone, University of Pittsburgh; Matthew Mehalik, University of Pittsburgh; Kim Needy, University of Pittsburgh

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

AC 2008-2064: AN INTERNATIONAL UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHEXPERIENCE IN SUSTAINABLE ENGINEERINGCurtis Larimer, University of Pittsburgh Curtis James Larimer is a senior undergraduate majoring in Engineering Physics in The University of Pittsburgh's Swanson School of Engineering. He expects to graduate in the spring of 2008 and plans to go on to pursue a graduate engineering degree.Michaelangelo Tabone, University of Pittsburgh Michaelangelo Tabone is a junior at the University of Pittsburgh majoring in Chemical Engineering. While in school, he works as resident assistant in on-campus housing, volunteers as a teaching assistant of Organic Chemistry, and has served as a paper reviewer for the

Conference Session

Use of Summer Research Programs in Civil Engineering Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chris Ramseyer, University of Oklahoma

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

materials and testingequipment required for the first eight weeks are available on the first day of Camp Concrete. Page 13.272.4To further instill a sense of mission and urgency, each day of the first week is pre-planned withgroup meetings and work. The meeting topics included an orientation to the summer's goals,introduction to the research topics and instruction on completing literature reviews, creating atest matrix, planning work, keeping records of the research in a lab book and writing a researchreport. The work sessions included initial cleaning and organization of their work area andrebuilding several pieces of equipment. Having the students

Conference Session

Novel Courses and Content for ChEs II

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Margot Vigeant, Bucknell University; James Maneval, Bucknell University; Michael Prince, Bucknell University; Michael Hanyak, Bucknell University; William Snyder, Bucknell University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

EngineeringAbstractHistorically, the senior design sequence in chemical engineering has differed from that ofother engineering disciplines due in large part to problems of scale: a team of mechanicalengineers can reasonably design and produce a prototype stapler, for example, but it isbeyond most schools’ capabilities to have the chemical engineers both design and“produce” a petrochemical plant. Therefore chemical engineering design has focusedprimarily on the “paper” aspects of design, encompassing unit operations, economics,planning, and process simulation. This approach unfortunately misses out on somepotentially important lessons that can be learned from actual process implementation,such as the need for process flexibility and the challenges of controlling a system