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Utah Chemical Engineering Spring Teaching Retreat
Thinking about Curriculum
Barry S JohnstonDepartment of Chemical EngineeringMassachusetts Institute of Technology
2004 April 29
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Drivers for Curriculum Change
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• Breadth of employment opportunities for ChEgraduates
• Importance of biology as a foundation science for ChE
• The web, and other opportunities for delivery of subject matter
R.C. Armstrong, “Curriculum Revitalization in Chemical Engineering”, proposal to NSF, following July 2002 CCR meetings.
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CCR/NSF Curriculum Workshops
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• January 2003 – Orlando (49, incl. 4 companies)– Day 1: assess curriculum – keep, discard, add– Day 2: describe curriculum, without present
categories• Result was a new classification of the chemical
engineering subject matter• Details at web.mit.edu/che-curriculum
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Workshops – Next Steps
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• Refine classification and outline curriculum in April and June 2003 workshops
• Presently seeking to fund development of pilot modules
• Must have the broad participation of the chemical engineering community!
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Curriculum Examination
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• But do we really need to change the curriculum????
• “Just add a biology course and some new example problems”
• Internal drivers – the mission of the university to conserve, refine, extend, teach
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Four Questions
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• For the profession:– Attributes and skills of BS graduates?– Organization of ChE subject matter?– Arrangement of subject matter into a curriculum?
• For particular departments:– Apply to University of Utah?
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Method
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• Divide into groups• Introduce the question (3 minutes)• Silent reflection (3 minutes)• Collect ideas and organize• Discuss and formulate response• Summarize and prepare report• Report to full audience (3 minutes)• Take a break (10 minutes)
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Attributes and Skills
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• Attributes: the tendency to “think like an engineer”– Practical and creative– Not demoralized by messy data
• Skills: the ability to “think like an engineer”– Analyzes problems– Estimates magnitudes
• We teach ChE subject matter, but a very real purpose is to cultivate attributes and skills
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Transferable Skills
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• Exclude curriculum-specific skills: e.g.,“skill in PFR design”
• Include skills useful to most engineers, irrespective of field
• What is necessary for career-long versatility in rapidly changing technology over a wide variety of application areas?
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Question 1 (1:30 – 2:20)
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• Silent reflection (3 minutes)
• Collect ideas and organize
• Discuss and formulate• Summarize and prepare
report• Report to full audience
(3 minutes)
What attributes and skills should characterize the B.S.ChE?
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The Subject Matter of ChE
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• “Subject matter” is the body of knowledge that ChEs use
• We first organized our subject matter as industrial chemistry
• Then material reorganized as unit operations• Then these operations were described by
thermo, transport, reaction engineering, etc.• Older categories can remain useful!
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On Classification
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• Present categories are economical and useful• But there may exist other economical and useful
arrangements• Already we select and emphasize – consider ME
versus ChE thermodynamics• Possible organizing principles: themes that run
through several courses– rate vs. equilibrium– transient vs. steady
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Rearranging the File Cabinet
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thermo
transport
reaction engineering
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?
?
• Forbidden words: thermodynamics, transport, reaction engineering
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Question 2 (2:30 – 3:30)
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• Silent reflection (3 minutes)
• Collect ideas and organize
• Discuss and formulate• Summarize and prepare
report• Report to full audience
(3 minutes)
How should we organize/classify the subject matter of chemical engineering?
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Curriculum – Order of Presentation
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• c.1974 (UA)– M&E balances– Fluid mechanics– Staged separations– Heat transfer– Diffusional separations– Reactor engineering– Lab– Thermodynamics– Process control– Design
• c.2004 (MIT)– Introduction to ChE– Thermodynamics– Fluid mechanics– Heat and mass transfer– Reactor engineering– Separations– Lab– Design
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The Task of Curriculum
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• Day-by-day presentation must result in an integrated understanding
• Courses organized by subject areas may not be best approach
• Could the curriculum be designed so that– Full structure is apparent more early?– At each level the student is capable of doing some
engineering job?
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Question 3 (3:40 – 4:30)
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• Silent reflection (3 minutes)
• Collect ideas and organize
• Discuss and formulate• Summarize and prepare
report• Report to full audience
(3 minutes)
How should we arrange the subject matter for presentation over four years?
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Question 4 (4:30 – 5:00)
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How does this apply to the University of Utah?
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On Building a Curriculum
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• CONSTRAINT: a new BSChE curriculum should produce a graduate fully capable of understanding and using the tools of the traditional chemical engineer.
• VISION: that graduate will have a superbly integrated skill set, honed by examples from the breadth of chemical engineering applications.
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In Conclusion
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• Walker and colleagues - summer in Maine– Principles of Unit Operations
• The McGraw-Hill series– “building the literature of a profession”
• Thank you
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Desired Attributes of the Graduate
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• Versatile/creative• Willing to make assumptions and estimate• Life-long professional growth
– Knows how to learn– Desires life-long learning– Thinks critically– Receptive to new ideas– Seeks appropriate connections with other
fields• Broader context
– Knows where ChE fits in– Has social responsibility– Has personal initiative– Is driven to add value– Leader/team member– Member of society/good citizen
• The engineer as problem-solver (both analysis and synthesis activities):
– Keeps it simple– Makes rational assumptions– Communicates qualitative concepts– Determines important parameters– Applies skill set to open-ended and novel
problems– Can cope with
• Incomplete information• Multiple (often conflicting) objectives• Multiple solutions (multiple paths to solution)• Iterative problem solving• Uncertainty/messy data• Managing complexity• Risk taking• Rapid generation and pruning of alternatives
– Understands and works with uncertainty and sensitivity
– Thinks like a molecule
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Teaching by Example
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– Arrhenius plot from experimental data– Trouble-shooting– Quality control– Economic & market analysis– Design of Distillation Column
Molecular modeling of Non-ideal phase equilibria
– Chromatographic Separation of Proteins – all scales
– Catalytic and/or multiphase reactor design
– Hydrogen from biomass– Climate change– Viral infections– Atomic Layer Deposition– Controlled particle formation
– Water Desalination– Design for Self Assembly
• Polymer coating• Nanotechnology• Hybrid systems
– Design of Membranes• Next generation beer bottles• Fuel cells
– CO2 Emissions from vehicles– Stationary Source Emission Abatement– Bioartificial Pancreas– Protein Expression– Make Polystyrene Peanuts from Raw
Materials– Drug Delivery/drug patch– Blood flow in body– Mass and energy balance of CSTR
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Map of the Subject Matter
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languagemathematics
physics chemistry biologysub-
molecular
molecular
nano
micro
macro
super-macro
molecular processes
multiscaleanalysis
other topicssystems/synthesis processes
products
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An Example Curriculum
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HUMANITIESread/write
HUMANITIESread/write
HUMANITIESecon/electives
HUMANITIESelectives
SYSTEMS 1introduction
PHYSICSmech/electrical
CHEMISTRYgeneral
BIOLOGYgeneral
MATHthrough ODEs
SYSTEMS 2simple processes
LABORATORYinstruments/statistics
CHEMISTRYorganic
BIOLOGYcell
MOLEC PROC 1intro transport/reaction
MULTISCALE 1conserv eqns/phys props
SYSTEMS 3advanced processes
LABORATORYunit ops demonstrations
CHEMISTRYphysical
BIOLOGYmolecular
MOLEC PROC 2advanced transport/reaction
MULTISCALE 2multiphase/reaction
SYSTEMS 4design
LABORATORYresearch
TECHNICALelectives
MOLEC PROC 3surfaces and structures
MULTISCALE 3equipment
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