East Carolina University's new general engineering program is built around the goal of excellence in undergraduate education. The faculty members of the program are encouraged to pursue novel approaches to engineering education in order to achieve this goal. The newly created concentration in bioprocess engineering provides an excellent opportunity to develop and implement a novel curriculum based upon proven pedagogical approaches designed to engage the students and improve their mastery of concepts. There are four main objectives of this NSF funded (DUE-0737198) Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement project: utilize proven techniques to develop nine instructional modules for three bioprocess engineering courses (three modules per course); develop common themes to integrate subsets of these modules between two or more courses, while ensuring portability to other programs; assess the effectiveness of the instructional modules; and disseminate the results so other programs can incorporate the modules into their curriculum. This paper provides a first year update of this two year project and includes a description of each of the nine newly developed modules, the assessment plan, and the results of the assessments to date.
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