A GRADUATE LABORATORY COURSE ON BIODIESEL PRODUCTIONEmphasizing Professional, Teamwork, and Research Skills

摘要

Graduate chemical engineering programs typically contain several-to-many elective courses. These electives typically offer advanced theoretical coverage of emerging areas and interdisciplinary fields. Often, they take the standard concepts that are developed in core courses (transport, kinetics/reactor design, thermodynamics) and apply them in new ways (microfluidics, enzyme kinetics , nanotechnology, bioengineering). Textbooks for many of these areas have now become available, to the extent that it is possible to teach some of these advanced electives from a textbook-driven approach vs. a literature-driven approach.