CENTRIFUGAL PUMP EXPERIMENTfor Chemical Engineering Undergraduates

摘要

Undergraduate curricula for chemical engineers of most universities include experimental studies of absorption, distillation, fluid flow, heat transfer and other topics. All these experiments seek to give undergraduates a practical sense of the basic principles they need to understand during their careers. Recently, the undergraduate chemical engineering program at the University of Missouri began to change its use of the experiments. This change came about from concerns of students who often felt that these experiments (two classes, total of six credit hours), while useful, did not give them a practical understanding of the principles and practices they would deal with in industry. Also, the dean of the college was encouraging faculty to apply "experiential learning" techniques in their classes.