2014 AIChE Annual Meeting
(495c) One Professor's Journey Toward Implementation of Design Build
Author
Floyd-Smith, T. - Presenter, Tuskegee University
This paper will describe efforts by one tenured faculty member to introduce prototyping into a class (Heat Transfer) and capstone design. First, the presentation will review the history of prototyping in chemical engineering education. Next, the challenges and outcomes of a paper design and prototype of a heater with a resistive heating element will be discussed. Following discussion of the heater prototype, the idea of prototyping a battery system for a capstone design project will be presented. The presentation will conclude with a summary of the two design build efforts.