Passing It On: A Laboratory Structure Encouraging Realistic Communication and Creative Experiment Planning

Authors

  • S. Scott Moor Lafayette College
  • James K. Ferri Lafayette College

Abstract

Summer School Poster Session Paper

In a junior-year unit operations laboratory, we developed a structure where students must convey their experience on a given apparatus to another group and that next group must build on the previous group's work. This approach provides our students with realistic communication experiences, practice at planning sequences of experiments, and an opportunity to complete student-designed studies. Students have responded well to the flexible and practical nature of this structure.

Author Biographies

S. Scott Moor, Lafayette College

S. Scott Moor is Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Lafayette College. He received his BS and MS in Chemical Engineering from M.I. T. After a decade in industry, he received his PhD in Chemical Engineering and his MA in Statistics from the University of California at Berkeley His research interests include spray and particle systems and the development of materials for science, mathematics, and engineering education.

James K. Ferri, Lafayette College

James K. Ferri is Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Lafayette College. He received his BS and PhD degrees from Johns Hopkins University His teaching areas include transport phenomena, unit operations, and laboratory applications. His research interests lie in interracial phenomena and bioengineering.

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Published

2003-07-01

Issue

Vol. 37 No. 3 (2003): Summer 2003

Section

Summer School Special Section