A Novel Chemical Engineering Laboratory Model at the University of Kansas

Abstract

CPE616 is the first course in which KU chemical engineering students apply their knowledge from junior-level core chemical engineering courses to data collected in a lab. The course is taught by three professors (one for each of the three experiments), a lab manager to supervise the course, and a lab assistant to make sure that the day-to-day operation of the lab runs smoothly. Students rotate through three experiments in CPE616:Vapor-Liquid Equilibrium (VLE), Fluid Mechanics (FLU), and Kinetics (KIN). The VLE experiment uses a four-