CHE 466 - Process Dynamics and Controls, Fall 2008

This course uses an open textbook University of Michigan Chemical Engineering Process Dynamics and Controls. The articles in the open textbook (wikibook) are all written by teams of 3-4 senior chemical engineering students, and are peer-reviewed by other members of the class. Using this approach, the faculty and Graduate Student Instructors (GSIs) teaching the course act as managing editors, selecting broad threads for the text and suggesting references. In contrast to other courses, the students take an active role in their education by selecting which material in their assigned section is most useful and decide on the presentation approach. Furthermore, students create example problems that they present in poster sessions during class to help the other students master the material. -- This project is a collaboration between the faculty and students of the University of Michigan chemical engineering department. The goal of this project is to provide the greater chemical engineering community with a useful, relevant, high quality, and free resource describing chemical process control and modeling. Initial construction of this resource began in Fall 2006, and will continue in future years with other groups of students.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/64956/5/syllabus.pdfhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/64956/6/syllabus.dochttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/64956/7/schedule.dochttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/64956/8/schedule.pdfhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/64956/9/che466-fall2008.zi