Analysis, Synthesis, and Design of Chemical Processes, Fourth Edition

Chapter 0. Outcomes Assessment

If you are reading this chapter, you are either a student about to begin the design class that culminates your chemical engineering training or you are a professor planning to teach that same class. The design class is often called the capstone class, because not only is it the ultimate class in the chemical engineering curriculum, but also it is where students are expected to apply knowledge gained earlier in the curriculum to the solution of a comprehensive chemical engineering design problem.

Outcomes assessment is the process of determining whether students have learned what the faculty expects them to have learned. The term learned is used in this context to include both subject matter (math, chemistry, fluid ...