Pillars of Chemical Engineering:
A Block-Scheduled Engineering Curriculum
The department has received a three-year $1.3 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) entitled "Pillars of Chemical Engineering: A Block Scheduled Curriculum". Led by Professor Joseph J. McCarthy, the curriculum team—composed of eleven faculty from Chemical as well as Industrial Engineering—has begun to implement a plan to reform the undergraduate Chemical Engineering curriculum into a series of six "pillar" courses. This plan was developed as part of NSF's program for Department-Level Reform of Engineering Curricula (2002), and is the basis for the larger implementation project currently underway. This web page is dedicated to tracking and disseminating the results of the Department's on-going efforts toward implementing this plan. Please feel free to examine our progress and direct any questions/comments to Professor McCarthy.
Funded by the National Science Foundation under grant number EEC-0342713.
Philosophy and Scope
Pillars
Outcome and Assessment
Professors McCarthy, Parker and Sacre highlight the Pillars curriculum (video)
