Use of Web in Classwork
The story of polyethylene garbage bags has been used as a structure around which to organize a course on numerical methods applied to chemical engineering problems. Starting with oil, a series of problems is posed that must be solved if one is to eventual
The course begins with a theme, written about some aspect of polyethylene: raw materials, production methods, uses, business trends, recycling, etc. These themes are then put on the course Web-site so that they can be read by all the class. It is also nec