Chocolate Across the Curriculum and Outreach

Authors

  • Steve Sternberg University Minnesota Duluth
  • Lyndon Ramrattan University Minnesota Duluth
  • Richard Davis University Minnesota Duluth
  • Moe Benda University Minnesota Duluth
  • Victor Lai University Minnesota Duluth
  • Michael Rother University Minnesota Duluth
  • Guy Sander University Minnesota Duluth
  • Tsutomu Shimotori University Minnesota Duluth
  • Sam Toan University Minnesota Duluth
  • Zhihua Xu University Minnesota Duluth
  • Weiguo Xie University Minnesota Duluth

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18260/2-1-370.660-134233

Abstract

CACAO (Chocolate Across the Curriculum and Outreach) is a vertical curriculum augmentation designed to help students across the ChE undergraduate program. The students use a chocolate-based food engineering lab to make connections between core chemical engineering topics using hands-on and project-based learning. Costs to create this component are very modest; our budget for capital and consumables is on the order of $4,000 and $1500 /yr afterward. The project started in a 300 sq. ft. lab and has expanded to 1200 sq. ft.

Author Biographies

Steve Sternberg, University Minnesota Duluth

Department of Chemical Engineering, Associate Professor

Lyndon Ramrattan, University Minnesota Duluth

Department of Chemical Engineering, Lab Services Coordinator

Richard Davis , University Minnesota Duluth

Department of Chemical Engineering, Head, Professor

Moe Benda , University Minnesota Duluth

Department of Chemical Engineering, Assistant Professor

Victor Lai, University Minnesota Duluth

Department of Chemical Engineering, Associate Professor

Michael Rother, University Minnesota Duluth

Department of Chemical Engineering, Associate Professor

Guy Sander, University Minnesota Duluth

Department of Chemical Engineering, Assistant Professor

Tsutomu Shimotori , University Minnesota Duluth

Department of Chemical Engineering, Associate Professor

Sam Toan, University Minnesota Duluth

Department of Chemical Engineering, Associate Professor

Zhihua Xu, University Minnesota Duluth

Department of Chemical Engineering, Associate Professor

Weiguo Xie, University Minnesota Duluth

Department of Chemical Engineering, Associate Professor

Published

2024-08-20

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