Student Performance Enhancement by Cross-Course Project Assignments: A Case Study in Bioengineering and Process Modeling

作者

  • Gülnur Birol Illinois Institute of Technology
  • Ìnanç Birol Illinois Institute of Technology
  • Ali Çinar Illinois Institute of Technology

摘要

An initiative on a cross-course project assignment is tested in teaching bioengineering and process control courses.  A model study on glucose-insulin interactions in the human body was selected as the project topic. Students showed a high level of interest in such an activity and had the opportunity to use their knowledge and expertise in different fields while optimally allocating their limited time.

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Gülnur Birol holds BSc, MSc, and PhD degrees in chemical engineering from Bogazici University, Istanbul. She was a senior research associate at IIT's Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering. She is currently a research professor in Northwestern University's Biomedical Engineering Department. Her research interests include glucose-insulin interaction in human body, metabolic pathway analysis and modeling and monitoring of bioprocesses.

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Ìnanç Birol received his BSc and MSc degrees in Electrical-Electronics Engineering and PhD degree in Physics all from Bogazici University, Istanbul, and is currently a senior research associate at the Illinois Institute of Technology. His current research interests include study of complexity via autocatalytic reactions, model order reduction and web-based programming.

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Ali Çinar received his BS degree in chemical engineering from Robert College, Turkey (1970), and his MEngng (1973) and PhD (1976) degrees from Texas A&M University. His teaching and research interests are process modeling and control, statistical process monitoring and fault diagnosis, and use of knowledge-based systems for real-time process supervision and control.

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已出版

2001-04-01

期

卷 35 编号 2 (2001): Spring 2001

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