The Particle Technology Forum
PTF Programs for Education
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The Education Committee of the Particle Technology Forum (PTF)
hopes that in the near future every graduating chemical
and mechanical engineer will have a good grasp of solids processing
and particle technology. We seek to educate junior faculty members
in these fields and to develop a required course in every Chemical
Engineering and Mechanical Engineering curriculum, just as mass
transfer and reaction engineering are taught today.
This page lists PTF programs that are active or completed. |
Latest changes: 03Jan08 - add link to AIChE courses / 03Dec18 - edit ERPT wording slightly / 06Jan19 - go to grey background /
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AIChE Courses
- Many of the "live" courses, distance learning courses, and CD courses
offered by the AIChE cover topics of interest to particle technologists.
Free Web Tutorials: Educational Resources for Particle Technology (ERPT) was launched in 1998 as a public education service of the Particle Technology Forum (a division of the AIChE). This Web site provides on-line, just-in-time, world-wide, free-of-charge tutorials in particle technology as a public service. The goal is to build a site that will eventually provide several hundred tutorials, each equivalent to one to three hours of classroom instruction at the third-year college level. These will be introductory in nature and in the ideal case will describe the main phenomenological and theoretical aspects of the topic, also noting industrial applications, large-scale equipment, typical industrial problems, and typical solutions to those problems. Awards: The Best Ph.D. Award in Particle Technology will be given every year to a young Ph.D. scientist who completed a dissertation in particle technology within the last 3 years. Dr. Lou Kressin was instrumental in committing Procter & Gamble Co. in Cincinnati to fund the $500 prize and plaque. The first award was given at the 1997 AIChE meeting. Topical PTF conferences: The first of these student-friendly meetings, in which prospective junior faculty who are currently undergraduate or graduate students can start seeing PTF as their "home turf" was held in November 1998. We have a topical PTF conferences at the Annual Meeting of the AIChE in even-numbered years. Students are welcome to present their results and seek input from the seasoned members of PTF. We enjoy a relaxed atmosphere -- which includes pizza and soda with the poster displays -- and there is a competition for the three best posters. Traditional courses (and sequences of courses, including labs): These are being introduced at several schools such as
Multimedia Courses: Professor G. Tardos (City University of New York) and Prof. Tom Blake (University of Massachusetts) are closely examining the possibilities for putting on video tape, CD or other electronic media some of the most established Particle Technology courses. Two ideas are pursued one in which specialists in different areas of PT are featured presenting the material at high level and in somewhat greater detail and another in which an introductory, basic course in the Fundamentals of PT is presented to nonspecialists and to chemical and mechanical engineering students (juniors-seniors). This will be done in part to alleviate the immediate need of specialized faculty in the field. Workshops: Professors R.H. Davis (University of Colorado) and L. S. Fan (Ohio State University) organized a workshop on Fluid-Particle Processes at the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) Summer School for Chemical Engineering at Snowbird, UT, August 10-15, 1997. Presentations were given on specialty courses, tutorials, case studies and laboratories that can be introduced in core chemical engineering courses. These resulted in the development of the on-line tutorial resource Educational Resources for Particle Technology |
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