Jackie Orbon Robert J. Ouellette Harlan Overholt* Tim Owens James Oziomek Roberto Pabalan Spyridon E. Papadakis James S. Papanu Rudolph Pariser John E. Parmeter Chris Parr Patricia Dooley Parrish* Thomas O. Passell Axel H. Paul Charles M. Paulson Winfield B. Perry Dr. Eric Peters Leonidas Petrakis Kristala L. Jones Prather Susan Puglia* Robert Quilici* David T. Rabb Jack M. Rademacher C. J. Radke Donald L. Raimondi Tom and Betty Ransohoff Rekha Rao John and Louise Rasmussen Brent D. Rehfuss, Ph.D. Manfred G. Reinecke Richard A. Reinhardt Lyle S. Rice Keith Rickert* Alice Chen Rico Dr. Peter A. Rock Mark Roebuck Renee Roemmele, Ph.D. Glen A. Rogers Dr. and Mrs. C. B. Roland Gerry Rollefson Geza S. Ronay Guido Rosati Daniel H. Rosenblatt G. W. Roy Prof. David S. Rumschitzki Kenneth and Joan Rutledge* Rusty Santee* Rob Scarrow Laurie Schenkel*
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Chemical engineering student Thomas R. Schwei works on a heat exchange experiment in the transport laboratory.
chemical engineering transport laboratory Contributions from many donors that are pooled and designated to be used at the dean’s discretion have allowed the Department of Chemical Engineering to create a unique laboratory for its undergraduates. The multi-phase transport laboratory is a special facet of the Berkeley undergraduate experience in chemical engineering. Faculty members have carefully devised experiments and computational modeling exercises that delve into concepts and apply them to understanding physical phenomena involved in transport situations. The newly renovated transport lab is the only such experimental facility in the country that is dedicated to introducing undergraduates to the study of transport in systems involving multiple phases. In other institutions, students are usually introduced to this topic through textbook examples and rarely, if at all, through laboratory experiments. When their experiments are completed in the transport lab, students typically work one-to-one with the faculty to give oral presentations of their results. The transport laboratory is a wonderful teaching tool that draws much positive feedback from students, who are excited to have had the opportunity to use their newfound engineering skills towards understanding complex systems in which multiple simultaneous processes are occurring. by professor alex katz
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