Assessing Metacognitive Awareness during Problem-Solving in a Kinetics and Homogeneous Reactor Design Course

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Her teaching experience is in the area of Process Dynamics and Control, Kinetics, Catalysis and Reactor Design. She did her undergraduate studies in Chemical Engineering at the Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala, México, and his Master and Doctoral studies at the Instituto Tecnológico de Celaya, México. Her research interests are in the field of Process Systems Engineering, and include the analysis and design of thermally coupled and alternative distillation configurations, the design of nonideal distillation systems and the synthesis, optimization and control of chemical process with recycles streams.

Developing Design Thinking in Senior Capstone Bioengineering Student

“…The sophomore and junior years contain the greatest concentration of foundational didactic course work (including math and science), which tend be geared towards problem solving using textbook problems that are set, greatly simplified, and have a single solution. Students moving into senior design classes have difficulty with the mental shift from singular, short problems sets to open-ended, long-term capstone projects [2], [5].…”