TY - JOUR
T1 - An online course for professional development of chemical engineering COOPs and interns
AU - Davis, Richard A.
PY - 2016/6/26
Y1 - 2016/6/26
N2 - An online course was created for professional development of chemical engineering students participating in industrial cooperative education and internships. The course guides students through a series of exercises each designed to cycle through the four stages of Kolb's learning theory: experience, reflection, generalization, and experimentation. Students naturally acquire concrete professional experience while practicing in an industrial setting. Instead of a traditional approach to coop education that concludes the industry experience with a reflective report, our approach uses small reflective exercises distributed throughout the coop/internship period that focus on a set of professional competencies. Students complete Kolb's cycle using the key process steps of project management as a laboratory of generalization and experimentation with professional skills. It was concluded that students accelerated their professional development with periodic reflection and experimentation along with timely assessment and feedback from the instructor.
AB - An online course was created for professional development of chemical engineering students participating in industrial cooperative education and internships. The course guides students through a series of exercises each designed to cycle through the four stages of Kolb's learning theory: experience, reflection, generalization, and experimentation. Students naturally acquire concrete professional experience while practicing in an industrial setting. Instead of a traditional approach to coop education that concludes the industry experience with a reflective report, our approach uses small reflective exercises distributed throughout the coop/internship period that focus on a set of professional competencies. Students complete Kolb's cycle using the key process steps of project management as a laboratory of generalization and experimentation with professional skills. It was concluded that students accelerated their professional development with periodic reflection and experimentation along with timely assessment and feedback from the instructor.
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M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:84983315102
SN - 2153-5965
VL - 2016-June
JO - ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings
JF - ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings
T2 - 123rd ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition
Y2 - 26 June 2016 through 29 June 2016
ER -