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Williams, Donald F.; Glasser, David – Chemical Engineering Education, 1991
Introduces and develops mathematical notation to assist undergraduate students in overcoming conceptual difficulties involving the underlying mathematics of state functions, which tend to be different from functions encountered by students in previous mathematical courses, because of the need to manipulate special types of partial derivatives and…
Descriptors: College Science, Engineering Education, Higher Education, Introductory Courses
Linn, Marcia C.; Songer, Nancy Butler – 1988
To increase the connection between educational research and educational practice, a process called "curriculum reformulation" was used to incorporate recent advances in research on learning and instruction into science classroom experiences. The cognitive demands of a thermodynamics curriculum were successively refined while maintaining…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Graphics, Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education