Abstract
Food processing is an excellent topic to introduce early in the engineering curriculum, as students are familiar with many food products but often do not realize that chemical engineers are responsible for many of the processing and packaging steps in this industry. We have developed a hands-on experiment to introduce freshman engineering or high school students to chemical engineering principles and measurements through chocolate coating of cookies. Student groups will melt chocolate and coat commercially-available cookies, then perform several measurements and calculations. This paper details the experimental set-up and analysis of the module and discusses more advanced experiments that can be incorporated throughout the curriculum.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 13681-13686 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings |
| State | Published - 2002 |
| Event | 2002 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition: Vive L'ingenieur - Montreal, Que., Canada Duration: Jun 16 2002 → Jun 19 2002 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- General Engineering