Using Self-Paced Learning to Personalize Engineering Education

As class sizes in the freshman chemical engineering class outgrew the available rooms and one teacher's ability to safely manage hands-on design projects, a new class management philosophy was needed.Two hours of this three-hour course were conducted electronically.Students met in a classroom with one-third of the group for the remaining one-hour-per-week lecture.Blackboard Learning System -Vista Enterprise was used to post video lectures and manage quizzes and homework assignments.This paper presents the details of management of this class and the highlights of what did and didn't work.