Teaching models issues

Lastly, process synthesis is important in this field. The biologists dominate process synthesis in the recombinant DNA and protein manufacturing business. What limitations prevent chemical engineers from making contributions There are two an almost complete absence of predictive models based on fundamentals and a poor understanding of the physical and chemical properties of biological materials. These issues need to be addressed in both teaching and research. 

The chapter is outlined as follows. First we present some curriculum issues related to molecular modeling and to quantum chemistry. Then we give a brief introduction to the fields of quantum chemistry, molecular mechanics, and molecular dynamics. Following this, we survey the use of molecular mechanics in the curriculum, particularly as it relates to articles that have appeared in the Journal of Chemical Education. Finally, we each present material that outlines our use of computers in the curriculum. This approach allows us to review the literature in each of the areas we cover. We each teach in an undergraduate institution, but many of the topics we discuss also can be included in a graduate course, albeit at a greater depth than at the undergraduate level. 

The teaching-learning module uses a structure that comes from the socio-scientific issue, via learning about the content behind the issue, towards questions of evaluation and reflecting the issue from different perspectives and in the foreground of the societal discourse. This structure is parallel to those suggested in the curriculum models by Holbrook and Ran-nikmae and Marks and Eilks for societal-oriented or even SSI-driven science education, respectively. 

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