Implementing Conservation of Life Across the Curriculum

This paper describes our pedagogy for implementing chemical process safety (CPS) education across the chemical engineering curriculum.  Building on a unifying theme of conservation of life from the first year experience through the senior design courses, we work towards four goals:

(1)  Make students aware of CPS principles, practice, and the chemical engineer's role.

(2)  Infuse a culture of life-long safety in our department faculty, students and graduates.

(3)  Assess student learning, basic skills, and commitment to CPS.

(4)  Require minimal additional resources or student credit hours in a full curriculum.

We present our experience and recommendations for reaching these goals through careful planning, coordination, identification and use of existing resources, and student and faculty accountability.