A Chemistry Course for Engineers with Online Resources

Chemistry 1E, General Chemistry for Engineering Students, has been designed to meet the chemistry content needs of engineering students. Material is taught using engineering examples and applications, making the material more relevant to the students served by the course. The course has been reduced to 4 units (3 lecture and 1 lab), thereby reducing the unit requirement of the unit heavy major. After the first offering, access was improved with more students served earlier in their undergraduate careers and a significantly improved course pass rate was observed compared to previous engineering student pass rates in traditional general chemistry. The bottleneck in the traditional general chemistry sequence was additionally reduced by removing the engineering student demand on that sequence.