Practical Demonstrations Designed and Developed by the Students for Pedagogical Learning in Transport Phenomena

Publication date: Available online 25 October 2018Source: Education for Chemical EngineersAuthor(s): Paulo A. Augusto, Teresa Castelo-Grande, Angel M. EstevezAbstractCore disciplines in chemical engineering master, like the case of Transport Phenomena, and although its content is 100% related to the master, are always hard to understand by the students. We have implemented a new methodology where teams of students should perform the concept, design and development of practical demonstrations of Mass Transfer Phenomena and Theoretical Background, in order for all of them to be able to really get involved in the thematic, and thus easily assimilate concepts and theoretical development as applied to practical phenomena. After the first application of this methodology and after a deep analysis of previous results we have made important enhancements on the innovative work. Among several other modifications, students were able to select the field on which each practical demonstration would be developed (among the three usual transport phenomena: mass, fluids and heat) and most particularly encouraged to design and develop practical demonstrations on the thematics and sub-thematics they had higher difficulties. A total of 6 experiments/demonstrations were developed by the students of the two academic years. To determine the perception, impact and improvement made by this methodology, surveys were also made to determine the initial and final status of the students concerning their kn...
Source: Education for Chemical Engineers - Category: Chemistry Source Type: research