A detailed anatomy of students ’ perception of engagement and their learning a threshold concept in core chemical engineering
Publication date: April 2015 Source:Education for Chemical Engineers, Volume 11 Author(s): K.R. Davey An attempt has been made to reveal a detailed anatomy of students’ self-perceived engagement with material in a lecture and their learning of a key course threshold concept. A cohort of 80 students in a third year chemical engineering (64% response rate) course voluntarily recorded their engagement using a Likert-type scale at intervals of 5min in a (nominally 50min) lecture, together with written comments. Marks were awarded for a substantial, follow-up summative assignment to test their understanding of the thres...
Source: Education for Chemical Engineers - July 19, 2016 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research
Real and virtual bioreactor laboratory sessions by STSE –CLIL WebQuest
Publication date: October 2015 Source:Education for Chemical Engineers, Volume 13 Author(s): Serrano-Aroca Ángel An innovative teaching methodology, which incorporates all the advantages offered separately by WebQuest (an inquiry-oriented lesson format in which most or all the information that learners work with comes from the web), CLIL (Content Language Integrated Learning) and STSE (Science, Technology, Society and Environment) was developed to integrate real bioreactor experiments to produce ecological bioethanol with virtual bioreactor computer simulation. Thus, by means of this type of WebQuest, it is possible...
Source: Education for Chemical Engineers - July 19, 2016 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research
Mass & amp; energy balances coupling in chemical reactors for a better understanding of thermal safety
Publication date: July 2016 Source:Education for Chemical Engineers, Volume 16 Author(s): Sébastien Leveneur, Lamiae Vernieres-Hassimi, Tapio Salmi Process safety is an important topic in the curriculum vitae of a chemical engineer. It can be a difficult course for the students and professors, because it is a frontier course between chemical engineering and safety. How to introduce this course? We think that this course should be introduced during the chemical reaction engineering, and more particularly during the mass and energy balances lectures. Thus, the students can more easily understand the concept of iso...
Source: Education for Chemical Engineers - July 19, 2016 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research
Bridging theory with real world research experience: Co-teaching Engineering Biotechnology with R & amp;D professionals
This study examined the usefulness of co-teaching with research and development (R&D) professionals to integrate real world research experience into an Engineering Biotechnology course. This research suggests that the need to expose students to post-graduate engineering careers and to prepare them to enter real world engineering is crucial. Two sessions were team-taught by the course lecturer in collaboration with two R&D professionals from local industries. The course lecturer covered the theoretical parts, whereas practicing R&D engineers exposed students to current R&D works. Quantitative...
Source: Education for Chemical Engineers - July 19, 2016 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research
Group work experiences of women students in a Scottish chemical engineering programme
Publication date: Available online 17 July 2016 Source:Education for Chemical Engineers Author(s): Jolan Nisbet, Mark D. Haw, Stuart Boon, Ross W. Harrington, Ashleigh J. Fletcher Chemical Engineering, similar to other Engineering courses, has seen an undergraduate gender shift in recent years towards greater women student representation. This raises the issue of the inclusion, in terms of equality of participation and opportunities, of these women students in learning activities and also the role that they can play in encouraging inclusion and development of others, which can have implications, not only for ...
Source: Education for Chemical Engineers - July 17, 2016 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research
Modeling stress relaxation of crosslinked polymer networks for biomaterials applications: A distance learning module
Publication date: Available online 29 June 2016 Source:Education for Chemical Engineers Author(s): E. Sclarsky, J. Kadlowec, A.J. Vernengo Distance learning has become a prevalent method of delivering education to all types of student demographics. Here we present an online materials-related activity, which can be implemented into any course (traditional or online) related to chemical, mechanical, or biomedical engineering. Students use a Matlab graphical user interface (GUI) to predict the stress relaxation behavior of crosslinked biomaterials with three viscoelastic models, the Maxwell, Kelvin-Voigt, and standa...
Source: Education for Chemical Engineers - June 29, 2016 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research
Simple Multipurpose Apparatus for Solubility Measurement of Solid Solutes in Liquids
Publication date: Available online 24 June 2016 Source:Education for Chemical Engineers Author(s): Chandrakant R. Malwade, Lars P. Christensen Solubility is one of the most basic chemical phenomena. It has a key role in understanding of major unit operations such as crystallization, solid-liquid extraction, and dissolution. In addition, solubility data is crucial for design, development, and operation of these processes. Therefore, solubility measurement of solid solutes in different solvents or solvent mixtures as a function of temperature can be of great significance to the university students and researchers. In...
Source: Education for Chemical Engineers - June 24, 2016 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research
Mass & energy balances coupling in chemical reactors for a better understanding of thermal safety
Publication date: Available online 18 June 2016 Source:Education for Chemical Engineers Author(s): Sébastien Leveneur, Lamiae Vernieres-Hassimi, Tapio Salmi Process safety is an important topic in the curriculum vitae of a chemical engineer. It can be a difficult course for the students and professors, because it is a frontier course between chemical engineering and safety. How to introduce this course? We think that this course should be introduced during the chemical reaction engineering, and more particularly during the mass and energy balances lectures. Thus, the students can more easily understand the conce...
Source: Education for Chemical Engineers - June 19, 2016 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research
A systematic and integrative sequence approach (sisa) for mastery learning: anchoring bloom's revised taxonomy to student learning
Publication date: Available online 16 June 2016 Source:Education for Chemical Engineers Author(s): Rocío Tíjaro-Rojas, Andrea Arce-Trigatti, Jann Cupp, Jennifer Pascal, Pedro E. Arce In this contribution, a methodical and student-based learning sequence entitled Systematic and Integrative Sequence Approach (SISA) is introduced. Primarily utilized within STEM disciplines, SISA is inspired by instructivist and constructivist approaches to learning and ultimately seeks to help students reach mastery learning levels regarding complex concepts within these fields. By organizing and anchoring lesson plans concern...
Source: Education for Chemical Engineers - June 15, 2016 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research
Bridging Theory with Real World Research Experience: Co-teaching Engineering Biotechnology with R&D Professionals
This study examined the usefulness of co-teaching with research and development (R&D) professionals to integrate real world research experience into an Engineering Biotechnology course. This research suggests that the need to expose students to post-graduate engineering careers and to prepare them to enter real world engineering is crucial. Two sessions were team-taught by the course lecturer in collaboration with two R&D professionals from local industries. The course lecturer covered the theoretical parts, whereas practicing R&D engineers exposed students to current R&D works. Quantitative...
Source: Education for Chemical Engineers - May 16, 2016 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research
Setting up new Chemical Engineering degree programmes: Exercises in design and retrofit within constraints
Publication date: Available online 16 May 2016 Source:Education for Chemical Engineers Author(s): Grant M. Campbell, Daniel J. Belton The rise in popularity of chemical engineering among students entering university has prompted expansion of the UK provision, through increased intake into current degree programmes and with the rise of new providers. The former entails logistical challenges of processing larger numbers through existing infrastructures whilst maintaining the student experience. The latter entails challenges of designing and introducing programmes that build harmoniously on existing non-chemical engin...
Source: Education for Chemical Engineers - May 16, 2016 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research
Cambridge Weblabs: a Process Control System using industrial standard SIMATIC PCS 7
We describe the experimental setup, the hard- and software used, the teaching assignment and finally the results of the student evaluation. We also describe the challenges on the sustainability of the weblabs. (Source: Education for Chemical Engineers)
Source: Education for Chemical Engineers - May 11, 2016 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research
10th Anniversary of Education for Chemical Engineers
Publication date: January 2016 Source:Education for Chemical Engineers, Volume 14 Author(s): Rafiqul Gani, Jarka Glassey (Source: Education for Chemical Engineers)
Source: Education for Chemical Engineers - May 7, 2016 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research
The bridge link between university and industry: a key factor for achieving high performance in process safety
This article considers the learning lessons of a long tutoring and teaching activity that the author has carried out in process safety between university and industry in Europe and in Asia. The findings have been analysed and converted into specific indicators and trend data, with the aim to contribute to reduce the significant gap which still exists in a branch of chemical engineering that is expected to increase its complexity and importance in the near future. (Source: Education for Chemical Engineers)
Source: Education for Chemical Engineers - March 15, 2016 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research
Enhancing Laboratory Experience through E-lessons
Publication date: Available online 27 February 2016 Source:Education for Chemical Engineers Author(s): Satyen Gautam, Zhen Qin, Kai Chee Loh This paper describes the development and use of e-lessons in an undergraduate level laboratory course. The pilot study involved creating e-lessons for two bioanalytics experiments: polymerase chain reaction and high performance liquid chromatography. Each e-lesson consisted of two screencasts and a self-assessment quiz. No e-lesson was prepared for the bioanalytic experiment on Surface Plasmon Resonance and served as a control to evaluate the efficacy of the e-lessons on stu...
Source: Education for Chemical Engineers - February 29, 2016 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research
