Do College Science Laboratory Courses Inherit Gender Gap from Lecture Courses?
Publication date: Available online 7 April 2020Source: Education for Chemical EngineersAuthor(s): Liping Zhang (Source: Education for Chemical Engineers)
Source: Education for Chemical Engineers - April 8, 2020 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research
The Discovery Laboratory Part II: A Framework for Incubating Independent Learning
Publication date: Available online 4 April 2020Source: Education for Chemical EngineersAuthor(s): Umang V. Shah, Wenqian Chen, Pavan Inguva, Deesha Chadha, Clemens Brechtelsbauer (Source: Education for Chemical Engineers)
Source: Education for Chemical Engineers - April 5, 2020 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research
Enhancing the autonomy of students in chemical engineering education with LABVIRTUAL platform
Publication date: Available online 12 March 2020Source: Education for Chemical EngineersAuthor(s): José F.O. Granjo, Maria G. Rasteiro (Source: Education for Chemical Engineers)
Source: Education for Chemical Engineers - March 14, 2020 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research
Framework for Analyzing Placement of and Identifying Opportunities for Improving Technical Communication in a Chemical Engineering Curriculum
This study presents an analysis of the technical skill requirement by international accrediting organizations for communication literacy, as well as an analysis of some technical communication education approaches within chemical engineering curricula. This study also presents methods for conducting a crosswalk of graded events with a technical communication component across a curriculum, which can help a program understand the placement of technical communication graded events and identify opportunities for reallocation or scaffolding. This study employs a survey-based approach for gathering information about all technica...
Source: Education for Chemical Engineers - February 21, 2020 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research
Improvement of the learning and assessment of the practical component of a Process Dynamics and Control course for fourth year chemical engineering students
Publication date: Available online 15 February 2020Source: Education for Chemical EngineersAuthor(s): Kuveneshan MoodleyAbstractThe focus of this work was to improve the learning and assessment of the practical component of the Process Dynamics and Control fourth year Chemical Engineering course at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa and consequently, the general performance in selected aspects of the course. The previous methods employed for the practical assessment of the course were based on out-dated experiments and software that students found difficulty working with and which are losing relevance in indus...
Source: Education for Chemical Engineers - February 16, 2020 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research
Acknowledgement of reviewers for 2019
Publication date: January 2020Source: Education for Chemical Engineers, Volume 30Author(s): (Source: Education for Chemical Engineers)
Source: Education for Chemical Engineers - February 6, 2020 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research
Fun with Fluid: An Innovative Assignment in Fluid Mechanics
Publication date: Available online 18 November 2019Source: Education for Chemical EngineersAuthor(s): Sachin MandavganeAbstractFluid mechanics (FM) is a core course of the Chemical (ChE), Mechanical, Civil, and Aerospace Engineering programs. The general expectation is that students should be able to demonstrate the fundamentals learnt in theory and get hands-on experience during the lab course. In this regard, the author of this paper organized an assignment plus competition entitled “Fun with Fluid” (FwF). The event had the following four segments: (1) fun with fluid, (2) frugal lab, (3) design of a thought problem, ...
Source: Education for Chemical Engineers - November 18, 2019 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research
Promoting Student Problem-Identification Skills via a Jeopardy-Inspired Game within the Renaissance Foundry
Publication date: Available online 9 November 2019Source: Education for Chemical EngineersAuthor(s): J.R. Sanders, A. Arce-Trigatti, P.E. ArceAbstractAs societal challenges grow in complexity, it is important that engineers possess deep disciplinary knowledge, coupled with cross-disciplinary skills, to work within a multidimensional context to both identify and solve problems. The purpose of this paper is to describe an approach to innovation-driven learning that is focused on a Jeopardy®-inspired game embedded within a novel pedagogical framework (i.e., The Renaissance Foundry) and implemented in a senior level chemical ...
Source: Education for Chemical Engineers - November 10, 2019 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research
Integration of process safety in equipment design: A framework for academic learning activity
This study presents a methodological framework for a cycle-based academic learning activity, incorporating the four safety strategies, namely, inherent, passive, active and procedural safety in the process of equipment design. A case study applying the proposed framework, on learning of safety protocols incorporated in the design of a reactor, is presented. Majority of the students subjected to this study believe that they learnt safety strategies through this activity and their perception on achieving learning outcomes is positive. (Source: Education for Chemical Engineers)
Source: Education for Chemical Engineers - November 10, 2019 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research
The Effect of Two Instructional Methods on Learning Outcome in Chemistry Education: The Experiment Method and Computer Simulation
This study contributes to the questions of which instructional methods are suitable for school, what instructional methods should be applied in teaching individual subjects and how instructional methods support the act of learning. All three questions represent challenges to general education and education in individual subjects. This study focuses on the empirical examination of learning outcome in chemistry education with respect to two instructional methods: the experiment method and computer simulation. An SPF-2 × 2•2 design is used to control instructional method, trial and class context. Learning outcome on re...
Source: Education for Chemical Engineers - October 25, 2019 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research
A novel use for an old problem: The Tennessee Eastman challenge process as an activating teaching tool
Publication date: Available online 18 October 2019Source: Education for Chemical EngineersAuthor(s): Isuru A. Udugama, Krist V. Gernaey, Michael A. Taubeb, Christoph BayerAbstractThe domains of process design, operations and control are highly interdependent and thus affect operational efficiency and robustness of industrial facilities. Despite this, they are mostly kept in isolation from each other even in commercial projects, which is probably due to the perceived increase in complexity and aligned with prior experience from university education. Process design covers mostly the steady state, whereas process control is g...
Source: Education for Chemical Engineers - October 19, 2019 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research
Design and assessment of a hybrid chemical engineering laboratory course with the incorporation of student-centred experiential learning
Publication date: Available online 7 October 2019Source: Education for Chemical EngineersAuthor(s): Mingqian (John) Zhang, Cheryl Newton, Jason Grove, Mark Pritzker, Marios IoannidisAbstractThis paper presents a comparative study of the effectiveness of traditional laboratory (TL) and open-ended project-based laboratory (PBL) in a hybrid chemical engineering laboratory course. The two laboratory modules were delivered using corresponding instruction methods, and their effects on intended high-level learning outcomes and skill development were assessed by means of student performance and a specific Likert-style survey. The ...
Source: Education for Chemical Engineers - October 10, 2019 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research
Peer-Marking and peer-feedback for coding exercises
Publication date: Available online 6 September 2019Source: Education for Chemical EngineersAuthor(s): Thomas L. RodgersAbstractThere are many advantages to the use of peer marking to student learning, but when used with code creation it has the added advantage that it mirrors one of the key activities undertaken with code, the reusing of others’ code. Due to the range of roles that chemical engineers can undertake and the increasing use of modelling, it is becoming more important to include skills like this within degree courses. However, if peer-marking is to be used effectively it is important that the marks generated ...
Source: Education for Chemical Engineers - September 7, 2019 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research
A pilot-scale laboratory experience for an inductive learning of hydrodynamics in a sieve-tray tower
Publication date: Available online 9 August 2019Source: Education for Chemical EngineersAuthor(s): Francisco Javier Gutiérrez OrtizAbstractA specific inductive teaching approach for undergraduate students of Chemical Engineering bachelor’s degree based on a laboratory experience is presented. Thus, the simple experiment performed to show an aspect of theory previously taught in a classroom is overcome. The specific laboratory experience involves a sieve-tray tower whereby a binary distillation is carried out. However, the focus is not on this separation operation but in the hydrodynamics associated with the start-up of ...
Source: Education for Chemical Engineers - August 10, 2019 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research
Assessing the performance of UK universities in the field of chemical engineering using data envelopment analysis
Publication date: Available online 5 July 2019Source: Education for Chemical EngineersAuthor(s): Andrés González-Garay, Carlos Pozo, Ángel Galán-Martín, Clemens Brechtelsbauer, Benoît Chachuat, Deesha Chadha, Colin Hale, Klaus Hellgardt, Andreas Kogelbauer, Omar K. Matar, Niall McDowell, Nilay Shah, Gonzalo Guillén-GosálbezAbstractUniversity rankings have become an important tool to compare academic institutions within and across countries. Yet, they rely on aggregated scores based on subjective weights which render them sensitive to experts’ preferences and not fully transparent to final users. To overcome this ...
Source: Education for Chemical Engineers - July 7, 2019 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research
