Process Safety part of the engineering education DNA
Publication date: Available online 21 February 2019Source: Education for Chemical EngineersAuthor(s): Rafael Amaya-Gómez, Vivian Dumar, Mauricio Sánchez-Silva, Rosa Romero, Clara Arbeláez, Felipe MuñozAbstractOne of the biggest challenges in modern engineering education is to raise awareness about the basic principles of process safety. Although several organizations such as AIChE—through CCPS and SAChE—, IChemE and ABET are trying to seek suitable learning environments, there is still lack of courses or programs aimed at making students conscious about accident causes and prevention. This paper presents a strategy...
Source: Education for Chemical Engineers - February 22, 2019 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research
Special issue IV conference on innovation on chemical engineering education (IV CIDIQ)
Publication date: Available online 14 February 2019Source: Education for Chemical EngineersAuthor(s): Raquel Ibañez, Maria J. Rivero (Source: Education for Chemical Engineers)
Source: Education for Chemical Engineers - February 15, 2019 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research
Applying PBL Methodologies to the Chemical Engineering Courses: Unit Operations and Modeling and Simulation, using a Joint Course Project
Publication date: Available online 7 February 2019Source: Education for Chemical EngineersAuthor(s): Miguel A. Ballesteros, Miguel A. Daza, Juan P. Valdés, Nicolás Ratkovich, Luis H. ReyesAbstractUnit Operations and Modelling and Simulation have been for long time a staple of the academic formation of any chemical engineer. Both are integral to the analysis of any chemical process, discretizing it into smaller specific processes that can then be characterized and modelled through the solution of balance, thermodynamics and transport equations. However, students usually perceive these subjects as separate fields of knowle...
Source: Education for Chemical Engineers - February 8, 2019 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research
Students’ performance and perceptions on continuous assessment. Redefining a Chemical Engineering subject in the European Higher Education Area
Publication date: Available online 8 February 2019Source: Education for Chemical EngineersAuthor(s): E.S. Sanz-PérezAbstractChemical Engineering taught as a subject across three Energy Engineering-based degree streams was evaluated considering two cohorts in two consecutive years after the implementation of the Bologna Process in Spain. A regular continuous assessment methodology yielded negative results during the first year. Student insight on course development, own expectations and results, and the evaluation system were then explored via a 33-item survey with participation levels between 41 % and 82 %. Direct answers...
Source: Education for Chemical Engineers - February 8, 2019 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research
Reprint of: Education of chemical engineering in Spain: A global picture
Publication date: Available online 2 February 2019Source: Education for Chemical EngineersAuthor(s): Gumersindo Feijoo, Raquel Ibañez, Javier Herguido, Pedro Partal, Montserrat Tobajas, Julia Sèmpere, María Fernanda López-Pérez, Maria J. RiveroAbstractThe general framework of the Chemical Engineering studies in Spain includes the Bachelor's Degree (4 years), Master's Degree (the most common duration is 1.5 years) and Doctorate (3-4 years). In 2008, the Conference of Directors and Deans of Chemical Engineering (CODDIQ) was constituted with the main objective of promoting and improving the quality of Chemical Engineerin...
Source: Education for Chemical Engineers - February 2, 2019 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research
Teaching chemical engineering students industrial symbiosis using online resources: A Singapore case study
Publication date: Available online 15 January 2019Source: Education for Chemical EngineersAuthor(s): Chun-Yang Yin, Lai Yeng LeeAbstractA new and simple qualitative teaching method incorporating online (cyberspace) resources (e.g. Google Maps™) aimed at introducing the concept of industrial symbiosis (IS) to chemical engineering students is described. This method has been trialled as an exercise for a module as part of a chemical engineering degree programme taught in Singapore with integrated local industries and circumstances. A compilation in the form of eclectic mix of IS initiatives showing by-product and utilities ...
Source: Education for Chemical Engineers - January 16, 2019 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research
Integration of the structured development of communication skills within a chemical engineering curriculum at the University of Adelaide
Publication date: Available online 18 December 2018Source: Education for Chemical EngineersAuthor(s): Elizabeth Yong, Peter J. AshmanAbstractCommunication skills are among the most important attributes for engineering graduates, and yet Australian employers are often dissatisfied with the level of communication skills demonstrated by graduate engineers. In recognition of the importance of communication skills, an engineering communication curriculum is fully integrated into two undergraduate courses in the School of Chemical Engineering at the University of Adelaide. The structured development of fundamental engineering co...
Source: Education for Chemical Engineers - December 19, 2018 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research
Learning by doing: Chem-E-Car® motivating experience
Publication date: Available online 18 December 2018Source: Education for Chemical EngineersAuthor(s): C. Negro, N. Merayo, M.C. Monte, A. Balea, E. Fuente, A. BlancoAbstractSince 2013 a group of professors from the Chemical Engineering Department of Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) has implemented a teaching tool based on the concept of “learning by doing” that has been successfully used in the US to increase motivation of students. This tool consists of a competition, called Chem-E-Car®, which helps to teach not only specific, but also transversal competences of the undergraduate students. They have to design, ...
Source: Education for Chemical Engineers - December 19, 2018 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research
A novel educational laboratory experiment for constant-mass expansion of petroleum fluids
Publication date: Available online 12 December 2018Source: Education for Chemical EngineersAuthor(s): Francisco J. Argüelles-Vivas, Ryosuke OkunoAbstractThis paper presents a new way to conduct an educational experiment for bubble-point determination of a hydrocarbon mixture. The visual fluid cell newly designed for educational purposes made it possible to teach bubble-point determination safely at low cost within a few hours for groups of students in a laboratory class. The educational experiment developed has been successfully implemented for three semesters at the authors’ institution with positive responses from a v...
Source: Education for Chemical Engineers - December 13, 2018 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research
A teaching methodology based on Mathcad for improving the calculation of pumping power
This study proposes the implementation of a novel teaching methodology for improving the calculation of pumping power by using the Mathcad software. This methodology includes: (1) training courses on initiation to Mathcad, (2) the delivery of a report with theoretical considerations about pumping power, the problem statement, the traditional procedure to solve it, as well as the main indications to do it with Mathcad, and (3) a virtual platform conceived as a meeting space. The assessment of this educational experience, which was carried out with the second-year chemical engineering students enrolled in the Fluid Flow cour...
Source: Education for Chemical Engineers - December 5, 2018 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research
Development and application of scoring rubrics for evaluating students’ competencies and learning outcomes in Chemical Engineering experimental courses
In this study, a methodology has been proposed to design, develop, and apply rubrics based on competence and learning outcome approaches. Thanks to the collaborative work of the three teaching teams involved, the application of comprehensive rubrics to provide gradual attainment of competence and formative evaluation over the academic years was rendered possible.Rubrics were developed to evaluate the main tasks of the courses: Personal Work, Written Report, and Oral Presentation. The rubric for each task contained the same evaluation criteria and dimensions with four levels of achievement, but differed in the scoring strat...
Source: Education for Chemical Engineers - December 4, 2018 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research
Learning about distillation curves as a way to define a process stream from crude petroleum
Publication date: Available online 22 November 2018Source: Education for Chemical EngineersAuthor(s): Amparo Gómez-Siurana, Alicia Font-Escamilla, Cristina García-SolerAbstractThe advanced courses of Separation Processes use to include some reference to the different types of distillation curves, such as the True Boiling Point (TBP) curves, in order to characterize crude petroleum or its derivatives. The concept of pseudocomponents as well as the way to extract them from a TBP curve can be easily understood by reading classical bibliographic references. Chemical process simulation software packages serve as a useful tool...
Source: Education for Chemical Engineers - November 22, 2018 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research
The effect of virtual field trip as an introductory tool for an engineering real field trip
Publication date: Available online 17 November 2018Source: Education for Chemical EngineersAuthor(s): Mostafa Seifan, Debby Dada, Aydin BerenjianAbstractDue to the limitations associated with real field trips (RFTs) and considering the advances in technology in the last decade, virtual field trips (VFTs) have been introduced to replace RFTs. In the present study, we investigated the essentiality and usefulness of VFTs on student’s learning as well as the acquisition of insight for designing an industrial scale plant. A combination of quantitative and qualitative methods was used to investigate the importance of different...
Source: Education for Chemical Engineers - November 18, 2018 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research
Learning-by-doing: The Chem-E-Car competition® in the University of Cantabria as case study
Publication date: Available online 17 November 2018Source: Education for Chemical EngineersAuthor(s): Antonio Dominguez-Ramos, Manuel Alvarez-Guerra, Guillermo Diaz-Sainz, Raquel Ibañez, Angel IrabienAbstractIt is widely known that the Learning-by-Doing (LbD) pedagogical tool is not the most common form of education in Chemical Engineering nowadays. The aim of this work is to describe the application of LbD considering as case of study the participation of undergraduate students from the Chemical Engineering Degree of the University of Cantabria (UC) from Spain in the Chem-E-Car Competition® in the 10th World Congress of...
Source: Education for Chemical Engineers - November 18, 2018 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research
KBR (Kinetics in Batch Reactors): a MATLAB-based application with a Friendly Graphical User Interface for chemical kinetic model simulation and parameter estimation
Publication date: Available online 16 November 2018Source: Education for Chemical EngineersAuthor(s): Raúl Molina, Gisela Orcajo, Fernando MartinezAbstractThe simulation of chemical kinetic models is necessary in order to analyze comprehensive chemical reaction mechanisms and perform the estimation of the kinetic parameters. In many cases, a chemical process can be composed of several series and/or independent reactions that requires a complex set of kinetic equations to be solved. Computer-based tools for the study of kinetics of chemical reaction networks have been used since the last 50 years. However, the educational ...
Source: Education for Chemical Engineers - November 16, 2018 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research
