Benefits and Challenges of a Virtual Laboratory in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering: Students’ Experiences in Fermentation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simoneta Caño de las Heras ◽  
Barbara Kensington-Miller ◽  
Brent Young ◽  
Vicente Gonzalez ◽  
Ulrich Krühne ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Students ◽  
Virtual Laboratory ◽  
Biochemical Engineering

scholarly journals Assessment of Programme Outcomes Through Exit Survey of Chemical/Biochemical Engineering Students

2011 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 39-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nur Tantiyani Ali Othman ◽  
Rahaiza Misnon ◽  
Siti Rozaimah Sheikh Abdullah ◽  
Noorhisham Tan Kofli ◽  
Siti Kartom Kamarudin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Students ◽  
Biochemical Engineering ◽  
Exit Survey ◽  
Programme Outcomes

Implementation and Assessment of a Virtual Laboratory of Parallel Robots Developed for Engineering Students

2014 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 92-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arturo Gil ◽  
Adrian Peidro ◽  
Oscar Reinoso ◽  
Jose Maria Marin
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Students ◽  
Parallel Robots ◽  
Virtual Laboratory

scholarly journals The establishment of a program to act against dropout and retention rates on Biochemical Engineering

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 35
Author(s):  
Geraldo Gabriel Araujo Silva ◽  
Michele Da Rosa Andrade Zimmermann de Souza ◽  
Ana Priscila Centeno da Rosa ◽  
Elisangela Martha Radmann ◽  
Thaisa Duarte Santos
Keyword(s):  
Student Development ◽  
Time Management ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Retention Rates ◽  
Traditional Learning ◽  
Biochemical Engineering ◽  
School Year ◽  
Academic Activities ◽  
The University ◽  
Interest And Motivation

The highest rates of evasion and dropout on the Biochemical Engineering major at Federal University of Rio Grande are observed during the first semesters of the undergraduate degree, in which are offered the courses that compose the basic cycle of Engineering and are the foundation for the advanced courses. Literature confirms that entering the university can be a very stressful and life changing process, reinforcing the need of special institutional attention to the freshmen. As an alternative to fight this negative scenario and promote integration among the students, a series of activities were proposed through the Program of Incentive to Academic Activities of Biochemical Engineering Students (PAIEB), supported by the Institutional Program of Student Development (PDE-FURG). During the school year of 2016, PAIEB offered a series of testimonies of juniors and seniors about their experiences on college (primary action), in addition to motivational speeches, and time management workshops (secondary action). To evaluate the activities and identify punctual problems to take directed actions, opinion and reflection surveys were conducted to all students that participated in the program activities. It was found that difficulty on time management and demotivation were key problems among the freshmen. In addition, the evasion level in 2016 remained stable when compared to the 2015 level (about 17%) and decreased roughly 3% when compared to 2014, and the retention level within the freshmen year did not show significant decrease. Therefore, the answers to the surveys applied showed that the program is helping on freshman interest and motivation and helped identifying actual problems representing that PAIEB could be working, in this case, as a complementation the recurrent traditional learning and education. Moreover, data collected from the university database implied that the program needs to be amplified and intensified to help decreasing evasion and retention among the Biochemical Engineering students.  

scholarly journals Virtual Laboratory: A Boon to the Mechanical Engineering Education During Covid-19 Pandemic

2020 ◽  
pp. 234763112097075
Author(s):  
N. Kapilan ◽  
P. Vidhya ◽  
Xiao-Zhi Gao
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Engineering ◽  
Laboratory Experiments ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Training Programme ◽  
Virtual Laboratory ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Laboratory Facilities ◽  
Virtual Laboratories ◽  
Laboratory Training ◽  
Academic Year

The engineering students understand the engineering concepts effectively when they conduct the experiments in the laboratory. Hence, laboratory is as important as theory; however, the ill-equipped laboratory facilities affect the students’ learnability. The virtual laboratories may help the students overcome the problems faced by them in the conventional laboratory. In India, educational activities during the middle of the semester were affected due to lockdown related to COVID-19. However, the theory classes were conducted online, and educational institutions are finding it difficult to complete the laboratory experiments due to closure of colleges for the students due to COVID-19 pandemic. Hence, we have conducted a faculty development programme for the engineering college faculty members on mechanical engineering virtual laboratories. Similarly, we have trained the mechanical engineering students on fluid mechanics virtual laboratory. We have taken feedback from the participants of these virtual laboratory training programme and analysed it. From the analysis we have observed that more than 90 per cent of the participants were happy about the virtual laboratory and they expressed that their learning process improved with virtual laboratory experiments. Also, they felt that the virtual laboratories can be used till the COVID-19 pandemic issues are solved. Since the vaccine for COVID-19 is not available yet, the virtual laboratories will help the mechanical engineering students to conduct the laboratory experiments for the academic year 2020–2021.

scholarly journals A Support Tool for Teaching Grafcet: Engineering Students’ Perceptions

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Celina P. Lea˜o ◽  
Filomena O. Soares ◽  
Jose´ Machado ◽  
P. B. de Moura Oliveira ◽  
J. Boaventura Cunha
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Students ◽  
Discrete Event Systems ◽  
Finite Automata ◽  
Discrete Event ◽  
Good Choice ◽  
Virtual Laboratory ◽  
Complex Task ◽  
Educational Tool ◽  
Support Tool ◽  
Self Learning

Modeling discrete event systems with sequential behavior can be a very hard and complex task. Some formalisms are used in this context, such as: Petri Nets, Statecharts, Finite automata, Grafcet and others. Among these, Grafcet seems to be a good choice because it is easy: to learn, to understand and to use. Teaching Grafcet is then relevant within engineering courses concerned with Industrial Automation. A virtual laboratory, e-GRAFCET, developed and first tested in UTAD University; it is a new, easy-to-use multimedia e-educational tool to support the self-learning process of Grafcet. This paper, reports a study of e-GRAFCET use by the students of University of Minho. A questionnaire was prepared and students asked to fulfill it in a volunteer basis. The results were statistically analyzed and the scores compared. The overall objective is to understand how the tool helps students in their study, and consequently improve their learning off Grafcet, independently of their engineering background.

scholarly journals Diffraction Testbed for Use in Remote Teaching

Optics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 251-258
Author(s):  
Javier Gamo
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Students ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Virtual Laboratory ◽  
Basic Tool ◽  
Virtual Lab ◽  
Circular Slit ◽  
Diffraction Phenomenon ◽  
Education Levels ◽  
Self Learning ◽  
Carlos Iii

The need for remote teaching tools in all education levels has experienced a big increase due to COVID-19 pandemic. Laboratory practical sessions have not been an exception, and many online and offline tools have been made available to respond to the lockdown of teaching facilities. This paper presents a software testbed named OPTILAB for teaching diffraction experiments to engineering students. The software simulates classical diffraction apertures (single slit, double slit, circular slit) under a wide variety of conditions. Explanation about the Physics behind the diffraction phenomenon is also included in OPTILAB to increase the students’ self-learning experience. Originally conceived as a complement to on-site teaching, due to COVID-19 pandemic OPTILAB has been adopted as the basic tool to build a brand-new, virtual laboratory session about diffraction in Physics III course (biomedical engineering) at Carlos III University of Madrid. Results obtained by the students taking this virtual lab during Fall 2020 are presented and discussed.

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