Student Outcome Assessment in a Project Management Subject from Chemical Engineering Program in Cusco

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Uriel Raul Fernandez Bernaola ◽  
Amanda Rosa Maldonado Farfan ◽  
Esven Loaiza Ortiz
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Outcome Assessment ◽  
Chemical Engineering ◽  
Student Outcome ◽  
Engineering Program

Designing Sustainability Curricula

2015 ◽  
pp. 724-743 ◽  
Author(s):  
Madoc Sheehan
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Engineering ◽  
Cognitive Learning ◽  
Design Tool ◽  
Degree Programs ◽  
James Cook ◽  
Engineering Program ◽  
Engineering Degree ◽  
Wide Range

Developing an engineering student's awareness of sustainability through the embedding of sustainability curricula is widely considered to be essential to modernising chemical engineering degree programs. In this chapter, the chemical engineering program at James Cook University is used as a case study to illustrate the design and sequencing of embedded curricula associated with developing a students' awareness of sustainability. There are a wide range of examples of skills, techniques, and characteristics associated with developing this awareness. In this chapter, an approach is described whereby a set of generic and interdisciplinary capabilities are developed to provide a degree of flexibility in how sustainability is interpreted and taught. A cognitive learning matrix is utilised as a design tool that facilitates determination of new subject learning outcomes aligned with the sustainability capabilities. A variety of curriculum examples are introduced and described.

scholarly journals Three Birds, One Stone: A Pedagogy and Accreditation Driven Redesign

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bryson Robertson ◽  
Margaret Gwyn ◽  
LillAnne Jackson ◽  
Peter Wild
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Technical Writing ◽  
Writing Development ◽  
Engineering Curriculum ◽  
Graduate Attributes ◽  
Engineering Program ◽  
Life Long Learning ◽  
Writing Competency ◽  
The University

This paper describes a proposed redesign of the instruction and assessment of the Co-operative (Co-op) Education (or work term) components of the University of Victoria Engineering program. The redesign ensures instruction and assessment of the higher-level Graduate Attributes (GAs), such as individual and teamwork, communication skills, professionalism, impact on society, ethics and equity, economics and project management, and life-long learning, that may not be included in all of the technical courses in a traditional Engineering curriculum. Concurrently, the redesign includes a renewed emphasis on improving the technical writing competency of graduating engineers by: ‘laddering’ student technical writing development; introduction a new grading scheme; increased timeframes for report revisions; and, finally, reducing the number of pedagogically ineffective reports required to graduate.

scholarly journals Development of Small-Scale Experiments for the Education of Chemical Engineering and Its Practice for Undergraduates

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenji Katayama ◽  
Risa Ichinohe ◽  
Yuki Konno ◽  
Woon Yong Sohn ◽  
Shota Kuwahara ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Chemical Engineering ◽  
Chemical Processes ◽  
Reaction Engineering ◽  
Thermal Engineering ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Micro Scale ◽  
Engineering Program ◽  
Unit Operations ◽  
Educational Experiment

A series of small-scale/micro-scale experiments used for the education of undergraduate students in chemical engineering courses have been developed. Based on the “small-scale/micro-scale” concept, the experiments were developed to provide an intuitive understanding of chemical processes, both by increasing the visibility of these chemical processes and by making the apparatus compact (desktop size). Nine experiments were developed that are relevant to the fields of thermal engineering, fluid engineering, unit operations, and reaction engineering. These experiments were introduced during the educational experiment course for undergraduates in the chemical engineering program.

scholarly journals In-depth learning and development of experimental and team work skills in laboratory courses

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clémence Fauteux-Lefebvre ◽  
Denis Gravelle ◽  
Nicolas Abatzoglou
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Chemical Engineering ◽  
Bachelor's Degree ◽  
Team Work ◽  
Management Skills ◽  
Work Skills ◽  
Design Data ◽  
Laboratory Course ◽  
Laboratory Courses ◽  
Chemical Engineering Education

Laboratory courses help students understand the application of theoretical principles and develop their synthesis abilities and critical thinking. Although the above target is well understood in our profession and has long been integrated to the Chemical Engineering curriculum, there are various ways to reach these objectives and it is still a matter of intense discussion. This work presents a laboratory course at the Department of Chemical & Biotechnological Engineering of the Université de Sherbrooke. This course basically seeks to provide the students with elements allowing them to link fundamental knowledge in thermodynamics, transport phenomena and physical chemistry/kinetics to experimental results. However, for engineers, this must be positioned within a context which is the closest possible to their everyday professional reality which requires crosscurricular competencies and attributes. The latter includes team work, project management, and of course fast and efficient analytical, synthesis and interpretation skills. The laboratory course presented here is given in the middle of the program leading to the engineering bachelor’s degree. All experimental design, data collection, laboratory manipulations and analyses are performed by teams of students. There are 11 labs and every team goes through all of them. To develop their project management skills, our Department has adopted the formula of the “Master Team”. The class is divided in a number of teams equal to the number of experiments. Each team is named responsible (Master team) of one of the experiments for the entire semester. In this role, it supervises the reporting of all other teams and proceeds to the final (global) report and its oral presentation. The success of this organization depends on the competence of the teaching team as well as the >efficient internal management of each Master team. Thus, the teams develop skills which lead them to the final and most difficult part of their Chemical Engineering education, the Capstone Design course.

Mechanical Engineering Program at the University of Guanajuato in Mexico

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerome H. Hemmye ◽  
Luz Antonio Aguilera
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Engineering ◽  
Chemical Engineering ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Doctoral Program ◽  
Oil Refinery ◽  
Public Programs ◽  
Engineering Program ◽  
Early Colonial ◽  
Silver Mining ◽  
Gold And Silver Mining

Gold and Silver mining was begun in Mexico within fifty years of the Spanish conquest. The Mining Engineering and the Chemical Engineering needed to extract those valuable metals from the ore have been taught in Mexico from those early colonial days. To meet the colony’s needs for roads and structures, Civil Engineering followed as an academic discipline. Textiles and much later petroleum extraction and refining followed as important industries and they too were included in several Mexican university programs. The gradual industrialization of what is now Mexico brought with it a critical need for engineering education on a broader scale than was traditionally available. Less than forty years ago there was no Mechanical Engineering program in the State of Guanajuato, Mexico. The immediate needs of a Federal Oil Refinery and a Fossil Fuel Power Plant led to the establishment of a modest program utilizing practicing engineers as faculty, on loan part time, from the refinery. The evolution of the program from its earliest days is traced to the present program which includes a doctoral program which is rated among the top three public programs in Mexico.

scholarly journals Collaborative Approach for Teaching Chemical Process Design

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michel F. Couturier ◽  
Guida Bendrich
Keyword(s):  
Process Design ◽  
Chemical Engineering ◽  
Local Economy ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Engineering Practice ◽  
Final Report ◽  
Collaborative Approach ◽  
Chemical Process Design ◽  
Engineering Program ◽  
Design Activities

A collaborative approach has been successfully used to teach the senior process design course in the Chemical Engineering program at UNB since 2010. Every design project in the course is sponsored by an outside client. Two teams of four or five students are assigned to each project. The teams work independently and are co-mentored by a faculty member and a practicing engineer. This collaborative approach brings engineering practice in the classroom while keeping faculty members in control of academic requirements. Eight evenly-spaced milestones pace students and co-mentors by defining the tasks that need to be accomplished, by setting the marking scheme for the deliverables and by providing a framework for the progressive assembly of a high-quality final report. Our approach has increased the number of faculty members interested in design activities and allows students to contribute to the local economy while becoming proficient in engineering design. Comments received from students, clients and co-mentors have been highly positive.

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