scholarly journals DESIGNING AN UNDERGRADUATE FOOD PROCESSING LABORATORY FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yung P. Lai ◽  
Kyung E.K. Sun ◽  
Christine Moresoli ◽  
Marc Aucoin
Keyword(s):  
Food Processing ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Chemical Engineering ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Food Contamination ◽  
Biological Engineering ◽  
Unit Operations ◽  
Undergraduate Experience ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The University

Food processing is one of the largest industries in the world, making it an attractive field for chemical engineering students to pursue. Currently, there is no food processing laboratory at the University of Waterloo. Consequently, students do not have an opportunity to link fundamental chemical and biological engineering concepts germane to the food processing industry to tangible applications. The solution is to design a versatile undergraduate food processing laboratory to enhance the engineering undergraduate experience. The laboratory would have three unit operations ubiquitous to the food industry. The three selected unit operations were spray drying, micro-encapsulation, and extrusion. Suppliers and/or providers of processing equipment, raw ingredients, and pest control services were identified with the consideration of health and safety recommendations. The food processing laboratory layout was created with consideration of minimizing workplace hazards and the risk of food contamination. The cost of running the laboratory for the first year along with equipment/materials procurement was estimated to be around $1 million CAD in an existing room at the university. By providing a food processing laboratory, chemical engineering students would be supplied a contained learning environment along with the incentive to consume their manufactured products.

scholarly journals Compartmental Learning versus Joint Learning in Engineering Education

Mathematics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 662
Author(s):  
María Jesús Santos ◽  
Alejandro Medina ◽  
José Miguel Mateos Roco ◽  
Araceli Queiruga-Dios
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Students ◽  
Chemical Engineering ◽  
Linear Equations ◽  
Mathematical Software ◽  
Mathematical Concepts ◽  
Joint Learning ◽  
The University ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Non Linear Equations ◽  
Mathematics And Physics

Sophomore students from the Chemical Engineering undergraduate Degree at the University of Salamanca are involved in a Mathematics course during the third semester and in an Engineering Thermodynamics course during the fourth one. When they participate in the latter they are already familiar with mathematical software and mathematical concepts about numerical methods, including non-linear equations, interpolation or differential equations. We have focused this study on the way engineering students learn Mathematics and Engineering Thermodynamics. As students use to learn each matter separately and do not associate Mathematics and Physics, they separate each matter into different and independent compartments. We have proposed an experience to increase the interrelationship between different subjects, to promote transversal skills, and to make the subjects closer to real work. The satisfactory results of the experience are exposed in this work. Moreover, we have analyzed the results obtained in both courses during the academic year 2018–2019. We found that there is a relation between both courses and student’s final marks do not depend on the course.

scholarly journals A Course about the Environment for All Engineering Students

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Henshaw
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Pollution Prevention ◽  
Group Project ◽  
Group Problem Solving ◽  
Energy Flows ◽  
The Commons ◽  
Biological Concepts ◽  
The University

The course 85-250 Engineering and the Environment began in 2009 and has been delivered to two cohorts of students at the University of Windsor. This course is currently required for sophomore Environmental, Civil, Mechanical and Industrial undergraduates (approximately 180 students), and provides them with environmental awareness in order to achieve the graduate attribute 3.1.9 Impact of Engineering on [Society and] the Environment. In addition, the course curriculum is shaped by two Engineers Canada exam syllabi. The course begins with basic biological concepts of how matter cycles and energy flows in nature, and philosophical concepts in resource allocation/pollution (e.g. tragedy of the commons), and then quantitative elements of dimensions, risk calculation and mass balances are introduced. The latter part of the course examines applications of these principles to two topics of interest to a broad range of engineering disciplines: pollution prevention and energy conversion. Delivery of the course is by traditional lecture format supplemented by weekly tutorials with approximately 50 students each. Tutorial assignments consist of either individual problem solving (quantitative material) or group problem solving (philosophical concepts). Evaluation is through submitted tutorial assignments, clicker questions, exams (two mid-term and one final), an online mini-course, and presentation of a group project. All exams are multiple-choice, with an instant feedback assessment technique used in the mid-terms. Students complete a self-contained online mini course in Occupational Health and Safety, which includes WHMIS training. The textbook is a custom print product which includes chapters extracted from three textbooks supplied by the publisher. Student feedback regarding methods of delivery and evaluation will be presented.

scholarly journals TRANSFORMING UNDERGRADUATE CHEMICAL ENGINEERING LABORATORIES

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dhaneshwarie Kannangara ◽  
James Sibley
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Chemical Engineering ◽  
Problem Based Learning ◽  
Biological Engineering ◽  
Laboratory Experience ◽  
Laboratory Course ◽  
The Past ◽  
University Of British Columbia ◽  
Second Year ◽  
The University

Over the past 15 years, we have made a series of innovations and systematic improvements to the lab courses offered in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering (CHBE) at The University of British Columbia (UBC). Prior to 2003, CHBE teaching laboratories used a more traditional laboratory course model where students performed "cookbook" experiments and individually wrote formal lab reports. Redevelopment began with our second-year course and improvements from the second-year course were progressively added to senior years. The integrated lab sequence now culminates in a capstone problem-based learning laboratory experience. We will present our optimized laboratory sequence model that is currently used in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th year CHBE program at UBC.

scholarly journals An Overview Of Food Hygiene And Sanitation In Campus C Canteens Universitas Airlangga Surabaya

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 158
Author(s):  
Ryan Angga Oktafani s
Keyword(s):  
Food Processing ◽  
Food Contamination ◽  
Food Handler ◽  
Food Handlers ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
School Canteen ◽  
Treatment Facilities ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Cross Sectional Design ◽  
The University

School canteen is provided to meet the confectionary needs of campus citizens at Universitas Airlangga (UA) in Surabaya. Food contamination occurs upon improperly treatment for food, that this issue still potentially happen around the canteen of UA and put significant impacts for campus citizens. This study aims to identify the conditions of hygiene, food handler sanitation and food processing in campus C Airlangga University’s canteen. This reearch is a descriptive study with cross sectional design. Sampling process was using purposive sampling method. Observation and exploration regarding hygiene was assessed by questionaire and the sanitation was observed by criteria instrument. Variables of interest in this study are including of the characteristics of food handlers, food handler hygiene, sanitation treatment facilities, canteen facilities and infrastructure on the food provided by the canteen at the University of Airlangga. The results of the study shows that food handlers were free from infectious diseases, they are not smoker and did not comb their hair near food processing premises, only 1 person (of 5%) were sneezing near the food inadvertently. For building sanitation facilities and food preparation areas in each cafeteria is already adequate and already met the criteria of the Decree of the Minister of Health of the Republic of Indonesia No. 1098 / Menkes / SK / VII / 2003, on the feasibility of hygiene and sanitation in the school cafeteria campus.

Enhancement of Undergraduate Materials Education through Research and Industry-Academia Interactions

2001 ◽  
Vol 684 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asit K. Ray
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Students ◽  
Chemical Engineering ◽  
Joint Venture ◽  
Polymeric Materials ◽  
Main Body ◽  
Polymer Science ◽  
Engineering Department ◽  
Materials Research ◽  
Local Companies ◽  
The University

ABSTRACTThe Chemical Engineering Department at Christian Brothers University (CBU) offers an introductory courses on materials at the sophomore level followed by a course on polymer science and engineering at the senior level complete with laboratory. Students desiring further exposure to materials processing are connected with local polymeric materials companies where they work as interns. These students have the opportunity to be involved in undergraduate materials research in the CBU Polymer Laboratory with the author funded by the university or local polymer companies. Their works are acknowledged in terms of student paper presentations at local or regional research seminars. In 1998, CBU Engineering School's research involvement with the polymeric materials industry was expanded when local polymer company personnels were allowed to conduct proprietary research at the institution's Polymer Engineering Laboratory with the help of paid undergraduate chemical engineering students. Recently the Chemical Engineering Department at CBU initiated collaborative research with the engineering school of a local university and a local biomaterials company. In order to meet the growing needs of packaging engineers in this area, local companies (polymer and others) that have packaging departments and the School of Engineering at CBU recently joined forces to develop a packaging teaching and training program for students as well as employees of these companies. This program would include packaging materials and engineering. The details of Phase I and Phase II of this joint venture are described in the main body of the paper that follows.

Chemical engineering methods in downstream processing in biotechnology

2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Beschkov ◽  
D. Yankov
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Engineering ◽  
Fermentation Broth ◽  
Downstream Processing ◽  
Chemical Technology ◽  
Industrial Biotechnology ◽  
Separation And Purification ◽  
Product Concentration ◽  
Unit Operations ◽  
The Cost

AbstractDownstream processing in industrial biotechnology is a very important part of the overall bioproduct manufacturing. Sometimes the cost for this part of biotechnologies is up to 50% of the overall expenses. It comprises product concentration, separation and purification to different extents, as requested. The usually low product concentrations, the large volumes of fermentation broth and the product sensitivity toward higher temperatures lead to specific methods, similar but not identical to the ones in traditional chemical technology.This article summarizes briefly the unit operations in downstream processing in industrial biotechnology, making a parallel between biotechnology and chemical technology.

Integrating Legacy Laboratory Information Systems into a Client-Server World: The University of Minnesota Clinical Workstation (CWS) Project

1995 ◽  
Vol 34 (03) ◽  
pp. 289-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. H. Sielaff ◽  
D. P. Connelly ◽  
K. E. Willard
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Clinical Decision ◽  
Database Management System ◽  
University Of Minnesota ◽  
Client Server ◽  
Clinical Workstation ◽  
Future Hospital ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The University ◽  
Laboratory Information Systems

Abstract:The development of an innovative clinical decision-support project such as the University of Minnesota’s Clinical Workstation initiative mandates the use of modern client-server network architectures. Preexisting conventional laboratory information systems (LIS) cannot be quickly replaced with client-server equivalents because of the cost and relative unavailability of such systems. Thus, embedding strategies that effectively integrate legacy information systems are needed. Our strategy led to the adoption of a multi-layered connection architecture that provides a data feed from our existing LIS to a new network-based relational database management system. By careful design, we maximize the use of open standards in our layered connection structure to provide data, requisition, or event messaging in several formats. Each layer is optimized to provide needed services to existing hospital clients and is well positioned to support future hospital network clients.

The Awareness Level of the Safety and Health of the Operational Level

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 42
Author(s):  
Roshanira Che Mohd Noor ◽  
Nur Atiqah Rochin Demong
Keyword(s):  
Health And Safety ◽  
Health Conditions ◽  
Effective Strategies ◽  
Operational Level ◽  
Safety And Health ◽  
Health Factors ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Awareness Level

Providing a safe and healthy workplace is one of the most effective strategies in for holding down the cost of doing construction business. It was a part of the overall management system to facilitate themanagement of the occupational health and safety risk that are associated with the business of the organization. Factors affected the awareness level inclusive of safety and health conditions, dangerous working area, long wait care and services and lack of emergency communication werethe contributed factors to the awareness level for the operational level. Total of 122 incidents happened at Telekom Malaysia Berhad as compared to year 2015 only 86 cases. Thus, the main objective of this study was to determine the relationship between safety and health factors and the awareness level among operational workers.The determination of this research was to increase the awareness level among the operational level workerswho committing to safety and health environment.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document