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Innovative Student Assessment in EBL
The aim of this project is to make students full partners in the teaching and assessment of an EBL engineering mathematics course. The objective is that students will work in small groups using EBL to specialize on a particular part of the course syllabus. They will then teach their specialist part to their peers and formulate a suitable assessment question by which their peers' learning will be gauged. The desired outcome is to empower students' learning through having them experience the entire 'life cycle' of a taught course module, from preparation, through delivery to final assessment.
Project Team: Paul Grassia, Grant Campbell Faculty: Engineering and Physical Sciences
Funding year: 2005
Keywords: assessment, chemical engineering, engineering, mathematics, groups, peer, syllabus, question writing, teamwork
Case Study (PDF, 151.3Kb)
An Enquiry-Based Chemical Engineering Design Project for First Year students
The aim of the project is to create a new Chemical Engineering Design Project that incorporates relevant aspects of today’s process industry with an enquiry-based approach. The objective is to design an open-ended task based on a real industrial problem in which students will use all mechanisms of enquiry to elicit a solution. The main purpose is to change the approach from a fixed and sometimes contrived process design with very restricted alternatives and solutions to a more open-ended problem in which students can explore different routes, make decisions and find different solutions depending upon those decisions. The project will look at real industrial questions and will set an engineering working environment by using role-playing. The work will be carried out in small teams with a team leader and also a chief engineer and a manager. The academics will act as consultants to the teams and a representative from industry will provide students with relevant information about the problem at hand.
Project Team: Dr Robin Curtis, Dr Esther Ventura-Medina Faculty: Engineering and Physical Sciences
Funding year: 2006
Keywords: chemical engineering, design, project, industry, process, role-play, first year, undergraduate, teamwork, professional
Case Study (PDF, 85.2Kb)
Embedding Enquiry-Based Learning in the First Year Curriculum
The aim of the project is to incorporate enquiry-based learning in the delivery of the first year curricula of the undergraduate courses of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering. The objective is to promote and develop critical thinking and problem solving skills as well as encourage students to be more independent in their learning by changing the focus of the course delivery from traditional lectures and tutorials in modules to an integrated format of lectures and enquiry-based learning sessions. Students will be given real and stimulating problems to solve as part of a team so that they will be encouraged and motivated to gather information, apply concepts and develop working skills. Learning resources such as lectures material, course notes and IT will also be available for the enquiry-based sessions.
Project Team: Dr Esther Ventura-Medina, Dr Ted Roberts, Dr Leo Lue Faculty: Engineering and Physical Sciences
Funding year: 2006
Keywords: chemical engineering, critical thinking, pbl, first year, problem solving
Case Study (PDF, 83.7Kb)
Encouraging engineers to read: A book-based final year assessment
It is proposed to initiate a student-driven learning activity based around the directed reading of a book relevant to the broader context of chemical engineering. Students would then undertake formal assessment of the material covered in their book. The learning process would be managed via structured group activities including formal discussion groups. Benefits would include: (i) first view books as accessible and to have the inclination and interpretative tools to engage with them as a basis for lifelong learning; (ii) the opportunity for individual students to direct their learning towards areas of specific personal interest, through selection from a diverse pool of relevant books; (iii) a redirection of the teaching ‘burden’ such that staff too are encouraged and enabled to make time for reading, with this otherwise luxury having the legitimate and tangible outcome of being directly connected to teaching.
Project Team: Dr Grant Campbell and Dr Paul Grassia Faculty: Engineering and Physical Sciences
Funding year: 2008
Keywords: reading, discussion groups, chemical engineering, lifelong learning, personalized learning
Incorporating Enquiry-Based Learning in Experimental Laboratory Projects in Chemical Engineering
This project aims to embed EBL into experimental laboratories in the third year of the Chemical Engineering undergraduate degree. Problem statements will be developed which are less prescriptive and support students to actively research, plan, design, perform and report their experimental work.
Project Team: Leo Lue, Esther Medina-Ventura, Paul Grassia, Robert Clegg, Simon Perry Faculty: Engineering and Physical Sciences
Funding year: 2008
Keywords: experiment, labs, laboratory, chemical engineering
