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Title: Chemical Engineering Teaching in COVID-19 Times: Successfully Adapting a Capstone Design Course to a Remote Format
Language: English
Authors: Khouri, Nadia G. (ORCID 0000-0002-2954-4947), Fontana, Michelli (ORCID 0000-0003-1855-3343), Dias, Igor L. R., Maciel, Maria R. W., Maciel Filho, Rubens, Mariano, Adriano P. (ORCID 0000-0003-2934-992X)
Source: Journal of Chemical Education. Dec 2021 98(12):3794-3803.
Availability: Division of Chemical Education, Inc. and ACS Publications Division of the American Chemical Society. 1155 Sixteenth Street NW, Washington, DC 20036. Tel: 800-227-5558; Tel: 202-872-4600; e-mail: eic@jce.acs.org; Web site: http://pubs.acs.org/jchemeduc
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 10
Publication Date: 2021
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
Postsecondary Education
Descriptors: Chemical Engineering, Fuels, Student Attitudes, Pandemics, COVID-19, Foreign Countries, Capstone Experiences, Undergraduate Students, Student Projects, Groups, Design, Asynchronous Communication, Distance Education, Educational Change, Teaching Methods, Educational Improvement, Educational Quality
Geographic Terms: Brazil
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.1c00445
ISSN: 0021-9584
Abstract: The coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic required educational institutions to adapt face-to-face to remote teaching. This study reports the experience in the first semester of 2020 for a Chemical Engineering Capstone Design Course at the University of Campinas in Brazil. In this course, senior year students develop a group project, in which they simulate a chemical plant and evaluate its technoeconomic feasibility. In 2020, the groups were proposed to design a process to replace diesel fuel from the bus fleet in Campinas city with renewable fuel DME. Because of the pandemic, several adaptations were needed: the theoretical classes became asynchronous, group meetings were online, a commercial simulator was replaced by an open access one, and the schedule was extended by 2 weeks. Despite that, the students had a great performance, comparable to face-to-face. To assess student satisfaction, a questionnaire was used. The course met the expectations of most of the students who also recommended keeping it in the remote format or merging it with face-to-face teaching. Therefore, these changes made it possible to apply new teaching dynamics and tools that could be used in the future to improve the course quality.
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