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Biochemical engineering has now been a serious discipline for over half a century. With the advent of the new millennium and the developments in biotechnology, information technology, nanotechnology and sustainability, it should play an ever increasing role in the understanding of biological processes for the benefit of all the stakeholders on planet Earth. Its evolution can be traced through major industrial, commercial, health and environmental products and events. This overview describes the parallel development of courses, curricula, conferences, texts and software by academia in conjunction with industry. Traditional modes of delivery are now being replaced by internet-based programmes enabling wider access and the creation of open and distance learning packages to satisfy the lifelong learning agenda. A series of five papers will appear in this and the next edition of the journal highlighting the significant new approaches to teaching biochemical engineering.

ISSN:0304-3797    

DOI:10.1080/030437900438603

出版商:Taylor & Francis Group    

年代:2000

数据来源: Taylor

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This paper presents a case study for use in the teaching of bioprocess design. Taking the production and isolation of an intracellular protein from S. cerevisae , it demonstrates how undergraduates can use a range of data to construct and then to investigate the range of process flowsheet options available for such a process duty. The paper considers the role of newer operations, such as expanded bed technology, alongside more traditional process routes. An integrated view of bioprocess design is developed to demonstrate how unit operations interact and hence enable students to determine the eventual overall process performance that is achieved.

ISSN:0304-3797    

DOI:10.1080/030437900438612

出版商:Taylor & Francis Group    

年代:2000

数据来源: Taylor

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This article is a summary of the survey questionnaire about 'biochemical engineering' education in Japanese universities. The questionnaire was distributed to the academic professors whose research fields include, whole or partly, biochemical engineering, within the author's understanding. Almost all these professors are members of a section specializing in biochemical engineering research, a suborganization of the Society of Chemical Engineers, Japan. Some of these professors are also members of the Society for Bioscience and Bioengineering, Japanese Society for Food Science and Technology, etc. The surveyed fact data are from 35 questionnaires returned from 50 dispatched. This number is considered sufficient to realize the present status of biochemical engineering education in Japan.

ISSN:0304-3797    

DOI:10.1080/030437900438621

出版商:Taylor & Francis Group    

年代:2000

数据来源: Taylor

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The modern world (Leonardo-World) is ruled by a research imperative and an ethical imperative. The research imperative keeps this world going, the ethical imperative keeps it from turning against man.This imperative is also an imperative of responsibility. In science this means a responsible freedom, in technology a responsible development.

ISSN:0304-3797    

DOI:10.1080/030437900438630

出版商:Taylor & Francis Group    

年代:2000

数据来源: Taylor

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In this paper I attempt to list the body of knowledge and skills which future young engineers will need and how such knowledge and skills can best be transferred to students during the engineering education process. The educational environment should stimulate students and encourage them to develop the capacity for lifelong learning as a preparation for tackling the unknown problems which will occur in future decades. The formation of an engineer should comprise both education and practice. Some of the problems facing higher education today are discussed and some ideas for cross-border harmonization of engineering education are given. Finally, there is a brief comparison of today's current ideas on engineering study programmes and the course that I followed more than 50 years ago.

ISSN:0304-3797    

DOI:10.1080/030437900438649

出版商:Taylor & Francis Group    

年代:2000

数据来源: Taylor

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This review summarizes and builds on a seminar about assessment of student learning in higher education. Assessment can be looked upon as simply something that has to be done at the end of a course. During the course of discussions at the seminar the participants became more aware of how assessment can have an impact on learning. This means that assessment can be used as a means to improve learning. This realization is not a new one, but it is highlighted here in a more coherent and concise way than usual. Many alternative methods of assessment are possible. Some instructional design rules will be presented here for designing assessment sessions in such a way that learning can be improved. When designing an assessment method, one can be guided by the following considerations. The content of assessment should be chosen in accordance with the learning outcomes one hopes to achieve. The organization of assessment can be designed in such a way that the desired learning process is promoted. The outcome of assessment can provide feedback to many of the stakeholders: to the students on their learning process; to the faculty on its outcomes; and to the teacher by pointing out the following steps to be taken in improving assessment, learning and teaching.

ISSN:0304-3797    

DOI:10.1080/030437900438658

出版商:Taylor & Francis Group    

年代:2000

数据来源: Taylor

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Improvement in teaching and learning has at its core a need to examine and intervene in the processes of education. Thinkers like Lawrence Stenhouse have shown us how to bring the tacit knowledge that many teachers have about their practice into the foreground and provide encouragement to act upon these new theoretical insights within an action research framework. Technical writers like Carol T. Fitz-Gibbon provide evaluative frameworks against which these new insights may be tested. This study applies these ideas in re-evaluating the engineering tutorial at the undergraduate level, which is typically operationalized as a problemsolving class in both further and higher education.The evaluation of an alternative tutorial model generated from these recommendations takes the form of a pre- and post-test, combined with an experimental and control group. The test results show a positive effect size of 0.65 for the experimental group.

ISSN:0304-3797    

DOI:10.1080/030437900438667

出版商:Taylor & Francis Group    

年代:2000

数据来源: Taylor

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In recent years the methodology of engineering education has been changing and many projects deal with improving the educational software. This paper reports on the virtual laboratory, a virtual environment applied to experimental analysis. The goals of the virtual laboratory are to introduce the laboratory environment to the student entering this world, so different from the typical theoretical lectures, for the first time, and to overcome the above-mentioned drawbacks. It should be mentioned that the virtual laboratory is not meant to replace highly enriching, practical experience, but rather is meant to train the individual, in order to improve his/her performance in later actual practice. The virtual laboratory experience starts with the study of strain measurements, an engineering technique widely used to measure deformations, strains, mechanical properties of materials and other variables which are used to analyse many problems.The strain measurement virtual laboratory is meant to offer the possibility of simulating experiences, undergone in a real laboratory, through the Internet. The student is expected to familiarize him/herself with the techniques, procedures, devices and theories in the laboratory environment.

ISSN:0304-3797    

DOI:10.1080/030437900438676

出版商:Taylor & Francis Group    

年代:2000

数据来源: Taylor

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A consortium of seven universities and two polytechnics is developing an international postgraduate degree programme consisting of course modules and directed research to train effective leaders in aerospace engineering. The programme's initial funding is a jointly awarded grant from government funding agencies in both the USA and the EU (DGXX II, European Commission, Agreement No. 98-00-USA-0010-00, US Department of Education, DUNS No. 00-743-1505). The purpose of the Masters programme is to train effective leaders for aerospace engineering development, by developing both their professional capabilities and their understanding of the operation of global markets. Course content and management structure is currently under development. This programme comprises the formation of an International Master of Science (IMS) Degree Programme in Aerospace Engineering. Under the IMS programme, qualifying students at each participating university will assemble a personalized degree programme, choosing course and project modules from among the partner universities. Approximately one-third of each student's chosen modules will be taken in overseas institutions. The IMS Degree Programme will include both coursework and research project work in aerospace engineering. Students begin the exchange programme in the year 2000, and the first degrees will be conferred in the year 2001. The project was successfully introduced to the European Forum for continuing Engineering Education in 1999 (Smrcek and Horner 1999, The 4th European Forum for Continuing Engineering Education, Trondheim, Norway).

ISSN:0304-3797    

DOI:10.1080/030437900438685

出版商:Taylor & Francis Group    

年代:2000

数据来源: Taylor

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In recent years there has been a spectacular increase in concern within society about problems of service and, in particular, that of university teaching. Teaching quality can be understood as a goal to be achieved in three nurtured phases: course planning; the adoption of a methodological approach; and the evaluation of the results. The teaching of statistics in engineering schools raises common problems as well as certain others specific to each qualification. In this article, proposals are made about how to improve the quality of teaching of statistics to undergraduate engineering students.

ISSN:0304-3797    

DOI:10.1080/030437900438694

出版商:Taylor & Francis Group    

年代:2000

数据来源: Taylor