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Teaching Beyond Classroom Courses
S i g r i d K l i n g e r
A n d r e a s P f e n n i g
Lehrstuhl fuÈ r Thermische Verfahrenstechnik, RWTH Aachen,WuÈ llnerstraûe 5, 52062 Aachen, Tel.: (0241) 80-54 90,[email protected],http://www.rwth-aachen.de/tvt
Distillation of wine was chosen as an example process for a volun-tary course in chemical engineering. During the last three yearsstudents were given the opportunity to run through all aspectsof the design and realization of this process including learninghow to work in a team, project management, and negotiationwith tax authorities.
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The CIRRUS Approach Towards`Integration of Sustainable Develop-ment in Higher Technical Education'
d r . i r . J a n V e n s e l a a r
TERTSO `innovative pathways for environment and sustainability',Rozenhoflaan 23, 7201 AT Zutphen, NL, t +31.575.548427,f +31.575.548448, E-mail [email protected]
Chairman of the EFCE Working Party on Environmental Protectionand Sustainability, Consultant at project CIRRUS, University ofProfessional Education Brabant, Tilburg NL
Real sustainable development involves a drastic reduction in envir-onmental a nd social effects compared to our present ways of satis-fying our needs. A system approach is asked for, taking into accounttotal chains for resource use and production, paying attention tocultural and socio-economic factors when developing and imple-menting sustainable solutions.
Education has a key-role. Sustainable development willnot start nor succeed if education, on all levels, does not adopt it asan important issue.
The `CIRRUS-approach' put emphasis on attitude andon a system-approach in selecting and implementing effective so-lutions, technical and non-technical, next to knowledge of specifictechnologies and tools required to design and assess such options.
It is found essential that it is made an integral part of anycurriculum for all students and not be taught in an isolated specia-list subject, chosen only by a few interested students.
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Chemical Engineering and SustainableDevelopment Teaching: An IntegratedApproach
A d i s a A z a p a g i c
S l o b o d a n P e r d a n
R o l a n d C l i f t
School of Engineering in the Environment, University of Surrey,Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH, UK, E-mail: [email protected]
Sustainable development is a complex concept which concerns awide range of social, techno-economic and environmental issues.Therefore, material for teaching sustainable development to che-mical engineering students should include not only technologicalanalysis and economic evaluation, but also environmental and so-cial considerations. This paper outlines the way in which a multi-disciplinary approach to teaching sustainability has been embodiedin the chemical engineering programmes at the University of Sur-rey. It is argued that an integrated approach, combining dedicatedsustainability lectures with specific case studies, and followed by anappropriate integration of sustainability considerations into theoverall curriculum, provides a good learning framework for engi-neering students.
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Prediction and Prevention of ChemicalReaction Hazards ± Learning bySimulation
M o r d e c h a i S h a c h a m 1
N e i m a B r a u n e r 2
M i c h a e l B . C u t l i p 3
1Chem. Eng. Dept, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva84105, Israel
2School of Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv 69978, Israel
3Chem. Eng. Dept, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA
Assignments based on dynamic simulation of a batch reactor and asemi-batch reactor in which exothermic reactions are conducted,are used to teach students the various aspects of process safety.The students can observe temperature runaway taking place be-cause of incidents, such as overcharging, cooling water failure,pipe blockage and excessive initial heating. They can derive var-ious strategies to prevent temperature runaway developing asthe result of such incidents and suggest operational and structuralchanges of the process to make it more resilient to component fail-ures and incidents.
615E d u c a t i o nChemie Ingenieur Technik (73) 6 I 2001
