Article Dans Une Revue Education for Chemical Engineers Année : 2008

Trends in chemical engineering education: Process, product and sustainable chemical engineering challenges

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Teaching chemical engineering has always been faced with a dilemma: either keep in touch with industry needs or incorporate new scientific concepts into the curriculum. In this paper, a short historical analysis of the evolution of chemical engineering teaching is presented and the recent trends of the two previous facets (industry and science) are briefly reviewed. The process vs product engineering concept is proposed as one of the means to achieve a better alignment between the curriculum and industry needs. A chemical engineering teaching framework, based in part on a product and a process oriented component, which has been in place in our department 5 years ago, is described and discussed. The concept of sustainable chemistry, including process and product considerations, which can be seen as the next frontier in chemical engineering education, is finally analysed from the education point of view.

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hal-00398054 , version 1 (24-06-2009)

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E. Favre, V. Falk, C. Roizard, E. Schaer. Trends in chemical engineering education: Process, product and sustainable chemical engineering challenges. Education for Chemical Engineers, 2008, 3 (1), pp.e22-e27. ⟨10.1016/j.ece.2007.12.002⟩. ⟨hal-00398054⟩

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