Chemical Engineering Laboratory Projects in Student Teams in Real Life and Transformed Online: Viscose Fiber Spinning and Characterization
Autor: | Tiina Nypelö, Stefan Spirk, Gregor Kraft, Josef Innerlohinger, Michael Weißl |
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Rok vydání: | 2021 |
Předmět: |
Laboratory Instruction
Textile industry Engineering Process (engineering) Graduate Education/Research Context (language use) computer.software_genre 01 natural sciences Education Viscose Spinning Laboratory Experiment 010405 organic chemistry business.industry Organic Chemistry 05 social sciences 050301 education Hands-On Learning/Manipulatives General Chemistry Chemical Engineering Work in process Upper-Division Undergraduate Expert system 0104 chemical sciences Cellulose fiber Chemical engineering business 0503 education computer |
Zdroj: | Journal of Chemical Education |
ISSN: | 1938-1328 0021-9584 |
DOI: | 10.1021/acs.jchemed.8b00790 |
Popis: | Chemical engineering education comprises a complexity of technical skills that include learning processes that are currently relevant in industry. Despite being a rather old industrial process, the manufacturing of viscose fibers still accounts for the major fraction of all human-made cellulosic fibers worldwide. Here we describe a laboratory setup to introduce chemistry and engineering students into the principles of cellulose fiber spinning according to the viscose process. The setup for fiber spinning is kept simplistic and allows the experiments to be performed without professional spinning equipment. However, all of the steps are performed analogously to the industrial process. The professional setting in process and chemical engineering involves work on projects and in teams. Hence, we have incorporated the fiber spinning laboratory experiment in the context of working in teams on projects. We will also present our experience on transferring a real-life laboratory experiment online, as this is required at times that online education is preferred over real-life teaching. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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