PROCESS SYSTEMS ENGINEERING EDUCATION:LEARNING BY RESEARCH

摘要

Chemical Engineering(ChE)education is a challenging task and is quite demanding for both teacher and student.The teacher has to effectively convey subject matter while the student must continuously develop knowledge and skill.In today's world,universities are becoming more and more competitive grounds for the elite educators serving students who are demanding concise higher educa-tion.In this setting,the teacher must respond to this demand by providing a suitable and effective environment for learning.The broad question raised in this paper is"What constitutes such an environment?"In trying to answer this,we must recognize that the learning process is a complex interaction between the teacher,the student,the subject matter,and the learning environment.We further recognize that the teacher and the student carry with them inherent education attributes that also affect the learning process regardless of the subject matter and the environment.In dealing with the question raised,we have come to realize the significance of the concepts of"facilitating"knowledge,project-based learning,and generic attributes,to which we will first direct some attention before we discuss the question at hand in the context of Process Systems Engineering(PSE)education.