Chemical Engineering Education, where to now? - A global view.
Educating chemical engineers for coming challenges
Chemical Engineering Education - New Directions (T6-1)
Keywords: Education, curriculum, graduates
The five topics listed under the Chemical Engineering Theme for this congress pay little attention to curricula reform for undergraduate chemical engineering programs. The Bologna Agreement focuses on structural reform and the information that has so far been provided on program content (Flavell-While,2006) prompted Professor Richard Darton from Oxford University to state “The whole prescribed content hearkens back to the unit operations approach of the 1950s”.
Major curricula reform is being promoted in a significant number of chemical engineering departments in the USA with a ten year time frame. (Armstrong, 2006) What is happening in the rest of the World? Very little!
This paper examines what is happening with curricula reform worldwide. It provides a commentary on undergraduate chemical engineering programs offered within the three confederations of chemical engineering and it also attempts to assess what is happening outside of the confederations.
There are approximately 40,000 chemical engineering graduates being produced each year worldwide and 20,000 are graduating in China. How do the Chinese undergraduate programs compare with those offered elsewhere?
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Presented Monday 17, 11:15 to 11:40, in session Chemical Engineering Education - New Directions (T6-1).
