Module Catalogue 2025/26

Pre Requisite Comment

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Co Requisite Comment

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Aims

This module allows students to study and contextualise important chemical engineering principles in the laboratory. The experiments demonstrate important concepts from the Chemistry and Transfer Processes Modules.

Additionally, students will also learn basic professional skills such as report writing, oral presentations, referencing and plagiarism, which the students will put into practise and demonstrate through the varied assessments.

The year-long nature of the module allows for embedded reflective practise. Students will reflect on their laboratory practice, report writing and presentation skills as they progress throughout the year. The lab-assessment cycle also embeds continuous improvement: students will participate in a laboratory session and then submit their assessment > students will reflect on their strengths/weaknesses before receiving feedback > students will then reflect on the feedback > students will participate in their next laboratory session and submit an improved assessment > and so on.

Outline Of Syllabus

Students will complete 4 laboratory practical sessions related to Chemistry (CME1029) and 4 related to Transfer Processes (CME1023).

Students will be assessed in the form of either a short oral presentation, written lab report, or lab book discussion, or equivalent.

Lectures on basic professional skills will run in parallel to the initial laboratory sessions before the assessments are to be submitted.

Intended Knowledge Outcomes

By the end of this module, students are expected to be able to:
•       Investigate and apply Chemical Engineering principles in practical laboratory sessions via experiments (AHEP4 C1-4,12)
•       Analyse and discuss data gathered in laboratory experiments, and form and communicate conclusions (AHEP4 C1-4,12,17)
•       Describe the data gathered in terms of basic theory (AHEP4 C1-4,12)
•       Apply the basics of professional practice and conduct (AHEP4 C8,11,16)
•       Develop individual and group work skills (AHEP4 C16)
•       Communicate effectively on complex engineering matters to technical and non-technical audiences (AHEP4 C17)
•       Develop self-reflection practice to assess their own work, evaluate feedback and carry out actions to close the feedback loop (AHEP4 C18)

Intended Skill Outcomes

Students will develop:
•       Problem solving skills (AHEP4 C1-4)
•       Report writing skills (AHEP4 C17)
•       Oral presentation skills (AHEP4 C17)
•       Basic laboratory skills (AHEP4 C1-4,12)
•       Data analysis skills (AHEP4 C1-4,12)
•       Data presentation skills (AHEP4 C17)
•       Self-reflective learning and self-assessment (AHEP4 C18)
•       Team working skills (AHEP4 C16)

Teaching Rationale And Relationship

Lectures are used to introduce the students to the module and to cover the basic professional skills content. The students then learn the laboratory practice and carry out experiments during the practical classes in the lab. Those are followed by time for data analysis, report preparation, and reflective practice in small groups.

Assessment Rationale And Relationship

The summative written reports and oral presentations will test the knowledge of engineering concepts relevant to the laboratory session and will also test the ability to present effective summaries of scientific information using appropriate styles. This will include the ability to search and use scientific literature to support discussions and analysis, scientific writing, and interpretate, describe and present scientific data in appropriate formats (AHEP4 C1-4, 8, 11-12, 16-17).

The lab book discussion will assess student’s ability to reflect on their own practices in group work, laboratory work and planning, scientific analysis, scientific writing, and communication (AHEP4 C1-4, 12, 16-18).

The formative coursework elements provide the opportunity for students to gain feedback on their initial assessments before the summative assessments take place.

General Notes

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