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Teaching Lab – Pedagogic Transformation Parth Shah, James Campbell, Umang Shah

What is the Vision? • We asked two simple questions o Who are we educating? o What are we preparing our students for? o What are the essential skills we want to equip our students? • Vision o Future engineers/ problem solvers, who can creatively, independently learn, think, and apply knowledge. 2

How? • How to train some one to independently learn and More importantly be creative and think ? o Answer is always hidden in the question? o Independent thinking , problem solving and knowledge application can be best taught in real life situations/ projects. o Creativity can be nurtured by freedom to make decisions , without pressure of failing U. Shah, W. Chen, and C. Brechtelsbauer, The Discovery Laboratory Part II: A Framework for Incubating Independent 3 Learning, Education for Chemical Engineers (2019) – Under review

Implementation – Key Challenge • Bringing changes are not typically easy! o If we consider taking into account all the requirements prescribed on us, we are left with very little actual time for hands on learning based projects. • We are left with limited contact time o First year – 29 hours o Second year – 48 hours o Third year – 60 hours • Creative solution was essential 4

A Journey into Discovery W. Chen, U. Shah, and C. Brechtelsbauer, The discovery laboratory – A student-centred experiential learning practical: Part I – Overview, Education for Chemical Engineers 17 (2016) 44-53. 5

Students as Partners • Projects were designed and tested by students for students • Student views were included in • Equipment design • Course materials • Beta testing Inguva P, Lee-Lane D, Teck A, Anabaraonye B, Chen W, Shah U, Brechtelsbauer C, Advancing experiential learning through participatory design, Education for Chemical Engineers (2018) 25, 16-21 6

Foundation Lab Sample Project: The Pump Specification Problem (8 projects) Learning Objectives: ▪ Express pressure in terms of head ▪ Apply Bernoulli’s equation for incompressible fluids to calculate pressure drop through different fittings ▪ Perform hydraulic pressure drop calculations and NPSH checks on a pump 7

Knowledge Lab Sample Project: The Continuous Water Purification Problem (14 projects) Learning Objectives: ▪ Develop understanding of breakthrough curves and apply it to determine packed bed dimensions ▪ Use control tuning rules to establish independent loop control ▪ Understand interactions within control loops and implement plant wide control 8

Discovery Lab Sample Project: Protein Chromatography (14 projects) Learning Objectives: • Develop experimental chromatography protocols to quantify protein aggregation • Investigate accelerated protein aggregation using SEC or another experimental technique • Determine B22 values using SIC for model and therapeutic proteins 9

ZPD in Action Advanced Process Engineering Advanced Process Engineering Developing Engineering Developing Engineering Judgement Judgement Solving authentic problems Solving authentic problems Determine NPSH Determine NPSH Application of Step 1 Bernoulli’s Eq. Application of Bernoulli’s Eq. Expressing pressure in terms Expressing of head pressure in terms of head Learner Cannot Do: Learner Can Do Unaided: Zone of Proximal Development: X. Mingrou, P. Inguva, W. Chen, N. Prasetya, A. Macey, P. DiMaggio, U. V. Shah, C. Brechtelsbauer, Chromatography as a 10 Separation Process - an Experiential Learning Module on Process Development and Scale-Up, J. of Chem. Edu. (2019)

How the Journey Unfolds Research Project (4 th Year) Supervisor/ Collaborator Discovery Lab (3 rd Year) Facilitator/ Supervisor Knowledge Lab (2 nd Year) Teacher/ Facilitator Foundation Lab (1 st Year) Instructor/ Teacher Independence & Complexity Instruction, training & support Chen W, Shah U, Brechtelsbauer C, A Framework for Hands-on Learning in Chemical Engineering Education – Training Students with the End Goal in Mind, Education for Chemical Engineers (2019) 28, 25-29 11

Evaluation Inguva P, Lee-Lane D, Teck A, Anabaraonye B, Chen W, Shah U, Brechtelsbauer C, Advancing experiential learning through participatory 12 design, Education for Chemical Engineers (2018) 25, 16-21

Student Evaluation W. Chen, U. Shah, and C. Brechtelsbauer, The discovery laboratory – A student- centred experiential learning practical: Part I – Overview, Education for Chemical Engineers 17 (2016) 44-53. 13

Evaluation-Skills 14

Evaluation-Enabling Environment 15

Internal Environment U. Shah, W. Chen, P. Inguva, D. Chadha, and C. Brechtelsbauer, The Discovery Laboratory Part II: A Framework for Incubating Independent Learning, Education for Chemical Engineers (2019) In Review. 16

Internal Environment U. Shah, W. Chen, P. Inguva, D. Chadha, and C. Brechtelsbauer, The Discovery Laboratory Part II: A Framework for Incubating Independent Learning, Education for Chemical Engineers (2019) In Review. 17

Acknowledgement Dr Clemens Pavan Inguva Andrew Macey Brechtelsbauer And many UG and PG student partners Deesha Chadha Wenqian Chen 18

Student Voice 19