A new education model in the FCQEI – UAEM
Educating chemical engineers for coming challenges
Chemical Engineering Education -Poster Session (T6-P)
Keywords: tutorship program, education model, outside classroom
In September of 2005 the “continuous improvement of processes” academic corps (CA) began a project of intervention exploratory tutorship in the Chemical Sciences and Engineering Faculty (FCQeI) of the Morelos State Autonomous University (UAEM), with the purpose of take advance in the knowledge of the existent conditions and to extend the vision of students, teachers and authorities in connection with the installation of tutorship activities. The conclusion corroborates that in the FCQeI, there is enough conditions to create a formal program of tutorship. With this basis the CA decides to formulate a tutorship program and to propose it to authorities of the own UAEM to try to obtain its institutionalization and set it in a formal way, for to get on the benefit effects in the educational, administrative, labor and budget parts.
The program has been designed in three stages a) adaptation stage, b) consolidation stage, and c) transition stage. The scheduled activities are: The permanent formation of tutor teachers, the design of the activities with base in the axes of 1) academic orientation and adaptation to the UAEM institution, 2) development of abilities for the learning and the self teaching and 3) development for the student's integral formation.
The modalities of the applied tutorship program are two: individual tutorship and group tutorship. There are some administrative activities, tutorship administration and evaluation of these parts into the main program. The installation of a tutorships program has several stages, all them focus in the integral formation of the students and their expectations for productive life.
This paper shows the main results of the tutorship program in the FCQeI – UAEM for the establishment of a new educational model into the chemical engineers program with the participation of the teachers and assessor with a new roll outside the classroom.
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Presented Monday 17, 13:30 to 15:00, in session Chemical Engineering Education -Poster Session (T6-P).
