CHEMEPASS project
Educating chemical engineers for coming challenges
Chemical Engineering Education - New Directions (T6-1)
Keywords: mobility, attractivity, competences, knowledge, evaluation
CHEMEPASS
Chemical Engineering Passport
Pr. Sébastien GAGNEUR* (CPE Lyon, France, gagneur@cpe.fr)
A project financed by the European Commission within the Erasmus Mundus Programme – Action 4: “Enhancing Attractiveness”. Started: November 2006. E.U. grant for 3 years.
The consortium carrying out this project is composed of 13 Higher Education Institutions of 9 European countries and 1 of South Africa:
CPE Lyon (France) (Coordinator), Institut Quimic de Sarrià (Spain), Universidade do Porto (Portugal), Politecnico di Torino (Italy), INPL-ENSIC Nancy (France), INPT-ENSIACET Toulouse (France), Technische Universiteit Delft (The Netherlands), University College Dublin (Ireland), Technische Universität München (Germany), UCTM Sofia (Bulgaria), Jagiellonian University (Poland), Lappeenranta University of Technology (Finland), Durban University of Technology (South Africa).
Objectives
Promote Mobility (within Europe and between Europe and Third countries) and Attractivity (of European Higher Education versus Third countries Higher Education) in European Chemical Engineering Higher Education through:
• Evaluation and recognition of competences:
Development of tools to improve the transparency of programmes and the evaluation of competences
• Knowledge pedagogy:
Development of tests of knowledge for training and evaluating the basics
The consortium proposes to develop Europe-wide and beyond these tools whose feasibility and interest have been demonstrated by CPE Lyon within a 2-year study financially supported by the French Ministry of Education. This project was inspired by the works of the EFCE on recommendations for Chemical Engineering Education and of the ECTN on chemistry tests (EChemTest) and outcomes-based reference frameworks for the Chemistry Eurobachelor.
Target groups
The CHEMEPASS tools will be for the use of:
• Students, young graduates and professionals (in LLL), specialized in Chemical Engineering
To express their competences, to diagnose their needs for training, to identify the appropriate institution, to self-evaluate;
• Higher Education Institutions involved with Chemical Engineering :
To better assess the training needs of candidates and their previous educational programmes’ outcomes; to better express the outcomes of their own educational programmes and requirements for applications;
• Industries hiring chemical engineers around the world:
To better assess the abilities of individuals, to diagnose the needs for continuing education of their employees and better identify the appropriate training institution.
Main activities
• WP1: defining frameworks for the use of HEI's to express the specificities of their educational programmes in terms of Learning Outcomes,
• WP2: conceiving tools and methods to help the evaluation of competences of an individual person especially competences other than knowledge,
• WP3: developing electronic tests on knowledge of core areas of Chemical Engineering for self-evaluation, diagnosis, and integration,
• WP4: initiating a new thematic network, the ECEEN (European Chemical Engineering Education Network), which will disseminate and manage the CHEMEPASS tools, and work on other higher education related issues in the field of Chemical Engineering.
Presented Monday 17, 11:40 to 12:05, in session Chemical Engineering Education - New Directions (T6-1).
