Abstract
The green engineering education plays an important role in sustainable development. Motivated by government, industry, and missions of university, the concept of green engineering has been introduced and then gradually enhanced in chemical engineering program at East China University of Science and Technology over these years. Now it becomes an essential part in the curriculum. The green engineering education has been presented in a number of ways including standalone courses, integration into the courses, and modules in experimental, design and practice. There are 5 required standalone courses and 1 elective related to the green engineering in chemical engineering program, and also a series of electives for general education on a green engineering platform at the university level. In the meanwhile, the 12 principles of green engineering have been analyzed and presented by the core courses such as transfer process, separation process, chemical reaction engineering, chemical engineering technology, and chemical engineering design in chemical engineering program. In addition, the green engineering education has been presented by some modules in different kinds of practice, which include experimental, design and practice in the field. All the specified principles have been matched with specific courses. The ability related to green engineering education has been analyzed and assessed by course assessment records and survey from alumni (or senior students), teachers and employers. Both of them indicate that the ability can meet the criteria. This curriculum can be a prototype, for those programs in the developing process of green engineering education within a global, environmental, economic, and societal context.
Highlights
Green engineering is regarded as one of the most efficient means of achieving sustainable development in industry [1,2,3]
The chemical engineering (ChE) program at East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST) was accredited by Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) in 2014, which became the first program accredited by ABET in mainland China
green engineering education (GEE) has been paid highly attention in ChE at ECUST. It involves in standalone courses, green engineering platform, integration into all the core courses, infusion into experimental processes, modules in design, etc
Summary
Green engineering is regarded as one of the most efficient means of achieving sustainable development in industry [1,2,3]. The green engineering education (GEE) in chemical engineering (ChE) program at East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST) was presented in details. The ChE program at ECUST was accredited by Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) in 2014, which became the first program accredited by ABET in mainland China. It was accredited by China Engineering Education Accreditation Association (CEEAA) in 2008 and 2014, respectively. It’s a relatively simple way to develop a green engineering related course; such approach tends to result in the students studying for that particular course but not being able to integrate the principles into their professional life [22,23,24].
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