Chemical Engineering students soft-skills in Integrated Project (IP) Part 4

Abstract

Faculty of Chemical Engineering (FKK) has been implementing Integrated Project (IP) as one of the element in teaching. It is a defined short project formally introduced to combine assignments given by respective lecturers from 3-4 selected courses, mimicking the final year Chemical Engineering Capstone project but students are asked to present the findings in groups. By looking into the results of IP in 2012 and 2013, CDIO has been introduced to overcome issue of unmeasured soft skills, a vital communication aspect for engineers. CDIO has been incorporated by various factors such as disciplinary knowledge, personal and professional skills (problem solving and system thinking), interpersonal skills (communication and teamwork) and CDIO skills (Conceive-Design: experience learning). This paper presents the outcome of soft-skills results on Semester 4 students from Bioprocess Engineering Department (EH222) during their IP presentation in June 2015. Three courses have been involved; Genetic Engineering (CBE 552), Separation (CBE 582) and Chemical Reaction Engineering (CHE 594). Surveys shows that IP4 has been accepted by the students and results vary with implementation as well as students have really shows better soft-skills quality during the IP4 June 2015 through the thorough analysis and focused questions constructed using high-order thinking skill by The Bloom Taxonomy.