ENCH395-13S2 (C) Semester Two 2013

Process Engineering Laboratories

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 8 July 2013
End Date: Sunday, 10 November 2013
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 21 July 2013
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 6 October 2013

Description

Laboratory and pilot-plant experiments, design and analysis of experiments using statistical methods, and computational tools useful for analysing data.

Learning Outcomes

Aims
The course aims to give you:

Practice in designing, planning and conducting chemical engineering experiments.

Experience with chemical processing equipment at the pilot scale.

Practice in writing clearly and effectively for a variety of readers and purposes, writing both alone and in a group.

Practice in oral and poster presentation.

Practical demonstration of the concepts and phenomena described in other second professional courses.

Statistical methods to design and analyse experiments.

Practice at critically reviewing research reports.

Prerequisites

Restrictions

ENCH371

Course Coordinator

For further information see Chemical and Process Engineering Head of Department

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Management Report 12%
Management Report 2 12%
Management Report and Poster 18%
Same-day Report 12%
Formal report 26%
Design and Analysis of Experiments 14 Aug 2013 15%
Critical Review of Research Reports 16 Aug 2013 5%


Assessment
Design and Analysis of Experiments:
 Test (50 minutes, worth 15%): 14 August 12 pm

Critical Review of Research Reports:
 Assignment (worth 5%): due 16 August 5 pm

Laboratories:
Five reports will be completed:
 Two Management Reports - reports to management (one week to hand in, worth 12%)
 One Management Report and Poster – poster is on A3 sheet, large print, brevity, clarity and presentation important (one week to hand in, worth 18%)
 Same-day Report - a rapidly-executed industrial report to immediate superior (same evening hand-in, worth 12%)
 Formal Report - full experiment including a research component, in which experience drawn from a previous experiment and reports of other students who have done the same experiment are used to improve on that experiment in some fashion. First draft two weeks after lab, then draft back with corrections after oral presentation in second-to-last week of 4th term. Report to be submitted on Monday of the last week of Term 4 (worth 26%).

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $808.00

International fee $4,550.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Chemical and Process Engineering .

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