Summary of the project
The CE&C department has been looking to integrate CBL components in several courses in the redesigned bachelor program. For the second semester, they have redesigned a previous DBL elective course, Practical Transport Phenomena, into a CBL component of the compulsory course Physical Transport Phenomena 1. This change has required significant effort, as the course needs to be upscaled from 20-30 to around 150 students. To achieve this, the laboratory setups has been redesigned, and parallelization and flexibilization of the setups have been employed, ensuring that each group of students can work for 16 hours with the setup throughout the quartile.
Aim of the project
The project aims to upscale an existing DBL course to a new compulsory CBL course by altering the laboratory setups. From an educational point of view, the aim of adding a CBL component to a theoretical course is to enhance the students’ understanding of the theory by offering a challenge (designed by the student itself) in which they have to apply the theory offered in the same course.
The new setup is set to be evaluated, and if effective, it can also be used for students' Bachelor Final Project, Capita Selecta, and Master Final Project. Moreover, other departments like Mechanical Engineering and Applied Physics, whose programs cover aspects of Physical Transport Phenomena as well, could also potentially utilize these setups.
Results
The laboratory setups have been designed and constructed, and will be first used for the course Physical Transport Phenomena 1 in March 2024. After evaluation of the first iteration of this course, the results will be added here.
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