With the curriculum given in the chemical engineering major primarily focusing on reiterating theory, it is important that students also obtain an understanding on how to utilize their knowledge to help the betterment of people in crisis. To do so, integrating humanitarian principles into the current curriculum should be looked into and tested. The project team developed new curricula that can be implemented into the existing curriculum given for the current Unit Operations Laboratory course. In doing so, the team was able to successfully integrate humanitarian principles into the current curriculum, allowing students to utilize the engineering principles taught to solve a real world crisis that is currently happening today.

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Creator

• Carmichael, Makayla
• Piccione, Isabella

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-042822-120043
• 65226

Keyword

• Humanitarian engineering
• climate change
• STEM Education
• Mangrove forests
• Carbon capture

Advisor

• DiBiasio, David
• Boudreau, Kristin

Year

• 2022

Date created

• 2022-04-28

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Chemical Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright