Duncan M. Fraser

TL;DR: In this article, sixteen interviews were conducted with a purposive sample of recent University of Cape Town chemical engineering graduates to investigate how well they perceived they were prepared for work in industry and identified the following areas of weakness: work in multi-disciplinary teams, leadership, practical preparation and management skills.

TL;DR: This article examined first-year chemical engineering students' conceptions of the energy changes taking place in dissolution, and found that the most common explanations for dissolution were: salt gives off energy, reaction gives energy, and water gives energy.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose that learning in engineering involves taking on the discourse of an engineering community, which is intimately bound up with the identity of being a member of that community.

TL;DR: A “lesson study” approach was taken, using constructivist educational theory combined with the variation theory of learning from phenomenography to inform the design of learning activities and to assess their impact.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the special case of water minimisation and present a method for targeting the minimum number of trays in the network, based on a specified minimum composition difference.