Canama's BSChE e-Portfolio
Communication
Communication is defined as the ability of conveying and receiving a particular message, whether direct or indirect in nature. This is one way of understanding what a person is trying to say to another person or on what message one desires to show.
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In the engineering perspective, communication comes with how jargons are properly used, how to deliver the message on the design details of a process equipment or an entire process plant. It is also in communication one builds a strong teamwork amongst peers and effectively report scenarios or cases to higher ups or fellow students.
Design Projects
An automatic and feasible evidence of my capacity to communicate is by paper works. Through written reports, one is able to narrate his thoughts and present his observations clearly to a possible reader or to someone who assesses that report.
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An evident proof of how our training in the university emphasizes the need to consider sustainability is by considering options that meets such standards during process and equipment selection in design projects. Through immense literature readings, quantitative comparisons, and efficiencies based on actual data, the sustainable option to be designed is determined before any further calculations is to be done.
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In the department, the style of teaching the students a design project starts with conducting equipment designs for reactors, separation equipment, and particle technology. After, the conceptual process design is formulated which culminates the lessons taught in all design classes. In terms of sustainability, the emphasis of doing selection and evaluation is clearly shown in the discussions and is expected in all submitted documentations relating to a design project. Here are the process equipment design group works made over the course of the BSChE program.
Equipment Design of Chemical Reactor (Dicyanobutene Reaction)
Equipment Design of Separation Equipment (Removal of Pyridine at downstream)
Equipment Design of Bioreactor for Amoxicillin Production (Wastewater Treatment Facility)
Having to satisfactorily comply the equipment designs, the final group work involves a full Conceptual Process Design. The Production of Surfactin using Bacillus subtilis LB5a and Cassava wastewater was the chosen project which was made possible along with a group of fellow student chemical engineers. In the consideration of being part of the competency of sustainability, this project not only emphasized the use of a wastewater product from an agricultural sector but also sheds light on the considered technologies that can be used to obtain the desired product.
Basic Engineering Document (BED)
Material Selection Study
Another section of the design project that was included is the determination of materials of construction. This allows the designer to determine the possible made of the equipment should it be decided to fabricate and construct such equipment on site. A systematic process of selection considers not only the parameters set for the process but also the consideration of available materials in the market, having to consider the current trends and its sustainability. This was discussed during our Material Science and Engineering class where we use the Ashby plot to determine the appropriate material of construct for such a system.
Click on the picture to see the Material Selection document for the Chemical Reactor Design of a dicyanobutene reaction system
Oral Reports
The importance of being able to communicate in various platforms, whether in paper or in front of a mic, brings out versatility within to know that one is capable of sending a particular message to a certain individual or a group of people. Aside from written reports and papers, it is adequate for an engineer to verbally communicate these ideas and jargons when doing presentations and oral reports.
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In the university, whether physical or virtual, oral presentations are critical aspects of assessing how well does someone know and understand the topic they presented. It is with this method one is measured of his knowledge by being able to present and explain his presentation to someone who does not even know a thing or two about the topic. According to one of my professors, it is important to present and explain something even to an eight-year old child. Here are some artifacts of my virtual oral presentations made during my stay as a chemical engineering student.
Oral Report on CSTR Experiment
Actual Conduct of Cheese Production
Group Oral Report on the Rights Test