Prof. J. Zhu - Teaching Activities

aCourses Taught:

CBE 203

Momentum, Heat and Mass Transfer

ES 214

Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer

CBE 323

Unit Operation I

CBE 313

Chemical Processes

CBE 415

Chemical Engineering Project

CBE 321

Industrial Multiphase Chemical Reactor Design

CBE 497

Chemical Process and Plant Design

ES677

Advanced High Velocity Fluidization Technology

CHML 561A

Gas Fluidization Technology (UBC)

CHML 561B

Fundamentals of Powder Technology (UBC)
aTeaching Innovations:

New coursenotes and laboratory manuals were written for every course taught so far, except for project courses, to help the students master the course content.  Several undergraduate courses were re-structured and re-developed.  One new graduate course was established --- Advanced High Velocity Fluidization Technology.

An innovative teaching method, the Team Structured Learning, has been adopted on teaching several key undergraduate courses. This method actively involves the students in hand-on problem solving workshop sessions during classroom instruction. Students are grouped together to solve challenging problems under the close supervision of the instructor and are given the opportunity to teach themselves. With this new method, inefficient "passive" learning process is replaced by the more efficient "active" learning process. Even though this method does demand more time from the instructor, it greatly enhances the effectiveness of teaching so that it is widely appreciated by the students.

Another innovative teaching method, the Student Participation Lecturing, has been adopted for teaching a graduate course (677-Advanced High Velocity Fluidization Technology). In this course, some topics are divided into weekly sessions where one or two students will deliver a one-hour lecture followed by a one-hour discussion period for other students to ask questions and make comments and for the instructor to present any additional materials and to make further clarifications. Because students choose the presentation topics of their own interests, this method provides both in-depth studies for each student on selected topics (those they choose to present) and general studies for the other subjects.  Strong interaction is also realized in class. 

Also from this web page:

Contact Info

Mail:

Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering,
Faculty of Engineering,
The University of Western Ontario,
London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5B9

Tel: 1-519- 661-3807

Fax: 1-519- 850-2441

Email: jzhu@uwo.ca

Website: http://www.zhu.ca/