Implementing Sustainability in the Curriculum of Universities by Walter Leal Filho

Author:Walter Leal Filho
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

5 Student Participation and Their Views on Learning within ABOWE Project

Here are presented various student cases as well as views from some of them based on their theses or other correspondence. The overall view was that the students were glad of the opportunity to receive a valuable working experience within a multisector, international and meaningful research, development and innovation (RDI) project.

5.1 Participation in the Pilot Plant Engineering and Construction

Interaction with students began already before the ABOWE project got approved as a team of four young male environmental technology students of Savonia joined in a project assignment. Their task was to investigate technical properties of target wastes as well as existing patents elsewhere regarding the pretreatment technology. Both aspects were helpful for engineering the pilot plant’s pretreatment part.

A young male electrical engineering student participated in the Engineering team for eight months as an electrical and automation engineer. He got electrification of the plant as the original task, including the engineering and assembly of the main distribution board and the design of general electrical wiring. Moreover, he participated in device selection and procurement. His task enlargened to cover also other engineering sectors, and supervising electrical and automation installations. He also led the commissioning and related measurements of the pilot plant. Moreover, he took a major responsibility in the technical documentation such as updating process and instrumentation diagram (P&ID). He kept the memos of the Engineering team meetings.

The student in question learnt the theory of bioprocess and biotechnology as well as the automation choices of the process. He learnt that it is essential to know the process thoroughly when planning and drawing the P&ID (Hirvonen 2015). He was a very unprompted and multiskilled member of the Engineering team. He took numerous new tasks which often went even beyond his study field without prejudices. He took care of the tasks in a responsible and competent way. As the team leader of the electrical and automation installment team he showed good manager and problem-solving skills.

Another young male electrical engineering student co-operated in part of these tasks during two months during his practical training period.

Two electrical installer students from Savo Vocational College took their practical training period within the ABOWE pilot plant electrical installments for autumn 2013. One German upper secondary school (with technological emphasis) student joined them for two months. They performed the practical installments, in the supervision of the earlier mentioned electrical engineering student. A senior laboratory engineer from Savonia Electrical Engineering Department supervised the electrical engineering student, in turn. This electrical installment team was practically in charge of the electrical and automation installments in the ABOWE pilot plant.

The senior laboratory engineer reported that in the engineering of instrumentation and automation, students needed to widely familiarize themselves to various alternatives. Concerning sensoring many issues needed to be solved: process demands, maintenance, hygiene and strain to the instruments from cleaning of the process equipment. The biological needs of the microbes needed to be taken into consideration in the structure of the equipment. Intelligent sensors, control

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