Lesson Plan from the year 2016 in the subject Didactics - Chemistry, course: Introduction to Chemical Engineering, language: English, abstract: This course serves as an introduction to concepts used in the analysis of chemical engineering problems. Based on analogies and research-based learning, it is intended to provide freshmen a global overview of the field of chemical engineering and help them visualize the elementary principles of Transport phenomena, Thermodynamics, Energy conservation and Energy efficiency. The Learning outcomes of the course are related to the following chapters: (1) Electricity, (2) Fluid Dynamics, (3) Heat Transfer, (4) Mass Transfer & Solubility, (5) Thermodynamics, (6) Energy efficiency. For every chapter, the teaching strategy followed the three main steps: (a) a basic introduction of the theory, (b) similitude with the selected Analogy, (d) research-based learning: lab experiments or class activities and (e) a conclusion. The main goal of this paper is to show that the use of analogies can be a very helpful tool in order to build a strong engineering foundation for freshmen who lack high school scientific background. To help students shift from the imaginary of the five analogies utilized in the course to the real pictures of some engineering concepts, the similarity to the analogy is followed by a simple lab experiment or a class activity. The final chapter of this course is related to energy efficiency to explain to freshmen who lack scientific background that their attitude could make them more efficient and lead them to success.

Professor Zin Eddine Dadach was born in 1957 in the city of Beni Saf, Ain Temouchent, Algeria. He studied in a technical college of the city of Tilimsen, and continued to the Algerian Institute of Petroleum to obtain in 1980 his Bachelor's Degree in Refining and Petro-Chemistry. His Master's Degree is in Chemical Engineering which he obtained in 1984 from Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey, USA. Being dedicated to knowledge, he pursued his Ph.D. Degree in Chemical Engineering at Laval University, Quebec, Canada, which he completed in 1994. He continued specialization in the field of Biotechnology in Japan, at Osaka National Research Institute, where he contributed from 1994 to 1996. Since 2005 he is on the Academic Faculty at the Higher Colleges of Technology, Chemical Engineering Department, Abu Dhabi, UAE.