@inproceedings{007544ef7fb9415e909d8b1c8960e7f7,
title = "Programming skills across the (bio)engineering curriculum {\textendash} a students{\textquoteright} perspective",
abstract = "Industry 4.0 is moving towards the digitalization of traditional manufacturing processes, and thus, the educational system must adapt and meet the demand of engineers able to work in this digital paradigm. In this context, students, and engineers, are now more than ever required to possess programming skills. Therefore, in this work, we collected and evaluated the students' perceptions about the need of acquiring programming skills in (bio)chemical engineering education. The data has been collected through a quantitative survey distributed to undergraduate and graduate students in the chemical and biochemical engineering study programs at the Technical University of Denmark. In general, the students pointed towards an insufficient presence of programming content in their study plan, and they favor Python as the preferred programming language. Moreover, the students selected actions to improve the integration of programming in their curriculum, focusing on increasing the content of programming applied to the (bio)chemical engineering field and using only one programming language. In addition, the students pointed out modeling and optimization as the most useful topics for their future career. Finally, a learning design has been developed to fulfill these needs and it has been implemented in an educational computer-aided tool, called BioVL (Bioprocess Virtual Laboratory - www.biovl.com).",
keywords = "Computer-aided tool, Education, Programming, (Bio)chemical engineering",
author = "\{Ca{\~n}o de Las Heras\}, Simoneta and \{L. Gargalo\}, Carina and Gernaey, \{Krist V.\} and Ulrich Kr{\"u}hne",
year = "2021",
doi = "10.1016/B978-0-323-88506-5.50315-6",
language = "English",
series = "Computer Aided Chemical Engineering",
publisher = "Elsevier",
pages = "2040--2044",
editor = "T{\"u}rkay, \{Metin \} and Gani, \{Rafiqul \}",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 31th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering (ESCAPE30)",
address = "United Kingdom",
note = "31<sup>st</sup> European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering , ESCAPE31 ; Conference date: 06-06-2021 Through 09-06-2021",
}