Department of Chemical Engineering
Department of Chemical Engineering
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I am Dr Thomas Rodgers, I am the former Discipline Head of Education for Chemical Engineering at The University of Manchester (2019-2022). I am involved with teaching courses and also teaching research. This page provides some resources for some of these areas.
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Teaching Resources |
Introduction to DPD and DL_MESO
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The link below provides a brief introduction to DPD as a simulation technique and also some tutorials using DL_MESO, |
Interactive Graphs
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The link below provides a selection of interactive graphs around Chemical Reaction Engineering and Separations
(this is still being fully developed), |
Taught Courses
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Over the last few years I have taught a number of different modules, the notes for which can be found below: |
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Process Fluid Flow This is a course covering hydrostatics, flow with ideal fluids, applications of Bernoulli's equatiion, momentum balances, friction losses, pumps, and open-channel flow. |
Introduction to Chemical Reaction Engineering This is a course covering mole balance for reactors, extent of reaction and conversion in reactors, rate laws and stoichiometry, determination of rate law paramters, temperature dependence of reaction rates, and multiple reactions. |
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Introduction to Heat Transfer This is a course covering types of heat transfer, the general heat transfer equation, heat transfer by conduciton, heat transfer by convection, and application of heat transfer in chemical engineering. These notes are a bit rough and need some updating, so there maybe errors. |
Solids Processing This is a part of a course, and the topics taught by me covered particle shape and size, single particle motion in fluids, settling and settlers, centrifuges, and cyclones. |
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Advanced Engineering Separations This is a course covering liquid-liquid extraction, multi-component distillation, distillation sequencing, and azeotropic distillation. Course Handbook |
Introduction to Molecular Dynamics This course provided an introduction to molecular dynamics coding, including a backround to molecular dynamcis, molecular interactions, practical spects of molecualar dynamics, and analysis of molecular dynamics simulations. |
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Soft Matter Simulation This course provided a brief introduction to soft matter systems and common methods used to simulate them at a variety of scales. These notes are a bit rough and need some updating, so there maybe errors. |
Chemical Engineering Design This course was a short refresher course for students looking at mass and energy balances around a chemical reactor. A mass and energy balance problem is provided. |
Teaching Research |
Practical Teaching
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This is a project looking at how students prepare for and learn within labs. With key focus on:
This project has also lead to the IChemE events on Hybrid Labs. I therefore provide the Lab Based Teaching Section of FSE60004 Teaching Practice & Assessment Strategy for the University of Manchester New Academics Programme. |
Teaching with Rich-Media
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This is a project looking involvement of rich-media within teaching and how students use these materials. The main focus of this has been on videos and student use of these; however, there has also been the creation of some web-apps, e.g.: |
Assessment and Feedback
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This is a project looking at alternative assessment types and how student feedback can be improved. One key area is looking a peer marking and feedback. I therefore provide the following training and development courses at the University of Manchester
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