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, Separations, and Fluid Mechanics, |
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. |
Graduate Teaching Assistant Development
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Over the past number of years I have been responsible for the development of training and mentoring for GTAs. This has involved looking at training courses and also support for AFHEA applications. More information can be found at the link below, FSE GTA Training |
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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Teaching Awards |