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Working Party on Education - WPE

Welcome to the website of the EFCE Working Party on Education (WPE).

This website has been designed to become a link between everybody who is interested in education in chemical engineering in Europe or who wants to get latest information on the topic. It is offering a lot of useful information as well as links to education website of all countries participating in the WPE.
The Working Party Education (WPE) consists of members from academia and industry out of 22 European countries (+ 2 corresponding members from Australia and South Africa). It considers the current and future education and formation of chemical engineers through higher education and continuing professional development, promoting co-operation and sharing of best practice.

Current activities

 

Countries participating in WPE:

Belgium   Bulgaria   Croatia   Czech Republic   Denmark   Estonia   Finland
France   Germany   Greece   Hungary   Ireland   Italy   The Netherlands   Norway
Poland   Portugal   Slovakia   Slovenia   Spain   Sweden   Switzerland   United Kingdom
 

Recent and upcoming WPE Business Meetings:

  • Florence, Italy, 16 September 2019
  • Paris, France, 29-30 April 2020
  • Prague, Czech Republic, August 2020

 

Mission

 

Who we are and what we do


The Working Party Education (WPE) consists of members from academia and industry out of 22 European countries (+ 2 corresponding members from Australia and South Africa). It considers the current and future education and formation of chemical engineers through higher education and continuing professional development, promoting co-operation and sharing of best practice.


Objectives

  • Review current good practice, promote and provide information on
    -   "Chemical Engineering Education"
    -   "Continuing Professional Development"
     
  • Comply with EFCE Scientific policy and objectives:
    -   Convene regularly European actors in chemical engineering
    -   Co-ordinate events at European level to avoid overlapping
    -   Promote visibility and a strong image of the EFCE
    -   Support development of Sustainable Technology
     
  • Partcipate effectively in CHISA end ECCE-Conferences


Scope 2008 - 2010

  • To perform and internal SWOT analysis of the WPE.
  • To carry out a project on Good Practices in promoting Chemical Engineering.
  • To develop a project on modern ways of teaching and learning in Chemical Engineering.
  • To follow-up the Bologna process and review the EFCE-WPE Bologna recommendations.
  • To continue in developing the WPE Website as a means of communication to relevant users
    in order to distribute the above mentioned information and to contribute to the visibility of EFCE.

 

 

Members of the Working Party, 2018

 
AUSTRALIA

 

Prof. David Shallcross

(corresponding member)

Department of Chemical Engineering           
University of Melbourne
Parkville VIC 3052
Contact
BELGIUM

 

Prof. Jan Degrève

Department of Chemical Engineering
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Rue de Croylaan 46, 3001 Heverlee - Leuven
Contact
BULGARIA

 
Prof. Bogdana Koumanova Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy (UCTM)
Kliment Ohridski Blvd 8, 1756 Sofia
Contact
CZECH REPUBLIC

 
Prof. Milan Jahoda University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague
Faculty of Chemical Engineering
Technická 5, 16628 Praha 6
Contact
DENMARK

 
Prof. Jens Abildskov Department of Chemical Engineering
Technical University of Denmark
Soltofts Plads, 2800 Kongrens Lyngby
Contact
ESTONIA
  
Prof. Vahur Oja Tallinn Technical University
Faculty of Chemical and Materials Technology
Department of Chemical Engineering
Ehitajate tee 5, 19086 Tallinn
Contact
FINLAND
  
Prof.Tuomo Olavi Sainio Lappeenranta University of Technology
School of Engineering Science
Skinnarilankatu 34, 53850 Lappeenranta
Contact
FRANCE
  

Prof. Marie Debacq-Lapassat (Secretary)

Cnam-GP
case courrier 2D1P20
2 rue Conté, 75003 Paris
Contact
Prof. Jean-Marc Le Lann

ENSIACET / INPT
188, route de Narbonne, 31077 Toulouse Cedex 4
Contact
Prof. Dr. Eric Schaer (Chair)

Ecole Nationale Supérieure des
Industries Chimiques (ENSIC)
rue Grandville 1, 54001 Nancy Cedex
Contact
GERMANY
  

Prof. Marcel Liauw

RWTH Aachen
Institute of Technical and Macromolecular Chemistry
RWTH Aachen University
Worringerweg 1, 52074 Aachen
Contact
Dr.-Ing.  Michael  Wilk

Merck KGaA
Operations Chemicals Organics
HPC: Q003/101
P.O.Box, 64271 Darmstadt
Contact
Dr. Hermann J. Feise

BASF SE
Innovation Management
67056 Ludwigshafen
Contact
GREECE
  
Prof. Dr. N. Markatos

National Technical University of Athens
Dept. of Chemical Engineering
9, Irion Polytechniou, Zografou, 157 73 Athens
Contact
HUNGARY

 
Dr. Edit Szèkely

Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Department of Chemical and Environmental Process Engineering
Budafoku UT 8, 1111 Budapest
Contact
IRELAND
  

Dr. Patricia M. Kieran

UCD School of Chemical & Bioprocess Engineering
University College Dublin
Belfield, Dublin 4
Contact
ITALY

 
Ing. Alessandro Bettoni

 

Technip Italy
Viale Castello della Magliani 68, 00148 Roma
Contact (private); Contact (company)

Prof. Patrizia Perego

Department of Civil, Chemical and Environmental Engineering
University of Genoa
Via Opera Pia 15, 16145 Genoa
Contact
The NETHERLANDS
  
Prof. Dr. ir. Peter J. Hamersma

Delft University of Technology
Faculty of Applied Science
Department of Chemical Engineering
Julianalaan 136, 2628 BL Delft
Contact  Contact
NORWAY
  
Prof. Lars Erik Oi

Hogskolen i Telemark/TF
Prosessteknologi
3914 Porsgrunn
Contact
POLAND
  

Prof. Marek Henczka

Warsaw University of Technology
Faculty of Chemical and Process Engineering
ul. Waryńskiego 1, 00-645 Warszawa
Contact
PORTUGAL
  
Prof. Luis Miguel Madeira

Department of Chemical Engineering
Faculty of Engineering -
University of Porto (FEUP)
Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, s/n, 4200 - 465 Porto
Contact
ROMANIA

 
Dr. Petrica Iancu

University "Politehnica"
Centre for Technology Transfer in the Process Industries
1, Polizu Street, 011061 Bucharest
Contact
SLOVAKIA
  
Prof. Milan Polakovič

Institute of Chemical and Environmental Engineering
Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology
Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava
Radlinskeho 9, 812 37 Bratislava
Contact
SLOVENIA

 
Prof. Dr. Zdravko Kravanja

University of Maribor
Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Smetanova 17, P.O. Box 219, 2000 Maribor
Contact
SPAIN

 
Prof. Dr. Carme Gonzalez Azon

Universidad de Barcelona
Chemical Engineering Dept.
Marti i Franques 1, 08028 Barcelona
Contact
SWITZERLAND

 

Prof. Dr. Thierry Meyer

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne - EPFL
EPFL/SB/ISIC/GSCP
CH J2 (Batiment (CH), Station 6, 1015 Lausanne
Contact
Dr.-Ing. Berthold Schenkel

Novartis Pharma AG
WSJ-145.1045, Process Technologies
4002 Basel
Contact
UNITED KINGDOM

 
Dr. Colin Deddis 

Greymore Engineering Services Ltd
Slioch 2 Orchard Grove
Echt, Westhill, AB32 6UL
Contact
Dr. Jarka Glassey

Newcastle University
School of Chemical Engineering
and Advanced Materials
Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU
Contact

Conferences


Here you can find conferences dealing with education in Chemical Engineering:

 

Publications

 

Here you can find interesting papers dealing with education in chemical engineering:

 

Previous activities

 

Projects

Here you can find the outcomes of several projects, the EFCE Working Party on Education performed since 1994:


The WPE has developed the following guidelines to design national education websites:
Guidelines for Webpages

 
Summary

April 2013

  •  34 Working Party members
        - Academic 24
        - Industrial 10
  • 23 European countries represented
  • Working Party meets usually twice a year
  • additional 2 forum meetings to prepare meetings and to discuss special topics 
  • Re-formed 1992 to study chemical engineering curricula in Europe
  • Survey of  "Chemical Engineering Curricula" completed 1994
  • Recommendation of a "Chemical Engineering Core Curriculum" 1994/2000 
  • Survey of "Biochemical Engineering Education" completed 1996
  • Development of a website (http://www.efce.info/wpe ) 2001 - ongoing
  • Preparation of EFCE's statement on Bologna Process 2003
  • Concept of the EFCE Student Mobility Award developed 2004
  • EFCE Bologna Recommendations elaborated 2004/2005 and published in September 2005
  • International conferences and symposia supported:
       "Chemical Engineering Education" sessions run at WCCE, ECCE and CHISA
  • Current work in 2013: see page "Mission"

WPE Members' Area

Welcome to the Members' Area of the EFCE Working Party on Education.

Business Meetings

 

Email/Forum Meetings

Business Meetings

Email/Forum Meetings

Lectures

Literature

Projects

Reports to EFCE

EFCE BOLOGNA RECOMMENDATIONS

DRAFTS:
Version 9; Version 8 ; Version 7;
Version 6

LITERATURE: