Quality Education in Romanian Chemical Engineering Higher Education

Faculty of Applied Chemistry and Materials Science (FACMS) from University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest (UPB) initiated content review of traditional chemical engineering curriculum during implementation of POSDRU Project 156/1.2/G/141040 "Quality education for higher education in chemical engineering". In this context, teaching methods of fundamental knowledge and skills in this area are substantially reconsidered. As the trend in teaching now shifts from strong teacher-centered to learner-centered paradigm, this contribution is aimed to present educational multimedia materials development for chemical engineering undergraduates from the perspective of usability and user experience principles. It is important to stress the strategy implemented by UPB to improve quality of chemical engineering education, based on requirements of Romanian and European labor markets. The implementation tasks are based on a) reviewing the content of the traditional chemical engineering undergraduate curriculum, b) to improve the teaching/learning methods and c) to develop modern multimedia based education materials. Some multimedia materials are as well presented in this paper.