Overview

The Morton Medal is awarded to the individual who has best demonstrated excellence in chemical engineering education. In particular, it looks to recognise the work of outstanding educators as well as 'game changers', and to promulgate best practice in chemical engineering education.

Professor Nicky Eshtiaghi, RMIT University, Australia, is the winner of the IChemE Morton Medal. The first couple of minutes of the webinar will be for the awarding of the Morton medal. The next 30 minutes will be for her to present on the subject of designing creative, adaptive and inclusive learning approaches that enable diverse engineering students to become successful learners and develop into ethical professionals.

Professor Eshtiaghi has a philosophy that all students should have the opportunity to develop to their full potential and combines the following strategies:

1. Creative use of educational technology to cater for individual differences via flexible, multi modal learning.
2. Authentic industry engaged learning to develop professional identity.
3. Effective, personalised and inclusive research mentoring to address individual needs and build all students' skills and experience.

This webinar is aimed at all members and will be useful for anyone who teaches or mentors and also for students themselves. It will also be of particular interest to Heads of Department in universities worldwide. 

Speaker

Professor Nicky Eshtiaghi, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

Nicky Eshtiaghi is an Associate Professor in the Chemical Engineering at the School of Engineering of RMIT University. Her current research interest is sludge rheology, converting biosolid to bioenergy, green or construction materials, multiphase flow, and particle technology.

The material presented in this webinar has not been peer-reviewed. Any opinions are the presenter’s own and do not necessarily represent those of IChemE or the Education Special Interest Group. The information is given in good faith but without any liability on the part of IChemE.