ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Educ.
Sec. STEM Education
Volume 10 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/feduc.2025.1568618
Process Automation for Biotechnology Engineering: Reshape and Assessment of Active Learning during disastrous events
Provisionally accepted
- 1Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM), Monterrey, Mexico
- 2instituto tecnologico de monterrey, Mexico City, Mexico
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Courses as Process Automation (PA) can be difficult to grasp even for engineering students.In addition to a natural difficulty relating abstractions to real-life situations, we realized that our students could not grasp basic concepts. After working during five years we improved our students' performance in those fields. The solution was a redefinition of the topics and monitoring their learning from the beginning of the course. The latter was enriched with the support of specialized software plus modifications of traditional active learning (AL). Besides, remote mode AL was enabled by our institution as a result of the 2017 earthquake and the 2019 pandemic.We investigated the difference δ = F -X between projects grades F and exams X via their medians. First, a test was applied to see whether the medians of δ were significantly different from 0. This result was true at 5% of level in 9 out of 12 classes, indicating improvement via F.
Keywords: Process Control teaching, Active Learning, Biotechnology teaching, specialized software, Process Automation teaching
Received: 06 Feb 2025; Accepted: 17 Jul 2025.
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* Correspondence: Ricardo Zavala-Yoé, Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM), Monterrey, Mexico
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