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Virtual Reality: Enhancing Engineering Students’ Learning in Process Safety
This project is funded through Engineering X, an international collaboration founded by the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Lloyd’s Register Foundation Skills for Safety (formerly known as Engineering Skills where they are Most Needed) Impact Grants 2021/23 scheme.
Project Summary
This project focuses on developing and evaluating the use of VR as a tool to enhance students’ learning in process safety. As process safety topics are diversified, this project choose to demonstrate the topic of Hazard and Operability Study (HAZOP)
Project Goal
The goal of this study is to enhance safety awareness and culture in the chemical process industries by improving teaching and learning through the use of VR. This study is intended to demonstrate whether the adoption of digital technology (VR) in both the learning and teaching processes enhances learning in process safety. By developing and integrating the technology tools in teaching and learning, we are able to produce graduates with better process safety awareness and knowledge resulting in future engineers who have better competence, practicality, and ethics in regard to process safety.
Project Objectives
1. To develop process safety teaching modules within the VR platform for teaching process safety.
2. To develop a technology-based learning tool using VR for teaching process safety via assessment integration.
3. To determine the level of cognitive knowledge and practical skills of process safety among chemical engineering students.
4. To evaluate the effectiveness of teaching and learning process safety using VR technology tools.