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A^ngelo F. Pitanga; Deley A. N. da Silva; Douglas D. de Menezes; Franciele da S. Mota – Journal of Chemical Education, 2025
This Article aims to share the results of a project that was developed with 80 students from Technical High School of Professional and Technological Education (PTE) at an institute located in the northeast of Brazil. The students discussed the global overview of fuel production and use, and how the introduction of green hydrogen into the market…
Descriptors: Career and Technical Education Schools, High Schools, High School Students, Student Attitudes
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Barros, Murillo Vetroni; Puglieri, Fabio Neves; Tesser, Daniel Poletto; Kuczynski, Oksana; Piekarski, Cassiano Moro – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2020
Purpose: Some universities have a commitment to both academic education and sustainable development, and the sustainable development goals can support several sustainable actions that universities may take as principles and attitudes. From this perspective, the purpose of this study is to present environmentally sustainable practices at a federal…
Descriptors: Sanitation, Conservation (Environment), Plastics, Energy Conservation
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Franco, Dirk; Macke, Janaina; Cotton, Debby; Paço, Arminda; Segers, Jean-Pierre; Franco, Laura – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2022
Purpose: This study aims to explore students' sustainability attitudes and behavioural intentions and their relation to energy use, to promote energy saving and decarbonisation in higher education settings. Design/methodology/approach: The authors used a validated energy literacy survey to assess undergraduate students' attitudes and behavioural…
Descriptors: Energy Conservation, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Student Behavior
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Cavalcante dos Santos, Rafael; Cavalcanti, Juliane Natalizi Cabral; Werneck do Carmo, Elisa Carneiro; de Souza, Fernando Costa; Soares, Wesley Garcia; de Souza, Cristiane Gimenes; de Andrade, Débora França; d'Avila, Luiz Antonio – Journal of Chemical Education, 2020
An experimental procedure is presented that was developed by fifth-year chemical engineering and industrial chemistry undergraduates at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro doing the discipline on Experimental Organic Technology. The aim of this study was to apply the solvatochromic effect of the dye Nile Blue chloride to the characterization…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, College Science, Undergraduate Study, Chemistry
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Khouri, Nadia G.; Fontana, Michelli; Dias, Igor L. R.; Maciel, Maria R. W.; Maciel Filho, Rubens; Mariano, Adriano P. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2021
The coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic required educational institutions to adapt face-to-face to remote teaching. This study reports the experience in the first semester of 2020 for a Chemical Engineering Capstone Design Course at the University of Campinas in Brazil. In this course, senior year students develop a group project, in which they simulate…
Descriptors: Chemical Engineering, Fuels, Student Attitudes, Pandemics
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Hermann, Roberto Rivas; Bossle, Marilia Bonzanini; Amaral, Marcelo – Educational Action Research, 2022
In the context of enormous global challenges such as climate change, poverty, and the unequal distribution of wealth, sustainability education within higher education has gained momentum as a tool to train a new generation of change agents. Previous research has examined the relationship between sustainability education and entrepreneurship…
Descriptors: Climate, Sustainable Development, Environmental Education, Fuels