Description:
<jats:p>This work focuses on the unit operations laboratory course given by the Chemical and Biotechnological Engineering Department at Université de Sherbrooke. In order to help students develop their organisation skills, our department developed a formula based on "directive teams" and "operative teams" in which each team is put in charge of one of 9 experimental setups for the duration of the semester. A team is said to be "directive" when they are working on their assigned unit operation and "operative" when they are working on the other unit operations. As part of a directive team, the students must elaborate an experimental plan and protocol that they will ask the other teams to carry out. The success of this formula depends both on the ability of the teaching team as well as on the student-student work environment. The present project seeks to better understand the work environment in which the students carry out this task by polling them about their experience in the unit operations laboratory course given by our department.</jats:p>