Engineering faculty attitudes to general chemistry courses in engineering curricula

Abstract

A survey on the attitudes of engineering faculty to chemistry, physics, and mathematics was conducted with the aim of clarifying the attitudes of engineering faculty to chemistry courses in relation to engineering education or curricula and assessing their expectations. The results confirm that on the whole chemistry is perceived as having a legitimate place as a core course in engineering curricula with frequently appearing comments from faculty to make chemistry relevant to real-life problems and everyday applications.