Making Practical Experience: Teaching Thermodynamics, Ethics, and Sustainable Development with PBL at a Bioenergy Plant

Ph. D. Darinka Ramı́rez is a professor at the Chemical Engineering department of ITESM (Tecnológico de Monterrey), Campus Monterrey, Mexico. She has a B. S. in biochemical engineering at IT La Paz, M. S. in chemical engineering at Tecnológico de Monterrey, and Ph. D. in Educational Innovation also at Tecnológico de Monterrey. She teaches mainly Material Balances, Energy Balances and Thermodynamics to undergraduate students, and also Educational Innovation to virtual graduate students at Tecnológico de Monterrey. She has experience working in projects with different local industries. Recently she has been working with innovation and technology for engineering education (remote Laboratories, virtual laboratories, flipped classroom, active learning and PBL among others).