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Benefits and impact of emergency training in a VR environment S. Garcia Fracaro, Y. Tehreem, R. Toyoda, T. Gallagher, J. Glassey, K. Bernaerts, M. Wilk In Education for Chemical Engineers, Volume 48, 2024, Pages 63-72: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ece.2024.05.004 Abstract This study addresses ...

Tom Van Gerven and Pedro Santos Bartolomé from Process Engineering for Sustainable Systems (ProcESS), KU Leuven have published a new study on dynamic active learning for meta-modelling of process simulations. The article is published in the July issie of the ...

Full programme for ICHS 2024 is out (First International Symposium on Circular Hydrometallurgy, Mechelen, Belgium, 9-11 September 2024).

Even though the CHARMING project ended more than a year ago, its researchers have been still collaborating to produce the Virtual Reality training prototype “Operate Your Own Reactor”. Our researchers, Sofia Garcia Fracaro (Merck), Yusra Tehreem (University of Applied Sciences ...

On Tuesday 21st March, and in the beautiful Promotiezaal of KU Leuven, Philippe Chan (ESR11 of EU H2020 MSCA ITN CHARMING) has successfully defended his thesis entitled “Virtual Reality Serious Game for Chemical Lab Safety Training in Industry and Academia: ...

After 3+ years of active research, 12+ scientific publications, ~10 international and local presentations, 5 research studies, 5 research methodologies and 100s of pages of thesis, Chioma Udeozor has come to the end of her PhD at Newcastle University under ...

On the 4th of October, 2022, Ryo Toyoda has obtained his PhD at Newcastle University by defending his thesis entitled “Assessing chemical industry employees using immersive virtual environment”. Ryo was Early Stage Researcher (ES14) in the CHARMING project. He was ...

CHARMING 2nd Policy Brief “Mechanics, Accuracy and Assessment in Immersive and Game-Based Education” The rapid increase in the use of immersive technologies and gaming in education and training at all levels raises a number of important issues, not only for ...

Serkan Solmaz successfully defended his  PhD dissertation entitled “Immersive Technologies with Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) in Engineering Education”  Serkan Solmaz, one of the 15 ESRs of the EU MSCA-ETN CHARMING project, graduated as PhD in Chemical Engineering on Friday 20 ...

Three years as ESR12 in the MSCA CHARMING project, conducting her research at Merck KGaA, following her PhD programme at KU Leuven,  with co-supervision from Newcastle University, Sofia Garcia Fracaro successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled “Effectiveness of Immersive Learning ...