The Schnaps project is an integrated project, in which both chemical engineering knowledge and non-technical skills are applied by students to produce wine from a selected fruit and to distill it. This is a team project that involves both technical and budgetary planning.
The "Bachelor project" course is a 3rd year course of the Bachelor of Civil Engineering, Chemistry orientation. The aim of the project is to make wine from a chosen fruit and to distill part of this wine into schnapps. This allows the students to familiarize themselves with the distillation and fermentation processes but also to confront them with the industrial organization and group work.
Schn'apple Wine is the name that the civil engineering students have given to their end of baccalaureate project. For the realization of this project, they were the main actors in the production of an apple-based wine and the schnapps. This project allowed them to better understand the principles of fermentation and distillation, but also to learn from previous years.
Not only did their project require the use of all their scientific knowledge, but it also exposed them to the real conditions of a company. This is how they learned to work in a team, to distribute the different tasks, to manage the planning and the budget, to create the design of a logo as well as a website. A reception and a distillery visit were also organised to close the project.Schnaps Project – Chemical-Engineering students produce their own schnapps
Chemical Engineering is omnipresent in our daily lives: plastics, detergents, care products, food... As part of an integrated project at the end of their bachelor's studies, students in Engineering Sciences produced their own wine and schnapps to apply all the knowledge and skills acquired during their courses.
Applied chemistry is omnipresent in our daily lives: plastics, detergents, care products, food... As part of an integrated bachelor's degree project, engineering students produced their own wine and schnapps to apply all the knowledge and skills acquired in their courses.
First, the students were divided into five groups with different functions. Week after week, each group had to present their progress to the other groups and to the supervisors.
Given the complexity of the tasks, everyone was involved in all of them and the groups helped each other. The supervisors were there to advise them, listen, guide but also criticize them if necessary to make this project a success.
The apples were crushed at Verlaine (Buttiens) while the bottles were washed by Prayon.
Afterwards, all the activities took place in the Chemical Engineering Hall such as distillation, fermentation but also bottling.
The visit of the distillery took place at Dr. Clyde's in Seraing. It allowed the students to discover the major stages of the distillation process that they were then able to carry out on a smaller scale.
On June 27, 2023, UniGR - to which ULiège belongs - organized the closing event of the Erasmus+ "EurIdentity Certificate" project and the Annual Conference on Higher Education and Research in the Greater Region.
Si les amphis resteront vides jusqu'à la fin de l'année, les cours continuent à l'ULiège ! Les étudiant·e·s de bac 3 à HEC ont ainsi pu participer comme prévu au Business Game exceptionnellement organisé de manière virtuelle.
Un séminaire résidentiel organisé durant une semaine à Paris a permis aux étudiants de visiter des entreprises, de rencontrer des professionnels de la fonction RH et de réaliser une investigation originale et assez remarquable.
