Expertise
Esat has wide interests in the educational support and skills development of undergraduate and postgraduate students. Some of his current educational interests include: the development and evaluation of student transferable skills, peer-based learning, formative assessment practices and the use of gamification and virtual (immersion) reality in Engineering Education. He has also been active in promoting scholarship in Engineering Education practice, specifically with contributions to and support of the emerging discipline of Engineering Education Research, including his role as Senior Associate Editor of the European Journal of Engineering Education.
His scientific research activities have included studies in adsorption processes (pressure and thermal swing), hybrid reactors and polymer reaction engineering. This has involved the modelling and optimisation of cyclic adsorption and reaction processes, adsorbent and catalyst characterisation and the set up of pilot scale adsorption units and static-mixer based reactors for viscous polymer processing.