Conference Session

Perspectives in Chemical Engineering Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie Butler Velegol, Penn State University; Katie Cadwell, Syracuse University; Taryn Melkus Bayles, University of Pittsburgh; Lisa G. Bullard P.E., North Carolina State University; Mechteld Veltman Hillsley, Penn State University

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Diversity

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

data frompublicly available departmental websites. The data in this paper comes from survey data for 74departments and from websites for the other 85 departments. Thus, it is unclear if thedifference reflects only changes in numbers or differences in available data on websites. Forexample, some departments do not differentiate teaching non-tenure track faculty from tenure-track faculty on their website’s title designations. This underscores the need to more formallytrack numbers of TFF in chemical engineering. 3Table 2: Number of total ChE faculty and Teaching Focused Faculty (TFF) in R1, R2, M2, M1,PUI and D/PU Universities

Conference Session

Safety and Sustainability in the ChE Classroom

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adam T Melvin, Clemson University; Michael J. Ardoline, Louisiana State University and A&M College

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

to an improvement in thestudents’ normative reasoning skills. Dilemma 2 poses a question of putting colleagues in apotentially dangerous situation to benefit the company. Dilemma 5 poses the question of what ismore important: the safety of the workplace versus the bottom line for the company. The changein both can be seen as moving from thinking in terms of benefit (Kohlberg’s pre-conventionalstage) or acceptable professional practices (the conventional stage) to the terms of values andethical principles (the post-conventional stage). Given the link to Kohlberg’s stages ofdevelopment, it would appear as if the learning module succeeded in providing students a greaterunderstanding of moral reasoning which was reflected in their responses to

Conference Session

Laboratory and Research Skill Development

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carlos Landaverde Alvarado, University of Texas at Austin

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

working on CO2 adsorption must examine the system and decide if they need to use a vacuum line, an external CO2 analyzer, or piping rated for their experimental pressures to ensure their experimental work area is safe at all times. 6. Allowing the creation of tangible products and artifacts: The project culminates in a poster session for which teams also prepare a summary of their approach to safety. This safety summary detailing their learning and their safety procedures in the laboratory is the final safety product developed from the courses. Students also reflect on the strategies their pursued to mitigate/minimize risks. Additionally, as required by the PjBL framework, knowledge is created by students

Conference Session

WIP: Classroom Innovations

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Neha B. Raikar, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Fernando Mérida, University of Florida

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

participants, as reflected by the summerprogram course evaluations. Even in the online setting, which was used to accommodate studentswho were unable to make it in person during the first offering of the summer program due tovarious reasons, students were able to work through the detailed instructions and execute theexperiment with real-time guidance and troubleshooting help from the instructor. An informal in-class poll was conducted to gauge the familiarity of fluid flow-based topics like flow rate,friction, pressure drop, and viscosity. Of these four topics, the most familiar topic was friction,while flow rate was the least familiar. However, the familiarity did not come from fluid flowcontext but from having heard the word “friction” from day-to

Conference Session

Perspectives in Chemical Engineering Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura P. Ford, The University of Tulsa; Janie Brennan, Washington University in St. Louis; Heather Chenette, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Jennifer L. Cole, Northwestern University; Kevin D. Dahm, Rowan University; David L. Silverstein P.E., University of Kentucky; Stephen Ward Thiel P.E., University of Cincinnati

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

experiences.Dr. Jennifer L. Cole, Northwestern University Jennifer L. Cole is the Assistant Chair in Chemical and Biological Engineering in the Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and the Director of the Northwestern Center for Engineering Education Research at Northwestern University.Dr. Kevin D. Dahm, Rowan University Kevin Dahm is a Professor and Undergraduate Program Chair of Chemical Engineering at Rowan University. He earned his BS from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (92) and his PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (98). He has published two books, ”Fundamentals of Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics” with Donald Visco and ”Interpreting Diffuse Reflectance and Transmittance” with his father Donald