Conference Session

Technology in the ECE Classroom

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Jakob Fritz, Oklahoma State University; Wira Mulia, Oklahoma State University; Sohum Sohoni, Oklahoma State University; Kerri S. Kearney, Oklahoma State University; Mwarumba Mwavita, Oklahoma State University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

-72.19. S. Schaffert, et al. Learning with Semantic Wikis. in Workshop on Semantic Wikis. 2006.20. B. Mcmullin, Putting the Learning Back into Learning Technology. Emerging issues in the practice of university learning and teaching, 2006: p. 67-76.21. A. Cheville, C. Co, and B. Turner. Improving Team Performance in a Capstone Design Course Using the Jigsaw Technique and Electronic Peer Evaluation. in American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Expo. 2007. Honolulu, Hawaii.22. L. Grant. Using Wikis in Schools: A Case Study. 2006 11/17/2010]; Available from: http://www.futurelab.org.uk/download/pdfs/research/disc_papers/Wikis_in_Schools.pdf.23. X.D. Pedro, et al., Writing Documents

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DEED Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Harry B. Santoso, Utah State University; Raymond E. Boyles, Utah State University; Oenardi Lawanto, Utah State University; Wade H. Goodridge, Utah State University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

wide-access Internet-based e-Infrastructure for K-12 education. His research interest includes learning personalization, cognition and metacognition, multimedia content, e-Learning standardization, and distance learning.Raymond E. Boyles, Utah State University Raymond Boyles attended California University of Pa. where he received two degrees; BA in Information Science: and a MS in Technology Education. He also attended Pittsburgh Institute of Aeronautics where he received an Associate degree in Avionics. He has professional experience as an engineering assistant, computer programmer, and a Robotics instructor, as well as volunteer experience as a teacher, advisor, peer counselor, and a special needs coordinator. He

Conference Session

Curriculum Innovations in Architectural Engineering Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ahmed Cherif Megri, University of Wyoming

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Architectural

Basic Engineering Statistics - 3 15SPRING SEMESTERARE 4740 Mech. Sys. Design Project - 4 ARE Mechanical Course (ARE 4430 or 4490) - 3 3 Mechanical Option Elective - 3ENGL 4010 Scientific & Technical Writing WC 3 1 Univ. Studies * 3

Conference Session

Effective Projects and Experiments in Instrumentation and Control

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Asad Yousuf, Savannah State University; Tyler Schecklman, Savannah Technical College

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Instrumentation

dedicatedconnection over which they can communicate. During the connection process, the client isassigned a local port number, and binds a socket to it. The client talks to the server by writing to Page 22.778.8the socket and gets information from the server by reading from it. Similarly, the server gets anew local port number (it needs a new port number so that it can continue to listen for connectionrequests on the original port). The server also binds a socket to its local port and communicateswith the client by reading from and writing to it. The client and the server must agree on aprotocol-that is, they must agree on the language of the information

Conference Session

Project-Based, Inquiry Guided, and High Performance Learning Environments: Effective Approaches

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph J. Biernacki, Tennessee Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

allstudents have team-based exposure and most claim to have had some formal teamwork training.Surprisingly, when poled in a workshop setting, students identify extracurricular team trainingsuch as scouts (boy or girl) and sports rather than the formal teamwork training that theyreceived as part of their freshman BE experience.To ascertain additional information, students are led through a small group (three to fivestudents) discovery-based activity wherein they are asked to respond to the following questionsor tasks in the order listed here: 1. What are the characteristics of a “group,” and a “team?” 2. Give some examples of groups and teams. 3. Write your own definition for what a team is. 4. What are the characteristics of good

Conference Session

First-year Programs Division Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

C.J. Egelhoff, U.S. Coast Guard Academy; Susan Donner Bibeau, U.S. Coast Guard; K.L. Burns, U.S. Coast Guard Academy; Corinna Marie Fleischmann P.E., U.S. Coast Guard Academy

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First-Year Programs

Engineering have been trying to tap potential engineering students from theunderrepresented minority segment of the population for more than thirty years. As soon as itwas realized how few high school minority students were fully qualified to and interested instudying engineering, four-year institutions began seeking and qualifying those students whowere “almost” qualified. Summer bridge programs were developed to build needed skills, createacademic community and perhaps offer course credit. Extensive first-year programs werecreated which provided academic assistance, peer or faculty mentoring or perhaps offering firstyear research with faculty. Follow-on programs were also instituted at some colleges to giveacademic support and build community among

Conference Session

Core Concepts, Standards, and Policy in K-12 Engineering Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mike Ryan, Georgia Institute of Technology; Brian D. Gane, Georgia Institute of Technology; Marion Usselman, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

. These tasks can be broken into ―traditional‖tasks (e.g., graph and analyze data, answer questions about simple machines), and PBIL-basedtasks (e.g., write and discuss scientific questions for further investigation, update your projectboard, create your explanation worksheet, and communicate the design and solutioneffectiveness).These PBIL-based tasks frequently use scaffolding to facilitate learners’ use of scientificreasoning and engineering methods in order to use scientific concepts to explain observed data,to help learners monitor their own learning and identify future topics for investigations, todevelop hypotheses, and engineer solutions to ill-defined problems. These tasks occur at theindividual level (e.g., each learner answers

Conference Session

Poster Sessions for Unit Operations Lab Bazaar and Tenure-Track Faculty

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Deniz Rende, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Nihat Baysal, Yeditepe University; Sevinc Rende, Isik University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

average cumulativeGPA of the class and in each group contains a student with higher academic achievement (CGPA> 3.00) and a student with lower achievement (CGPA < 2.00). Since the students are reassignedto teams in each of the UOL courses, all students have a chance to work with other peers withvarying academic achievement levels prior to their graduation. According to our observations ongroup dynamics, the students with lower academic grades are encouraged to study more andhave a chance to enhance team performance with their abilities other than academic skills. On Page 22.960.6the other hand, students with higher cumulative GPA

Conference Session

FPD II: Increasing Engagement and Motivation of First-Year Students

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicky Wolmarans, University of Cape Town, Department of Civil Engineering and Centre for Research in Engineering Education (CREE); Corrinne Shaw, University of Cape Town, Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Centre for Research in Engineering Education (CREE)

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

; referencing; writing in a technical genre; and communicatingtechnical concepts to a small group of peers. In addition each student learns about a numberof concepts related to structures and construction as an orientation to their site visits.Skills are typically not isolated to a single project, but build together through multipleprojects. For example, in preparation for writing the major technical report, structure andcoherence in paragraphs is introduced in the informal settlement upgrade project. The basicsof experimentation, with a focus on measurements and data presentation, alongsidespreadsheet functionality and design are introduced through three activities within the servicereservoir project. Students are expected to use these skills in

Conference Session

Innovative Methods to Teach Engineering to URMs

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ram V. Mohan, North Carolina A&T State University; Ajit D. Kelkar, North Carolina A&T State University; Keith A. Schimmel, North Carolina A&T State University; Vinaya Kelkar

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

AC 2011-2360: INSTRUCT INTEGRATING NASA SCIENCE, TECHNOL-OGY, AND RESEARCH IN UNDERGRADUATE CURRICULUM AND TRAIN-INGRam V. Mohan, North Carolina A&T State University (Eng) Dr. Ram Mohan is currently an Associate Professor with the interdisciplinary graduate program in com- putational science and engineering (CSE). He serves as the module content director for the INSTRUCT project. Dr. Mohan currently has more than 90 peer reviewed journal articles, book chapters and con- ference proceedings to his credit. He plays an active role in American Society for Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and serves as the chair of the ASME materials processing technical committee and a member of the ASME Nanoengineering Council Steering

Conference Session

SPECIAL SESSION: Interdisciplinary Course Design Opportunities for Chemical Engineers

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey A Nason, Oregon State University; Bill J. Brooks, Oregon State University; Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

) during class that probe for conceptual understanding. Students answer the questionsusing wireless laptops and responses are immediately available to the instructor. After an initialdeployment of a question, the instructor can proceed in several ways. Class responses can bedisplayed to the class and students can be asked to discuss the problem with a neighbor or group.Following the small group discussions, the question can be posed again10; it has been shown thatthis type of peer-instruction can increase conceptual understanding.11 At any point, the instructorcan interject with appropriate discussion or address misconceptions discovered when goingthrough the written explanations to multiple choice questions, for example. WISE activitiesserve as

Conference Session

Innovations in Design within BME Curricula

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Howard P. Davis, Washington State University; Denny C. Davis, Washington State University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

end of the two weeks. Concurrently the students are assigned toenter personal data into the CATME Team-Maker online software (Available at:https://www.catme.org/login/request ). This software was utilized to generate potential teams.After listening to the mini feasibility reports from their peers, the students completed a projectpreference form which was used to display their interest. The inputs from Team-Maker andstudent interest were then used to create teams which the instructors felt had the best potential.The final team creation step was to allocate one class period for students to negotiate changes.Students could initiate a change of project group by conferencing with the instructors andgaining approval from the respective teams

Conference Session

Pay It Forward: Critical Thinking, Reflection and Faculty Engagement Promote Success in Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary R Goldberg, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Rehabilitation Science and Technology; Rory A. Cooper, University of Pittsburgh; Dan Ding, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Rehabilitation Science and Technology; Alicia Koontz, Human Engineering Research Laboratories

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

inAssistive Technology and Engineering (ELeVATE).Students are active participants and innovators in projects which address real-world problemswith systems-level engineering efforts, serving as a natural attractor to the discipline. Facilitatingthe programs collaboratively is in itself a best practice; it allows for an enhanced cohort, peer-to-peer mentoring, and maximization of resources for a sustainable training program designed toincrease the retention and promotion of underrepresented undergraduates in STEM disciplines.Though ELeVATE will only begin in the summer of 2011, its foundations are deep rooted in thesuccess of QoLT’s REU program which has advanced underrepresented students through theSTEM pipeline and delivered a promising model

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ying Tang, Rowan University; Sachin Shetty, Tennessee State University; Xiufang Chen, Rowan University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees

), and finally to review what part of the problem has been resolved and what is yet to be solved (S). In this project, questions are deliberately presented in a coherent manner throughout the game to assist students in deciding what they already know about the problem and what needs to be explored further. Doing so forces students to conduct the sophisticated kind of thinking required for drawing inferences and developing interpretations. Fig. 2: A sample KWS enabled in Escape• Think-Aloud-Share-Solve (TA2S) training – As Vygotsky pointed out, learning is an inherently social and cultural rather than individual phenomenon [4-6]. The interactions among peers produce intellectual synergy of many

Conference Session

Techniques to Enhance Environmental Engineering Courses

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie Luster-Teasley, North Carolina A&T State University; Cindy Waters, North Carolina A&T State University

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

methods allow the individual student to learn from the instructor, peers, and as anindividual student researching and mastering material. Active learners could benefit by activelyparticipating in lab, hands-on activities. Reflective learners can use the PBL and case studies toreflect over the problem or the framework story associated to the module activities. The researchor fact gathering opportunity the students conduct while developing their environmentalsustainability projects would facilitate learning for students who are sensing learners. Intuitivelearners can use the case studies and PBL to investigate “what if” scenarios in their projects.Visual and verbal learners receive both types of learning styles using PBL and case studies.Sequential

Conference Session

Teams and Teamwork in Design

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter J. Shull, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona; Carla Firetto, The Pennyslvania State University; L.J. Passmore, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

their own set of rules. This paper reports on theeffect of team rules and the concomitant consequences that were developed by the students onteam functioning.Results of a multivariate analysis of variance shows that students perceived that they followedthat rules significantly more than the other members of their group, that they were assigned morework than their peers, that they completed more work that their groups members, and the qualityof their own work was higher. Interestingly, when asked about issues of rule-breaking that aroseout of their groups, many individuals cited issues but ultimately failed to follow the agreed uponprocedures for addressing those incidents.IntroductionTeamwork has long been considered an important element of

Conference Session

Post Graduate Experiential Programs and Insights

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David W Schmueser, Altair Engineering Inc.; Charbel Philippe Saleh, Altair Engineering Inc.; Prakash C. Shrivastava, Oakland University; Lori Lin Crose, Oakland University

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

- secondary programs, she has also had responsibility for writing and administrating educationally oriented grants at the K-12, secondary, and post-secondary levels. Previously she worked extensively in the health care industry, including work as a senior microbiologist for Pharmacia Upjohn and as a laboratory research assistant at a Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. She earned a Master’s degree in Public Administration in 2002 from Oakland University and a Bachelor’s degree from Illinois College in 1981. She is a current member of the Oakland County’s Workforce Development Business Round table and serves

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade in Teaching I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert M. Brooks, Temple University; Jyothsna K. S., St.Joseph's College, Bangalore, Department of English; Amithraj Amavasai

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

school, receiving encouragement andsupport, work and career satisfaction, learning perspective and alternative solutions to theirproblems, less work and non-work conflict, and gaining individual recognition, confidence andself esteem. The mentor’s role is to listen, refer, advise, help the mentee gain perspective, and toserve as a role model. Mentors and mentees discuss problems and recurring themes. The peermentoring program is voluntary. Mentees who begin the peer mentoring program can opt out atany time. When the teacher quality improves, the students’ achievements also improve8. Mentorsfeel an even greater commitment to engineering and enjoy the experience of helping others.ObjectivesThe objectives of this study are to (1) provide new

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Technical Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wayne W. Walter P.E., Rochester Institute of Technology; William Emerson Spath, Rochester Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

team demonstrates their working robot to the class, writes afinal written report on it, and makes an oral presentation to the class on the design, fabrication,and performance of their robot. A video of their working system is submitted with their finalreport and shown at their final presentation. Page 22.674.3Multidisciplinary Engineering Focus Prerequisite skills needed for the Robotics course are rather minimal. Students are required tohave fourth or fifth year status in order to register for the course. They should have experiencewith DC circuits and circuit troubleshooting using a multimeter. Mechanical engineeringstudents will have taken

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering in Silico

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles J. Coronella, University of Nevada, Reno; Victor R. Vasquez, University of Nevada, Reno

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

higher destruction rate clearly results incontaminated food. The assignment requires a written report and an oral report, both completed by theentire group. Students are given a rubric (Figure 1) used to evaluate the oral presentations, andall students complete an evaluation of all presentations. This has the benefit of training studentsin evaluation, and forces them to note the distinctions between good and poor presentations. At Page 22.384.4the conclusion of the project, students complete a peer evaluation of each member of their owngroup (Figure 2). Knowing from the beginning that an anonymous peer evaluation will be donehas, in our

Conference Session

Aerospace Curriculum and Collaborations

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leigh S McCue, Virginia Tech; Joseph A. Schetz, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

program offerings.1.0 IntroductionVirginia Tech is relatively unique compared to peer institutions in that the Ocean Engineering(OE) program grew out of the Aerospace Engineering (AE) program. In planning thisdevelopment, we found that the Aeronautical Engineering program at MIT grew out of theirNaval Architecture program in 1912. Similarly, the Aeronautical Engineering program atMichigan grew from their Naval Architecture department. “An example of the pioneeringteamwork provided by Cooley and Sadler came in 1914 with the offering of aeronauticalengineering courses, following Sadler's organization of the UM Aero Club in 1911. By 1916 acomplete four-year aeronautical degree program was offered within the renamed department ofNaval Architecture

Conference Session

First-year Programs Division Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ding Yuan, Colorado State University, Pueblo; Jude L. DePalma, Colorado State University, Pueblo; Nebojsa I. Jaksic, Colorado State University, Pueblo; Jane M. Fraser, Colorado State University, Pueblo

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First-Year Programs

). Engle and Tinto11 address various obstacles to college success for low-income students.They state that “After six years, only 11 percent of low-income, first-generation students hadearned bachelor‟s degrees compared to 55 percent of their more advantaged peers.” One of theirrecommendations includes cohort development. Furthermore, the learning community modelimproves the persistence of the low-income and the first generation students12.A learning community is an environment that encourages student-student, and faculty-studentinteraction. At Colorado State University - Pueblo, a pilot learning community was initiated inthe Department of Engineering in fall 2009. Two first-year courses were linked with shared

Conference Session

Manufacturing Process Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Denny Choate, Cannon County High School; Kenan Hatipoglu, Tennessee Technological University; Ismail Fidan, Tennessee Technological University; Mohamed Abdelrahman, Texas A&M University, Kingsville

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

and create a presentation of the plan to peers and mentors by the end of first week.Weeks 2 – 6: Research Study  Conduct the research study according to plans developed in Week 1.  Meet once per week with the full group to review progress with peers.  Meet twice per week within subgroups working on related research questions.  Document changes in research plans as needed. Initiate and document plans for development of curriculum learning module in consultation with mentor and engineering research and development consultants. Page 22.1250.4Curriculum Learning Module Implementation:During the summer RET

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Technical Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Dettman P.E., Western Kentucky University; Walter L. Collett, Western Kentucky University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

to the student outcomes, faculty were interested in observing the students duringprogress and troubleshooting sessions. As part of the Project Based Learning approach in theseengineering programs, active learning is a common theme in the student projects. Alison King5describes what she calls guided reciprocal peer questioning as part of the active learning process.The types of questions she describes that induce higher-order thinking include How does…affect…? Why is….important? Explain why… What are the strengths and weaknesses of…?The faculty were interested in seeing if the students had grasped these concepts in their freshmanthrough juniors years and were able to apply them instinctively in this project

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pratibha Varma-Nelson, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis; Stephen Hundley, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis; Terri Tarr, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees

. Page 22.1498.5Mid-career development opportunities include: having dedicated time for major retooling ofcourses and curricula (e.g. reduced teaching load); engaging in education as a research problemthrough grant writing and publications (e.g. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning); andcollaborating with colleagues both inside and outside of engineering disciplines.Finally, late-career development opportunities include: having senior faculty serve as mentors tojunior faculty; providing training on how to mentor; and keeping pace with technology, trends,tools, etc. – something that should reasonably occur throughout the career.2. How engineering faculty are motivated and rewarded for these opportunitiesFaculty need: real-world, practical

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Issues Part II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Martin S. High, Oklahoma State University; Steve Harrist, Oklahoma State University; Scott D. Gelfand, Oklahoma State University, Department of Philosophy

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

AC 2011-2419: TOOLS TO CRAFT ETHICAL BEHAVIORMartin S. High, Oklahoma State University Marty High is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Oklahoma State University. His aca- demic interests include teaching in all areas and at all levels of chemical engineering with a focus on instruction in thermodynamics and mass transfer. His research interests are in the areas of mass transfer in polymeric systems, corrosion modeling, equation of state development and refinery catalysis. Marty also writes in the area of sustainability and on the intersection of law, science and society. He received his engineering education at Penn State (B.S., M.S., and Ph.D.) and earned his law degree (J.D.) from the

Conference Session

Project-Based Education in Energy Curriculum

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Radian G. Belu, Drexel University

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

course focuses on planning, development, andimplementation of an engineering design project, which includes formal report writing, projectdocumentation, group presentations, and project demonstrations. The goal of these courses is todemonstrate the ability to manage a major project involving the design and implementation ofproducts with a mixture of electrical and mechanical elements as a member of a productdevelopment team. In these project-based courses, the students are expected to effectivelymanage their time and team efforts to produce a finished product in three ten-week quarters. Notextbook is required. Weekly progress reports, design notebooks, formal reports, and oralpresentations constitute integral components of this course sequence

Conference Session

Design Spine

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Salah Badjou, Wentworth Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

design courses. He has conducted research, with peer-reviewed publications, in biomedical engineering in the areas of biomechanics, bioelectricity, and biomedical imaging, since 1992. Other research interests include renewable energy, optical fiber communications, and project-based multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary education. Page 22.912.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Integrating Online Learning in Interdisciplinary Electromechanical and Electromechanical/Biomedical Design Courses AbstractThe following paper

Conference Session

Collaborations, Accreditation and Articulation Issues for International Engineering Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Morteza Sadat-Hossieny, Northern Kentucky University; Elizabeth Leibach, Northern Kentucky University

Tagged Divisions

International

2010-2011 Not Transferred 3.00EGT 320 Robotic Systems and Material Handling 2010-2011 Not Transferred 3.00EGT 340 Applied Dynamics 2010-2011 Not Transferred 3.00ENGD080 Writing Lab 2010-2011 Not Transferred 1.00ENGD090 Writing Workshop 2010-2011 Not Transferred 3.00PHI 194 Global Ethical Viewpoints 2010-2011 Not Transferred 3.00AELP000 Non-Credit/American English Lang 2010-2011 Not Transferred 0.00CHE 120 General Chemistry I 2010-2011 D Transferred 3.00CHE 120L General Chemistry I Lab

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University; Stewart Slater, Rowan University; Mariano Javier Savelski, Rowan University; William J Calvo, Chemical and Molecular Engineering Program, Stony Brook University (Stony Brook, NY)

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees

University; the New Jersey Institute of Technology; and the University ofPuerto Rico, Mayagüez, and it is funded by the National Science Foundation. The goal of theCenter is to become a national focal point for developing structured organic particulate systemsused in pharmaceuticals and their manufacturing processes. XX University has partnered as anoutreach/education member institution to expand the impact of the Center through SMETeducation and outreach.This paper describes problem sets for introductory chemical engineering courses such as materialand energy balances. The problems emphasize concepts of unit conversions, engineeringcalculations, estimations, writing a process flow diagram, mass balances, safety, heat offormation, and looking up