Conference Session

Design, Creativity and Critical Thinking in the Chemical Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn F. Trenshaw, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Troy J. Vogel, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

more successful peers? And what caninstructors and the teams themselves do to mitigate difficulties and avoid complete teambreakdown? To answer these questions, we investigated the engineering teams in a chemicalengineering design capstone course for seniors. We assessed the possibility that the differences,rather than being due to team demographics or GPA discrepancies, were actually due to minutepersonality type differences among team members. We gave students the Myers-Briggs TypeIndicator® (MBTI)1 at the beginning of the course, but did not reveal their types to them so thatthey would not modify their behavior based on that knowledge. Throughout the course, theinstructor kept notes on student interactions during team meetings and

Conference Session

Improving Introductory Experiences in Chemical Engineering

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gladis Chávez-Torrejón, Universidad de las Americas Puebla; Silvia Husted, Universidad de las Americas Puebla; Nelly Ramirez-Corona, Universidad de las Americas Puebla; Aurelio Lopez-Malo, Universidad de las Americas Puebla; Enrique Palou, Universidad de las Americas Puebla

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Chemical Engineering

isbased on the idea that the best measure of critical thinking regardless of what is being evaluated,is the assessment by experts in that field.Course two major projects were presented to a group of twenty experts in the field (chemical,food, and environmental engineering professors that teach engineering design capstone coursesand alumni with such expertise) that assessed students’ critical thinking by means of aspecialized rubric3 (Appendix A). Possible performance levels were from exemplary (value of 4,skilled, marked by excellence in clarity, accuracy, precision, relevance, depth, breadth,logicality, and fairness) to unsatisfactory (value of 1, unskilled and insufficient, marked byimprecision, lack of clarity, superficiality, illogicality

Conference Session

Curriculum Development and Assessment in Chemical Engineering

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vincent Wilczynski, Yale University; Isabella M. Quagliato, Yale University: School of Engineering & Applied Science

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Chemical Engineering

. Wilczynski was named the 2001 Baccalaureate College Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation, the only national award which recognizes outstanding college teaching.Ms. Isabella M Quagliato, Yale University: School of Engineering & Applied Science Isabella Quagliato joined Yale University in January 2013 as the Program Manager Analyst for the Yale School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS). After obtaining her B.S. with high honors in Civil Engineering & Structural Design from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, she worked for two years as a structural engineering designer at Dewberry Good-kind, then worked for three years as a structural de- signer and project manager at Spiegel Zamecnik & Shah

Conference Session

Improving Laboratory Education in Chemical Engineering

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joshua A. Levinson, Lafayette College; Eric L. Maase, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; Glen Thomas Tennyson

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

Paper ID #8705Automated Process Control Laboratory Experience: Simultaneous Temper-ature and Level Control in a Continuously Stirred Tank Reactor SystemDr. Joshua A. Levinson, Lafayette College Levinson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at Lafayette College. His teaching interests are in senior capstone design, integrated chemical engineering laboratory, transport, and thermodynamics. His research interests are in semiconductor processing technology, mi- crofluidics, transport phenomena, chemical kinetics, and chemical engineering pedagogy.Dr. Eric L. Maase, University of

Conference Session

Improving Laboratory Education in Chemical Engineering

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Cooper, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

. Cicciarelli, “Use of pre-recorded video demonstrations in laboratory courses.” Chemical Engineering Education 47 (2), 133-136 (2013).21. The Foundation Coalition, “Forming student engineering teams.” available at www.foundationcoalition.org/ teams, last accessed January 2014.22. S. Feichtner and E. Davis, “Why some groups fail: a survey of students’ experiences with learning groups.” Organizational Behavior Teaching Review 9, 58-71 (1984).23. J. Brickell, D. Porter, M. Reynolds and R. Cosgrave, “Assigning students to groups for engineering design projects: a comparison of five methods.” Journal of Engineering Education 7, 259-262 (1994).24. C. Heldt, “Peer evaluation in chemical engineering capstone design via wikis.” Chemical Engineering