Conference Session

Adaptive and Supportive Learning Environments

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric C. Huang, Manhattan College

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering, Minorities in Engineering

’ connectedness across grade levels, Professional School Counseling 12, 137-143, 2008.17. Budny, D, CA Paul, and BB Newborg, Impact of peer mentoring on freshmen engineering students, Journal of STEM Education 11:9-24, 2010.18. Moslemi, JM, KA Capps, MS Johnson, J Maul, PB McIntyre, AM Melvin, TM Vadas, DM Vallano, JM Watkins, and M Weiss, Training tomorrow’s environmental problem solvers: an integrative approach to Page 25.499.7 graduate education, BioScience 59:514-521, 2009.19. McLean, M, Does the curriculum matter in peer mentoring? From mentee to mentor in problem-based learning: a unique case study, Mentoring and Tutoring

Conference Session

New Classrooms, New Challenges II: Assessing Non-traditional Approaches

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Cooper, North Carolina State University; Lisa G. Bullard, North Carolina State University; Steven W. Peretti, North Carolina State University; David F. Ollis, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

numerous awards for both teaching and advising, including being named as an NCSU Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Professor, the ASEE Raymond W. Fahien Award, the John Wiley Premier Award for Engineering Education Courseware, NCSU Fac- ulty Advising Award, National Effective Teaching Institute Fellow, NCSU Alumni Outstanding Teacher Award, George H. Blessis Outstanding Undergraduate Advisor Award, ASEE Southeastern Section New Teacher Award, and ASEE-ERM Apprentice Faculty Grant Award. Bullard’s research interests lie in the area of educational scholarship, including teaching and advising effectiveness, academic integrity, process design instruction, and the integration of writing, speaking, and computing within the

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael A. Collura, University of New Haven; W. David Harding, University of New Haven

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Chemical Engineering

courses that focus on mass and energy balances or a singlemass and energy balance course plus a thermodynamics course. At the University of New Havenall engineering students take a sequence of common, multidisciplinary engineering courses in thefreshman and sophomore years before developing depth in their chosen discipline. The details ofthis integrated curriculum have been discussed in previous publications1,2. In this integrated Page 25.914.2curriculum, the topics of mass and energy balances are introduced in a multidisciplinary course,EAS211 Introduction to Modeling of Engineering Systems, which also applies the balanceapproach to momentum

Conference Session

Best. Class. Ever.

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Linda S. Davis, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Deborah Lynn Grubbe P.E., Operations and Safety Solutions, LLC; Ronald Lee Cutshall Sr., R. L. Cutshall Sr., Consulting; Steven J. Swanson; Michael T. Harris, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Arvind Varma, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Chemical Engineering

, anexplosion in a Massey Energy mine in West Virginia killed 29 workers in the worst mineincident in four decades. Also, in 2010, an explosion on the Deep Water off-shore oil platformin the Gulf Coast left 11 dead and caused yet to be understood damage to the environment andeconomy. The fines and lawsuits associated with these three incidents have been and willcontinue to be horrendous2. Process safety management must continue to improve and beadhered to if employees, communities and the environment are to be protected.A revision to the ABET program criteria for chemical engineering programs in January 2012requires that the curriculum “enable graduates to design, analyze, and control physical, chemicaland/or biological processes, and address the

Conference Session

New Classrooms, New Challenges II: Assessing Non-traditional Approaches

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard L. Zollars, Washington State University; Adam Scott Carter, Washington State University; Christopher Hundhausen, Washington State University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

course in the chemical engineering curriculum. Thissoftware package was developed to assist students in converting written descriptions into agraphical format and then into a mathematical representation. The software includes a numberof messages designed to help the students overcome typical errors when trying to formulateproblem solutions to typical material and energy balance problems. This messaging activity inthe software was designed to play the role of an expert in the field who would not tell thestudents the answer but would prompt them to examine what they had done that did not seemproper.The messaging component of the software has proven to increase student accuracy in solvingmaterial/energy balance problems while also increasing the

Conference Session

ChemE Potpourri

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David L. Silverstein, University of Kentucky; Lisa G. Bullard, North Carolina State University; Margot A. Vigeant, Bucknell University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

and advising, including being named as an NCSU Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Professor, the ASEE Raymond W. Fahien Award, the John Wiley Premier Award for Engineering Education Courseware, NCSU Fac- ulty Advising Award, National Effective Teaching Institute Fellow, NCSU Alumni Outstanding Teacher Award, George H. Blessis Outstanding Undergraduate Advisor Award, ASEE Southeastern Section New Teacher Award, and ASEE-ERM Apprentice Faculty Grant Award. Bullard’s research interests lie in the area of educational scholarship, including teaching and advising effectiveness, academic integrity, process design instruction, and the integration of writing, speaking, and computing within the curriculum.Dr. Margot A

Conference Session

New Classrooms, New Challenges II: Assessing Non-traditional Approaches

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University; Kenneth J. Williamson, Oregon State University; Jeffrey A. Nason, Oregon State University; Goran Jovanovic Ph.D., Oregon State University; Chih-hung Chang, Oregon State University; Adam Z. Higgins, Oregon State University; Craig M. Gates, Oregon State University; Richard Mark Roehner, Oregon State University

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Chemical Engineering

objectives of the studio implementation include: 1. Provide an environment where a large number of students are engaged in active learning. 2. Design a learning environment that allows strategic and tactical implementation of active learning pedagogies and which allows relatively easy scaling to meet changing enrollments. 3. Provide a scaffolded support structure for GTAs which promotes their integration in class organization and achievement of learning objectives and that allows them to develop their teaching skills, knowledge of how students learn, and increases the value they place in teaching.Studio Architecture and Implementation DesignIn the studio-based curriculum design, classes are divided with studios

Conference Session

Best. Class. Ever.

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Victor M. Ugaz, Texas A&M University; Aashish Priye, Texas A&M University ; Yassin A. Hassan, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

have instituted in a recent update of our undergraduate chemicalengineering curriculum to ensure that sutdents possess a suitable fundamental background in thisarea. Page 25.473.4Next, students learn the fundamental aspects of buoyancy driven convective flows. This contentis designed to integrate with previous coursework in the transport sequence. The importance ofthe dimensionless Rayleigh number, a parameter that expresses the ratio of destabilizing buoyantforces to the restoring effects of viscous and thermal diffusion, is highlighted using the design oflava lamps as a relatable illustrative example. Once the mathematical

Conference Session

ChemE Potpourri

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bill Jay Brooks, Oregon State University; Debra Gilbuena, Oregon State University; John L. Falconer, University of Colorado, Boulder; David L. Silverstein, University of Kentucky; Ronald L. Miller, Colorado School of Mines; Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University

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Chemical Engineering

AC 2012-4310: PRELIMINARY DEVELOPMENT OF THE AICHE CON-CEPT WAREHOUSEMr. Bill Jay Brooks, Oregon State University Bill Brooks is a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Chemical, Biological, and Environmental Engineering at Oregon State University. As an undergraduate he studied hardware engineering, software engineering, and chemical engineering. Brooks has been involved in the development of several educational software tools, including the Virtual BioReactor, the Web-based Interactive Science and Engineering (WISE) Learning Tool, and the AIChE Concept Warehouse. His dissertation is focused on technology-mediated, active learning techniques, and the mechanisms through which they impact student performance.Ms. Debra

Conference Session

Best. Class. Ever.

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bernard J. Van Wie, Washington State University; David B. Thiessen, Washington State University; Marc Compere, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach FL; Ximena Toro; Jennifer C Adam, Washington State University; Shane A. Brown P.E., Washington State University; Andrew P Easley, Washington State University; Xuesong Li P.E., Washington State University; Kevin Lee, University of Idaho; Mert Colpan, Washington State University; Kevin Tyler Gray, Washington State University; Benjamin Garrett, Washington State University; Shane Riley Reynolds, Washington State University; Paul B. Golter, Washington State University; Olusola Adesope, Washington State University, Pullman

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Chemical Engineering

Engineering Physics from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in 2010. She is interested in Clean Energy Systems and has native fluency in English and Spanish. She is currently working at General Motors as a Development Engineer for the Chevrolet Volt and has worked for Mitsubishi Power Systems as a Mechanical Engineer.Dr. Jennifer C Adam, Washington State University Dr. Jennifer Adam is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineer- ing at Washington State University (WSU). She applies numerical hydrologic models to investigate the impacts of climate change on regional to continental scale hydrology. For example, she and collabo- rators are currently integrating a regional-scale hydrologic