Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Taryn Melkus Bayles, University of Pittsburgh

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Chemical Engineering

process economics. In order to provide our students the opportunity to effectivelycommunicate their work, critically analyze and critique open-ended designs, the projects arerotated between teams for each section of the design. For the final design, each team is returnedtheir original design project and critiques in order to complete the final analysis. During therotation of projects, the teams have the opportunity to work on the design of three differentprocesses, to evaluate one another’s work, integrate design reviews into their final analysis andlearn by critically analyzing the work done by other design teams. This is the second year of this approach to teaching our capstone design I class. Thiswork in progress presentation will

Conference Session

New Pedagogical Approaches in Chemical Engineering

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anthony Butterfield, University of Utah; Kyle Joe Branch, University of Utah

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Chemical Engineering

gains for both the mentor and mentee student. Furthermore,developing social connections to a department, and forming the engineering identity of incomingstudents have both been repeatedly demonstrated to improve student retention. To benefit bysuch teaching and retention potential, we have introduced collaborative projects for inter-cohortteams of freshmen and senior students in the University of Utah’s Department of ChemicalEngineering.Freshmen develop their resumes over their first year in our program. Towards the end of ourspring semester they use their resumes to apply for positions on the senior capstone projects onwhich they are most interested in working. Senior teams then use the resumes to make hiringdecisions. Once teams are assembled

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Courses in Emergent Areas

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Lepek, The Cooper Union; Marc-Olivier Coppens, University College London (UCL)

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Chemical Engineering

Coppens’s experience in transforming the capstone Chemical ProcessDesign course at his former US university, and a project-based course on fractals in chemicalengineering taught in the USA and the Netherlands. Working together, this new elective courseprovided students with an introduction to the emerging research area of Nature InspiredChemical Engineering, leveraged new technologies to help improve the learning process, andprepared them for applications in the future workplace.Centre for Nature-Inspired EngineeringThe overarching vision of the Centre for Nature-Inspired Engineering is to use nature as aguiding platform to seek potentially transformative solutions to engineering grand challenges,such as sustainable energy, clean water, and

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth M. Hill, University of Minnesota - Duluth

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Chemical Engineering

course of a single semester so steps eight through ten of theVaughen’s Design Project Road Map are reserved for the capstone design course students takelater in the curriculum. If the topic chosen for the risk assessment is not for a chemical process, itstill needs to address the first seven steps and the instructor may provide insight on how to alterthe scope slightly to allow it to be approved.The students gain a base knowledge of the area of risk assessment prior to receiving the aboveassignment in a manner that caters to multiple learning styles as described by Felder andSilverman. The learning styles of this index were updated in 2003 and their applicability for theprescribed pre-work is shown by the bracketed text in the following

Conference Session

Instructional and Learning Assessment in Chemical Engineering

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David L. Silverstein P.E., University of Kentucky; Margot A Vigeant, Bucknell University; Mary Staehle, Rowan University

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Chemical Engineering

relevant courses were contacted directly by email when practical. Thesurvey was conducted online using the open-source survey package LimeSurvey. The surveyquestions this year were developed in consultation with CACHE Corporation and with theAIChE Education and Accreditation Committee. The report consists primarily of the statisticaland demographic characterization of the course and its content, with some additional summaryresponses related to the course from open-ended questions. Additionally, the survey seeks tobring out the most innovative and effective approaches to teaching the course as cited byinstructors.Introduction and BackgroundThe AIChE Education Special Projects Committee conducted surveys of U.S. institutionsbetween 1965-1993

Conference Session

New Pedagogical Approaches in Chemical Engineering

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joshua A Enszer, University of Delaware

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Chemical Engineering

with heat and masstransfer and chemical kinetics, though it can also be taken in the senior year as it is a co-requisiteto spring semester capstone design. Less than 10% of the students from 2013-2015 took thecourse concurrently with capstone design; the majority of students were in their junior year.The course includes three projects, highlighting process optimization (determination of desiredoperating conditions), process control and tuning (illustration of a simple PID control scheme),and process safety (hazards identification for a lab and development of a Standard OperatingProcedure and entry/exit protocol), which comprise of 30% of the course grade. Another 50% ofthe grade comes from exams and class participation. The final 20% of the

Conference Session

Instructional and Learning Assessment in Chemical Engineering

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico; Abhaya K. Datye, University of New Mexico; Jamie R Gomez, University of New Mexico; Victor Law, Program of Organization, Information, and Learning Sciences at University of New Mexico; Sophia Bowers, University of New Mexico

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Diversity

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Chemical Engineering

research inter- ests are in heterogeneous catalysis, materials characterization and nanomaterials synthesis. His research group has pioneered the development of electron microscopy tools for the study of catalysts.Dr. Jamie R Gomez, University of New Mexico Jamie Gomez, Ph.D., is a Lecturer Title III in the department of Chemical & Biological Engineering (CBE) at the University of New Mexico. She is a co- Principal Investigator for the National Science Foundation (NSF) funded Professional Formation of Engineers: Research Initiation in Engineering For- mation (PFE: RIEF) for the project- Using Digital Badging and Design Challenge Modules to Develop Professional Identity. She is a member of the department’s ABET and