Conference Session

Labs and Experiments

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janie Brennan, Washington University in St. Louis; Shawn E Nordell, Washington University in St. Louis ; Erin D Solomon, Washington University in St. Louis

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Chemical Engineering

faculty in their transition to using evidence-based teaching strategies. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Impact of Course Structure on Learning and Self-Efficacy in a Unit Operations LaboratoryIntroductionIn the chemical engineering curriculum, the unit operations laboratory course traditionally servesseveral key roles in the development of students as professional engineers. The primary goal ofthe course is to apply chemical engineering theory learned in core courses to the operation ofequipment. As part of this process, however, numerous additional skills are often also learnedand/or emphasized: experimental design, instrumentation, technical communication

Conference Session

Professional Skills Development

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Cooper, North Carolina State University

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Chemical Engineering

Paper ID #18898No More Death by PowerPoint! Using an Alternative Presentation Model ina ChE Unit Operations Laboratory CourseDr. Matthew Cooper, North Carolina State University Dr. Matthew Cooper is a Teaching Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at North Carolina State University where he teaches Material and Energy Balances, Unit Operations, Transport Phenomena and Mathematical / Computational Methods. He is the recipient of the 2014 NCSU Outstanding Teacher Award, 2015 ASEE ChE Division Raymond W. Fahien Award, and currently serves as the ASEE Chemical Engineering Division’s

Conference Session

Labs and Experiments

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Dee Clay, Ohio State University

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Chemical Engineering

a variety of courses in the ChE department and currently focuses on the Unit Op- erations Laboratory, Mass and Energy Balances, and Separations. He completed the National Effective Teaching Institute course (NETI-1) in June, 2016. Dr. Clay is married to Dr. Kristy Clay, a veterinarian, and has three children, Luke (14), Natalie (14), and Meredith (12). c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Leading an Effective Unit Operations Lab CourseAbstractThis paper is focused on the logistics and unique learning opportunities present in supervising aUnit Operations laboratory course. Specifically, the paper outlines some best

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Chemical Engineering

Paper ID #19398Development and Usage of an Online Homework System in a Chemical Engi-neering CurriculumKyle Joe Branch, University of Utah Kyle Branch is a fourth-year graduate student at the University of Utah Department of Chemical Engi- neering. He has helped develop and teach a freshman laboratory course, and an introduction to chemical engineering course which both use the online homework system described. His main research interest is in engineering education, focusing on the creation and analysis of interactive simulations for undergraduate chemical engineering courses.Prof. Anthony Butterfield, University of Utah

Conference Session

Labs and Experiments

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Margot A Vigeant, Bucknell University; Michael J. Prince, Bucknell University; Katharyn E. K. Nottis, Bucknell University; Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University; Edward C Bent, Bucknell University; Rachel Cincotta, Bucknell University; Kyle Andrew MacDougall, Bucknell University Chemical Engineering Department

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Chemical Engineering

industries. Ideally I would like to be working as a process engineer on a chocolate production system. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Why not just run this as a demo? Differences in students’ conceptual understanding after experiments or demonstrationsChemical engineering enrollments have ballooned in the past five years, making it increasinglychallenging to find physical space for undergraduate student laboratory experiences. Rather thanhave laboratory sections with core chemical engineering courses such as fluid mechanics or heattransfer, most students’ in-major laboratory experience is limited to a unit operations laboratorycourse. Our previous work demonstrated that inquiry

Conference Session

Early ChemE Education

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Grace Katherine Harrell, Oklahoma State University; Alexandra Nicole McPeak, Oklahoma State University; Ashlee Nicole Ford Versypt, Oklahoma State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

A Pharmacokinetic Simulation-Based Module to Introduce Mass Balances and Chemical Engineering Design Concepts to Engineering FreshmenIntroductionOften the opportunities for freshmen engineering students to be exposed to chemical engineeringare limited. Introduction to chemical engineering is typically a sophomore level course.Freshman general engineering courses come in a variety of forms from college orientationcourses to lectures on basics of design and safety to project-based laboratory or designexperiences. A recent survey of 50 chemical engineering undergraduate programs showed that6% of those programs offered engineering laboratory experiences for freshmen through generalengineering courses and 4

Conference Session

Novel Pedagogical Techniques I: Online, Electronic, and Apps!

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Staehle, Rowan University

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Chemical Engineering

Applications in Engineering Education, 4(3): 191-205.21. Ang, S. and R.D. Braatz (2002). Experimental projects for the process control laboratory. Chemical Engineering Education, 36(3): 182-187.22. Pérez-Herranz, V., A.I. Muñoz, J.L. Guiñon, J. Garcia-Antón, S.C. Navarrete (2003). An Internet-based Process Control Laboratory Project. Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Education, 21-25.23. Selmer, A., M. Goodson, M. Kraft, S. Sen, V.F. McNeill, B.S. Johnston, C.K. Colton (2005). Performing Process Control Experiments Across the Atlantic. Chemical Engineering Education 39(3): 232-237.24. Gossage, J.L., C.L. Yaws, D.H. Chen, K. Li, T.C. Ho, J. Hopper, D.L. Cocke (2001). Integrating best practice

Conference Session

Novel Pedagogical Techniques I: Online, Electronic, and Apps!

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elif Miskioglu, Bucknell University

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Chemical Engineering

rubric but also provide instructorswith the ability to track and summarize trends across a period of time or repeated iterations of afull course. Furthermore, this “app” will allow us to easily compile a database of representationuse for Phases III and IV.Vision for Use: The final “app” is envisioned to function much like the increasingly commonworkout or diet tracking apps. Instructors will be able to access the rubric and assigncategorizations to the different types of activities they use (e.g., lecture, laboratory, exam,homework, etc.). An important “app” feature will be tracking both use and frequency of use. Forexample, in a given class period an instructor may have the students engage in 3 active, 2reflective, 1 verbal, and 1 intuitive

Conference Session

Early ChemE Education

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Polly R. Piergiovanni, Lafayette College

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Chemical Engineering

for the hands on activities was a lot of work for the professor, but in futureofferings a student could be hired. Other ways to streamline the process will beinvestigated. For example, Ingredion [http://www.ingredion.com/] generously donatedsamples of several modified starches that will gelatinize without heating. This couldsimplify the preparation process. One topic offered in the first module – Creating FizzyFruit as a way to demonstrate diffusion – was expensive and only slightly successful andso was not offered in the second module. Scale up of the course to offer to hundreds ofstudents would be challenging without dividing them into smaller laboratory sections.ConclusionsThe course was offered twice in the fall semester to approximately

Conference Session

Professional Skills Development

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ashlee Nicole Ford Versypt, Oklahoma State University

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Chemical Engineering

explanation for the apparent regression in theseskills is that some students may have gained experiences that tested their skills throughout thesemester in new ways, revealing that they had deficiencies in these skills that they were notoriginally aware of. An example of such an experience is the team projects in the concurrentcourse Unit Operations Laboratory where students were randomly assigned to work in severaldifferent teams throughout the semester rather than forming teams with their friends. 22 20 18 16 Number of Responses 14 12 10 8

Conference Session

Professional Skills Development

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Dee Clay, Ohio State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

. He has taught a variety of courses in the ChE department and currently focuses on the Unit Op- erations Laboratory, Mass and Energy Balances, and Separations. He completed the National Effective Teaching Institute course (NETI-1) in June, 2016. Dr. Clay is married to Dr. Kristy Clay, a veterinarian, and has three children, Luke (15), Natalie (15), and Meredith (12). c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Integration of Industrially Relevant Examples in ChE Courses Energy Balance on an e-Cigarette DeviceAbstractIdentifying industrially relevant and/or real-world examples is an excellent technique to enhancethe

Conference Session

Labs and Experiments

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kristen Ann Thompson, Loras College

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Chemical Engineering

experiment, this procedure will work best in a setting whereeach student can feel the flask and therefore it is ideal for a laboratory setting, but could be usedas a classroom demonstration. When this experiment was performed, it was part of aThermodynamics class with 16 students. Students worked in groups of two with each studentable to have direct contact with the experimental apparatus. Because two experiments wereperformed in the same session (cold boiling and triple point), half the group did each experimentand then the groups switched. This experiment could also be used in a Chemistry lab or UnitOperations lab, likely in conjunction with a unit on the Refrigeration Cycle. Additionally, due tothe simple nature of this experimental set-up, this

Conference Session

Novel Pedagogical Techniques I: Online, Electronic, and Apps!

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas E. Marlin, McMaster University

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Chemical Engineering

learning is thetopic of this study. A number of journal articles are available that address teaching core engineering courses,and this situation is true for the teaching of Process Control and Automatic Control. Mostpublished papers (e.g., Edgar et. al., 2006; Khier, et. al., 1996; and Seborg et.al, 2003) addressthe course content and issues like whether frequency response should be included in the course,the proper role of dynamic simulation, and design of physical laboratories. Recently, a fewstudies have addressed teaching and learning methods that could be applied to any appropriatecontrol course content. Rossiter (2014) describes blended learning using YouTube videosdeveloped for students to prepare before class. The class was large

Conference Session

Early ChemE Education

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jamie Gomez, University of New Mexico; Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico; Abhaya K. Datye, University of New Mexico

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

Undergraduate Curriculum Com- mittee, as well as faculty advisor for several student societies. She is the instructor of several courses in the CBE curriculum including the Material and Energy Balances, junior laboratories and Capstone De- sign courses. She is associated with several professional organizations including the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and American Society of Chemical Engineering Education (ASEE) where she adopts and contributes to innovative pedagogical methods aimed at improving student learning and retention.Dr. Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico Dr. Vanessa Svihla is a learning scientist and assistant professor at the University of New Mexico in the Organization, Information

Conference Session

Novel Pedagogical Techniques II: Potpourri

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Miriam R. Wattenbarger, University of Pennsylvania

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

applications. The presence of at least one and usually two directors in the every classprovides continuity and consistency for the course administration, course content, and student-faculty interactions.Table 1. Departments from UPENN and Industry represented by the speakers from 2014 to 2017School/Industry Department Speakers Lectures Bioengineering (BE) 2 2SEAS Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering 1 7 (CBE) Pathology and laboratory medicine 3 7 Pediatrics 1