Conference Session

ChemE Curriculum: Junior, Senior, and Graduate

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Madeline Polmear, University of Colorado, Boulder; Chris Swan, Tufts University; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder; Nathan E. Canney

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

ethics (50%) and broader impacts (46%). Graduate student ESI education wasperceived to be even weaker; 76% rated ethics education insufficient and 74% rated broaderimpacts education insufficient. At the median, chemical engineering faculty identified threedifferent types of courses where they believed undergraduate students in their program learnedabout ESI, most commonly capstone design (72%). Over half of the chemical engineeringinstructors reported teaching safety, professional practice issues, engineering decisions underuncertainty, environmental protection issues, sustainability, ethical failures, and the societalimpacts of technology in their courses. The survey and follow-up interviews with three chemicalengineering faculty members

Conference Session

Novel Classrooms

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julie L. P. Jessop, University of Iowa; Anna L. Flaming, University of Iowa

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

Brookfield puts it, “think[ing] deeply about whatwe do and how best to introduce students to complex new knowledge or skillsets.”8 This guideis intended to help faculty members overcome concerns and potential difficulties cited in theliterature, including “workload for faculty, student resistance, lack of opportunities for just-in-time questions, technical issues, decreased interest and neglected material” (see p. 7 in Ref. 5).This paper will address strategies for making the most of these benefits and for overcoming thesechallenges.Julie – My decision to flip was based on a disconnect between my reality and my vision for myMEB class. Students tended to sit passively in my lectures (sometimes) taking notes, but Iwanted (and tried) to engage them in

Conference Session

ChemE Curriculum: Freshman and Sophomore

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katherine Rae Tanner, Ohio State University; Rachel Louis Kajfez, Ohio State University; Krista M Kecskemety, Ohio State University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

the First Year: A Mixed Methods ApproachAbstractFor any student in the first year of an undergraduate program, there are an overwhelming numberof decisions to make. One of the biggest of these is choosing what to study. This choice isinfluenced by many complex factors and is difficult to predict or fully understand. A betterrecognition of why a student opts into and stays in a major could yield a deeper understandinginto how students choose a major and what they expect from engineering careers. This paperexamines students who chose chemical engineering and completed a set of surveys administeredduring their first year of study. The surveys contained questions that were both quantitative andqualitative in nature. In