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Hands-On Projects and Demos

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jacob James Elmer, Villanova University; Daniel Adam Kraut, Villanova University

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Chemical Engineering

:2452341) and printed. However,the students can also be challenged to modify the plate designs (e.g., add corrugations to induceturbulence and increase heat transfer) in a drafting program like SolidWorks. Either way, theprinted plates can be assembled and used to transfer heat between streams of hot (< 40oC) and cold(~4oC) water, but additional equipment is required (pumps, tubing, and thermocouples). In themost advanced iteration of this project, thermocouples can be attached to an Arduino thatautomatically records the stream temperatures.Overview While there are many different modes of heat transfer, including conduction, convection,and radiation, most chemical engineers are primarily concerned with the transfer between twoliquid

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Hands-On Projects and Demos

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anthony Butterfield, University of Utah; Katrina My Quyen Le, AMES High School; Kerry Kelly, University of Utah; Pascal Goffin, University of Utah; Thomas Becnel, University of Utah ; Pierre-Emmanuel GAILLARDON, University of Utah

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Diversity

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Chemical Engineering

c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Citizen Scientists Engagement in Air Quality MeasurementsAbstract:Citizen scientist efforts, wherein members of the public who are not professional scientistsparticipate in active research, have been shown to effectively engage the public in STEM fieldsand result in valuable data, essential to answering pressing research questions. However, mostcitizen scientist efforts have been centered in colleges of science, and a limited number havecrossed into research areas important to chemical engineering fields. In this work we report onthe results of a project to recruit high school and middle school students across Utah’s Salt LakeValley as citizen scientists and potential engineering

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Hands-On Projects and Demos

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lucas James Landherr, Northeastern University; Courtney Pfluger, Northeastern University; Ryan A Koppes, Northeastern University

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Chemical Engineering

Paper ID #22563The River Project: an Open-Ended Engineering Design Challenge from Bench-Scale to Pilot-ScaleDr. Lucas James Landherr, Northeastern University Dr. Lucas Landherr is an associate teaching professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Northeastern University, conducting research in engineering education.Dr. Courtney Pfluger, Northeastern University Dr. Courtney Pfluger received her Doctoral degree in Chemical Engineering from Northeastern University in 2011. In the fall of 2011, she took a position as an Assistant Teaching Professor at Northeastern University in the College of Engineering as a part of

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Hands-On Projects and Demos

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Negar Beheshti Pour, Washington State University; Kitana Manivone Kaiphanliam, Washington State University; Arshan Nazempour, Washington State University; David B. Thiessen, Washington State University; Robert F. Richards, Washington State University; Fanhe Shamus Meng, Washington State University; Olusola Adesope, Washington State University; Sarah A. Wilson, University of Kentucky; Derek L. Englert, University of Kentucky; Bernard J. Van Wie, Washington State University

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Chemical Engineering

learning modules.Kitana Manivone Kaiphanliam, Washington State University Kitana Kaiphanliam is a Senior Undergraduate student in the Chemical Engineering program at Washing- ton State University (WSU), where she will also be continuing her education. She currently works with the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE) group on a hands-on learning project funded by the National Science Foundation’s Division of Undergraduate Education. Kitana is an active member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) at WSU, and will serve as their Graduate Student Advisor for the 2018 academic year.Dr. Arshan Nazempour, Washington State University Arshan Nazempour completed his PhD in Chemical Engineering at

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Works-in-Progress Postcard Session

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Polly R. Piergiovanni, Lafayette College

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Chemical Engineering

questionsthat could clearly show student understanding of the applications and fairly grading the studentanswers was challenging. In addition, over the past few years, the effect of test anxiety hasbecome noticeable – good students who have shown an understanding of the material whilediscussing homework problems during office hours perform miserably on the exam. Was thereanother way to fairly assess learning without causing student anxiety? Thus, in Spring 2017 thecourse was modified to address three research questions: • Can students learn the course material through inexpensive hands-on projects conducted during class time? • What project should be developed for each segment of the course? • Can the instructor assess individual

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Diversity and Global Experiences

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Randy S. Lewis, Brigham Young University; Terri Christiansen Bateman, Brigham Young University; Carol J. Ward, Brigham Young University

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Diversity

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Chemical Engineering

associate professor in the Sociology Department. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Assessment of a Global Engineering Outreach CourseIntroduction.Since the establishment of Engineers Without Borders in 20021, opportunities for students athigher learning institutions to participate in global development projects has been enhanced. In2007, a multi-disciplinary course for engineering and technology students was established atBrigham Young University where students could work on global problems, researching not onlytechnical but economic and socio-cultural issues. The two-semester Global EngineeringOutreach (GEO) course has involved students who were selected following an applicationprocess

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Diversity and Global Experiences

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jamie Gomez, University of New Mexico; Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico

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Diversity

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Chemical Engineering

Paper ID #23158Supporting Diversity in Teams Through Asset MappingDr. Jamie Gomez R, 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 Undergraduate Curriculum Com- mittee, as

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Chemical Engineering Division Poster Session

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Matthew Lucian Alexander P.E., Texas A&M University, Kingsville

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Diversity

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Chemical Engineering

Process Design IIand Design III course sequence at our minority-serving institution (MSI), Texas A&MUniversity-Kingsville (TAMUK). In this two-semester course sequence, students are introducedto sustainability concepts during instruction in chemical process formulation and processsimulation (Design II). Subsequently, students are further instructed on this topic during theirsemester-long senior design project (Design III) course. For the senior design experience,students are required to form into groups of four and complete a senior design project thatinvolves process simulation, using Aspen Plus software, and cost estimation of a chosenchemical process. The author has been the primary course instructor for this two-coursesequence for only

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Diversity and Global Experiences

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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David DiBiasio, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Kristin Boudreau, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Leslie Dodson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Curtis Abel, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Chemical Engineering

awarded the 2001 William Corcoran Award from Chemical Engineering Education. He served as 2004 chair of the ASEE ChE Division, has served as an ABET program evaluator and on the AIChE/ABET Education & Accreditation Committee. He has also served as Assessment Coordinator in WPI’s Interdis- ciplinary and Global Studies Division and as Director of WPI’s Washington DC Project Center. He was secretary/treasurer of the new Education Division of AIChE. In 2009 he was awarded the rank of Fellow in the ASEE, and in 2013 was awarded the rank of Fellow in AIChE.Dr. Kristin Boudreau, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Kristin Boudreau is Paris Fletcher Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Worcester Polytechnic In- stitute

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Chemical Engineering Division Poster Session

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chris Barr, University of Michigan

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Chemical Engineering

application of thetheory learned in multiple lecture-based chemical engineering courses. These labs buildpractical knowledge of equipment and design, encourage good engineering practices such astraceability and reproducibility of data, and help develop skills such as interpersonal andtechnical communication skills.Our senior UO laboratory is comprised of interconnected experiments in a “pilot-plant” scale aswell as interconnected rotational objectives for the experiments. As a result, dissemination ofinformation amongst current project group members, amongst group members of the nextrotation, and amongst lab personnel is extremely important. In previous years, students havebeen asked to use pen-and-paper lab notebooks and/or binders to record their

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Works-in-Progress Postcard Session

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Adam T Melvin, Louisiana State University; Lisa G. Bullard, North Carolina State University

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Chemical Engineering

effective for a time;however, they did not address changes in technology or on-line resources that have more recentlybecome available and widely used. Moreover, the scenario-based videos were limited in scope toa single course in a single engineering discipline which restricted their overall utility across thecurriculum. Recent observations by the authors and input from current undergraduate studentsidentified new scenarios that needed to be addressed, including cheating in laboratory courses,cheating in project-based courses, and cheating on exams. Student Conduct professionals furtheroffered suggestions on the commentary provided by the video’s narrator to establish context forthe scenarios. This work in progress presents the updated set of

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Novel Classrooms

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ayman M. Alabdullatif, Oregon State University; Shane Paul Lorona, Oregon State University; Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University

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Chemical Engineering

cognitive skills in engineering problem solving. His research interests particularly focus on what prevents students from being able to integrate and extend the knowledge developed in specific courses in the core curriculum to the more complex, authentic problems and projects they face as professionals. Dr. Koretsky is one of the founding members of the Center for Lifelong STEM Education Research at OSU. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Students’ Responses to Professionally Contextualized Activities in a Studio ClassIntroductionIn a project to “re-situate” learning to better align student work at school with the work they willdo in professional

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ChemE Curriculum: Junior, Senior, and Graduate

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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

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Chemical Engineering

Madeline Polmear is a PhD student in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engi- neering at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her research interests include ethics education and the societal impacts of engineering and technology.Dr. Chris Swan, Tufts University Chris Swan is an associate professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering department at Tufts Uni- versity. He has additional appointments in the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life and the Center for Engineering Education and Outreach at Tufts. His current engineering education research interests focus on community engagement, service-based projects and examining whether an entrepreneurial mindset can be used to further

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ChemE Curriculum: Freshman and Sophomore

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Chemical Engineering

1 chemical engineering declared in STEM fields Number of other majors and minors Declared minor is worth one-third of a declared, completed before the 1 declared major, non-STEM is worth half course Ethnic minority status 1 Ethnicities besides white and Asian Gender 1 Unspecified gender was given the average As an outcome measure of student performance, we considered the students’ overallscores in the course, based 40% on individual assignments, 35% on team assignments, 20% ontheir final project as a team, and 5% for submitting peer evaluations and

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Chemical Engineering Division Poster Session

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel D. Anastasio, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Heather Chenette, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Gregory T. Neumann, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Tony Ribera, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Chemical Engineering

project came from the desire to continue to improve the quality of learningthat our students experience in the unit operations laboratory course. With input from the entirechemical engineering faculty, course changes are under consideration. As with most unitoperations laboratory courses, this course lives at the end of the 4-year curriculum and serves asthe culmination of the student's prior coursework. Chemical engineering faculty at Rose-HulmanInstitute of Technology (RHIT) perceive that students appear to lose motivation and excitementfor doing high-quality work in the laboratory course, potentially diminishing student outcomes;these attitudes are motivating the desired change to the curriculum.Before making changes, we first needed to assess

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ChemE Curriculum: Junior, Senior, and Graduate

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Erick S. Vasquez, University of Dayton; Zachary J. West, University of Dayton; Matthew Dewitt, University of Dayton; Robert J. Wilkens, University of Dayton; Michael J. Elsass, University of Dayton

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Diversity

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Chemical Engineering

availability. Overall, a total of six experiments are performed: a calibrationexperiment, three core unit operations experiments (focusing on heat transfer, fluid flow, andseparation process), an operability study, and a final project. A full detail calendar for the term isshown in Table 1. The calibration experiment is the first required report, and it is focused onverifying the existing instrumentation or recommend a calibration for a piece of equipment suchas a rotameter or pump. For the three core experiments, the students have two weeks ofexperimentation and one additional week to write a report. The operability study is performedduring one week of experimentation, and the students make a presentation or write a two-pagememo to summarize their

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Works-in-Progress Postcard Session

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tracy L. Carter, Northeastern University; Samira M. Azarin, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Janie Brennan, Washington University in St. Louis; Elizabeth Hill, University of Minnesota Duluth; Amy J. Karlsson, University of Maryland - College Park

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Chemical Engineering

. concepts of inherently safer design Large, public, Gain an understanding and •   Performance of “Project Risk Mid-Atlantic appreciation of safe laboratory Analysis” to qualitatively evaluate region, R1 practices. risk for each experiment, including potential effect on other experiments •   One lecture to teach the Risk Analysis framework Mid-sized, Apply effective engineering •   Design of experiments by students, private, experimentation

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Chemical Engineering Division Poster Session

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael D. M. Barankin, Colorado School of Mines; Kevin Stratman, Colorado School of Mines

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Chemical Engineering

2011, Dr. Barankin was a lecturer at the Hanze University of Applied Sciences in Groningen, where he taught both in Dutch and in English. During this time his primary teaching and course develop- ment responsibilities were wide-ranging, but included running the Unit Operations laboratory, introducing Aspen Plus software to the curriculum, and developing a course for a new M.S. program on Renewable Energy (EUREC). In conjunction with his teaching appointment, he supervised dozens of internships (a part of the curriculum at the Hanze), and a number of undergraduate research projects with the Energy Knowledge Center (EKC) as well as a master’s thesis. In 2016, Dr. Barankin returned to the US to teach at the Colorado

Conference Session

Novel Classrooms

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Chemical Engineering

Teaching Excellence, and is a fellow of the American Chemical Society. She is active in the American Chemical Society as a Science Coach and Past Chair and Councilor for the Division of Polymeric Materials: Science & Engineering; in RadTech as a standing member of the Technical Con- ference Review Committee; and for Project Lead the Way as an Affiliate Professor. She was selected to participate in the National Academy of Engineering’s Frontiers of Engineering Education (FOEE) and the American Society for Engineering Education’s Virtual Community of Practice (VCP). She enjoys teach- ing chemical engineering and, as an alumna of FOEE and VCP, champions active learning principles and provides support for

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ChemE Curriculum: Freshman and Sophomore

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tracy Q. Gardner, Colorado School of Mines

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Chemical Engineering

o Homework problem o Project assignment o Quiz question o Exam question o __________________ (anything else in the course)However, keep in mind that ultimately you need to assess the course-level learning outcomesthemselves! Pitfall #3 – Breaking course-level learning outcomes down into unit-level learning outcomes and further into daily learning outcomes can lead you away from actually assessing the higher-order thinking skills written into the course-level LO’s! Similarly, assigning only problems tied directly to the most recent “lesson” or writing quizzes that closely resemble the most recent homework likely won’t assess higher-level LO’s

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Chemical Engineering Division Poster Session

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Janie Brennan, Washington University in St. Louis

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Chemical Engineering

any visual cue for when it has beensaturated with adsorbate. Finally, some demonstrations required pumps or other forms of moreexpensive/complicated lab equipment (for example, [9] - [11]), which would not be ideal for asimple demonstration during a lecture course.For this project, a fixed-bed adsorption demonstration was developed that is not only relativelylarge in size, is also very cheap, safe, and colorful. Furthermore, the demonstration could beeasily expanded to be a short lab activity that could be completed by student teams to examinethe effects of several key variables, such as bed height, contaminant concentration, etc.Construction details for the demonstration are provided in Appendix B. To summarize, thecolumn is constructed of a

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ChemE Curriculum: Junior, Senior, and Graduate

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Margot A. Vigeant, Bucknell University; David L. Silverstein P.E., University of Kentucky; Kevin D. Dahm, Rowan University; Laura P. Ford, University of Tulsa; Jennifer Cole, Northwestern University; Lucas James Landherr, Northeastern University

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Chemical Engineering

will be considering chemical engineering thermodynamics andthereafter loop through the proceeding topics.While each instructor may have a clear concept in mind when they say “instructional laboratory”or “lab,” the activities and educational outcomes associated with these experiences vary sowidely that it’s easy to be misunderstood. The term “lab” may be applied to learning experiencesthat are replications of precise instructions, discovery-based experiences, simulations, orprogramming; they may occur from benchtop to pilot scale; they may imply a different activityevery week or a single semester-long project. United States Department of Education guidelinessuggest that the credit hours for lab is typically one half of the credit hours accorded

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ChemE Curriculum: Freshman and Sophomore

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Chemical Engineering

choose chemical engineering as their major? We investigatedthis research question by examining information about students’ beliefs about what chemicalengineers do in the workplace and they certainty that this major was the correct choice for them.MethodsThis project used a mixed methods approach through surveys that contained both quantitativeand qualitative questions. The set of three surveys were administered. The data was gatheredover the course of one academic year from first-year engineering students at a large land-grantuniversity.ParticipantsThe survey participants were first-year students enrolled in engineering majors at a large land-grant university in the Midwest. The students in the engineering program at this school areadmitted to

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ChemE Curriculum: Junior, Senior, and Graduate

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Katharyn E. K. Nottis, Bucknell University; Margot A. Vigeant, Bucknell University; Michael J. Prince, Bucknell University; Amy Frances Golightly, Bucknell University; Carrine Megan Gadoury, Bucknell University

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Diversity

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Chemical Engineering

been involved in collaborative research projects focused on conceptual learning in chemistry, chemical engineering, seismology, and astronomy.Dr. Margot A. Vigeant, Bucknell University Margot Vigeant is a professor of chemical engineering at Bucknell University. She earned her B.S. in chemical engineering from Cornell University, and her M.S. and Ph.D., also in chemical engineering, from the University of Virginia. Her primary research focus is on engineering pedagogy at the undergraduate level. She is particularly interested in the teaching and learning of concepts related to thermodynamics. She is also interested in active, collaborative, and problem-based learning, and in the ways hands-on activities such as

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Works-in-Progress Postcard Session

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brittany Lynn Butler; Daniel D. Anastasio, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Daniel D. Burkey, University of Connecticut; Matthew Cooper, North Carolina State University; Cheryl A Bodnar, Rowan University

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Chemical Engineering

. Feister, P.M. Buzzanell, W.C. Oakes, A.D. Mead, “TheDevelopment of an Instrument for Assessing Individual Ethical Decision-making in Project-baseDesign Teams: Integrating Quantitative and Qualitative Methods,” ASEE Annual Conference &Exposition, Indianapolis, IN, 2014, pp. 1-127) J. Rest, L. Edwards, S. Thoma, “Designing and Validation a Measure of Moral Judgement:Stage Preference and Stage Consistency Approaches,” Journal of Educational Psychology, vol.89, no. 1, pp. 5-28, 1997.8) L. Kohlberg, R.H. Hersh, “Moral Development: A Review of the Theory,” Theory intoPractice, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 53-59, Apr., 1977.9) J.R. Rest, D. Narvaez, S.T. Thoma, “DIT2: Devising and Testing a Revised Instrument ofMoral Judgement,” Journal of Educational

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Works-in-Progress Postcard Session

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kimia Moozeh, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO; Deborah Tihanyi, University of Toronto; Jennifer Lyn Farmer, University of Toronto; Greg Evans, University of Toronto

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Chemical Engineering

], [16], [21], [29].Too often, students are not given adequate explanations as to why an experiment is performed,why they should care about the experiment and its relevance to the real-world practice [33]. Thisis unfortunate, as the lack of utility value can detract from students’ motivation to engage in atask [34].A research project is currently being conducted to enhance the learning experience of students inchemical engineering laboratories at the University of Toronto by developing web-basedmultimedia pre-lab exercises to complement the laboratory manual. The goals of thesemultimedia pre-labs are to help the students construct knowledge by building connectionsbetween theory and experiment, and to understand the relevance and utility value of

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Novel Classrooms

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christina Smith, Brown University; Ann Sitomer, Portland State University; Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University

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Chemical Engineering

developed in specific courses in the core curriculum to the more complex, authentic problems and projects they face as professionals. Dr. Koretsky is one of the founding members of the Center for Lifelong STEM Education Research at OSU. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 A Graduate Student Pedagogy Seminar in Chemical EngineeringIntroductionTeaching is an important but often challenging activity for graduate students. In the role ofgraduate teaching assistants (GTA), they impact the learning experience of undergraduatestudents, but they also gain a set of knowledge and skills beyond what they learn in class orthrough research. Typical duties for GTAs vary and can range from conducting

Conference Session

Novel Classrooms

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jacob James Elmer, Villanova University; Andre Palmer, Ohio State University; Jessica O Winter P.E., Ohio State University

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Chemical Engineering

required to complete 3 labreports that summarize the experiments performed in lab and a written course project that describeshow the techniques used in lab could be used to produce a therapeutic protein that treats a disease(e.g. insulin for diabetes). Each of these assignments goes through a draft/revision process inwhich a first draft is submitted, marked up by the instructor for technical content andspelling/grammar, and then the students have 1 week to prepare the final draft of the report. Toemphasize the importance of brevity and clarity, each report is limited to only 2 pages of text, withfigures and references included on additional pages. Protein Organism Color Supplier Cat