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ChemE Curriculum: Freshman and Sophomore

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Matthew W. Liberatore, University of Toledo; Katherine Roach

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Diversity

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Chemical Engineering

Student c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Quantifying self-guided repetition within an interactive textbook for a material and energy balances courseAbstractInteractive technology has quickly integrated into daily lives through handheld electronics and theInternet. Here, an interactive textbook replacement from zyBooks for a material and energybalances course has been used in recent years. While features of the interactive textbook werehighlighted previously, including animations replacing figures and question sets in lieu of largeblocks of text, student usage will be the focus of this contribution. Similarly, reading

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Matthew W. Liberatore, University of Toledo; Uchenna Asogwa; Amanda Portis Malefyt, Trine University; Charlene M. Czerniak, University of Toledo; Gale A. Mentzer, Acumen Research and Evaluation, LLC; T. Ryan Duckett, Acumen Research and Evaluation

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

to thetopic of the course (either thermodynamics or material and energy balances). Students’ feedbackon their comfort with open-ended problems was solicited. While a majority felt they had a betterunderstanding of the course topic of thermodynamics (63% strongly agree/agree), a larger majoritycould relate thermodynamics to real world phenomena and felt confident solving engineeringestimate problems (79% and 69% strongly agree/agree, respectively). In addition, over 40% of theclass thought YouTube Fridays helped them learn the course material. Recurring response fromthe free response questions stated that real situations are much harder than class problems sincethere are so many unknowns. The vast majority of the feedback on YouTube Fridays

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Chemical Engineering Division Poster Session

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Matthew W. Liberatore, University of Toledo; Katherine Roach, University of Toledo

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Chemical Engineering

spreadsheet content to help students solve materialand energy balance problems. During the Spring 2018 semester, ~100 students were assignedreading and auto-graded homework for 12 sections related to spreadsheets (Table 1). Students paidless than $60 to access to both the material and energy balances and spreadsheet content for thesemester and can re-subscribe for a fee (

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Chemical Engineering Division Poster Session

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hassan Golpour, North Carolina State University; Matthew Cooper, North Carolina State University; Lisa G. Bullard, North Carolina State University

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Chemical Engineering

. Since this bridging course is offered on a different timetable (fall-spring) than the MSU course (spring-summer), starting in Fall 2018, it expands course offeringsfor interested students. Prospective students who complete the course sequence will be able tocount the two courses, 6 elective credit hours, toward a MS Chemical Engineering degree at NCState, which may be attractive to prospective graduate students.2. COURSE DESIGN AND DESCRIPTIONA significant initial challenge in developing the course was to determine the content. Thisrequired condensing six undergraduate courses (material and energy balances, two semesters ofthermodynamics, transport phenomena, and reactor design) down to two. It was determined thata good first step was to

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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

presents the results of the ninth survey since the reconstitution of the AIChEEducation Division Survey Committee in 2009. These surveys seek to define the state of the artin a given area of undergraduate chemical engineering instruction. Departments use surveyresults to inform curricular discussions and benchmark their program against national trends.Survey results are also useful for instructors as they select topics, software, and instructionalapproaches for their courses. Past surveys have considered first-year programs [1], Kinetics andReactor Design [2], Material and Energy Balances [3], Capstone Design [4], Electives [5],Transport [6], Process Control [7], and the curriculum as a whole [8]. In the coming surveycycle, the survey committee

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Works-in-Progress Postcard Session

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joshua A Enszer, University of Delaware

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Chemical Engineering

Paper ID #23324Exploring Mind Maps for Assessment in an Introductory Chemical Engineer-ing CourseProf. Joshua A Enszer, University of Delaware Prof. Joshua Enszer is an assistant professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the Uni- versity of Delaware. He has taught core and elective courses across the curriculum, from introduction to engineering science and material and energy balances to process control, capstone design, and math- ematical modeling of chemical and environmental systems. His research interests include technology and learning in various incarnations: electronic portfolios as a means for assessment

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Practice II: Curricular Innovations

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Monica H. Lamm, Iowa State University; Shuting Yan, Iowa State University ; Clark R. Coffman; Carly L. Manz, Iowa State University; Robert D Reason, Iowa State University

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Educational Research and Methods

in this study were included in the analysis reported here. Twelvestudents opted not to participate and 3 students dropped the course, leaving 62 participants in thestudy. All students enrolled in the course were invited to complete a study goals survey near theend of the term. Nineteen out of the 62 students in the study opted not to submit a survey,leaving 43 students in the sample. All participants were enrolled in the chemical engineeringmajor in the College of Engineering.Course setting. The material and energy balances course is a required course for second-yearchemical engineering majors. The course included three content modules: (1) material balances,(2) volumetric properties and multiphase systems, and (3) energy balances. Following

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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

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. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Work-in-Progress: Ten Years in the Trenches: An Updated Suite of Scenario-Based Academic Integrity VideosAbstractFaculty at two large public universities have had extensive experience in student academicintegrity violations in the introductory material and energy balance class. Scenario-basedacademic integrity videos developed by the authors ten years ago were

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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

-ups based upon patentable or other newtechnology. Instead, it is a much broader approach that challenges students to engage in the “3 C’s”(curiosity, connections, and creating value). EML is an excellent complement to project-based learning,collaborative pedagogies, and other student-centered activities both in and out of class. The KEENframework is summarized in Figure 1. In this paper we describe a unique project that was implemented in the first course in chemicalengineering (material and energy balances). We used the 1980 Titan missile accident in Damascus, AK asa focal point. Our EML module included basic mass balance analysis put in an historical context butextended to include a qualitative chemical process accident case study

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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

ethics education that crossescognitive, affective, psychomotor, and social domains of learning, driven by a motivational cyclethat includes autonomy and value. Studies have also found that engineering co-curricularactivities can contribute to students’ ethics education [11-13].A number of papers have been published that provide examples of ethics education in chemicalengineering courses [14-21]. Surveys of how key chemical engineering courses are taught havedetermined that within material and energy balances courses, ~44% include ethics, ~44% includesustainability, and ~62% include safety/health/environment [22]. Within capstone designcourses, the percentage that included various ESI topics were: 37% ethics, 16%sustainability/life-cycle analysis

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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

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 & Learning Sciences program

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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

practice, the School of Chemical, Biological, and Environmental Engineeringat Oregon State University is implementing a new activity design in its studio classes [1]. Tencore courses (e.g., material and energy balances, thermodynamics, transport, and chemicalreaction engineering) have incorporated weekly studios into the instructional architecture. Instudios, students work together in mostly 3-person groups, facilitated by trained graduate studentteaching assistants (GTAs), undergraduate learning assistants (LAs), and the course instructor.Studios are designed to extend students’ thinking and problem-solving techniques whilesimultaneously reinforcing core content and developing teamwork and communication skills [2].In its original design, Studio

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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

Dean of Undergraduate Programs and Professor-in-Residence in the De- partment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Connecticut. He received his B.S. in chemical engineering from Lehigh University in 1998, and his M.S.C.E.P and Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2000 and 2003, respectively. His primary areas of interest are chemical vapor deposition and engineering pedagogy.Dr. Matthew Cooper, North Carolina State University Dr. Matthew Cooper is an Associate Professor (Teaching Track) in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at North Carolina State University. He teaches Material and Energy Balances, Unit Operations, Transport

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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

must betaught in the core courses [8]. According to a Summer/Fall 2015 survey of chemical engineeringprograms, only 23% of the 148 programs required a chemical process safety course [10]. Morerecent ASEE course surveys of Material and Energy Balances, Kinetics and Process Controlcourses indicate that 60-80% of those courses include a safety topic in the course [11, 12, 13].Core capstone courses are a natural fit for safety outcomes, as are upper level courses such asUnit Operations (UO) laboratories [7]. UO laboratories, as a core course that has designexperience and/or experiments within it, is an optimal place for safety outcomes to be covered.  It should be noted that the need for process safety education is not new; the challenge is

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FPD and DEEDs Joint Postcard Sessions

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ryan Anderson, Montana State University; Abigail M. Richards, Montana State University

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Design in Engineering Education, First-Year Programs

structured so each group receives an initial, vague deliverable from the mentor. Over the Fallsemester, the students address a series of deliverables related to background research on theproject, markets, material and energy balances, equipment sizing, safety, and impacts to thecommunity and environment. Each deliverable is graded and returned to the groups to beupdated and incorporated into a final semester report. The following Spring semester, the samestudent teams revisit their design, address any deficiencies identified in their Fall final report,and incorporate safety and engineering economic analyses to complete their design.In the Fall 2016 semester, aspects of the Capstone Senior Design course were integrated into twounique chemical

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Understanding Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion from Students' Perspectives

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amy Trauth, University of Delaware; Tia Navelene Barnes, University of Delaware; Jenni Buckley, University of Delaware; Joshua A. Enszer, University of Delaware; Sarah Ilkhanipour Rooney, University of Delaware; Rachel Davidson, University of Delaware; Xiaoxue 'Vera' Zhang, University of Delaware

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ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity

, her research efforts have focused on the development and mechanical evaluation of medical and rehabilitation devices, particularly orthopaedic, neurosurgical, and pediatric devices. She teaches courses in design, biomechanics, and mechanics at University of Delaware and is heavily involved in K12 engineering edu- cation efforts at the local, state, and national levels.Prof. Joshua A. Enszer, University of Delaware Dr. Joshua Enszer is an assistant professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Delaware. He has taught core and elective courses across the curriculum, from introduction to engineering science and material and energy balances to process control, capstone design, and mathematical

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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