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Teaching and Assessment in Chemical Engineering

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Chemical Engineering

Paper ID #25970How We Teach: ThermodynamicsDr. 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 making

Conference Session

Work-In-Progress Postcard Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Erick S. Vasquez, University of Dayton; Zachary West, University of Dayton Research Institute; Matthew J DeWitt, University of Dayton; Michael J. Elsass, University of Dayton; Donald A Comfort, University of Dayton

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Chemical Engineering

(e.g., reverse osmosis, spray drying, injection molding) toobtain practical experience of atypical chemical engineering unit operations. At the end of thesemester, and after completing the required experiments, students are required to propose a finalexperiment with defined experimental objective(s) and parameters or variables to study. For thepast twenty years, at the authors’ institution, the final experiment has been an open-endedexperience; however, students occasionally struggle to identify and perform a detailed study dueto limited exposure to an experimental research environment and lack of directions. Additionallimitations include costs, laboratory time, and equipment availability.During Fall 2018, the instructors teaching the

Conference Session

Best Practices for Chemical Engineering Lab-Based Courses

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrew Maxson, Ohio State University

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Chemical Engineering

Paper ID #27548A Time-Saving Algorithm for Team Assignment and Scheduling in a Large-Scale Unit Operations Laboratory CourseDr. Andrew Maxson, Ohio State University Andrew Maxson is an assistant professor of practice in chemical engineering at The Ohio State University where he teaches Chemical Engineering Unit Operations. He earned his B.S. in chemical engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and his M.S. and Ph.D. in chemical engineering at Ohio State. Having worked as a manufacturing process engineer for ten years, his focus is on optimizing the process of teaching, as well as hands-on, practical engineering

Conference Session

Teaching and Assessment in Chemical Engineering

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lucas James Landherr, Northeastern University

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Chemical Engineering

Paper ID #25700Integrating Comics Into Engineering Education To Promote Student Inter-est, Confidence, and UnderstandingDr. 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. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Integrating Comics Into Engineering Education To Promote Student Interest, Confidence, and UnderstandingAbstractThe use of comics as an educational teaching tool is a practice that has existed for

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Work-In-Progress Postcard Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mechteld Veltman Hillsley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Xueyi Zhang, Pennsylvania State University

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Chemical Engineering

Paper ID #26429Work in Progress: Improving Critical Thinking and Technical Understand-ing as Measured in Technical Writing by Means of I-depth Oral Discussionin a Large Laboratory ClassDr. Mechteld Veltman Hillsley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Dr. Hillsley is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Pennsylva- nia State University. She received a BS in Chemical Engineering from Virginia Tech in 1988 and an MS and PhD from Penn State in 1990 and 1994, respectively. Dr. Hillsley spent approximately 10 years doing research at Penn State on fluid shear stress effects on

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Best Practices for Chemical Engineering Lab-Based Courses

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael David Mau Barankin, Colorado School of Mines; Tracy Q. Gardner, Colorado School of Mines; Jason C. Ganley, Colorado School of Mines

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Chemical Engineering

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 School of Mines. His primary teaching and course

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Division Poster Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Diversity

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Chemical Engineering

Paper ID #26488Board 11: Work in Progress: Best Practices in Teaching a Chemical ProcessDesign Two-course Sequence at a Minority Serving UniversityDr. Matthew Lucian Alexander P.E., Texas A&M University, Kingsville Dr. Alexander graduated with a BS in Engineering Science from Trinity University, a MS in Chemical Engineering from Georgia Tech, and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Purdue University. He worked for 25 years in environmental engineering consulting before joining the faculty at Texas A&M University- Kingsville in 2015.Dr. Joseph Amaya c American Society for Engineering Education

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Work-In-Progress Postcard Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tracy L. Carter, Northeastern University; Sarah A. Wilson, University of Kentucky; Samira Azarin; Janie Brennan, Washington University in St. Louis; Amy J. Karlsson, University of Maryland; Chris Barr, University of Michigan

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Chemical Engineering

, she developed a passion for undergraduate education. This passion led her to pursue a career as a lecturer, where she could focus on training undergraduate chemical engineering students. She has been teaching at UK since 2015 and has taught Fluid Mechanics, Thermodynamics, Computational Tools and the Unit Operations Laboratory. She is especially interested in teaching scientific communication and integration of process safety into the chemical engineering curriculum.Prof. Samira Azarin Samira Azarin is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Minnesota. She earned her B.S. in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technol- ogy in 2006 and went

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Chemical Engineering Division Poster Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jason R White, University of California, Davis

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Chemical Engineering

quarter in the redesigned course. It shouldalso be noted that in the redesigned course, students were required to attend the once a week one-hour laboratory section in order to work with their design group. The students honored thisrequirement and only rare absences due to illness or conference participation were noted. A BFigure 1. Evaluation of Student Engagement and Perceptions on the Relevance of theCourse Material. (A) Students responded to the prompt “Please indicate the overall educationalvalue of the course” on an end-of-term student evaluation of teaching using a Likert-type scale(1 = Poor to 5 = Excellent). The percentage of responses for each category is presented for the‘15 (black, n = 68/122), ‘16 (dark grey, n = 57/145), ‘17

Conference Session

Best Practices for Chemical Engineering Lab-Based Courses

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joshua A. Enszer, University of Delaware

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Chemical Engineering

engineering laboratory courses. We explain our algorithm for using the two-columnrubrics, including how faculty, teaching assistants, and students are trained to apply thealgorithm. Finally, we conducted inter-rater reliability analysis for an example assignment andfound modest improvement in agreement between assessors compared to previous evaluationmethods. We conclude with our next steps in our development and revision of these rubrics.BackgroundThe University of Delaware is a medium-sized, mid-Atlantic, public institution whose chemicalengineering program graduates on average 80 undergraduates per year. The curriculum includestwo semesters of chemical engineering laboratory, though the second semester can be replacedwith a research project. Over

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Outreach and Beyond in the Chemical Engineering Classroom

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Byron Hempel, University of Arizona; Paul Blowers, University of Arizona; Kasi M. Kiehlbaugh, University of Arizona

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Diversity

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Chemical Engineering

co-teaching, classroom technologies, active learning in the classroom, and various classroom-based affective inter- ventions targeted at fostering self-efficacy, belongingness, metacognitive learning strategies, and growth mindset affect outcomes such as student retention and success, particularly during the freshman and sophomore year. Her field of research is undergraduate engineering education. Dr. Kiehlbaugh com- pleted her BS and MS at the University of Arizona and her PhD at UC Berkeley. She is now a Research Assistant Professor in the College of Engineering at her undergraduate alma mater. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 1 Scalable and Practical

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Problem Solving and Communication in Chemical Engineering

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sarah A. Wilson, University of Kentucky

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Chemical Engineering

time at Rowan and UMass, she developed a passion for undergraduate education. This passion led her to pursue a career as a lecturer, where she could focus on training undergraduate chemical engineering students. She has been teaching at UK since 2015 and has taught Fluid Mechanics, Thermodynamics, Computational Tools and the Unit Operations Laboratory. She is especially interested in teaching scientific communication and integration of process safety into the chemical engineering curriculum. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Understanding the gap between communication in the classroom and communication during an industrial internshipAbstractWhile it

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Computer-Based Learning in Chemical Engineering Courses

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Matthew W. Liberatore, University of Toledo; Kayla Chapman

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Chemical Engineering

from zyBooks have shown excellent results. Course median reading rates up to 99%were observed. The interactive textbook format has also been demonstrated to help students in thelower third of the class engage in the course [7, 8, 19, 20, 25-27]. Reading participation using azyBook is also discussed in another 2019 ASEE contribution.In this contribution, an interactive textbook for teaching spreadsheets will be reviewed, readingparticipation and repetition analyzed, and successes and challenges of auto-graded problemssummarized.Materials: An interactive textbook with spreadsheetszyBooks creates interactive textbook replacements using the philosophy: Less text, more actionTM.These interactive textbooks are viewed, read, and interacted with in

Conference Session

Outreach and Beyond in the Chemical Engineering Classroom

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sindia Rivera-Jiménez Ph.D., University of Florida; Deanna Alford, University of Florida; Lilianny Virguez, University of Florida

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Chemical Engineering

programs. She also has projects with local companies on the topic of process simulations and analysis for environmental remediation. Dr. Rivera was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She is a first generation engineer and doctor- ate. She completed her bachelor’s and Ph.D. in chemical engineering at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayag¨uez with five publications and two patent applications on the topic of nanotechnology for environ- mental remediation. Dr. Rivera has close to 10 years of teaching experience in Higher Education and professional training. Before joining IE3, Dr. Rivera was the Assistant Director of the Integrated Product and Process Design (IPPD) program at the University of Florida. Dr

Conference Session

Work-In-Progress Postcard Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mitchell William Buccalo, Bucknell University; Elif Miskioglu, Bucknell University

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Chemical Engineering

has caused it to manifest itself in different ways across programs. While someprograms have built it into required courses, others dedicated resources to provide a coursefocused on teaching TC to engineering students. Technical communications exists in the schoolof engineering at our institution in multiple forms, but most notably are integrated methodswithin capstone or laboratory courses and a stand-alone engineering elective. The electiveENGR 245 (later renamed to ENGR 248) is not required in any of the engineering disciplines’curricula, however, it is taken by many students in the college. This dedicated TC course isdesigned to be a kinesthetic environment that leverages past experiences of the students. Studentsare engaged into role

Conference Session

Work-In-Progress Postcard Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael David Mau Barankin, Colorado School of Mines; Justin Franklin Shaffer, Colorado School of Mines; Logan Riley Nimer

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Chemical Engineering

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 School of Mines. His primary teaching and course

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Computer-Based Learning in Chemical Engineering Courses

Collection

2019 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

: REvolutionizing engineering and computer science Departments (IUSE PFE\RED) - Formation of Accomplished Chemical Engineers for Transform- ing Society. She is a member of the CBE department’s ABET and Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, 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 Design 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