Conference Session

Teamwork and Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Josephson; Nader Vahdat; K.C. Kwon

. Currently, T.U.chemical engineering undergraduates are required to take one introductory programming course(either C++ or FORTRAN) offered by the university’s Department of Computer Science. Theproper use of commercial software packages such as Excel is taught as a part of requiredchemical engineering courses. The use of chemical engineering specific software is also requiredbeginning with the gateway Materials and Energy Balances course. The departmental reviewteam examined the relevance of the programming course in addition to how well the othersoftware packages were being learned. The team also studied the computer programmingrequirements within the chemical engineering curricula at other institutions. This latter study wasdone via a combination

Conference Session

Innovative Classroom Techniques

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Silverstein

. Eng. Ed., Summer 2002, pp. 192-2032 Chapra, Steven C., Canale, Raymond P., “Problem 24.36” in Numerical Methods for Engineers, FourthEdition, McGraw Hill, St. Louis, 2002, p. 663.3 Cutlip, Maciael B., Shacham, Mordechai, Problem Solving in Chemical Engineering with NumericalMethods, Prentice Hall, NY, 1999.4 Felder, Richard M., Rousseau, Ronald R., “Computer-Aided Balance Calculations” in ElementaryPrinciples of Chemical Processes, Third Edition, Wiley, NY, 2001.5 Himmelblau, David M., Riggs, James B., “Solving Material and Energy Balances Using ProcessSimulators (Flowsheeting Codes)” in Basic Principles and Calculations in Chemical Engineering, SeventhEdition, Prentice Hall, NY, 2004.6 Lewin, Daniel R, et.al., Using Process Simulators in

Conference Session

Innovative Classroom Techniques

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Newell

necessarily address all four motivational factors, nor did it have the pop culturetie-in that I wanted. Finally, the idea of adapting a version of the CBS “reality” game show“Survivor” came to me. With a little preparation, a game that met my needs was developed. Page 9.1143.2Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationThe Game Students in the materials and energy balances class are broken into “tribes” consisting of7-8 people per

Conference Session

ChE Outreach and Recruitment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Reginald Tomkins; Levelle Burr-Alexander; Joseph Kisutcza; Deran Hanesian; Howard Kimmel

requirements but this exercise is not performed. To provide tools for theteachers to use in the classroom for visualization of the overall stoichiometric chemical processmaterial balances, the Multimedia Module “Material and Energy Balance” developed at theUniversity of Michigan and obtained from CACHE Corporation was used for “hands-on”experience3.Energy and Energy BalancesDiscussion of a chemical plant requires consideration of energy and energy balances of theprocess. The First Law of Thermodynamics for closed and open systems is applied to simpleproblems involving non-reactive and reactive energy balances, heat effects, phase changes,heats of reaction, mixing and solution. The chemistry concepts of thermochemistry,calorimetry, chemical bonds and

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Rice; S. Michael Kilbey; Scott Husson; Graham Harrison; Douglas Hirt; David Bruce; Charles Gooding; Deborah Switzer

requires mastery Mythic fi language, oral learning of skills at lower Somatic fi body, tactile learning levels. Implementation of Activities Implementation follows the hierarchy; font size implies emphasis of level. * *Senior courses are not formally a part of this study. What are shown are the typical emphases for a traditional senior-level course. Courses Involved in this Study ChE 211 – Material and Energy Balances ChE 220 – Thermodynamics I

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Zollars

aworking knowledge of material and energy balances applied to chemical processes,process dynamics and control, and appropriate modern experimental and computationaltechniques.In the past this course was taught in a traditional manner – covering the mathematicalbases of process dynamics (unsteady-state balances, Laplace transforms, etc.) first beforegoing on to cover control and tuning. For the Fall Semester of 2003 the coverage oftopics was changed with students analyzing process dynamics and tuning first, followedby coverage of the mathematical aspects and then more recent developments in controlschemes. The initial homework assignments thus required that the students collect “real”data from a process. This could be accomplished by either dynamic

Conference Session

Design Throughout the ChE Curriculum

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shannon White; Patricia Niehues; Steven Peretti; Lisa Bullard

, American Society for Engineering" biotechnology process. This information can then be used to streamline the process by utilizing the minimum number of unit operations required for each co-protein production. To be included in this deliverable are: • Overall description of protein production process • Complete process block flow diagram • Unit operation descriptions of each process unit • Material and Energy Balance Need more help on Fermentation and Purification overviews? See the Fermentation and Purification tutorials in the Resources section.The explanations are sufficiently general to

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Taner Eskil; Mark Urban-Lurain; Marilyn Amey; Timothy Hinds; Jon Sticklen

Engineering Courses Mechanical Design Design of Concrete Transport Phenomena Structures Dynamics Design of Steel Thermodynamics for Structures Chemical Engineers Fluid Mechanics Structural Mechanics Mass Transfer Mechanics of Structural Analysis Fluid Flow and Heat Deformable Solids Transfer Statics Material and Energy

Conference Session

International Case Studies, Interactive Learning, Student Design

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vera Galishnikova; Thomas Maleck; Paul Streng; Jason Merrill; David Prestel; Darren Mason; Ronald Harichandran

–Introduction to Structural Analysis 4 12 7CE 405–Design of Steel Structures 3 – 10CE 406–Design of Concrete Structures 3 10 5CE 491–Intersection Design and Control 3 8 –CE 844–Highway and Traffic Safety 3 3 –CHE 201–Material and Energy Balances 3 – 4ME 221–Statics 3 – 4ME 361–Dynamics

Conference Session

Teamwork and Assessment

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dana Knox; Robert Barat

included what we termed “non-traditional”programs: Drexel, Lehigh, Penn State, Rose-Hulman, Rowan, and Rutgers. Finally, we notedthat several of the departments are in our geographic region and can be considered our directcompetitors: Cooper-Union, Drexel, Lehigh, Manhattan, Rowan, and Rutgers.Information on these programs was gathered from their respective web sites. The informationobtained is summarized in Table I according to the number of credits in the following courses:humanities and social sciences (required courses and restricted electives), chemistry and physics,mathematics, other science or engineering (required courses), material and energy balances,transport phenomena, thermodynamics, kinetics and reactor engineering, plant design

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mariano Savelski; Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater