- Conference Session
- Chemical Engineering in K-12 and the First Year
- Collection
- 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
- Authors
-
Anthony Butterfield, University of Utah
- Tagged Topics
-
Diversity
- Tagged Divisions
-
Chemical Engineering
departments,but solutions particular to chemical engineering departments require additional examination.We have been teaching a chemical engineering design laboratory, primarily directed towards ourfirst year students, over the past six years at the University of Utah. This course was initiallytaught in a lecture hall and a series of satellite labs, centered around the space used for a unitoperations courses. Due to the first-year course’s success in achieving learning outcomes and itspositive reception by students, we have been able to design and build a combined laboratory,instructional, and maker space specifically meant to facilitate early- and mid-curriculum hands-on project-based learning. For the past three years this first-year course, and