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