constructivist view implies thenon-transferability of knowledge, and that “knowledge is acquired not by the internalization ofsome outside given but is constructed from within.”5 Contrast this with an alternative position inlearning theory, that “if you want somebody to know something, you teach it to them … if youwant somebody to know something and retain it for a long time, then you have them practice it.”6In addition, Matthews states that “… many, if not most, things in science are beyond theexperience of students and the capabilities of school laboratories to demonstrate. The cellular,molecular and atomic realms are out of reach of school laboratories, as is most of the
Paper ID #34909Integrating a Laboratory into a First-semester Introduction to ChemicalEngineering CourseDr. Susan M. Stagg-Williams, The University of Kansas Dr. Susan M Stagg-Williams is the Charles E. & Mary Jane Spahr Professor and Chair of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Kansas (KU), with a specialty in biomass conversion. She has worked closely with the KU Center for Teaching Excellence and been a champion for course redesign across campus. Her primary focus has been on large freshman and sophomore classes. She is the founder of the KU Biodiesel Initiative which provides opportunities for
AC 2009-1257: IMPACT OF INTEGRATION OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTSIN AN ENGINEERING RESEARCH LABORATORY: A CASE STUDYAdam Ekenseair, University of Texas, Austin Adam Ekenseair is a doctoral student in Chemical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville in May 2005. Currently he is working in the laboratory of Dr. Nicholas Peppas on "A Fundamental Investigation of Non-Fickian Penetrant Transport in Glassy Polymers." Adam is a Department of Defense (NDSEG) Fellow and a National Science Foundation (NSF-GREP) Fellow. He is also active in the American Institute of Chemical Engineering, the American Physical
faculty in their transition to using evidence-based teaching strategies. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Impact of Course Structure on Learning and Self-Efficacy in a Unit Operations LaboratoryIntroductionIn the chemical engineering curriculum, the unit operations laboratory course traditionally servesseveral key roles in the development of students as professional engineers. The primary goal ofthe course is to apply chemical engineering theory learned in core courses to the operation ofequipment. As part of this process, however, numerous additional skills are often also learnedand/or emphasized: experimental design, instrumentation, technical communication
Paper ID #12159Green Chocolate? - Investigating the Sustainable Development of ChocolateManufacturing in a Laboratory-Based Undergraduate Engineering CourseProf. Alexander Vincent Struck Jannini, Rowan University Alexander Struck Jannini is an adjunct professor at Rowan University. His previous work has been focused on incorporating aspects of pharmaceutical engineering into the undergraduate curriculum. Alex plans on continuing his education and receiving a Ph.D. in chemical engineering. His areas of interest are drug delivery and drug loading characteristics of dissolvable thin films.Dr. Mary Staehle, Rowan University
AC 2008-567: INTERVIEW SKILLS TRAINING IN THE CHEMICALENGINEERING LABORATORY: TRANSPORTING A PILOT PROJECTJulie Sharp, Vanderbilt Julie E. Sharp, Associate Professor of the Practice of Technical Communication at Vanderbilt University Engineering School, co-ordinates and teaches technical communication courses for all engineering majors and co-teaches combined chemical engineering lab/technical communication courses. In addition to publishing papers on communication and engineering education topics, she has published a book chapter and numerous papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings on learning styles. She won the ASEE Southeastern Division's 2004 Thomas C. Evans
Paper ID #9158Development of Interactive Virtual Laboratories to Help Students Learn Dif-ficult Concepts in ThermodynamicsAlec Steven Bowen, Oregon State University Alec Bowen is an undergraduate in Chemical Engineering at Oregon State University and expects to receive his B.S. in June 2014. His research focuses on engineering education, particularly in the develop- ment and utilization of educational simulations and student personal epistemology.Mr. Daniel Robert Reid, Oregon State University Daniel Reid is a graduate student in the Institute for Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago. He received his B.S. in
Lecturer at the Uni- versity of Washington teaching the Chemical Engineering Laboratories (traditionally the Unit Operations lab). Her worked as a Lecturer included the development of new experimental modules for undergraduate ChemE students, the submission of proposals with an educational focus and the supervision of the labora- tories. During this time she also participated in outreach activities arranged by the College of Engineering to target increasing the number of students from underrepresented minorities in engineering programs. Today, Marvi serves as a Senior Research Scientist in the Bioengineering Department at the University of Washington and works as an independent consultant in engineering innovations.Dr
AC 2011-1778: UNIT OPERATIONS LAB BAZAAR: INCORPORATIONOF LABORATORY EXPERIENCES IN SIX INTEGRATED PILLAR COURSESMichael Jefferson Baird, University of Pittsburgh Dr. Baird joined the chemical engineering department at the University of Pittsburgh in the spring of 2008 as Instructor of Undergraduate Laboratory Courses. He also teaches a graduate course entitled ”Petroleum and Natural Gas Processing”. Before joining the University of Pittsburgh, Dr. Baird was an associate pro- fessor of chemistry at Wheeling Jesuit University for nine years following his retirement from the U.S. Department of Energy. While at DOE’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) in Pittsburgh, Dr. Baird managed projects involving the
AC 2011-2009: DESIGN OF A SENIOR LABORATORY SEQUENCE TOGUIDE STUDENTS IN MULTIPLE ACADEMIC PROGRAMS TOWARDSWORKFORCE PREPAREDNESSPhilip H. Harding, Oregon State University Dr. Harding has served since 2007 as the Linus Pauling Distinguished Engineer at Oregon State University School of Chemical, Biological, and Environmental Engineering. He has worked in the oil, pulp and paper, and microelectronic industries with a history of responsibilities including process engineering, research and development, product reliability, and worldwide manufacturing and research strategy. He holds 14 patents, with another 9 pending. Most recently, he worked for Hewlett-Packard Company in the role of Master Technologist.Milo Koretsky
AC 2011-2075: ADAPTION OF A VIRTUAL LABORATORY CURRICU-LUM: A PRELIMINARY STUDY OF IMPLEMENTATION AT OTHER IN-STITUTIONSDebra Gilbuena, Oregon State University Debra Gilbuena is a doctoral student in Chemical Engineering at Oregon State University. She currently has research focused on student learning in virtual laboratories. Debra has an MBA and MS as well as 4 years of industrial experience including a position in sensor development, an area in which she holds a patent. Debra was awarded the Teacher’s Assistant of the Year Award by the College of Engineering at Oregon State University for her work as a Teacher’s Assistant.Ben Uriel Sherrett, Oregon State University Ben is currently studying for a M.S. in
division’s newslet- ter editor. Dr. Cooper’s research interests include effective teaching, conceptual and inductive learning, integrating writing and speaking into the curriculum, and professional ethics. Page 24.1236.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 The Paperless Lab – Streamlining a Modern Unit Operations Laboratory Course to Reduce Faculty Time Commitment1. IntroductionUnit Operations (UO) laboratory courses are important, required offerings in chemicalengineering curricula due to the similarities of required laboratory tasks to those relevant inindustry
Paper ID #8178Solving Material Balance Problems at Unsteady State using a Remote Labo-ratory in the classroomDr. Darinka del Carmen Ramirez, Tecnol´ogico de Monterrey (ITESM), M´exico Dr. Darinka del Carmen Ram´ırez Hern´andez has been a professor in the Chemical Engineering Depart- ment of Tecnol´ogico de Monterrey (ITESM) in Campus Monterrey, M´exico since 1996. She also works on the Virtual Laboratory Project at ITESM. Dr. Ram´ırez earned a Ph.D. in Innovation in Education from ITESM in 2011, an M.S. in Chemical Engineering from ITESM in 1989, and a B.S. in Biochemical Engi- neering from IT La Paz in 1987. She teaches to
toestablish their own experiment designs to explore chemical and physical phenomena related tojunior-level thermodynamics and transport courses. Concepts in statistics and numericalmethods, technical writing, engineering ethics, and laboratory and industrial safety are allintroduced in the scope of this course.This course serves as the first in our curriculum where students are responsible for the creation oflaboratory procedures, in contrast to their typical chemistry labs where experimental methods areprovided. Given a brief (1/2-1 page) prompt explaining the principle of interest and a list ofavailable laboratory equipment, students are required to explicitly outline the objective,hypothesis, and methods of their experiment, followed by
provide opportunities for open-ended problemsolving, collaborative learning and design, and the application of chemical engineeringprinciples to novel problems. This paper describes the project, sample student solutions,and student feedback.The second strategy involves the development of laboratory experiments that mimicartificial organs in order to reinforce engineering principles. Faculty at RowanUniversity are developing a set of modules focusing on various artificial organs. In thispaper, we highlight the work on the thermoregulatory properties of artificial skin.Human skin contains incredible networks of microcapillaries that, in addition todelivering nutrients, enhance heat exchange between the body core and the environmentas a result of
Paper ID #8705Automated Process Control Laboratory Experience: Simultaneous Temper-ature and Level Control in a Continuously Stirred Tank Reactor SystemDr. Joshua A. Levinson, Lafayette College Levinson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at Lafayette College. His teaching interests are in senior capstone design, integrated chemical engineering laboratory, transport, and thermodynamics. His research interests are in semiconductor processing technology, mi- crofluidics, transport phenomena, chemical kinetics, and chemical engineering pedagogy.Dr. Eric L. Maase, University of
offer insight to where student incorrectly incorporate information into their schema, andcommunicate the concepts that students fail to integrate into their schema.11The curriculum at the institution is structured such that junior level (third year) students take thefluid mechanics and heat transfer course in the spring, and the follow fall enroll in a unitoperations laboratory. This factor may or may not have influences student’s interview resultsfrom the study, but it was consistent for both the group that received handsIn addition to understanding how schemas are affected, this two-year study also aims to followup on a previous study that conducted interviews of students who had previously taken a fluid
Paper ID #32386Work in Progress: Teamwork Skills Development in ChemE CarMr. Declan Thomas Mahaffey-Dowd, University of California, Berkeley I am a B.S. student at UC Berkeley studying Chemical Engineering interested in improving professional skills development in undergraduate engineering co-curriculars.Dr. Shannon Ciston, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Shannon Ciston is the User Program Director for the Molecular Foundry, a Nanoscale Science Research Center, at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Dr. Ciston has formerly been a Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Education in the Department of Chemical and
Paper ID #32851Innovative Use of Technologies to Teach Chemical Engineering CoreClasses and Laboratories During the Covid-19 Pandemic at an HBCUDr. Rupak Dua, Hampton University Dr. Rupak Dua graduated with a Ph.D. in 2014 in Biomedical Engineering with a specialization in Tis- sue Engineering and Biomaterials from Florida International University located in Miami, FL. Dr. Dua worked for two years as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Orthopedic Research and Education housed in Texas Medical Center - the world’s largest medical center - located in Houston, TX. Before joining Hampton University in the Department of
Paper ID #34768Operation and Student Perceptions of a Large-scale, In-person UnitOperations Laboratory Course During the Covid-19 PandemicDr. Andrew Maxson, The 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
Paper ID #33339Using Existing University Resources: Integration of the UniversityWriting Center into a Senior-level Laboratory Series for ImprovedLearning OutcomesProf. Stephanie G. Wettstein, Montana State University - Bozeman Stephanie Wettstein is an Associate Professor in the Chemical and Biological Engineering department at Montana State University in Bozeman, MT. She is associated with MEERC and has been the faculty advisor of the MSU SWE chapter since 2013.Dr. Jennifer R. Brown, Montana State University - Bozeman Jennifer Brown is an Associate Professor in the Chemical and Biological Engineering Department at Montana
Paper ID #33638Development of an At-home Metal Corrosion Laboratory Experiment forSTEMOutreach in Biomaterials During the Covid-19 PandemicMr. Christopher James Panebianco, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Christopher J. Panebianco, B.Eng., is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS). He earned his B.Eng. in Chemical Engineering from The Cooper Union in 2016. His research focuses on developing novel biomaterials for repairing injured intervertebral discs. He has been a Teach- ing Assistant at ISMMS and The Cooper Union for 3 years, and has a strong interest in teaching and research in
Paper ID #23078Work in Progress: Developing a Multi-dimensional Method for Student As-sessment in Chemical Engineering Laboratory CoursesDr. Daniel D. Anastasio, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Daniel Anastasio is an assistant professor at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. He received a B.S. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Connecticut in 2009 and 2015, respectively. His primary areas of research are game-based learning in engineering courses and membrane separations for desalination and water purification.Dr. Heather Chenette, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Heather Chenette is an
Paper ID #22308Work in Progress: Assessment of Google Docs and Drive for Enhanced Com-munication and Data Dissemination in a Unit Operations LaboratoryDr. Christopher James Barr, University of Michigan Dr. Christopher Barr is the Instructional Laboratory Supervisor in the Chemical Engineering Department at University of Michigan. He obtained his Ph.D. at University of Toledo in 2013 and is a former Fellow in the N.S.F. GK-12 grant ”Graduate Teaching Fellows in STEM High School Education: An Environmen- tal Science Learning Community at the Land-Lake Ecosystem Interface”. His main responsibilities are supervising and
2006-1003: THE PROGRAMMING OF A MICRO-CONTROLLER AS THELABORATORY COMPONENT IN PROCESS CONTROL FORUNDERGRADUATES IN CHEMICAL ENGINEERINGKeith Lodge, University of Minnesota-Duluth Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering Page 11.1320.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 The programming of a microcontroller as the laboratory component in process control for undergraduates in chemical engineeringIntroductionNew funding generated by the College of Science and Engineering has financed enhancementsof courses with computer technology. Here I describe briefly an enhancement, or
Paper ID #18898No More Death by PowerPoint! Using an Alternative Presentation Model ina ChE Unit Operations Laboratory CourseDr. Matthew Cooper, North Carolina State University Dr. Matthew Cooper is a Teaching Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at North Carolina State University where he teaches Material and Energy Balances, Unit Operations, Transport Phenomena and Mathematical / Computational Methods. He is the recipient of the 2014 NCSU Outstanding Teacher Award, 2015 ASEE ChE Division Raymond W. Fahien Award, and currently serves as the ASEE Chemical Engineering Division’s
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
Paper ID #21973Work in Progress: Development of Web-based Pre-laboratory Modules to In-crease Motivation and Reduce Cognitive LoadKimia Moozeh, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO Kimia Moozeh is a PhD Candidate, graduate research and teaching assistant in Engineering Education at the University of Toronto. She received her Hon. B.Sc. in 2013, and her Master’s degree in Chemistry in 2014. Her dissertation explores improving the learning outcomes of undergraduate engineering laborato- ries by bridging the learning from a larger context to the underlying fundamentals, using digital learning objects.Prof. Deborah Tihanyi, University of
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
AC 2011-1915: ALTERNATIVE LAB REPORTS - ENGINEERING EFFEC-TIVE COMMUNICATIONDaniel Lepek, The Cooper Union Daniel Lepek is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at The Cooper Union for the Advance- ment of Science and Art. He received his Ph.D. from New Jersey Institute of Technology and B.E. from The Cooper Union. Since joining The Cooper Union in 2009, he has taught more than half the courses in the chemical engineering curriculum. Currently, he teaches the undergraduate laboratory course se- quence and the graduate transport phenomena sequence. Recently, he has developed and introduced new elective courses on particle technology and pharmaceutical engineering. His research interests include particle