Paul B. Golter obtained an MS and PhD Washington State University and made the switch from Instruc- tional Laboratory Supervisor to Post-Doctoral Research Associate on an engineering education project. His research area has been engineering education, specifically around the development and assessment of technologies to bring fluid mechanics and heat transfer laboratory experiences into the classroom.Prof. Cecilia Dianne Richards, Washington State University Dr. Cecilia Richards is a professor in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Washington State University. Dr. Richards received her B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of British Columbia, Canada. She earned her Ph.D
R Bako, Ahmadu Bello University Raymond B Bako obtained a PhD in Educational Psychology from the University of Jos, Nigeria in 2007.He was a Fulbright scholar to the University of Maryland recently.He is married with two children.Paul Golter, Washington State University Paul Golter, Washington State University Paul B Golter obtained an MS from Washington State University and is presently pursuing his PhD while working as the Laboratory Supervisor in the Chemical Engineering Department at WSU.He is married with two children.Jerome Babauta, Washington State University Jerome T Babauta is currently a Senior in Chemical Engineering at Washington State University and has been accepted into a
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
. Page 13.404.2HBCU’s are doing their part to help the US meet the need of replenishing the engineeringpipeline despite limited federal support.6 Many HBCUs lack the resources to quickly implementcurriculum changes to focus on emerging technologies. Furthermore, faculty at many HBCUsdeveloped their research focus before the evolution of biotechnology and transitioning to newresearch areas, particularly with the high teaching loads and lack of facility infrastructure, can bequite challenging. Currently, there are twelve (12) Historically Black College and University’s(HBCU) that have Engineering programs accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineeringand Technology (ABET). The Department of Chemical Engineering at PVAMU is one of onlysix
require significant time to cool to a usable temperature. On a moderate-heat setting, it will take about 20 minutes to heat the oil. In order to save time, a teaching assistant can begin pre-heating the oil prior to students arriving in the lab. • It is very important to use blenders that have glass pitchers and very tight-fitting lids that form a seal with the pitcher. Plastic pitchers will crack, and ultimately fail, after only one or two uses. Tight-fitting lids will prevent the reaction mixture from leaking out of the pitcher during blending. Laboratory-grade blenders are not necessary, and in some cases, do not have lids that seal and are not large enough to contain the 1200 mL of reactants
Fall2013 counterparts.Starting in Fall 2013, students were also given post-semester survey questions asking them toconsider how the inclusion of the game elements impacted their attitudes toward the laboratoryclass. The student responses from Fall 2013 through Fall 2014 to two of these questions aresummarized in Figure 5 (“The game elements made me think about the laboratory more than Iwould have otherwise”) and Figure 6 (“The inclusion of game elements made me feel like theinstructors cared about teaching this course”). Page 26.888.13Figure 5. Student responses to “The game elements made me think about the laboratory coursemore than I would have
program at RU provides unique projects and learning environment for itsundergraduate students. Traditional lecture courses generally do not provide much practicalexperience and while they may effectively relate the concepts they teach, they do not provide theexperience of applying these concepts the way an open ended problem might. The alternative isproviding students with internships, which do take place in a professional environment and workmay be tangible to the employer, but generally do not provide for a favorable learningenvironment.The RU clinic program combines the relative merits of both the classroom environment with themore professional goals of an internship into one course. The students are assigned to a project,generally with an
fluids. He also registered as a graduate student at Cranfield Institute of Technology and re- ceived his PhD in 1992. He then joined DuPont as a mixing consultant in the Engineering department working on a wide variety of projects including the Cellulosic Ethanol plant which is under construction in Nevada, Iowa. In 2013 he joined Philadelphia Mixing Solutions as Director of Mixing Technology. He co-teaches courses on mixing at Rowan University in New Jersey and at the University of Delaware and is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers. He was recently elected as the vice-president of the North American Mixing Forum and will become president in 2016
was beyond the scope of this review to note the manysafety references with respect to laboratory course work across the engineering disciplines(industrial, mechanical, civil, electrical, computer, and nuclear), to summarize papers discussingthe development of senior and graduate level safety courses, or to note papers describing howsafety is incorporated into senior level capstone design courses.This search included reviews of proceedings from ASEE2, references identified in the Safetysection of the Teaching Resource Center in Computer Aids for Chemical Engineering(CACHE)3, and the two safety-oriented divisions of the American Institute of ChemicalEngineers (AIChE): 1) the Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS)4 and 2) the Safety
processes that use bioactive agents. This is a highly transdisciplinaryfield that involves principles in both engineering: chemical, mechanical, electrical, industrial,agricultural, and environmental, and biology: biochemistry and microbiology. At our university,we offer an introductory course in Bioprocess Engineering to seniors and entering graduatestudents for any of the disciplines listed above. This course is co-taught by faculty in bothchemical engineering (CHE) and biosystems and agricultural engineering (BAE). This class canbe a challenge to teach due to the diversity of the students at different levels and from differentdisciplines.As part of their grade for the course, students participate in a “hands-on” class project designedto give the
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 #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 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
the National Science Foundation under thegrant TUES 1245482. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed inthis material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NationalScience Foundation.References1. Ma, J., and J. Nickerson. 2006. Hands-on, simulated, and remote laboratories: A comparative literature review. ACM Computing Surveys, 38(3), 1-24.2. Wieman C. and K. Perkins. 2005. Transforming physics education. Physics Today,58(11), 36-41.3. Perkins, K., Adams, W., Dubson, M., Finkelstein, N., Reid, S., Wieman, C., & LeMaster, R. 2006. PhET: Interactive simulations for teaching and learning physics. The Physics Teacher, 44, 18.4. Finkelstein, N.D., W.K. Adams, C.J
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
operations lab experiments and provides instruction for the virtualbioreactor. Dr. David Hackleman developed CBEE 416 and served as the Linus PaulingEngineer for 5 years. The authors are indebted to numerous practicing engineers for sharingtheir time and experiences with students. Finally, several faculty members sponsor seniorprojects, committing resources and knowledge.References1. Feisel, L. D. and A. J. Rosa. (2005). The role of the laboratory in undergraduate engineering education. J. Eng. Educ., 94, 121–130.2. Wankat, P.C. and F.S. Oreovicz. (1993). Teaching engineering. New York: McGraw-Hill.3. ABET Website, http://www.abet.org/, retrieved Jan. 2011.4. Dutson, A., R. Todd, S. Magleby, and C. Sorensen. 1997. A Review of Literature
fully engaging, and well-received project, the laboratory experiments have proven to beeffective in teaching multidisciplinary freshman engineering students’ aspects of sustainability,social awareness, and basic engineering concepts.Works Cited[1] S. Rimos, A. F. A. Hoadley and D. J. Brennan, "Environmental Consequences Analysis for Resource Depletion," Process Safety and Environmental Protection, vol. 92, no. 6, pp. 849-861, 2014.[2] R. Dodds and R. Venables, "Engineering for Sustainable Development: Guiding Principles," The Royal Academy of Engineering, London, 2005.[3] American Society for Engineering Education, "ASEE Statement on Sustainable Development Education," American Society for Engineering Education, 30 June
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
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
the six teachersthat completed post-implementation surveys, 100% stated that they intended to use the VirtualLaboratory Project again. The majority of those interviewed also expressed interest in using theVirtual Laboratory Project in subsequent years.Sources of EffectivenessIn this preliminary report of findings, some of the authors’ expected sources of effectivenesswere found to be reinforced by both teachers and students interviewed and surveyed. One ofthese sources was the situated, industrial context of the instructional design. Three questions onthe post-implementation survey elicited responses consistent with this source of effectiveness: • What need in your teaching did the laboratory address? • What specific content, concepts
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
physicalresource limitations and time constraints. This paper describes the combination of a tutorial forbatch distillation simulation with tools to engage students in an inductive learning process (theprocess of observation and interpretation based on factual evidence leading to generalizedconclusions) and an optional experiential exercise incorporating experimental design.A part of the aspenOne family of simulation software developed by Aspen Technology, AspenBatch Distillation3 may be used to teach the relationships of key batch distillation variables uponsystem performance. Using the approach described here, a student is guided through a detailedtutorial to model a laboratory batch distillation column, and then uses the results to predict thecolumn’s
challenge-based human metabolism laboratory for undergraduates. Journal of Engineering Education 97, 213-222 (2008).5 Flora, J. R. V., Cooper, A. T. . Incorporating inquirybased laboratory experiment in undergraduate environmental engineering laboratory. Journal of Professional Issues Engineering Educational.Practice 131, 19-25 (2005).6 Chi, M. T. H., Feltovich, P. J.,Glaser, R. . Categorization and representation in physics problems by experts and novices. Cognitive Science 4, 121-152 (1981).7 Halloun, I. Schematic modeling for meaningful learning of physics. Journal of Research in Science Teaching 33, 1019–1041 (1996).8 Greeno, J. G., and Middle School Mathematics through
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
Engineering Education with several teaching awards such as the 2004 National Outstanding Teaching Medal and the 2005 Quinn Award for experiential learning. Page 24.198.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Artificial Organs Leading to Real Engineering Learning [Work-in-Progress]AbstractExamined at a holistic level, the human body is composed of unit operations maintaininga steady state known as homeostasis. Many of these unit operations have engineeringanalogs. These parallels are explored readily for pedagogical purposes, either as novelproblems or
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
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
initial ABET accreditation. He is also a champion of industry-academia partnerships in senior design projects and has been instru- mental in bringing full industry sponsorship to the majority of the senior design projects in the program he teaches in.Prof. Serdar Ozturk, MSOE Dr.Serdar Ozturk is an assistant professor in Biomolecular Engineering program at Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE). This unique program is a hybrid program of molecular biology and chemical engineering and successfully went through the initial ABET accreditation. As a chemical engineer in the program, he developed and modified many core chemical engineering courses (Reactor Design, Thermo- dynamics I and II, etc.), albeit with a focus on
Paper ID #30199How We Teach: Chemical Engineering in the First YearDr. Laura P Ford, The University of Tulsa LAURA P. FORD is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Tulsa. She teaches engineering science thermodynamics, mass transfer, and chemical engineering senior labs. She is the advisor for TU’s chapter of Engineers Without Borders USA. Her email address is laura-ford@utulsa.edu.Dr. Janie Brennan, Washington University in St. Louis Janie Brennan is a Lecturer of Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. She earned her Ph.D. in Chemical