Conference Session

New Trends in CHE Education II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jason Keith, Michigan Technological University; Daniel Crowl, Michigan Technological University; David Caspary, Michigan Technological University; Jeffrey Allen, Michigan Technological University; Dennis Meng, Michigan Technological University; Jeff Naber, Michigan Technological University; Abhijit Mukherjee, Michigan Technological University; John Lukowski, Michigan Technological University; Jay Meldrum, Michigan Technological University; Barry Solomon, Michigan Technological University

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Chemical Engineering

traditional and alternative energy sources, with an added emphasis on generation of hydrogen for use in fuel cell applications. Hydrogen policy issues will also be addressed. o Hydrogen Laboratory: This is a laboratory course with hydrogen safety training, hydrogen measurements, fuel cell operation and analysis, and investigation of other hydrogen-related technologies. o Fuel Cells: There are two courses in this topic area [CM 3974 Fuel Cell Fundamentals (1 credit) and MEEM 4990/5990 Fuel Cell Technology (3 credits)] which introduce the basics of fuel cells and calculation of important parameters for fuel cell operation

Conference Session

ChE: Innovation to Improve Student Learning

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jason Keith, Michigan Technological University; Michael Miller, Michigan Technological University; Kirk Opella, Michigan Technological University; Julia King, Michigan Technological University; Jay Meldrum, Michigan Technological University; Chris Green, Michigan Technological University; Geoff Gwaltney, Michigan Technological University; Scott Bradley, Michigan Technological University

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Chemical Engineering

energy research and development.Furthermore, within the State of Michigan there has been increased emphasis on fuel cellapplications to motor vehicles. To prepare our students to create the future, faculty andstaff at MTU have developed a wide range of interdisciplinary courses and projects inalternative energy.After describing the structure of the MTU enterprise program, the AFE enterprise and itsprojects will be presented. This program allows for a unique, multidisciplinaryintegration of research into teaching. Following this will be a description of the electivecourse, laboratory, and focused research projects.The MTU Enterprise ProgramMTU students can pursue a minor or concentration (curriculum shown in Table 1 withelective modules listed in

Conference Session

ChE: Innovation to Improve Student Learning

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

C. Stewart Slater, Rowan University; Mariano Savelski, Rowan University; Robert Hesketh, Rowan University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

EPA originally defined green engineering as the design, commercialization and use Page 11.150.2of processes and products that are feasible and economical while minimizing the generation ofpollution at the source and also minimizing risk to human health and the environment [1]. Thedefinition of green engineering was more broadly defined in a recent conference (Sandestin,Florida, 2003) to transforming existing engineering disciplines and practices to those that lead tosustainability. Green engineering incorporates development and implementation of products,processes, and systems that meet technical and cost objectives while protecting human

Conference Session

ChE: Outreach Programs

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura Ford, University of Tulsa; Christi Patton Luks, University of Tulsa

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Chemical Engineering

, $75, and $50 for 2006. The students maycompete either individually or as a team, with no upper limit on the size of the team.The test circuit was designed and built by two University of Tulsa electrical engineering studentsas a project for one of their classes. Their circuit diagram is given in Figure 1, and a picture ofthe unit is given in Figure 2. The test circuit has an on/off switch and a green LED that indicatesthat the unit is on. This simple feature is very useful for determining that the unit is workingcorrectly. The students attach their equipment to the circuit with the alligator clips. The testcircuit contains a blue LED that is on when the circuit is completed through the alligator clipsand the contest entry. When thestudent

Conference Session

ChE: Curriculum Reform & Assessment

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Turton, West Virginia University; Joseph Shaeiwitz, West Virginia University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

paradigm shift. Some will say that wehave not responded quickly enough to the changing profession, and this may be true. Others willblame ABET. However, the new criteria allow far more flexibility, but departments have beenslow to make changes. Still others will blame the university reward system, which does nothingto encourage senior faculty members to devote time to significant updates of classes they havetaught for years or to encourage anyone to write books that embrace the changing face ofchemical engineering. A case has been made for a major curriculum revolution in chemical engineering.1 The Page 11.1258.2argument will be made here that

Conference Session

ChE: Experimental Design & Error Analysis

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University

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Chemical Engineering

. Page 11.677.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Hands-on Experimental Error! Improving Students’ Understanding of Error AnalysisIntroductionAn understanding of error analysis is crucial for the scientist or engineer who must estimateuncertainties in experimental measurements and reduce them when necessary. Error analysis is avital part of any experiment; without appropriate error analysis, meaningful conclusions cannotbe drawn from the data. Unfortunately, as pointed out by Taylor 1, error analysis is oftenintroduced through handouts containing formulas which students are simply told to use in theirlaboratory reports. Students fail to grasp the underlying concepts and rationale and

Conference Session

ChE: Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Keith Lodge, University of Minnesota-Duluth

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Chemical Engineering

perhaps a newdirection is a more apt description, of Process Control (formerly ChE 4401, now ChE 4402); thisis offered once a year in the spring semester. Typically, students take this course in their lastsemester; by this time, the novelty of life in the classroom is wearing a bit thin! For the mostpart, the course has roughly followed the first ten chapters of “Chemical Process Control”1. It is now easy to obtain inexpensive and reliable microcontrollers. In the spring of 2002, ourstudents2 first worked the Board of Education (BOE) from Parallax3; this is a convenient systemwith which to build circuits and to program the Basic Stamp, Parallax’s microcontroller. Ofcourse, Parallax is not the sole source of microcontrollers; however, the

Conference Session

ChE: Experimental Design & Error Analysis

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University; Shoichi Kimura, Oregon State University; Connelly Barnes, Oregon State University; Danielle Amatore, Oregon State University; Derek Meyers-Graham, Oregon State University

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Chemical Engineering

determine when their results are good enough and the reactor is ready for production.Educational objectivesThe complete experimental design process is depicted in the flowchart shown in Figure 1. Thefirst step is to select a response/dependent variable (variables) that will provide informationabout the problem under study and the proposed measurement method for this response variable,including an understanding of the measurement system variability. The next step is to select theindependent variables/factors to be investigated in the experiment. After the dependent andindependent variables are selected, then an appropriate experimental design should be selectedthat will allow the experimental questions to be answered once the data is collected

Conference Session

ChE: Departmental Issues and Integrating Freshmen into the ChE Program

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pedro Arce, Tennessee Technological University; Donald Visco, Tennessee Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

Discipline-Specific NeedsAbstractIn many engineering curriculums, the first opportunity for students to become acquainted withtheir discipline is in the sophomore or junior years. While such an approach allows for generalfreshman and/or sophomore engineering classes, it creates other problems as well as missesseveral opportunities. At our university, we have designed a 1-credit class for first semesterfreshman enrolled in chemical engineering. This course, which was designed with much studentinput, includes a variety of areas such as: (1) time management, (2) departmental indoctrination,(3) meeting the faculty, (4) how do all the courses fit into the curriculum, (5) hands-onexperimentation, (6) what chemical engineers do in practice and (7) student

Conference Session

ChE: Curriculum Reform & Assessment

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey Froyd; Jean Layne, Texas A&M University; Lale Yurttas, Texas A&M University; David Ford, Texas A&M University

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Chemical Engineering

the intentions and methods used Page 11.416.3in each course, department faculty members have a firmer grasp of the current curriculum: Whatdoes each course intend to accomplish? How are these intentions realized? With a clearer pictureof present reality, the department can engage in more reasoned dialogue about how to obtaindesired outcomes. Fourth, the faculty has begun to develop new materials, such as interlinkedcurriculum components (ICCs), to support specific areas of the renewed curriculum.Process Step No. 1: Developing Departmental OutcomesInstead of first asking which courses or which topics should be included in a revised

Conference Session

ChE: Outreach Programs

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sundararajan Madihally, Oklahoma State University; Eric Maase, Oklahoma State University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

biochemical/biomedicalengineering.1. Introduction. The declining number of students expressing an interest, or majoring, in engineering isone of the major problems facing the United States [1]. There is also decrease in the interestlevel in mathematics and sciences; in 1990, 73% of twelfth grades agreed with the statement“math is useful for solving problems” which decreased to 61% in 2000 [2]. In addition to lack ofinterest, there is also the problem of under-preparedness among US students in math and science[3]. To address these issues, few higher education institutions have initiated novel programswhere either high school teachers are retrained or students are exposed to science andengineering through summer outreach programs [4-7

Conference Session

ChE: Innovation in Existing Courses

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barry Barkel, University of Michigan; Peter Woolf, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

• Understanding of convergence, stability and response of systems • PID controllers and their tuning • Statistical process controlThe design task for the new course was to cover the above material adequately, within a15-week term, and to do so in a manner that that had flow and continuity. In addition,each section should relate in a logical way.To accommodate this material, we developed the course plan listed in Table 1. Incomparison to the more traditional course plan that we followed previously, this courserepresents a significant deviation, both in terms of content and emphasis. Page 11.1026.2 New Course Old

Conference Session

ChE: Innovation in Existing Courses

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Silverstein, University of Kentucky

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Chemical Engineering

atypical risks related to terrorism are there to chemical plants? ‚ Are current safeguards adequate? ‚ Who is responsible for protecting chemical plants and their communities from threats?A brief discussion ensues, with students led to conclude that the risks associated with terrorismare essentially the same as they would ordinarily need to consider. The key difference is that theinitiating events are extraordinary. Consequently, the approaches taken using risk analysis toaddress only issues of highest probabilities and/or greatest impact must consider these unlikelybut possible events. The same tools they had already studied in the broader context of plant andprocess safety were still applicable.1 The third question addresses an

Conference Session

ChE: Departmental Issues and Integrating Freshmen into the ChE Program

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Silverstein, University of Kentucky; Daina Briedis, Michigan State University; Kevin Dahm, Rowan University; Richard Zollars, Washington State University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

Engineering Division Forum 1.0 The first implementation of the Forum is accessible from the Forum link on the ChED Page 11.827.4website, http://www.asee-ched.org/, as shown in Figure 1.Figure 1. Forum as viewed from within the ChED web site. The Forum is organized into broad groups, which are then broken down into areas.Currently, the groups include Announcements; ChE Division; Course Discussion; EducationalResearch, Theory and Methods; and New Faculty. The Announcements group is intended to serve more as a posting area than a discussionarea. The areas are broken down as follows ‚ Forum Announcements: Describes changes and

Conference Session

Open Forum in Chemical Engineering Education

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Margot A Vigeant, Bucknell University; Kevin D. Dahm, Rowan University; David L. Silverstein P.E., University of Kentucky

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Chemical Engineering

engineering curricula. Table 1 shows the 1996 chemicalengineering program criteria as cited in [1].Table 1: 1996 Chemical Engineering Program Criteria (A-1)“working knowledge, including safety and environmental aspects, of: (A-2) material and energy balances applied to chemical processes (A-3) thermodynamics of physical and chemical equilibria (A-4) heat, mass, and momentum transfer (A-5) chemical reaction engineering (A-6) continuous and stage-wise separation operations (A-7) process dynamics and control (A-8) process design “Readers with undergraduate degrees prior to 2000 may recognize Table 1 as a list of their corecourses. In 2000, ABET adopted a completely revamped accreditation criteria for engineeringprograms, which were referred to at the

Conference Session

Novel Pedagogical Techniques II: Potpourri

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Pascal, University of Connecticut; Tiffany Lauren Pascal, New Mexico State University-Carlsbad

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

oflearning by using visuals to teach concepts. However, by the time students reach middle school,these visuals are minimized or altogether discarded in favor of a canon that sublimates printliteracy to a grand, almost mythological status. In this context, language is objectified—devoidof perception or imagery and stripped down to an entity that can assist the human brain inmemorization and reasoning yet lacks visual data to fully aid the brain in observation,comprehension, and interpretation. According to Harvey J. Graff [1], educators perpetuate the misconception that, as otherforms of visual media—Facebook, Youtube, Instagram, film, TV—increase in presence,illiteracy also increases. College instructors lament students’ underdeveloped

Conference Session

Work-in-Progress Oral Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jason R. White, University of California, Davis; Ahmet Palazoglu, University of California, Davis

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

senior design projects in the Plant Design Projectcourse.After the completion of the assignment, students were voluntarily surveyed to gauge theirperception of the effectiveness of the assignment as a measurement of their ability todevelop a preliminary design idea. They were also surveyed to measure their perceptionof how strongly the ABET outcomes for the course mapped to this assignment. Studentperformance on the assignment was assessed on the basis of the students ability to 1)communicate in writing effectively, 2) design a preliminary process to meet a societalneed within realistic constraints, 3) understand ethical responsibilities and potentialsafety issues, 4) understand the impact of the proposed design project in a global,environmental

Conference Session

Professional Skills Development

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Cooper, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

students making up theaudience appreciate this change as well. However, regardless of any increase in personalenjoyment it is important that assigning the AE format in an effort to liven up presentationsessions does not negatively impact students’ improvement in their presentation skills; therealistic possibility of a failed teaching experiment is a concern held by the author anytime whenintroducing new pedagogical method(s) to a course.This work describes the incorporation of oral presentation assignments using the AE model intodifferent sections of a senior ChE Unit Operation laboratory course. The objectives of this workare to: 1) determine if student presentation skills development is altered by assigning the AEmodel – in particular, if

Conference Session

Novel Pedagogical Techniques II: Potpourri

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca Jo Pinkelman, Technische Universität Darmstadt; David J. Dixon, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Manfred J Hampe, Technische Universität Darmstadt

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

, skills, and ability to solve complexproblems and to produce excellent solution(s) within the structure of the team. This concept wasfurther developed to include defining team and task, team climate, communication, and reflection(for a detailed description, please see Table 1)23-26.Design competence focused on finding and evaluating variants and recognizing and solvingcomplex design problems. These were further defined as having the ability to discover and designmultiple solutions to a given problem and to effectively evaluate those solutions to determine thebest solution, and having the ability to see the overall picture of a complex design problem, thenbreaking it into smaller, more manageable parts to solve while keeping the overall problem

Conference Session

Novel Pedagogical Techniques I: Online, Electronic, and Apps!

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew W Liberatore, University of Toledo

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

led to multimediacourse resources supplanting paper books for some engineering courses. Additionally, very littleinformation is available to answer a fundamental question about a textbook’s utility or necessity,namely how many students read their textbooks for engineering courses or any college course?Over more than four decades research shows a majority of students ignore textbook reading [1-6].For example, one study used pop quizzes to measure reading compliance and observed decreasefrom 80% in the early 1980s to about 20% between 1993 and 1997, which precedes the availabilityof handheld electronic devices [5]. While reading quizzes offer one incentive to read a textbookbefore class, web-based technologies can quickly and easily tracks

Conference Session

Professional Skills Development

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ashlee Nicole Ford Versypt, Oklahoma State University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

studentsto identify the change they wanted to make, come up with a plan to implement that change, andfrequently assess how their changes worked. The essays were submitted electronically as smallpercentage homework assignments graded solely on completion. The instructor providedfeedback through the classroom management system, typically ranging from 1 sentence to 2paragraphs, depending on the number of skills assessed in a given essay. Besides the intendedgoal of professional skill development, the assignments also gave the students practice withwritten communication and forged connections between the students and the faculty instructorfor the course.The essay prompt for self-reflection assignment 1 was  Write a brief essay  Identify one (or

Conference Session

Novel Pedagogical Techniques I: Online, Electronic, and Apps!

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Staehle, Rowan University

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Chemical Engineering

. Staehle is also particularly interested in chemical, bio-, and biomedical engineering education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Evaluating the Impact of Online Delivery of a Process Dynamics and Control CourseProcess Dynamics and Control is a required course in most Chemical Engineering programs.Students typically find the material challenging, and for some, the subject seems divorced fromthe remainder of the curriculum. In fact, some students claim that it feels as though they arelearning another language. To address this and to improve learning, instructors have utilized avariety of pedagogical approaches [1-36]. A recent survey found that a large

Conference Session

Early ChemE Education

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Polly R. Piergiovanni, Lafayette College

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

First Year Students to Chemical EngineeringIntroductionEvery few years, Lafayette College updates the introductory engineering course (ES 101),based on changes in the incoming student population. Currently about 200 students enteras engineering majors. Twelve sections of ES 101 are offered so enrollment can becapped at 20 students. Each engineering major (chemical, civil, mechanical andelectrical) offers three sections. Four sections are held at the same time – one from eachdepartment. Students are enrolled in a particular section for the first seven weeks of thesemester (“Module 1”) and change to a different section (“Module 2”) for the remainingweeks. This allows each student to experience two types of engineering. It ischallenging for the

Conference Session

Novel Pedagogical Techniques I: Online, Electronic, and Apps!

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas E. Marlin, McMaster University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

student control over time, place, path, or pace” (Wikipedia, 2016; MacMillian, 2017)”.The distribution of time between media and distribution of physical location are shown inFigure 1. A typical, lecture-based course is shown as point “A” at the lower left, and a fullydistance learning course is shown as point “B” in the upper right. A blended course balancesfeatures, usually having from 30-70% online content, and always having face-to-face interactionsbetween students and instructor (Knewton, 2016).Figure 1. Schematic of the physical aspects of blended learning. Modified from Knewton (2016)3.2 The Flipped ClassThe blended concept does not define a specific course approach; further features are required fora specific course design. This project

Conference Session

Labs and Experiments

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janie Brennan, Washington University in St. Louis; Shawn E Nordell, Washington University in St. Louis ; Erin D Solomon, Washington University in St. Louis

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

, teamwork,and critical thinking, to name a few.1-3The structure and implementation of the laboratory course will necessarily have a significantimpact on the extent to which these skills are developed. In particular, the use of open-endedlaboratory activities, as opposed to narrowly defined “recipe”-style activities, seems to beparticularly critical for learning and thinking skill development, as shown by several studies inchemical engineering unit operations courses. One previous study suggests that the use of “ill-posed problems” in unit operations can improve teamwork, critical thinking, and problem-solving, and that active engagement of the students in the problem-solving process can improveretention, decision-making, and self-directed learning

Conference Session

Early ChemE Education

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bill B Elmore, Mississippi State University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

to vary widely across a spectrum ranging from acommon first year (among all engineering majors) with no chemical engineering-specificactivities or topics to a discipline-specific, required chemical engineering course.1 Foremostamong the priorities given among the variety of course constructs were to provide students aframework within which they could better understand the nature of chemical engineering whileenabling the development of a strong problem-solving skill set appropriate to the discipline.Likewise, our course structure has evolved to achieve this desired outcome of familiarizingfreshmen with the nature of chemical engineering practice while also building in students aproblem-solving skill set appropriate to any engineering

Conference Session

Professional Skills Development

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Dee Clay, Ohio State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

. He has taught a variety of courses in the ChE department and currently focuses on the Unit Op- erations Laboratory, Mass and Energy Balances, and Separations. He completed the National Effective Teaching Institute course (NETI-1) in June, 2016. Dr. Clay is married to Dr. Kristy Clay, a veterinarian, and has three children, Luke (15), Natalie (15), and Meredith (12). c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Integration of Industrially Relevant Examples in ChE Courses Energy Balance on an e-Cigarette DeviceAbstractIdentifying industrially relevant and/or real-world examples is an excellent technique to enhancethe

Conference Session

Early ChemE Education

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jamie Gomez, University of New Mexico; Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico; Abhaya K. Datye, University of New Mexico

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

& Learning Sciences program, and in the Chemical & Biological Engineering Department. She served as Co-PI on an NSF RET Grant and a USDA NIFA grant, and is currently co-PI on three NSF-funded projects in engineering and computer science education, including a Revolutioniz- ing Engineering Departments project. She was selected as a National Academy of Education / Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow. Dr. Svihla studies learning in authentic, real world conditions; this includes a two- strand research program focused on (1) authentic assessment, often aided by interactive technology, and (2) design learning, in which she studies engineers designing devices, scientists designing investigations, teachers designing

Conference Session

Labs and Experiments

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Dee Clay, Ohio State University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

a variety of courses in the ChE department and currently focuses on the Unit Op- erations Laboratory, Mass and Energy Balances, and Separations. He completed the National Effective Teaching Institute course (NETI-1) in June, 2016. Dr. Clay is married to Dr. Kristy Clay, a veterinarian, and has three children, Luke (14), Natalie (14), and Meredith (12). c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Leading an Effective Unit Operations Lab CourseAbstractThis paper is focused on the logistics and unique learning opportunities present in supervising aUnit Operations laboratory course. Specifically, the paper outlines some best

Conference Session

Outreach and Beyond in the Chemical Engineering Classroom

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Byron Hempel, University of Arizona; Paul Blowers, University of Arizona; Kasi M. Kiehlbaugh, University of Arizona

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

co-teaching, classroom technologies, active learning in the classroom, and various classroom-based affective inter- ventions targeted at fostering self-efficacy, belongingness, metacognitive learning strategies, and growth mindset affect outcomes such as student retention and success, particularly during the freshman and sophomore year. Her field of research is undergraduate engineering education. Dr. Kiehlbaugh com- pleted her BS and MS at the University of Arizona and her PhD at UC Berkeley. She is now a Research Assistant Professor in the College of Engineering at her undergraduate alma mater. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 1 Scalable and Practical