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

of the46 following four areas: academic and career advising, high school preparation, engineering structure and47 curriculum, and faculty relations[9]. This paper focuses on faculty relations because, historically, 148 universities have relegated retention issues to staff and advisors. The importance of faculty influence on49 student retention is an under-researched and under-explored area. Specifically, faculty relations can be50 shaped through specific teaching practices instructors can use to increase student retention. Research51 supports the claim that student-professor relationships are vital in promoting the success of engineering52 students [10], [11]. One

Conference Session

ChemE Curriculum: Junior, Senior, and Graduate

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Madeline Polmear, University of Colorado, Boulder; Chris Swan, Tufts University; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder; Nathan E. Canney

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

deeper and more critical exploration in one or two targetedcourses may provide a combination that yields appropriate student education on ESI.IntroductionChemical engineering students, like all engineers, need to be educated about ethics and societalimpacts (ESI), in order to prepare them for their careers. Accreditation requires this knowledge,with the new ABET criteria 3 outcome (4) acknowledging the interconnected elements of ethicsand societal impacts: “an ability to recognize ethical and professional responsibilities inengineering situations and make informed judgments, which must consider the impact ofengineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts” [1]. Inaddition, the Chemical Engineers Body of Knowledge

Conference Session

A Virtual Community of Practice for Developing and Implementing Evidence-based Pedagogies

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University; Stephen J Krause, Arizona State University; Nancy Ruzycki, University of Florida; Amber L. Genau, University of Alabama at Birmingham; Brittany Nelson-Cheeseman, School of Engineering, University of St. Thomas; Cheryl A Bodnar, University of Pittsburgh; Joseph De-Chung Shih, Stanford University; Daniel Lepek, The Cooper Union; Lindsay Corneal, Grand Valley State University; Shannon Ciston, University of California, Berkeley; Richard E Eitel, Stevens Institute of Technology (SSE)

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering, Materials

innovations and research-based instructional strategies, 1, 2, 3, 4yet most engineering faculty continue to rely on traditional methods of delivery in their courses. Over a decade ago, Felder et al.5 explained that the gap between the current state ofknowledge and the practice results are due to the perception and reality that good teaching is notvalued in terms of career advancement. The authors made a compelling case for the need to cre-ate a positive campus climate for good teaching. Further research has shown that many facultywho attempt to implement research-based instructional practices (RBIS) stop using them whenthey encounter challenges or barriers.2 These include lack of class time, lack of instructor time,lack of rewards or recognition

Conference Session

Introductory Experiences in Chemical Engineering

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anthony Edward Butterfield, University of Utah; Kyle Joe Branch, University of Utah

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

havebroadened. The prototyping, teamwork, communication, and data-analysis skills that studentshave gained early in the curriculum have also greatly increased the value of our freshmen tofaculty research programs and others who hire our students as interns.Introduction Intellectual creativity, experimentation and active inquiry are at the heart of a rewardingengineering career, but often this fact is obscured during the early years of a chemical Page 26.1337.2engineering education. Teaching methods that promote such qualities in the classroom may notonly be more authentic; they have been shown to correspond with significant gains in studentlearning

Conference Session

Poster Sessions for Unit Operations Lab Bazaar and Tenure-Track Faculty

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Danilo Pozzo, University of Washington; Jim Pfaendtner, University of Washington; Marvi A. Matos, University of Washington; William B. Baratuci, B-Cubed; Jim L. Borgford-Parnell, University of Washington; Arne S.A. Biermans, University of Washington

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Chemical Engineering

Conference Session

Grasping the "Concept"

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adrienne R Minerick, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

Paper ID #6876Semester-long Concept Development Projects in Chemical Engineering Elec-tives CourseDr. Adrienne R Minerick, Michigan Technological University Adrienne Minerick received her M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame in 2003 and B.S. from Michigan Technological University in 1998. Dr. Minerick’s research interests include electroki- netics, predominantly dielectrophoretic characterizations of cells, and the development of biomedical microdevices. She earned a 2007 NSF CAREER award, has published research in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (2006), Lab on a Chip, and had an AIChE Journal

Conference Session

Perceptions, Reflections, Collaborations, and Student Support in Chemical Engineering

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Andrew Maxson, The Ohio State University; David L. Tomasko, The Ohio State University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

members, who share their personal thoughts and experiences related to the topic for 5-10 minutes each. They then open up the floor to the students for questions and discussion. Topics of discussion in the past have included: • Imposter syndrome • Resilience after failure • Fear of failure • Fear of missing out • Working with difficult people / different personality types • Making big decisions • Managing life transitions • Anxiety about choice of major / career path Approximately half of all faculty members in the department have participated. Events are advertised to students by email a few days in advance, and again immediately beforehand. Students are informed about the topic ahead of time so that

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering in the Junior and Senior Year

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Sarah A Wilson, University of Kentucky; Samira M. Azarin Azarin, University of Minnesota; Christopher Barr, University of Michigan; Janie Brennan, Washington University in St. Louis; Tracy L. Carter, Northeastern University; Amy J Karlsson, University of Maryland

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

Rowan and UMass, she developed a passion for undergraduate education. This passion led her to pursue a career as a lecturer, where she could focus on training undergraduate chemical engineering students. She has been teaching at UK since 2015 and has taught Fluid Mechanics, Thermodynamics, Computational Tools and the Unit Operations Laboratory. She is especially interested in teaching scientific communication and integration of process safety into the chemical engineering curriculum.Prof. Samira M. Azarin Azarin, University of Minnesota Samira Azarin is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Minnesota. She earned her B.S. in chemical engineering from the

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

bacterial chemotaxis and control in a conventional chemicalprocess.By introducing bacterial chemotaxis, we achieve two ends. First, we expose the studentsto a relatively unexplored set of questions where the physics, biology, and mathematicsare all incomplete. Second, we also introduced the students to the idea of decentralizedcontrol, a concept critical to regulating nano-scale machines.Operating LogicEven the most sophisticated hardware system will not function unless it is programmed.The program is what makes the installed control system operational. Previous controlcourses had not dealt with this issue, yet it is often an area that chemical engineersbecome involved with early in their careers. Programming can take many forms but it isthe

Conference Session

Professional Skills Development

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Cooper, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

prerequisite instruction by theprogram to that point in their academic careers. Knowing that the groups are similar from theoutset, a comparison can be drawn between the slopes of the regression lines (which indicate theimprovement of student performance over time) shown in Figures 7 and 8. Although the largerslope for the experimental group compared to the control group (1.36 vs. 1.01) implies that Figure 8. Presentation scores for students taking CHE 331 in the semesters in which the Assertion-Evidence presentation format was assigned. The distributions of student scores are depicted through display of the maximum and minimum, first and third quartile, and median scores (high and low error bars, top and bottom of the box, and middle line of the

Conference Session

Problem Solving and Communication in Chemical Engineering

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Norman W. Loney, University of Cincinnati; Gavin Duffy, Dublin Institute of Technology; Sheryl A. Sorby, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

been shown to be very important in terms ofinterest [12] and overall achievement [13]. In the latter study, using data collected for ProjectTALENT, it was established that spatial ability measured in adolescence predicted career pathand achievement in higher education: “spatial ability added incremental validity (accounted for astatistically significant amount of additional variance) beyond SAT-Mathematical (measuringmathematical reasoning ability) and SAT-Verbal (measuring verbal reasoning ability) inpredicting these math–science criteria” [13]. With regard to particular aspects of the STEMcurriculum, spatial ability has been shown to be significantly related to achievement in variousaspects of mathematics [14], performance in reasoning about

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering in K-12 and the First Year

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Ashlee N Ford Versypt, Oklahoma State University; Daria Khvostichenko, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

on chemical reaction kinet- ics and computational science and engineering. She received an NSF CAREER Award in 2019.Dr. Daria Khvostichenko, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dr. Khvostichenko developed a fascination for science and engineering in middle school and it has only grown since. Dr. Khvostichenko has two PhD degrees, in Chemistry and in Chemical Engineering. Her research interests spanned colloid and interface science, computational chemistry, phase behavior of complex fluids, and microfluidics. During her years in academia she mentored multiple undergraduate and graduate students and participated in community outreach programs. Dr. Khvostichenko presently leads a data analytics team for

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering in the Junior and Senior Year

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Richard Turton P.E., West Virginia University; Fernando V. Lima, West Virginia University; Brent A. Bishop, West Virginia University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

protect the integrity of a piece of equipment, andseveral other scenarios. A video of one of the procedures will also be shown in the presentationto illustrate the pedagogy used to design the system and to show the subsequent operation of thesystem. These modules or scenarios could be implemented in any or all of the design, control andsafety courses with good effect.IntroductionIn an ideal world, all undergraduate chemical engineering students would learn the basics ofprocess design and steady-state optimization while supplementing their education with aninternship or a co-op to gain real world experience before they begin their careers. Studentswould then leave their programs equipped with both a theoretical knowledge and a practicalintuition

Conference Session

Diversity and Global Experiences

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David DiBiasio, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Kristin Boudreau, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Leslie Dodson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Curtis Abel, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

sophomores we held a special session in a follow-on ChE class to address theseissues. Two ChE faculty not associated with this project and two of the authors (outside of ChE)facilitated a presentation and discussion among all the ChE sophomores. We addressed topics such asthe relative safety of the chemical industry, and the importance of understanding consequence,conducting a rigorous risk analysis, making informed career decisions, and the need for including humanaspects with their technical work. We did not do a formal evaluation of the session but our sense wasthat it was successful in providing closure and addressing some of concerns we saw in the surveys. Thestudents who spoke up during this session seemed interested in thinking ahead about

Conference Session

Teaching and Assessment in Chemical Engineering

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Cooper, North Carolina State University; Lisa G. Bullard, North Carolina State University; Christopher C. Willis, North Carolina State University - DELTA; Dan Spencer, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

served in engineering and management positions within Eastman Chem- ical Company from 1991-2000. A faculty member at NC State since 2000, Dr. Bullard has won numerous awards for both teaching and advising, including the ASEE Raymond W. Fahien Award, the John Wi- ley Premier Award for Engineering Education Courseware, NC State Faculty Advising Award, National Effective Teaching Institute Fellow, NC State Alumni Outstanding Teacher Award, George H. Blessis Out- standing Undergraduate Advisor Award, and the ASEE Southeastern Section Mid-Career Teacher Award. She is a member of the editorial board for Chemical Engineering Education and serves a Director of the Chemical Engineering Division of ASEE. She will be a co-author

Conference Session

Novel Student Experiences in Chemical Engineering

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Darinka del Carmen Ramírez , ITESM (Tecnológico de Monterrey); Pablo Moreno Ramírez, Universidad Autónoma Chapingo

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

of the 17 students, ofwhom 8 are women and 9 men. A feature of this area is that it teaches students from differentdisciplines of engineering. The sample has students from the following careers: 2 fromengineering in sustainable development, 2 from engineering in mechanics, 2 from bio-technology and 10 from chemical engineering. This subject is taught in 4th semester as acommon core for engineering at the Tecnológico de Monterrey.Learning Objectives for the PBL activityThe learning objectives planned by the teacher for the application of this PBL were: 1) theapplication of energy balances at an industrial plant, 2) the identification of the thermodynamiccycle that is used in the processes, 3) the development of the competence of ethics and

Conference Session

Computer-Based Learning in Chemical Engineering Courses

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ashlee N. Ford Versypt, Oklahoma State University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

. Her teaching interests focus on chemical reaction kinet- ics and computational science and engineering. She received an NSF CAREER Award in 2019. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 An Interdisciplinary Elective Course to Build Computational Skills for Mathematical Modeling in Science and EngineeringAbstractA cross-listed upper division and graduate elective course for students in science, technology,engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields has been developed to build computational skills inmathematical modeling. The course aims to fill a gap in the practical training of students startingcomputational research projects across various STEM disciplines who have inconsistent

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering in the Junior and Senior Year

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Thomas Andrew Meadowcroft, Rowan University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

standard [4]. Learning to breakdown the functions of a reactor or a distillation column into equipment modules and then writingphases, short parameterized procedures for those modules, is not only essential to automationdesign. It also teaches students a valuable approach for solving any complex problem, inparticular the management of any large project. Figure 2 Sequential Function ChartDocumentationChemical engineers, even those who become Process Control specialists, are not going to spendtheir careers programming control systems; it would be a waste of their talents when other(lower-priced) professionals can be hired. To manage these professionals, chemical engineersneed to practice writing a specification for a control system

Conference Session

ChE: Safety, Sustainability, and Global Opportunities

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Allyson Frankman, Brigham Young University; Jacob Jones, Brigham Young University; W. Vincent Wilding, Brigham Young University; Randy Lewis, Brigham Young University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

socialproblems in the world around them will be beneficial to them in future careers. An article in theCornell Chronicle observed, “No longer the ‘me generation’, American engineering students areactively taking on some of the world’s toughest problems…students and professional engineers[are] working to improve the lot of some of the world’s poorest communities, many in thedeveloping world.”3 Helping the impoverished have a better life enables students to look beyondthemselves into the world around them.In order to engage engineering students from many disciplines in a global opportunity, a newvariable credit (1-3) course was developed and is currently in progress during the Winter 2007semester. For all engineering disciplines (chemical, civil

Conference Session

Bringing Industrial Applications into the Classroom

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zenaida Otero Gephardt, Rowan University; C. Stewart Slater, Rowan University; Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University; Mariano Javier Savelski, Rowan University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

disseminated throughASEE conference papers, and some of the problem sets described in this paper will be used inthe next edition of Felder et al. 5Current efforts include expanding the dissemination of this material through the ASEE ChemicalEngineering Division (CHED) Summer School. This will help extend the reach of thesematerials to an audience of educators early in their careers who will be able to directly impact thestudents they teach. The 2012 ASEE-CHED Summer School was held at the University of Page 23.793.2Maine in Orono, Maine, July 21- 27. The Summer School included over 20 workshops andmany opportunities for faculty to network and share

Conference Session

"Modular" Learning

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Qinghua He, Tuskegee University; Rong Zhang, Auburn University; Jin Wang, Auburn University; Frank Leonard Armstead III, Tuskegee University; Rong Zhu Walburn; Donald Ray Johnson Jr; Julius Lenard Taylor II, Tuskegee University Research Assistant

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Chemical Engineering

learning material will enable instructors to easily select, share, expand, and modify Page 23.69.5the materials to fit students with various learning capabilities and career goals.Due to the complex nature of the biofuel processes and students’ limited exposure to biofueltechnology, most students would feel incompetent in dealing with problems related to biofuel.To help students overcome this barrier, we have also been creating a series of web modules toaccompany the classroom modules by exploiting two instructional strategies: computer-assistedinstruction and visual learning. Computer-assisted instruction is an innovative instructionalstrategy

Conference Session

Using Communication and Writing Techniques to Improve Student Learning

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Taryn Melkus Bayles, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

helps them to become a reflective practitioner once they graduate andbegin their professional career. The topics for their individual reflection paper included:  The engineering design process  Engineering/math/science connections  Technical writingThe students were provided several resources(4-7) to help them with this assignment. In addition,the students were provided a grading rubric (provided in Appendix A), prepared by the authorwhich is a synthesis of other critical thinking rubrics(8-10).Results In the analysis of the original design solution, the most striking result was that less thanhalf of the teams as freshman did not connect the design criteria to human constraints (bloodvolume, system

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael A. Collura, University of New Haven; W. David Harding, University of New Haven

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

, because all he wants to do isdesign earthquake-proof buildings. Despite a few students who fail to see the relevance, themajority seem to accept that this course is needed. When asked to respond to the statement "Thiscourse is relevant to my career", 85% of respondents chose "agree" or "strongly agree" (choices4 and 5 on a 5 point scale) in fall 2010, up from 75% in fall 2009.Many of the students in engineering have a dislike for chemistry, in some cases a very strongdislike. Generally such students are not attracted to chemical engineering, but we see many suchstudents in other majors. In response to this, the scope of coverage of some mass balance topicshas been selected to focus on situations which are of broader interest. For example

Conference Session

Design, Creativity and Critical Thinking in the Chemical Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kerry Michael Rogy; Cheryl A. Bodnar, University of Pittsburgh; Renee M. Clark, University of Pittsburgh

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

confidence in their ability to start a business. Using cluster analysis, we alsofound a change in the typology or student groupings based upon their reasons for wanting to starta business. This change brought about a higher awareness of the categorization of students whowanted to start a business, with a distinction between those students motivated to do so basedupon social concerns or the lack thereof.As students enroll in engineering programs at colleges and universities, it is important to build anentrepreneurial mindset. Building the entrepreneurial mindset through epistemic games can helpin shaping the 21st Century skills, which are so important in engineers’ professional careers. Asstudents develop and strengthen these skills, there is much

Conference Session

Project-Based, Inquiry Guided, and High Performance Learning Environments: Effective Approaches

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adrienne R. Minerick, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

AC 2011-1893: USE OF HIPELE APPROACH IN A SPLIT-LEVEL CHEM-ICAL ENGINEERING ELECTIVE COURSEAdrienne R. Minerick, Michigan Technological University Adrienne Minerick is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Michigan Tech having moved from Mississippi State University in Jan 2010, where she was a tenured Associate Professor. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame in 2003 and B.S. from Michigan Technological University in 1998. Adrienne’s research interests include electrokinetics and the development of biomedi- cal microdevices. She earned a 2007 NSF CAREER award; her group has published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Lab on a Chip, and had an AIChE

Conference Session

ABET and Curriculum-Level Assessments

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph J. McCarthy, University of Pittsburgh; Robert S. Parker, University of Pittsburgh

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

of certain subject matter. rors. Figure 6: Concept Map Scoring Rubric 25Figures 7 and 8 where traditional, transitional, and Pillar cohorts are compared (and Pillarcohorts include results from sophomores and juniors as well as seniors). When comparing theaverage scores obtained, there is an encouraging trend that not only do Pillars students have ahigher median score on each measure versus the traditional cohort group, but they are achievingcomparable scores to the traditional cohorts earlier in their careers. Specifically, seniors thatfollowed the traditional curriculum received a “Total” median score of 2.42, while studentsfollowing the pillars curriculum received

Conference Session

Learning By Doing in Chemical Engineering Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Larry Glasgow, Kansas State University; David Soldan, Kansas State University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

(Award Number 0837352). The authors are gratefulfor this support.Literature Cited Page 15.1018.121. Grose, T. K. “The Mechanics of a Career,” ASEE Prism, 14:25 (2005).2. Zaslow, J. “Plugged In, but Tuned Out: Getting Kids to Connect to the Non-Virtual World,” WallStreet Journal, October 6 (2005).3. Mc Dermott, L. C. and P. S. Shaffer. “Research as a Guide for Curriculum Development: An Examplefrom Introductory Electricity, Part 1,” American Journal of Physics, 60:994 (1992).4. Finkelstein, N. D. “Context in the Context of Physics and Learning,” nfinkels@ucsd.edu (2001).5. Wankat, P. and F. Oreovicz. “Gaming the Curriculum,” ASEE Prism, 15:48 (2005).6

Conference Session

SPECIAL SESSION: Interdisciplinary Course Design Opportunities for Chemical Engineers

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William J. Kelly, Villanova University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

participate in collaborative research that has resulted in severalundergraduate researchers contributing to publications in journals. This new interdisciplinarycourse, The Global Pharmaceutical Industry, was developed to be an important addition to theexisting three technical courses in biochemical engineering at Villanova. The courses togetherwill interest engineering students that are motivated to learn biotechnology and pursue careers inthe pharmaceutical industry. The engineering students taking these courses will receive a well-rounded and thorough foundation for entering the pharmaceutical industry. These students arepositioned then to make positive impacts on the industry in their entry-level jobs and beyond.For the business students, this new

Conference Session

Real and Virtual - "New" Approaches to Teaching "Old" Courses

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard L. Zollars, Washington State University; Christopher Hundhausen, Washington State University; Adam Scott Carter, Washington State University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

University in Appleton, Wis. in 1991, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer and information science from the University of Oregon in 1993 and 1999. Recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, Dr. Hundhausen is founder and director of the Human-centered Environments for Learning and Programming (HELP) Lab at Washington State University, where he’s an associate professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. His research focuses on the general area of human-computer interac- tion with specific interests in computer-based visualization, end-user computing, educational technology, and computer science education. Dr. Hundhausen has established himself as an international leader in

Conference Session

ChE: Innovations in the Classroom

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Marlin, McMaster University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

failure is high and theprobability of a failure is unacceptable. For example, a spare pump requires the extra pump, allpiping and valves, and control equipment to provide for immediate startup of the spare shouldthe primary fail. Even this total cost of spare pumps is usually found to be a good investment,while the much higher capital cost of compressors prevents a spare being provided in mostplants. This coverage of reliability will likely be limited in a design course; however, it isessential to perform proper equipment design and cost estimation. Even a brief introduction willprovide basic concepts used by students throughout their careers. Importantly, we hope that itwill pique their interest and serve as a basis for later study during