Polymeric and Multicomponent Materials courses. Her funding includes NSF and DOE and she received the Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award in 2006. Central to her research in polymer and surface engineering is the design and synthesis of molecules with well-defined chemical functionality and molecular architecture with current projects on stimuli-responsive and biomass-based polymeric materials.Bill Elmore, Mississippi State University Bill Elmore, Ph.D., P.E., is Associate Professor and Hunter Henry Chair, Mississippi State University. His teaching areas include the integrated freshman engineering and courses throughout the chemical engineering curriculum including unit operations
Paper ID #17642Flipping the Chemical Engineering Process Control Class with e-LessonsDr. Thomas E. Marlin, McMaster University Tom Marlin joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at McMaster University in Hamilton, On- tario, Canada, as NSERC Research Professor in Industrial Process Control in 1988. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts in 1972; then, he practiced engineering for 15 years in the chemical and petroleum industries. In 1987, he served as the Visiting Fellow, for the Warren Centre Study located at the University of Sydney, Australia. During the one-year project, a team of over 40
AC 2007-80: TEACHING OPERABILITY IN UNDERGRADUATE CHEMICALENGINEERING DESIGN EDUCATIONThomas Marlin, McMaster University Department of Chemical Engineering McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Tom Marlin joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, as NSERC Research Professor in Industrial Process Control in 1988. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts in 1972; then, he practiced engineering for 15 years in the chemical and petroleum industries. In 1987, he served as the Visiting Fellow, for the Warren Centre Study located at the University of Sydney, Australia. During the one-year project, a
Paper ID #25445Techno-economic Modeling as an Inquiry-based Design Activity in a CoreChemical Engineering CourseDr. Jamie Gomez, University of New Mexico Jamie Gomez, Ph.D., is a Senior Lecturer III in the department of Chemical & Biological Engineering (CBE) at the University of New Mexico. She is a co- principal investigator for the following National Science Foundation (NSF) funded projects: Professional Formation of Engineers: Research Initiation in Engineering Formation (PFE: RIEF) - Using Digital Badging and Design Challenge Modules to Develop Professional Identity; Professional Formation of Engineers
the course and itscontent; and the remainder seeks to bring out the most innovative and effective approaches toteaching the course in use by instructors. Additionally, a limited historical comparison is madebetween the selected survey results and surveys on the same course conducted in 1972, 1990,and 1999.IntroductionThis survey represents the continuation of a series of surveys of undergraduate curricular topicsbegun in 1957 by the AIChE Education Projects Committee and more recently resumed by theAIChE Education Division. This paper presents the results for the third in the series of surveysconducted by the Education Division.Survey BackgroundThe Material and Energy Balance course (MEB) is the topic of the 2010 survey. Theaforementioned
questions. The studyfound a direct correlation between performance on the PeerWise assignment and overall courseperformance.Lastly, Munakato & Vaidya [6] describe a project that was developed for an introductory physicscourses. The goal of the project was to encourage creativity in science. The framework was adesign with a theme of sustainability. The authors opined that creativity is often connected to thearts. However, connecting ideas and recognizing similarities and differences are also consideredcreative endeavors. One definition of creativity is “the use of the imagination or original ideas.”Another definition of creativity is “a phenomenon whereby something new and valuable isformed.” Finally, on the initial rubric, creativity was
assessment, all institutions use tests or exams for quantifiable analysis of studentunderstanding. Problem sets are used by 82 of the 84 institutions; the two that did not insteadspecifically use quizzes and projects. Overall, quizzes were used by 56 institutions, conceptquestions were used by 55 institutions, and projects were used by 43 institutions.Figure 10: Types of assessments used in chemical engineering thermodynamics coursesThis survey represents the first in the AIChE Education Division curriculum survey series wherethe majority of programs are reporting using concept questions (Figure 10). Concept questionsare typically multiple choice questions, often used with instant response systems like “clickers”,designed to assess student
). Page 23.213.6An example (that was assessed for this study during the course) of a decision-making problem isdescribed in Figure 3. In this case students had to decide (and justify their decision) the order forplacing both reactors, based on their reactor and kinetic knowledge, as well as 10 MAI items(they had to answer items numbered 2, 6, 8, 11, 21, 22, 23, 34, 41, and 42 on Appendix A)related to regulation of cognition, most of them particularly associated with planning andmonitoring, were used as a form of coaching.Additionally, a design problem (Appendix B) was implemented as final project, which wasassigned for teamwork (groups of two students) on the last week of the semester and studentshad a period of one week to develop their proposal
“implicit models made explicit”and begin to construct their own learning. While Hmelo and Guzdial’s work was focusedon software, this concept can clearly be applied universally.The aim of the approach presented in this paper is to maintain PBL’s advantages intraining students to address ill-defined real-world problems while providing sufficientscaffolding (in a manner similar to Hmelo and Guzdial’s glass-box scaffolding) toaddress cognitive architecture concerns raised by Kirschner et al. and Sweller et al. 1, 2.Tiered Scaffolding ApproachThe six-tiered approach shown in Figure 1 below was used to prepare students for PBL(here in the form of challenge problems and Thermodynamics Inquiry Projects) bymoving them up the levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy 10
new coursesin PD&C that combine biological systems with traditional PD&C topics. The addition of thesetopics requires the elimination of some of the traditional content, but these investigators havefound the addition to be beneficial in enhancing student learning.Other instructors have been able to develop and implement experiments in-house [4-5, 8, 18-22] orare able to access experimental equipment over the internet [23-24]. Evaluations of both of thesewere generally positive. However, not all instructors have the resources to develop or implementactual experiments, and some of these instructors have turned to computational tools or computersimulations[6-7, 25-36] or case study projects [37-38] to provide surrogate experiential
reactorperformance but also on the cost of experimentation.This learning tool represents an innovative use of computers and simulation in integratingstatistics into engineering education. Students are given a “capstone” experience in which theyhave the opportunity to synthesize engineering science and statistics principles to optimizereactor performance. Since the simulation is from first principles, students can interpret theoutputs given by the DOE in terms of the chemical and physical phenomena in the system. TheVirtual CVD reactor allows students a broader and more realistic experience in using the DOEmethodology for process improvement - as if they were operating an actual industrial reactor.The project scope also includes development and
ways, if any, do student understandings change between their first and second years?Broader Project BackgroundThis analysis used an existing data set generated as part of a larger project that encompasses sixuniversities across three countries. Member institutions are equally distributed, two each fromthe United States, United Kingdom, and South Africa. The research team for this project includesfaculty and graduate students from all three countries, with direct representation from five of thesix included institutions. The objective of the project is to capture various aspects of the studentexperience over the course of a student’s undergraduate career and is thus a longitudinalundertaking beginning in the first year and ending with the
The University of Toledo and a Master of Arts in English Literature and Language—a unique combination of specializations that melds quantitative and qualitative methodologies. She and has extensive experience in the evaluation of projects focused on STEM education including evaluations of several multi-million dollar federally funded projects. Previously she taught graduate level courses for the College of Education at The University of Toledo in Statistics, Testing and Grading, Research Design, and Program Evaluation.Prof. Matthew W. Liberatore, The University of Toledo Matthew W. Liberatore is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Toledo. He earned a B.S. degree from the University of Illinois at
Carnegie Mellon University in 2018 as Teaching Professor to support and expand the educational activi- ties of the CPS Program. This involves teaching of undergraduate and graduate level courses, supervising undergraduate and Master students in research projects related to soft materials and finally develop and get involved in K-12 outreach activities.Mr. Richard Tang, Carnegie Mellon University Richard Tang is a student at Carnegie Mellon University, pursuing a BS degree in Materials Science and Engineering, graduating in May 2020.Dr. Michael R. Bockstaller, Carnegie Mellon University Michael R. Bockstaller is Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He received
broadly categorized under designphilosophy, relevance of data procured to industrial equipment, and design for manufacture. In thispaper, we will give a historical perspective on how a project like this may be initiated with dresser-sizedunits, then how one can proceed through a step-by-step process to refine and miniaturize technology,see aspects commercialized to promote adoption, and then further miniaturize the design and prepareit for a larger-scale reproducibility of the associated pedagogy. Hands-on units that are to be used atmultiple stations within a classroom need to be low cost, light and simple to build. Such systems need tohave maximum visual impact, quantitatively simulate industrial equipment, and be simple to operate byteams of
cognitive skills in engineering problem solving. His research interests particularly focus on what prevents students from being able to integrate and extend the knowledge developed in specific courses in the core curriculum to the more complex, authentic problems and projects they face as professionals. Dr. Koretsky is one of the founding members of the Center for Lifelong STEM Education Research at OSU. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Students’ Responses to Professionally Contextualized Activities in a Studio ClassIntroductionIn a project to “re-situate” learning to better align student work at school with the work they willdo in professional
Mechanics and Heat Transfer course, ChE 332, into two sections. Onesection was taught using a novel pedagogy that combines Cooperative, Hands-on, Active, and Problembased learning (CHAPL). The other was taught initially in a manner that attempted to simply removethe hands-on component of the pedagogy. In response to student feedback, this was shifted to an inter-group collaborative environment with each group providing hands-on demonstrations for the rest of theclass. As shown by a focus group study, survey, and end-of-semester written course evaluations, thestudents in the CHAPL section showed greater enthusiasm for the course. Sections of the studentsreports from projects in the class were also analyzed using a critical thinking rubric (CTR
the efficiency of both virgin and waste vegetable oil biodiesel whencompared to standard petroleum fuel. Studies were performed on the purity of the biodiesel andfuel efficiency when varying the alcohol and base. This initial research project evolved into another independent project involving fourChemical Engineering students that focused on the conversion of glycerin into other usefulproducts. Some products that can be manufactured from glycerin are: bar soap, liquid soap, andcandles. These projects evolved into a collaboration between the Chemical Engineeringundergraduates, and graduate students from the School of Business to produce a cost andfeasibility analysis on the products from the biodiesel reaction. These products have the
engineering; rather, it is based on student interest alone.The chemical engineering computer methods course at Notre Dame is a three-credit, lecture-based course that is taken in the spring of the sophomore year. The course includes majorsemester projects that motivate the selection and timing of computational topics covered in thecourse, which include statistics, differential equations, and optimization. Regular homeworkassignments and exams are used to give students more practice and exposure to computationaltechniques. Applications from junior- and senior-level courses are distilled to their mathematicalcomponent for examples.The University of Maryland, Baltimore County is a medium-sized, Northeastern, publicinstitution whose student body is
outside the classroom via a series of short videos. Class time is then available for more valuable activities such as discussions of conceptual questions, workshops, and projects. I am especially interested in promoting more open-ended problems, which better approximate engineering challenges that extend beyond the classroom environment. Thus far my favorite courses include Fluid Mechanics, Heat Transfer, Thermodynamics, Dynamics, and Design. Page 24.720.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Improving Student Interaction with Chemical Engineering Learning Tools
, headphones (optional), tablet witha pen (e.g., iPad and Apple pencil).Software: OBS studio,[6] Notability (or other PDF annotation software),[10] XSplit Vcam for avirtual green screen (i.e., no need for an actual green background),[11] and AirServer®,[12] forsharing the tablet screen on a PC. [Other software exists to mirror your tablet on your PC] Figure 1. A video showing the instructor's face in a pre-recorded lecture using electronic handouts with gaps at the bottom-right corner.Procedure: To prepare pre-recorded video lectures on a PC or a MAC, download OBS studio,XSplit Vcam, and Airserver [Note: Other mirroring software packages can also project a tablet onyour computer screen. Airserver is the one used by the
Devices for Exposure to Biomedical ApplicationsWithin Chemical EngineeringKITANA M. KAIPHANLIAM1, OLIVIA M. REYNOLDS1, DAVID B. THIESSEN1, OLUSOLA O. ADESOPE2,and BERNARD J. VAN WIE11 Voiland School of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering, Washington State University, Pullman WA2 Educational Psychology Program, Washington State University, Pullman WAABSTRACT (pre-COVID-19; [indicates edits])Chemical engineers have a breadth of opportunity to utilize their skills in projects involving thelife sciences and medical field, yet the misconception that this is not the case is noted to beprevalent at the undergraduate level. This perception can misguide [lower-division] students asthey choose between chemical engineering and bioengineering as a
representations in chemical engineering acrossinstitutions, and whether diversifying course experiences leads to greater problem solvingcapabilities in students.Purpose and Scope of PaperThe described “app” is part of a long-term project to study the effects of exposure to diverserepresentations on chemical engineering student problem solving, critical thinking, andcommunication skills. The “app” is being developed primarily as a data-collection tool, but wealso foresee potential implications for classroom use (depending on study results) as laterdescribed. At the time of this work-in-progress publication the “app” is in initial stages ofdevelopment. Thus, we outline the framework for the “app” idea in detail, and describe some“app” features prior to
Madeline Polmear is a PhD student in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engi- neering at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her research interests include ethics education and the societal impacts of engineering and technology.Dr. Chris Swan, Tufts University Chris Swan is an associate professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering department at Tufts Uni- versity. He has additional appointments in the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life and the Center for Engineering Education and Outreach at Tufts. His current engineering education research interests focus on community engagement, service-based projects and examining whether an entrepreneurial mindset can be used to further
ofprocess safety management including hazard identification, hazard analysis and riskmanagement. The course is taught three times per week where active learning exercises areincorporated in the class between 10 to 20 minute lecture periods during a 50 minute class.Students are assigned individual and team-based homework and in-class assignments andsuccessful completion of two or three SACHE modules. Two to three exams are also plannedduring the semester. The final project is a team-based response to a hypothetical chemicaldisaster. The final project assesses the student’s ability to effectively synthesize and apply thesemester’s learnings. The consults attend the team presentations and participate in grading thefinal projects. The expected result
ability of the experts [8]. Moreover, researcher questions may unintentionallyinfluence responses, assessing expertise bay be difficult due to lack of face-to-face interactions,and attrition may exist [9]. But when appropriately administered, the Delphi method can be anextremely flexible and robust method [10].Our ProcessInitially, we met with stakeholders and an advisory board for the CISTAR project in Fall 2019 togenerate a definition for consensus. This group included faculty in chemical engineering who teachcourses related to light hydrocarbon industry processing, industry representatives, engineeringeducation experts, and teacher professional development experts. The group agreed to cease datacollection when the standard deviation on
, and also Educational Innovation to virtual graduate students at Tecnol´ogico de Monterrey. She has experience working in projects with different local industries. Recently she has been working with innovation and technology for engineering education (remote Laboratories, virtual laboratories, flipped classroom, active learning and PBL among others).Dr. Pablo Moreno Ram´ırez, Universidad Aut´onoma Chapingo Born in Chile in 1942. Get graduation as Agronomist at the Univrsidad de Chile in 1966. In 1969 went to Cornell University to study Agricutural Economics. Get Master degree in 1972 and started Ph.D program at the same university, In 1974 went to M´exico to be professor at Universidad Aut´onoma Chapingo where I get
, $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
. Page 26.1005.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Interactive Mathematica Simulations for Chemical Engineering Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering University of Colorado Boulder Boulder, CO 80309-0596Abstract More than 75 interactive Mathematica simulations have been prepared for four chemicalengineering courses: kinetics/reactor design, thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and heat transfer.These simulations, which do not require Mathematica to use, are located on the WolframDemonstration Project website. They allow the user to change parameters and see how thesystem responds. Short
Paper ID #33883Work in Progress: Evaluation of a Remote Undergraduate ResearchExperience in Chemical EngineeringDr. Sarah E. Zappe, Pennsylvania State University Dr. Sarah Zappe is Research Professor and Director of Assessment and Instructional Support in the Leonhard Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Education at Penn State. She holds a doctoral degree in educational psychology emphasizing applied measurement and testing. In her position, Sarah is responsible for developing instructional support programs for faculty, providing evaluation support for educational proposals and projects, and working with faculty to