objectives of the studio implementation include: 1. Provide an environment where a large number of students are engaged in active learning. 2. Design a learning environment that allows strategic and tactical implementation of active learning pedagogies and which allows relatively easy scaling to meet changing enrollments. 3. Provide a scaffolded support structure for GTAs which promotes their integration in class organization and achievement of learning objectives and that allows them to develop their teaching skills, knowledge of how students learn, and increases the value they place in teaching.Studio Architecture and Implementation DesignIn the studio-based curriculum design, classes are divided with studios
students that take a position in an environmental, safety, andoccupational health department within a plant. The aim of this work is to share the instructionalapproach on safety and environmental compliance in our capstone course to obtain feedbackfrom other design education experts to improve our instruction.The need for enhanced process safety instruction in chemical engineering curricula has beenrecognized for a while in our discipline [1], [2], [3]. A greater awareness of this need resultedfrom the T2 Laboratories runaway reaction and explosion that occurred in Jacksonville, Floridain 2007 [4]. This event served as an impetus for ABET to specifically include process safety as arequired instructional component in chemical engineering curricula
set the stage for him to receive the Marian Smith Award given annually to the most innovative teacher at Washington State University.Dr. Paul B Golter, Washington State University 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. Page 26.1288.1
AC 2011-1798: STUDENT DESIGNED DESKTOP MODULES IN A THER-MODYNAMICS COURSEDonald P. Visco, Jr., University of Akron Donald P. Visco, Jr. is a Professor of Chemical Engineering and the Associate Dean for Undergradu- ate Studies at the University of Akron. Most recently, he was a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Tennessee Technological University. His current research interests include experimental and computa- tional thermodynamics as well as bioinformatics/drug design. He is an active and contributing member of ASEE at the local, regional and national levels. He is the 2006 recipient of the Raymond W. Fahien Award for Outstanding Teaching Effectiveness and Educational Scholarship as well as the 2009 recipient
Paper ID #8970Work in Progress: A Vision for the First ”Product Innovation Sequence” forChemical EngineersDr. Cheryl A. Bodnar, University of Pittsburgh Cheryl A. Bodnar, PhD, CTDP is an Assistant Professor (Teaching Track) in the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the Swanson School of Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. She obtained her certification as a Training and Development Professional (CTDP) from the Canadian Society for Training and Development (CSTD) in 2010, providing her with a solid background in instructional design, facilitation and evaluation. Dr. Bodnar’s research interests
specifically designed to facilitate knowledge inte-gration. This curriculum, in use for just over 5 years, is unique for its use of block scheduling.Block scheduling, in its simplest form, is transforming multi-semester courses into a single-semester course via extended, concentrated contact time. Among other things, the flexibilityafforded by extended and more frequent contact time allows (and encourages) greater opportu-nity for active and collaborative learning. The specific adaption of this technique to chemicalengineering has resulted in a curriculum comprised of 6 “Pillar” courses which are takenindividually in 6 consecutive undergraduate semesters and are accompanied by vertically in-tegrated laboratory experiences.IntroductionIn this paper, we
learning is thetopic of this study. A number of journal articles are available that address teaching core engineering courses,and this situation is true for the teaching of Process Control and Automatic Control. Mostpublished papers (e.g., Edgar et. al., 2006; Khier, et. al., 1996; and Seborg et.al, 2003) addressthe course content and issues like whether frequency response should be included in the course,the proper role of dynamic simulation, and design of physical laboratories. Recently, a fewstudies have addressed teaching and learning methods that could be applied to any appropriatecontrol course content. Rossiter (2014) describes blended learning using YouTube videosdeveloped for students to prepare before class. The class was large
review of the possible benefitsderived from the literature. Student responses to the research experiences were largely positive;91% of students indicated that they experienced gains from completing the research experience 4.They also identified a number of benefits to students, including personal and professional gains,gains in communications skills, gains in various research skills (e.g., laboratory/field skills, workorganization skills, etc.), clarification or confirmation of educational and career plans and goals,and improved career or graduate school preparation 4. These identified benefits aligned largely Page 26.1243.3with those
AC 2011-2744: ASSESSMENT IN THE HIGH PERFORMANCE LEARN-ING ENVIRONMENTSharon G. Sauer, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Sharon G. Sauer is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technol- ogy where she is teaching a variety of classroom and laboratory courses. She has long-standing interests in active learning techniques and has published papers in this and other educational areas, as well as in the fields of statistical thermodynamics and electrophoresis.Pedro E. Arce, Tennessee Technological University Pedro E. Arce is a University Distinguished Faculty Fellow, Professor and Chair of the Chemical En- gineering Dpt. at Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, TN. He has
chaired NJIT’s Excellence in Teaching Awards Committee and is past chair of the University Master Teacher Committee.Prof. Reginald Percy Tomkins, nEW jERSEY iNST of TEchnology Page 22.1332.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Student Learning and the Continuous Program Improvement Process in a Chemical Engineering ProgramIntroductionThe twenty-first century has brought renewed calls for educational reform at all levels. Thevarious stakeholders are seeking improved documentation of accountability through measurableoutcomes. Accrediting agencies, such as ABET
?ContextIntroduction to Chemical, Food, and Environmental Engineering Design is a 3 credit requiredcourse for CE, FE, and EE. Course content and classroom activities are divided into two, 75-minute sessions (Concepts, and Laboratory) per week. Students have three different facilitators(an instructor and two teaching assistants).Course main goal is to introduce students to the Engineering Method, this is accomplished byfocusing on six course objectives: self-regulation, communication, working cooperatively andcollaboratively, problem solving, modeling, and quality. Introduction to Chemical, Food, andEnvironmental Engineering Design uses active, collaborative and cooperative learningtechniques; course structure is displayed in Figure 2
Curriculum Designers, Journal of Engineering Education, 88, 43 (1999). 5. Eckert, Roger E., Applied Statistics: Are Educators Meeting the Challenge, Chemical Engineering Education, p. 122 (spring, 1996). 6. Dorland, Dianne and K. Karen Yin, Teaching Statistics to ChE Students, Chemical Engineering Education, p. 170 (summer, 1997). 7. Hunter, J. Stuart, Applying Statistics to Solving Chemical Problems, CHEMTECH, p. 167 (March 1987). 8. Ludlow, Douglas K., Kirk H. Schultz and John Erjavec, Teaching Statistical Design Using a Laboratory Experiment, Journal of Engineering Education, 84, 351 (1995). 9. SUPREM IV http://www-tcad.stanford.edu/tcad/programs/suprem-IV.GS/Book.html 10. FLOODS/FLOOPS http
will support the development and delivery of better aligned engineering ethics educationfor chemical engineering students. We hope the descriptions of experiences can serve as usefulresources which faculty members may utilize to discuss ethics in their classrooms and thuscontribute to incorporating ethics education throughout chemical engineering curriculum. Wesuggest these specific educational implications in the discussion section of this paper.Literature ReviewEthics education in chemical engineeringWhile there has been no strong consensus on how to teach engineering ethics for chemicalengineering students nor on what the contents of the teaching should be, chemical engineeringeducators have endeavored to include ethics in their classroom
semester.IntroductionLikely motivated by significant improvements in functionality and user-friendliness,computational software has become ubiquitous in engineering education. This has undeniablyenhanced the quality of education, as class time that was once spent teaching numerical methodsand computer syntax can now be spent using software to illustrate examples and explain complexphenomena. 1, 2 Seemingly, an advantage to this transition is that engineering curricula can focusmore specifically on the “science,” as a student with even a novice-level understanding ofnumerical methods and proper programming can use software to solve and analyze a variety ofengineering problems.Many engineering programs incorporate courses in computer methods early in the curricula
Education, 2014 Incorporating the Online Encyclopedia of Chemical Engineering Equipment Into Your Course ActivitiesAbstractStudents in chemical engineering courses often bemoan the lack of information regarding actualchemical engineering equipment in our curricula. To address this critical need in our curriculaour laboratory has devoted twenty years to the development of an online visual encyclopedia ofchemical engineering equipment, aimed at chemical engineering undergraduate students. Thisencyclopedia provides students with a basic understanding of what chemical engineeringequipment looks like and how it works. In our paper we describe the encyclopedia and presentways to incorporate the encyclopedia into core
would be sufficiently flexible to work with other processesshould the project change in the future. While this was not known at the time, buildingthis flexibility into the projects from the start enabled the highly flexible designenvironment currently used.In the Spring 2000 implementation of Senior Design, one of three course projects wasdevoted to paper-only design of the soap plant that could be built in the existing unitoperations laboratory space. Based upon their work, and continued work by Dr. Manevaland Hanyak, the department faculty were convinced that switching second semesterdesign to the practical process would be a good idea.From Spring 2001 to 2003, the course model switched entirely to practicalimplementation of different aspects
oxygen conducting mixed oxide membranes and teaching reactor engineering, and she has been teaching back at CSM since 2004. She is now a Teaching Professor in the Chemical and Biological Engineering Department at CSM. Her primary research focus is in pedagogy, specifically in utilizing online resources and other technology and different teaching methods to increase student engage- ment and reduce/eliminate lecturing in the classroom. She likes to play with her kids, play racquetball, run, bike, swim, and play pool in her free time. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Creating and Facilitating an Engaging, Rigorous, Fully-Online Technical Course (or just Online Content
Engineering at North Carolina State University. He is coauthor of Elementary Principles of Chemical Processes, an introductory chemical engineering text now in its third edition. He has contributed over 200 publications to the fields of science and engineering education and chemical process engineering, and writes "Random Thoughts," a column on educational methods and issues for the quarterly journal Chemical Engineering Education. With his wife and colleague, Dr. Rebecca Brent, he codirects the National Effective Teaching Institute (NETI) and regularly offers teaching effectiveness workshops on campuses and at conferences around the world
is a method that was developed toaddress the limitations of laboratory experiments in the social and behavioral sciences. Findingthat very few, even well-tested laboratory studies had impact on actual teaching and learning,researchers developed DBR as a way to test theories about how learning can be supported. DBRinvolves building a theory that takes context seriously and instantiating the theory into a designfor learning [46]. Iterative testing of the design under real world conditions provides anopportunity to assess both the design and the theory [5], [6].We were guided by the following research questions:RQ 1: How do sophomores’ and seniors’ assessments of their collective team’s professionalskills differ?RQ 2: Do sophomores show
Undergraduate Curriculum Com- mittee, as well as faculty advisor for several student societies. She is the instructor of several courses in the CBE curriculum including the Material and Energy Balances, junior laboratories and Capstone De- sign courses. She is associated with several professional organizations including the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and American Society of Chemical Engineering Education (ASEE) where she adopts and contributes to innovative pedagogical methods aimed at improving student learning and retention.Dr. Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico Dr. Vanessa Svihla is a learning scientist and assistant professor at the University of New Mexico in the Organization, Information
students to research. 2. Establish a Polymer Materials Design Scholars Program (PolyMDSP) to involve students at the campuses in remote computational work during the year, in addition to summer research at UP. 3. Develop a data-driven Leadership, Management and Teaching (LMT) program that supports students in professional and career development.The focus of this paper is on the second point listed above, the Polymer Materials Design ScholarsProgram, which would involve students from the university’s many campuses to engage in aremote research experience. The original plan was that the campus students would work remotelyon computational work during the academic year, then have a research experience at theuniversity’s primary
PreventionAbstract Student projects have examined how to apply pollution prevention strategies to bothR&D and manufacturing in several chemical industries. This has been accomplished throughindustry-university partnerships with pharmaceutical and petrochemical companies. Severalgrants from the US Environmental Protection Agency have supported initiatives in greenchemistry, engineering and design. These projects have the broader goal of supportingsustainability in the chemical industry.Introduction Too often the teaching of a technical subject like green engineering is limited to anindividual class experience or one dimensional laboratory or design experience. The teaching ofpollution prevention in the curriculum is greatly enhanced by
intrinsic motivation and performance. Journal of Educational Psychology 78: 210-216.5. Leroy, N., and P. Bressoux. 2016. Does amotivation matter more than motivation in predicting mathematics learning gains? A longitudinal study of sixth-grade students in France. Contemporary Educational Psychology 44-45: 41-53.6. Vigeant, M., D. Silverstein, K. Dahm, L. Ford, J. Cole, and L. Landherr. 2018. How we teach: Unit Operations Laboratory. Proceedings of American Association for Engineering Education.7. Vigeant, M., M. Prince, K. Nottis, and A. Golightly. 2018. Curious about student curiosity: Implications of pedagogical approach for students’ mindset. Proceedings of American Association for Engineering
2006-1686: LEARNING-BY-DOING AND COMMUNICATIONS WITHIN APROCESS CONTROL CLASSJim Henry, University of Tennessee-Chattanooga JIM HENRY (e-mail jim-henry@utc.edu) Dr. Henry is a professor in the area of chemical and environmental engineering at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University. He has been teaching engineering for 37 years. He is interested in laboratory development for improved learning.Richard Zollars, Washington State University DICK ZOLLARS (e-mail rzollars@che.wsu.edu) Dr. Zollars is a professor in, and director of, the School of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering at Washington State University. He
-based learning experience,students learn not just by doing, but also by receiving critiques on their work from both studentsand experts, as well as providing critiques to other students. Engineering students often do thisin informal settings (e.g., study groups) but rarely do so in a formal classroom setting. Thecritiquing activity is the strength of the studio-based learning process, as it requires students toevaluate and explain (teach) the material to others, thus strengthening their own understanding ofthe concepts.To implement this approach, a team from the chemical engineering program and the computerscience program have been working on developing two software packages to aid students indeveloping their skills in the material and energy
such as EngineeringWithout Borders6, and collegiate engineering design and laboratory courses7-12. Engineering-related curricula about water have been developed for use in K-12 classrooms and outreachevents13-15. We sought to develop inexpensive activities using household materials that coulddemonstrate chemical engineering separations concepts connected to our teaching and researchinterests in fluid mechanics, mass transfer, and biomedical engineering. Additionally, wedeveloped a physical game as an analogy for particle motions through pores of different sizeswith various surface properties. We have not seen documentation of a similar game in any of thefiltration educational materials published or distributed elsewhere. The lesson plan
Communication for Chemical EngineersAbstractGood communication skills are vital for any career. Engineers are often stigmatized as beingpoor communicators, and while this is merely a stereotype, many engineers and STEM studentsdo express disinterest in writing and other forms of communication. While communication isincorporated in many undergraduate chemical engineering courses through laboratory reports,presentations, and informal short answer questions, these items are generally evaluated for theirtechnical accuracy, not on aspects of their delivery and presentation. In the chemical engineeringdepartment of a large Midwestern university, students are required to take two courses in writingand communication. The
innovations:11 • The most prevalent type of factor was resources (e.g., funding, computers, classroom and laboratory space, etc.). • Faculty member related issues occurred as the second most common type of factor, and included: time for preparation, management of labor-intensive innovations, culture of the faculty members’ environment, “resistance to change, marginalization of teaching in promotion and tenure, and skepticism regarding evidence of improved student learning. [p. 199]”11 • The third type of factor, student-related aspects, included advantages of innovations, such as improved student learning and improved student satisfaction and barriers such as student resistance.In addition
the U.S. Department of Education Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) Fellowship Program Grant Number P200A180055.Landon Bassett, University of ConnecticutDr. Daniel D. Anastasio, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Daniel Anastasio is an assistant professor at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. He received a B.S. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Connecticut in 2009 and 2015, respectively. His primary areas of research are game-based learning in engineering courses and membrane separations for desalination and water purification.Dr. Matthew Cooper, North Carolina State University Dr. Matthew Cooper is a Teaching Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical and
the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the Uni- versity of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. He teaches a variety of topics with a focus on design in chemical and biological engineering. His pedagogical interests include open education, peer-learning and leadership development. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Evaluating a new second-year introduction to chemical engineering design course using concept mappingAbstractIn recent years engineering curricula have had a renewed focus on engineering design. At theUniversity of British Columbia undergraduate students have a general first year and then apply toengineering majors for their