▪ Students can receive instantaneous feedback ▪ Reduces the required time for grading • Good for increased course sizes o Randomly Generated constants, unknown and units ▪ Minimize cheating o Interactive laboratory style problems ▪ Train students before coming to the lab • Save lab resources and time • Students can progress at their own pace • Students develop ideas of how to complete their project before completing it in the lab • Get a realistic sense of how adjusting a parameter affects the system o Tracking
for 13 years in primary pharmaceutical process development, first at SmithKline Beecham and later at GlaxoSmithKline before joining Imperial College London. His main educational research evolves around experiential learning, particularly participatory design, which takes techniques proven to be successful in modern project management and applies them to an educa- tional setting. One key feature is involving students as major stakeholders in designing their own learning.Dr. Colin Paul Hale,Dr. Umang Vinubhai Shah, Imperial College LondonProf. Klaus Hellgardt, Imperial College London c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019Hearing you loud and clear: the student voice as a driver for
developed for the greenhouse for maximum loss, loss withpassive thermal storage added, loss with thermal blankets added and geothermal heatingrequirement. Our calculations have shown that the 7.5 KW solar voltaic system will provide theyearly electricity that we estimate will be required by the compressor, motors, controls, fans,pumps and lights of the greenhouse system with an ample safety factor.GCC has secured the required funding for the project and anticipates obtaining bids in earlySummer 2008. The goal is to complete construction in the Fall of 2008.project descriptionIn 2006 a preliminary design for a sustainable greenhouse for GCC was created. The project wasdesigned to allow the school to both practice and teach the concept of a highly
license.Results and DiscussionTable 2 shows concept inventory results for students in control and years 1-4 of the project. Ona positive note, students consistently improve significantly from pre-test to post-test, with a largeeffect size (d=1.33). We can confidently say that the thermodynamics course had a positiveimpact on students’ conceptual understanding in thermodynamics. On the other hand, in Years1-3 there is no significant change in performance relative to Year 0, the control year, when novideos were either made or watched.Table 2: Aggregate Results of Concept Inventory from All Three Institutions; all post-tests aresignificantly better than pre-tests, no significant difference between post-test and control forYears 1-3; significant decline in
1 chemical engineering declared in STEM fields Number of other majors and minors Declared minor is worth one-third of a declared, completed before the 1 declared major, non-STEM is worth half course Ethnic minority status 1 Ethnicities besides white and Asian Gender 1 Unspecified gender was given the average As an outcome measure of student performance, we considered the students’ overallscores in the course, based 40% on individual assignments, 35% on team assignments, 20% ontheir final project as a team, and 5% for submitting peer evaluations and
iscampus- or curriculum-based assessment. This paper does not address program educationalobjectives, which describe career and professional accomplishments of program alumni. Theformer usually requires different evaluation and assessment tools than the latter; although, someoverlap does exist. In addition, we will also refer to course objectives, which are not to beconfused with program educational objectives. Therefore, given this context and the imminent importance of using direct assessmentmethods, this paper provides a review of direct assessment measures. These methods include,but are not limited to, instructor end-of-course assessments, use of targeted assignments(assigned problems, exam questions, projects), capstone examinations
AC 2010-989: FACTORS INFLUENCING STUDENT SUCCESS IN A SUMMERRESEARCH PROGRAM: FORMAL VERSUS INFORMAL RELATIONALSTRUCTURESMonica Cox, Purdue University Monica F. Cox, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She obtained a B.S. in mathematics from Spelman College, a M.S. in industrial engineering from the University of Alabama, and a Ph.D. in Leadership and Policy Studies from Peabody College of Vanderbilt University. Teaching interests relate to the professional development of graduate engineering students and to leadership, policy, and change in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education. Primary research projects explore the
. This engineering project is designed to match the National Research Council'sNational Science Standards for 5-8 Abilities of Technological Design: i identify appropriate problemsfor technological design, design a solution or product, implement a proposed design, evaluate completedtechnological designs or products, and communicate the process of technological design.The lab described earlier in this paper and developed for undergraduates can be adapted for success for students ingrades four to eight. The age-appropriate adaptations for younger students include: (1) presenting the context forthe problem, (2) choosing appropriate materials, (3) devising a materials distribution and cleanup system, and (4)helping students understand trade-offs by
1 2 3 4 5 Comments PRESENTATION 15. Appropriate participation (all group members contribute to presentation) 1 2 3 4 5 16. Responses to questions demonstrate knowledge of subject matter and project. 1 2 3 4 5 17. All members contribute to answering questions 1 2 3 4 5 Comments Page 22.662.7Student FeedbackStudent feedback from the team assignment was mixed. The majority of teams indicated that thedevelopment of the poster presentation and learning more about a particularenvironmental/process plant
Mississippi State University.The results of this project are the development of nearly four dozen modules inchemical engineering, over two dozen modules in mechanical engineering, and over adozen modules in electrical engineering developed. The modules are available5:(http://www.che.msstate.edu/pdfs/h2ed/) with links to the separate curricula from thatpage. The chemical engineering modules are listed in Table 1 below.Table 1. Chemical Engineering Modules Arranged by CourseIntroductory Material:Overview of Hydrogen Energy and Fuel CellsFuel Cell Sizing Made Easy (Knovel Engineering Cases)The Short-Term Hydrogen Economy: Fueling Fuel Cells (Knovel Engineering Cases)Material and Energy Balances:Heat of Formation for Fuel Cell ApplicationsMaterial
calculate a variety of thermodynamic properties using both equations of state and Gibbs excess energy models10 ≠ From an experimental standpoint, a recent work describes a relatively straight- forward apparatus and modeling approach to introduce gas-liquid solubility11Finally, one can utilize this class (or the previous Thermodynamics class) to provide anopportunity for students to design, price, build and demonstrate a project related to courseconcepts. Students are expected to keep track of their budget, set milestones, take notesto record their successes and failures, and prepare a detailed report. Industrial visitorsmay be interested in attending and reviewing the presentations. To promote efficiencyand reuse, projects in the
-disciplinary course is held in a large lecture hall with a class size normally exceeding100 students. The course focuses on introducing students to the profession through topic lectures,videos and a capstone project (normally something mechanical in nature). After analysis of thetopics and via discussions with chemical engineering students who have taken this class, it wasclear that certain important pieces of information, including things specific to chemicalengineering students, were never being discussed or even conveyed. Hence, the next logical stepwas to generate a separate class, Introduction to Chemical Engineering, which was to be requiredof all entering chemical engineering freshman. Note that this course, labeled ChE 1010, iscurrently not a
of 2013 withprocess control and safety, we restructured both courses with two major goals in mind: (1) activelyreading textbooks and references, and (2) reflecting on learning and self-assessing learningtechniques.In previous years, thermodynamics consisted of a lecture followed by solving problems in groups.In 2012, students began class with a sort activity related to the required reading for that day,followed by a brief, not-graded “concept clarity” written assignment, then class problem solvingbased on the students’ feedback. Instead of having 7-10 homework problems per week, students didjust 3 problems plus one reflection assignment per week. In process control and safety, the coursepreviously had three projects as the only assignments
diagrams,to determine optimal-state locations for a two-feed distillation column construction, andto design a two-column distillation process to produce anhydrous alcohol from fermentedbeer. In the senior year, MATLAB was incorporated into the process modeling andcontrols course (ChE 432). In this course MATLAB use was straightforward in suchapplications as symbolic solution of ordinary differential equations, plotting, invertingfunctions to and from the Laplace domain, finding roots of polynomials, creating andusing transfer function models, generating dynamic system responses, and plotting rootlocus diagrams.In the second year of the project, integration was expanded to include CHE 201, thematerial and energy balances course. Here students were
Paper ID #8178Solving Material Balance Problems at Unsteady State using a Remote Labo-ratory in the classroomDr. Darinka del Carmen Ramirez, Tecnol´ogico de Monterrey (ITESM), M´exico Dr. Darinka del Carmen Ram´ırez Hern´andez has been a professor in the Chemical Engineering Depart- ment of Tecnol´ogico de Monterrey (ITESM) in Campus Monterrey, M´exico since 1996. She also works on the Virtual Laboratory Project at ITESM. Dr. Ram´ırez earned a Ph.D. in Innovation in Education from ITESM in 2011, an M.S. in Chemical Engineering from ITESM in 1989, and a B.S. in Biochemical Engi- neering from IT La Paz in 1987. She teaches to
for the most outstanding paper published in Chemical Engineering Education during 2003, and the 2007 recipient of the Raymond W. Fahien Award for Outstanding Teaching Effectiveness and Educational Scholarship. Page 13.1323.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Using a Concurrently Collaborative Spreadsheet to Improve Teamwork and Chemical Engineering Problem SolvingAbstractA project investigating the viability of a concurrently collaborative online spreadsheet toimprove the effectiveness of student teams when solving chemical engineering problems isdescribed. Students in
learn from prior coursework or project-based experiences inboth individual and team settings7-12. Recently, Sepp et. al12 reviewed the role of reflection inengineering education as detailed in ASEE conference proceedings. The most prevalent types ofreflection activities used in engineering education are essays and portfolios12. The reflectionexercises described here involve essay assignments that ask students to reflect on their priorexperiences regarding a variety of non-technical skills. The prior experiences are not restricted toany specific course or project context and may be from students’ personal or academicbackgrounds.The aims of the self-reflection assignments are to promote student awareness of non-technicalskills, motivate students
active/cooperative learning have been shown to increase success forall students [3], but particularly for students from under-represented groups [4, 5]. Additionally,hands-on projects in a first year engineering program have been shown to improve retention [6,7]. Therefore, this redesign focused on two factors known to be important for student retention:improving a feeling of belonging [2] by providing continuity of contact with the department andcontent and by including hands-on, active learning in a first year course [6, 7]. While the content development of the biodiesel-based laboratory was completed in 2015,several other factors influenced the timing of the first offering of the course. The School ofEngineering opened a new building in
, LLC Gale A. Mentzer, PhD, the owner and director of Acumen Research and Evaluation, LLC, has been a pro- fessional program evaluator since 1998. She holds a PhD in Educational Research and Measurement from 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
satisfaction in smallerdepartments would be greater than larger departments because of an increased level ofattention, this was not the case. In particular, the quality and extent (re: type) of theseinteractions were key features in determining student satisfaction. Accordingly, thedevelopment and nurturing of a specific type of departmental culture is a crucial elementof student retention, among other goals of a department. Note that all departmental goals Page 15.1096.3are not directly related to student retention. Departments can create a culture which, forexample, supports undergraduate research or emphasizes service learning projects,depending on the
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 Revolutionizing Engineering Departments project. She was selected as a National Academy of Educa- tion / Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow and a 2018 NSF CAREER awardee in engineering education research. Dr. Svihla studies learning in authentic, real world conditions, specifically on design learning, in which she studies engineers designing devices, scientists designing investigations, teachers designing learning experiences and students designing to learn.Prof. Eva Chi, University of New Mexico Eva Chi is a Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological
with a temperature distribution, it will bedeflected as the non-uniform temperature distribution leads to a non-uniform refractive indexwithin the fluid. Hence, refracted light rays cast a shadow with varying light intensity to producethe shadowgraph. After passing through the fluid, the light beam may be projected onto a screenor can be refocused by another lens or mirror and recorded by a CCD camera [12, 13]. 2.2. Experimental apparatusThe shadowgraph visualization setup is simple, including a point light source, a couple ofmirrors or lenses, a screen or a CCD camera to capture the images [12]. Instead of a point lightsource along with a mirror or lens to make a parallel beam of light, we use a collimated LEDlight source, and a machine
focuses on various aspects of students’ develop- ment from novice to expert, including development of engineering intuition, as well as critical thinking, problem-solving, and communication skills. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Work-in-Progress: “Training Chemical Engineers as Technical Communicators”IntroductionThe ability to communicate effectively is a critical skill for engineers. Strong communicationskills are necessary for high-functioning engineering teams, successful projects, promotiveworkplace interactions, and career advancement. Engineering practitioners, educators, andstudents recognize communication as one of the key skills for
2 2 1 1 -Finally, in 2006, the department was awarded the NSF Targeted Infusion Project to establish abioengineering concentration within the department. This grant provided the last integral piece inproviding the department of funding it needed in order to move forward. One component of thegrant focused on purchase of laboratory equipment and re-design of undergraduate chemicalengineering lab 1.Curriculum DevelopmentThe current Chemical Engineering curriculum is designed to prepare engineers who are wellqualified to design and operate chemical processes. The undergraduate baccalaureate degreerequires that students complete 138 hours, of which 20 hours of chemistry and 42 hours ofchemical engineering specific courses
Paper ID #11457Mixing in the chemical engineering curriculumDr. Richard K Grenville, Philadelphia Mixing Solutions Ltd. Richard Grenville is Director of Mixing Technology at Philadelphia Mixing Solutions and has 30 years of experience in the field of mixing. He studied Chemical Engineering at the University of Nottingham in the UK, graduating in 1983, and started work as an Applications Engineer for Chemineer. He then went to work at the Fluid Mixing Processes consortium, which is managed by the British Hy- dromechanics Research Group, as a Project Engineer. His main area of research was mixing of non- Newtonian
, reducing selectivity. Figure 4shows an example of an oversized reactor for the production of cumene from benzene andpropylene. More details about this project can be found on the Web.10 The reactions are shownhere for clarity. k C3 H 6 C6 H 6 1 C9 H 12 (1) propylene benzene cumene k C3 H 6 C9 H12
at the Uni- versity of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez. Subsequently, she graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a PhD in Chemical Engineering and a Masters of Science in Polymers, Colloids and Surfaces. Her disserta- tion work presented a novel technique to allow for the control of mass transport in crosslinked hydrogels with applications in the fields of biosensors and microfluidics. Under a fellowship from the National Research Council, Marvi worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Tech- nology (NIST). Her project at NIST involved the study of encapsulated neural stem cell’s viability and differentiation under AC electric fields. More recently (2008-2010), she worked as a
travel to regional and national conferences, plant trips,service projects, and design competitions (ChemE Car, Concrete Canoe, etc.) These groups,because of their association with the department, often start with requests at the department level.A strong student group is often the goal for every department, but the departments are not alwayssure why. What does this group do to help the department? What does it cost us to support thisgroup? What should we get out of this arrangement? What is the arrangement between thedepartment and the group?Can this relationship be clarified? Can it be defined? Can both sides find a way to worktogether to their mutual benefit? This paper will explore the approach of building a partnershipbetween the student
, it was expressed that the class as a whole wouldbe responsible for the content. The condition that must be satisfied in the course was thatconcepts were to be learned and employed that revolved around the three Process pillars ofChemical Engineering: Control; Design and Optimization. In doing so, the student body wasdivided into four groups: Power, Production, Environment and Corrosion. These groupsattempted to reasonably incorporate each individual’s inherent research interests, i.e. their areasof study and projects being used as theses topics. To further instill that basic concepts wereaddressed, each group had a member that was responsible for each of the concepts associatedwith: Electrochemstry; Electrochemical Engineering; Commercial
Clean Water through Chemical Engineering 4. Teachers Notes presentation slides a. Mechanical filtration background info (separation of cornmeal from water) b. Chemical filtration background info (removal of food coloring from water) c. Mechanical filtration experiment setup tutorial d. Chemical filtration experiment setup tutorialReferences1. Baldwin, J. Service Learning Project In Brazil: From Concept To Reality. ASEE AnnualConference, 2006.2. Pumphrey, S., Hoessle, A., Oerther, D. Service Learning At Cincinnati: Researching WaterTreatment For Emerging Economies. ASEE Annual Conference, 2006.3. Dacunto, P., Varriano, V. R., Ko, J. Project-based Learning in the Developing World: Designof a Modular