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- Virtual Instruction of Chemical Engineering Courses
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- Rupak Dua, Hampton University
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equipment in their unit operation laboratories class, thusreinforcing the theoretical coursework through the medium of experimentation that they learnedin their sophomore and upper-level chemical engineering lecture-based classes [1-3]. With the arrival of COVID-19, it was challenging to make virtual classes interactive andengaging in the same way as the in-person classes are. To combat the problem, the instructor em-ployed many technological interventions in instructional teaching during these unprecedentedtimes to make the virtual classes lively while still educating and imparting knowledge to studentsduring the Fall 2020 semester. The intervention used here has already been individually tested ineducational settings and has been found
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- Chemical Engineering Pedagogy
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- Charles E. Baukal Jr. P.E., John Zink Co. LLC
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. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Chemical Engineering Students’ Learning Preferences at a Midwestern UniversityKeywords: chemical engineering students; learning strategy preferences; verbal-visual preferencesIntroductionThere continues to be calls for improving engineering education. For example, the NationalAcademy of Engineering publication entitled Educating the Engineer of 2020 [1] calls for thereinvention of engineering education. An important finding of that study was the importance ofaddressing how students learn in addition to what they learn and recommended more researchinto engineering education. This included how to better serve
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- Business and Professional Literacy Within Chemical Engineering
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- Kristen Ferris, University of New Mexico; Pil Kang, University of New Mexico; Madalyn Wilson-Fetrow, University of New Mexico; Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico; Eva Chi, University of New Mexico; Jamie Gomez, University of New Mexico; Yan Chen, University of New Mexico; Susannah C. Davis, University of New Mexico; Sang M. Han, University of New Mexico; Abhaya K. Datye, University of New Mexico
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and his B.S. in chemical engineering with honors from the University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Han has over 25 years of experience in electronic and pho- tonic materials engineering and fabrication. His current research topics include (1) writable/rewritable quantum structures by stress patterning; (2) low-cost, crack-tolerant, advanced metallization for solar cell durability; (3) thin film processing and nanoscale surface corrugation for enhanced light trapping for pho- tovoltaic devices; and (4) microsphere-based manufacturable coatings for radiative cooling. He has close to 70 publications in peer-reviewed journals and over 200 invited/contributed papers at academic insti- tutions, national laboratories
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- Teaching Professional Skills in Chemical Engineering
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- Robert Wayne Gammon-Pitman, Ohio State University; Lin Ding, Ohio State University
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National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Ohio Department of Education. Also, he frequently serves as an invited editorial board member, referee or panelist for various international journals, funding agencies, and professional associations. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021Pilot: Ways of Viewing Student Success – “Success is a State Function 1ABSTRACTMost literature in engineering education focuses on the problems or barriers to teachingundergraduate engineering students [1]. In professional settings, it has been implied beingsuccessful is having the ability to get the job
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- Benjamin Goldschneider, Virginia Polytechnic Institute; Nicole P. Pitterson, Virginia Polytechnic Institute
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them, even if they seem contradictory initially. A summary of the fourframes can be seen below in Table 1. Human Structural Political Symbolic Resource Metaphor Factory/Machine Extended Family Jungle/Arena Carnival/Temple Organizational Excellence Caring Justice Faith Ethic Rules, Formal Individuals with Different Culture & meaning roles, Goals, needs, feelings, interests found in: metaphor, Policies
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- Chemical Engineering in K-12 and the First Year
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- Anthony Butterfield, University of Utah
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campuses across the globe and are integral to the educationof students throughout colleges of engineering [1]–[5]. These spaces house a variety ofmachining and rapid-prototyping tools and are meant to facilitate a creative and encouragingatmosphere to allow users to work their way through iterative design cycles [6]–[8]. The type ofopen-ended design projects that tend to occur in such spaces promote active learning, which hasbeen consistently associated with uniquebenefits over traditional lecture-basedteaching. Such gains include improvedlearning [9]–[12] and retention [13]; higherstudent self-assessment of associatedcourses [12], [14]; and improved retentionof students, particularly in underrepresentedgroups [10], [15]–[17]. However, pitfallsand
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- Work in Progress: Hands-on Activities
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- Kitana Kaiphanliam, Washington State University; Olivia Reynolds, Washington State University; David B. Thiessen, Washington State University; Olusola Adesope, Washington State University; Bernard J. Van Wie, Washington State University
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2008, the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) conducted an 18-monthsocial study to better understand the public view of engineering, leading to the publication ofChanging the Conversation. In this report, it is cited that a common perception amongst girls inthe K-12 interview group was those who are drawn to professions that more directly involve peopleand their lives, such as those in the healthcare and medical fields—a group the young girls closelyidentified with—are less likely to become engineers [1]. Engineers, however, have a breadth ofopportunity to utilize their skills in projects involving the life sciences and medical field, yet themisconception that this is not the case is still prevalent amongst lower-division undergraduates
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- Lucas James Landherr, Northeastern University; Nicole Joy Sweeney, Complexly
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, both in formal and informal learningenvironments.1 YouTube in particular has been in use for more than a decade in college and highschool classes, either for dissemination of the instructor’s teaching or as a supplemental learningtool.2,3 Instructors have the options of directly integrating the videos into the classroom as part ofa lecture, or using them as a reference for students to review on their own.4 Videos have been shown to be effective learning tools given the potential combination ofvisual imagery, music, text, audio, and/or content.5 Visual-spatial learners are particularly likelyto benefit from video, as they would from photographs or other artistic mediums.6 Videos havebeen effectively utilized in a broad range of subjects
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- Louis Reis, Louisiana Tech University; Katie A. Evans, Louisiana Tech University; Dexter Cahoy, Louisiana Tech University
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: Statics and Mechanics of Materials, Electrical Engineering and Circuits I, andThermodynamics. Prior work has been done examining the use of the online system in thecourses on circuits [1] [2] and statics and mechanics of materials [3]. The problems created forthese courses can found on the WeBWorK Open Problem Library (OPL) and are maintained bythe developers of WeBWorK and the Mathematical Association of America (MAA).Assignments delivered through WeBWorK offer students unique problem sets by giving themparameters that define the specific properties of a given problem. Variable parameters can berandomized to create unique problems for each student to minimize cheating. However,WeBWorK does offer a helpful feature that allows instructors to view
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- Work-In-Progress Postcard Session
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- Kitana M Kaiphanliam, Washington State University; Olivia Reynolds, Washington State University; Jacqueline Gartner Ph.D., Campbell University; Olusola Adesope, Washington State University; Bernard J. Van Wie, Washington State University
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accredited programs [1]. More importantly, asundergraduate engineering students advance further into their careers, they are faced withmultiple tasks that require them to write extensively, whether that be in industry or graduateschool.Currently, in the standard engineering curriculum, undergraduate engineering students are onlyrequired to take a basic writing course, such as Introductory English, and some form of technicalwriting course, which is typically not engineering-specific [2,3]. Other courses that allow thesestudents to practice writing are engineering lab courses that require lab reports. In these labclasses, professors tend to focus on the quality of the technical material rather than the quality ofthe writing [4]. This could be due to a
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- Chemical Engineering Division Poster Session
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- Matthew Lucian Alexander P.E., Texas A&M University, Kingsville
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the last three years, and thus has been steadily increasing the extent ofsustainability concepts included in the courses. Recently, instruction in sustainability conceptswas expanded from the Design III course to the Design II course, as a result of the instructorreceiving internal grant funding for a course-redesign on a Title V I-CARE (Integrating a Cultureof Academic and Research Engagement) federal grant. For the course re-design, a newinstructional module was created on heat integration in chemical processes, and then a short termstudent project was assigned to students.The sustainability concepts that are discussed in the Design II and Design III courses are (1)recycling of unreacted feed or other chemical; (2) heat integration; (3
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- Jason R. White, University of California, Davis; Ahmet Palazoglu, University of California, Davis
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senior design projects in the Plant Design Projectcourse.After the completion of the assignment, students were voluntarily surveyed to gauge theirperception of the effectiveness of the assignment as a measurement of their ability todevelop a preliminary design idea. They were also surveyed to measure their perceptionof how strongly the ABET outcomes for the course mapped to this assignment. Studentperformance on the assignment was assessed on the basis of the students ability to 1)communicate in writing effectively, 2) design a preliminary process to meet a societalneed within realistic constraints, 3) understand ethical responsibilities and potentialsafety issues, 4) understand the impact of the proposed design project in a global,environmental
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- Novel Pedagogical Techniques II: Potpourri
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- Rebecca Jo Pinkelman, Technische Universität Darmstadt; David J. Dixon, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Manfred J Hampe, Technische Universität Darmstadt
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, skills, and ability to solve complexproblems and to produce excellent solution(s) within the structure of the team. This concept wasfurther developed to include defining team and task, team climate, communication, and reflection(for a detailed description, please see Table 1)23-26.Design competence focused on finding and evaluating variants and recognizing and solvingcomplex design problems. These were further defined as having the ability to discover and designmultiple solutions to a given problem and to effectively evaluate those solutions to determine thebest solution, and having the ability to see the overall picture of a complex design problem, thenbreaking it into smaller, more manageable parts to solve while keeping the overall problem
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- John Dee Clay, Ohio State University
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. He has taught a variety of courses in the ChE department and currently focuses on the Unit Op- erations Laboratory, Mass and Energy Balances, and Separations. He completed the National Effective Teaching Institute course (NETI-1) in June, 2016. Dr. Clay is married to Dr. Kristy Clay, a veterinarian, and has three children, Luke (15), Natalie (15), and Meredith (12). c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Integration of Industrially Relevant Examples in ChE Courses Energy Balance on an e-Cigarette DeviceAbstractIdentifying industrially relevant and/or real-world examples is an excellent technique to enhancethe
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- Early ChemE Education
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- Jamie Gomez, University of New Mexico; Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico; Abhaya K. Datye, University of New Mexico
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& Learning Sciences program, and in the Chemical & Biological Engineering Department. She served as Co-PI on an NSF RET Grant and a USDA NIFA grant, and is currently co-PI on three NSF-funded projects in engineering and computer science education, including a Revolutioniz- ing Engineering Departments project. She was selected as a National Academy of Education / Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow. Dr. Svihla studies learning in authentic, real world conditions; this includes a two- strand research program focused on (1) authentic assessment, often aided by interactive technology, and (2) design learning, in which she studies engineers designing devices, scientists designing investigations, teachers designing
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- Outreach and Beyond in the Chemical Engineering Classroom
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- Byron Hempel, University of Arizona; Paul Blowers, University of Arizona; Kasi M. Kiehlbaugh, University of Arizona
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co-teaching, classroom technologies, active learning in the classroom, and various classroom-based affective inter- ventions targeted at fostering self-efficacy, belongingness, metacognitive learning strategies, and growth mindset affect outcomes such as student retention and success, particularly during the freshman and sophomore year. Her field of research is undergraduate engineering education. Dr. Kiehlbaugh com- pleted her BS and MS at the University of Arizona and her PhD at UC Berkeley. She is now a Research Assistant Professor in the College of Engineering at her undergraduate alma mater. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 1 Scalable and Practical
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- Jamie Gomez, University of New Mexico; Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico
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; this includes a two-strand research program focused on (1) authentic assessment, often aided by interactive technology, and (2) design learning, in which she studies engineers designing devices, scientists designing investigations, teachers designing learning experiences and students designing to learn. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Techno-economic modeling as an inquiry-based design activity in a core chemical engineering courseAbstractPurpose. Authentic engineering practice is often introduced to students through engineeringproblem-solving in the classroom. These problems usually have a single, correct answer and failto guide students’ problem framing
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- Teaching and Assessment in Chemical Engineering
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- Matthew W. Liberatore, University of Toledo; Kayla Chapman, University of Toledo
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to many engineering education discussions, talks, andpublications, e.g., [1-6]. With both individual and meta-studies exhibiting benefits of activelearning for many learners, the interest appears warranted. Despite the evidence, active learninghas not been universally adopted in engineering courses with full-class lectures and statictextbooks still common. If a professor doing disciplinary engineering research does not adapt tonew research in their field, they are left behind. However, if the same professor adopts the samelecture and textbook for decades, little incentive to modernize the classroom is offered at many,research-focused universities. Here, the focus will be innovation at the cross section of activelearning and
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- Diversity and Global Experiences
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- Randy S. Lewis, Brigham Young University; Terri Christiansen Bateman, Brigham Young University; Carol J. Ward, Brigham Young University
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have addressed various aspects of the studentlearning outcomes which are: 1. Problem Solving – Students gain experience in the design process that includes innovative problem solving skills applied to the design and implementation of global projects in developing regions of the world in the context of real needs, constraints, and opportunities. 1 2. Global Engineering – Students demonstrate an appreciation for global aspects of engineering, including social and technical constraints related to design and the importance of sustainability. 3. Teamwork and Leadership – Students demonstrate effective teamwork and leadership skills and an appreciation for other
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- Anthony Butterfield, University of Utah; Katrina My Quyen Le, AMES High School; Kerry Kelly, University of Utah; Pascal Goffin, University of Utah; Thomas Becnel, University of Utah ; Pierre-Emmanuel GAILLARDON, University of Utah
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, where it may be measured, has been enthusiastic and almost wholly positive.Introduction:Citizen scientist (CS) projects generally engage a large number of non-professional scientists inconducting novel research. Most often, the work conducted depends greatly on recruiting andtraining many amateur researchers to contribute to scientific tasks which would not bemanageable for a typical university research group. Such work may also be referred to as crowd-sourced science, or community science.While engaging the general public in scientific research is not a new concept, the ability toconnect and coordinate vast numbers of volunteers over the internet has facilitated a recent boomin CS work [1]. Several projects have been remarkably successful
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- ChemE Curriculum: Junior, Senior, and Graduate
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- Katharyn E. K. Nottis, Bucknell University; Margot A. Vigeant, Bucknell University; Michael J. Prince, Bucknell University; Amy Frances Golightly, Bucknell University; Carrine Megan Gadoury, Bucknell University
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the total HECI and their respectivesub-tests than those who used computer simulations. This same pattern was seen with conceptarea and gender.Introduction and Background Heat and temperature concepts are found at all levels in the science curricula [9] and arewell-known for creating conceptual difficulties for learners [28]. Carlton [1] found manystudents described temperature as “…a measure of how hot or cold something feels” (p. 102).Others found students believed there is no difference between heat and temperature or that heatis a form of energy [6], [7], [25], [29]. While it could be hypothesized that the more courseworktaken, the greater the conceptual understanding, Jasen and Oberem [9] found that the number ofcourses/semesters
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- ChemE Curriculum: Junior, Senior, and Graduate
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- Erick S. Vasquez, University of Dayton; Zachary J. West, University of Dayton; Matthew Dewitt, University of Dayton; Robert J. Wilkens, University of Dayton; Michael J. Elsass, University of Dayton
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American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Effective Teamwork Dynamics in a Unit Operations Laboratory Course1. IntroductionThe Chemical Engineering Unit Operations Laboratory is a unique course that relies heavily on acooperative team effort for successful learning that leads to a compelling laboratoryexperience[1-3]. In this course, team assignments play a critical role in the performance of agroup because every laboratory session involves peer interactions, hands-on experimentationfrom start to finish, data analysis and discussion, and a significant amount of writing time, i.e., aworkload that is intentionally more than one individual is expected to manage. The dauntingworkload for this course should
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- Abigail Jane Kulhanek; Cheryl A Bodnar, Rowan University
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explosions killedcrews of seven and the Mars orbiter explosion cost NASA $125 million.1,2 These catastrophicevents have one thing in common – miscommunication between engineers and other projectmembers. In the hotel walkway disaster, a structural engineer submitted preliminary drawingsthat were taken to be final from the steel fabricator.1 Internal flight safety problems werebypassed and miscommunication between engineering and management foolishly launched aspacecraft based on incomplete and misleading information, causing the Space Shuttleexplosions.1 The Mars orbiter disintegrated because of a mismatch in units between groundcontrol and the actual spacecraft.3 When there is miscommunication between engineers and otherindividuals involved in
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- ChemE Curriculum: Freshman and Sophomore
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- Matthew W. Liberatore, University of Toledo; Katherine Roach
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full interactivity. In addition, student usage and readingrates can thus quantify usefulness and quickly guide further development to improve studentlearning outcomes.The dearth of available reading data for higher education students has been discussed in previouscontributions in this area recently [1-3], and will not be elaborated upon here. Alternatively, digitalclassroom technologies provide more data to students and instructors than any previous period inhigher education. From downloads of documents, page views in a course management system, orclicker responses in class, the ubiquitous term “big data” applies in most modern higher educationclassrooms.Interactivity is central to collecting large data sets. The interactive textbook discussed
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- Byron Hempel, University of Arizona; Kasi Kiehlbaugh, University of Arizona; Paul Blowers, University of Arizona
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- Jamie Gomez, University of New Mexico; Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico
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, and in the Chemical & Biological Engineering Department. She served as Co-PI on an NSF RET Grant and a USDA NIFA grant, and is currently co-PI on three NSF-funded projects in engineering and computer science education, including a Revolutioniz- ing Engineering Departments project. She was selected as a National Academy of Education / Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow. Dr. Svihla studies learning in authentic, real world conditions; this includes a two- strand research program focused on (1) authentic assessment, often aided by interactive technology, and (2) design learning, in which she studies engineers designing devices, scientists designing investigations, teachers designing learning experiences and students
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- Early ChemE Education
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- Grace Katherine Harrell, Oklahoma State University; Alexandra Nicole McPeak, Oklahoma State University; Ashlee Nicole Ford Versypt, Oklahoma State University
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ACE inhibitor drugs benazepril and cilazapril and two cases of patientkidney function (KF): normal and impaired. To provide a simulation tool for our target audienceof educators and students, we created an interactive graphical user interface (GUI) in MATLABfor manipulating the input parameters under various scenarios and viewing the dynamic modeloutput on plots (Figure 1). We packaged the model code, GUI, and the parameter sets into aMATLAB app that enables a single download for all the associated files for the model and theGUI. We have made app freely available online30. After download, the program opens with oneclick from the app panel in MATLAB. Even for students with little to no programmingexperience, this is very approachable. It only
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- Matthew Lucian Alexander P.E., Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Joseph Amaya
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outcomes c (an ability to design a system to meetdesired needs [new ABET student outcome 2]), d (an ability to function on a team [new ABETstudent outcome 5]), and g (an ability to communicate effectively [new ABET student outcome3], which our program has allied with this sequence of senior design courses [1]. There are alsoa number of secondary objectives that are fulfilled in this design course sequence. These includerecognizing and addressing process safety issues, developing people skills, and introducingtopics relevant to the impending student transition from the academic environment to theprofessional environment, such as the need for life-long learning and the benefits of professionalregistration for chemical engineers. Observations of
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- Robert Gammon-Pitman, Ohio State University; Paul E. Post, Ohio State University; Lin Ding, The Ohio State University
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LearnersBackgroundWhile the percentage of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) majorscontinues to decline in the United States, the ongoing shortages of under-represented groups andminorities remain for these majors and in the workforce [1-2]. Addressing diversity barriers orchallenges are paramount in engineering education as racial, gender, and ethnic biasesmarginalize under-represented students like African Americans, students of low socio-economicstatus, women, and Hispanics. These negative perceptions and stereotypes of under-representedstudents have reportedly affected student learning and performance [3]. The lack of inclusion orhaving a sense of belonging can occur in the classroom from the remarks of students orinstructors via
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- Thomas Andrew Meadowcroft, Rowan University
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standards [1] means inexorableinstrumentation and automation upgrades for old processes, and highly automated newprocesses. Environmental regulations, strict quality requirements and the constant drive toincrease manpower productivity reinforce this trend; processes without modern automation donot survive. The displacement of the middle skill worker, who in the process industry was thefloor operator responsible for one unit operation, has been happening gradually over the last 3-4decades, replaced by a control room operator who interacts with a control system operating manyunits. Implicitly this has transferred the responsibility for control of units and processes from theoperations staff to the engineering staff. An engineer wishing to build