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Bringing Industrial Applications into the Classroom

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Emilia Golebiowska; Giovanni Kelly II; Yassir M. Samra; James P Abulencia, Manhattan College

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Chemical Engineering

School of Business into the project from the Chemical EngineeringDepartment, a real-world analysis was performed. The process of producing biodiesel wasanalyzed not only by yield amount, but also for the feasibility of producing each product. Thiscollaboration was extremely beneficial on both sides. This is because an engineer can gain fromthe practical viewpoint of a business student, and a business student can gain from the technicalviewpoint of an engineer. Chemical engineering faculty can similarly partner with business students at their owninstitution. Mutually beneficial activities can stem from independent research projects such asthose described in this work, or incorporated into courses such as plant design where aneconomic

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Perspectives and Approaches to Teaching Simulation and Design-Based Courses

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rebecca K. Toghiani, Mississippi State University; Hossein Toghiani, Mississippi State University; Larry Everett Pearson, Mississippi State University

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Chemical Engineering

at MSU, including Pro- cess Control, Transport Phenomena, Reactor Design, Engineering Materials, Thermodynamics, both Unit Operations Laboratories and graduate courses in Advanced Thermodynamics, Transport Phenomena and Chemical Kinetics. He performs research in the areas of catalysis, fuel cells and nanocomposite materials.Dr. Larry Everett Pearson, Mississippi State University Page 23.468.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Efficient and Effective Instruction in Process Simulation across the Chemical Engineering CurriculumAbstractOne

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Bringing Industrial Applications into the Classroom

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Margot A Vigeant, Bucknell University

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Chemical Engineering

notbe required to taste anything prepared in or for class. Counsel also required that the classavoid working with raw meats. Students signing up for the course provided a signedrelease recognizing that they would be expected to handle and prepare food in this courseand to disclose any allergies or religious / cultural food prohibitions. In practice, this wasseldom a problem.Course Design and StructureThe complex nature of the subject matter combined with the relative ease of connectingthe material to ‘real world’ experiences and the instructor’s desire to makeexperimentation a significant portion of the course suggested a problem-based learningformat could be a successful pedagogical approach (26). The course is therefore brokeninto six

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Grasping the "Concept"

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Debra Gilbuena, Oregon State University; Christina Smith, Oregon State University; Bill Jay Brooks, Oregon State University; Talia Sidne Finkelstein, Oregon State University; Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University

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Chemical Engineering

through which they impact student performance.Talia Sidne Finkelstein, Oregon State UniversityDr. Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University Milo Koretsky is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Oregon State University. He currently has research activity in areas related to thin film materials processing and engineering education. He is in- terested in integrating technology into effective educational practices and in promoting the use of higher level cognitive skills in engineering problem solving. Koretsky is a six-time Intel Faculty Fellow and has won awards for his work in engineering education at the university and national levels

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

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel D. Burkey, University of Connecticut; Daniel D. Anastasio, University of Connecticut; Aravind Suresh, University of Connecticut

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Chemical Engineering

Daniel Anastasio received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Connecticut in 2009. He is pursuing a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at the University of Connecticut while acting as an in- structional specialist for the chemical engineering undergraduate laboratory. His research interests include osmotically driven membrane separations and engineering pedagogy.Dr. Aravind Suresh, University of Connecticut Page 23.718.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013Improving Student Attitudes Toward the Capstone Laboratory Course Using

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Grasping the "Concept"

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Adrienne R Minerick, Michigan Technological University

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concepts in a clear visual and verbal fashion to readers of the manuscript.A few graduate programs have implemented formal training of students in the research process.Most notable is David F. Ollis’ efforts described in his 1995 article2 in Chemical EngineeringEducation on “The Research Proposition.” Additional U.S. graduate programs include requiredcourses in the curriculum on writing research proposals (University of Oklahoma3) and researchmethods (Michigan Technological University4 and Arizona State University5). Structuredtraining in research methods is also endorsed in international communities such as in ErstaSköndal University College in Stockholm, Sweden6 and National University of Singapore7.However, to the author’s best knowledge, no

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Bringing Industrial Applications into the Classroom

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Maddalena Fanelli, Michigan State University; Daina Briedis, Michigan State University; Dennis J. Miller, Michigan State University; Martin C Hawley, Michigan State University

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Chemical Engineering

Page 23.781.3to compile simple PHA's to put the process to practice. To guide and facilitate compilation ofthe information and clarify our expectations, we are providing tables outlining the neededinformation. A simple and uniform format is expected to make the procedure less cumbersomeand help establish a methodical approach that can be applied across systems for bothexperimental and design course tasks, or in future applications beyond the classroom. Thetemplate is based on the industrial experience of one of the authors (M.F.), who contributed toand compiled PHA’s while performing research and development work in the fields ofmicrochannel technology (Velocys, Inc.) and biotechnology (Draths Corporation).Unit OperationsIn the Unit Operations