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ChE: Innovations in the Classroom

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Timothy Raymond, Bucknell University

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Chemical Engineering

visiting an aerosol research laboratoryon campus, a roof-top meteorological and air sampling station, and outdoor atmosphericobservations including heterogeneous nucleation (mixing clouds) from a local power station.These trips allowed students to see the equipment used in collecting data and performingatmospheric experiments in a laboratory setting and to gain a better appreciation for how theyfunction and the limits of what they can do.The final major class activity was a field trip to the Marian Koshland Science Museum of theNational Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. This museum is dedicated to only twoexhibits, one of which has been climate change. Students took an independent audio tour of thismuseum and had the opportunity to work with

Conference Session

ChE: Bioengineering, nanotechnology, and systems engineering in the Classroom

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University; Danielle Amatore, Oregon State University; Shoichi Kimura, Oregon State University; Alexandre Yokochi, Oregon State University

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Chemical Engineering

features to promoteactive learning, including (1) hands-on activities and demonstrations, (2) the integrated use ofwireless laptops through an in-house developed web-based learning tool to promotemetacognition and assessment of student learning, and (3) a capstone ethics project wherestudents complete a risk assessment of the impact of nanotechnology on society. Additionally,this course will focus on synthesizing fundamental concepts in science and engineering towardsapplications in nanotechnology. The other new sophomore course, Material and Energy Balancesin Nanotechnology (ChE 214), is a ChE specific laboratory-based course, emphasizing how thefundamental skills students have just learned couple to nanotechnology. For ChE students, theapproach

Conference Session

ChE: Bioengineering, nanotechnology, and systems engineering in the Classroom

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Marlin, McMaster University; Andrew Hrymak, McMaster University; John MacGregor, McMaster University; Vladimir Mahalec, McMaster University; Prashant Mhaskar, McMaster University; Christopher Swartz, McMaster University

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Chemical Engineering

, elective courses. In addition, students are able to select PSE-related options in twoof their fourth-year required courses, covering laboratory experiences and a design project. Intotal, the PSE stream includes five required courses, two required courses that have PSE-directedoptions, and three elective courses. The next section describes the allocation of topics to therequired and elective courses.2.2 Division Between Required and Elective PSE TopicsWhile, we would like all students to master a wide range of PSE topics, we must be realisticabout the time the students have for PSE in the core curriculum. Therefore, we have selectedrequired topics that are needed by essentially all practicing engineers and elective topics that arewidely applied in

Conference Session

ChE: Retention and Outreach

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Zollars, Washington State University; Donald Orlich, Washington State University; William Thomson, Washington State University

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Chemical Engineering

influenced them to major in engineering. Almostuniformly the conclusion was that it was an influential teacher (usually in math or science) thatgot them started. While the influence of this teacher led to an interest in science how thisultimately resulted in majoring in engineering was never as clear cut. To eliminate thisuncertainty we sought to bring math or science teachers to the WSU campus for a summer towork along side engineers in their research laboratories to get a clear idea of what engineers do.The teachers, in addition to strengthening their math and science backgrounds, then would serveas spokespersons for engineering in their respective classrooms. During the five years that theearlier program was in operation a total of 67 teachers

Conference Session

ChE: Computers and Simulation in the Classroom

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Zollars, Washington State University; Christopher Hundhausen, Washington State University; Melissa Stefik, Washington State University

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Chemical Engineering

the School of ElectricalEngineering and Computer Science an experimental learning laboratory exists.Contained in this laboratory are two rooms separated by a two way mirror. In one of thetwo rooms there is a Smartboard system. This works like a whiteboard but also recordseverything that students in the room write on its surface (in addition to many otheroptions). From the second room observers may watch the students in the first room aswell as record all of their actions (both audio and visual), comment of these actions, andcommunicate with the students when necessary. To probe for possible reasons why students might struggle with the work in thematerial and energy balance course we asked for four volunteer two-person teams fromthe

Conference Session

ChE: Assessment

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth Williamson; Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University

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Chemical Engineering

faculty who primarily requires lower level skills. We believe this isa fundamental issue in all of engineering education that must be directly dealt with in courseplanning.Bloom’s taxonomy is a powerful tool for discussion among faculty related to teaching. Thisstrength comes from its ability to: ‚ Relate closely to faculty’s experiences related to students not being able to successfully solve real world problems and their difficulty with engineering design. ‚ Lead to examination of what activities (lectures, discussions, recitations, laboratories, out-of-classroom activities) are best suited to challenge students into engagement at higher cognition levels. ‚ Clearly show what testing or assessment methods are needed

Conference Session

ChE: Assessment

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Shaeiwitz, West Virginia University; Daina Briedis, Michigan State University

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Chemical Engineering

instructors to perform the assessmentreliably is needed. This is discussed later.Capstone Experiences Capstone experiences are where students are supposed to apply what they have previouslylearned to a comprehensive, usually design-oriented, problem. Therefore, this is a very logicalplace to assess what students have learned. Furthermore, since these experiences are usually Page 12.548.4done in teams and they usually involve written reports and oral presentations, the professionalskills (teamwork, communication, global/societal context, life-long learning, contemporaryissues) can be assessed similarly. Laboratory experiences may also fall into

Conference Session

ChE: Innovations in Student Learning

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Christensen, Texas A&M University; Lale Yurttas, Texas A&M University; Janie Stratton Haney, Texas A&M University; Mahmoud El-Halwagi, Texas A&M University; Jeffrey Froyd, Texas A&M University; Charles Glover, Texas A&M University

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Chemical Engineering

. Therefore, students not only learned about the requirements for their homedesigns, but they also got an insight of things to consider when implementing certainaspects of their design. For example, students were warned not to put technologicalsystems in their homes that would frequently break and would be high in maintenancecosts because this would be an expense that home owners could not handle.Professor Jeff Haberl from the Energy Systems Laboratory [4] within the Department ofArchitecture at Texas A&M University and PhD student, Mini Malhotra, spoke to thestudents about past and current projects between the College of Architecture and Habitatfor Humanity. Both speakers were able to summarize past research and give feasibleideas to implement

Conference Session

ChE: Computers and Simulation in the Classroom

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jason Keith, Michigan Technological University; Faith Morrison, Michigan Technological University; Julia King, Michigan Technological University

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Chemical Engineering

back through the gas diffusion layer, bipolar plate, and electricload where they react with the protons and oxygen to form water. For more informationregarding fuel cell construction, the reader is referred to the text of Larminie and Dicks11or the Los Alamos National Laboratory fuel cell website12.Finite Element ProblemsIn this paper we develop five modules in the following areas: • Fluid Flow o The first module concerns the flow of polymer melts in a capillary rheometer. We note that rheology needs to be understood for compression molding analysis of complex bipolar plate designs. The objective of the module is to determine the velocity profile for laminar and power-law fluids

Conference Session

ChE: Innovations in Student Learning

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Golter, Washington State University; Bernard Van Wie, Washginton State University; Gary Brown, Washington State University

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Chemical Engineering

Page 12.381.2only for the majority of them, their size relegatesthem to laboratory space. To address this wedeveloped Desktop Learning Modules (DLMs), the Fig. 1 – DLM design. One gallon reservoirs for hot & cold water feed to interchangeable see-through fluids and heat transfer cartridges with digital display of flow rates, temperatures and pressures.prototype of which was completed during the spring 2006 semester. The DLM in Figure 1 consists of a1 ft x 1 ft x 1 ft apparatus containing hot and cold fluid

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ChE: Innovations in Student Learning

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric Peterson, Lamar University; David Cocke, Lamar University; Jewel Gomes, Lamar University; Hector Casillas, Lamar University; Morgan Reed, Lamar University; Jerry O'Connor, San Antonio College

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Chemical Engineering

Engineering for last seventeen years. His research interests include Environmental and Surface Chemistry, Catalysis, Advanced Materials, Biomedical Research, Capillary Electrophoresis, Advanced Electrochemistry and Sensors.Jewel Gomes, Lamar University Dr. Gomes currently serves as Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Chemical Engineering of Lamar University under Dr. Cocke. His research interests are Atmospheric Chemistry, Matrix Isolation Spectroscopy, Gaussian Simulation, Wastewater Management, Materials Characterization, and Electrochemistry. He is also actively involved with Problem Based Learning (PBL) laboratory of Lamar.Hector Casillas, Lamar University Mr. Moreno is currently

Conference Session

ChE: Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Krantz, National University of Singapore

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Chemical Engineering

speciesin a macroscale model. Scaling permits identifying the various reaction regimes and domains thatcan occur on both the micro- and macroscale.2e. Process ModelingScaling analysis is used in teaching a course in process modeling to facilitate the following: toassess what approximations can be made in developing a tractable model for the process; todetermine the appropriate values of the process parameters in designing either numerical,laboratory, or pilot-scale testing of a process; and in determining the optimal minimumparametric representation of the describing equations for the process in order to correlatenumerical or experimental data.3. The Scaling Analysis TechniqueThe ○(1) scaling analysis technique of interest here has been described

Conference Session

ChE: Innovations in undergraduate and graduate programs

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lale Yurttas, Texas A&M University; Zachry Kraus, Texas A&M University; Jeffrey Froyd, Texas A&M University; Jean Layne, Texas A&M University; Mahmoud El-Halwagi, Texas A&M University; Charles Glover, Texas A&M University

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Chemical Engineering

and Reading Project guidebook (Rev. ed.). Oak Brook, IL: North Central Regional Educational Laboratory.9. Darmofal, D. L., Soderholm, D. H., Brodeur, D. R. (2002). Using Concept Maps and Concept Questions to Enhance Conceptual Understanding. Proceedings, Frontiers in Education Conference, Retrieved from http://fie.engrng.pitt.edu/fie2002/index.htm, 16 January 2007 Page 12.153.12

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ChE: Innovations in undergraduate and graduate programs

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karen High, Oklahoma State University; Eric Maase, Oklahoma State University

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Chemical Engineering

Page 12.173.5laboratory was set up that was designated for the students use. The class discussed anddecided safety rules for the lab with all students signing the resultant safety agreement asshown in Table 2.Table 1 – Questions used to group students Encapsulated Drug Project Aug 31, 2006On the card, write:Your nameYour home (i.e. China, Michigan, Antarctica)Your degree (i.e. M.S. Chemical Engineering, Ph.D. Chemistry)Your computer experience (High/Medium/Low)Your experimentation experience (High/Medium/Low)Your transport equation experience (High/Medium/Low)Your numerical method experience (High/Medium/Low)Table 2 - Laboratory safety/practices for 307 EN CHE

Conference Session

ChE: Assessment

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald Terry, Brigham Young University; W. Vincent Wilding, Brigham Young University; Randy Lewis, Brigham Young University; Danny Olsen, Brigham Young University

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Chemical Engineering

asked to evaluate individual student’s abilities in these areas by providinga single composite score ranging from 1 (not proficient) to 4 (proficient). The composite score isbased on direct assessments obtained from rubrics or other quantifiable measures. The rubricused in the senior laboratory course has 39 components from which a written report is graded.Similarly, an oral communication rubric has 27 components. This extensive rubric providesdetailed feedback to each student. These scores are combined across the several classes involvedto provide a composite measure of proficiency for each student.The written and communication “soft” skills are often hard to track unless a grading rubric orsome other comprehensive measure is used. One method

Conference Session

ChE: Innovations in the Classroom

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Bullard, North Carolina State University; Richard Felder, North Carolina State University

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Chemical Engineering

points, Antoine constants, heats of fusion and vaporization at the normal melting and boiling points, and heat capacity as a function of temperature. If some of these properties are missing for your chosen species, choose a different species with complete physical properties. (b) Several examples of industrial uses of the species. (c) Toxicity data and environmental hazards associated with the species. (d) At least three companies that manufacture the species. (e) Worldwide demand and/or sales. (f) Unit pricing ($/kg, $/gal, etc.) Your figure should reflect bulk pricing, not pricing of small units from laboratory supply firms such as Fisher Scientific.2. From the textbook index, select a topic that begins with

Conference Session

ChE: Innovations in the Classroom

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Marlin, McMaster University

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Chemical Engineering