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Demonstration and Project Enhancements in Chemical Engineering Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Polly Piergiovanni, Lafayette College; J. Ronald Martin, Lafayette College

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Chemical Engineering

AC 2010-1373: FERMENTATION LABORATORY EXERCISE HELPS FIRSTYEAR STUDENTS UNDERSTAND LOG-TRANSFORMED VARIABLESPolly Piergiovanni, Lafayette CollegeJ. Ronald Martin, Lafayette College Page 15.580.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Fermentation Laboratory Exercise Helps First Year Students Understand Log-Transformed Variables in Linear RegressionAbstractLafayette College’s Introduction to Engineering course offers students a chance to learn aboutfive branches of engineering. The students spend approximately three weeks with faculty fromeach branch, and complete three laboratory exercises during that time. In the chemicalengineering branch, the

Conference Session

Contemporary Issues in Chemical Engineering Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University

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Chemical Engineering

and lectures and tends to be information rich. Step 2 can be complex and abstract as it may require new language, concepts, paradigms, and ideas. Retention is most effectively achieved by making connections to students’ prior knowledge and requires use of both lower and high level cognitive levels. 3. Practice under Constrained Conditions. This step transfers the new information gained in Step 2 to practice under highly constrained conditions. This step requires active learning principles. The classical approach in engineering education is the short-answer homework problem, but discussions, laboratories and group problem solving are also successful. Obtaining laboratory data to verify predictions

Conference Session

Demonstration and Project Enhancements in Chemical Engineering Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University; Zenaida Otero Gephardt, Rowan University

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Chemical Engineering

Page 15.804.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Introducing Freshman Engineering Students to Experimental Design: Coffee BrewingAbstractAt Rowan University, we have introduced experimental design throughout the ChemicalEngineering Curriculum, in all levels of Engineering Clinics (freshman through senior) as well asthe senior Unit Operations Laboratory. This paper describes a module used in our FreshmanClinic which introduces students to experimental design through a hands-on coffee brewingexperiment and Statgraphics computer laboratory. Students perform a 2x2 experimental designto prepare coffee using a French press coffee maker, and the effects of water temperature andbrewing time on the

Conference Session

Contemporary Issues in Chemical Engineering Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jason Keith, Michigan Technological University; Daniel Crowl, Michigan Technological University; David Caspary, Michigan Technological University; Jeffrey Allen, Michigan Technological University; Jeff Naber, Michigan Technological University; Dennis Meng, Michigan Technological University; Abhijit Mukherjee, Michigan Technological University; John Lukowski, Michigan Technological University; Jay Meldrum, Michigan Technological University; Barry Solomon, Michigan Technological University

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Chemical Engineering

AC 2010-747: INTERDISCIPLINARY MINOR IN HYDROGEN TECHNOLOGY ATMICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITYJason Keith, Michigan Technological University Jason Keith is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Michigan Technological University.Daniel Crowl, Michigan Technological University Dan Crowl is the Herbert H. Dow Professor of Chemical Engineering at Michigan Technological University.David Caspary, Michigan Technological University Dave Caspary is the Manager of Laboratory Facilities in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Michigan Technological University.Jeffrey Allen, Michigan Technological University Jeff Allen is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Education: Underclass Years

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sundararajan Madihally, Oklahoma State Univ.; Marcus Duffy, Oklahoma State University; Lynn Franzmann, Stillwater; Rebekah Reece, Stillwater; Karen High, Oklahoma State University

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Chemical Engineering

middle school teachers (teaching Biology and Math) were selected toparticipate in research dealing with tissue engineering. Teachers worked for six weeks (fourdays a week) within the research laboratory on formation of porous structures usingbiodegradable polymers. Teachers were exposed to the technique of forming porous structuresusing chitosan and gelatin solution in various shapes using the apparatus available in thelaboratory. A low cost freeze drying system that is safe for operation by sixth grade students wasdeveloped. The overall cost of performing the experiment is also significantly cheap and lesstime consuming.An envisioned project for the current academic year under implementation in the sixth grade isfreeze drying chitosan-gelatin

Conference Session

Learning By Doing in Chemical Engineering Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Larry Glasgow, Kansas State University; David Soldan, Kansas State University

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Chemical Engineering

undergraduate laboratory experience. In 2010 we addedthree completely new experiments to the course; these activities (a student-directedexperiment with thermoelectricity, a pump performance module, and a fluid flowexperiment of unparalleled flexibility) were designed to encourage exploration, to appealto students with different learning styles, and to promote physical contact between thestudent and the underlying phenomena. This paper describes our initial experiences with,student reaction to, and our assessment of, these changes to the laboratory course.Introduction The childhood environment for the previous generation of engineers was verydifferent. Grose1 recently reviewed the formative influences upon six accomplishedengineering educators

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Education: Upperclass Years

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Bullard, North Carolina State University

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Chemical Engineering

, an exemplary solution, and a summary of the difficulties and typical errors that might be encountered. ≠ Weiss and Castaldi22 described a tire gasification senior design project that integrates laboratory experiments and computer simulation. ≠ Benyahia23 outlines a project involving vinyl chloride monomer (VCM), emphasizing its compliance with ABET 2000 criteria. ≠ Hernandez et al.24 present a biodiesel design project which highlights the potential contributions of chemical engineering to areas such as new energy sources, global warming, and environmental sustainability. ≠ While the text by Allen and Shonnard25 does not have design problems per se, it does discuss concepts such as green

Conference Session

Demonstration and Project Enhancements in Chemical Engineering Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Baba Abdul, Washington State University; David Thiessen, Washington State University; Gary Brown, Washington State University; Bernard Van Wie, Washington State University; Paul Golter, WSU

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Chemical Engineering

annually to the most innovative teacher at WSU. (509) 335-4103 (Off); (509) 335-4806 (Fax); bvanwie@che.wsu.edu.Gary Brown, Washington State University Dr. Gary R. Brown obtained a PhD in Education from Washington State University in 1994 and is currently the Director for the Center of Teaching, Learning and Technology at Washington State University. 208-818-1413; browng@wsu.edu.Paul Golter, WSU Paul B. Golter obtained an MS from Washington State University and is currently pursuing his PhD while working as the Laboratory Supervisor in the School of Chemical Engineering and Bio-engineering at WSU. He is married with two children.509-338-5724

Conference Session

Contemporary Issues in Chemical Engineering Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Patrick Mills, Texas A&M-Kingsville; Anuradha Nagaraj, Texas A&M-Kingsville; Srivenu Seelam, Texas A& M University-kingsville; Ali Pilehvari, Texas A&M University-Kingsville

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Chemical Engineering

-based educational tools have been developed (15-22) for specific areas, such asprocess control, laboratory experimentation, thermodynamics, and process design. To obtainrealistic solutions for multiphysics problems in two or three spatial dimensions, one must usemore advanced approaches for solving coupled systems, which are usually based on the finiteelement method. This requires a good understanding of the basic theory behind the method, asolid knowledge of linear algebra, and a host of other supporting techniques that are related todiscretization, mesh generation, nonlinear equation solvers, numerical stability, to name a few,along with computer science skills for implementation. These skills are often beyond the scopeof the typical

Conference Session

Demonstration and Project Enhancements in Chemical Engineering Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Allen Yang, Cornell University; Kathryn Dimiduk, Cornell University; Susan Daniel, Cornell University

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Chemical Engineering

important aspect of this project because traditionally, the chemical engineeringcurriculum stresses the scaling up of laboratory chemical reactions to larger chemical processingunit operations and often students enter the class with the bias that chemical engineering means“scaling up”. Particularly as studies of biochemical reactions in microbiological systems, suchas proteomics or in microfabricated devices as in the body-on-a-chip described here, are soprevalent in the chemical engineering research literature, it is important that students are exposedto the possibilities and advantages for scaling down chemical processes and the related careerchoices.Student appreciation of the significance of scale down on several levels (efficiency, safety

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Education: Underclass Years

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Silverstein, University of Kentucky; Margot Vigeant, Bucknell University; Donald Visco, Tennessee Technological University; Donald Woods, McMaster University

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Chemical Engineering

engineering through the development of computational and laboratory skills. The course is open to non-majors who typically fill 5% of the class. The course emphasizes programming and coupling math concepts with measurements and data. The second required, 1 credit course is Introduction to Engineering Modeling. This is an introduction to mathematical modeling of physical and chemical systems; verification of mathematical models by experiment; development and interpretation of engineering drawings, process flow diagrams (PFDs), and piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs); use of a drawing program, such as Visiotec; and an introduction to the process simulator AspenPlus. Other courses include a required, 2 credit

Conference Session

Learning By Doing in Chemical Engineering Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Golter, Washington State University; Bernard Van Wie, Washington State University; Gary Brown, Washington State University; David Thiessen, Washington State University; Baba Abdul, Washington State University

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Chemical Engineering

-Hill, Inc., New York, NY.Hagen, K. D., “Heat Transfer with Applications” Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1999.Rolle, K. C., “Heat and Mass Transfer” Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2000.Leinhard and Leinhard, “A Heat Transfer Textbook, 3rd ed.” free on-line athttp://web.mit.edu/lienhard/www/ahtt.htmlInstructional Laboratory Supervisor Paul B. Golter: 5-9634; email: pgolter@wsu.eduLecturer Baba Abdul: e-mail: davab@wsu.edu, 5-9625Course Details Page 15.1062.17Grading: Project 60% (Group); Case study 10% (Group), Homework 20% (Individual), Final DesignAnalysis (10%). The part of your grade arising from group work will be