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Work-In-Progress Postcard Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Erick S. Vasquez, University of Dayton; Zachary West, University of Dayton Research Institute; Matthew J DeWitt, University of Dayton; Michael J. Elsass, University of Dayton; Donald A Comfort, University of Dayton

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Chemical Engineering

Paper ID #26162Work in Progress: Implementing an Open-Ended Laboratory Experience inthe Unit Operations Laboratory with an Alternative CSTR ReactionDr. Erick S. Vasquez, University of Dayton Erick S. Vasquez is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering at the University of Dayton. Dr. Vasquez earned his B.Sc. degree in chemical engineering at Universidad Centroamericana Jose Simeon Ca˜nas (UCA) in El Salvador. He received his M.Sc. degree in chemical engineering from Clemson University and his Ph.D. degree in chemical engineering from Mississippi State University. His research focuses on

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Best Practices for Chemical Engineering Lab-Based Courses

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrew Maxson, Ohio State University

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Chemical Engineering

Paper ID #27548A Time-Saving Algorithm for Team Assignment and Scheduling in a Large-Scale Unit Operations Laboratory CourseDr. Andrew Maxson, Ohio State University Andrew Maxson is an assistant professor of practice in chemical engineering at The Ohio State University where he teaches Chemical Engineering Unit Operations. He earned his B.S. in chemical engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and his M.S. and Ph.D. in chemical engineering at Ohio State. Having worked as a manufacturing process engineer for ten years, his focus is on optimizing the process of teaching, as well as hands-on, practical engineering

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Work-In-Progress Postcard Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mechteld Veltman Hillsley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Xueyi Zhang, Pennsylvania State University

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Chemical Engineering

Paper ID #26429Work in Progress: Improving Critical Thinking and Technical Understand-ing as Measured in Technical Writing by Means of I-depth Oral Discussionin a Large Laboratory ClassDr. Mechteld Veltman Hillsley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Dr. Hillsley is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Pennsylva- nia State University. She received a BS in Chemical Engineering from Virginia Tech in 1988 and an MS and PhD from Penn State in 1990 and 1994, respectively. Dr. Hillsley spent approximately 10 years doing research at Penn State on fluid shear stress effects on

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Work-In-Progress Postcard Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tracy L. Carter, Northeastern University; Sarah A. Wilson, University of Kentucky; Samira Azarin; Janie Brennan, Washington University in St. Louis; Amy J. Karlsson, University of Maryland; Chris Barr, University of Michigan

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Chemical Engineering

Paper ID #26380Work in Progress: Utilizing Change Strategies and Chemical Process SafetyResources to Incorporate Process Safety Education in the Unit OperationsCourses in Public and Private UniversitiesDr. Tracy L. Carter, Northeastern University Tracy Carter earned her PhD in the Chemical Engineering department at Northeastern University in the summer of 2018 and is currently an instructor in the Unit Operations Laboratory at NU. She earned the M.S. degree in 1998 and the B.S. degree in 1993 from Northeastern University. Dr. Carter previously worked in the biotechnology field for CytoTherapeutics, designing medical devices

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Best Practices for Chemical Engineering Lab-Based Courses

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael David Mau Barankin, Colorado School of Mines; Tracy Q. Gardner, Colorado School of Mines; Jason C. Ganley, Colorado School of Mines

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University of Applied Sciences in Groningen, where he taught both in Dutch and in English. During this time his primary teaching and course develop- ment responsibilities were wide-ranging, but included running the Unit Operations laboratory, introducing Aspen Plus software to the curriculum, and developing a course for a new M.S. program on Renewable Energy (EUREC). In conjunction with his teaching appointment, he supervised dozens of internships (a part of the curriculum at the Hanze), and a number of undergraduate research projects with the Energy Knowledge Center (EKC) as well as a master’s thesis. In 2016, Dr. Barankin returned to the US to teach at the Colorado School of Mines. His primary teaching and course

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Best Practices for Chemical Engineering Lab-Based Courses

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joshua A. Enszer, University of Delaware

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Chemical Engineering

engineering laboratory courses. We explain our algorithm for using the two-columnrubrics, including how faculty, teaching assistants, and students are trained to apply thealgorithm. Finally, we conducted inter-rater reliability analysis for an example assignment andfound modest improvement in agreement between assessors compared to previous evaluationmethods. We conclude with our next steps in our development and revision of these rubrics.BackgroundThe University of Delaware is a medium-sized, mid-Atlantic, public institution whose chemicalengineering program graduates on average 80 undergraduates per year. The curriculum includestwo semesters of chemical engineering laboratory, though the second semester can be replacedwith a research project. Over

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Chemical Engineering Division Poster Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jason R White, University of California, Davis

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Chemical Engineering

, and societal context, and to engage in life-long learning by immersing themselvesin the literature.In Fall 2018, this course (Process Economics and Green Design) was further redesigned toinclude a laboratory-component with a group-project focus. The new course format was similarto the studio model used at Oregon State University [8]. In order to allow students additionalopportunities to actively engage with the course material, the four hours previously allotted aslecture time were reallocated to include three hours of lecture/discussion with the class as awhole, and one hour of laboratory, or small group activities with no more than twenty-fourstudents at a time. The lecture period was redesigned to focus on topical case studies

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Teaching and Assessment in Chemical Engineering

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Margot A Vigeant, Bucknell University; Jennifer Cole, Northwestern University; Kevin D. Dahm, Rowan University; Laura P. Ford, University of Tulsa; Lucas James Landherr, Northeastern University; David L. Silverstein P.E., University of Kentucky; Christy Wheeler West, University of South Alabama

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Chemical Engineering

technical content outcomes. Figure 8 shows the distribution ofthese assessments. ABET evaluation criteria covered within thermodynamics included a rangeof topics, including evaluation of information, environmental / political / scientific policies,writing and communications, and safety. In addition, 19 institutions focus solely on technicalcontent within their course(s).Figure 8​: ABET outcomes assessed through chemical engineering thermodynamics.Process and SettingUnsurprisingly, all thermodynamics courses report using class / lecture time (Figure 9).Laboratories were only reported for two programs, explaining the small number of lab reportsseen in Figure 10.Figure 9​: Types of instructional settings used by thermodynamics coursesIn terms of

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Teaching and Assessment in Chemical Engineering

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lucas James Landherr, Northeastern University

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Chemical Engineering

Comics Experiences and Assessment In general, students responded positively to the comics, finding them enjoyable to read and use. Inseveral sections over two years of Transport Laboratory I, students repeatedly cited the “Data Analysis”and “Uncertainty” comics in for their laboratory reports based on the documentation and explanation ofcertain principles and equations. The uncertainty propagation equations presented in the “Uncertainty”comic were a common point of reference, reinforcing the potential of a comic visual approach even toequations. In an anonymous survey, students were asked to comment on the implementation of thecomics and their usefulness; students’ positive comments to the “Uncertainty” comic included:  “Hard topic to

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Chemical Engineering Division Poster Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Matthew Lucian Alexander P.E., Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Joseph Amaya

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Diversity

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Chemical Engineering

college is for the instructor to talk informally with groups duringa three hour design laboratory period that is held once per week. However, the course instructorsin chemical engineering have selected the dedicated meeting approach described above ratherthan this alternate approach, because it guarantees a completely devoted time period for eachteam with the instructor. Thus, the practice of a regular checkup espoused by Davis [2] isaccomplished. In the laboratory checkup scenario described above, not all teams may getindividual time with the instructor each week. The preferred approach is more time consumingfor the instructors, however it is worthwhile, since it better ensures the success of all teams ineach course offering. The effectiveness

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Work-In-Progress Postcard Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mitchell William Buccalo, Bucknell University; Elif Miskioglu, Bucknell University

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Chemical Engineering

has caused it to manifest itself in different ways across programs. While someprograms have built it into required courses, others dedicated resources to provide a coursefocused on teaching TC to engineering students. Technical communications exists in the schoolof engineering at our institution in multiple forms, but most notably are integrated methodswithin capstone or laboratory courses and a stand-alone engineering elective. The electiveENGR 245 (later renamed to ENGR 248) is not required in any of the engineering disciplines’curricula, however, it is taken by many students in the college. This dedicated TC course isdesigned to be a kinesthetic environment that leverages past experiences of the students. Studentsare engaged into role

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Problem Solving and Communication in Chemical Engineering

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sarah A. Wilson, University of Kentucky

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Chemical Engineering

time at Rowan and UMass, she developed a passion for undergraduate education. This passion led her to pursue a career as a lecturer, where she could focus on training undergraduate chemical engineering students. She has been teaching at UK since 2015 and has taught Fluid Mechanics, Thermodynamics, Computational Tools and the Unit Operations Laboratory. She is especially interested in teaching scientific communication and integration of process safety into the chemical engineering curriculum. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Understanding the gap between communication in the classroom and communication during an industrial internshipAbstractWhile it

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Outreach and Beyond in the Chemical Engineering Classroom

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sindia Rivera-Jiménez Ph.D., University of Florida; Deanna Alford, University of Florida; Lilianny Virguez, University of Florida

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Chemical Engineering

-internship 4 Software 3 Tutor 2 Volunteer 1 Shadowing 1 Makerspace 1 Laboratory-course 1 First-Year-Design 1 Figure 2. Frequency of workshops applicants’ responses about their previous experiences and word cloud representation of the data.Open-ended questions were gathered to help the authors get additional insight into the students’reason why they want to participate in the workshops even if it is not for a grade. Understandingstudent’s motivation to

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Computer-Based Learning in Chemical Engineering Courses

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Matthew W. Liberatore, University of Toledo; Kayla Chapman

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Chemical Engineering

2017, 2017.[28] A. S. Bowen, D. R. Reid, and M. D. Koretsky, "Development of interactive virtual laboratories to help students learn difficult concepts in thermodynamics," Chemical Engineering Education, vol. 49, no. 4, pp. 229-238, 2015.[29] E. D. Sloan and C. Norrgran, "A neuroscience perspective on learning," Chemical Engineering Education, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 29-37, 2016.[30] F. Paas, A. Renkl, and J. Sweller, "Cognitive load theory: Instructional implications of the interaction between information structures and cognitive architecture," Instructional science, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 1-8, 2004.[31] M. W. Liberatore and K. Roach, "Building Spreadsheet Skills Using an Interactive Textbook," in ASEE

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Work-In-Progress Postcard Session

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael David Mau Barankin, Colorado School of Mines; Justin Franklin Shaffer, Colorado School of Mines; Logan Riley Nimer

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Chemical Engineering

University of Applied Sciences in Groningen, where he taught both in Dutch and in English. During this time his primary teaching and course develop- ment responsibilities were wide-ranging, but included running the Unit Operations laboratory, introducing Aspen Plus software to the curriculum, and developing a course for a new M.S. program on Renewable Energy (EUREC). In conjunction with his teaching appointment, he supervised dozens of internships (a part of the curriculum at the Hanze), and a number of undergraduate research projects with the Energy Knowledge Center (EKC) as well as a master’s thesis. In 2016, Dr. Barankin returned to the US to teach at the Colorado School of Mines. His primary teaching and course

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Computer-Based Learning in Chemical Engineering Courses

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jamie Gomez, University of New Mexico; Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico

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Diversity

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Chemical Engineering

: REvolutionizing engineering and computer science Departments (IUSE PFE\RED) - Formation of Accomplished Chemical Engineers for Transform- ing Society. She is a member of the CBE department’s ABET and Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, as well as faculty advisor for several student societies. She is the instructor of several courses in the CBE curriculum including the Material and Energy Balances, junior laboratories and Capstone Design courses. She is associated with several professional organizations including the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and American Society of Chemical Engineering Education (ASEE) where she adopts and contributes to innovative pedagogical methods aimed at improving student learning

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Outreach and Beyond in the Chemical Engineering Classroom

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Byron Hempel, University of Arizona; Paul Blowers, University of Arizona; Kasi M. Kiehlbaugh, University of Arizona

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Diversity

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Chemical Engineering