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"How Do We Compare?" - Students, Case Studies, and Learning Approaches

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Allison Godwin, Clemson University; Geoff Potvin, Clemson University

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Chemical Engineering

chemistry majors. We comparedresponses of the chemical engineering students with these two disparate groups respectively toidentify differences in high school experiences, attitudes, and backgrounds using t-tests for linearvariables, Wilcoxon rank-sum tests for Likert-type questions, and chi-square tests fordichotomous variables.Chemical engineering students show uniqueness in their career goals when compared to bothengineers as well as chemistry majors. For example, they differ significantly from otherengineers in their prior chemistry experiences, problem solving strategies, and their scienceidentity. Chemical engineers are almost indistinguishable from chemistry students in their highschool science experiences and academic preparedness except

Conference Session

"How Do We Compare?" - Students, Case Studies, and Learning Approaches

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joel J. Versypt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Ashlee N. Ford Versypt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Chemical Engineering

Paper ID #7257Mapping Rural Students’ STEM Involvement: Case Studies of Chemical En-gineering Undergraduate Enrollment in the States of Illinois and KansasMr. Joel J. Versypt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Joel J. Versypt is a recent graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a master’s degree in Higher Education Administration and Leadership. He also holds bachelor’s degrees in Psychol- ogy and Biblical Studies from Judson University. At the University of Illinois, Joel taught two courses, Introduction to Psychology and Career Theory & Practice, and worked in university housing. His

Conference Session

Using Communication and Writing Techniques to Improve Student Learning

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shannon Ciston, University of California, Berkeley; Sean Poust, University of California-Berkeley

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Chemical Engineering

non-traditional adult students.Mr. Sean Poust, University of California-Berkeley Page 23.234.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Authenticity Promotes Student Engagement and Learning in a Stand-Alone Technical Communications CourseTechnical Communications for Chemical Engineers has recently been reintroduced to thechemical engineering undergraduate curriculum at the University of California, Berkeley. Thegoal of the course is for students to gain skills in written, oral, and interpersonal communicationsthat will help them excel in their careers and in senior-level

Conference Session

Bringing Industrial Applications into the Classroom

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Lepek, The Cooper Union; Charmian Wu, Tufts University; Ryan Poling-Skutvik

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Chemical Engineering

comes from donors and corporate support from companiessuch as Con Edison. Admission to the program, which is open to freshman to senior high schoolstudents, is competitive and is based on the student’s transcript, a written essay, and a letter ofrecommendation. Once accepted to the program, students are assigned a research mentor andtopic to study. Students are required to be present for all six weeks of the program and mustcontribute to a written final report. In addition, students are required to give an oral technicalpresentation to all participating students and faculty advisors. Throughout the program, studentsreceive workshops on careers, advice for college admissions, as well as training in developingand improving their technical and

Conference Session

"How Do We Compare?" - Students, Case Studies, and Learning Approaches

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christi P Patton Luks, University of Tulsa

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Chemical Engineering

engineering design. 2Many articles have been published on the topic. Twenty years after Mayer and Greenointroduced this method, Albanese and Mitchell presented a meta-analysis of more than 100articles on the application of PBL.3 Today, a search for articles about PBL on Google Scholarreports more than 2,250,000 results! Felder and Silverman offered my first introduction toproblem-based learning and other active-learning approaches.4 Early in my teaching career Iread this article and, shortly thereafter, attended one of Dr. Felder’s workshops. This convincedme to try stepping outside of the traditional methods that I had experienced and to make everyeffort to provide an improved learning environment for my students. Some changes have beeneasy to

Conference Session

"Modular" Learning

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Matthew Cooper, North Carolina State University - Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

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Chemical Engineering

career.”was a bit different from typical • “Yes, it was a good assignment.”engineering homework sets. Do • “I thought it was a really interesting way to learn theyou think that the DOE concepts.”assignment demonstrated therelevance of DOE concepts ineveryday life?Was the DOE assignment more • “Yes! It was a fun assignment that challenged students’enjoyable to complete than a creativity.”typical homework assignment? • “Yes! I liked it a lot.” • “I'm not sure if enjoyable is the right word, but it is a great way to illustrate the concepts in DOE.” • “I don't usually consider homework to ever be

Conference Session

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

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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James P Abulencia, Manhattan College; Margot A Vigeant, Bucknell University; David L. Silverstein, University of Kentucky

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Chemical Engineering

requirements (Burke and Snyder – 2008). Doing so can help inspire and engage this newage of students who are more used to digital tools and devices. Even the more traditional learnercan use the sites as an opportunity to gain understanding in new technology, which can becomeskills for future careers. Other work have utilized video technology with Chemical Engineering students.Liberatore has utilized YouTube to relate course topics to real world applications (Liberatore –2010). Falconer and colleagues have compiled screencasts where a narrator goes over aparticular chemical engineering concept, or a detailed problem solution (Falconer 2009 and 2012).A recent paper from JEE states that students who use screencasts and perceive their benefit

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Poster Session & Unit Operations Lab Bazaar

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Landon Mott, University of Kentucky; Jeffrey R Seay, University of Kentucky; David L. Silverstein, University of Kentucky

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Chemical Engineering

Paper ID #7268Tools for Teaching Batch Distillation Inductively using Process SimulationLandon Mott, University of KentuckyDr. Jeffrey R Seay, University of Kentucky Dr. Jeffrey R. Seay is an assistant professor of Chemical and Materials Engineering at the University of Kentucky at Paducah Extended Campus. Dr. Seay joined the University of Kentucky in 2008 following a twelve year career in the chemical industry. Dr. Seay completed his B.S. and Ph.D. from Auburn University and his M.S. from the University of South Alabama, all in Chemical Engineering. His primary research area is process systems engineering focused on

Conference Session

"Modular" Learning

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jason M. Keith, Mississippi State University; Bill B Elmore, Mississippi State University; William Todd French, Mississippi State University; Hossein Toghiani, Mississippi State University; Rebecca K. Toghiani, Mississippi State University

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Chemical Engineering

vehicle to apply the chemicalengineering fundamentals to broad problems in sustainable energy production and use.This is particularly helpful in chemical engineering, as most of our majors choosechemical engineering as a career so that they can help others.This paper describes the use of energy modules in the chemical engineering curriculumat Mississippi State University. The paper outlines efforts in the freshman seminarcourse, mass and energy balances course, the mass transfer / separations course, theengineering materials course, and the chemical engineering reactor design course, aswell as an elective course on hydrogen energy fundamentals.The modules illustrated in this paper show a connection between traditional chemicalengineering

Conference Session

Grasping the "Concept"

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adrienne R Minerick, Michigan Technological University

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Chemical Engineering

Paper ID #6876Semester-long Concept Development Projects in Chemical Engineering Elec-tives CourseDr. Adrienne R Minerick, Michigan Technological University Adrienne Minerick received her M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame in 2003 and B.S. from Michigan Technological University in 1998. Dr. Minerick’s research interests include electroki- netics, predominantly dielectrophoretic characterizations of cells, and the development of biomedical microdevices. She earned a 2007 NSF CAREER award, has published research in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (2006), Lab on a Chip, and had an AIChE Journal

Conference Session

Bringing Industrial Applications into the Classroom

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Zenaida Otero Gephardt, Rowan University; C. Stewart Slater, Rowan University; Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University; Mariano Javier Savelski, Rowan University

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Chemical Engineering

disseminated throughASEE conference papers, and some of the problem sets described in this paper will be used inthe next edition of Felder et al. 5Current efforts include expanding the dissemination of this material through the ASEE ChemicalEngineering Division (CHED) Summer School. This will help extend the reach of thesematerials to an audience of educators early in their careers who will be able to directly impact thestudents they teach. The 2012 ASEE-CHED Summer School was held at the University of Page 23.793.2Maine in Orono, Maine, July 21- 27. The Summer School included over 20 workshops andmany opportunities for faculty to network and share

Conference Session

"Modular" Learning

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Qinghua He, Tuskegee University; Rong Zhang, Auburn University; Jin Wang, Auburn University; Frank Leonard Armstead III, Tuskegee University; Rong Zhu Walburn; Donald Ray Johnson Jr; Julius Lenard Taylor II, Tuskegee University Research Assistant

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Chemical Engineering

learning material will enable instructors to easily select, share, expand, and modify Page 23.69.5the materials to fit students with various learning capabilities and career goals.Due to the complex nature of the biofuel processes and students’ limited exposure to biofueltechnology, most students would feel incompetent in dealing with problems related to biofuel.To help students overcome this barrier, we have also been creating a series of web modules toaccompany the classroom modules by exploiting two instructional strategies: computer-assistedinstruction and visual learning. Computer-assisted instruction is an innovative instructionalstrategy

Conference Session

Using Communication and Writing Techniques to Improve Student Learning

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Taryn Melkus Bayles, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

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Chemical Engineering

helps them to become a reflective practitioner once they graduate andbegin their professional career. The topics for their individual reflection paper included:  The engineering design process  Engineering/math/science connections  Technical writingThe students were provided several resources(4-7) to help them with this assignment. In addition,the students were provided a grading rubric (provided in Appendix A), prepared by the authorwhich is a synthesis of other critical thinking rubrics(8-10).Results In the analysis of the original design solution, the most striking result was that less thanhalf of the teams as freshman did not connect the design criteria to human constraints (bloodvolume, system

Conference Session

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

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard L. Zollars, Washington State University; Christopher Hundhausen, Washington State University; Adam Scott Carter, Washington State University

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Chemical Engineering

University in Appleton, Wis. in 1991, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer and information science from the University of Oregon in 1993 and 1999. Recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, Dr. Hundhausen is founder and director of the Human-centered Environments for Learning and Programming (HELP) Lab at Washington State University, where he’s an associate professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. His research focuses on the general area of human-computer interac- tion with specific interests in computer-based visualization, end-user computing, educational technology, and computer science education. Dr. Hundhausen has established himself as an international leader in

Conference Session

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

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Chemical Engineering

assignments.The intent of the game is to increase student interest and engagement in the course, leading toimproved attitudes toward the laboratory and increased knowledge retention. Furthermore, thegamification elements were used to incentivize certain actions that we believe would bebeneficial to students' future careers, be they in academia or the work force. Hopefully, studentswould perform the extra tasks and allow them to become habit, contributing to their futuresuccess. The game was conducted during the Fall 2012 semester using a class of 51 seniors.The students were predominantly 20-22 years old, and there were 14 female students in the class.1.1 Gamification as an Educational Tool:Over the past several decades, video games have become

Conference Session

"Modular" Learning

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jacqueline Gartner Ph.D., Washington State University; David Finkel, Washington State University; Bernard J. Van Wie, Washington State University; Olusola Adesope, Washington State University-Pullman; Shane A. Brown P.E., Washington State University; Justin William Atkinson

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Chemical Engineering

his bachelor’s and Ph.D. degrees from Oregon State University, both in civil engineering. His Ph.D. degree includes a minor in science and mathematics education. His master’s degree is in environmental engineering from the University of California, Davis. Dr. Brown is a licensed professional civil engineer and has six years of experience designing water and waste water treatment facilities in central California. He was the recipient of the NSF CAREER award in 2011. Dr. Brown’s research interests are in conceptual change, epistemology, and social or situated cognition. Specifically, his research focuses on theoretical approaches to understanding why some engineering concepts are harder to learn than others, including

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Perspectives and Approaches to Teaching Simulation and Design-Based Courses

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Chemical Engineering

. She was recently recognized by the Bagley College of Engineering with the 2013 Career Award. She has also been recognized at MSU with the 2001 Outstanding Faculty Woman Award, a 2001 Hearin Professor of Engineering award, and the 1999 College of Engineering Outstanding Engineering Educator Award.Dr. Hossein Toghiani, Mississippi State University Dr. Hossein Toghiani is the Thomas B. Nusz Endowed professor and an associate professor of Chemical Engineering at Mississippi State. He received his B.S.Ch.E., M.S.Ch.E., and Ph.D. in Chemical Engi- neering from the University of Missouri-Columbia. A member of the Bagley College of Engineering Academy of Distinguished Teachers, Dr. Toghiani has taught a variety of courses