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Work in Progress: Assessment, Evaluation and Hands-on Activities

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Justin F Shaffer, Colorado School of Mines; Jordan Lopez, Colorado School of Mines; Alexander Luther Ellis, Colorado School of Mines

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rising senior at the Colorado School of Mines. He is studying Chemical Engineering with a focus on Biological Engineering. He is also working towards a secondary education licence through the University of Northern Colorado with the intention to pursue a career in secondary education after graduating in May 2021. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Work-in-Progress: Chemical engineering students’ emotions towards biologyIntroductionEmotions and attitudes towards a subject can play a large part in a student’s decision to takemore courses or pursue a major in that subject area. The theory of planned behavior states that aperson’s intentions to perform a

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Work in Progress: Hands-on Activities

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Kitana Kaiphanliam, Washington State University; Olivia Reynolds, Washington State University; David B. Thiessen, Washington State University; Olusola Adesope, Washington State University; Bernard J. Van Wie, Washington State University

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. Itis often seen that potential chemical engineering students who are interested in careers in medicinetake a pre-medical route or make a switch to bioengineering. Chemical engineering as a major,though, teaches students a number of invaluable concepts and fundamentals that can be applied toprojects involving the life sciences and medical field.The lack of understanding of the opportunities for chemical engineers may be a reason for the lowretention rates as a major, especially for female undergraduates, as they are not exposed to theopportunities that interest them, such as biomedical applications, early enough in theirundergraduate careers. Specifically, at Washington State University women represented only15.7% of the total engineering

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Perceptions, Reflections, Collaborations, and Student Support in Chemical Engineering

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Yu Xia, Pennsylvania State University; Stephanie Cutler, Pennsylvania State University; Dawn McFadden, Pennsylvania State University

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Professor at The Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. Her primary focus is the Chemical Engineering Capstone Design course and Chemical Process Safety and Control. She brings her over 20 years of experience in industry to the classroom to help the students connect their learning with real world application. While the focus of her career was in Re- search and Development (including several process patents), it also included assignments in production and capital deployment. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020Collaborative project-based learning approach to the enculturation of senior engineeringstudents into professional engineer practice of teamworkYu Xia, The Pennsylvania State

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Course Design, Course Projects, and Student Perceptions in Chemical Engineering

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Margot A Vigeant, Bucknell University; Amy F. Golightly, Bucknell University

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” and reflective of what students expect to see intheir career or find personally meaningful. This study focuses on the students’ perceptions ofcourse elements and the extent to which students’ perception of the presence or absence of theseelements impacts their motivational state in their coursework.IntroductionIntrinsic motivation, defined as the “inclination toward assimilation, mastery, spontaneousinterest, and exploration”(2), is positively correlated with task-persistence and overallsatisfaction with a given task (3). Because intrinsic motivation is a self-generated state, onemight think that if faculty desire this as an outcome, they might have little impact on its presenceor absence in a given student - that’s what intrinsic means

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Work in Progress: Assessment, Evaluation and Hands-on Activities

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Jennifer Cole, Northwestern University; Allison Godwin, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Joana Marques Melo, Purdue University; Jacqueline Ann Rohde, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

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Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. Her research focuses what factors influence diverse students to choose engineering and stay in engineering through their careers and how different experiences within the practice and culture of engineering fos- ter or hinder belongingness and identity development. Dr. Godwin graduated from Clemson University with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Ph.D. in Engineering and Science Education. Her research earned her a National Science Foundation CAREER Award focused on characterizing latent diversity, which includes diverse attitudes, mindsets, and approaches to learning, to understand engineering stu- dents’ identity development. She has won several awards for her

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Perceptions, Reflections, Collaborations, and Student Support in Chemical Engineering

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Bradley Cicciarelli, Louisiana Tech University; Eric A. Sherer, Louisiana Tech University; Baker A. Martin, Clemson University; Marisa K. Orr, Clemson University

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Tennessee, Knoxville, both in chemical engineering.Dr. Marisa K. Orr, Clemson University Marisa K. Orr is an Assistant Professor in Engineering and Science Education with a joint appointment in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Clemson University. Her research interests include student persistence and pathways in engineering, gender equity, diversity, and academic policy. Dr. Orr is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award for her research entitled, ”Empowering Students to be Adaptive Decision-Makers.” c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 From Assessment to Research: Evolution of the Study of a Two- Day Intervention for ChemE SophomoresAbstractThis paper

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Chemical Engineering in the Sophomore Year

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Matheus Oliveira Cassol, University of British Columbia, Vancouver; Jonathan Verrett P.Eng., University of British Columbia, Vancouver

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Paper ID #29424Evaluating a new second-year introduction to chemical engineering designcourse using concept mappingMatheus Oliveira Cassol, University of British Columbia, Vancouver Matheus is an undergraduate student in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at The University of British Columbia. His work focuses on improving engineering education using technol- ogy and innovative analysis methods. Matheus’ goal is to follow a research career, using engineering knowledge to move society towards a greener future.Dr. Jonathan Verrett, University of British Columbia, Vancouver Jonathan Verrett is an Instructor in

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Perceptions, Reflections, Collaborations, and Student Support in Chemical Engineering

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Elif Miskioglu, Bucknell University; Nicholas Tymvios, Bucknell University; Eliana Christou, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Benjamin B Wheatley, Bucknell University

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Paper ID #29170Pre and Post Tenure: Perceptions of Requirements and Impediments forChemical Engineering FacultyDr. Elif Miskioglu, Bucknell University Dr. Elif Miskio˘glu is an early-career engineering education scholar and educator. She holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering (with Genetics minor) from Iowa State University, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Ohio State University. Her early Ph.D. work focused on the development of bacterial biosensors capable of screening pesticides for specifically targeting the malaria vector mosquito, Anopheles gambiae. As a result, her diverse background also includes

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Perceptions, Reflections, Collaborations, and Student Support in Chemical Engineering

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Sheima J. Khatib, Texas Tech University; Roman Taraban, Texas Tech University; William D Lawson P.E., Ph.D., Texas Tech University

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Paper ID #29382Student Confidence and Metacognitive Reflection with Correlations toExam Performance in a FE Review Course in Chemical EngineeringSheima J. Khatib, Texas Tech University Sheima J. Khatib is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas Tech University. She received her Ph.D. in Chemistry in the area of heterogeneous catalysis from the Au- tonomous University of Madrid. Apart from her interests in chemical engineering and finding sustainable paths for production of fuels and chemicals (for we she has received several grants including the NSF CAREER award), she is passionate

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Chemical Engineering in the Sophomore Year

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David L. Silverstein P.E., University of Kentucky; Sarah A Wilson, University of Kentucky

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(Taxol) through the use of plant cell cultures from the Taxus Yew Tree. Throughout her 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, 2020 Student Performance in an Online Chemical Engineering

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Work in Progress: Assessment, Evaluation and Hands-on Activities

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Julianne Vernon, Vanderbilt University; Matthew Rogers, Vanderbilt University; Benjamin Joseph Saba; Yin Huang

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ofcardboard, wedging pieces of soap into slits in the boats as they saw fit. The boats were thenplaced into bins filled with water and allowed to traverse the bins. The task was to create a boatwhich travelled both the farthest and fastest using nothing but the force generated by differencesin surface tension of the liquid caused by the dissolution of the soap. The activity wassummarized by an open discussion of basic surface tension phenomena, explaining why oilinhibited paperclip flotation and how dissolution of soap could generate enough force to propel aboat. Finally, ties to chemical engineering were shown by highlighting career areas wheresurface tension effects are paramount (inter alia: crude oil recovery, paint design andmanufacturing, food

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Work in Progress: Assessment, Evaluation and Hands-on Activities

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Lucas James Landherr, Northeastern University; Nicole Joy Sweeney, Complexly

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engineering in 46 episodes of approximately 10 minuteseach. Over the course of the series, the origin of each branch of engineering was discussed,followed by discussion of core concepts of conservation, thermodynamics, fluid dynamics, heatand mass transfer, materials, statics, safety and ethics. The series then described applications ofthe different engineering fields, including robotics, genetic engineering, and signal processing, aswell as specific extensions of core engineering fields, such as transportation and geotechnicalengineering. The series concluded with an explanation of engineering design, careers inengineering, and the future problems to be solved. The authors of this paper were part of the collaboration in the development and

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Course Design, Course Projects, and Student Perceptions in Chemical Engineering

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Joshua A Enszer, University of Delaware; Catherine A Fromen, University of Delaware

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engineeringprograms has grown by about 15%, from 1837 in 2009 [7] to 2114 in 2018 [8]. It is harder totrack the proliferation of non-tenure-track positions in chemical engineering, though by oneaccounting, the number of permanent non-tenure track faculty across all engineering disciplineshas nearly doubled in this time [9]. Most non-tenure-track faculty are hired to focus on teaching,and some universities deliberately connect these teaching faculty with incoming tenure-trackfaculty to set them with teaching resources early in their career [10] [11].The goal of this work is to describe a specific grassroots collaboration between a non-tenure-track associate professor (Professor A) and a tenure-track assistant professor (Professor B) todesign a new senior

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Perceptions, Reflections, Collaborations, and Student Support in Chemical Engineering

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Andrew Maxson, The Ohio State University; David L. Tomasko, The Ohio State University

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members, who share their personal thoughts and experiences related to the topic for 5-10 minutes each. They then open up the floor to the students for questions and discussion. Topics of discussion in the past have included: • Imposter syndrome • Resilience after failure • Fear of failure • Fear of missing out • Working with difficult people / different personality types • Making big decisions • Managing life transitions • Anxiety about choice of major / career path Approximately half of all faculty members in the department have participated. Events are advertised to students by email a few days in advance, and again immediately beforehand. Students are informed about the topic ahead of time so that

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Chemical Engineering in the Junior and Senior Year

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

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Chemical Engineering

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.Prof. Samira M. Azarin Azarin, University of Minnesota Samira Azarin is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Minnesota. She earned her B.S. in chemical engineering from the

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Chemical Engineering in K-12 and the First Year

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Ashlee N Ford Versypt, Oklahoma State University; Daria Khvostichenko, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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on chemical reaction kinet- ics and computational science and engineering. She received an NSF CAREER Award in 2019.Dr. Daria Khvostichenko, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dr. Khvostichenko developed a fascination for science and engineering in middle school and it has only grown since. Dr. Khvostichenko has two PhD degrees, in Chemistry and in Chemical Engineering. Her research interests spanned colloid and interface science, computational chemistry, phase behavior of complex fluids, and microfluidics. During her years in academia she mentored multiple undergraduate and graduate students and participated in community outreach programs. Dr. Khvostichenko presently leads a data analytics team for

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Chemical Engineering in the Junior and Senior Year

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Richard Turton P.E., West Virginia University; Fernando V. Lima, West Virginia University; Brent A. Bishop, West Virginia University

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protect the integrity of a piece of equipment, andseveral other scenarios. A video of one of the procedures will also be shown in the presentationto illustrate the pedagogy used to design the system and to show the subsequent operation of thesystem. These modules or scenarios could be implemented in any or all of the design, control andsafety courses with good effect.IntroductionIn an ideal world, all undergraduate chemical engineering students would learn the basics ofprocess design and steady-state optimization while supplementing their education with aninternship or a co-op to gain real world experience before they begin their careers. Studentswould then leave their programs equipped with both a theoretical knowledge and a practicalintuition

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Chemical Engineering in the Junior and Senior Year

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Thomas Andrew Meadowcroft, Rowan University

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standard [4]. Learning to breakdown the functions of a reactor or a distillation column into equipment modules and then writingphases, short parameterized procedures for those modules, is not only essential to automationdesign. It also teaches students a valuable approach for solving any complex problem, inparticular the management of any large project. Figure 2 Sequential Function ChartDocumentationChemical engineers, even those who become Process Control specialists, are not going to spendtheir careers programming control systems; it would be a waste of their talents when other(lower-priced) professionals can be hired. To manage these professionals, chemical engineersneed to practice writing a specification for a control system

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Chemical Engineering in K-12 and the First Year

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Tommy George, Harvard University; Alexander Seth Klein; Kristen B Wendell, Tufts University

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, Tufts University Kristen Wendell is Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Adjunct Associate Professor of Education at Tufts University. Her research efforts at at the Center for Engineering Education and Out- reach focus on supporting discourse and design practices during K-12, teacher education, and college- level engineering learning experiences, and increasing access to engineering in the elementary school ex- perience, especially in under-resourced schools. In 2016 she was a recipient of the U.S. Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). https://engineering.tufts.edu/me/people/faculty/kristen- bethke-wendell c American Society for Engineering

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Chemical Engineering in the Sophomore Year

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Uchenna Asogwa, The University of Toledo; Matthew W Liberatore, The University of Toledo; Timothy Ryan Duckett, The University of Toledo; Gale A Mentzer, Acumen Research and Evaluation, LLC

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].While YouTube pedagogy possess the potential to engage students and improve problem solvingabilities, more research is needed. For example, many researchers have indicated that teacherattitudes and effort required in a course influence students’ attitude [31-34]. The importance ofattitudes has been increasingly recognized in recent years; several studies show how positiveattitudes toward science lead students to pursue science careers [35]. Learning attitudes have asignificant positive correlation with academic achievement and self-directed learning ability [36,37]. Furthermore, teaching strategy can influence students’ attitudes which consequently affectslearning gains or outcomes [38]. Since study have shown that integration of technology

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Chemical Engineering in K-12 and the First Year

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Laura P Ford, The University of Tulsa; Janie Brennan, Washington University in St. Louis; Jennifer Cole, Northwestern University; Kevin D. Dahm, Rowan University; Marnie V Jamieson, University of Alberta; Lucas James Landherr, Northeastern University; David L. Silverstein P.E., University of Kentucky; Bruce K Vaughen P.E., American Institute of Chemical Engineers; Margot A Vigeant, Bucknell University; Stephen Ward Thiel P.E., University of Cincinnati

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% Intro to Engineering 75% Intro to Discipline 60%Courses 45% 30% 15% 0%Figure 15. Assessments used in introduction coursesWe asked an open-ended question to find out more about projects in the introduction toengineering courses. Design projects such as catapults and wind turbines were very popular (13courses). Faculty-led projects were the next most popular (4 courses). Computer programmingprojects and projects to teach K-12 students about engineering or grand challenges (3 courseseach) were the next most common. Other projects included reporting on meetings of studentprofessional chapters, xkcd “what if” problem [5], career