Conference Session

Laboratory and Research Skill Development

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ashlee N. Ford Versypt, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Jeffrey R. Errington, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; David A. Kofke, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Maura Sepesy, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Mark T. Swihart, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

, and we encourage all faculty to discuss undergraduate research during these meetings withtheir academic advisees. Fall recruitment has been helped in recent years by emailing allundergraduate students and faculty in the department in the week preceding the fall term toremind them about research opportunities and this course. We also encourage students whoconduct summer REUs to get course credit during the academic year to take advantage of localopportunities for new research or to get credit for related faculty-supervised experiences offcampus. Additionally, the university has an online portal called the Experiential LearningNetwork (ELN), where faculty and staff can post opportunities for research and other creativeand experiential

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 5: Work-in-Progress Part 2

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Iram Rahman, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art; Amanda Simson, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

professor of chemical engineering at The Cooper Union in New York City. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Introduction of a Carbon Dioxide Capture Experiment in a Senior Chemical Engineering Laboratory CourseAbstractWith the severity of climate change impacts increasing, it is imperative to educate students aboutclimate change and potential technologies that may be used to mitigate it. To teach studentsabout climate change and an emerging industry in carbon dioxide removal (CDR), a carbondioxide capture experiment was included in a senior chemical engineering laboratory course. Theexperiment was iteratively scaled-up and student-designed in one rotation of a single

Conference Session

Leveraging AI and Computational Tools for Enhanced Learning

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Betul Bilgin, The University of Illinois at Chicago; Christopher V.H.-H. Chen, Columbia University; Stephanie Butler Velegol, The Pennsylvania State University

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

as an engineering tool? The study adopted a survey-based approach to capture students' evolving perceptions of AI. The results offer an in-depthunderstanding of how students’ perceptions of AI in chemical engineering setting.Regarding faculty perspectives, three chemical engineering faculty from three different institutionsused AI to design the syllabus, course materials, and assessments, providing a unique opportunityto explore the effectiveness of AI in the course development process. This work aims to provide aroadmap for future AI-driven course redesigns and offer insights into how AI influences bothlearning outcomes and students’ confidence in using AI technology in professional settings.Preliminary case studies in Thermodynamics

Conference Session

Inclusive and Interdisciplinary Approaches in Labs and Research

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Margot A Vigeant, Bucknell University

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

into the major, a course communicating food science and engineering is a valuable addition to students’ general education. Applied Food Science & Engineering for Non-majors (CHEG 242) is a sister course to the 400-level (senior/junior) engineering elective CHEG 442: Applied Food Science & Engineering. The 200-level course is aimed at rst-year and sophomore non- engineering students and moves at a deliberately slower pace than the 400-level version, with a particular focus on foundational material in chemistry, heat transfer, and thermodynamics in a food-context. The course is designed as an online-only summer course that meets the university “laboratory science

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 2: Community Retrospectives

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Cooper, North Carolina State University, Raleigh; E. Daniel Cardenas-Vasquez, North Carolina State University, Raleigh

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

believe themselves or others may have been able to perform well on assignments without attending classes in person, nor reviewing recorded lectures?2.2. Course StudiedThe studied senior capstone design course covers many topics, including review of process flowdiagrams (PFDs) and piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs), applying informationlearned in previous courses toward the design of chemical processes, use of ASPEN, costingcapital equipment / manufacturing, and engineering economics. The course is delivered as atwice-a-week 75-minute lecture with active learning activities (e.g. think-pair-share) led by theinstructor approximately every 15-20 minutes. Classroom and syllabus policies remainedunchanged from those prior to the

Conference Session

WiP: Interdisciplinary Connections

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tamara Floyd Smith, West Virginia University Institute of Technology; Gifty Osei-Prempeh, West Virginia University Institute of Technology; Yogendra M. Panta P.E., West Virginia University Institute of Technology; Bernhard P Bettig, West Virginia University Institute of Technology; Kenan Hatipoglu, West Virginia University Institute of Technology

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

mechanicalengineering and chemical engineering, but the referenced course is specific to civil engineering.Colorado School of Mines described flipping a fluid mechanics class [7]. Cornell Universityshared strategies for online learning in Fluid Mechanics for a mechanical engineering course. [8]Bradley University detailed standard based grading in a mechanical engineering fluid mechanicscourse. [9]Combined or Collaborative CoursesCalifornia State University, Long Beach described a curricular innovation and suggests that, atthe time the paper was written, the institution offered a combined Fluid Mechanics course withmechanical, civil and chemical engineering. [10] Around 2001, the National Science Foundationsponsored a workshop to improve fluid mechanics

Conference Session

Improving Student Problem Solving and Performance

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joshua A Enszer, University of Delaware

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

coursework offered out of thedepartment begins in the spring of the first-year with a required introductory course, with eachsubsequent semester having one to three required chemical engineering courses. The coursesconsidered in this paper are three required courses: an introduction to chemical engineering inthe first year, a chemical engineering statistics course in the second year, and a fluid mechanicscourse in the third year. One faculty member was consistently instructor of record for each ofthese courses, though sometimes the course was co-taught with either another faculty member oran advanced graduate student completing a teaching fellowship [1]. Courses in Spring 2021 wereoffered entirely online and synchronously, while all other courses

Conference Session

Perspectives in Chemical Engineering Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zachary Rasmussen, University of Utah; Anthony Butterfield, University of Utah

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

from public online course catalogs; only chemical engineering classeswere considered. If a class was taught in another department by a chemical engineeringprofessor, it was not included in our analysis.For teaching load calculations, the majority of course credit hours were simply attributable to asingle faculty member. However, a minority of courses necessitated an alternative counting. If aclass was taught by multiple different professors, those faculty were each given credit forteaching the class. This choice was made because it is unclear, with publicly available data, howteaching load is divided between faculty of co-taught courses. Further, a course taught by twofaculty does not reliably indicate that the sum of their efforts would not

Conference Session

Improving Student Problem Solving and Performance

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sanha Kim, University of Virginia; Steven R Caliari, University of Virginia; Roseanne M Ford, University of Virginia

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

problem contexts that students would encounter in appliedscenarios. However, this idealized practice schedule can be at odds against the demands of thecourse syllabus schedule. The breadth of concepts that a ChE course must cover in its syllabus, especially one thatis part of the core curriculum, limits both the amount of time and instructional strategies thatlesson plans or homework can prescribe to a particular concept[2], [3]. This in turn can detractfrom students’ targeted practice on a particular concept to either not sufficiently demonstrate allcontexts or attempt to do too much at once within problems that can then strain the number ofcognitive tasks students can successfully complete[4]. To bolster concept application

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Poster Session

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Fiegel, The University of Iowa; Charles Stanier, The University of Iowa

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

of documentation, the need to “reinvent thewheel” and 2) responding to the crisis in student mental health by equipping the instructionalteam to recognize and support students in crisis. To address these goals, we created a Teams siteto centralize general and course-specific resources accessible to all TAs. We also developed a TAcontract template to document roles and responsibilities, encouraging faculty to adopt it in theircourses. Faculty were asked to hold weekly meetings with their TAs to discuss weeklyexpectations and address concerns or questions, fostering consistent communication.Additionally, TAs were required to complete the university’s online Suicide Prevention Training,a program all department faculty had already completed. To

Conference Session

Honoring the Legacy of Lisa Bullard: A View of the Present and Future

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Taryn Melkus Bayles, University of Pittsburgh; Emily R Kerr, University of Pittsburgh

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

program utilizes an Academic Advising Syllabus to guide students through the first year ofengineering studies, and eight desired learning outcomes to guide their work. By the end of thefirst year of academic advisement in the Swanson School of Engineering, students will: • Establish a network and know how to use it • Know how to use technology resources • Understand the options of engineering majors/programs and make a department selection • Understand basic policies and procedures, or know from whom or how to get the information online • Master time management so as to be successful beyond the first year • Gain academic self-awareness/knowledge of academic strengths and weaknesses • Understand the value that

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 4: Junior & Senior Year Curriculum

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joaquin Rodriguez, University of Pittsburgh; Schohn L. Shannon, University of Pittsburgh; Michael McMahon; Hseen Baled

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

recommendation is for 6-member teams, as the same teams simultaneously run otherprojects in the companion course with a significant workload. Members are self-selected, favoredby the fact that being seniors, they have had opportunities to interact previously in the career,align their interests and schedules, and they have already been exposed to work in non-self-selected teams.The first session of the lab takes place in the classroom and provides basic information on thelab, scope, and syllabus for the course. In addition, students participate in a selection of teambuilding games to reinforce team skills and strategies [14]. The first assignment consists of a 2-page assessment of that experience, where students report major takeaways to guide

Conference Session

Inclusivity, Mentorship, and Entrepreneurial Thinking

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joaquin Rodriguez, University of Pittsburgh

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Diversity

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

specialty products (lube oils, asphalts, waxes, cokes) at Petroleos de Venezuela, PDVSA (1983-1998). He is a founding member of Universidad Monteavila (Caracas, Venezuela) (1998—2018) and became the Chancellor of this university (2005-2015), and the President of the Center for Higher Studies (2015-2018), including teaching in the Humanities. After rejoining the University of Pittsburgh, he has been teaching Pillar courses on Reactive Process Engineering, Process Control, Process Control Lab, Process Design, and Green Chemical Engineering and Sustainability. In addition to technical courses, his service extends over curriculum development, outreach programs, alumni network, team and leadership skills development

Conference Session

Leveraging AI and Computational Tools for Enhanced Learning

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher V.H.-H. Chen, Columbia University; Sakul Ratanalert, Columbia University in the City of New York

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

Paper ID #45867Development of an MEB Novice Chatbot to Improve Chemical EngineeringCritical ThinkingDr. Christopher V.H.-H. Chen, Columbia University Christopher V.H.-H. Chen, Ph.D., is a Lecturer in the Discipline of Chemical Engineering at Columbia University. His teaching and research interests include the application of case- and problem-based approaches to STEM learning experiences; the promise and challenges of AI and online learning; how social and emotional interventions improve engineering education; and preparing graduate students as future change leaders within the academy.Dr. Sakul Ratanalert, Columbia