Paper ID #47320Teaching Modular Design: Mobile Processing Plants to Reduce Food WasteDr. Ronald Carl Hedden, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Ronald C. Hedden is a Professor of Practice in the Dept. of Chemical and Biological Engineering at RPI. His research and teaching interests cover both Chemical Engineering and Polymer Science. Dr. Hedden’s research has recently focused on the use of Virtual Reality in the classroom and laboratory.Jingwen Tan, Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteCaitlin Gee, Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteBrad DeBoer, Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteKathryn Dannemann, Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteDr. Nihat
,manyofthesestudentstransitionintothe workforce where School World practicesdonotapply.However,thismightnotbethecasefor their instructors. Within the context of their work, faculty are spread between two distinct cultural worlds: School World and the world of academic research (Research World). While teaching, faculty members partake in the cultural practices of School World,aworldinwhich theythemselvesonceengagedasastudent.However,facultymembers’researchlaboratoriesare more expansive: problems are ill-defined, and collaborative problems-solving and creative modeling
disciplines. The College ofEngineering and Computer Science (ECS) amended the ECS bylaws in 2020 to specify thatpromotion from Assistant to Associate teaching faculty must have demonstrated both “very high-quality teaching” and secondarily “high quality service,” and for Associate to Full, demonstrationof “excellence” in teaching and “very high quality service” in addition to leadership whereopportunities exist. The bylaws note that teaching may encompass various professionalactivities relating to undergraduate or graduate education, including classroom effectiveness,lecture and laboratory course development, and adoption of more effective teaching practices,whereas service includes program administration, committee participation, student and
Paper ID #46722Work-in-Progress: Leveraging ChatGPT to Support Technical CommunicationSkills (Writing) in a Senior Chemical Engineering Laboratory CourseDr. Gautom Kumar Das, University of Maryland Baltimore County Dr. Gautom Das is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Chemical, Biochemical and Environmental Engineering at UMBC. Prior to joining UMBC, he was a Research Scientist and Lecturer in the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Rice University, and a Post-doctoral Scholar at the University of California, Davis. He earned his PhD in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from the Nanyang Technological
associated with engineering students’ academic performance. Her teaching and research have been awarded Engineering Dean’s Emerging Innovation in Teaching Professorship. She is also the recipient of the Canadian Wighton Fellowship in 2022 and the Northrop Frye Award in 2023.Saad Yasin, University of Toronto ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Work in Progress: Making Unit Operations Laboratory More Accessible Through 3D Printing and Self-Guided Learning Saad Yasin and Ariel W Chan* Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering *corresponding author
semi-controlled learning environment thuspracticing critical thinking, knowledge integration, and application skills.Laboratory teaching is resource intensive, especially in chemical engineering Unit Ops Lab(UOL) courses where projects, equipment and expectations often resemble industrial operationalenvironments. The Unit Operations Laboratory is a place where students gain hands-onexperience while applying fundamental chemical engineering concepts and principles to solveand investigate problems associated with pipe, pump and valve systems, chemical reactorsystems, heat and refrigeration management, water treatment, solid-liquid/vapour-liquidseparation, and process equilibrium. Due to large size and complexity in design, there are usuallyonly
Paper ID #41758Climate Change and Kinetics in an Undergraduate Laboratory: Injectionand Tracking of CO2 in a 7 Gallon TerrariumDr. Clint Guymon, Brigham Young University Clint Guymon is a new Associate Teaching Professor in the Chemical Engineering Department at Brigham Young University. There he has developed multiple educational modules for undergraduate chemical engineering students. He previously worked for 15 years as an engineering consultant in the defense industry.Joseph R Tuft ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024Climate Change and Kinetics in an Undergraduate Laboratory: Injection
’ performance in concept tests more than any other form of instruction[3]. This has encouraged further creative hands-on active learning solutions for the field ofengineering education. Hands-on learning modules have been developed and have been shown to engageinterest, teach concepts, and improve knowledge retention for students [4, 5]. These modulesmake concrete what may have been abstract concepts, allowing students to connect theory withexperience. This paper describes the concept, design, implementation and results of a novel HeatExchanger Module (HEM) used in a junior-level thermal/fluids laboratory course.Concept The HEM is designed to enable students to experiment with, and to validate heat transferconcepts in a portable and cost
cultivating more equitable and inclusive learning using a data analytic approach to identify factors associated with engineering students’ academic performance. Her teaching and research have been awarded Engineering Dean’s Emerging Innovation in Teaching Professorship. She is also the recipient of the Canadian Wighton Fellowship in 2022 and the Northrop Frye Award in 2023. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 1 Work-in-Progress: Development of AI-Assisted, Immersive Virtual Reality Learning Module to Enhance Operation and Procedural Accuracy for Laboratory Education
surpassedthose experienced by undergraduate, master’s and PhD/postdoctoral trainees completing our morecomplex IBL bioadhesives module [29], which was expected since middle school students wouldlikely have never been exposed to bioadhesives before. Moreover, these learning gains werecomparable to those experienced by freshman engineering students [41,42] and middle schoolstudents [28] completing IBL laboratory modules. These significant learning gains demonstratethat this IBL bioadhesives outreach module effectively teaches students principles of bioadhesives.Pre/post-surveys demonstrated that students did not experience significant improvements in theirattitudes towards STEM from participating in our IBL bioadhesives outreach module. Theseresults were
Chemical Engineering at L.D. College of Engineering for 5 years before pursuing a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Imperial College London. Umang has developed surface preferential ap- proaches for nucleation and crystallisation of biological and complex organic molecules. More recently, he has worked as a Research Associate investigating the role of surface properties on particle-particle in- teraction and developed approaches for decoupling contribution of different surface attributes on powder cohesion. In 2012, as recognition to his contributions to Undergraduate laboratory teaching, he was been nominated for the Graduate Teaching Assistant Awards for the Faculty of Engineering. Umang currently has a role in leading
Paper ID #46276Work-in-Progress: Integration of Matlab Live Scripts and Simulink for TeachingChemical Process ControlMr. Dat Huynh, University of Delaware Dat Huynh is a PhD candidate in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Delaware. He received his B.S. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Mathematics from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2019. Before beginning his graduate studies, he worked as a process engineer at ExxonMobil. He is a recipient of the GAANN Fellowship and the Departmental Teaching Fellowship at the University of Delaware. His research focuses on sustainability
Paper ID #48549BOARD # 40: A Comparison of Three Teaching Methods in Junior ChemicalEngineering Required CoursesDr. Laura P Ford, The University of Tulsa Laura P. Ford is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Tulsa. She teaches engineering science thermodynamics and fluid mechanics, separations/mass transfer, process control, and chemical engineering senior labs. She is an advisor for TU’s student chapter of Engineers Without Borders - USA.Dr. Hema Ramsurn, The University of Tulsa Hema Ramsurn is the A. Buthod Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Tulsa. Her
[2] including case studies in the unit operations laboratory course [3] or thechemical reaction engineering course [4]. The most common approach has been to incorporatelearning modules on ethics in the context of process safety [5]. The way in which process safetyis taught to students depends on the department (and university), with some schools having adedicated process safety course while others teach it as part of the senior design course. Teachingstudents about the concepts of ethical decision making in the context of process safety makes sensefrom an educational perspective, in part, due to the ongoing efforts to instill a culture of safety inall young chemical engineers [5]. Through informal discussions with students, the
used to teach key chemistryconcepts to undergraduate students in the chemistry discipline at an Historically Black University (HBCU).To assess whether ECP achieves a lasting increase in undergraduate student curiosity and engagement in thechemistry discipline, ECP was implemented from Fall 2021 to Fall 2022 using an inexpensive, safe, andportable electronic instrumentation system usable in both classrooms and laboratories. The MotivatedStrategies for Learning Questionnaire developed by Pintrich, Smith, García, and McKeachie in 1991 was usedto measure the key constructs associated with students’ curiosity and engagement. The classroom observationprotocol (COPUS) was used to assess instructors’ effectiveness, and signature assignments were used
instructors; these random team assignments try to best simulate the typical teamformation conditions in postgraduation experiences [15].The projects laboratory is divided in two interdependent sections: (a) students complete fourpilot-plant type laboratory experiments for which they produce different report types (referred as“standard experiments”), and (b) they simultaneously develop a research project (referred as“class projects”) that is self-directed which is the focus of our teamwork training. During thecompletion of class projects, students propose their own research, create individual and groupproposals, build their own theory, and complete their experiments in their proposed scheduled; inaddition, they report to a teaching assistant who acts
Chemical Engineering at Penn State University. He earned a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from North Carolina State University and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Prior to joining Penn State in 2018, Dr. Aurand was on the faculty in the Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering at the University of Iowa for over two decades. In addition to teaching chemical process safety, Dr. Aurand has extensive experience with all aspects of teaching and managing undergraduate chemical engineering laboratory courses. He also has taught design, thermodynamics, and energy courses multiple times.Dr. Chris Barr, University of Michigan Dr. Christopher Barr is the instructional laboratory
educators to support their teaching of En- gineering within K-12 classrooms. She has developed and implemented a senior-level projects laboratory course in the Chemical Engineering curriculum at the University of Utah, giving students hands-on expe- rience with the concepts she is teaching in their Process Control theory course. Stacy received a BS and MS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Utah. She then earned a PhD in Chemical Engineer- ing at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research was focused on algorithms used in the processing of semiconductor wafers and resulted in two patents.Prof. Anthony Butterfield, University of Utah Anthony Butterfield is an Assistant Professor (Lecturing) in the Chemical
Paper ID #41378Work in Progress: Implementation of a Curricular Development Project forExperiential Learning in a Senior Capstone Product-Design CourseDr. Chris Barr, University of Michigan Dr. Christopher Barr is the Instructional Laboratory Supervisor in the Chemical Engineering Department at University of Michigan. He obtained his Ph.D. at University of Toledo in 2013 and is a former Fellow in the N.S.F. GK-12 grant ”Graduate Teaching Fellows in STEM High School Education: An Environmental Science Learning Community at the Land-Lake Ecosystem Interface”. His main responsibilities are supervising and implementing
-resourced contexts. At UBC, he currently teaches at all levels of the undergraduate Chemical Engineering program, and is Co-Director of the Environmental Engineering program.Gina Sengeri, The University of British Columbia Gina Sengeri is an undergraduate student in the Chemical and Biological Engineering program at UBC. She supported curriculum coordination efforts in second-year courses, including content mapping and the development of a cross-course assignment connecting lab results to material balance calculations. She worked as a laboratory teaching assistant in UBC’s Vancouver Summer Program, leading students through chemical and microbiological experiments and assisting with data analysis using LabVIEW software
engineering collaboration have been proposed [18, 19].Previously, we reported on educational innovations to teach students of engineering aboutdevices with biomedical applications [20, 21, 22]. These teaching efforts included thedevelopment of devices in the laboratory [23], the deployment of these devices to the field (inthis case, the community environment) [24], and the ongoing improvement of devices to promotehuman health [25]. These efforts incorporated high school teachers as well as historicallyunderrepresented student populations to learn about and become involved in device development[26]. These prior efforts targeted long-standing problems of sustainable development includingsecure access to safe supplies of food and water [27, 28, 29, 30
Paper ID #47213Lessons Learned From Microcontroller-Based Liquid Level ControlMr. Michael Charles Barkdull, University of Utah Michael C. Barkdull earned a combined BS/MS in Chemical Engineering at the University of Utah. As both a student and a teaching assistant, he has developed a passion for enhancing engineering education by integrating hands-on experiences with theoretical learning. In addition to academic achievements, Michael has gained practical experience during his internship at Idaho National Laboratory, where he developed and tested materials for real-world applications. He also contributed to undergraduate
laboratory course and other STEM courses," Advances in biology laboratory education, vol. 41, p. 61, 2020.[7] L. Fingerson and A. B. Culley, "Collaborators in Teaching and Learning: Undergraduate Teaching Assistants in the Classroom," Teaching Sociology, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 299-315, 2001, doi: 10.2307/1319189.[8] K. A. Ritchey and S. and Smith, "Developing a Training Course for Undergraduate Teaching Assistants," College Teaching, vol. 67, no. 1, pp. 50-57, 2019/01/02 2019, doi: 10.1080/87567555.2018.1518891.[9] R. M. Ryan and E. L. Deci, "Self-determination theory and the facilitation of intrinsic motivation, social development, and well-being," American Psychologist, vol. 55, no. 1, pp. 68-78
) are taken by chemicalengineering undergraduate students typically between junior and senior years with the aim ofreinforcing fundamentals learnt in lecture courses. A distinctive feature of UOLs compared toundergraduate laboratories in other fields, like chemistry, is the use of the so-called pilot-scaleexperimentation[3] which introduces students to new scales of experimentation, mainly orientedtoward the manufacturing industry. From the educational point of view, pilot-scaleexperimentation in UOLs is a unique experience for undergraduate chemical engineeringstudents but it might hamper the ability to teach laboratory courses outside of lab facilities. Thiswas a significant challenge during the global COVID-19 pandemic, which pushed
students learning about course outcomes (Figure 1). The overall structure of this approach to PBL is that students are presented with a problem and consider what they know and what they need to know in order to address the problem. The students’ questions then drive the readings as well as lecture and laboratory content. Students then integrate what they have learned to propose a solution to the problem, communicate their result, and the cycle begins afresh. The course was designed using suggestions from “Small Teaching Online” [9]. For example, because it is easier to be isolated from classmates in an online course, a number of practices were used to support student
Paper ID #42467Development of an Introduction to Sustainable Engineering Course as a ChemicalEngineering ElectiveDr. Heather L. Walker, University of Arkansas Dr. Walker is a Teaching Assistant Professor and the Associate Department Head for the Undergraduate Program in the Ralph E. Martin Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Arkansas. Her research interests include engineering education, increasing student engagement and student advising.Dr. Edgar C Clausen, University of Arkansas Dr. Clausen is a University Professor in the Ralph E. Martin Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Arkansas
Engineering at the University of California, Davis. Dr. White has been a faculty member at UC Davis since 2015, and he teaches process design and economics, process safety, bioseparations, and senior laboratory courses. He has helped lead the creation of the CHEM E CAD and Industrial Automation club at UC Davis, and he has sought to develop authentic, project-based learning experiences for his students in his courses. Dr. White also serves as the accreditation lead for the chemical engineering program at UC Davis. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Impact of The Design of Coffee, A General Education Chemical Engineering Course, on Students’ Decisions to Major in STEM
group in the fluid mechanics and heat transfer domains. Packed bed/fluidized bed instruc-tion appears in most chemical engineering curricula, but hands-on exposure is usually relegatedto senior-level unit operations laboratories if the equipment is available at all. We have devel-oped a simple system with manometer ports for understanding pressure losses in particle beds;our system can eventually be used for safe low-low temperature catalytic processes that can bevisualized with a color change. Classroom implementation strategies, accompanying conceptual-reinforcement materials, and motivational strategies will be presented.IntroductionStudents learn in many ways. Over the past two decades, many studies have shown a connectionbetween student
Paper ID #48348Undergraduate Research Experience Uses Drawing and Art to Bolster Understanding,Communication, and Innovation in EngineeringProf. Felipe Anaya, The University of Kansas Felipe Anaya is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Chemical & Petroleum Engineering at the University of Kansas (KU). Dr. Anaya is the director of the NSF-funded Chemical Engineering REU program and Director of the Chemical Engineering Laboratories. He received his PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Oklahoma and joined KU in 2021.Dr. Claudia J. Bode, The University of Kansas Claudia Bode is the Education
Paper ID #47202BOARD # 46: Work-in-progress: Evidence-based scope and selection of thresholdconcepts for the design of computational notebooks in undergraduate statisticscourses for chemical engineeringDr. Viviana Monje, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York Dr. Viviana Monje is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University at Buffalo (UB), SUNY. She teaches undergraduate statistics for chemical engineers and a course on molecular modeling theory and applications offered for graduate and undergraduate students. Her research expertise is on computational