.” “Overall, I enjoyed the legacy project as a whole, but I believe some adjustments could have been made. My partner made the whole experience friendly and shared insights into life after college. We also had the opportunity to bond over teachers, experiences, and life as a whole. My partner gave me another option to a future career path. After all of that, this was a valuable learning experience for me. It taught me things about myself, about my future, eliminated some stress associated with post- graduation plans, helped me make a networking connection/friend, and let me reflect on my college experience and what I liked and dislike.” “The Legacy Project was a nice change of pace for a course that is otherwise very number, figure, and concept
." "Overall the biggest issue was a lack of time. We recommend that more time should be given for the final project to allow time for planning and redirecting the experiment if something doesn't go as planned." "It was hard to use our time productively when we were waiting on material or devices needed to move forward with our project." "It also was difficult to gather the last data points while over [Thanksgiving] break and finalize the presentation when we were all off campus." "Not only was the ordering process rushed and on a strict timeline to ensure experimentation was possible, but there were a lot of things that would have been beneficial if completed/planned before the first section
. Specifically,these goals are spelled out in ABET student outcomes 2, 4, and 5[1]: (2) an ability to apply engineering design to produce solutions that meet specified needs with consideration of public health, safety, and welfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors; (4) an ability to recognize ethical and professional responsibilities in engineering situations and make informed judgments, which must consider the impact of engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts; (5) an ability to function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks
flipped model I had been using forthese lessons.So, what was I to do with the class time? Another idea that I had gleaned from conversationswith students was that they didn’t remember much from their computer science Introduction toComputing courses because it seemed impractical. “Hello, world” and other programs they hadbeen asked to write were not related to what they saw as their future career. My goal, therefore,was to demonstrate relevance to my students. Thus, each problem they were asked to solveneeded to relate to chemical engineering. This was made more challenging by the fact that thestudents had very limited knowledge of what chemical engineering was at the time they weretaking this course. My plan was to demonstrate a variety of
summer and school year PD days. To collect data on self-efficacyand culturally relevant engineering design implementation several data collection methods wereused, including: Teaching Engineering Self-Efficacy Scale (TESS) [9], Culturally ResponsiveTeaching Self-Efficacy Scale (CRTSES) [10], Culturally Congruent Instruction survey (CCI)[11], qualitative teacher feedback from focus group and individual written and verbal reflections,video recordings of classroom implementation, and lesson plan evaluation with a STEAMscorecard [12]. A more detailed description of the professional development program andengineering design task implementation is described in [13].Observable Outcomes in Upper Elementary and Middle School ClassroomsFrom teacher
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providebest practices or action plans to reduce CO2 emissions. However, this area has limited research to provideeasy and robust approaches to analyzing carbon footprint and drive research and experimentation design.Note that research and educational activity in higher education differs from industrial settings in that theprocess usually operates at the most efficient point to maximize profits. In higher education,teaching/research activities aim to understand specific processes or fulfill the identified learning outcomes,so operation conditions are often varied and can be less economical. Teaching laboratories are essential for higher education, providing students with hands-onexperience and practical application of theoretical knowledge
constraints, and 2) is basedon the knowledge and skills acquired in earlier course work”. The first semester consisted ofproduct ideation, market research, consumer needs and development planning which targets thefirst part in ABET’s definition. Second semester focused on development of a prototype(s) in alaboratory setting. For all the product design projects, students focused on a project which canbe manufactured using principles of ChE including a minor manufacturing process design at theend of the second semester. Both semesters include additional lectures by instructors and guests(both internal and external), guided mentoring through design meetings, as well as studentreflections [9] and other presentations [10]. Course outcomes for both
concepts are reintroduced or reframed from previous chemical engineering coursesfor the context of the material at hand. Further, this course serves as a cross-disciplinary electiveacross multiple programs, with previous enrollment having included students fromcivil/environmental engineering, mechanical engineering, and integrative engineering.The Spring 2022 instance of Atmospheric Engineering and Science comprised of 3 seniors, 8juniors, 8 sophomores, and one first-year student. With the exception of two junior students,whom were environmentally-focused integrative engineering students, students in this instanceof the course majored in or planned on majoring in chemical engineering. Though first-yearstudents are broadly discouraged from taking
-0.07 -0.10 0.00 0.02 0.73 -seem to be? (1.58)Significance and implicationsIncorporating opportunities for consequential agency into more traditional laboratoryexperiments is important and worthwhile, however, it is not well understood how and whatchoices would have the most impact on the student’s perception of agency. Therefore, weconducted exploratory factor analysis to evaluate a survey as a means to measure different facetsof agency. We found strong support for items measuring agency as responsibility, authenticity,agency in the communication domain, agency in the experimental design domain, andopportunity structure. In our ongoing work, we plan
the relative time spent covering the topic in terms of the credit hours for the course. Thismeans the sum of all the node sizes is the number of credit hours for the course. Topic connectivity isrepresented by the directional edges. A topic without any preceding topics, such as T1-1, means it can betaught without any other prior knowledge. These can be thought of as introductory topics like how onewould think about an introductory course. A topic with preceding topics, such as T1-6, means it requiresthe preceding connected topics (T1-4 and T1-5) to be taught. This follows the logic of ”I need to knownumbers and counting to learn addition.” These dependencies can also be used to help plan the courseby noticing topic T1-10 requires all other
of these objectives often focuses on the students’ ability to communicate thetechnical outcomes (e.g., written reports or technical presentations) and may overlook evidencefor holistic development in areas such as troubleshooting abilities. Troubleshooting is afundamental skill that instructors would like their students to gain from experience in alaboratory course, but assessing this skill can be challenging.In this study, we tested a method to holistically test students’ ability to troubleshoot a chemicalengineering problem in a laboratory course. Our research goal is to develop a baselineunderstanding of how to measure students’ experimental self-efficacy and theirtroubleshooting performance. Planned future research may then consider how
letter instead of in their paper, and papers and editorials offeredadditional guidance [6, 13]. As detailed in an editorial, this change was prompted by LisaBenson’s comments at an ASEE presentation about how journals can play a role in DEI [14].Using the values, attitudes, beliefs approach to analysis, we can characterize a developmentaltrajectory suggested by this requirement. Specifically, while many authors might holdsituationally ascribed values that DEI is important, many may not take this value up as anenduring attitude or a belief that guides their actions as they plan studies, develop learningexperiences, conduct analysis or evaluation, and communicate their results. By adding the DEIrequirement, CEE inserted a “rule for acting” that
impacts of this incident, such as the Chief Counsel’s Report [9], the ExecutiveSummary and 4-volume U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board report [10], theResearch Planning, Inc. report [11], the National Commission’s Report to the President [12], andthe National Academies Press 2012 free e-book on this blowout [13]. Student teams must reporton the technical and ethical causes of the disaster, and then expound on the global, cultural,economic, and environmental impacts of the event. Further, they examine the regulatory aspectsof deepwater drilling that were in place before this event, and changes introduced by the Obamaand Trump administrations. Student teams then apply this learning to analyze the case of anoilfield storage tank
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
been instituted, theassessment results are presented in summary form in Table 3. The data are summarized for eachsemester as the count of assessments that are either above or below the designated criteria of 3.0,per each SO and by either I, R, or A assessment type. A principal result indicated in thissummary format is the fact that 50% or more of assessments are below 3.0 for SOs 1, 2 and in afew cases, for SOs 6 and 7. A possible cause may be the relatively wide range of engineeringstudent performance our program experiences, since it is not a Tier 1 school where GPArequirements for graduation are typically more stringent. Historically, the department faculty hasindicated an action plan of “more example problems will be conducted during class
judgment and decision making’, Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 2012, 26,(3), pp. 285-29416 Patel, V.L., and Groen, G.J.: ‘The general and specific nature of medical expertise: A critical look’:‘Toward a general theory of expertise: Prospects and limits’ (Cambridge University Press, 1991), pp. 93-12517 Phillips, J.K., Klein, G., and Sieck, W.R.: ‘Expertise in judgment and decision making: A case fortraining intuitive decision skills’: ‘Blackwell handbook of judgment and decision making’ (BlackwellPublishing, 2004), pp. 297-32518 Seifert, C.M., Patalano, A.L., Hammond, K.J., and Converse, T.M.: ‘Experience and expertise: Therole of memory in planning for opportunities’: ‘Expertise in Context’ (AAAI Press/ MIT Press, 1997
and Environmental Science, vol. 12, no. 7. 2019. doi: 10.1039/c9ee00223e.[3] B. Plumer and J. Cowan, “California Plans to Ban Sales of New Gas-Powered Cars in 15 Years,” The New York TImes, 2020.[4] IEA, “Policies to promote electric vehicle deployment - Global EV Outlook 2021,” iea.org, 2021.[5] R. D. Braatz and O. D. Crisalle, “Chemical process control,” International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, vol. 17, no. 13. 2007. doi: 10.1002/rnc.1173. 8 2023 ASEE Annual Conference[6] X. Li and Z. (Jacky) Huang, “An inverted classroom approach to educate MATLAB in chemical process
to use the notebook combined with Python, while the second class will be applying the traditional approach. This stage is not yet done as this is still a work in progress. Nevertheless, the plan is to introduce this new approach next year when the kinetics and reactor design course is offered.Presenting this research at the 2023 ASEE annual conference, while it is still at the progressstage, enables us to interact with other instructors who have done something similar to shareexperiences and to develop our structured assessment for next year’s intervention. In principle,the proposed intervention can be implemented in other engineering courses that have a similarteaching challenge and require a computational approach. Following the
application of this project, researchers willmodify and improve the laboratory experiment that students will work through in order toincrease student ability to apply in-class knowledge to this system that is more like what theywould experience on the field.End Goal In future developments to push this toward applications across a whole degree plan, theresearchers intend to open the process to enable the students to design and implement otherprocesses, such as replacing the process implemented in the CSTR. Specifically, the idea ofreplacing the CSTR with a bioprocess (e.g., a simple fermentation using brewer’s yeast), amembrane separation process, or a fractional distillation of a water/ethanol mixture are underconsideration. The development of
classroom.The final design for the analyzer, how it will be assembled, parts to be used, etc., is beingdetermined, and up-to-date results will be presented. The geometry of the mixing chamber withattached reservoirs for adding reagents must be optimized for small samples. The plan is todesign a 3D model in SolidWorks and then cut out a prototype from an acrylic sheet with a lasercutter. The prototype will then be tested for leaks. The module itself will consist of the channelsheet glued between two other sheets, making assembly straightforward. Introduction: Over the course of the past five years, our project group has developed several Low-CostDesktop Learning Modules, or LCDLMs, for the purposes of miniaturizing and
production of polypropylene, as well as for acetone and propylene oxide.Software Introduction and Features: Areal Locations of Hazardous Atmospheres (Aloha) software is developed by NationalOceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and EPA is a hazard modeling software andis widely used to plan and respond to chemical emergencies like leak. This software is used bypeople who handle chemical spills, prepare emergency solutions and related training, and canobserve concentration diffusion, toxicity variation, flammability, heat of toxic gas diffusion, fireand explosion of important hazardous chemicals from a list of chemicals in a certain area. The level of hazard that may occur after propylene storage tank leaks encompassedhuman beings
some verbalaspects. The impact of comics on student success in the classroom can be debated, but the purposeof this study was to focus on engagement and the potential for comics to be used. Implementingtools like the MUSIC Model of Motivation to further quantify students’ engagement andunderstanding based on the comics can be plans for future study.Figure 2 provides the breakdowns of the Felder-Solomon results from the sample set of 14students. The comics were distributed to a class of 33 students, of which only 14 participantsagreed to participate in the study; student survey fatigue contributed to this limitation in the overallstudy, which will need to be addressed in future expansions of the research. 4
learned on one topic skillsets • Focus on the big picture of the problem • Help you practice how to layout the plan/strategy for problem solving
that did not receive training. We plan to complete future work tocompare cohorts with and without training more rigorously to see if we still observe the impacton troubleshooting ability.Furthermore, during the hands-on exercise students demonstrated use of a variety of differenttroubleshooting strategies, suggesting that the teaching modules had an impact on learning.Additionally, the hands-on exercise revealed information about the students’ level ofunderstanding and comprehension, suggesting its potential as an alternative to written exams forassessing conceptual knowledge and lab proficiency. These findings suggest the efficacy ofstructured training modules in improving students' troubleshooting skills and conceptualunderstanding
an artifact of the time-constraint associated with the in-class preparation constraints or the planned usage (the examsare solved by individuals, not teams of students) is unclear.From a performance standpoint, the same course (with the same instructor) was taught in 2021,2022 and is currently being taught in 2023. In 2021, using individually prepared study guides,student performance between exam 1 and exam 2 decreased by 2.9 points (mean). In 2022 (thefocus of the current study and analysis), student performance between exam 1 and exam 2decreased by 2.5 points (mean). In 2023, students individually prepared study guides for exam 1and exam 2 (similar to 2021), and the student performance between exam 1 and exam 2decreased by 3.7 points (mean
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importanceof building in some time for networking, both structured and unstructured. To facilitate this, wedrew from successful events from previous Summer Schools. There were informal buttopically-structured networking events on Monday and Thursday, after the last regular session ofthe day and before dinner. There were also two poster session events for new attendees onMonday and Tuesday evenings to allow participants to share their work, current or planned, aswell as interact with more senior members of the community. Finally, on Wednesday there wasan Industry Expo, which allowed participants to interact with corporate and academic partnersand sponsors, followed by a variety of social events, ranging from a Colorado Rockies Game towhitewater rafting
the course.By focusing on the intended learning outcomes, instructors can perform a backward design byidentifying acceptable evidence before planning instruction. Thus, instructors are able to identifywhich concepts are enduring outcomes, important to know, or good to be familiar with (contents).Backward design also enables instructors to intentionally approach how they would achieve theirlearning outcomes in choosing appropriate pedagogies and assessments that determine if indeedstudents have achieved the intended learning outcomes.Thus, the CAP alignment follows the order prescribed above. First, we introduce the contents ofthe course, beginning with a distinction between course objectives and learningobjectives/outcomes. In this paper, we