Paper ID #41718Reflections on a ”Math Disaster”: the Role of Instructor Confusion in theClassroomDr. Lorena S. Grundy, Tufts University Lorena Grundy is an ASEE eFellows postdoctoral fellow at Tufts University, where she works with Milo Koretsky to study chemical engineering education. She received her BSE from Princeton in 2017 and PhD from UC Berkeley in 2022, both in chemical engineering. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Reflections on a “Math Disaster”: the Role of Instructor Confusion in the ClassroomAbstractWhen enacting active learning
Paper ID #42207To Record or Not to Record? Collaborating through ConflictEmily Ris¨e Crum, Columbia UniversityKristin Leigh Bennett, University of WashingtonProf. Stuart Adler, University of Washington Stuart B Adler is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle. His research focuses primarily on energy-related materials and electrochemical energy conversion. Over the last 15 years he has also led changes inProf. David S Bergsman, University of Washington David Bergsman (he/him) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Washington
as well as the Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences department. PriorDr. Stephanie Butler Velegol, Penn State University Stephanie Butler Velegol is a Teaching Professor in Chemical Engineering at Penn State University. She pioneered the use of Flipped classes to increase active leaning in the classroom and works on water treatment.Michael John Janik, Penn State UniversityDr. Jennifer S. Brown, Clemson University Jennifer Brown earned her PhD in Engineering and Science Education at Clemson University in 2023, and her Master’s in Mechanical Engineering from Clemson University in 2020. She is currently a postdoctoral scholar at the Engineering Education Transformations Institute at the University of Georgia
essential that this work is done intandem, as it would be unethical to recruit women into an environment that is known tosystemically disadvantage them. Though chemical engineering has made great strides in genderparity compared to other engineering disciplines, the results of this study reinforce the idea thatdiversity is not the same as equity.References [1] NSF. Bachelor’s degrees awarded to women, by field, citizenship, and race/ethnicity: Women, minorities, and persons with disabilities in science and engineering, 2008. [2] C. E. Brawner, S. M. Lord, and M. W. Ohland, Undergraduate women in chemical engineering: Exploring why they come. ASEE Conference Proceedings, 2011. [3] J. Trapani and K. Hale, “Higher education in science and
chemical engineer before, and mentorvideos and interactions helped them meeting with professional chemical engineers and seeingtheir future in them.Future WorkWe had collected both qualitative and quantitative data during three semesters ofimplementation. All data was cleaned, organized, coded individually and as a group. This data iscurrently being analyzed.AcknowledgmentsThis work was supported through the National Science Foundation’s funding under a PFE: RIEFGrant No. (2024960). Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in thismaterial are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the National ScienceFoundation’s views. We wish to thank survey and interview participants for their participation inthe
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. With these viewpoints inmind, the authors have implemented a student design project focused on developingproducts/modules for hands-on or experiential learning. The final products from this project canthen be integrated into core ChE courses.This paper will discuss how a student-led curricular development project focused on hands-on orexperiential learning was implemented in a year-long product design course. Additionally, thispaper will present some information on the senior product design course as a whole to helpsituate the project. The presentation at ASEE 2024 will delve more into the student-developedproject(s) and student feedback of the experience as it is still in-progress.Course BackgroundCapstone product design courses are
engineering laboratory courses and asked the respondents to answer survey itemsrelated to five research questions: 1. What are the three most important learning outcomes for a laboratory-intensive chemical engineering course? [Open-ended Response] 2. How important are the following learning outcomes for a laboratory-intensive chemical engineering course? [Likert scale for level of importance and Top 5 of importance ranking] 3. What gaps exist in the thirteen learning outcomes identified by Feisel and Rosa? [Open- ended Response] 4. Which learning outcome(s) do you feel you have the most trouble with / are weakest in? [Select 3] 5. Which learning outcome(s) do you feel your overall chemical engineering
within the framework of University of Toledo IRB protocol 201808.DisclaimerOne of the authors may receive royalties from sales of the zyBook detailed in this paper.References[1] A. Edgcomb, F. Vahid, R. Lysecky, A. Knoesen, R. Amirtharajah, and M. L. Dorf, "Student performance improvement using interactive textbooks: A three-university cross-semester analysis," in ASEE Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, 2015, doi: https://doi.org/10.18260/p.24760.[2] A. Edgcomb, J. S. Yuen, and F. Vahid, "Does Student Crowdsourcing of Practice Questions and Animations Lead to Good Quality Materials?," in ASEE Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, 2016, pp. 1-15, doi: https://doi.org/10.18260/p.23899.[3] K. E. Chapman, M. E
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characteristics of preparedness levels?To answer our research questions, we qualitatively analyzed semi-structured interviews with fiveundergraduate chemical engineering students at two different universities. We situated our studyin the Professional Pathways Model (PPM), which uses Sampson et al.’s Cognitive InformationProcessing Theory [24] as a lens for Eccles et al.’s Expectancy-Value Theory (EVT) of studentachievement motivation [25]. EVT has now become Situated Expectancy Value Theory (SEVT)which keeps the core concepts of EVT but recognizes situations within context [26]. However,PPM preceded SEVT so we retain EVT terminology. The PPM provides a comprehensive viewof the knowledge, values, and ability beliefs that students bring to bear in making
. Someinstitutions (20%) have design courses throughout the curriculum in addition to the capstonedesign sequence, but more programs (40%) have design projects within non-design coursesthroughout the curriculum. The course or courses in the capstone design sequence are primarilyoffered only once a year (78%) with a slight edge to the spring semester/winter quarter (80%)over the fall semester/quarter (72%). Most institutions (78%) include instruction in software orprogramming as part of the course(s). The culminating design project is most often a theoreticaldesign (68%) as opposed to one based on experiments (3%) or resulting in a prototype (7%), andmost institutions do not use the AIChE Design Competition problems (70%). Professional skillsare mainly
out a brief reflectivestatement to share in the main room.Workshop design strategies used within each component were guided by literatureEach workshop component utilized a variety of strategies [33] to ensure active participation andcreation of a safe environment (Table 1).Table 1. Workshop features selected during the design of the workshop. Workshop Design How it was employed Literature Basis Strategies Common vocabulary The workshop pre-work and A common vocabulary can help introduction component(s) participants feel comfortable using contained definitions of appropriate words to engage in common diversity, equity, and
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in food andfood safety, (vi) beverages & stimulants, and (vii) historical and current uses of medicinal plants.Many students in non-STEM majors take TDOC or FSFH to fulfill in part their science andengineering general education requirement. Figure 1 shows a breakdown of students’ majorcategory at the time that they actually took the respective course. From 2014 to Fall 2023, a totalof 12,194 students took TDOC, while 13,510 took FSFH. The distribution of majors was alsocomparable, with economics and biology in the top two. Here, the College of Agricultural andEnvironmental Sciences (AE&S) includes animal science, food science, plant sciences, nutrition,and environmental science & management, all of which are classified as STEM
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such as fugacity and kinetics, onetechnique to make the theoretical challenges more approachable is to present the concepts morevisually, given the general preference of students in STEM for visual learning. As such, thisresearch study focuses on the creation, compilation, and analysis of chemical engineering comicsgeared towards K-12 students. Comics have become increasingly more prevalent as visual learningtools, with a long history of their educational potential dating back to the 1940’s, so they could beused to help guide more students into chemical engineering without the stigma of the field beingtoo complex.A series of comics was created displaying how chemical engineering is found in everyday commonapplications, including chocolate and
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of quantitative software that they are familiar with to perform theanalyses necessary for their projects. While underclassmen primarily utilize Microsoft Excel,upperclassmen have used a combination of MATLAB, R, Python, and/or Minitab, depending onthe language(s) employed in courses they have previously taken. For students lacking anybackground working with statistics, basic tutorials in statistics and MATLAB were providedoffline during office hours. These tutorials consisted of small-group meetings with the instructorin which the instructor introduced fundamental statistical tests (e.g., ANOVA, t-tests, etc.) and/orcoding principles (e.g., data visualization functions, scripts, etc.) While the tutorials did notexceed more than 3-4 hours
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grasp on the world (much as I did when I was in my early 20’s, only to figure out that I was a bit brash)” “There is a curiosity for the students on what they can do with their ChemE degree, beyond the obvious heavy- industry chemical plant design or academic route like their professors” “I really learn a lot about the University, the Chemical Engineering department, and how things have changed since I graduated in 2004. It is great to stay in touch with the University and current students. I get to re-live the wonderful memories I made as a student whenever I talk with them! To the extent I can pass any of my work experiences that can help students (especially those interested in non-traditional career paths, like in law or data analytics), I
Engineering Faculty is a special event thathelps Chemical Engineering faculty be and become a community. It works with ASEE andAIChE conferences, yet isn’t the same thing as either due to its focus on community buildingalong with the sharing of valuable experience and information. As we approach the centennialChESS, the organizers of ChESS 2022 are happy to have contributed positively to thiscollective effort.Acknowledgement: This material is based upon work supported by the National ScienceFoundation under Grant CBET-2204362.Disclaimer: Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this materialare those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National ScienceFoundation.ReferencesHanesian, D