Paper ID #38164Graduate Ph.D. Chemical Engineering Curriculum: Progress in Twenty YearsMrs. Emily Nichole Ingram, University of Kentucky 2nd Year Ph.D. Graduate CandidateDr. Malgorzata Chwatko, University of Kentucky Malgorzata (Gosia) Chwatko is an assistant professor in chemical engineering. She has gotten her Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Graduate Ph.D. Chemical Engineering Curriculum: Progress in 20 yearsEmily Ingram, Malgorzata ChwatkoChemical and Materials Engineering Department, University
appropriate amount of security (locks, fences, security cameras)for a remote oil collection and storage tank, the best strategy to approach the community aboutthe hazards of the sol storage tanks. Unfortunately, the grading rubric was not designed toextract a subgrade for the assessment of the ethical considerations (the rubric will be changed inthe summer of 2023 to provide an ethics subgrade.ConclusionsOur department has integrated safety into the curriculum using a wide variety of toolscoordinated across the sophomore, junior and senior years. SAChE modules are assigned inevery course and lab, with an additional ten being required in the Safety and Ethics course. Thisenables each student to complete the Level One and Level Two SAChE curricula
integratedcurriculum at Pittsburgh,” in Proceedings of the AIChE Annual Meeting, November 16-21, 2008,Philadelphia, PA.[3] J.J. McCarthy, R.S. Parker, A.A. Abatan, and M. Besterfield-Sacre. “Building an EvaluationStrategy for an Integrated Curriculum in Chemical Engineering.” Advances in EngineeringEducation, 2(4):1-22, Summer, 2011.[4] J.J. McCarthy, and R.S. Parker. “Evaluation and Results for an Integrated Curriculum inChemical Engineering,” in Proceedings of 2011 ASEE Annual conference and Exposition,Vancouver, BC. 10.18260/1-2-17931.[5] M. J. Baird, and S. L. Shannon. “Unit Operations Lab Bazaar: incorporation of LaboratoryExperiences in Six Integrated Pillar Courses,” in Proceedings of the 2011 ASEE AnnualConference and Exposition, Vancouver, BC
. Engineeringeducation, especially in higher education, creates similar big data for both faculty and studentsrelated to learning experiences. From clicks to page and video view times, points can be awardedfor engagement or left as an opportunity for student self-evaluation. The digital platform ofinterest here is the interactive textbook with integrated online homework. While these tools aremore common in math and introductory science courses, interactive textbooks for engineeringcourses are becoming more widely available [1-5].Historically, engineering textbooks have been the antithesis of active learning with static text thatis updated about once per decade. However, interactive textbooks put onus on students tocomplete participation clicks, view animations
Division Early Career Award.Dr. C. Stewart Slater, Rowan University C. Stewart Slater is a professor of chemical engineering and founding chair of the Chemical Engineering Department at Rowan University. He has an extensive research and teaching background in separation process technology with a particular focus on membraSean CurtisMichael FracchiollaDavid Anthony Theuma ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Hands-On Experience in Solving Real-World Problems via a Unique Student-Faculty-Industry Collaboration Program1. IntroductionModern engineering education should have an inclusive teaching curriculum that combinestraditional lecture-based learning with new methods that can
Paper ID #36848Develop the Mindset of Engineering for One Planet in Chemical ProcessControlZuyi Huang, Villanova University Zuyi (Jacky) Huang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Villanova University. He teaches Chemical Process Control (for senior students) and Systems Biology (for graduate students) at Villanova. He is enthusiastic in apply ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 2023 ASEE Annual ConferenceDevelop the Mindset of Engineering for One Planet in Chemical ProcessControlAbstract: It is important to incorporate
Paper ID #38671Numerical Problem Solving across the Curriculum with Python and MAT-LABUsing Interactive Coding Templates: A Workshop for Chemical EngineeringFacultyAustin N. Johns, The State University of New York, Buffalo Austin N. Johns is an active-duty captain and developmental engineer in the United States Air Force. In 2017, he earned a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Oklahoma State University. In 2023, he earned a M.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. His graduate research focused on developing computational educational resources for use in the chemical
Paper ID #39156Development and Use of an Adaptable Arduino-Based Control System forBench-Top Process Control ExperimentsDr. Stacy K. Firth, University of Utah Stacy K. Firth is an Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Utah. In her role, she focuses on Engineering education in grades K-12 and undergradu- ate education. She has developed an inclusive curriculum for a year-long Engineering exploration and projects course that is now taught in 57 Utah high schools. She also developed and provides professional development workshops for Elementary and Secondary science
. Students then read through the comic, before answering theConcepTest questions again and providing another assessment of their confidence. Differences in theiranswers and self-assessment were then evaluated to determine the effectiveness of the comic.This paper discusses analysis of the comic with consideration of how to integrate a comic learning tool intothermodynamics courses for greatest positive impact.BackgroundComics have been a long history of being an effective visual learning tool, with potential application tonearly all fields of study. Comics have been known to have a positive impact as educational tools since the1940s, with a significant number of studies investigating their use in K-12 classrooms and entire issues ofpeer-reviewed
course description for Numerical Computing for Chemical Engineers course at MissouriUniversity of Science and Technology states that students will “add to their programming skillsby exploring numerical computational techniques for … chemical engineering processes.” Thechallenge is that the course is taught early in the curriculum before the students know what thosechemical engineering processes are. The course has been structured as a flipped class with classtime devoted to solving problems with the numerical tools. To provide relevance for the material,an experimental component has been added to the course. In the laboratory sessions, the studentsconduct a brief experiment or activity and then analyze that process using the
throughout the curriculum (a design project in fluids, one in heat transfer, one inreactor design, etc.). The 2-or-3-course series has an average of 6.1 credit hours compared to the4.7 credit hours for a single capstone design course. The capstone design experience is 4.8 hourson average if there are design courses throughout the curriculum but 5.7 hours if there are onlydesign projects sprinkled through the curriculum. The survey question did not distinguishbetween semester and quarter credit hours, but 93% of the responding institutions are on thesemester system.Either the capstone design series or single course may be offered once per year or multiple terms.At 78% of the institutions, the capstone design course or courses are offered only once
model to synthetizecontrollers using various model-based tuning methods (IMC, AMIGO, ITAE, Z-N, and Relayauto-tuning) [3]. Students analyze performance curves (Figure 6) and select the best tuningparameters. In addition, they elaborate on the matching of model and experimental performance. Figure 6. Example of controller synthesis by on-line adjustment in the large tank temperature control experiment, with disturbance in place (EMV=50% openness of a secondary drain), atarget set-point of 60 ℃ from an initial condition of 55 ℃, a gain value of Kc=5, and an integral time (𝜏𝑖 ) of 10 seconds for a PI controller. Plot displays the rising time (tr) the time for the first peak (tp), values for the calculation for the overshoot (a, b), period
ineffective in promoting high-level skilldevelopment and self-learning in engineering problem-solving [5-7]. Instead, design thinking,integrated or inductive-learning models, and abductive-thinking, which introduce fundamentalprinciples in the context of solving a given engineering problem, are being used as newparadigms in engineering education [8-13]. These models provide learners with an environmentfor problem-solving while offering feedback and guidance. There are also many active learningstrategies like cooperative learning, problem-based learning, hands-on learning, and computersimulation that have been shown to improve student learning and engagement [14-19]. However,many chemical engineering faculty members are not trained in these
techniques. A few reasons could explain the results. One, as the students spend a disproportionateamount of time using analytical solutions, they are more likely to recall instances where theirknowledge was limited. Conversely, good programming technique is not utilized heavily in thecore curriculum, so they do not have the chance to continuously struggle with new material, andthus have an inflated sense of knowledge concerning the material. Another reason could be that,it is possible that the coding-heavy nature of the course enabled the students to remember goodprogramming practices, and this is reflected in the subsequent semesters. The lowest self-rating was given to the question “I can code my own numerical solutionsto PDEs
connecting representations. Students also tend to focus on thesurface features instead of the underlying scientific principles.In chemical engineering, students are introduced to block flow diagrams (BFDs), a new type ofpictorial representation of a chemical process, early in the curriculum. For example, in thesophomore-level material and energy balances, often an initial exercise is to convert a wordproblem into a simple block flow diagram. The block flow diagram consists of a series of blocksrepresenting different equipment or unit operations that are connected by input and outputstreams. Important information such as operating temperatures, pressures, and flow rates areincluded in the diagram. However, the diagram does not include any details of
CHE LabAbstractA multi-dimensional survey was created and administered to better understand the change inself-perceived and actual student abilities in a CHE laboratory course between two differentstudent cohorts. One cohort experienced a traditional lab structure with a companion face-to-facelecture course (N=47), and the other cohort included pre-lab modules integrated with in-labactivities that served as intentional scaffolding for the student learning experience (N=18). Theoverall study was motivated by the desire to understand the impact curriculum revisions have onstudent experience and abilities, with the goal to improve the educational experience usingevidence-based practices. The guiding research questions driving this facet of the
Paper ID #38406Experimental Self-Efficacy and Troubleshooting Ability in a ChemicalEngineering LaboratoryCaroline Crockett, University of Virginia Caroline Crockett is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the School of Engi- neering and Applied Sciences at the University of Virginia. She received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Virginia and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan. Her educational research interests include conceptual understanding of electrical engineering concepts and assessing the impact of curriculum changes.Dr. George Prpich
Curriculum Scorecard. [Online]. Available: https://steinhardt.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/2021-02/CRSE- STEAMScorecard_FIN_optimized%20%281%29.pdf. [Accessed: 26-Jan-2023][13] Prior ASEE publication (will be added in final paper)[14] “ARDEI -Context Question Writing Workshop,” ARDEI Context Question Writing Workshop. [Online]. Available: https://sites.northwestern.edu/ardeiquestionworkshop/writing-an-ardei-context-question/. [Accessed: 26-Jan-2023][15] C. Griffith, “Before & after the Flood,” ArcGIS StoryMaps, 08-Aug-2022. [Online]. Available: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/b2157f19173a4495bd7b6c0d2a960528. [Accessed: 09-Jan-2023]
opportunities ofengineering students are also constantly evolving [3]. Nowadays, engineering students arepursuing careers in more diversified areas that possess fluid work structures, and that requireengineers that are quick to adapt to change and effective at facilitating multidisciplinarycollaborations [3], [5], [10]. In this context, communication and teamwork are critical to thesuccess of early career engineers; these capabilities are a fundamental aspect of career growthand an integral trait of leadership [4], [10]–[12]. The ability to communicate effectively, todemonstrate teaming skills, and to work in dynamic teams is increasingly important, and must beconsidered a priority in engineering programs as they try to better prepare students for
an environment ofunprecedented change, so their curriculum needs to prepare them for these social, cultural, andtechnical challenges.In a 2017 review of the academic literature on climate change education strategies by Monroe etal., the authors identified increases in curricular guidelines that address climate change,coinciding with increased interest in and funding for climate education [3]. ABET incorporatessustainability and ethics in criterion 3, in student outcome 2: “an ability to apply engineeringdesign 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” andoutcome 4: “an ability to recognize ethical and
to know.” “When my experiment succeeded, it was due to my hard work.”Choice: “I enjoyed that we got to pick out final projects out of multiple that all varied in type.” “Personally, we believe having multiple project options that differ from the typical Unit Operations Lab curriculum is very influential on the student's ability and willingness to learn.” "To begin, the best part about this lab was the ability to work on your own experiments and to be given an apparatus to work with and find a way to use your own knowledge and research to test your hypothesis.”Some of the most negative findings were observed in time constraints and equipment accesswithin the frustration theme for the affective
, "Board 100: Enhancement of a Thermo-Fluid Laboratory Course: Focus on Technical Writing," presented at the ASEE Annual Conference, Tampa, Florida, 2019. Available: https://peer.asee.org/32165[7] R. A. Fenner and P. O'Neill, "Board 44: Work in Progress: Integrating Writing into Engineering Labs: Developing Curriculum and Creating a Writing Fellows Program," presented at the ASEE Annual Conference, Tampa, Florida, 2019. Available: https://peer.asee.org/32351[8] J. S. Underwood and A. P. Tregidgo, "Improving Student Writing Through Effective Feedback: Best Practices and Recommendations," Journal of Teaching Writing, vol. 22, pp. 73-98, 2010.[9] S. G. Wettstein and J. R. Brown, "Using Existing University
from 2021 - 2023. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Work in Progress: Using Experiment-centric Pedagogy to Increase Student Understanding of Chemical Principles and ConceptsAbstractThe hands-on approach in teaching and learning is an important resource to be explored because it offers ameaningful platform for student-instructor interaction that fosters sound scientific reasoning and improves theunderstanding of abstract chemistry concepts. Experiment-centric pedagogy (ECP) is a contemporary teachingapproach that integrates active student participation in problem-based activities through hands-on mobiledevices. This paper describes how experiment-centric pedagogy (ECP) has been
Paper ID #38734A Comparison between Individually-Prepared and Team-Prepared StudyGuides in a Sophomore Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics CourseDr. Donald P. Visco Jr., University of Akron Donald P. Visco, Jr. is the former Dean of the College of Engineering at The University of Akron and currently a Professor of Chemical, Biomolecular and Corrosion Engineering.Nidaa Makki, University of Akron Dr. Nidaa Makki is an Associate Professor in the LeBron James Family Foundation College of Education at The University of Akron, in the department in Curricular and Instructional Studies. Her work focuses on STEM curriculum integration
first-year students. Esohe has been recognized for their commitment to teaching by receiving the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award from the Department of Chemical Engineering and the Graduate Student Teaching Award from the College of Engineering at UC Davis. Outside of work and academics, Esohe enjoys volunteering with ESTEME, an after school STEM program for underrepresented middle school students, and crossword puzzles.Glaucia Prado, University of California, Davis Glaucia Prado is an Assistant Professor of Teaching in Chemical Engineering at University of Califor- nia Davis. She began her career in food engineering from the University of Campinas (Brazil) before earning a PhD in chemical engineering from the
Paper ID #37870Designing and Implementing a Workshop on the Intersection between SocialJustice and EngineeringKavitha Chintam, Northwestern University Kavitha Chintam is a Ph.D. Candidate at Northwestern University in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering.Dr. Alexis N. Prybutok, University of Washington Alex Prybutok (she/her) is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Washington. She earned her B.S. in Chemical Engineering and her B.S. in Biochemistry from the University of Texas at Austin in 2016 and her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Northwestern
obtained her BS in Chemical Engineering at NC State in 1986 and her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1991. A faculty member at NC State since 2000, Dr. Bullard’s research interests lie in the area of educational scholarship, including teaching and advising effectiveness, academic integrity, chemical engineering instruction, and organizational culture.Prof. Joshua A. Enszer, University of Delaware Dr. Joshua Enszer is an associate professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Delaware. He has taught core and elective courses across the curriculum, from introduction to engineering science and material and energy balances toDr. Allison Godwin, Purdue University
Review and an Integration of Frameworks," Small Group Research, vol. 37, no. 5, pp. 540-570, October 2006, doi: 10.1177/1046496406293125.[11] T. H. Rasmussen and H. J. Jeppesen, "Teamwork and associated psychological factors: A review," Work and Stress, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 105-128, April 2006, doi: 10.1080/02678370600920262.[12] E. Salas, C. S. Burke, and J. A. Cannon-Bowers, "Teamwork: emerging principles," International Journal of Management Reviews, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 339-356, December 2003, doi: 10.1111/1468-2370.00046.[13] L. Riebe, A. Girardi, and C. Whitsed, "A Systematic Literature Review of Teamwork Pedagogy in Higher Education," (in English), Small Group Research, vol. 47, no. 6, pp