Paper ID #46255Virtual Reality in Chemical Engineering Laboratory EducationDr. Ronald Carl Hedden, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Ronald C. Hedden is 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.Prof. Joel L. Plawsky, Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteXiatao Sun, Yale University Xiatao Sun is currently a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Yale University. His research focuses on spatial
course policies for students with physical and mental disabilities and chronicillnesses, enabling them to fully engage with this important experiential learning opportunity. Bymodeling accessibility through the lab design and course policies, as well as intentionallydiscussing workplace accessibility, laboratory instructors can teach students the importance ofdesigning and maintaining accessible spaces and the skills to achieve these goals in their futurework. In this study, we surveyed UO lab instructors to understand how, or if, accessible designis implemented in existing chemical engineering lab courses to understand how our institutionsand programs are supporting disabled and chronically ill students. We draw on our experienceand the survey
critical to the functioning of the laboratory itself. If the control system is down,the functionality of the equipment may be limited, but experiments can still be performed. Inmany cases, a significant part of the experiment is still operated manually. The goal is to providedata acquisition and some control features for each of the experiments in the lab, not to provideautomation. The system is intended to be a teaching tool.Our Yokogawa control system has a server that allows students to have remote access to thelaboratory experiments and to their experimental data. Several experiments run for longer thanthe laboratory period, and the ability for students to follow an experiment and to remotely controlfunctions is an important feature of the
Paper ID #47605How We Teach: Transport Phenomena and ApplicationsDr. 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. Janie Brennan, Washington University in St. Louis Janie Brennan is a Senior Lecturer of Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. Her research
Paper ID #47259A process safety framework for teaching and learningProf. Tracy L. Carter, Northeastern University Tracy Carter is a faculty member in the Chemical Engineering Department at Northeastern University. She is also a faculty facilitator for the Industry/CCPS Faculty Workshops on process safety. In addition to her academic work, she has 9 years of R&D experience in industry. She has 15+ years of experience teaching unit operations laboratory and process safety to undergraduate and graduate students. She also has 5+ years mentoring graduate students on technical communications in the NU College of Engineering
high schools. She also developed and provides professional development workshops for Elementary and Secondary science educators to support their teaching of Engineering 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 experience 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 Engineering 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
increasing need for engineers and scientists to meetemerging workforce requirements [5]. However, the United States (US) currently lacks theeducational infrastructure to provide a sufficient number of well-educated incoming engineersand scientists. Typically, electrochemistry is only briefly covered in introductory chemistrycurricula and offered as graduate engineering courses, if at all. Thus, there are not enoughBachelors-level engineers and scientists with an understanding of electrochemical fundamentalsor development of practical systems [5].This paper details the preliminary design of an industrially-situated virtual laboratory as part of alarger project developing educational tools to assist in teaching electrochemistry to chemicalengineering
Paper ID #47299Work-in-Progress: A Living Laboratory: Inquiry-Based Learning in ChemicalEngineeringDr. Francis Ledesma, Cornell University Dr. Francis Ledesma is a Postdoctoral Associate in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Cornell University. His research focuses on incorporating active learning into the traditional core chemical engineering curriculum and studying the resulting effects on both students and faculty. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley and his B.S. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from Cornell University.Dr. Allison Godwin
Paper ID #46979Development of a Biochemical & Biomanufacturing Track in the Unit Operationsof Chemical Engineering Laboratory CourseDr. Laila Abu-Lail, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Laila Abu-Lail received her B.S. in Civil Engineering from Jordan University of Science and Technology. She earned her M.S. in Environmental Engineering and her Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). She is an Assistant Professor of Teaching in the Departments of Chemical Engineering and Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering at WPI. Professor Abu-Lail has been actively involved in WPI’s
. 14(1).10. Godwin, A., et al., Identity, critical agency, and engineering: An affective model for predicting engineering as a career choice. Journal of Engineering Education, 2016. 105(2): p. 312-340.11. Svihla, V., et al., Promoting chemical engineering identity through student agency and experiment relevance. Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, 2024: p. 1-14.12. Helmbrecht, H., Effective laboratory education with TEXTILE: Tutorials in EXperimentalisT Interactive LEarning. Chemical Engineering Education, 2022. 56(4): p. 1-11.13. Elkhatat, A. and S.A. Al-Muhtaseb, Fostering Engineering Laboratory Course Teaching by Embedding an Inquiry
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
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
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
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
-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
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
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 #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
process engineering jobs, this type ofelective course should help students decide if they want to pursue careers in research anddevelopment, particularly within biotechnology.AcknowledgementsWe would like to acknowledge Dr. Nathan Crook and Genan Wang for helping us procurematerials for CHE 5332, Dr. Jacob Elmer for providing laboratory space and materials to prepareexperiments, and Haritha Rajaram for serving as a teaching assistant in the course.References[1] C. A. Voigt, “Synthetic biology 2020–2030: six commercially-available products that are changing our world,” 2020. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-20122-2.[2] S. Shi, Z. Wang, L. Shen, and H. Xiao, “Synthetic biology: a new frontier in food production,” 2022. doi: 10.1016
their progress – andthen use their critical thinking skills through process synthesis and design each piece of equipmentrequired for the chemical process that each team will design.An important aspect of the material and energy balance and corresponding laboratory course (since2021) is that we hire Undergraduate Teaching Fellows[19], who are senior-level chemicalengineering students, who provide weekly students hours to assist with the homework assignmentsand design project testing, as well as grade the homework assignments. The Fellows are recruitedby the instructor and have demonstrated both collaboration and leadership in the classroom andtheir ability to work well with students due to their previous experience in taking the core coursesand
their work was only at one institution with 30 participants and includedmostly graduate students (who benefited from help in the laboratory), they were able to breakdown motivation into intrinsic (done in the absence of external reward) and instrumentalcategories (done as a means to an end). Jones and Davis looked at faculty perspectives onundergraduate research at a liberal arts school and an R1 school.[14] Faculty at both institutionslisted time and funding resources as barriers; the liberal arts faculty also listed the lack ofscholarly (research) culture; and the R1 faculty listed not receiving teaching credit for the workas a barrier. Morales et al. investigated a larger sample of 13 research institutions to studyenabling and constraining
research in the Hatton group at MIT before joining the faculty of Chemical Engineering at Virginia Tech in 2006. Dr. Martin’s research focuses on advanced materials and processes for separations, including water purification and carbon capture. The Martin group’s research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, the ACS-Petroleum Research Fund, 3M, and the Office of Naval Research. Dr. Martin has taught across the chemical engineering curriculum, including Mass & Energy Balances, Fluid Dynamics, and Mass Transfer. He has directed the Chemical Engineering Unit Operations Laboratory at Virginia Tech since 2007. He has been the recipient of multiple teaching awards, including the
MR modules to bring a practical aspect to theoretical lectures asa mode of implementation. This is the principal path that we will follow in this project. Futureimplementations in this study will involve the collection of control data from historicalincidences of teaching the courses (without MR) under study – CHEG 3302 Unit Operations andCHEG 4101 Chemical Engineering Laboratory II. Further, the project team plans to perform arepetition of CHEG Lab 1a in both the Unit Operations course (with the same instructor) and thesenior chemical engineering lab course for increased confidence and statistical power.Additionally, we plan to have the students complete the other lab modules, which will enable thecollection and evaluation of more data and
Paper ID #48285Work-in-Progress: Generative AI to Support Teamwork Evaluation in EngineeringDesign and Professional Practice CoursesDr. May Lim, The University of New South Wales Dr May Lim is a Nexus Fellow, Scientia Education Fellow, and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. As the Nexus Fellow for the UNSW School of Chemical Engineering, Dr Lim work with others to foster environments conducive to learning and teaching at UNSW. Her contributions are multifaceted and include the development of procedures, resources, and toolkits aimed at creating assessments that are not only valid and reliable but also
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