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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 2: Community Retrospectives
Collection
2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Margot A. Vigeant, Bucknell University; Daniel Anastasio, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Michael David Mau Barankin, Colorado School of Mines; Taryn Melkus Bayles, University of Pittsburgh; Daniel D. Burkey, University of Connecticut; Laura P. Ford, The University of Tulsa; Tracy Q. Gardner, Colorado School of Mines; Milo Koretsky, Tufts University; Daniel Lepek, The Cooper Union; Matthew W Liberatore, The University of Toledo
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Paper ID #38803Preliminary Reflections and Assessment of the 2022 Chemical EngineeringSummer SchoolDr. Margot A. Vigeant, Bucknell University Margot Vigeant is a professor of chemical engineering at Bucknell University. She earned her B.S. in chemical engineering from Cornell University, and her M.S. and Ph.D., also in chemical engineering, from the University of Virginia. Her primary researcDr. Daniel Anastasio, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Daniel Anastasio is an associate professor at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. He received a B.S. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Connecticut in 2009
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Cultivating Community, Wellness, and Character Development
Collection
2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Lorena S. Grundy, Tufts University
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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
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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 5: Work-in-Progress Part 2
Collection
2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Bethany Jean Klemetsrud, P.E., University of North Dakota; Frank M. Bowman, University of North Dakota
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] to better encapsulate culturally responsive engineeringdesign.These types of frameworks and pedagogical approaches are becoming more widely used withinK-12 education; however, this incorporation of culture and community is not generally adoptedfor college engineering curricula. One of the primary ways to incorporate students’ culture andcommunity is to have students reflect on their own experiences and observations and to havestudents interview elders and community members so that they can include various viewpointsand information into their design solutions.Overview of Professional Development and Engineering Design TasksOver the last two years, there have been two cohorts of teachers within this research project.Teachers in the program
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Promoting Inclusivity and Broadening Participation
Collection
2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Nethra Iyer, Northeastern University; Luke Landherr, Northeastern University
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Diversity
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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)
between steps,essentially learning in “leaps.” Comics in relation are inherently tailored to sequential learners aseach panel within a comic follows a very specific order for the reader to follow along. Whilst it ispossible to grasp the big picture of a comic, much of the understanding and storytelling aspectsare done through the connections between panels.Sensing learners prefer learning facts and concepts as opposed to intuitive learners who preferabstract relationships and concepts. Finally, active learners prefer application of concepts learnedwhereas reflective learners ponder questions surrounding issues at hand. Essentially, activelearners like very hands-on work whilst reflective learners prefer thinking alone about the problemfirst
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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 1: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in ChE
Collection
2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Kavitha Chintam, Northwestern University; Alexis N. Prybutok, University of Washington; Willa Brenneis; Jonathan M. Chan; Joie Green; Ruihan Li; Meagan Olsen; Sapna L. Ramesh; Carolyn E. Ramirez; Dhanvi Ram Vemulapalli; Jennifer Cole, Northwestern University
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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)
, many institutions increasedofferings of diversity trainings for faculty and staff. But whether those diversity trainings wereeffective is up for debate, with evidence pointing to some promising initiatives but fewinstitutional changes that disrupt racism [13]–[15] and some well-intentioned trainingsexacerbating the problem of bias [16]. In turn, many campuses moved to embracing student-centered pedagogies. Tools and resources, such as the “Advancing Inclusion and Anti-Racism inthe College Classroom: A rubric and resource guide for instructors” [17] and “Toward anantiracist engineering classroom for 2020 and beyond: A starter kit,” [18] were developed to helpfaculty reflect on their identity and positionality, consider their students’ lived
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Promoting Inclusivity and Broadening Participation
Collection
2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Betul Bilgin, The University of Illinois at Chicago
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Diversity
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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)
a burgeoning recognition of the need for DEI withinengineering [11]-[13]. The current state of DEI in the discipline is one of active evolution andcommitment. Institutions, professional societies, and industry leaders are increasinglyemphasizing the creation of more inclusive environments that attract and support a diverseworkforce. Efforts are being made to dismantle the barriers that have historically led tounderrepresentation in engineering fields. Initiatives ranging from outreach programs aimed atyoung students to institutional reforms in hiring and retention practices reflect this shift towardsa more inclusive engineering community.The relevance of DEI in engineering cannot be overstated, as the field significantly impactsevery aspect
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WIP: Student Success and Sustainability
Collection
2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Chris Barr, University of Michigan; Taylor Ashley Dotto, University of Michigan; Joseph Gilbert Restivo, University of Michigan; Christina Said, University of Michigan; Rinrada Watchara, University of Michigan; Laura Hirshfield, University of Michigan; Elaine C Wisniewski, University of Michigan; Xiaoxia Nina Lin, University of Michigan
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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)
completion of the activity and/or demo. • Completing focus groups with students not in the design group to see if their activity is pedagogically beneficial. • Developing protocols for implementation of the activity and/or demo for faculty and graduate students to teach in their classes.All teams presented their final prototype via poster and a demonstration at the College ofEngineering’s capstone design symposium as well as a final oral presentation in class.Student Authors’ ReflectionsOur team was brought together in our senior Chemical Product Design course. We were joinedby our collective interest in creating a product related to undergraduate chemical engineeringacademia. During initial brainstorming, we reflected on our
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Inclusivity, Mentorship, and Entrepreneurial Thinking
Collection
2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Ya He, University of Sheffield; Mohammad Zandi P.E., University of Sheffield
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Diversity
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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)
in an educational context. To assess the student's performancein the workshop, a teamwork assessment questionnaire is used to help students reflect on learningand evaluate teamwork behaviours. Subsequently, semi-structured interviews and focus groupstudies are conducted after the workshop to investigate students’ perceptions of teamwork in depth.Keywords: International Students; Master’s Students; Team Performance; Engineering Education.Teamwork in Engineering Education:In the context of global higher education reform, engineering education has emerged as a strategicpriority for universities, underscoring the imperative for institutions to bolster their capacities intalent acquisition and development, scientific research and education, as
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Promoting Inclusivity and Broadening Participation
Collection
2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Ira Hysi, Northeastern University; Luke Landherr, Northeastern University
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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)
consequently be less interested in pursuing a career where these are the only perceivable fieldsthat they can work in. These findings are reflected in waning undergraduate and graduate enrollment in chemical,petroleum, and chemical-related engineering. Year-to-year medium percent change in freshmanenrollment in this major had been steadily declining since 2018 in 96 institutions, with a markable10.4% decrease in 20203. In their 2021 Graduate Enrollment Census, The National ScienceFoundation found that chemical engineering had the smallest 1-year growth of 1.4% in 2020-21,and the large 5-year decline of 29.1% in 2017-21 among other engineering disciplines4. Thesestatistics demonstrate a national declining trend in pursuing chemical engineering, and
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WIP: Student Success and Sustainability
Collection
2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Susan P. Gentry, University of California, Davis; Glaucia Prado P.E., University of California, Davis
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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)
been offered twice since Spring 2023, with a total enrollment of 15 students. It aims tointegrate first-year students into the MSE department and promote their academic successthrough activities including student panels and lessons on time management and wellness. TheMSE seminar is based on an academic success strategies course developed at the start of thepandemic that emphasized time management, wellness, and reflective change [28]. Both courseswere taught by department faculty and integrated significant peer interactions.This study had two research questions: (1) How do students perceive belonging in the two engineering departments? (2) Are there differences in students’ perceptions of belonging between students who
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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 10: Teaming and Professional Skills
Collection
2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Cheryl Carrico, P.E., E4S, LLC; Holly M. Matusovich, Virginia Tech; Sreyoshi Bhaduri, ThatStatsGirl
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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)
Advisor to the leadership at Sisters in STEM. Sreyoshi frequently collaborates on several National Science Foundation projects in the engineering education realm, researching engineering career trajectories, student motivation, and learning. Sreyoshi has been recognized as a Fellow at the Academy for Teaching Excellence at Virginia Tech (VTGrATE) and a Fellow at the Global Perspectives Program (GPP) and was inducted to the Yale Bouchet Honor Society during her time at Virginia Tech. She has also been honored as an Engaged Ad- vocate in 2022 and an Emerging Leader in Technology (New ELiTE) in 2021 by the Society of Women Engineers. Views expressed in this paper are the author’s own, and do not necessarily reflect those
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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 10: Teaming and Professional Skills
Collection
2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Abishek Sekhar; Peter Neal, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; Sarah Grundy, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)
teamwork. Smith and Imbrie [18]characterize effective teams and teamwork according to the following elements: positiveinterdependence (sharing a common objective), individual and group accountability(embracing responsibility for the work), encouraging interaction (interpersonal engagementleading to concrete action), teamwork skills (including effective communication, decisionmaking, leadership and conflict resolution), and group processing (reflection that recognisessuccesses and identifies areas for improvement). Conflict resolution also has an impact onincreasing student commitment towards the team, as they feel they are more validated byparticipating and their opinions are being taken into consideration [19]. Skills and structurestherefore have
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Inclusivity, Mentorship, and Entrepreneurial Thinking
Collection
2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Joaquin Rodriguez, University of Pittsburgh
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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)
sources. They are also encouraged to share their own biographical information. Students are also provided with a sample of a previous bio-sketch. The assignment is scheduled for the first month of the course, but with flexibility to adapt to circumstances such as late matching, busy schedules, etc. Students are also advised to propose a meeting schedule for the project. • The “exchange” assignment requests from students to provide a narrative of 3-4 pages with the most relevant information exchanged in the meetings that students select for sharing. • The “personal assessment” assignment is intended for students to provide a one-page reflection on the added value of this project and some
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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Poster Session
Collection
2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Joe Woo, Lafayette College
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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)
oxides (NOx)cycle in the atmosphere. It is expected that students will see a large discrepancy between theconcentrations of ozone calculated via this method and the ambient values noted through themonitoring stations. This discrepancy encourages students to think reflectively upon the otheratmospheric phenomenon taking place in the troposphere; for instance, volatile organiccompounds, which are not taken into account in the NOx cycle, contribute heavily to the overalltropospheric ozone balance, necessarily resulting in a difference between what was observed andwhat was estimated. The discussion taking place here is meant to prime students for thesubsequent component of the project, in which it is likely that unexpected dependences mayfactor into
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Cultivating Community, Wellness, and Character Development
Collection
2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Stephanie Butler Velegol, Penn State University; Katharine Getz, Penn State University; Mechteld Veltman Hillsley, Penn State University
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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)
often regret that I chose chemical engineering. 3. Overall, chemical engineers are considered good by others. 4. Overall, being a chemical engineer has very little to do with how I feel about myself. 5. I feel I don't have much to offer chemical engineering. 13Does endorsement of masculine ideals predict sense of belonging and identity over performance and peer interactions? 6. In general, I'm glad to be a chemical engineer. 7. Most people consider chemical engineers, on the average, to be more ineffective than other groups. 8. Being a chemical engineer is an important reflection of
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Joint Session: Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division and Chemical Division
Collection
2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Chris Barr, University of Michigan; Sarah A Wilson, University of Kentucky; Janie Brennan, Washington University in St. Louis; Joanne Beckwith Maddock, Carnegie Mellon University; Tracy L. Carter, Northeastern University; Samira Azarin Azarin; Amy J. Karlsson, University of Maryland
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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED), Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division (DELOS)
conclusions about real-world problems.a The “short name” indicates an abbreviated name of the outcome for use in the presentation of the data.For the student survey, two additional reflective questions were included. These questions askedstudents to reflect on their weaknesses in the lab learning outcomes as well as any weaknessesthey perceived in their departmental curriculum for these learning outcomes. These questionswere included to get the views of students currently in the programs, as these views may differfrom the views of faculty in the programs and alumni perceptions may be skewed by changes tocurricula over time and time since graduation.The survey design was approved by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) at University ofKentucky. The
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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 1: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in ChE
Collection
2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Deesha Chadha, Imperial College, London; Jerry Y.Y. Heng; Emerald Sun
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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)
staff and studentrepresentatives in a student-staff liaison meeting, several initiatives that potentially enhancedEDI were identified for further attention. These included recognising points in the curriculumwhere technical content or teaching was EDI-centric or could be modified to incorporateelements of EDI whilst ensuring examples provided are socially relevant [8], a robustrevision of the student peer-review system, and modifying or creating information-basedresources to better reflect EDI provisions e.g. the programme handbook. Finally, weconsidered engaging students to design and develop their own material for educating theirpeers about EDI.In completing Phase 1 of the project, Mason concluded: “Testimonial evidence has revealed a
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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 6: First-Year & Sophomore Year Curriculum
Collection
2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Betul Bilgin, The University of Illinois, Chicago; Hasiya Najmin Isa; Emily Seriruk; Cody Wade Mischel
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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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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 5: Work-in-Progress Part 2
Collection
2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Nagma Zerin, Johns Hopkins University; Sakul Ratanalert, Johns Hopkins University
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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)
able to survive in the program. We incorporated the intervention strategies in the regular course environment as part of theweekly group work participation, homework, midterm exams, and group research presentation.During the first week of the semester, we introduced the concept of growth mindset to thestudents. The students watched a talk by Dr. Carol Dweck, the psychologist who proposed themindset theory, and Khan Academy’s video on growing one’s intelligence through struggleduring the weekly group work. We encouraged the students to reflect on their own ideas aboutintelligence and the importance of having a growth mindset while studying chemicalengineering. The students then shared their thoughts with their peers. In Table 2, we
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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Poster Session
Collection
2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Thomas McKean, University of Arkansas; Ranil Wickramasinghe P.E., University of Arkansas; LaShall Bates; Gary Bates; Jacquelyn Wiersma-Mosley, University of Arkansas
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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)
center alumni working in industrywere recruited to describe their job and journey to reaching it to the students. Representatives fromthe University of Arkansas transfer office provided valuable information and guidance to thestudents regarding the process to transfer into a STEM program from NWACC. Workshopsincluded discussing how to reflect on the research experience in such a way that it will be usefulwhen applying to further opportunities and how to present the data they collected over the summer.A key outcome for the program relating to assessing the students’ interest in pursuing future STEMopportunities was the desire of the students to present their research at a conference. Both regionalmeetings and national meetings were targeted as
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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 4: Junior & Senior Year Curriculum
Collection
2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Laura P. Ford, The University of Tulsa; Jennifer Cole, Northwestern University; Kevin D. Dahm, Rowan University; Bruce K. Vaughen, American Institute of Chemical Engineers; Marnie V. Jamieson, University of Alberta, Canada; Luke Landherr, Northeastern University; David L. Silverstein, P.E., University of Kentucky; Troy J. Vogel, University of Notre Dame; Christy Wheeler West, University of South Alabama; Stephen W. Thiel, University of Cincinnati
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Applied Science at Northwestern University and the Associate Director of the Northwestern Center for Engineering Education Research. Dr. Cole’s primary teaching is in capstone and freshman design, and her research interest are in engineering design education.Dr. Kevin D. Dahm, Rowan University Kevin Dahm is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Rowan University. He earned his BS from Worces- ter Polytechnic Institute (92) and his PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (98). He has pub- lished two books, ”Fundamentals of Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics” with Donald Visco, and ”Interpreting Diffuse Reflectance and Transmittance” with father Donald Dahm.Dr. Bruce K. Vaughen, American Institute of Chemical
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Perspectives in Chemical Engineering Education
Collection
2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Stephanie Butler Velegol, Penn State University; Katie Cadwell, Syracuse University; Taryn Melkus Bayles, University of Pittsburgh; Lisa G. Bullard P.E., North Carolina State University; Mechteld Veltman Hillsley, Penn State University
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data frompublicly available departmental websites. The data in this paper comes from survey data for 74departments and from websites for the other 85 departments. Thus, it is unclear if thedifference reflects only changes in numbers or differences in available data on websites. Forexample, some departments do not differentiate teaching non-tenure track faculty from tenure-track faculty on their website’s title designations. This underscores the need to more formallytrack numbers of TFF in chemical engineering. 3Table 2: Number of total ChE faculty and Teaching Focused Faculty (TFF) in R1, R2, M2, M1,PUI and D/PU Universities
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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 1: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in ChE
Collection
2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Eric Burkholder, Auburn University
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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)
, higher education is part of a broader inequitable system. If inequities that occur beforecollege divert students from pursuing STEM degrees, changes to university programs will havelittle impact.The current work is a quantitative study focused on studying the systemic factors that impact therepresentation of women among chemical engineering graduates. We note that the granularity ofour analysis is limited by the use of institutional data. For example, we have ACT scores as acrude proxy for opportunity gaps in high school (the hypothesis being that opportunity gapswould be reflected in this metric).Following the framework of Costello et al. (2023), wehypothesize that the lack of representation of women in chemical engineering could be due to (1
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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 2: Community Retrospectives
Collection
2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Milo D. Koretsky, Tufts University; Lisa G. Bullard, P.E., North Carolina State University, Raleigh; Joshua A. Enszer, University of Delaware; Allison Godwin, Purdue University, West Lafayette ; Vanessa Svihla, University of Texas, Austin; Sindia M. Rivera-Jiménez, University of Florida
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community and whatneeds are and are not met in the current journal format and offerings. In this paper, we presentthe results from focus groups collected from the community at the 2022 American Society forEngineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference & Exposition and the 2022 ASEE/AmericanInstitute for Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Summer School. The Summer School is a week-longprofessional development opportunity with the goal of providing practical tools to get facultyrapidly and securely on track for a successful career in academia.We paid particular attention to qualitative data that reflected participants’ values, attitudes, andbeliefs and represented their perspective or worldview on chemical engineering education. Wefollow Saldaña’s [7
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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 6: First-Year & Sophomore Year Curriculum
Collection
2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Samantha Yanosko; Matthew W. Liberatore, The University of Toledo
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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)
, doi: https://doi.org/10.18260/p.27205.[9] A. Edgcomb and F. Vahid, "How Many Points Should Be Awarded for Interactive Textbook Reading Assignments?," in 45th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), El Paso, TX, 2015, pp. 1-4, doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE.2015.7344350.[10] C. M. Burchfield and T. Sappington, "Compliance with required reading assignments," (in English), Teaching of Psychology, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 58-60, Win 2000, doi: https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2000-07173-017.[11] R. Wang and A. K. Ribera, "Moving students to read - Unpacking the relationship with reflective and integrative learning," in American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, 2016, doi: https