transfer inthe human body.The learning objectives of this hands-on experiment are (1) to analyze chemical reactions thatproduce energy from food (2) to perform material and energy balances on the body, (3) toprepare a simple process flow diagram, and (4) to use a process simulator to investigate rates ofheat transfer during respiration. Students use their own gas exchange respiration data tocalculate their rate of energy expenditure and mechanical efficiency during cycling. They usereaction stoichiometry to determine the quantities of fats and carbohydrates that are used asenergy sources. They apply energy balances to determine the rate of heat transfer throughrespiration, and compare this to the total energy expenditure. Finally, students create
. Those who reported reading all of the CDROM earned (33%) more of the total Page 6.866.8 course points.“Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright Ó 2001, American Society for Engineering Education” 3. Students who reported learning how to do material and energy balances problems did better on the final examination and course total points (32% and 40%), respectfully. 4. Less successful students skipped studying the fully detailed example problems and practice problems in the CDROM.V. Improving Method and CDROMWe have continued
distillation towers. This may seem unnecessarily punitive. But during initial simulations, their projected equipment is far afield. Other, seemingly more pertinent specifications lead to unstable and unreasonable answers requiring excess student time as they follow false paths. These types of restrictions also help students to focus on material and energy balances as underpinnings to any chemical engineering solution.) • Restrict material balance solutions to an external program or spreadsheet so that they must put their specifications into another program. (Process simulators have robust material balance solvers. But, if left to the simulators, the students never solve a material balance
integration ofpharmaceutical technology into introductory-level chemical engineering courses. These problemset modules include topics covering terminology, formulation and manufacturing techniques forpersonal care products, over the counter medicines and prescription drugs. The problems areorganized for use in a material and energy balance course, and cover a wide range of subjectsfrom simple mass balances to heats of formation. The completed educational materials will beincorporated into the C-SOPS website for use by Center members and faculty at other schools.This work will serve to expand and strengthen the educational impact of the Center in the regionand throughout the country.IntroductionThe NSF-sponsored Center for Structured Organic
is collaboration between several of thepanelists, is discussed. The AIChE Concept Warehouse will provide instructors access toconceptual questions, both as Concept Inventories and ConcepTests. Questions for the core ChEcurriculum (Material and Energy Balances, Thermodynamics, Transport Phenomena, Kineticsand Reactor Design, and Materials Science) will be available through an interactive website Page 22.1317.8hosted by the Education Division of AIChE. It will use a database - a flexible, query-driveninformation storage system - that is designed to be versatile so that conceptual learning can bedeployed by programs and instructors as it best
structure and fundingmodel inhibited our ability to offer tutoring beyond the foundational math and science courses,despite frequent student requests. However, starting in fall 2011, we will add tutoring for a rangeof second- and third-year engineering courses, such as Circuits, Thermodynamics, FluidDynamics, and Probability and Statistics. Our past effectiveness in helping students in theCircuits and Material and Energy Balances courses in spring 2009 (which had numerousrepeating students who worked in groups with the same tutors each week) leads us to the Page 22.40.11conclusion that we can play a strong role in guiding student study groups that
and graduated with B.S. inChemical Engineering in 1986 and a PhD in Chemical Engineering in 1991. She joined EastmanChemical Company in 1991 and served in various engineering and management positions withinthe company, including Process Engineering, Plant Engineering, Quality Management, BusinessProcess Improvement, and Business Market Manager for Food Ingredients and Personal CareProducts. She returned to her alma mater, N.C. State, in April, 2000 as a Visiting AssistantProfessor and Coordinator of Undergraduate Advising. She has taught the introductorysophomore material and energy balance courses as well as the senior design sequence and hasserved on multiple departmental and university committees. She has been married for 12 years,and her
quality of the student writing and oral communication skills in the past. We have focused a greater portion of the senior plant design lab CM4851 and CM4861 as well as the technical communications course CM3410 towards improving students communication skills. We have seen an increase in student performance in the past few years. For example, student reports now discuss whether or not overall material and energy balance calculations close around the system or unit operation being studied. This was a result of industry input. · A final focus area does not apply to the chemical engineering curriculum but is in regards to one of the tools by which student performance is evaluated: the chemical engineering
themselves best to each of these contexts.Environmental sustainability has been most heavily and effectively emphasized in the technicalcourse, since material and energy balance approaches can readily be used to assess sustainability,and the concepts of ecosystem services and resilience fit well within the scope of the field.Group projects encourage the exploration of sustainability issues including energy, water andresource use and management, biodiversity, resilience, ways to reduce negative environmentalimpacts and assessment techniques to “measure” sustainability.The international context of the EWB project and non-technical class brings the cultural andsocial aspects of sustainability into relief, so they are easier to recognize and
projects. While there are many ongoing projects, this paper will summarize thefollowing examples: Biogas production project for an undergraduate chemical engineering course Biogas production modeling project for an undergraduate mathematics course Biogas research projects for undergraduate and co-operative learning students Bioethanol usage in student competition projects Bioethanol research projects for undergraduate and co-operative learning studentsA Biogas Production Project in Chemical EngineeringCHME-200 is the first exposure to chemical engineering for undergraduate students. The coursecombines material and energy balances. For a term project students are asked to performcalculations for a simulated dairy farm
. Cooper moved to the Raleigh, NC area to serve as a research chemical engineer for RTI International, focusing on the development of novel technologies for the energy sector. Dr. Cooper joined the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at North Carolina State University in 2011, where he currently teaches the Unit Operations I and II labora- tory sequence, Material and Energy Balances, Transport Phenomena and Mathematical / Computational Methods. He is the recipient of the 2014 NCSU Outstanding Teacher Award and the 2014 ASEE South- eastern Section Outstanding New Teacher Award, as well as the 2013 Joseph J. Martin Award from the ASEE Chemical Engineering Division; he also currently serves as the ASEE ChE
. Often, each pair in the class was assigned a different chemical. Students were giventime to solve the problem, the professor circulated around the class to give pointers, and aftermost teams were done, each pair reported their answers. Then the class could discuss thesolution approach, the instructor could illustrate common “mishaps”, etc.The course is an elective and as such the students who enroll often differ widely in theirpreparation and motivation. The environmental engineering (EVEN) undergraduates generallyhave good background preparation for the course (such as material and energy balances,Fundamentals of Environmental Engineering, and perhaps including environmental organicchemistry, groundwater, environmental microbiology, etc
Chemical Engineering Assesses knowledge of (2010). Balance Concept material and energy balance Inventory (MEBCI) in engineering.8 Bristow, M., et al. Control Systems Electrical Engineering Measures understanding of (2011). Concept Inventory control systems concepts. (CSCI)9 Jacobi, et al. (2003). Concept Inventory Mechanical Engineering Examines comprehension of for Heat Transfer heat transfer concepts. (CIHT)10 Goncher
rheology of complex fluids, especially traditional and renewable energy fluids and materials, polymers, and colloids. His educational interests include developing problems from YouTube videos, active learning, learning analytics, and interactive textbooks. His interactive textbooks for Material and Energy Balances, Spreadsheets, and Thermodynamics are available from zyBooks.com. His website is: https://www.utoledo.edu/engineering/chemical-engineering/libe ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Building a great student chapter: Reflections on workshop activities using entrepreneurial mindsetAbstractGrowing as a student, professor, or engineer commonly involves
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for Face-to-Face Courses) – an MEB ExampleAbstractThis paper addresses some common assumptions and concerns about, benefits of, andapproaches to offering a rigorous technical course online. A systematic approach to convert eachpart of a typically face-to-face (F2F) course to an online equivalent or replacement is presented.Course elements such as cleverly designed discussion prompts, student-recorded problemexplanations, and online assessments designed as described here may be used to increase studentengagement, motivation, and content retention in any course.A fully-online Material and Energy Balances (MEB) course was offered at the Colorado Schoolof Mines as the first online course offered from this institution’s Chemical and
and detailed design; team structure and teamwork; project planning; written, oral, graphical, and interpersonal communications; use of software tools; discussion of societal and business issues. It also offers three required general engineering courses on applied mathematics and engineering analysis (31). - University of Western Ontario has an 8 credit Introductory Engineering Design and Innovation Studio and a 4 credit Programming Fundamentals for Engineers (48).Option 3This category features a common first-year curriculum, common engineering courses without ChEcontent, and a ChE course. The ChE courses include surveys of the profession, design courses, anda course in material and energy balances. - Southern
score), incoming declared major(which is declared at the time of matriculation), undergraduate academic performance (first-yearGPA), grades in Materials and Energy Balances (MEB), and postsecondary degree completion.The institutional data about student identity is limited to binary gender, which does notadequately capture the full spectrum of both gender identity and expression. Both gender identityand expression may be distinct from biological sex. This particular institution is predominantlywhite ( 80%) and somewhat selective (interquartile range of ACT scores is 25-31). We had accessto all student records dating back to 2011. To ensure that we had complete records for all studentsincluded in our analysis, we only included records for
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
Material and Energy Balances," 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, June 2016.[11] A. Mojzisova and M. Takac, "Approaches for Dynamic Representation of Mathematical Content in Engineering Education," Proceedings of the 2020 21st International Carpathian Control Conference, October 2020.[12] A. Edgcomb, D. de Haas, R. Lysecky, and F. Vahid, "Student usage and behavioral patterns with online interactive textbook materials," International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation, November 2015.[13] D. McKinney, A. Edgcomb, R. Lysecky, and F. Vahid, "Improving Pass Rates by Switching from a Passive to an Active Learning Textbook in CS0," Proceedings of ASEE Annual Virtual Conference
betaken by students. Proposed courses are listed in table 3.Table 3: list of courses from integrated and environmental engineering Course ID Name of Courses Credit Hours ENGR 110 Technical Writing 3 ENGR 117 Engineering Design 1 3 3 ENGR 151 Engineering Tools I 1 1 ENSC 111 Introduction to Environmental Science 3 ENSC 150 Fundamentals of Environmental Engineering 3 ENGR 210 Material and Energy Balances 3 ENSC 201 Weather and Climate 3 ENSC 202 Introduction to Aquatic
in the introduction. • ABET Outcome: Material and energy balances; fate and transport of substances in and between air, water, and soil phases; and advanced principles and practices relevant to the program objectives [10]. Relevance to Machine Learning: Discussed in the case studies above are direct links towards using these case studies to view and understand items about the air, soil, and other environmental factors. • ABET Outcome: Hands-on laboratory experiments, analysis, and interpretation of the resulting data in more than one central environmental engineering focus area, e.g., air, water, land, and environmental health [10]. Relevance to Machine Learning: Each case study gives an example case for students to
were basedon was provided to the students so they could compare their outcomes to those of the actual case. Figure 6. A positive outcome sample endpoint from Scenario A. Figure 7. A sample endpoint with a negative outcome from Scenario A.Student Performance and AssessmentThe game was implemented in the fall semester of 2019 in 6 of 13 discussion sections in thefirst-year engineering design course (IEPS) required of all undergraduate students in the Collegeof Engineering and in the materials and energy balance course for second-year students in theDepartment of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering. Out of 476 students enrolled in the twoclasses, 218 students participated in the interactive case study. As a pre
For- mation (PFE: RIEF) for the project- Using Digital Badging and Design Challenge Modules to Develop Professional Identity. She is a member of the department’s ABET and Undergraduate Curriculum Com- mittee, as well as faculty advisor for several student societies. She is the instructor of several courses in the CBE curriculum including the Material and Energy Balances, junior laboratories and Capstone De- sign courses. She is associated with several professional organizations including the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and American Society of Chemical Engineering Education (ASEE) where she adopts and contributes to innovative pedagogical methods aimed at improving student learning and
Introduction to OneNote and its Multimodal CapabilitiesThe Course:The sophomore material and energy balances course investigated in this work had an enrollmentof a total of 94 students who finished the course out of the 103 who began the course at thebeginning of the Fall 2008 semester. This course is the first core course in chemical engineeringand is one of the two options engineering management students must take in order to satisfy theirenergy-based curriculum content requirements. Students in engineering management may takethis course during their sophomore, junior, or senior years, while chemical engineers will all beclassified departmentally as sophomores.A variety of instructional support tools were used in this course that had an impact on
Undergraduate Curriculum Com- mittee, as well as faculty advisor for several student societies. She is the instructor of several courses in the CBE curriculum including the Material and Energy Balances, junior laboratories and Capstone De- sign courses. She is associated with several professional organizations including the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and American Society of Chemical Engineering Education (ASEE) where she adopts and contributes to innovative pedagogical methods aimed at improving student learning and retention.Dr. Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico Dr. Vanessa Svihla is a learning scientist and assistant professor at the University of New Mexico in the Organization, Information
: REvolutionizing engineering and computer science Departments (IUSE PFE\RED) - Formation of Accomplished Chemical Engineers for Transform- ing Society. She is a member of the CBE department’s ABET and Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, as well as faculty advisor for several student societies. She is the instructor of several courses in the CBE curriculum including the Material and Energy Balances, junior laboratories and Capstone Design courses. She is associated with several professional organizations including the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and American Society of Chemical Engineering Education (ASEE) where she adopts and contributes to innovative pedagogical methods aimed at improving student learning
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3.5 0.7 4 Chemistry (including stoichiometry, equilibrium and kinetics) 43.3 8.2 5 Earth science (geology) 41.7 7.9 6 Biological science 39.2 7.4 7 Fluid mechanics 28.5 5.4 8 Material and energy balances 46.9 8.9 9 Analyze fate and transport between air, water and soil 35.0 6.6 10 Conduct experiments and critically analyze data in air systems 8.3 1.6 11 Conduct experiments and
structured so each group receives an initial, vague deliverable from the mentor. Over the Fallsemester, the students address a series of deliverables related to background research on theproject, markets, material and energy balances, equipment sizing, safety, and impacts to thecommunity and environment. Each deliverable is graded and returned to the groups to beupdated and incorporated into a final semester report. The following Spring semester, the samestudent teams revisit their design, address any deficiencies identified in their Fall final report,and incorporate safety and engineering economic analyses to complete their design.In the Fall 2016 semester, aspects of the Capstone Senior Design course were integrated into twounique chemical