officer in Texas A&M University Student Chapter of AIChE. She has significantly contributed to the implementation of the service learning project as directed studies and also served as a mentor to the participating students both in Fall 2006 and Spring 2007 semesters.Janie Stratton Haney, Texas A&M University Janie Haney has graduated with a B.S. degree from Artie McFerrin Chemical Engineering Department in December, 2006. Prior to her graduation, she has served as a teaching assistant in introductory level material and energy balances course for three semesters consecutively. She has participated fully in the implementation of the service learning project and also mentored the
tooperational data from the cogeneration gas turbine and HRSG, and students are asked todetermine reconciled values in Excel as, 2 ⎛ Measured Value − Reconciled Value ⎞ Minimize ⎜⎜ ⎟⎟ ⎝ Instrument Standard Deviation ⎠ Subject to : Material and Energy Balances with Reconciled Values = 0The first time this DR module was used (Spring 2006), the average time to solve was 10.4 hr.When the statement “the problem promoted your understanding of the topic” was scored on a 0-5scale an average of 4.3 was obtained. Utilizing student feedback, we now provide an Exceltemplate
theiremphasis area. We recommend that the students begin with the course, Manufacturingand the Environment to learn basic principles of manufacturing processes and theirenvironmental impact. Knowledge gained from this course will be valuable in the WasteMinimization and Prevention course. The Material and Energy Balance in ManufacturingProcesses course will benefit from the previous two in terms of application toenvironmental systems. Ethics and Regulations course will be better appreciated afterenvironmental principles have been laid down in the first three courses. The fifth course,Energy, would incorporate the principle of ethics and regulations into equipment andprocess design. Environmental Site Planning for industries would come as the lastcourse
increased steam pressure. This can be accomplished by pumping the boiler feedwater to a higher temperature; but, there might be equipment limitations should the temperature need to risemore than about 10”C. In reality, the temperature profile in the reactor probably looks more like the dotted line in Figure 2.Although the analysis for this case would involve simultaneous material and energy balances along the reactorlength, the same qualitative conclusions regarding the temperature and the boiler feed water will be found.Thus, the simple analysis presented is a powerfhl tool and gives correct qualitative results even if thequantitative results may be somewhat off. Discussion When this
than beingconfined to the class period. After one week, however, the students were instructed to come to aconsensus and the review discussion was closed.There were three ChemProV/OSBLE assignments during the semester. The first of theseinvolved a material balance problem with no recycle and no energy balance. The secondinvolved a material balance problem with recycle but no energy balance. The final probleminvolved both material and energy balances for a system involving a recycle stream. Each timeone-third of the initial student submissions were randomly selected for review, making sure thatno student had more than one of their problem solutions reviewed. The identity of the studentsubmitting the solution, as well as all members of each
understanding overtime. For example, a professor teaching a material and energy balance course can have studentsidentify hazards associated within certain chemicals and processes to address frameworkquestion 1. A fluids class can use equations and concepts already covered to produce a sourcemodel to calculate the quantity of material released from a leaking vessel or pipeline to addressframework question 3. Fluid mechanics can also be used to model the flow of fluid through apressure relief device which addresses framework question 6. Many more examples exist.Suggestions of framework questions to incorporate into chemical engineering courses are shownbelow in Table 1.Table 1. Suggestions of framework questions to incorporate into chemical engineering
Paper ID #38220NSF RIEF: Influence of Self-Efficacy and Social Support onPersistence and Achievement in Chemical EngineeringSophomores: Measuring the Impact of an InterventionBrad Cicciarelli (Distinguished Lecturer) Brad Cicciarelli is a Distinguished Lecturer in the chemical engineering and mechanical engineering departments at Louisiana Tech University. He earned a B.S. from the University of Florida and a Ph.D. from M.I.T., both in chemical engineering. He teaches a variety of courses, including material and energy balances, thermodynamics, heat transfer, and numerical methods.Timothy Reeves (Lecturer of
Paper ID #33127Work in Progress: Identifying Success Factors for Chemical EngineeringSophomores and Testing the Effects of an InterventionDr. Brad Cicciarelli, Louisiana Tech University Brad Cicciarelli is a Senior Lecturer in the chemical engineering and mechanical engineering departments at Louisiana Tech University. He earned a B.S. from the University of Florida and a Ph.D. from M.I.T., both in chemical engineering. He teaches a variety of courses, including material and energy balances, thermodynamics, heat transfer, and mass transfer.Eric Sherer, Corteva Agriscience Eric Sherer is a senior data scientist
textbooks for theinitial course that most students take on material and energy balance (MEB) analysis of chemicalprocesses[2]. Because many chemical engineering faculty have little or no biological training, aworkshop was offered during Summer '07 at SJSU to provide a "crash-course" in biology andbiochemistry that is applicable to biochemical engineering.The assessment of the project has been multi-faceted. Beta-test sites that incorporated some ofthe problems into their courses evaluated student performance during the Fall '07 and '08semesters. A statistical analysis of the data from the first round of beta testing showed that theevaluation strategy was not appropriate to demonstrate improved student learning from the use ofthe website materials
engineering metrics for lab-scale (discovery),intermediate and pilot-scale processes were compared. Life cycle assessment was made usingoverall material and energy balances along with environmental performance tools. Tier 1 toolssuch as economic criteria, environmental criteria, exposure limits, toxicity weighting inanalyzing various drug production pathways. Since organic solvents typically account for 80% of all chemicals in a pharmaceuticalprocess, a significant part of the work focuses on process modifications to reduce solvents used.Several process opportunities for greener processes were explored. A life cycle assessment isconducted to compare these alternatives and show broader impacts on the ecosystem (greenhousegas production, etc
presents the results of the ninth survey since the reconstitution of the AIChEEducation Division Survey Committee in 2009. These surveys seek to define the state of the artin a given area of undergraduate chemical engineering instruction. Departments use surveyresults to inform curricular discussions and benchmark their program against national trends.Survey results are also useful for instructors as they select topics, software, and instructionalapproaches for their courses. Past surveys have considered first-year programs [1], Kinetics andReactor Design [2], Material and Energy Balances [3], Capstone Design [4], Electives [5],Transport [6], Process Control [7], and the curriculum as a whole [8]. In the coming surveycycle, the survey committee
Paper ID #11972Improving Student Technical Communication via Self ReflectionMr. Kenneth P Mineart, North Carolina State University Kenneth Mineart received his Bachelor’s degree in Chemical & Biochemical Engineering from the Uni- versity of Iowa. Currently, he is a doctoral student in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at North Carolina State University where he works in the field of block copolymer science with Professor Richard Spontak. Kenneth has regularly served as a graduate teaching assistant for a variety of courses including: Unit Operations Laboratory, Material and Energy Balances, Introduction to
., “Adoption of Active Learning in a Lecture-Based Engineering Class,” 32nd ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, 2009.[8] McGrath and Brown, “Visual Learning for Science and Engineering,” IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Vol. 25 No. 5, pp. 56-63, 2005.[9] Bullard and Felder, “A Student-Centered Approach to Teaching Material and Energy Balances. 1. Course Design,” Chemical Engineering Education, Vol. 41(2), pp. 93-100, 2007.[10] Bullard and Felder, “A Student-Centered Approach to Teaching Material and Energy Balances. 2. Course Instruction and Assessment,” Chemical Engineering Education, Vol. 41(3), pp. 167-176, 2007.[11] Prince, “Does Active Learning Work? A Review of the Research,” Journal of
development of FCI, outlined its structure and reviewed findings from itsimplementation. Shallcross developed a concept inventory for assessing student learning in abasic material and energy balance subject3. His aim was to identify the misconceptions that thestudents may have when they start the subject. By comparing the pre- and post- test results anassessment could be made of the extent to which these misconceptions have been corrected. AChemical Engineering Fundamentals Concept Inventory (CEFCI) was developed andimplemented by Ngothai and Davis4. Their main objective was to have a quantitative means forpredicting areas in which course development could be focused. Using statistical methods, theyperformed a rigorous analysis of test results
and in other courses for teaching aspects of fluid flow,material and energy balances, thermodynamics, and process control.IntroductionTo accommodate recent increases in enrollment, we had a need for a relatively inexpensive newexperiment in our unit operations laboratory. We also had a need to include hands-on experiencewith process control in our curriculum and a desire to provide more hands-on experience in oursophomore material and energy balance and thermodynamics courses. We developed a versatilenew air flow experiment to accomplish all these goals. Having undergraduate students helpdesign, construct, and test the new equipment as their senior theses also provided an excellenteducational experience for the students involved.As shown in
AC 2012-4402: IMPROVEMENTS IN COMPUTATIONAL METHODS COURSESIN CHEMICAL ENGINEERINGDr. Joshua A. Enszer, University of Maryland Baltimore County Joshua Enszer is a full-time lecturer in chemical engineering at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He has taught core and elective courses across the curriculum, from introduction to engineering science and material and energy balances to process control and modeling of chemical and environmental systems. His research interests include technology and learning in various incarnations: electronic port- folios as a means for assessment and professional development, implementation of computational tools across the chemical engineering curriculum, and game-based
Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationmeasure have been removed. A sample list of learning objectives is provided in Table 2 for theSophomore level material and energy balance course. Table 1. Core Chemical Engineering Courses in the Database Course Number of Learning Objectives CHEN 200: Chemical Process Principles 26 CHEN 220: Numerical Analysis 15 CHEN 300: Fluid Mechanics 12 CHEN 310: Thermodynamics 14 CHEN 316: Analysis of Chemical Process Data
acquired by thestudents. I. IntroductionTo build a foundation on process modeling and simulation, undergraduate students are offered anintroductory course on the subject, ENGR 3410. Typically, students take this course in the junioryear. This course provides an introduction to material and energy balances in engineeringapplications, including chemical, environmental and biological systems. Use of software toolssuch as Matlab and Excel is made to solve engineering problems. The textbook by Felder andRousseau1 is used and the following topics are covered in ENGR3410: 1. Introduction to Engineering Calculations 2. Typical Processes and Process Variables 3. Fundamentals of Material Balances, Total
Pressure, Saturated) conditions. The software offersmany options for the convenient display of automatically-calculatedvalues; however, these direct measurements at BTPS conditions arethe only values necessary to perform the calculations involved in this experiment. Thecalculation/display options may be exercised in order to provide numbers against which studentsmay check their calculations.For their laboratory report, students perform all calculations by hand. In a subsequent laboratoryperiod, students are introduced to the process simulator, HYSYS. In an in-class activity, studentsuse HYSYS to draw a simple process flow diagram of the respiration cycle. They provide theirdata and allow HYSYS to perform material and energy balances on the
Reflective Journal Writing”, Journal of Engineering Education, October 2001, 661-667. vii Korgel, B., “Nurturing Faculty-Student Dialogue, Deep Learning and Creativity through Journal WritingExercises,” Journal of Engineering Education, Jan. 2002, 143-146. viii Sharp, J., B. Olds, R. Miller and M. Dyrud, “Four Effective Writing Strategies for Engineering Classes”,Journal of Engineering Education, January 1999, 53-57. ix L.G. Bullard and R.M. Felder, "A Student-Centered Approach to Teaching Material and Energy Balances: 1.Course Design" Chemical Engineering Education, 2007, 93-100. x L.G. Bullard and R.M. Felder, "A Student-Centered Approach to Teaching Material and Energy Balances: 2.Course Delivery
Paper ID #7531Promoting Metacognition through Reflection Exercises in a Thermodynam-ics CourseProf. Mariajose Castellanos, University of Maryland, Baltimore CountyDr. Joshua A Enszer, University of Maryland Baltimore County Dr. Joshua Enszer is a full-time lecturer in Chemical Engineering at the University of Maryland at Bal- timore County. He has taught core and elective courses across the curriculum, from introduction to en- gineering science and material and energy balances to process control and modeling of chemical and environmental systems. His research interests include technology and learning in various incarnations
: 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
sophomore course on material (and energy) balances orsophomore thermodynamics (usually referred to as “Thermo I”). In either case, this is likely toolate and the context typically identified with too narrow an application, either the macroscopicstead-state mass balance (an extensive application) or phase equilibrium (an intensiveapplication). And, in either case, the formalisms used most likely leave the student thinking that“degrees of freedom” are only applicable to that class of problem. In general, students are notintroduced to the degrees of freedom concept early enough, nor are they provided with multipleframeworks from which they can use the power of degrees of freedom as a pervasive problemsolving tool. Background ReviewA review of courses
comparison. We can make a few preliminary observations. First, the “Future”includes much more material in the systems category than we are suggesting here. For example,“Future” includes general modeling based on material and energy balances and many topics thatwe consider professional skills, e.g., ethics, globalization, intellectual property and so forth.While these topics are important, their link to PSE are tenuous; as a result, the systems topiccould be diluted into an “everything else” category that would not represent its centralimportance. Second, the “Future” proposes coverage of molecular level and multiscale topicsthat require further definition. We will observe the warning that “God (or the devil) is in thedetails”, and therefore, we
Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2003, American Society for Engineering Educationclass is asked to think about the processes taking place in an automobile. The class is askedto show an overall material and energy balance for the automobile and the scientificprinciples that are involved in an automobile process. After some discussion, the class isshown an overall process and a process flow sheet of the various process units which are apart of the overall process of the automobile with the following unit processes:• The flow of fuel and air, the ignition, combustion reactions and the exhaust of combustion products to the atmosphere,• The heat transfer process in cooling the engine,• The
, 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/liberatore/Uchenna Asogwa Uchenna Asogwa is a Ph.D. student in Chemical Engineering at the University of Toledo. He earned a B.S. degree from the University of Benin, Nigeria in chemical engineering. His current research involves reverse engineering online videos, the rheology of complex uids, and fuel cell mem
Foundation (NSF) funded projects: Professional Formation of Engineers: ResearchInitiation in Engineering Formation (PFE: RIEF) - Using Digital Badging and Design ChallengeModules to Develop Professional Identity; Professional Formation of Engineers: REvolutionizingengineering and computer science Departments (IUSE PFE\RED) - Formation of AccomplishedChemical Engineers for Transforming Society. She is a member of the CBE department’s ABET andUndergraduate Curriculum Committee, as well as faculty advisor for several student societies. She isthe 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 professionalorganizations including
Develop Professional Identity; Professional Formation of Engineers: REvolutionizingengineering and computer science Departments (IUSE PFE\RED) - Formation of AccomplishedChemical Engineers for Transforming Society. She is a member of the CBE department’s ABET andUndergraduate Curriculum Committee, as well as faculty advisor for several student societies. She isthe 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 professionalorganizations including the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and AmericanSociety of Chemical Engineering Education (ASEE) where she adopts and contributes to innovativepedagogical
competencies developed in chemical engineering(CHE) programs has grown. To adequately address this problem, the authors’ goal is tosynergize industry-student-academic integration by enculturating classrooms with connections toindustrial realities. Implementation of this model is particularly important in the early years ofthe curriculum. As the first step, the authors are working on designing and incorporating up-to-date industry problems as assignments in a course on “Materials and Energy Balance”. Theauthors have been working with industry mentors from various areas of the chemical engineeringfield to design up-to-date application-based problems/projects for the selected CHE class. Twoindustrial mentors with different areas of expertise were
the students’ view of theonline homework system. Results showed that the students had an overall favorable view of theonline homework system and overall exams scores were not negatively impacted by this newmethod. We will use this data to improve the assignments, make suggestions for future users, andpotentially expand this method to other undergraduate engineering courses.MethodsThe subject of this study was a 200-level course titled Material and Energy Balances within theDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering (CBE) at Colorado State University. Thecourse consisted of one section of 126 students. Each of the eight homework assignmentsthroughout the semester was converted to a set of assignments within the Canvas LearningManagement