Conference Session

Teaching Outside the Box

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

R. Artigue; M. H. Hariri; M. Misovich; M. Anklam; David Miller

Session 1613 A Modified Approach to Material & Energy Balances D. C. Miller, M. H. Hariri, M. Misovich, M. Anklam, and R. Artigue Department of Chemical Engineering Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyIntroduction The first course in chemical engineering (material and energy balances) has traditionallybeen a challenging course, which many students approach with fear and trepidation. Over thepast several years, we have developed an approach, which we believe helps the students to betterlearn the concepts by reorganizing the material that more strongly emphasizes

Conference Session

The Computer, the Web, and the ChE

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

G.T. Lineberry; David Silverstein

Session 3413 An Improved Distance Learning Environment for the Material and Energy Balances Course David L. Silverstein G. T. Lineberry University of KentuckyAbstractThe Kentucky Council on Post-Secondary Education has mandated goals of substantiallyincreased enrollments in Engineering for Kentucky state-funded institutions over the nextdecade. As part of the process designed to meet this goal, the University of Kentucky hascollaborated with other state institutions providing (or soon to provide

Conference Session

Teaching Outside the Box

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Rachel Specht; Kathryn Hollar; Mariano Savelski; Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater

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

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerry Collins; Christina Mathieson

syllabus states the course objectives in the following words: 1. To help you apply classical thermodynamics (in particular, the first and second laws) to medical devices, laboratory systems, and living systems. 2. To enable you to write and solve macroscopic material and energy balances on laboratory devices and living systems. Such a knowledge will be useful in specifying and applying medical instrumentation, in analyzing existing and proposed medical devices such as artificial organs, and in the study of quantitative physiology and transport in BME 210, 251, 252, and later courses. 3. To provide a forum for solving problems and addressing relevant bioengineering issues in groups.Approaches to

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade Inside the Classroom

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Blowers

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationtheir syllabi to accomplish these goals. Figure 1 shows a syllabus from a recent course that hasbeen modified only in that it was changed to make it anonymous. CheE 201: Materials and Energy Balances This syllabus has the minimum amount of Instructor: Dr. Anonymous Office Hours: TBA content for it to actually be called a syllabus. You Meetings: MWF 10 am, 206 Harshbarger

Conference Session

Novel Classroom Environments

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

S. Scott Moor

the reports withliterature figures gave proper credit.However, another instructor observed that students who had this assignment in their first year dobetter at including proper citations in a paper required in our material and energy balance classduring their second year. The instructor also observed that they seem more comfortable with alibrary research assignment in a technical class than students from earlier years before this first-year writing assignment was introduced. All indications are that this assignment is effective atencouraging students to use the library. Page 7.942.5 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for

Conference Session

Innovative Courses for ChE Students

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Jennings; Melanie McNeil; Art Diaz

Chemical Engineering Department has had a Biochemical Engineeringemphasis since 1994. At the time of its initiation Chemical Engineering students did not haveadequate preparation to take many of biotechnology courses available in Biology, Biochemistry orChemical Engineering. The emphasis developed over the next five years to remove this deficiencyand the current emphasis is as shown in Table 2. Table 2. Courses in Biochemical Engineering Emphasis. Chem 135 Biochemistry (replaces second semester PChem) ChE 192 Introduction to Biochemical Engineering ChE 194 Biochemical Engineering Laboratory *ChE 115 Materials and Energy Balances *ChE 151 Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics *ChE 158

Conference Session

Understanding Students: Cognition

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Husson; Richard Rice; James Haile; II, S. Michael Kilbey; Graham Harrison; Douglas Hirt; David Bruce; Charles Gooding; Deborah Switzer

provided for the students to evaluate theirmetacognitive development, that is, their evaluation of the process(es) by which they learn Page 7.219.2material most effectively. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exhibition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationFive courses are involved in this study: • ChE 211 – Material and Energy Balances • ChE 220 – Thermodynamics I • ChE 311 – Fluid Flow • ChE 312 – Heat and Mass Transfer • ChE 321 – Thermodynamics IIThe 200-level courses are taken by sophomores and the 300-level courses by juniors

Conference Session

Balancing Personal and Professional Life

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Penny Knoll; Lisa Bullard; Ann Saterbak

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

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality Assurance in engr edu

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sean Clancey; Anton Pintar; Jason Keith

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

Conference Session

Learning Styles of Engineers

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Malgorzata Zywno