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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 2: Community Retrospectives

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 9: Student Experiences in Laboratory Courses

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Erick S. Vasquez, University of Dayton; Kelly Bohrer, University of Dayton; Matthew Dewitt, University of Dayton; Soubantika Palchoudhury

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the earlier portion of the course. Theauthors (instructors of the course) provide (1) ideas for experimental topics of interest which areapplicable to chemical engineering students, 2) focused research opportunities with facultymembers or local entrepreneurs and businesses, and 3) community-based learning experienceswith the ETHOS center at the University of Dayton. Once the instructor approves astudent-centered experiential learning project, the students define the specific objectives, performexperiments or simulations, and summarize the analysis and findings in a final technical report ormemorandum. After submitting the final report, students also provide a written reflection of theirwork and learning experience.In the most recent academic

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 5: Work-in-Progress Part 2

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 1: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in ChE

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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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, 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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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 5: Work-in-Progress Part 2

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Carlos Landaverde-Alvarado, University of Texas, Austin

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incorporated in the training of new chemical engineers: • Communication: This is an interpersonal behavior. It means speaking up and promoting discussions that incorporate multiple perspectives and heighten individual knowledge. • Collaboration: This requires cooperation, mutual respect, effective feedback, and common goals within the team. • Experimentation: This aspect is related to the independence created by uncertainty; it required teams that assess and learn from their actions. • Reflection: Teams need to be critical of their results and they need to be ready to implement the changes necessary for their improvement.We propose this model fits best the current needs of chemical engineering students as theconcept and

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 6: First-Year & Sophomore Year Curriculum

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Luke Landherr, Northeastern University

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reported their confidence in each answer both pre- and post-comicon a 1-4 Likert scale. In all cases, average student confidence increased with the second time they answeredthe ConcepTest questions as presented in Table 6, which would again reflect the general self-reportedimprovement in confidence as measured in the additional survey questions. The greatest confidence bothpre- and post-comic were expressed by students who answered correctly pre-comic and then stayed withtheir same correct answer. The lowest confidence were expressed by students who were incorrect pre-comic and changed their answer to another incorrect option.Table 6. Average student reported confidence in their ConcepTest answers from pre-comic to post-comic,for each combination

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Poster Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Maureen Tang, Drexel University; Tamara Galoyan Galoyan; Shannon Capps

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submitting a knowledge inventory and remediation plan. Students create a glossary of termsand concepts from the class and rank them by their level of understanding. Recent iterations ofthe remediation plan also include reflections on emotions and support networks.In February 2023, the project team will scale the interventions to freshman-level IntroductoryProgramming, which has 400 students and the college’s highest fail/withdrawal rate. The largesample size will enable more robust statistics to correlate exam scores, intervention rubric items,and surveys on assignment effectiveness. Piloting interventions in various environments andclasses will establish best pedagogical practices that minimize instructors’ workload and decisionfatigue. The

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 10: Teaming and Professional Skills

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joaquin Rodriguez, University of Pittsburgh; Hseen Baled; Michael McMahon

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). Project Leader (1987-92). Principal Researcher (1992-95). Specialty Products Business Leader (1995-99)Hseen BaledMichael McMahon ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Team Building Games to Reinforce the Training of Chemical Engineering Students in Team Skills Based on Collaboration LeadershipIntroductionTeam building games or activities are popular at work [1] - [3], and college [4]. Team games arecreative activities that simulate team performance at relatively simple and engaging tasks butoffering practice and reflections to apply to real job situations. They can be used when starting anew team project or sometimes later to address conflicts, to encourage positive attitudes, or tounveil new

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 5: Work-in-Progress Part 2

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gaurav Giri, University of Virginia

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techniques. A few reasons could explain the results. One, as the students spend a disproportionateamount of time using analytical solutions, they are more likely to recall instances where theirknowledge was limited. Conversely, good programming technique is not utilized heavily in thecore curriculum, so they do not have the chance to continuously struggle with new material, andthus have an inflated sense of knowledge concerning the material. Another reason could be that,it is possible that the coding-heavy nature of the course enabled the students to remember goodprogramming practices, and this is reflected in the subsequent semesters. The lowest self-rating was given to the question “I can code my own numerical solutionsto PDEs

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 7: Innovative Pedagogy

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elif Miskioglu, Bucknell University

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everything before writing a first draft, is an incrediblyimportant piece of the process of writing that forces the writer to begin organization and synthesisprior to drafting [2-5]. The motivation for this work comes from a decade of experience teachingtechnical and professional communication to engineering graduate and undergraduate students andthe observed resistance to engaging in prewriting. The majority of students encountered prefer tojump straight into writing, seeing prewriting as a cumbersome task that takes up time withoutseemingly obvious benefit. Reflecting on student resistance to pre-writing activities, such as thepopular outlining, raised the question of what other, perhaps less traditional, approaches might beoffered to students as

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 3: Work-in-Progress Part 1

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Deesha Chadha, Imperial College London; Umang Vinubhai Shah, Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, South Kensington, London SW7 2AZ

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jaded sometimes, and the response isn’t particularly specific to be helpful. • You turn up, teach, move onto the next session and so on. I’d like a stop-gap, sort of reflective period and for someone to work through things with me … not just in the immediacy of a taught session but going forward and looking back.For the most part, our data sets suggest that mentoring could be either extremely or very useful, butany form of mentoring offered was either limited or non-existent. The data also shows that GTAs findvalue in engaging with both academic experts and education-based staff, although there is a slightpreference for subject-based colleagues. However, there is currently very little evidence of this inplace, or that

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 9: Student Experiences in Laboratory Courses

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer R. Brown, Montana State University, Bozeman; Stephanie G. Wettstein, Montana State University, Bozeman; Douglas J. Hacker, University of Utah

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essentially more of a coaching ratherthan correcting[2], and collaboration with communication experts for training is one approach todevelop more efficient and purposeful grading rubrics. The goal of rubrics is to reflect the skillstargeted in the assignment in order to effectively evaluate technical communication[2].In previous work, the lead instructors for a two-part series of senior-level chemical engineeringunit operations laboratory courses worked with the Writing Center on campus to developassignments and activities targeted at specific technical communication skills[9]. Through thiscollaboration, preliminary rubrics were developed to assess communication skills tied to learningoutcomes. These rubrics were constructed based on reflecting what

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 9: Student Experiences in Laboratory Courses

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Heather Chenette, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Gregory T. Neumann, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Daniel Anastasio, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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student perceptions change over the duration of the first laboratory course? • To what extent do these experiences differ for students enrolled in the traditional course and the revised course?By providing thematic analysis of these responses, we hope to glean further insight into themerits and limitations of both modes of class operation. While the quantitative analysis wasuseful for observing general shifts in knowledge, skills, and attitude, there is value in readingstudents’ reflections that allow for context. Since student responses on Likert scale questions canbe subjective and personal, we anticipate that qualitative analysis of the open-ended responseswill expose the deeper thought processes of our students, allowing us to

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 4: Junior & Senior Year Curriculum

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joaquin Rodriguez, University of Pittsburgh; Schohn L. Shannon, University of Pittsburgh; Michael McMahon; Hseen Baled

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projectreports on dedication, contributions, and reflections. It is intended to replicate an annualperformance evaluation in job environments.Table 1 reports the average grades for the two projects in one section of 35 students. The resultsshow significant improvements in the grades for the second project grades over the first project,which is attributed to better training and expertise in the lab and assignments as a result ofincreasing experience. Presentations resulted in the lowest grades as the panel of four membersidentified weaknesses in procedures, results, and performance at presenting, followed closely byreport grades. The averages compounded by the instructor are lower than the self-evaluationwhere some students honestly reflected some

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 6: First-Year & Sophomore Year Curriculum

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tanner Hilsabeck; Breanne Crockett; Amir Parsaei; Kevin S. Xu, Case Western Reserve University; Matthew W. Liberatore, The University of Toledo

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40% female students. These percentages areindicative of gender at birth; other gender-related terms [24] and discussion may be relevant butare outside of the scope here.In total, 60,000 completed animation views were analyzed. Animation view time accounts for thetime that a student watches all steps in an animation, e.g., four steps in Figure 1. After the actionsof an individual animation step are complete, a student may pause and reflect or immediatelyclick to start the next step. We investigate the animation view times for the first time a studentwatches each animation. Re-watching an animation or intermediate steps in an animation beforecompleting an animation view can occur but are not investigated further. A limitation of the

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 4: Junior & Senior Year Curriculum

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Taryn Melkus Bayles, University of Pittsburgh; Joaquin Rodriguez, University of Pittsburgh; Robert Enick

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in class example problems and homework problems (as identified in the textbook).These problems involve calculations associated with safety concerns (leaking tanks, tankruptures, asphyxiation, LFL, etc.) and often require student reflections as to how the safetyincident could be avoided. Similar problems are also part of the weekly quizzes and/or examquestions. In addition, in recent semesters, each class period starts with an ice breaker. The icebreaker is a short activity, typically started as students arrive in the classroom, with a randomquestion, which allows the students to get to know one another. After the first few week of thesemester, the ice breaker questions transition to topics more relevant to chemical engineering,and often

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 3: Work-in-Progress Part 1

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Matthew Cooper, North Carolina State University, Raleigh; Lisa G. Bullard, P.E., North Carolina State University, Raleigh

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earned a graduate degree in ChE through their studies. With this in mind,one comparison that we intend to make is comparing the frequencies of earning a degreebetween Groups 1 and 2. This comparison would seem to show whether the graduate bridgingcourses helped students achieve their ultimate goal: a graduate degree in ChE. However, thiscomparison is somewhat fraught by the idea that some students may take the bridging courses (orad-hoc measures) and realize that they no longer wish to pursue a graduate degree in ChE, thusnot applying to or dropping out of the graduate program entirely (which is not necessarily a“bad” outcome and does not necessarily reflect the quality of their preparation - graduate ChE isnot everyone’s cup of tea!) We are

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 4: Junior & Senior Year Curriculum

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Zuyi Huang, Villanova University

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with consideration of consequences, unintended and intended. 9. Communication and Teamwork • Communicates through audience-specific written, graphical/visual, oral and interpersonal communication skills.The project evaluation approach Students’ projects were evaluated by the instructor on how much their project proposals andreports reflected the aforementioned 9 core EOP values. A rubric was created for each EOP corevalue so that the students of each team were assigned one of the following assessments: • Category of “Excellent”: complete mastery of the concept with no to very minor (e.g. non conceptual) errors – you would rate this selection of student work as an “A”. • Category of “Good”: Mastery of the

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 10: Teaming and Professional Skills

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cheryl Carrico, P.E., E4S, LLC; Holly M. Matusovich, Virginia Tech; Sreyoshi Bhaduri, ThatStatsGirl

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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 9: Student Experiences in Laboratory Courses

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Caroline Crockett, University of Virginia; George Prpich, University of Virginia; Natasha Smith P.E., University of Virginia

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analyzer (IR Analyzer). Production of H2 is confirmed by measurement of CO2, because hydrogen and CO2 are produced in a 1:1 mole ratio.SurveyTo measure experimental self-efficacy, we modified a version of the ESE survey taken from [3].Table 1 presents the survey items. All questions used a 5-point Likert scale and responses rangedfrom strongly disagree (1) to strongly agree (5). Scores were averaged across all questions in afactor to calculate the descriptive statistics in the results section. Table 1. ESE questionnaire, adapted from Kolil et al. [3] and the mean and standard deviation of responses. The crossed-out words were removed from the original survey and replaced with the underlined words to better reflect the specific course setting

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 10: Teaming and Professional Skills

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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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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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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 7: Innovative Pedagogy

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Austin N. Johns, The State University of New York, Buffalo; Robert P. Hesketh, Rowan University; Matthew D. Stuber, University of Connecticut; Ashlee N. Ford Versypt, The State University of New York, Buffalo

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engineering curriculum. The views expressed in this paper are those of the author and do not reflect the official policy or position of the United States Air Force, Department of Defense, or the U.S. Government.Dr. Robert P. Hesketh, Rowan University Robert Hesketh is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Rowan University. He received his B.S. in 1982 from the University of Illinois and his Ph.D. from the University of Delaware in 1987. After his Ph.D. he conducted research at the University of CamProf. Matthew D. Stuber, University of Connecticut Dr. Matt Stuber is an Assistant Professor with the Dept. of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering and the Institute for Advanced Systems Engineering at the University of

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 7: Innovative Pedagogy

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Donald P. Visco Jr., University of Akron; Nidaa Makki, University of Akron; William Grover Brown

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.) Of course,this approach is just one way to prepare a study guide. Reflecting both on the previous work [7]and the known benefits of teaming within STEM (e.g., [3]), students could work together insmall teams to collaboratively prepare a study guide that each of the team members would useduring a quiz or exam. This was the strategy taken in the current student and, accordingly, theresearch question proposed in this work is as follows: “Does the construction method of a studyguide affect study guide usage on exams?” We proposed this research question owing to theknown effectiveness of collaborative learning [3], the benefits of a constructivist environment [8]and the suggestion on the benefits of peer-sharing in the creation of study guides

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Poster Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joe Woo, Lafayette College

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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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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 3: Work-in-Progress Part 1

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Olatunde Olu Mosobalaje, Covenant University; Moses Olayemi, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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from strengthening their problem-solving skills, exposing engineeringstudents to such coding experience confers attributes of systems thinking, creativity and deeperunderstanding of processes on students [10]. Additionally, such exposure enhances researchcapabilities of graduate students as it offers the opportunity to experiment new ideas.Pedagogically, computer program scripts written for teaching and learning purposes could bedeployed as tools to engage learners in simulation-based reflection on their performance in manualcomputations [11]. The teaching and learning of reservoir simulation, as a petroleum engineeringcourse module, stands to benefit a lot from this workflow coding approach. The reservoirsimulation body of knowledge is

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 1: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in ChE

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Deesha Chadha, Imperial College, London; Jerry Y.Y. Heng; Emerald Sun

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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

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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 8: Lab Module Development

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Maddalena Fanelli, Michigan State University; Ryan Daniel Atkinson, Michigan State University

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in a small box using an Arduino and MATLABSimulink was successfully designed and implemented, showing good servo and regulatorresponse. Multiple box dimensions and LEDs were tested. As expected, increased distancesbetween lights and photoresistor, reflective or absorbing internal surfaces, or increased box spacereduce the measured brightness level and impact the dynamics of the process. Addressing resetwindup and sampling time issues, adding filters, and using different controller types could allowadditional control exercises to implement in a control course.We look forward to using this kit in the classroom and assessing student perceptions andlearning. We also hope that the current study may help spark new ideas and provide

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Poster Session

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jaafar Ballout, Texas A&M University at Qatar; Mamoun Al-Rawashdeh, Texas A&M University at Qatar

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similar approach in the future. However, they all recommended starting with a simpler case first to understand the learning method, then moving forward to a more advanced tutorial as the one offered to them.• The final stage is to introduce this intervention in the classroom for all students who are taking the Kinetics and Reactor Design. A structured assessment needs to be established to assess the students' learning experience. At the moment, the intention for the structured assessment is to provide the same questionnaire (in the form of reflection questions) to two different classes. The first class will be implementing Jupyter notebook as a tool in the assignments and course project along with in-class tutorials on how

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 8: Lab Module Development

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Maddalena Fanelli, Michigan State University; Alexis Chuong; Robert Selden, Michigan State University

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used to construct the small column,providing a small set of flooding and absorption results that confirm its performance. A list ofparts and some representative figures are included in the appendix. Although the data presentedin this paper are limited, we are confident that they reflect the viability of the system. In thespring semester of 2023, the column was used in the teaching lab and the data set was expandedfor better validation.The Absorption ColumnThe existing large-scale packed column is made of glass, spans two floors, and has an ID of 3”and a packing height of 100”. The main body of the small-scale column consists of a 2” Schedule40, transparent PVC pipe, with an ID of 2” and a packing height of approximately 16.5”. Bothcolumns are