Conference Session

Focus on Entry Experiences in Chemical Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Suzanne M. Kresta, University of Alberta; Inci Ayranci, University of Alberta

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Chemical Engineering

Fellowship, she is teaching material and energy balances to 2nd year students under the supervision of Dr. Suzanne Kresta. Page 22.286.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Bi-modal No More: Shifting the Curve in Material and Energy Balances Courses In the early 1990’s, common wisdom stated that a bi-modal distribution in process analysisis “normal”, with a significant number of students needing to take the course twice before they“get” the material. As class sizes in second year chemical engineering at the University ofAlberta grew to over 100

Conference Session

SPECIAL SESSION: Educational Methods and Tools to Encourage Conceptual Learning I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew W. Liberatore, Colorado School of Mines

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Chemical Engineering, Educational Research and Methods

. Page 22.828.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Improved student achievement in Material and Energy Balances using personalized online homeworkAbstractPersonalized, online homework was used to supplement textbook homework, quizzes, and examsfor one section of a course in material and energy balances. The use of online homework duringthe Spring 2010 semester is summarized here and detailed by Liberatore in 1, and additionalresults from Spring 2011 will be included in the presentation. The objective of this study was totest the hypothesis that students using personalized, online homework earned better grades in thecourse. The online homework system asks the same questions of

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering in Silico

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew W Liberatore, Colorado School of Mines; Charles Russell Vestal, Colorado School of Mines

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Chemical Engineering

database of videosand questions that reinforce important course concepts like energy balances and phase behavior.Additional pilots from the 2010-2011 academic years will be included in the talk. A set ofexample problems and videos will be presented from a sophomore level engineeringthermodynamics course and a sophomore level material and energy balances course. Studentevaluations found a vast majority (79%) of the students felt better at relating real worldphenomena to thermodynamics from participating in YouTube Fridays. Overall, YouTubeFridays is a student led activity that provides practice of problem solving on open-ended, courserelated questions.IntroductionToday, most students enrolled in higher education were born in the 1980s or 1990s and

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Technology Curriculum Innovations.

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vassilios Tzouanas, University of Houston, Downtown

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Engineering Technology

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

Conference Session

Emerging Areas: Biotechnology, Microtechnology, and Energy

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Claire Komives, San Jose State University; Michael J. Prince, Bucknell University; Theresa A. Good, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Laurent Simon, New Jersey Institute of Technology; John P. O'Connell, University of Virginia; Jeffrey John Chalmers, Ohio State University, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; Erik Fernandez, University of Virginia

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Chemical Engineering

problems for the Material and Energy Balance Course. With continuing funding, fiveadditional core courses have been added: Kinetics and Reactor Design; Process Dynamics andControl; Heat and Mass Transfer; Fluid Dynamics; and Thermodynamics. Workshops were heldfor faculty to learn basic principles of biology and how engineering principles are applied inmany different aspects of modern biotechnology, from kinetics of biological reactions to fluidtransfer and process dynamics problems in whole organisms. Problems are organized bytextbook sections relevant for each course. There are over 300 problems posted on the websiteand the solutions to the problems are available only to registered faculty. The problems havebeen created by chemical engineering

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zenaida Otero Gephardt, Rowan University; Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University; Mariano Javier Savelski, Rowan University; Stewart Slater, Rowan University; Maryfaith Rodgers, Rowan University; Pavlo Kostetskyy, Rowan University; Keith McIver; Haddy Diallo; Kaitlyn Jean Zienowicz; Jason J. Giacomelli, Rowan University; Vladimir de Delva

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NSF Grantees

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

Conference Session

SPECIAL SESSION: Educational Methods and Tools to Encourage Conceptual Learning II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University; Ronald L. Miller, Colorado School of Mines; John L. Falconer P.E., University of Colorado, Boulder; Michael J. Prince, Bucknell University; Margot A. Vigeant, Bucknell University; Stephen J. Krause, Arizona State University; David L. Silverstein, University of Kentucky

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Chemical Engineering

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

Conference Session

FPD VI: Presenting "All the Best" of the First-Year Programs Division

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Beverly Louie, University of Colorado, Boulder; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder; Jacquelyn F. Sullivan, University of Colorado, Boulder

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First-Year Programs

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

Conference Session

Introducing Sustainability into Engineering Education

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jean D. MacRae, University of Maine

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Environmental 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