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Kenneth Reardon

Achieved in: Introduce students to the engineering design process Lab Introduce students to engineering problem solving methods Lab Provide experience with measurements, including statistical analysis Both Introduce basic engineering calculations (material and energy balances, fluid Lecture mechanics, heat transfer) Introduce students to the engineering profession (especially the fields of Lecture Bioresource and Agricultural Engineering, Chemical Engineering, and Environmental Engineering) and professional ethics Provide experience working with computers and the Internet Both Develop students’ teamwork skills

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Robert Weis

Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationLiquid/Liquid Extraction UnitThe liquid/liquid extraction unit consists of two 50 mm diameter by 1000 mm long packedcolumns, 50 liter light and heavy phase feed and storage vessels, and duplex metering pump. Allcomponents are manufactured from borosilicate glass to permit observation of internal functionsby the students. The unit is designed to study hydrodynamics and mass transfer in liquid/liquidextraction systems.Heat Transfer UnitThe heat transfer unit contains shell-and-tube and coil heat exchangers made from borosilicateglass. The unit permits investigation of material and energy balances as well as the influence offlow rate on

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Richard Seagrave; R. Vigil; Debra Hawker-Schreiner; Charles Glatz

; Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationFor questions 8 to 16, select one of the following responses: 1) Strongly disagree 2) Disagree 3) Somewhat agree 4) Agree 5) Strongly agree8. You understand and are able to develop and use material and energy balance equations:9. You can create process diagrams for simple and moderately complex chemical systems:10. You can solve material and energy balance problems using various computational tools:11. This course provided you with an opportunity to develop an ability to identify, formulate and solve engineering problems:12. This course provided you with an opportunity to develop skills in engineering design:13. This course provided you an opportunity

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2001 Annual Conference

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Mark Worden; Carl Lira; Daina Briedis

content from material and energy balances,thermodynamics, and reaction engineering. The course topics include units and dimensionalconsistency; material balance procedures for single and multiple units including chemicalreactions; the energy balance; the entropy balance; process thermodynamics; real gas properties;calculation of real gas enthalpies and entropies; Raoult's law and modified Raoult's law; fittingkinetic rate laws; reactor design equations for batch, plug flow, and mixed flow reactors; seriesand parallel arrangements of reactors; reactor design for parallel reaction pathways and seriesreactions; reaction equilibrium; and nonisothermal reacting systems. A course overview with anentire lesson list is available at http://vu.msu.edu

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2001 Annual Conference

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Thomas Ho; Jack Hopper; David Cocke; Daniel Chen; Carl Yaws; Kuyen Li; John Gossage

solve this problem, the students need to make extensive use of process modelingsoftware such as HYSYS or Aspen both to obtain the material balances and to model and design(size) the equipment.Curriculum ChangesThe undergraduate chemical engineering curriculum at Lamar University is undergoing twochanges this semester. First, since the ultimate goal of this project is to include CAMS in everyundergraduate chemical engineering class, we have decided to teach the basics for many of thesecomputer programs in a single required sophomore-level class, Computer-Aided Modeling andSimulation, which will be offered concurrently with our material and energy balance course.This class will be offered for the first time in the Spring 2001 semester. This one

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Robert Y. Ofoli; Mackenzie Davis; Craig W, Somerton

Academy ofEnvironmental Engineers.ROBERT Y. OFOLIRobert Y. Ofoli is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Michigan State University. He has taughtseveral undergraduate level courses, including material and energy balances, mass transfer and separations, and theunit operations laboratory; he has also taught a course on colloids and surfaces at the graduate level. His research isin the general area of colloids and surfaces, with emphasis on macromolecular adsorption and interactions at liquid-liquid interfaces. He eared his Ph.D. in chemical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University in 1994. Page 6.118.9

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Barbara Greene; Connie Dillon; Billy L. Crynes

. 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