classes, I developed special sessions about the role of chemical engineering in our life under the slogan that “the Chemical Engineering has wider career choices than virtually any other major”. We have also invited experts from industry and government institutions to participate in these classes. 2. The Chemical Engineering program has also made an attempt to organize with the Chemistry professors the teaching of the basic Chemistry courses, specifically on the freshman chemistry courses. Many of the students who changed major from Chemical Engineering attributed their decision to the difficulty of the freshmen Chemistry courses and their worries of the Chemical field to be the same. 3. With the Students
Paper ID #23631Effect of Online Recorded Video ”Review Session” on Student Test Prepa-ration and Performance for Fluid Mechanics Midterm at a University in theNetherlandsProf. Michael D M Barankin, Colorado School of Mines Michael D. M. Barankin is a Teaching Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines. Dr. Barankin received his B.S. and Ph.D. from the University of CA, Los Angeles in 2002 and 2009, respectively; and he received his M.S., graduating with honors, from the Technical University in Delft, the Netherlands (TU Delft) in 2004. After a post-doctoral appointment at TU Delft through
a virtual internship that is run throughout the semester in the sophomore level classwith students playing the game for approximately one hour of class time per week. Thisepistemic game was selected to be a part of this class for several reasons: (1) models the productdesign process, (2) allows the students to serve as interns for a product design company albeit ina virtual setting and (3) provides students the opportunity to get a firsthand appreciation for therole of customers, internal consultants and design constraints within the product design process.At the end of game play, student teams present posters of their design to a group of faculty andgraduate students for evaluation.Microsoft Project was selected to be included in the
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that teams consist of members with differing personalities, to promote studentcompatibility. However, some design programs have found the method employing personalitytesting can lead to a greater incidence of internal team conflict, when compared with teamsformed on the self-selection approach [3]. Student–selected teams have, in some instances, beenfound to perform better because such teams commonly display a greater level of student passionand commitment to the design task at hand [4].An aspect of the capstone design experience that is frequently unanticipated on the part of thestudents is team conflict [5]. There are a variety of reasons that conflicts arise within anengineering design team, ranging from personality conflicts and poor
impacts of ChemECar, the results have demonstrated that ChemE Car participants developed both technical skills,such as problems solving, and soft skills –– especially teamwork and led to better performance infuture (3, 4, 13, 14). One study done at a large public university in Spain examined ChemE Caras an application of Learning-by-Doing (LbD), a type of active learning that seeks to havestudents learn from their experience with hands-on projects, and found that ChemE Carparticipation achieved the same goals and purposes of implementing LbD in the classroom (13).A similar mechatronics-oriented competition in which students build low cost self-driving carssimilarly developed undergraduates’ skills for working in teams in hands-on situations (15
Department. She received her bachelor’s degree from Anderson University, worked in industry, received an MBA from Anderson University and is currently working with Prof. Bernard J. Van Wie on fabricating, optimizing, and implementing a miniaturized gasification system for use in the engineering classroom.Prof. Bernard J. Van Wie, Washington State University Prof. Bernard J. Van Wie did his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D., and postdoctoral work at the University of Oklahoma where he also taught as a visiting lecturer. He has been on the Washington State University faculty for 32 years and for the past 18 years has focused on innovative pedagogy research and technical research in biotechnology. His 2007-2008 Fulbright exchange to Nigeria
Industrial Arts Education, Pennsylvania State University OSU faculty member since 1984 Currently in the STEM education program 2013 International Technology and Engineering Educators Association Conference Co-Chair Currently Executive Director and a Past-President of the Ohio Technology and Engineering Educators AssociationLin Ding, The Ohio State University Lin Ding, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning at The Ohio State University. Dr. Dingˆa C™s scholarly interests lie in discipline-based STEM education research. His work includes theoretical and empirical investigation ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Work-in-Progress: The Effects of
the 2016 ASEE ChE Division Raymond W. Fahien Award. Dr. Cooper’s research interests include effective teaching, conceptual and inductive learning, integrating writing and speaking into the curriculum and professional ethics.Dr. Lisa G. Bullard, North Carolina State University Dr. Lisa Bullard is an Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at North Carolina State University. She received her BS in Chemical Engineering from NC State and her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. She served in engineering and management positions within Eastman Chem- ical Company from 1991-2000. A faculty member
engineering discipline in addition to starting to apply forinternship and co-op opportunities. The camp first introduces students to the department throughfacilities tours and engagement with faculty and upperclassmen. During these facultyengagement sessions the students have an opportunity to meet their courses’ instructors, whooffer tips for success and answer questions before any coursework begins. Upperclassmen serveas student mentors during the camp, offering informal advice and support. The camp also servesas a point of contact between students and local industry representatives recruiting intern and co-op candidates. These local industry representatives offer valuable career-formation advice to thestudents by hosting resume review and mock
will have a basic understanding about the topic and be prepared for the interactivehands-on session. We will also design a worksheet to help students understand neuronalmembrane concepts through hands-on experiments and observations. The content of theworksheet will be questions related to neuronal membrane concepts, ion channels, and the GHKmodel. They will discuss questions within the group, with the instructor or with the TA’s help.Before students start the experiment, they will be asked to discuss responses to the followingprompts: 1. Explain the formation of the action potential in neurons. 2. What will causedepolarization in a neuron? 3. In living cells, what ions are the main contributors to membranepotential? 4. How do you calculate
Excel and MathCad. In the previous semester to ProcessControl, most will have taken a course in Separations (ChE 4111); here MathCad and itsprogramming facilities are used extensively. This exercise was started in our course Process Control (ChE 4401, a 3-credit course); thismet for three 50-min lectures per week in a 15-week semester. The group of constituents andstakeholders, comprising students, faculty and members of our industrial advisory committee,(IAC) considered this exercise worthwhile and beneficial; this group encouraged us toincorporate it formally into our teaching of process control. A member of our IAC who works inan international controls company was especially enthusiastic. The course was modified so thatit now has two 50
faculty does takeadvantage of the upper division courses the students have taken. In some instances, the studentsactually guide their teammates through the brief details of the discipline-specific courses in just-in-time exercises. This allows the students to act as experts in their own disciplines−a situationthat is hard to achieve in the discipline-specific technical elective. This situation, coupled withteam leadership opportunities, entices the adventurous student to take the interdisciplinarycourse. Page 22.958.9Interdisciplinary co-teachingBoth courses are taught by interdisciplinary teams of instructors, one CHE and one ME facultyfor
sophomores we held a special session in a follow-on ChE class to address theseissues. Two ChE faculty not associated with this project and two of the authors (outside of ChE)facilitated a presentation and discussion among all the ChE sophomores. We addressed topics such asthe relative safety of the chemical industry, and the importance of understanding consequence,conducting a rigorous risk analysis, making informed career decisions, and the need for including humanaspects with their technical work. We did not do a formal evaluation of the session but our sense wasthat it was successful in providing closure and addressing some of concerns we saw in the surveys. Thestudents who spoke up during this session seemed interested in thinking ahead about
. Cooper moved to the Raleigh, NC area to serve as a research chemical engineer for RTI International, focusing on the development of novel technologies for the energy sector. Dr. Cooper joined the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at North Carolina State University in 2011, where he currently teaches the Unit Operations I and II labora- tory sequence, Material and Energy Balances, Transport Phenomena and Mathematical / Computational Methods. He is the recipient of the 2014 NCSU Outstanding Teacher Award and the 2014 ASEE South- eastern Section Outstanding New Teacher Award, as well as the 2013 Joseph J. Martin Award from the ASEE Chemical Engineering Division; he also currently serves as the ASEE ChE
American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Effective Teamwork Dynamics in a Unit Operations Laboratory Course1. IntroductionThe Chemical Engineering Unit Operations Laboratory is a unique course that relies heavily on acooperative team effort for successful learning that leads to a compelling laboratoryexperience[1-3]. In this course, team assignments play a critical role in the performance of agroup because every laboratory session involves peer interactions, hands-on experimentationfrom start to finish, data analysis and discussion, and a significant amount of writing time, i.e., aworkload that is intentionally more than one individual is expected to manage. The dauntingworkload for this course should
collaborativetoolkit, and this was used to post resources and facilitate asynchronous group discussion betweenVCP sessions. IMPACT This section describes the evaluation and results of the Virtual Community of Practice forChemical, Materials, and Biological Engineering Courses. This summarizes the results present-ed previously by Farrell and Krause.12Evaluation A pre/post VCP survey was used to evaluate three areas of impact: (1) participants’ familiari-ty with research-based pedagogical strategies before and after the VCP; (2) participants’ fre-quency of use of research-based pedagogical strategies before and after the VCP; and (3) studentmotivation with the implementation of the research-based pedagogy. The results for the 12 fac-ulty participants who
in data, etc. The author also contends that assigning the AE formatmakes it easier for instructors to identify student understanding of content compared to the DBPformat.3. Description of StudyThe author’s ChE program offers two required unit operations laboratory courses to its students:a four credit hour junior unit operations course (CHE 330) requiring three technical oralpresentations, as well as a two credit hour senior unit operations course (CHE 331) requiringthree technical oral presentations. In both courses, student presentations are scheduled to last for20 minutes (10-20 slides) followed by a 10 minute Q&A session with questions asked by theinstructor and fellow students enrolled in the section. Students are required to attend
version of desktop learning modules.David B. Thiessen, Washington State University David B.Thiessen received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Colorado in 1992 and has been at Washington State University since 1994. His research interests include fluid physics, acoustics, and engineering education.Prof. Bernard J. Van Wie, Washington State University Prof. Bernard J. Van Wie received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D., and did his postdoctoral work at the University of Oklahoma where he also taught as a visiting lecturer. He has been on the Washington State University faculty for 32 years and for the past 18 years has focused on innovative pedagogy research and technical research in biotechnology. His 2007
plus Depth Pedagogy (breadth ofmultidisciplinary experiences and depth of specific technical applications within the discipline)in which students have complementary experiences early in their undergraduate studies. Thesesophomore level courses lead into three upper division courses already in place. This duality(Breadth plus Depth Pedagogy) is reinforced in senior laboratory (ChE 415), through whichstudents synthesize both aspects in their capstone project, and potentially through their HonorsCollege thesis. Table 1. Nanotechnology Processes Option Class# Credits Title ENGR 221 3 The Science, Engineering and Social Impact of Nanotechnology (lec) ChE 214 4 Material and Energy Balances in
Engineering” Award in 2013. Coppens won several international awards for pioneering work on nature- inspired chemical engineering. In 2014, he became a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE). In 2015, he was also appointed as the first International Director of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Catalysis and Reaction Engineering (CRE) Division, and is active on AIChE’s International Committee and for the Particle Technology Forum (PTF). A passionate educator, he won the Rensselaer School of Engineering Innovation in Teaching Award in 2012. Other awards in- clude Young Chemist and PIONIER Awards from the Dutch National Science Foundation (NWO), an RSC Catalysis Science and Technology
valuable discussions about teaching theunit operations laboratory. Thanks also to Haefa Mansour (University of California, Berkeley),Robin Wheeler (Purdue University), Agnes Mendonca (Purdue University), and Hoon Choi(Purdue University) for sharing their experiences of being a student or TA in a unit operationslaboratory.References 1. Jimenez, L., et al. Unit operations laboratory using ill-posed problems. International Journal of Engineering Education, 19:717-720, 2003. 2. Abu-Khalaf, A. Z. Improving thinking skills in the unit operations laboratory. International Journal of Engineering Education, 17:593-599, 2001. 3. Young, B. R., et al. An experimental design approach to chemical engineering unit operations laboratories
development. He is the recipient of several ASEE awards, including the Fahein award for young faculty teaching and educational scholarship, the Corcoran award for best article in the journal Chemical Engineering Education (twice), and the Martin award for best paper in the ChE Division at the ASEE Annual Meeting.Dr. Sarah A Wilson, University of Kentucky Sarah Wilson is a lecturer in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering at the University of Kentucky. She completed her bachelor’s degree at Rowan University in New Jersey before attending graduate school for her PhD at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, MA. Sarah conducted her thesis research on the production of the anti-cancer compound Paclitaxel
scholarship, the Cororan award for best article in the journal Chemical Engineering Education (twice), and the Martin award for best paper in the ChE Division at the ASEE Annual Meeting.Dr. Lisa G. Bullard P.E., North Carolina State University Lisa G. Bullard is a Teaching Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at North Carolina State University. She received her B.S. in chemical engineering from NC State and her Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Carnegie Mellon Univer- sity. She served in engineering and management positions within Eastman Chemical Co. from 1991-2000. A faculty member at NCSU since 2000, Bullard has won numerous awards for both teaching
Genencor, a Danisco Division, where she developed a metabolic flux model for an enzyme production process. Additionally, after her postdoctoral research at the ETH-Zurich, she obtained a Science and Diplomacy Fellowship from the American As- sociation for the Advancement of Science to spend a year working in the U. S. Agency for International Development providing technical expertise to the Child Health Research Project which promoted research targeting the reduction of child mortality in third world countries. She has 19 publications and 2 patents, has received over $1MM in grants since joining SJSU. She currently serves on the Executive Committee of the ACS Biochemical Technology Division and on the advisory board of
Page 15.658.4 Computer, 2 credits. (10) - Florida State has a 1 credit computer programming and technical skills for all disciplines; details about how students learn about ChE were not available, class size about 400/year with section size ranging from 30 to 60. (15) - McMaster University offers 4 credits computing; 3 credits design, 3 credits profession with class size 900 sectioned into 10 sections (27). - Northwestern has a 2 credit course on Engineering Design and Communication, with class size 350 with 20 per section. It features an integrated introduction to the engineering design process and technical communication; approaches to unstructured and poorly defined problems; conceptual
Bagajewicz M., "Energy Retrofit with Simultaneous Optimization for a Crude Fractionation Unit", Latin American Applied Research, vol. 31, no. 5, 2001.17 Farrell S., Hesketh R. P., Savelski M. J., and Slater C. S., “A model for collaboration between academia and industry”, Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Chemical and Process Page 11.150.9 Engineering, Session B4, Prague, Czech Republic, August 2004.18 Farrell, S. Hesketh, R.P., Savelski, M.J., Dahm, K., Slater, C. S., “Membrane projects with an industrial focus in the curriculum,” Chemical Engineering Education, vol. 37, no. 1, 2003.19 Pekula, N., B. Kuritz, J. Hearne, A. J
Teaching Excellence, and is a fellow of the American Chemical Society. She is active in the American Chemical Society as a Science Coach and Past Chair and Councilor for the Division of Polymeric Materials: Science & Engineering; in RadTech as a standing member of the Technical Con- ference Review Committee; and for Project Lead the Way as an Affiliate Professor. She was selected to participate in the National Academy of Engineering’s Frontiers of Engineering Education (FOEE) and the American Society for Engineering Education’s Virtual Community of Practice (VCP). She enjoys teach- ing chemical engineering and, as an alumna of FOEE and VCP, champions active learning principles and provides support for
tutorial sessions.12 Nevertheless, small group tutorials are not normally feasible andpractical when student enrolment is high.13For a typical class implementation, an alternative is to have small groups (3-5 students in agroup) in medium to large classes (20 to more than 100 students). In this case, instead of havinga dedicated tutor facilitating a group at all times during the tutorial, one or more floatingfacilitators may be utilized during class time. Peer monitoring and support is required because itwill not be possible for the facilitator be available for all groups at the same time. Although thisis more feasible in a typical course, it requires higher commitment and accountability on the part
Advancement of Teaching, Carnegie Classifications Data File, (2008).2. Boyer Commission on Educating Undergraduates in the Research University, "Reinventing undergraduate education: A blueprint for America's research universities," (1998).3. Bauer KW, Bennett JS, "Alumni perceptions used to assess undergraduate research experience," J. High. Educ., 74(2), 210-230 (2003).4. Kardash CM, "Evaluation of undergraduate research experience: Perceptions of undergraduate interns and their faculty mentors," J. Educ. Psychol., 92(1), 191-201 (2000).5. Van der Spiegel, J., Santiago-Aviles, J., & Zemel, J.N., “SUNFEST – research experience for undergraduates”, FIE Annual Conference Proceedings, 1997, http://fie.engrng.pitt.edu/fie97.6. Hathaway