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- Felipe Anaya, The University of Kansas; Claudia J. Bode, The University of Kansas; Kent Smith, The University of Kansas; Mark B Shiflett P.E., The University of Kansas
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Paper ID #48348Undergraduate Research Experience Uses Drawing and Art to Bolster Understanding,Communication, and Innovation in EngineeringProf. Felipe Anaya, The University of Kansas Felipe Anaya is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Chemical & Petroleum Engineering at the University of Kansas (KU). Dr. Anaya is the director of the NSF-funded Chemical Engineering REU program and Director of the Chemical Engineering Laboratories. He received his PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Oklahoma and joined KU in 2021.Dr. Claudia J. Bode, The University of Kansas Claudia Bode is the Education
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- George Prpich, University of Virginia; Natasha Smith, University of Virginia; Caroline Elizabeth Crockett, University of Virginia; Anukriti Shrestha, University of Virginia
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Paper ID #44201Building Better Engineers: Teaching Chemical Engineers to Troubleshoot inthe LaboratoryDr. George Prpich, University of Virginia Dr. Prpich is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Virginia. His primary pedagogical interests include professional skills development and laboratory safety training and culture. He has a B.Sc. from the University of Saskatchewan and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Queen’s University. Beyond his pedagogical research, Dr. Prpich has expertise in bioprocess engineering, environmental engineering, and environmental risk management. Outside academia
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- Laura P Ford, The University of Tulsa; Janie Brennan, Washington University in St. Louis; Heather Chenette, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Matthew Cooper, North Carolina State University at Raleigh; Kevin D. Dahm, Rowan University; Luke Landherr, Northeastern University; David L. Silverstein P.E., University of Mississippi; Stephen Ward Thiel P.E., University of Cincinnati; Troy J. Vogel, University of Notre Dame; Jacqueline Gartner Ph.D., Campbell University
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Paper ID #47605How We Teach: Transport Phenomena and ApplicationsDr. Laura P Ford, The University of Tulsa Laura P. Ford is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Tulsa. She teaches engineering science thermodynamics and fluid mechanics, separations/mass transfer, process control, and chemical engineering senior labs. She is an advisor for TU’s student chapter of Engineers Without Borders - USA.Dr. Janie Brennan, Washington University in St. Louis Janie Brennan is a Senior Lecturer of Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. Her research
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- Laura P. Ford, The University of Tulsa; Janie Brennan, Washington University in St. Louis; Heather Chenette, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Jennifer L. Cole, Northwestern University; Kevin D. Dahm, Rowan University; David L. Silverstein P.E., University of Kentucky; Stephen Ward Thiel P.E., University of Cincinnati
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Paper ID #41217How We Teach: Chemical Engineering ElectivesDr. Laura P. Ford, The University of Tulsa Laura P. Ford is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Tulsa. She teaches process control and chemical engineering senior labs. She advises research in the delayed coking refinery process and TU’s Engineers Without Borders - USA chapter.Dr. Janie Brennan, Washington University in St. Louis Janie Brennan is a Senior Lecturer of Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. She earned her BS in Agricultural and Biological Engineering from Purdue
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- Leveraging AI and Computational Tools for Enhanced Learning
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- Christopher V.H.-H. Chen, Columbia University; Sakul Ratanalert, Columbia University in the City of New York
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Paper ID #45867Development of an MEB Novice Chatbot to Improve Chemical EngineeringCritical ThinkingDr. Christopher V.H.-H. Chen, Columbia University Christopher V.H.-H. Chen, Ph.D., is a Lecturer in the Discipline of Chemical Engineering at Columbia University. His teaching and research interests include the application of case- and problem-based approaches to STEM learning experiences; the promise and challenges of AI and online learning; how social and emotional interventions improve engineering education; and preparing graduate students as future change leaders within the academy.Dr. Sakul Ratanalert, Columbia
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- Ruben D. Lopez-Parra, University of New Mexico; Vanessa Svihla, University of Texas at Austin
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' Representational Fluency when Designing in the Context of Fluids Mechanics AbstractIncorporating design into the engineering curriculum has become an educational priority, as itsignificantly influences students' learning, motivation, and development of an engineeringidentity, among other outcomes. While some research exists about the teaching and learningof engineering design in the first- and last- years of undergraduate education, the second andthird years have received comparatively less attention. This study contributes to this gap byexploring the design practices of third-year chemical engineering students. Particularly, itfocuses on students' ability to create and translate among multiple
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- Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 7: Innovative Pedagogy
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- Jiamin Zhang, University of California, Riverside; John Ellington Byars, Auburn University; Eric Burkholder, Auburn University
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Paper ID #37196Sensemaking of Block Flow Diagrams in Chemical EngineeringProf. Jiamin Zhang, University of California, Riverside Jiamin Zhang received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University, and went on to com- plete her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at the University of California Santa Barbara. After completing a postdoc in physics and engineering education at Auburn University, she joined the department of chemical and environmental engineering at the University of California Riverside as an assistant professor of teach- ing. Her teaching interests include fluid mechanics, soft matter, and engineering
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- Jennifer L. Cole, Northwestern University; Chris Barr, University of Michigan; Jamie Clark, University of Washington; Alexis N Prybutok, University of Washington
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course policies for students with physical and mental disabilities and chronicillnesses, enabling them to fully engage with this important experiential learning opportunity. Bymodeling accessibility through the lab design and course policies, as well as intentionallydiscussing workplace accessibility, laboratory instructors can teach students the importance ofdesigning and maintaining accessible spaces and the skills to achieve these goals in their futurework. In this study, we surveyed UO lab instructors to understand how, or if, accessible designis implemented in existing chemical engineering lab courses to understand how our institutionsand programs are supporting disabled and chronically ill students. We draw on our experienceand the survey
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- Christy Wheeler West, University of South Alabama; Joseph H Holles, New Mexico State University
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addressing the perceptions that chemical engineering faculty reported, it is helpful toknow something about them. More than half were from Carnegie-classified R1 institutions, withR2 institutions the next most common. The distribution is shown in Figure 1. Tenured or tenure-track faculty made up 95% of the respondents (Figure 2). Faculty were also asked to classify thenature of their research. Shown in Figure 3, the majority of respondents run programs thatinclude physical laboratory experiments, but significant numbers also engage in modeling anddata analysis. Approximately half chose more than one description. Figure 4 shows how longthe respondents have been faculty members, with about a quarter in the first six years andanother quarter in the
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- Sakul Ratanalert, Columbia University; Franklin Hsu, The Johns Hopkins University; Nagma Zerin, The Johns Hopkins University
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Paper ID #44357Work in Progress: Building Conceptual Understanding in the Mass and EnergyBalances Course through Qualitative Analysis and Interactive DemonstrationsDr. Sakul Ratanalert, Columbia University Sakul Ratanalert is a Senior Lecturer in Discipline in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Columbia University. He received his BS in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from Cornell University, and his MS in Chemical Engineering Practice and his PhD in Chemical Engineering from MIT. His current research interests include developing engaging learning activities and building students’ intuition and conceptual
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- Neha B. Raikar, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Fernando Mérida, University of Florida
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Paper ID #42126Work-in-progress: Elevating Chemical Engineering Outreach Through CollaborativeEfforts Showcasing Fluid Flow ExperimentsDr. Neha B. Raikar, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Dr. Raikar is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, in the Chemical, Biochemical, and Environmental Engineering department. She has taught both undergraduate and graduate-level courses. Dr. Raikar also has 3 years of industry experience from working at Unilever Research in the Netherlands.Dr. Fernando M´erida, University of Florida Fernando Merida is an Instructional Assistant Professor in the Chemical
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- Zachary Rasmussen, University of Utah; Anthony Butterfield, University of Utah
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Paper ID #41485Curriculum and Teaching Load in Top-Ranked U.S. Chemical EngineeringDepartmentsZachary Rasmussen, University of Utah Zachary Rasmussen is a sophomore in chemical engineering at the University of Utah. He’s an undergraduate researcher with an interest in the application of machine learning networks in chemical engineering processes.Prof. Anthony Butterfield, University of Utah Anthony Butterfield is an Associate Chair and Professor (Lecturer) in the Chemical Engineering Department of the University of Utah. He received his B. S. and Ph. D. from the University of Utah and a M. S. from the University of
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- Benjamin Miles Phillips, Baylor University; Alexandre Yokochi, Baylor University; Anne Marie Spence, Baylor University
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Paper ID #41062Work In Progress: Enhancing Thermal and Fluids Laboratory Learningthrough the Integration of the Heat Exchanger Module (HEM)Benjamin Miles Phillips, Baylor University Ben Phillips is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Baylor University, working as a Research Assistant in the Baylor Energy And Renewable Systems (BEARS) Lab. His research interests are in Energy Storage and Renewable Systems, with projects focused in Concentrated Solar Thermal Energy Storage. He aspires to become a lecturer in the field of Chemical or Mechanical Engineering.Alexandre Yokochi, Baylor UniversityDr. Anne
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- Ashlee N. Ford Versypt, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Jeffrey R. Errington, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; David A. Kofke, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Maura Sepesy, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Mark T. Swihart, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
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Paper ID #41852A Departmental Research Methods Course to Support New UndergraduateResearchersDr. Ashlee N. Ford Versypt, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York Dr. Ashlee N. Ford Versypt is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University at Buffalo (UB), The State University of New York. She is also an Affiliated Faculty in the Department of Engineering Education, Department of Biomedical Engineering, and the Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science.Dr. Jeffrey R. Errington, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York Dr. Jeffrey R
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- Laila Abu-Lail, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Andrew R Teixeira, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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academic community for many years, teaching both undergraduate and graduate courses and advising student projects. Her research interests include water treatment technologies, the development of sustainable solutions for plastic waste recycling and management, and engineering education. She is particularly interested in teaching chemical and environmental engineering courses, as well as exploring the social impact of engineering education.Prof. Andrew R Teixeira, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Andrew Teixeira is Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and classically trained chemical engineer with specialties in the fields of dynamic chemical reaction engineering and materials
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- Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 9: Student Experiences in Laboratory Courses
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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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interests are community-based learning, open-ended laboratory experi- ments, teamwork, collaborative and active learning, and Transport Phenomena computational modeling.Kelly Bohrer, University of Dayton Kelly Bohrer is the Executive Director of the ETHOS Center, a community engagement center connecting students, faculty, and staff with NGOˆa C™s around the world for technical projects as part of immersions, teaching, and scholarly activity. She also is thDr. Matthew Dewitt, University of Dayton Matthew DeWitt is a Distinguished Research Engineer at the University of Dayton Research Institute. He received his B.S. in chemical engineering from The Ohio State University and his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from
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- Chris Barr, University of Michigan; Sarah A Wilson, University of Kentucky; Janie Brennan, Washington University in St. Louis; Joanne Beckwith Maddock, Carnegie Mellon University; Tracy L. Carter, Northeastern University; Samira Azarin Azarin; Amy J. Karlsson, University of Maryland
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and Chemical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. She earned her BS in Agricultural and Biological Engineering from Purdue University in 2010, and her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering (also from Purdue) in 2015. She teaches several core engineering courses, including thermodynamics, separations, unit operations lab, and zymurgy, and her research has focused on understanding best practices for teaching and learning in these courses.Dr. Joanne Beckwith Maddock, Carnegie Mellon University Joanne Beckwith Maddock is an assistant teaching professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. She earned her B.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Toledo in 2013, her
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- Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 3: Work-in-Progress Part 1
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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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Paper ID #37143Work-in-Progress: Developing a Research Plan for a RetrospectiveAnalysis of the Effect of Bridging Courses on Student Success inGraduate StudiesDr. Matthew Cooper, North Carolina State University, Raleigh Dr. Matthew Cooper is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at North Carolina State University where he teaches courses in Senior Design, Unit Opera- tions, Transport Phenomena, Material & Energy Balances and Mathematical/Computational Methods. Dr. Cooper’s research interests include effective teaching, process safety education and conceptual learning
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- Honoring the Legacy of Lisa Bullard: A View of the Present and Future
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- Taryn Melkus Bayles, University of Pittsburgh; Emily R Kerr, University of Pittsburgh
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Distinguished Teaching Award, and Excellence in Mentoring and Public Service awards; and is the 2024 ASEE Chair-Elect of the Chemical Engineering Division.Emily R Kerr, University of Pittsburgh ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Community Building in Chemical EngineeringCommon First-Year Engineering Program:At the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) for over twenty years, all first-year engineering studentspursue a common academic program consisting of mathematics, chemistry, physics,humanities/social science electives, and two specially designed first year engineering courses[1].These courses were further refined ten years ago to provide each student with an overview of thefields and
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- Dat Huynh, University of Delaware; Joshua A Enszer, University of Delaware; Marianthi Ierapetritou, University of Delaware
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Paper ID #46276Work-in-Progress: Integration of Matlab Live Scripts and Simulink for TeachingChemical Process ControlMr. Dat Huynh, University of Delaware Dat Huynh is a PhD candidate in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Delaware. He received his B.S. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Mathematics from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2019. Before beginning his graduate studies, he worked as a process engineer at ExxonMobil. He is a recipient of the GAANN Fellowship and the Departmental Teaching Fellowship at the University of Delaware. His research focuses on sustainability
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- Sandra Walter Huffman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Milo Koretsky, Tufts University; Warren P. Seering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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University. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from UC San Diego and his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley,Prof. Warren P. Seering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 WIP: Alignment and Misalignment of Instructor Values Between Research and TeachingI ntroduction: This work-in-progress paper describes initial analysis of three interviews from a twenty-interviewstudyofthermodynamics,fluiddynamics,andtransportprofessors.Thegoalof the larger study is to better understand how university faculty viewmodelingintheirresearch andclassrooms
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- Margot A Vigeant, Bucknell University
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institutions. Introduction and Background Two di erent food courses are taught in Chemical Engineering at Bucknell University. CHEG 442: Applied Food Science & Engineering is over a decade old and is an upper-level senior elective primarily taken by chemical engineers but open to other senior and junior students in engineering and the sciences. CHEG 442 assumes students have some familiarity with heat transfer, thermodynamics, as well as basic physics and chemistry. This course is almost exclusively taught in-person in a laboratory space so that the “lecture” and “lab” elements of the course occur as needed within the 100-minute class period. The course is problem-based
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- Leah Granger, North Carolina State University; William Buren Parker, North Carolina State University; Laura Bottomley, North Carolina State University
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Paper ID #44457Work-in-Progress: Introduction of a Computational TA Role to Support UndergraduateTraining in Computational Thinking Strategies for Chemical EngineeringApplicationsDr. Leah Granger, North Carolina State University Dr. Leah Granger is a postdoctoral researcher for Engineering Education and a course instructor for the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department at North Carolina State University.Mr. William Buren Parker, North Carolina State University William Parker is a graduate student at North Carolina State University working towards a degree in Chemical Engineering. He assists in this project as the
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- Allen Hersel, Trine University
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explanations of models, helping students to grasp and utilizethem more effectively. This combination of AI-driven guidance and independent research hasempowered students to tackle innovative projects with limited time.ConclusionThe integration of ChatGPT into an undergraduate research course on machine learning hassignificantly streamlined the research process, enabling students to achieve meaningful results inless time. By addressing technical challenges such as data preprocessing, code debugging, andalgorithm implementation, ChatGPT has empowered students to focus on creative problem-solving and deeper exploration of machine learning applications in chemical engineering. Evenstudents with limited programming experience have been able to approach
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- Carlos Landaverde Alvarado, University of Texas at Austin
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about New Graduates,” 2015. [Online]. Available: https://www.aiche.org/sites/default/files/docs/conferences/2015che_academicindustryalig nmentstudy.compressed.pdf.[5] J. Stransky, C. Bodnar, L. Bassett, M. Cooper, D. Anastasio, and D. Burkey, “Engineering process safety research instrument: Assessing students’ moral reasoning in process safety contexts,” Educ. Chem. Eng., vol. 42, no. July 2022, pp. 44–53, 2023, doi: 10.1016/j.ece.2022.11.004.[6] P. Kouwenhoven, “Process safety education: A comparative study,” Educ. Chem. Eng., vol. 36, pp. 128–142, 2021, doi: 10.1016/j.ece.2021.05.001.[7] B. K. Vaughen, “An approach for teaching process safety risk engineering and management control concepts using
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- Francis Ledesma, Cornell University; Allison Godwin, Cornell University; T. Michael Duncan, Cornell University
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Active LearningInitiative from the Center for Teaching Innovation at Cornell University. We would like to thankthe students who participated in this study for their earnest engagement and thoughtfulreflections. We would also like to thank the EngrD 2190 Teaching Assistants for their support inimplementing the inquiry labs and the members of the STRIDE Research Group for their insightand feedback on this work. We also thank the reviewers of this work for their helpful commentsand suggestions to improve this work.References[1] E. Favre, V. Falk, C. Roizard, and E. Schaer, “Trends in chemical engineering education: Process, product and sustainable chemical engineering challenges,” Education for Chemical Engineers, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. e22–e27
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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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Chemical Engineering at L.D. College of Engineering for 5 years before pursuing a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Imperial College London. Umang has developed surface preferential ap- proaches for nucleation and crystallisation of biological and complex organic molecules. More recently, he has worked as a Research Associate investigating the role of surface properties on particle-particle in- teraction and developed approaches for decoupling contribution of different surface attributes on powder cohesion. In 2012, as recognition to his contributions to Undergraduate laboratory teaching, he was been nominated for the Graduate Teaching Assistant Awards for the Faculty of Engineering. Umang currently has a role in leading
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- Matthew Cooper, North Carolina State University at Raleigh; Janie Brennan, Washington University in St. Louis
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personalconnections, and this study represents one step toward better understanding student perspectivestoward these emerging practices.”The other author of this study (JB) is a middle-aged white female from the Midwestern UnitedStates who has been teaching university chemical engineering courses for nearly a decade. Thiswas the second time she had taught the course taken by Group 2. She approaches this study fromher own experiences both as a student and an instructor, in which she has seen how important thestudent-instructor relationship can be for learning. She was intrigued by the previous work of hercoauthor and wanted to explore the depth of this simple and efficient method of studentengagement. She also approaches this with a deep interest in research
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- Ronald Carl Hedden, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Joel L. Plawsky, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Xiatao Sun, Yale University; Alex Joseph Rishty, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Caitlin Gee, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Jose Alejandro Luchsinger, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Paper ID #46255Virtual Reality in Chemical Engineering Laboratory EducationDr. Ronald Carl Hedden, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Ronald C. Hedden is Professor of Practice in the Dept. of Chemical and Biological Engineering at RPI. His research and teaching interests cover both Chemical Engineering and Polymer Science. Dr. Hedden’s research has recently focused on the use of Virtual Reality in the classroom and laboratory.Prof. Joel L. Plawsky, Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteXiatao Sun, Yale University Xiatao Sun is currently a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Yale University. His research focuses on spatial
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- Erick S. Vasquez-Guardado, University of Dayton
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podcasting in anupper-level manufacturing course, deepening subject understanding by translating technicalresearch into spoken media and enabling broader sharing on public platforms to a non-technicalaudience. In another study, as a team assignment, students created a podcast focused on a topicrelated to one of the Grand Challenges of Engineering.[10] Each team researched a specific aspectof the chosen challenge, collaborated to develop a cohesive vision for the podcast, preparedinterview questions, recorded guest interviews, and structured their segments into a unified andcoherent format based on the selected podcast type. The use of podcasts has also been documentedand assessed in an Introduction to Environmental Engineering class[11]. Students