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Laboratory and Research Skill Development

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

spring 2009, our faculty voiced concerns regarding discrepancies in the experiences thatstudents had performing research in different faculty labs, which is a sentiment also expressed byHolles and Howe [3]. Our department was interested in establishing general guidelines foractivities that all undergraduate research students should participate in. Examples includedcompleting a written report, oral presentation, literature review, etc. The department’sundergraduate committee discussed the issue and decided to split the undergraduate research forcourse credit experience into two integrated courses, with department approval, in May 2009.Fall 2009 was the first semester we required the 1-hour lecture component. The lecture sectionbrings together all

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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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Matthew Cooper, North Carolina State University, Raleigh; E. Daniel Cardenas-Vasquez, North Carolina State University, Raleigh

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

-qualityonline resources, etc. This study has shown that students have become comfortable engagingwith these online materials, and that access to these materials has impacted their decisions toattend class due to tangible benefits such as time savings and convenience. It would appear thatthese expectations and factors are unlikely to change – indeed, this is likely the new normal.With this in mind, if faculty wish to encourage in-person attendance toward facilitatingclassroom rapport, student social growth, etc., then we must be aware of the influences discussedin this study and consider adjusting classes (whether policies, content, delivery, etc.) as neededfor the reality of post-pandemic modern learning.References[1] M. Credé, S. G. Roch, and U. M

Conference Session

Laboratory and Research Skill Development

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico; Madalyn Wilson-Fetrow, University of New Mexico; Stephanie G Wettstein, Montana State University, Bozeman; Catherine Anne Hubka, University of New Mexico; Jennifer R Brown, Montana State University, Bozeman; Eva Chi, University of New Mexico

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the faculty advisor of the MSU SWE chapter since 2013 and is an Associate Director of the Montana Engineering Education Research Center.Ms. Catherine Anne Hubka, University of New Mexico Catherine (Cat) Hubka, MFA, holds dual appointments at the University of New Mexico in the Departments of Chemical and Biological Engineering (CBE) and Department of English. For CBE, she is embedded in the 300 and 400 labs where she supports curriculum rDr. Jennifer R Brown, Montana State University, Bozeman Jennifer Brown is an Associate Professor in the Chemical and Biological Engineering Department at Montana State University in Bozeman MT.Prof. Eva Chi, University of New Mexico Eva Chi is a Professor in the Department of

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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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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

Paper ID #39425Student Perceptions of the Place, Mode, and Teacher Contribution toTeamwork within Undergraduate Chemical EngineeringAbishek SekharDr. Peter Neal, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Dr Peter Neal is a Senior Lecturer in Process Engineering (Education Focussed) with the School of Chem- ical Engineering at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. He has more than 15 years’ experience teaching undergraduate and postgraduate engineering, focusing on developing his students’ design, inquiry, and professional skills. He currently leads the Faculty of Engineering’s work to increase

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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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Matthew Lucian Alexander, P.E., Texas A&M University, Kingsville

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Diversity

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

to present the faculty experiences in the 2021 ABET reviewand the new assessment program that arose in response to this 2021 ABET review in ourprogram. The impetus for this new program, the program details, and a summary of assessmentresults obtained over the first three semesters, are presented in this paper.The ABET conducted program reviews for the chemical engineering program at Texas A&MUniversity-Kingsville (TAMUK) most recently in 2015 and 2021. In 2015, the ABET programreview resulted in a concern that the topic of process safety and process hazards required greateremphasis in one or more courses in the chemical engineering program. This concern wasaddressed by incorporating process safety and process material hazards into two

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Promoting Inclusivity and Broadening Participation

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Betul Bilgin, The University of Illinois at Chicago

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Diversity

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

body andthe faculty/administration, bridging any gaps in communication and understanding regardingDEI issues. Monthly meetings were held between the faculty DEI chair and the studentcommittee to discuss the issues students were facing. These meetings were pivotal, providing aplatform for students to voice concerns—gathered both informally and formally from theirpeers—while maintaining anonymity. The student committee also participated in facultymeetings, offering a direct line of communication to other faculty members about DEI concernsand suggestions.Collaboration extended beyond the department, with the committees engaging with UIC's Officeof Diversity. This partnership allowed them to explore and learn about additional activities,training

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

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura P. Ford, The University of Tulsa; Jennifer Cole, Northwestern University; Kevin D. Dahm, Rowan University; Bruce K. Vaughen, American Institute of Chemical Engineers; Marnie V. Jamieson, University of Alberta, Canada; Luke Landherr, Northeastern University; David L. Silverstein, P.E., University of Kentucky; Troy J. Vogel, University of Notre Dame; Christy Wheeler West, University of South Alabama; Stephen W. Thiel, University of Cincinnati

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

andASEE Chemical Engineering Division newsletters and posted on social media. Fifty-eightinstitutions responded and are listed in Appendix B. Of those 58 institutions, 93% are on thesemester system, and the others are on quarters. Canadian institutions also responded, but theirresults will be presented at another conference in Fall 2023.FacultyCapstone design has special instructional needs. The survey asked a series of questions about thefaculty in general, the design faculty, how the design faculty spend their time, industrialcollaborators, and other faculty-related course issues. This section of the paper reports oncapstone design from the faculty point of view.One way of categorizing departments is by the faculty size. The most common faculty

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Joint Session: Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division and Chemical Division

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED), Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division (DELOS)

perceptionof students that all learning outcomes are equally important continued is a perception that wasshared with the faculty stakeholders. For students, all thirteen outcomes were ranked betweenmoderately and very important and had statistically the same importance. This is even morepronounced than the findings for the faculty survey, which showed the top eleven out of thirteenoutcomes as “moderately important (3)” or higher and the top 8 as statistically similar [13]. Thisis somewhat concerning, considering chemical engineering laboratory courses are already oftentasked with assessing many outcomes because of the experimental nature of the curriculum.Adequately covering all thirteen learning objectives in a single lab course is clearly

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WIP: Classroom Innovations

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

serve as a measureof need. These surveys will be administered each semester to monitor student needs over time sothe program may adapt accordingly.The faculty-focused assessment is conducted in the form of regularly scheduled meetings topromote continued collaboration and communication between the CTA and course instructors.This ensures that developed activities meet the needs and course learning objectives, fulfill theinstructor’s preferences for assignment format, and are adequately supported by the CTA. Theseactivities are made accessible to all instructors for continued use, feedback, and updates.To ensure the sustainability of the program, experienced CTAs will update training resources andhelp train new CTAs. A centralized repository of

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Poster Session

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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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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

the impact of engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental and socialcontexts” require faculty to include content and experiences for engineering students todemonstrate their abilities in addressing these broader impacts. Our chemical engineeringdepartment has structured the core curriculum for the last 20 years in a series of six sequencedPillar courses (5-6 credits) [1], [2], [3], [4], five of them with a companion lab course (1 creditunit) [5], and the capstone process design course integrated with a course on Ethics and Safety (2credits). In order to directly and quantitatively assess the achievement of these student outcomes,competency is measured in a variety of required courses across our curriculum using variousassignments

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

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Milo D. Koretsky, Tufts University; Lisa G. Bullard, P.E., North Carolina State University, Raleigh; Joshua A. Enszer, University of Delaware; Allison Godwin, Purdue University, West Lafayette ; Vanessa Svihla, University of Texas, Austin; Sindia M. Rivera-Jiménez, University of Florida

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

teaching and widespreadimpact. When asked about the DEI requirement, some faculty raised concerns, being careful toexpress that they valued DEI, but showing uncertainty about how, for instance, a description of alaboratory experiment could meet this requirement. This discussion suggests a need to supportauthors publishing under the new DEI guidelines. In this paper, we summarize some of the initialfindings from this work and also seek to continue and broaden the conversation with thecommunity through presentation in the ASEE Chemical Engineering Division.IntroductionChemical Engineering Education (CEE) has served education practitioners from the chemicalengineering and related communities for 60 years. However, over that time span, the landscapeof

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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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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

the case of the fall rubric, three constructs were removed and two new constructs were added(Table 1), Safety (“A” level description: “Contains all key safety concerns, hazards, and howeach issue will be handled considering high probability and most likely outcomes”) and OverallReport (“A” level description: "Work earning this score is ready to be passed on to a real client.In every way, it meets audience needs. Document/presentation is formatted and organized toguide to major points. Clear and interesting visuals and prose contribute to professional-levelquality. Overall report considerations include: Audience – Demonstrates a thoroughunderstanding of the audience and purpose that is responsive to the assigned task and who thereport was to

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WIP: Student Success and Sustainability

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alison Leigh Banka, University of Georgia

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

examAs an instructor, these common themes were unsettling. A common struggle I personally had wascovering the required content in lecture format and developing summative assessments thatcovered all the course content without being prohibitively long. I strongly felt that there was abetter method of instruction and assessment that would address these common issues, allowstudents to learn from their mistakes, decrease the stress students felt with each summativeassessment, and allow me to evaluate students on a wider range of questions than I could squeezeinto current summative assessments. This paper explores my journey implementing SBG into anengineering core course and its results, including student grades and feedback.Course redesign:In the

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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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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

ultimate goal of this project is to benefit students and faculty through well-definedand systematic interventions across the curriculum.IntroductionAcademic under-preparedness and student mental health are growing concerns for engineeringfaculty and staff [1]. Continued fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated previoustrends [2], [3]. As an illustrative example, Figure 1 shows midterm distributions fromsophomore-level thermodynamics and senior-level controls classes in Summer and Fall of 2021(both hybrid synchronous). A third of theclass scored over 85%, demonstrating thatstudents had been taught the technicalcontent and that the exam was of reasonabledifficulty and length. However, anabnormally high fraction of the class scoredin D-F

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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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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

the arrival of a new faculty member,over seven years ago, who required the successful completion of some SAChE (Safety andChemical Engineering Education Certificate program) modules into their assignments, as well assafety discussions in their classroom and design project discussions. The SAChE program is apartnership between AIChE and the Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS), industry andacademia to improve and accelerate process safety education at the university level. Theprogram consists of three level certificates (basic, intermediate, and advanced for a total of 32certificates which typically take 2-4 hours each to complete). At the same time, the departmentadopted the practice of direct assessments/continuous improvement

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Inclusivity, Mentorship, and Entrepreneurial Thinking

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Heather L. Walker, University of Arkansas ; Edgar C Clausen, University of Arkansas

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

, undergraduates and alumni. Afew of the many examples of successful mentoring are faculty-led programs that helpundergraduates with technical, ethical and professional problems [1]; the creation of graduatestudent communities as mentoring groups [2,3]; the mentoring of new graduate studentinstructors by existing graduate student instructors [4]; undergraduate student mentoring oftransfer students who are new to STEM [5] and residential peer mentoring of early engineeringstudents and at-risk students by upper-level undergraduates [6].In 2021, the Ralph E. Martin Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Arkansas(U of A) created an undergraduate mentoring program using departmental alumni as career pathidentification as well as professional

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Inclusivity, Mentorship, and Entrepreneurial Thinking

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joaquin Rodriguez, University of Pittsburgh

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

. Most of them have onefoot in college and one foot in industry or graduate programs. They expect the course to providea bridge between the “two worlds”, or between “the past and the future”.The capstone course at our institution has been described elsewhere [3]. Essentially, it is a five-credit-hour course, offered twice a year in the spring term (two sections) and in the summersession (one section). Spring sections normally enroll 30-50 students, and less than 20 in thesummer sessions. One faculty teaches each section. Spring sessions may have one or twoteaching assistants (graduate students). It focuses on a team project for the design of acommercial chemical plant, with supporting lectures on process synthesis and design, equipmentsizing

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WIP: Classroom Innovations

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Neha B. Raikar, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Fernando Mérida, University of Florida

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

40,000 undergraduate students enrolled inChE that year[1]. Despite these numbers, ChE undergraduate enrollment has been described ascyclic. The projected forecast is a new decline in enrollment for the next couple of years as aconsequence of factors including the dominant industry, job offer and demand, and a processcontrol-related oscillatory response influenced by graduation times, complex curricula, andsalary reward[2].Additionally, ChE freshmen matriculation has declined due to students leaving their major toother perceived “less pollutant” engineering disciplines such as those of civil, biomedical, andenvironmental. This poses a challenge for student retention, and it may be the result ofmisconceptions that chemical engineers will end up

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WIP: Student Success and Sustainability

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christopher V.H.-H. Chen, Columbia University; Courtney Pfluger, Northeastern University

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University Dr. Courtney Pfluger is an Associate Teaching Professor at Northeastern University. In 2011, began as an Assistant Teaching Professor in First-year Engineering Program where she redesigned the curriculum and developed courses with sustainability and clean water themes. In 2017, she moved to ChE Department where she has taught core courses and redesigned the Capstone design course with inclusion pedagogy practices. She has also developed and ran 9 faculty-led, international programs to Brazil focused on Sustainable Energy. She has won several teaching awards including ChE Sioui Award for Excellence in Teaching, COE Essigmann Outstanding Teaching Award, and AIChE Innovation in ChE Education Award. She also

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joaquin Rodriguez, University of Pittsburgh

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change reactive courseas displayed in Figure 9. Figure 9. Sample of an isolated step change reactive curve for the “small tank” liquid level experiment.A characteristic first-order transfer function can be derived from any single step-change reactivecurve (see reference [11] for concepts and procedures) as exemplified by equation (16) 𝐾 23.00 𝐺(𝑠) = = (16) 𝜏𝑠 + 1 334𝑠 + 1where the value of K (“gain”) is obtained by dividing the variation in the liquid level (from theprevious steady state of 2.156 cm high to the new steady state of 12.857 cm high, equal to

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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

Authors

Esohe Fawole, University of California, Davis; Glaucia Prado, University of California, Davis; William Ristenpart, University of California, Davis; Jason White, University of California, Davis

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University of Alberta. She teaches a variety of courses such as thermodynamics and senior kinetics lab and developed a new food engineering elective course for chemical engineering students that consists in applying engineering concepts in the context of food processing. Her research interests include students’ wellness, scientific history, inclusive teaching, and food engineering. She is currently piloting a new class that focus on student’s well being and success, community building, and providing academic support for chemical engineering courses.Prof. William Ristenpart, University of California, Davis William Ristenpart is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of California Davis and the founding