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2006-2521: A CONSTRUCTIVIST EXPERIMENT IN PARTICLE SETTLING ANDCENTRIFUGATIONBrian Lefebvre, Rowan University Brian G. Lefebvre is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Rowan University. He received his B.Ch.E. from the University of Minnesota in 1997 and his Ph.D. from the University of Delaware in 2002. Prior to joining Rowan, he performed postdoctoral research in protein structural biology at the University of Pennsylvania. His primary teaching interest is integrating biochemical and biomolecular engineering in the engineering curriculum. Page 11.35.1© American Society for
Mass transfer lab (brewing coffee; factorial design)7 Connections to future courses Mass transfer lab, continuedThe most important feature of this half of the course is the structure of the laboratoryassignments. The laboratory prompts are kept to about ½ page in length, introducing a problemor concept and tasking students to develop a hypothesis, design and conduct an experiment,analyze data, and discuss the implication of the results. A sample assignment is provided inAppendix B. Each design group meets with the course instructor once a week outside of class fora 15-minute meeting to discuss the previous and upcoming lab and address group dynamicsconcerns. (7)A group
Paper ID #11183Preliminary Evaluation of a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU)Program: A Methodology for Examining Student OutcomesD. Jake Follmer, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park D. Jake Follmer is a doctoral candidate in educational psychology at The Pennsylvania State University. His interests are in issues related to learning, assessment, and program evaluation.Dr. Sarah E Zappe, Pennsylvania State University, University ParkDr. Esther W Gomez, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Dr. Esther Gomez is an assistant professor in the Departments of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at the
85 89 88Bragging Points Earned, Average n/a n/a 51 59Weighted Bragging Points Earned n/a n/a 88 92Curve Given 1.5 1.0 0 0Earned A before curve 1 ( 4%) 7 (28%) 18 (50%) 11 (32%)Earned B before curve 24 (96%) 12 (48%) 18 (50%) 23 (68%)Earned C before curve 0 ( 0%) 6 (24%) 0 ( 0%) 0 ( 0%)Earned A w/ curve or Bragging Pts 8 (32%) 8 (32%) 19 (53%) 12 (35%)Earned B
about 20minutes), the instructor compiled all of the assessment sheets. After grading of the project reports,a final, detailed feedback form was provided to each team during finals week which summarizedthe assessment of their project. It also included the verbatim written assessments provided by thestudent peers and faculty.While the faculty and peer assessments (Groups 1 and 3) provided an evaluation on whether theproject demonstration met the objectives, the senior-class student assessment (Group 2) wasdifferent. This sheet is provided in Appendix B and had questions which focused on: • Whether those senior students would have learned the concept better if they had access to this DEMO when taking the course the previous year
NFigure 1. Communication with different audiences. a) Percent of total respondents indicating that theycommunicated with identified audiences and b) the frequency with which positive respondents (those who spoke withspecific audiences) communicated with these audiences.Students communicated most with engineers (in discipline (80%), out of discipline (72%)), non-engineers (with technical degree (74%), without technical degree (59%)), managers in engineering(69%) and external employees (contractors, suppliers, etc.) (57%). Of these, students had mostfrequent interactions with in-discipline engineers, with nearly 90% of students indicating veryfrequent (2-3 times per day) or frequent (1-2 times per day) interactions. Interestingly, 46 of the77
surveys,documentation, and reflections papers to address: a) What cultural resources were used bystudents to obtain community-centric and project-centric information? b) What culturalinformation was obtained and how useful was this information for the project design andunderstanding the community? and c) How were students impacted by the Learning Outcomes?A brief discussion of future plans for strengthening the GEO course will also be presented.Surveys, Documentation, and Reflection Papers.Surveys were developed in collaboration with faculty and students in the Department ofSociology at Brigham Young University. The surveys were administered using the Qualtricssoftware and included free-response questions, multiple-choice questions, rank order
work were previously presented at the ASEE Southeastern SectionAnnual Conference in 200818.References 1. Ennis, B. J., J. Green, and R. Davies, “Particle technology: the legacy of neglect in the U.S.,” Chem. Eng. Prog., 90(4), 32-43 (1994). 2. Nelson, R. D., R. Davies, K. Jacob, “Teach ’em particle technology,” Chem. Eng. Educ., 29, 12-16 (1995). 3. Chase, G. G., and K. Jacob, “Undergraduate teaching in solids processing and particle technology,” Chem. Eng. Educ., 32, 118-121 (1998). 4. Dave, R. N., I. S. Fischer, J. Luke, R. Pfeffer, and A. D. Rosato, “Particle technology concentration at NJIT,” Chem. Eng. Educ., 32, 102-107 (1998). 5. Donnelly, A. E., R. Rajagopalan, “Particle science and
. Olds, B. M. & Miller, R. L. The Effect of a First-Year Integrated Engineering Curriculum on Graduation Rates and Student Satisfaction: A Longitudinal Study. J. Eng. Ed. 93, 23- 35 (2004).7. Hersam, M. C., Luna, M. & Light, G. Implementation of Interdisciplinary Group Learning and Peer Assessment in a Nanotechnology Engineering Course. J. Eng. Ed. 93, 49-55 (2004). Page 14.24.12 11
RubricThe original version of the oral presentation rubric for our laboratory course is shown inAppendix A. This is an example of a scoring guide rubric. There is narrative of expectations ofan excellent presentation, but there is no clear rationale for what separates “excellent” from“very good,” for example. This presents a clear drawback when it comes to inter-rater reliability,as each evaluator has their own opinion for the different standards.The original video presentation rubric is shown in Appendix B. Arguably this is not an effectiverubric. It could generously be categorized as a scoring guide rubric as well.One proposal was to move toward more of a check-box style rubric, as described in Stevens andLevi [2]. However, the team quickly found
, negative $25, and $100 per ton for P, P2, and P3, respectively. (Note that this means producing P2 actually results in a financial loss.) The direct treatment option costs $300 per ton of W. Raw materials arrive to the plant at a rate of 7,500 tons of X and 10,000 tons of Y per day. Assume all reactions run to completion. Determine how much of each product and treated waste should be created per day to maximize refinery profits.Process Control Example Develop the set of dynamic equations that describe two isothermal CSTRs in series, depicted in Figure 1 on the next page, using an actuator/process/sensor model approach. Assume that a single irreversible reaction A→B occurs in this system where the rate of reaction is given by r=kC
were comparedagainst course grade (converted to Grade Points, so A=4, B=3, C=2, D=1) and subject to a linearor multiple linear correlation. The relationship between total score and course GPA aresomewhat correlated (α<0.05). The individual and predicted results are shown in Figure 2.Notably for this sample, the highest mind map rubric score for students earning D’s in the classwas 4 points; however, there were also several students with higher grades that also scored 3 or 4points on the rubric. The predicted course grade increases with increasing rubric score with aslope of 95% confidence interval 0.52 ± 0.46. More significant discussion will be added after alarger number of mind maps are assessed
,students gave an average rating of 4.4 or above to the following: This course wassuccessful at helping me a) gain factual knowledge b) learn fundamental principles c)learn to apply course material d) learn how to use resources to answer questions and e)acquire an interest in learning more. The statement “overall I rate this course asexcellent” received an average 4.6 on the same scale. Student comments reflect theirsense that the course was well designed “The experiments we did in class were a greatway to see the theory we discussed come true”; “It was a great way to connect what wewere learning to the everyday life of cooking.”. The main criticism for the course wasthat it had no dedicated kitchen-laboratory space
accelerate the reaction12. Extremely rapid DNA amplification times(under 10 min) are achievable in reactors designed to generate these flows (Fig. 2). Page 25.473.3 Fig. 2. Illustration of different flow fields emerging under PCR conditions, as evident in simulations at (a) h/d = 9 (38.2 µL reactor volume) and (b) h/d = 3 (18.5 µL reactor vikyne) with T = 53 and 96 °C at the top and bottom surfaces, respectively. In a tall narrow reactor (h/d = 9), reactions must run 20 min before visible PCR products are evident, whereas strong products are evident after only 10 min in a shorter wider cylinder (h/d = 3).PCR
, L. T. N.; Rocha, L. M.; Nguyen, C. B. C.; Houchens, B. C.; Bautista-Chavez, A. M.: Volunteerism in Engineering Outreach: Motivations and Surprising Outcomes for Undergraduate Mentors. In Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 2014 IEEE, 2014; pp 1-8.2. Clary, E. G.; Snyder, M. The Motivations to Volunteer Theoretical and Practical Considerations. Current Directions in Psychological Science 1999, 8, 156-159.3. Lane, N. Benjamin Franklin, Civic Scientist. Physics Today 2003, 56, 41-46.4. Nae Grand Challenges for Engineering. http://www.engineeringchallenges.org/.5. National Academy of Engineering: Changing the Conversation: Messages for Improving PublicUnderstanding of Engineering The National
& Environmental Engineering at Bucknell University (Lewisburg, PA, USA).Dr. Eliana Christou, University of North Carolina at CharlotteDr. Benjamin B Wheatley, Bucknell University Benjamin Wheatley was awarded a B.Sc. degree in Engineering from Trinity College (Hartford, CT, USA) in 2011 and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Colorado State University (Fort Collins, CO, USA) in 2017. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Bucknell University (Lewisburg, PA, USA). His pedagogical areas of interest include active learning ap- proaches, ethics, and best practices as they relate to computational modeling. He runs the Mechanics and Modeling of Orthopaedic Tissues
consistentapproach for students to organize data and theory and to effectively improve theirproblem-solving skills early in the undergraduate curriculum. This project was initiated by twoinstructors involved in a sequence of fundamental chemical engineering second-year courses:Course A is the fundamental mass and energy balances introductory course delivered to studentsduring the Fall term of their second year of engineering studies; and, Course B is the first courseof chemical engineering thermodynamics, taught during the Winter term of second year. The keyoutcome in proposing an effective and consistent approach to problem solving early in thechemical engineering curriculum is to enhance students’ learning experience by demystifyingwhat they perceived as
Paper ID #12614Results & Lessons Learned from a Chemical Engineering Freshman DesignLaboratoryProf. Anthony Edward Butterfield, University of Utah Anthony Butterfield is an Assistant Professor (Lecturing) 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 California, San Diego. His teaching responsibilities include the senior unit operations laboratory and freshman design laboratory. His research interests focus on undergraduate education, targeted drug delivery, photobioreactor design, and
AC 2012-5271: MULTI-DISCIPLINARY HANDS-ON DESKTOP LEARN-ING MODULES AND MODERN PEDAGOGIESProf. Bernard J. Van Wie, Washington State University Bernard Van Wie has been teaching for 29 years, first as a graduate student at the University of Oklahoma and then as a professor at Washington State University. Over the past 14 years, he has devoted himself to developing novel teaching approaches that include components of cooperative/collaborative, hands-on, active, and problem/project-based learning (CHAPL) environments.David B. Thiessen, Washington State UniversityDr. Marc Compere, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach FL Dr. Compere’s research in renewable and sustainable technology includes water purification for
with safety related issues. Each presentation addresses adifferent safety issues. For example, one seminar dealt with providing a hands-on training onfire safety (Figure 1). EHS personnel brought in the necessary equipments and organized thesession in an open area. After few minutes of initial discussion, students had an opportunity touse the fire extinguisher on a gasoline fire. After-class discussions with the graduate studentsA. B. Figure 1. Fire safety demonstration. (A) Photograph of the setup used to demonstrate usage of fire extinguishers. (B) Hands-on experience of pull the pin on the fire extinguisher, aim the nozzle
andalso the early inception of bioengineering divisions/sections in electrical and mechanicalengineering professional organizations and journals. Consequently, instruction in physiologicaltransport phenomena heavily relied on analogies from concepts like resistance and compliance(electrical engineering concepts) or resistance and elastance (mechanical engineering concepts).An example of such analogy for pulmonary function is given in Figure 1. (a) (b)Fig. 1: Representation of pulmonary function. (a) mechanical engineering analog, and (b) its electrical
) from an academic program must prepare their graduates with “an ability to communicateeffectively” (SO k), and the “ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze andinterpret data” (SO b), and others [6]. In fact, the new ABET student outcomes, effective in2019-2020, have a stronger emphasis on team efforts: “An ability to function effectively as amember or leader of a team that establishes goals, plans tasks, meets deadlines, and creates acollaborative and inclusive environment” (SO “3”)[6]. All these outcomes can be assessedthrough the Unit Operations Laboratory; however, the main challenge is to implement practicaltools for a team, either assigned or self-selected, to function properly throughout the semester.For instance
capable… I just think it logically follows to like have an intent to go out and be successful as part of like the workforce being an operating members society of these special skills and the special knowledge. It’s the whole reason you're there. Or at least pursuing like that specific degree.” – Dan Dan has framed success within the bounds of having an engineering position and being future-oriented. Kate similarly sees success as being future-oriented but also brings attention to the process of becoming successful. To Kate, “success is a state function.” A state function means the path taken from A to B is independent of the route taken. Therefore, there are many paths to being successful. While Kate notes grades
Organization (BIO) study 2 (Figure 1), advanced biofuel industry will have significantimpact on job creation and economic output in the near future. (a) (b)Figure 1 Impact of advanced biofuel industry on (a) job creation and (b) economic output. (Adapted fromRef. 2.) Page 23.69.2Therefore, there is a pressing and immediate national need of skilled engineers and competentresearchers in the biofuel field. This need also presents an exciting yet challenging opportunityfor the engineering educators to expand their mission to addressing biofuel production, and tocontribute to this
visualization of results for transportmodels for selected microchemical systems. The model development for selected exercises arecaptured in the following sections by first providing a brief introduction to the problem. Thissection is then followed by a descriptions of the system geometry, governing equations, and Page 15.411.4interactive student interface along with a set of typical results.Example ApplicationsExample 1. Tee-Micro ReactorA general model is defined for a single-phase elementary reaction occurring in a T-shapedmicro-reactor. The following general reaction stoichiometry is considered A BC
appropriate equations and variables to solve problems from written material. Transitivity and reversibility. Students are able to algebraically manipulate equations and to discern relationships between variables knowing that if A is taller than B, and B is taller than C, then A must be taller than C and that if Z = X+Y then Y=Z-X. Conservation. Students can understand that certain characteristics can be conserved even in different forms so that logical relationships can be formulated. The content in classes on material and energy balances rely fundamentally on such conservation principles – although conservation of energy is much more complex for students who use concrete reasoning. Fluid
. Bourji and A. Winstead, Optimizing an Organic Rankine Cycle, Chemical Engineering Progress,January 2013, 35-39.2. J.D. Barry, Eliminate Iteration from Flow Problems, Chemical Engineering Progress, March 2008, 36-41.3. R.L. Shilling, Selecting Tube Inserts for Shell-and-Tube Heat Exchangers, Chemical EngineeringProgress, September 2012, 20-25.4. W. Tanthapanichakoon, Saving Energy in Multilevel Steam Systems, Chemical Engineering Progress,January 2012, 27-32.5. R. Marshall and B. Scales, Reduce Your Compressed Air Costs, Chemical Engineering Progress, October2011, 28-33.6. T.G. Lestina, Selecting a Heat Exchanger Shell, Chemical Engineering Progress, June 2011, 34-38.7. The University of Tulsa’s Protection of
Page 23.1298.5the students.The sessions described above took place during a 2 – 3 hour time block. As noted above,SBL is typically implemented during extended class periods such as these. The difficultyin implementing SBL is that the technique does not fit well within a typical one-hour persession class structure.In order to make it possible to implement SBL asynchronously and online, we haveintegrated ChemProV with OSBLE (Online Studio-Based Learning Environment), anonline learning management environment developed in prior research. 15 OSBLE supportsthree user interfaces: (a) student; (b) instructor; and (c) moderator. Students can submitproblem solutions (using ChemProV) to be reviewed through the system. Once they havedone so, their