Conference Session

Environmental engineering pedagogy and innovation

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado Boulder

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Environmental Engineering

. Often, each pair in the class was assigned a different chemical. Students were giventime to solve the problem, the professor circulated around the class to give pointers, and aftermost teams were done, each pair reported their answers. Then the class could discuss thesolution approach, the instructor could illustrate common “mishaps”, etc.The course is an elective and as such the students who enroll often differ widely in theirpreparation and motivation. The environmental engineering (EVEN) undergraduates generallyhave good background preparation for the course (such as material and energy balances,Fundamentals of Environmental Engineering, and perhaps including environmental organicchemistry, groundwater, environmental microbiology, etc

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering in the Sophomore Year

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Tracy Q Gardner, Colorado School of Mines

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Chemical Engineering

for Face-to-Face Courses) – an MEB ExampleAbstractThis paper addresses some common assumptions and concerns about, benefits of, andapproaches to offering a rigorous technical course online. A systematic approach to convert eachpart of a typically face-to-face (F2F) course to an online equivalent or replacement is presented.Course elements such as cleverly designed discussion prompts, student-recorded problemexplanations, and online assessments designed as described here may be used to increase studentengagement, motivation, and content retention in any course.A fully-online Material and Energy Balances (MEB) course was offered at the Colorado Schoolof Mines as the first online course offered from this institution’s Chemical and

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Education: Underclass Years

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Silverstein, University of Kentucky; Margot Vigeant, Bucknell University; Donald Visco, Tennessee Technological University; Donald Woods, McMaster University

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Chemical Engineering

and detailed design; team structure and teamwork; project planning; written, oral, graphical, and interpersonal communications; use of software tools; discussion of societal and business issues. It also offers three required general engineering courses on applied mathematics and engineering analysis (31). - University of Western Ontario has an 8 credit Introductory Engineering Design and Innovation Studio and a 4 credit Programming Fundamentals for Engineers (48).Option 3This category features a common first-year curriculum, common engineering courses without ChEcontent, and a ChE course. The ChE courses include surveys of the profession, design courses, anda course in material and energy balances. - Southern

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 1: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in ChE

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric Burkholder, Auburn University

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Diversity

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

score), incoming declared major(which is declared at the time of matriculation), undergraduate academic performance (first-yearGPA), grades in Materials and Energy Balances (MEB), and postsecondary degree completion.The institutional data about student identity is limited to binary gender, which does notadequately capture the full spectrum of both gender identity and expression. Both gender identityand expression may be distinct from biological sex. This particular institution is predominantlywhite ( 80%) and somewhat selective (interquartile range of ACT scores is 25-31). We had accessto all student records dating back to 2011. To ensure that we had complete records for all studentsincluded in our analysis, we only included records for

Conference Session

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

Collection

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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Diversity

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

obtained her BS in Chemical Engineering at NC State in 1986 and her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1991. A faculty member at NC State since 2000, Dr. Bullard’s research interests lie in the area of educational scholarship, including teaching and advising effectiveness, academic integrity, chemical engineering instruction, and organizational culture.Prof. Joshua A. Enszer, University of Delaware Dr. Joshua Enszer is an associate professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Delaware. He has taught core and elective courses across the curriculum, from introduction to engineering science and material and energy balances toDr. Allison Godwin, Purdue University

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering: Thermodynamics

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ryan Barlow, zyBooks, A Wiley Brand; Oscar Rios, zyBooks, A Wiley Brand; James Eakins, zyBooks, A Wiley Brand; Adrian Rodriguez, University of Texas at Austin

Material and Energy Balances," 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, June 2016.[11] A. Mojzisova and M. Takac, "Approaches for Dynamic Representation of Mathematical Content in Engineering Education," Proceedings of the 2020 21st International Carpathian Control Conference, October 2020.[12] A. Edgcomb, D. de Haas, R. Lysecky, and F. Vahid, "Student usage and behavioral patterns with online interactive textbook materials," International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation, November 2015.[13] D. McKinney, A. Edgcomb, R. Lysecky, and F. Vahid, "Improving Pass Rates by Switching from a Passive to an Active Learning Textbook in CS0," Proceedings of ASEE Annual Virtual Conference

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division ASCE Liaison Committee - Accreditation and Curriculums - What Changes Are Occurring?

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sami Alshurafa; Laura Wieserman, University of Pittsburgh; Hanan Alhayek; Khaled Hussein

betaken by students. Proposed courses are listed in table 3.Table 3: list of courses from integrated and environmental engineering Course ID Name of Courses Credit Hours ENGR 110 Technical Writing 3 ENGR 117 Engineering Design 1 3 3 ENGR 151 Engineering Tools I 1 1 ENSC 111 Introduction to Environmental Science 3 ENSC 150 Fundamentals of Environmental Engineering 3 ENGR 210 Material and Energy Balances 3 ENSC 201 Weather and Climate 3 ENSC 202 Introduction to Aquatic

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Division (ENVIRON) Technical Session 2

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Schulz, Georgia Institute of Technology ; Suzanne Stathatos, The California Institute of Technology; Cassandra Shriver, Georgia Institute of Technology; Roxanne Moore, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Environmental Engineering Division (ENVIRON)

in the introduction. • ABET Outcome: Material and energy balances; fate and transport of substances in and between air, water, and soil phases; and advanced principles and practices relevant to the program objectives [10]. Relevance to Machine Learning: Discussed in the case studies above are direct links towards using these case studies to view and understand items about the air, soil, and other environmental factors. • ABET Outcome: Hands-on laboratory experiments, analysis, and interpretation of the resulting data in more than one central environmental engineering focus area, e.g., air, water, land, and environmental health [10]. Relevance to Machine Learning: Each case study gives an example case for students to

Conference Session

Innovative, Engaging Pedagogies for Engineering Ethics Education

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jennifer Fiegel, University of Iowa; Beth Rundlett, University of Iowa; A. Allen Bradley Jr., The University of Iowa; Katelyn Rose Murhammer, University of Iowa

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Engineering Ethics

were basedon was provided to the students so they could compare their outcomes to those of the actual case. Figure 6. A positive outcome sample endpoint from Scenario A. Figure 7. A sample endpoint with a negative outcome from Scenario A.Student Performance and AssessmentThe game was implemented in the fall semester of 2019 in 6 of 13 discussion sections in thefirst-year engineering design course (IEPS) required of all undergraduate students in the Collegeof Engineering and in the materials and energy balance course for second-year students in theDepartment of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering. Out of 476 students enrolled in the twoclasses, 218 students participated in the interactive case study. As a pre

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Design in the First Year

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico; Jamie R. Gomez, University of New Mexico; Sophia Bowers, University of New Mexico; Abhaya K. Datye, University of New Mexico; Paige Prescott, University of New Mexico; James Scacco, University of New Mexico; Jordan Orion James, University of New Mexico; Nicolai Loner, University of New Mexico

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs

For- mation (PFE: RIEF) for the project- Using Digital Badging and Design Challenge Modules to Develop Professional Identity. She is a member of the department’s ABET and Undergraduate Curriculum Com- mittee, as well as faculty advisor for several student societies. She is the instructor of several courses in the CBE curriculum including the Material and Energy Balances, junior laboratories and Capstone De- sign courses. She is associated with several professional organizations including the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and American Society of Chemical Engineering Education (ASEE) where she adopts and contributes to innovative pedagogical methods aimed at improving student learning and

Conference Session

Using Technology to Enhance Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Blowers, University of Arizona

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Educational Research and Methods

Introduction to OneNote and its Multimodal CapabilitiesThe Course:The sophomore material and energy balances course investigated in this work had an enrollmentof a total of 94 students who finished the course out of the 103 who began the course at thebeginning of the Fall 2008 semester. This course is the first core course in chemical engineeringand is one of the two options engineering management students must take in order to satisfy theirenergy-based curriculum content requirements. Students in engineering management may takethis course during their sophomore, junior, or senior years, while chemical engineers will all beclassified departmentally as sophomores.A variety of instructional support tools were used in this course that had an impact on

Conference Session

Early ChemE Education

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jamie Gomez, University of New Mexico; Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico; Abhaya K. Datye, University of New Mexico

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Diversity

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Chemical Engineering

Undergraduate Curriculum Com- mittee, as well as faculty advisor for several student societies. She is the instructor of several courses in the CBE curriculum including the Material and Energy Balances, junior laboratories and Capstone De- sign courses. She is associated with several professional organizations including the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and American Society of Chemical Engineering Education (ASEE) where she adopts and contributes to innovative pedagogical methods aimed at improving student learning and retention.Dr. Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico Dr. Vanessa Svihla is a learning scientist and assistant professor at the University of New Mexico in the Organization, Information

Conference Session

Computer-Based Learning in Chemical Engineering Courses

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jamie Gomez, University of New Mexico; Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico

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Diversity

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Chemical Engineering

: REvolutionizing engineering and computer science Departments (IUSE PFE\RED) - Formation of Accomplished Chemical Engineers for Transform- ing Society. She is a member of the CBE department’s ABET and Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, as well as faculty advisor for several student societies. She is the instructor of several courses in the CBE curriculum including the Material and Energy Balances, junior laboratories and Capstone Design courses. She is associated with several professional organizations including the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and American Society of Chemical Engineering Education (ASEE) where she adopts and contributes to innovative pedagogical methods aimed at improving student learning

Conference Session

Concept Inventories and Assessment of Knowledge

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carli Denyse Flynn, Syracuse University; Cliff I. Davidson, Syracuse University; Sharon Dotger; Meredith Sullivan

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

al. The dynamics concept inventory assessment test: A progress report and some results. American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition (2005).7. Martin, J., Mitchell, J. & Newell, T. Development of a concept inventory for fluid mechanics. in 33rd Annual Frontiers in Education, 2003. FIE 2003 1, T3D–23 – T3D–28 Vol.1 (2003).8. Fluid Mechanics Concept Inventory. (2011). at 9. Shallcross, D. C. A concept inventory for material and energy balances. Educ. Chem. Eng. 5, e1–e12 (2010).10. Hestenes, D., Wells, M. & Swackhamer, G. Force concept inventory. Phys. Teach. 30, 141–158 (1992).11. Richardson, J. Concept inventories: Tools for uncovering STEM students’ misconceptions. Invent. Impact Build. Excell

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Division: Curricula, Criteria, Student Performance, and Growth

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ran Du P.E., United States Military Academy ; Michael A. Butkus, U.S. Military Academy; Jeffrey A. Starke P.E., U.S. Military Academy

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Environmental Engineering

3.5 0.7 4 Chemistry (including stoichiometry, equilibrium and kinetics) 43.3 8.2 5 Earth science (geology) 41.7 7.9 6 Biological science 39.2 7.4 7 Fluid mechanics 28.5 5.4 8 Material and energy balances 46.9 8.9 9 Analyze fate and transport between air, water and soil 35.0 6.6 10 Conduct experiments and critically analyze data in air systems 8.3 1.6 11 Conduct experiments and

Conference Session

FPD and DEEDs Joint Postcard Sessions

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ryan Anderson, Montana State University; Abigail M. Richards, Montana State University

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Design in Engineering Education, First-Year Programs

structured so each group receives an initial, vague deliverable from the mentor. Over the Fallsemester, the students address a series of deliverables related to background research on theproject, markets, material and energy balances, equipment sizing, safety, and impacts to thecommunity and environment. Each deliverable is graded and returned to the groups to beupdated and incorporated into a final semester report. The following Spring semester, the samestudent teams revisit their design, address any deficiencies identified in their Fall final report,and incorporate safety and engineering economic analyses to complete their design.In the Fall 2016 semester, aspects of the Capstone Senior Design course were integrated into twounique chemical

Conference Session

Mathematics Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott W. Campbell, University of South Florida; Carlos A. Smith PhD, University of South Florida; Silvia M. Calderon, Universidad de Los Andes, Venezuela

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Mathematics

gave the test to students taking Dynamics, a course primarily taken by studentsmajoring in Civil or Mechanical Engineering. In fall of 2016, we gave an identical test tostudents taking Material and Energy Balances, which is populated exclusively byChemical Engineering students. No student was in both course offerings.Students were not required to take the test and not all students participated. In addition,neither Differential Equations nor Modeling and Analysis are pre-requisite for Dynamicsso we eliminated from the study any students who took our test but had not yet completedone of these two courses. (Given our experience that students dislike exams, we foundthis to be a surprisingly large number of students.) We also eliminated from the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees: Student Learning 2

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Brian J. Skromme, Arizona State University; Caleb Redshaw, Arizona State University; Abhishek Gupta; Shatrughn Gupta, Arizona State University; Petru Andrei, Florida A&M University/Florida State University; Hector Erives, University of Texas at El Paso; Deanna Bailey, Morgan State University; Willie L. Thompson II, Morgan State University; Srividya Kona Bansal, Arizona State University; Wendy M. Barnard, Arizona State University

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

linear circuit analysis,” in Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Seattle, WA, 2015, pp. 14125-1–14125-15.[13] A. Edgcomb, F. Vahid, R. Lysecky, and S. Lysecky, “Getting Students to Earnestly Do Reading, Studying, and Homework in an Introductory Programming Class,” in Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education. Seattle, Washington, USA: Association for Computing Machinery, 2017, pp. 171–176.[14] M. Liberatore, “High textbook reading rates when using an interactive textbook for a material and energy balances course,” Chem. Engr. Education, vol. 51, pp. 109-118, 2017.[15] Y. Hu and H. Lyu

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering in the Junior and Senior Year

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jeffrey Stransky, Rowan University; Landon Bassett, University of Connecticut; Daniel D. Anastasio, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Matthew Cooper, North Carolina State University; Daniel D. Burkey, University of Connecticut; Cheryl A Bodnar, Rowan University

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Chemical Engineering

Biomolecular Engineering at NC State University where he teaches Senior Design, Material and Energy Balances, Unit Operations, Transport Phenomena and Mathematical/Computational Methods. He is the recipient of teaching and pedagogical research awards including the NCSU Outstanding Teacher Award, ASEE ChE Division Raymond W. Fahien Award and the 2013 and 2017 ASEE ChE Division Joseph J. Martin Awards for Best Conference Paper. Dr. Cooper’s research interests include effective teaching, process safety decision-making skills and best practices for online education.Dr. Daniel D. Burkey, University of Connecticut Daniel Burkey is the Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs and Professor-in-Residence in the De- partment of

Conference Session

Course Design, Course Projects, and Student Perceptions in Chemical Engineering

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Joshua A Enszer, University of Delaware; Catherine A Fromen, University of Delaware

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Chemical Engineering

Paper ID #29183Putting Course Design Principles to Practice: Creation of an Elective onVaccines and ImmunoengineeringProf. Joshua A Enszer, University of Delaware Joshua Enszer is an associate professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Delaware. He has taught core and elective courses across the curriculum, from introduction to engineering science and material and energy balances to process control, capstone design, and mathematical modeling of chemical and environmental systems. His research interests include technology and learning in various incarnations: electronic portfolios as a means for

Conference Session

First-year Programs: Retention and Bridge Programs #1

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Marina Miletic, University of New Mexico; Abhaya K. Datye, University of New Mexico; Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico; Eva Chi, University of New Mexico; Jamie Gomez, University of New Mexico; Pil Kang, University of New Mexico; Sang M. Han, University of New Mexico; Yan Chen, University of New Mexico; Catherine Anne Hubka, University of New Mexico

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs

several student societies. She is the instructor of several courses in the CBE curriculum including the Material and Energy Balances, junior laboratories and Capstone Design courses. She is associated with several professional organizations including the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and American Society of Chemical Engineering Education (ASEE) where she adopts and contributes to innovative pedagogical methods aimed at improving student learning and retention.Dr. Pil Kang, University of New Mexico Sung ”Pil” Kang is an assistant professor at the University of New Mexico. His academic interests include change management, change model validation, and mindset evolution. He may be reached at pilkang

Conference Session

ChE: Innovation in Existing Courses

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Zollars, Washington State University; Jim Henry, University of Tennessee-Chattanooga

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Chemical Engineering

outcomes a, c, e, and k as well as the AIChE outcomes of demonstrating aworking knowledge of material and energy balances applied to chemical processes,process dynamics and control, and appropriate modern experimental and computationaltechniques.In the past this course was taught in a traditional manner – covering the mathematicalbases of process dynamics (unsteady-state balances, Laplace transforms, etc.) first beforegoing on to cover control and tuning. Starting in the Fall Semester of 2002 the coverageof topics was changed with students analyzing process dynamics and tuning first,followed by coverage of the mathematical aspects and then more recent developments incontrol schemes. The initial homework assignments thus required that the

Conference Session

ChE: Innovations in the Classroom

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Bullard, North Carolina State University; Richard Felder, North Carolina State University

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Chemical Engineering

asked the students to organize themselves into groups of three andfour, presented them with a fairly extensive material and energy balance problem (Problem 8.74of the course text), and gave them about five minutes to itemize the information they would needand the approach they would take to solve the problem. We told them that the exercise wasintended to give them a preview of what the course was about and a taste of how we would beconducting the lectures and problem sessions, and we assured them that while we would collecttheir outlines, we would not grade them. At the end of five minutes they signed and turned intheir papers. On the last day of class, we gave them the identical in-class exercise and thenreturned their first-day efforts to

Conference Session

Grasping the "Concept"

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Debra Gilbuena, Oregon State University; Christina Smith, Oregon State University; Bill Jay Brooks, Oregon State University; Talia Sidne Finkelstein, Oregon State University; Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University

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Chemical Engineering

a “broader impact”component in all grant proposals.7 Transportability is specifically emphasized in the newTransforming Undergraduate Education, in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics(TUES) Program, which requires transportability as a main component for funding of proposals.8In this paper, we investigate the transportability and initial diffusion of the AIChE ConceptWarehouse.The AIChE Concept WarehouseOverviewThe AIChE Concept Warehouse, a cyber-enabled infrastructure for conceptual questions, wasdeveloped with the goal of creating a community of learning within the discipline of chemicalengineering (ChE) focused on concept-based instruction. This tool can be used throughout thecore ChE curriculum (Material and Energy

Conference Session

Perspectives and Approaches to Teaching Simulation and Design-Based Courses

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Turton P.E., West Virginia University

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Chemical Engineering

design courses tend to focus on the formulation of steady-state modelsin which material and energy balances are obtained and unit operations are simulated. Theresulting knowledge allows equipment to be sized, operating costs to be evaluated, and overallplant economics to be estimated. Such information also provides the basis for producing apreliminary process flow diagram (PFD). The operation of the process at the design conditionprovides a single operating point, and, while off-design conditions are sometimes considered,they are often not taken into account in the preliminary design.In practice, the actual operating point of the process will rarely be at the design conditions.Moreover, the process will have to be started up and shut down many

Conference Session

Learning and Teaching Issues

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Malgorzata Zywno

Inferences from Person's Responses and Performances as Scientific Inquiry into Score Meaning; American Psychologist, Vol. 50 (9), pp. 741-749, (1995).11. Nunnaly, J., Psychometric Theory, New York: McGraw-Hill, (1978).12. Tuckman, B.W., Conducting Educational Research, 5th edition, Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Group, (1999).13. Rosati, P., Specific Differences and Similarities in the Learning Preferences of Engineering Students, Session 12c1, Proceedings of the 29th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, (1999).14. Montgomery, S., Addressing Diverse Learning Styles through the Use of Multimedia: Material and Energy Balance, Proceedings of the 25th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Atlanta, GA, USA, (1995

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mariano Savelski; Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Victoria Gallagher; Tracey Weldon; Cynthia R. Haller; Richard M. Felder

engineering education, not much isunderstood about the interactional group dynamics that may lead to the success or failure ofgroup efforts. For example, how does group interaction help students master both content andapplication of engineering concepts? How exactly is peer teaching and learning accomplished in Page 4.210.1these groups? And how do social factors such as gender and interpersonal relationshipsinfluence teaching and learning in groups?In this study, we analyzed interactions among groups in the introductory chemical engineeringcourse (material and energy balances). This paper reports principal findings of the study andsuggests their

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Education: Underclass Years

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Bullard, North Carolina State University; Donald Visco, Tennessee Technological University; David Silverstein, University of Kentucky; Jason Keith, Michigan Technological University

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Chemical Engineering

University of Pittsburgh68. For example, previously at WPI, four ChEcourses were taught per year (with two in the fall semester and two in the springsemester). Now in their “spiral curriculum” there are four half semester “levels” whereaspects of each course is taught in an integrated manner, and each level feeds into thenext level. Thus, the sophomore courses in material and energy balances, classicalthermodynamics, mixture thermodynamics, and staged separation processes are nowreplaced with the four levels: material balances and stoichiometry, McCabe-Thielemethods for binary distillation, property changes on mixing, and chemical reactionequilibrium.Survey ResultsIn order to identify the program characteristics which we hypothesize are important

Conference Session

Student Learning, Problem Solving, and Critical Thinking 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Claudia Elena Vergara, Michigan State University; Mark Urban-Lurain, Michigan State University; Jon Sticklen, Michigan State University; Abdol-Hossein Esfahanian, Michigan State University; Hannah McQuade, The Center for Engineering Education Research; Andrew League, Michigan State University; Chris John Bush, The Center for Engineering Education Research; Michael Cavanaugh, Michigan State University, Center for Engineering Education Research

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Educational Research and Methods

. Sophomore Steady and unsteady state material and energy balances. 110(CHE) Modeling Fluxes and rate processes. Shell balances. Balanceand Analysis of equations for mass, heat, and momentum transport.Transport Analogies among mass, heat, and momentum transport.Phenomena Analytical and numerical solutions. Application of(CHE 210) computational methods to problem solutions.Mass Transfer Junior Diffusion. Mass transfer coefficients. Design of 110and Separations countercurrent separation systems, both stage wise and(CHE 312) continuous. Distillation, absorption, extraction