Conference Session

CoNECD Session : Day 2 Slot 5 Technical Session 2

Collection

2021 CoNECD

Authors

Lisa M. Weber, Colorado State University; Rebecca A. Atadero, Colorado State University

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CoNECD Paper Submissions, Diversity

 based on recent statistics from 2019. 10 Second‐Year Courses: Group Project Reflections Second‐Year Course: Material and Energy Balances  Incorporating these topics in second‐year courses is more challenging as a result of the highly  technical course content. How is diversity and inclusion incorporated?  There are four group projects throughout the semester.  The students answer a series of reflection questions after each project that address:  Individual strengths and weaknesses  Individual behavior within the group  Interactions with team members  Demonstration of respect for group members

Conference Session

Contemporary Issues in Chemical Engineering Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Zollars, Washington State University; Christopher Hundhausen, Washington State University; Pawan agrawal, Washington State University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

curriculumthat results in a large number of students either withdrawing or failing. In chemicalengineering this gateway class is the material and energy balance class. Statistics overthe past 24 years at Washington State University show that 35% of the students whoenroll in the material/energy balance class either fail, withdraw, or receive a grade lowerthan a “C”. A large majority of these (66%) never complete their chemical engineeringdegree. The students who fail to successfully complete the material/energy balance classshow a wide variety of academic abilities, as measured by SAT scores or high schoolGPA. However, the academic abilities of those students who fail to successfullycomplete the material/energy balance class and those who successfully

Conference Session

The Latest in Improving Learning in ChE Students

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Zollars, Washington State University; Christopher Hundhausen, Washington State University; Jonathan Brown, Washington State University

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Chemical Engineering

AC 2008-1886: DEVELOPING A SOFTWARE ENVIRONMENT FOR VISUALLEARNING IN INTRODUCTORY CHEMICAL ENGINEERING CLASSESRichard Zollars, Washington State UniversityChristopher Hundhausen, Washington State UniversityJonathan Brown, Washington State University Jonathan Brown is currently a Ph.D. student in the Computer Science program at Washington State University. Page 13.382.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008Designing a Software Environment for Visual Learning in Introductory Chemical Engineering Classes The material and energy balance class is frequently the “gateway” class inchemical

Conference Session

Problem Solving and Communication in Chemical Engineering

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Uchenna Asogwa, University of Toledo; Matthew W. Liberatore, University of Toledo; Amanda Portis Malefyt, Trine University; Timothy Ryan Duckett, Acumen Research and Evaluation, LLC

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

inthermodynamics and material and energy balance courses. Originally called YouTube Fridays, thefirst five minutes of Friday class sessions were dedicated to course related videos selected by agroup of students. At the end of the semester, surveys showed that the vast majority of studentsfelt they had better understanding of the field of chemical engineering from participating inYouTube Fridays [28]. In subsequent semesters, students selected YouTube videos and createdengineering estimate problems related to the course material. Surveys showed that the majority ofthe students felt they had a better understanding of the course topic of thermodynamics, couldrelate thermodynamics to real world phenomena, and felt confident solving engineering

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Wallace B. Whiting; Joseph A. Shaeiwitz; Ph.D., Richard H. Turpin; Richard C. Bailie

phenomena, as fundamental asthermodynamics, and as crucial to the professional success of our graduates as a firm groundingin material and energy balances and process design. In this paper, instruction modules for ethics and professionalism and for environmentalhealth & safety are presented. We use these modules in the senior design class; however, theystand alone and can be used most anywhere in the curriculum. More details are available in anew, recently published textbook for the capstone design class.1 Ethics and Professionalism The purpose of this module is to teach students their ethical and legal responsibilities asprofessional engineers and to help them develop strategies to make the best

Conference Session

E-Learning in Chemical Engineering

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Zollars, Washington State University; Christopher Hundhausen, Washington State University; Pawan Agrawal, Washington State University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

students that failed to successfully complete the material andenergy balance course had a cumulative GPA of 3.06 versus 2.95 for those that didsuccessfully complete the class. The SAT scores for these two groups were 1265 versus1300, respectively. The standard deviation for the GPA was 0.50 while that for the SATscores was 70. Why, then, do 35% of our students fail to complete the material andenergy balance course?Defining an Approach To explore why the material and energy balance course might be such a stumblingblock, we studied the problem solving activities of introductory chemical engineeringstudents. To do this, we ran an exploratory study in the Fall of 2006 using four pairs ofstudents and a SmartBoard√ electronic whiteboard to (a

Conference Session

Using Communication and Writing Techniques to Improve Student Learning

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin D. Dahm, Rowan University; Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

 for assessing individual contributions to the team assignments.  The authors present an assessment of the impact of the abstracts, specifically addressing the following question: Did students attain the learning objectives of the course more thoroughly than students in a previous cohort, who completed comparable homework problems in teams of the same size, but who were not required to write abstracts? Introduction The introductory chemical engineering course at most universities focuses on material and energy balances.  Historically this course has had the reputation of being a conceptually demanding course that induces fear in many studentsi.  One of the greatest challenges faced by many students is the solution of “word problems” which

Conference Session

New Classrooms, New Challenges II: Assessing Non-traditional Approaches

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard L. Zollars, Washington State University; Adam Scott Carter, Washington State University; Christopher Hundhausen, Washington State University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

doingbut also by receiving critiques on their work from other students as well as providing critiquesthemselves to other students. Engineering students often do this in informal settings (e.g., studygroups) but rarely do so in a formal classroom setting. The critiquing activity is the strength ofthe learning activities in studio-based learning as it requires students to be active as well asencouraging students to evaluate and explain (teach) the material to others, thus strengtheningtheir understanding of the concepts.Over the past few years a team from the chemical engineering program and the computer scienceprogram have been working on developing a software package to aid students in developing theirskills in the material and energy balance

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division (FYP) - Technical Session 8: Skill Building

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Samantha Yanosko; Grant Valentine; Matthew W. Liberatore, The University of Toledo

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First-Year Programs Division (FYP)

- versity of Canterbury in New Zealand. His research involves the rheology of complex fluids, especially traditional and renewable energy fluids and materials, polymers, and colloids. His educational interests include developing problems from YouTube videos, active learning, learning analytics, and interactive textbooks. His interactive textbooks for Material and Energy Balances, Spreadsheets, and Thermody- namics are available from zyBooks.com. His website is: https://www.utoledo.edu/engineering/chemical- engineering/liberatore/ ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Reading participation and assessment of spreadsheet skills across multiple cohorts when using an

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew W Liberatore, University of Toledo

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

learning,interactive technologies leverage the strengths of the digital native [24, 25]. Student engagementwith new technologies does not seems to be a detractor; recent surveys found a majority of currentengineering students, sometimes called digital natives, prefer interactive and/or electronictextbooks [26, 27]. However, many faculty authors of educational materials are not natives of thedigital age, so creation and adoption of interactive materials may be slow.Overall, fully interactive tools are becoming available for core chemical engineering courses, e.g.,material and energy balances zyBook [28]; however, the market size for chemical engineering ismuch smaller than foundational math or science courses (e.g., General Chemistry), so

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew W. Liberatore, University of Toledo; Uchenna Asogwa; Amanda Portis Malefyt, Trine University; Charlene M. Czerniak, University of Toledo; Gale A. Mentzer, Acumen Research and Evaluation, LLC; T. Ryan Duckett, Acumen Research and Evaluation

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

to thetopic of the course (either thermodynamics or material and energy balances). Students’ feedbackon their comfort with open-ended problems was solicited. While a majority felt they had a betterunderstanding of the course topic of thermodynamics (63% strongly agree/agree), a larger majoritycould relate thermodynamics to real world phenomena and felt confident solving engineeringestimate problems (79% and 69% strongly agree/agree, respectively). In addition, over 40% of theclass thought YouTube Fridays helped them learn the course material. Recurring response fromthe free response questions stated that real situations are much harder than class problems sincethere are so many unknowns. The vast majority of the feedback on YouTube Fridays

Conference Session

Computer-Based Learning in Chemical Engineering Courses

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew W. Liberatore, University of Toledo; Kayla Chapman

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

any HTML5 compliant webbrowser without additional plug-ins. The lead author created a Material and Energy BalanceszyBook, available since January 2016. In 2018, a chapter on spreadsheets was added along withadditional spreadsheet content to help students solve material and energy balance problems. Thechapter on spreadsheet skills is the focus of this work, and this content is also available as a stand-alone title, Spreadsheets Essentials, for a price of $10 per student per semester. The Material andEnergy Balances zyBook is required for the course; reading participation and auto-gradedproblems account for 10% of the final course grade, which is detailed in another paper for thisconference. The necessity of interactivity to earn a grade

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Reardon

Achieved in: Introduce students to the engineering design process Lab Introduce students to engineering problem solving methods Lab Provide experience with measurements, including statistical analysis Both Introduce basic engineering calculations (material and energy balances, fluid Lecture mechanics, heat transfer) Introduce students to the engineering profession (especially the fields of Lecture Bioresource and Agricultural Engineering, Chemical Engineering, and Environmental Engineering) and professional ethics Provide experience working with computers and the Internet Both Develop students’ teamwork skills

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering in Silico

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew W Liberatore, Colorado School of Mines; Charles Russell Vestal, Colorado School of Mines

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

database of videosand questions that reinforce important course concepts like energy balances and phase behavior.Additional pilots from the 2010-2011 academic years will be included in the talk. A set ofexample problems and videos will be presented from a sophomore level engineeringthermodynamics course and a sophomore level material and energy balances course. Studentevaluations found a vast majority (79%) of the students felt better at relating real worldphenomena to thermodynamics from participating in YouTube Fridays. Overall, YouTubeFridays is a student led activity that provides practice of problem solving on open-ended, courserelated questions.IntroductionToday, most students enrolled in higher education were born in the 1980s or 1990s and

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Pedagogy

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Justin Shaffer, Colorado School of Mines

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

Paper ID #33134What Kinds of Advice do Chemical Engineering Students Give to FutureStudents for Success in High-structure Courses?Dr. Justin Shaffer, Colorado School of Mines Dr. Justin Shaffer is a Teaching Associate Professor in Chemical and Biological Engineering at the Col- orado School of Mines. Dr. Shaffer’s research focuses on high structure course design and student atti- tudes towards biology. He teaches thermodynamics, material and energy balances, anatomy and physiol- ogy, and introductory biology. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Work

Conference Session

E-Learning in Chemical Engineering

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeremy VanAntwerp, Calvin College; Aubrey Sykes, Calvin College; xiuhua si

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

capabilities: thesuccessive iterative calculations to close material and/or heat balance equations with a set ofthermodynamic equilibrium correlations and data that successfully model the physical chemistryof the process. The bookkeeping capabilities of these programs are valuable but not unique.Other programs (e.g., a spreadsheet like Excel) can easily provide the same capabilities forbookkeeping of material and energy balance equations—especially through the trial and errorcalculations. In practice, most simulators require a substantial amount of data entry and/orentering/fitting of thermodynamic parameters to provide any results (let alone meaningfulresults!). For many of the general purpose simulators support for inorganics and/orbiological

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

K. Hing Pang

whichare integrated into the refrigeration system and used for cooling and condensing the compressedethylene to liquid.Design of An Industrial Refrigeration SystemOnce the temperature levels of the refrigerant and duties of the heat exchangers requiringrefrigerant have been decided, the design of the refrigeration system can proceed by contructinga process flow diagram (PFD) such as figure (2) The design of the system involves thegeneration of the material and energy balances for the process. Calculation of compressorhorsepower, duties of coolers and condensers and sizing of the flash drum follow. Like othermanufacturing processes, material and energy balances can be generated through the use of aprocess simulator. However, there are two basic

Conference Session

New Ideas for ChEs I (aka ChE Potpourri)

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jason Keith, Michigan Technological University; David Silverstein, University of Kentucky; Donald Visco, Tennessee Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

includeintroductory courses for freshmen, material and energy balances, fluid mechanics,introductory thermodynamics, and separations.Objectives and MotivationAlthough teaching is a critical mission of any college or university, today’s facultymembers are increasingly becoming involved in other scholarly activities. Thus, whenteaching a new course, developing a good set of instructional materials can be achallenging, time-consuming task. In this paper we provide a review of some of what weconsider the best practices in engineering education, applied to the following courses:freshmen chemical engineering, material and energy balances, fluid mechanics,introductory thermodynamics, and separations. Note that a companion paper whichcovers the upper-level

Conference Session

New Trends in CHE Education I

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Christensen, Texas A&M University; Lale Yurttas, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

addition of a projectcomponent of such magnitude. In addition, the general engineering principles of the lower-levelcourses can be most readily applied and extrapolated to more general real-life challenges thatwould be the basis of the service-learning projects. The goals of increasing excitement andretention rates would be also better served by implementing service learning during the mostinfluential time of a student’s academic career, which typically coincides with the lower-levelcourses. Furthermore, the four learning outcomes of the material and energy balances coursewere defined with the goal of implementing service learning. Specifically outcome 4 is wellaligned with such objectives of a service learning project: community engagement

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Montgomery

Session 1213 A Secret to Large Classes - Showing You Care Susan Montgomery University of MichiganINTRODUCTIONThe other speakers in this session are addressing some of the logistical issues involved inteaching large classes, as well as some ways of engaging large classes to obtain increasedparticipation. In this paper I wish to address some of the belongingness issues that areparticularly magnified in large classes. My experience with large classes comes from teachingthe material and energy balances class at the University of Michigan, which has had

Conference Session

Works in Progress: Chemical Engineering Education

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Konstantinos Apostolou, McMaster University; Amin Rajabzadeh, McMaster University

“ElementaryPrinciples of Chemical Processes” [12] and “Basic Principles and Calculations in ChemicalEngineering” [13] lately offer online versions, in parallel to hardcopy editions, with increasingover-the-years interactive elements, but at a significant cost. More recently, Matthew Liberatorepublished an impressive online-only textbook on “Material and Energy Balances” [14] withinteractivity and adaptability to the user, but not on an open licence. Regarding online resources,he most widely known is the LearnChemE repository from the University of Colorado Boulder[15] which includes numerous screencasts, simulations, and quizzes. Quite popular is also theAIChE Concept Warehouse from Oregon State University [16] which hosts a huge number ofquestions on

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew W. Liberatore, University of Toledo; Katherine Roach, University of Toledo

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

spreadsheet content to help students solve materialand energy balance problems. During the Spring 2018 semester, ~100 students were assignedreading and auto-graded homework for 12 sections related to spreadsheets (Table 1). Students paidless than $60 to access to both the material and energy balances and spreadsheet content for thesemester and can re-subscribe for a fee (

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Kamyar Haghighi; Heidi A. Diefes

objectives (CLOs) 3. Establish the relationship between the CLOs and the POs 4. Establish the relationship between the CLOs and the course topics 5. For each performance criteria (PC), mark the appropriate box that corresponds to the highest Bloom’s level of coverage for the course. 6. Tabulate the relationships between CLOs, POs, and PCs.To demonstrate this six-task process, the development of a course profile for ABE 210 –Biological Applications of Material and Energy Balances (Introduction to Thermodynamics) willbe used as an example. The first task entails the listing of the topics and practices for the course.The course topics and practices for ABE 210 are shown in Table 6. Table 6. Course Topics and Practices for ABE

Conference Session

New Trends in CHE Education I

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Claire Komives, San Jose State University; Erik Fernandez, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

to begin to incorporate bio intotheir courses. The database would function as a supplementary solution manual to the textbooksolution manual. An NSF Course, Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement proposal was Page 14.1086.2 1funded in January, 2007 to the authors of this paper, and the plan was to develop 100 problemswith solutions for the Material and Energy Balance course.BioEMB has a number of useful attributes for faculty. Unlike a static solution manual, theproblems on BioEMB can be easily modified. Thus, mistakes in calculation, typo's and othererrors can be easily fixed and reposted

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering in the Sophomore Year

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Uchenna Asogwa, The University of Toledo; Matthew W Liberatore, The University of Toledo; Timothy Ryan Duckett, The University of Toledo; Gale A Mentzer, Acumen Research and Evaluation, LLC

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

brain's way of healing: Remarkable discoveries and recoveries from the frontiers of neuroplasticity. 2016: Penguin Books.14. Liberatore, M.W., Improved student achievement using personalized online homework for a couse in material and energy balances. Chemical Engineering Education, 2011. 45(3): p. 184- 190.15. Liberatore, M.W., Active Learning and Just-in-time Teaching In a Material and Energy Balances Course. Chemical Engineering Education, 2013. 47(3): p. 154–160.16. Liberatore, M.W., High textbook reading rates when using an interactive textbook for a Material and Energy Balances course. Chemical Engineering Education, 2017. 51(3): p. 109- 118.17. Bullard, L.G. and R.M. Felder, A Student-Centered Approach To Teaching A

Conference Session

ChE: Bioengineering, nanotechnology, and systems engineering in the Classroom

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University; Danielle Amatore, Oregon State University; Shoichi Kimura, Oregon State University; Alexandre Yokochi, Oregon State University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

-sized silicon nitride powder, carbon nanotubes, and silicon carbide nanotubes. He has taught senior Chemical Plant Design courses since he joined OSU in 1989 and a sophomore level Material and Energy Balances for six years. He currently works with a US company as a senior consultant on commercialization of carbon nanotube mass production.Alexandre Yokochi, Oregon State University Alex Yokochi is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Oregon State University. His research interests include the preparation and characterization of advanced materials, including nanostructured materials, and sustainable energy options

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 7: Innovative Pedagogy

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jiamin Zhang, University of California, Riverside; John Ellington Byars, Auburn University; Eric Burkholder, Auburn University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

connecting representations. Students also tend to focus on thesurface features instead of the underlying scientific principles.In chemical engineering, students are introduced to block flow diagrams (BFDs), a new type ofpictorial representation of a chemical process, early in the curriculum. For example, in thesophomore-level material and energy balances, often an initial exercise is to convert a wordproblem into a simple block flow diagram. The block flow diagram consists of a series of blocksrepresenting different equipment or unit operations that are connected by input and outputstreams. Important information such as operating temperatures, pressures, and flow rates areincluded in the diagram. However, the diagram does not include any details of

Conference Session

Real and Virtual - "New" Approaches to Teaching "Old" Courses

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard L. Zollars, Washington State University; Christopher Hundhausen, Washington State University; Adam Scott Carter, Washington State University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

engineering program and the computerscience program have been working on developing two software packages to aid studentsin developing their skills in the material and energy balance course in the chemicalengineering curriculum. The first of these (Chemical Process Visualizer – ChemProV) isa software package developed to assist students in converting written descriptions into agraphical format and then into a mathematical representation. It also provides a singleformat for the communication of the solutions to material/energy balance problemsbetween students . The second software package (On-Line Studio-Based LearningEnvironment – OSBLE) provides a means whereby the ChemProV solutions can beshared between students in an asynchronous online

Conference Session

Innovative Topics in ChE Curriculum

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Ward; Robert Busch; Abhaya Datye; David Kauffman

general education component, with no minimum specified.The ABET program-specific criteria for chemical engineering specify what they consider theminimum components of an undergraduate chemical engineering program. In addition to athorough grounding in chemistry and a working knowledge of advanced chemistry, ABETincludes the following engineering-related curriculum components for chemical engineering, allof which must be covered for a program to achieve accreditation: “…working knowledge, including safety and environmental aspects, of material and energy balances applied to chemical processes; thermodynamics of physical and chemical equilibria; heat, mass, and momentum transfer; chemical reaction engineering

Conference Session

Innovative Topics in ChE Curriculum

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Fichana; Ann Marie Flynn; Robert P. Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater; Jim Henry

corecourses from material and energy balances to plant design. In addition, faculty have developedmodules for multidisciplinary offerings such as freshman-level introduction to engineering andupper-level system dynamics and control. This paper will review some of the innovativemodules developed and show how they can be used in the chemical engineering curriculum.This educational project’s goal is to integrate green engineering concepts horizontally andvertically into the curriculum by taking existing courses and integrating topics as appropriatethrough examples, problems and case studies. Using green engineering principles at the start ofthe design process can lead to processes and products of a sustainable future.Support for this project is funded