Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brad Cicciarelli, Louisiana Tech University; Timothy Reeves, Louisiana Tech University; Catherine Hendricks Belk, Clemson University; Marisa K. Orr, Clemson University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Paper ID #37495Board 262: Effects of an Intervention on Student Self-Efficacy andIntegration in Chemical Engineering SophomoresBrad Cicciarelli, Louisiana Tech University Brad Cicciarelli is a Distinguished Lecturer in the chemical engineering and mechanical engineering departments at Louisiana Tech University. He earned a B.S. from the University of Florida and a Ph.D. from M.I.T., both in chemical engineering. He teaches a variety of courses, including material and energy balances, thermodynamics, heat transfer, and numerical methods.Dr. Timothy Reeves, Louisiana Tech UniversityMrs. Catherine Hendricks Belk, Clemson

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Christy Wheeler West, University of South Alabama; Eric J. Steward, University of South Alabama; Joseph D. Richardson, University of South Alabama

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Paper ID #34432Streamlining the Path from Community College to Engineering DegreeCompletionDr. Christy Wheeler West, University of South Alabama Christy Wheeler West is an associate professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engi- neering at the University of South Alabama, where she also serves as Director of the Office of Undergrad- uate Research. She holds a Ph.D. from Georgia Institute of Technology and a B.S. from the University of Alabama. She teaches material and energy balances and chemical reactor design, and endeavors to incorporate student professional development in her courses.Dr. Eric J. Steward

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Chemical Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hassan Golpour, North Carolina State University; Matthew Cooper, North Carolina State University; Lisa G. Bullard, North Carolina State University

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Chemical Engineering

. Since this bridging course is offered on a different timetable (fall-spring) than the MSU course (spring-summer), starting in Fall 2018, it expands course offeringsfor interested students. Prospective students who complete the course sequence will be able tocount the two courses, 6 elective credit hours, toward a MS Chemical Engineering degree at NCState, which may be attractive to prospective graduate students.2. COURSE DESIGN AND DESCRIPTIONA significant initial challenge in developing the course was to determine the content. Thisrequired condensing six undergraduate courses (material and energy balances, two semesters ofthermodynamics, transport phenomena, and reactor design) down to two. It was determined thata good first step was to

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven J. Mulvaney; Robert K. Finn; Claude Cohen

CONTENT After a general overview of the chemical processing industries, the non-chemicalengineering students are first taught the concepts of material and energy balances [1]. A firstcase study of a chemical process of some general appeal dealing with fly-ash and sulfur dioxideremoval from the stack gases of a coal-burning electricity-generating plant is considered.Design and strategy for the removal of SO2 to meet EPA regulations are considered. Theadvantages of the limestone scrubbing operation are discussed [2]. After this case study, thestudents are introduced to idealized chemical reactors at the level of the first few chapters ofLevenspiel's The Chemical Reactor Omnibook [3]. Simple separation operations coveringdistillation

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Gustavo Bolaños

process flowsheetwith material and energy balances, a preliminary especification of equipment, and estimations ofcapital and manufacturing costs.Phase 3. Revision of safety and environmental hazards. Each team develops a revision ofhazards of the process designed by another team. Assessment is based on the quality anddescription of the process, the extension and depth of the revision, and the quality of thedocumentation presented. The teams use HAZOP to develop this phase. Page 8.1082.3 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ku-Yen Li; David Cocke; John Gossage

Analysis (or Material and Energy Balances, as it is frequently called at otherschools) class simultaneously, they generally begin the semester with little or nounderstanding of basic chemical engineering concepts. Thus, in addition to learning the“nuts and bolts” of using the simulation packages, they also must learn at least therudiments of such common unit operations as heat exchangers, reactors, flash drums, anddistillation columns. Of course, at this level the students are asked to accept some of theinformation (such as the governing equations) “on faith”, with the promise that the detailswill be covered in subsequent chemical engineering classes such as Heat Transfer,Kinetics, Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics, and Mass Transfer. In this

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Education: Upperclass Years

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Turton, West Virginia University; Joseph Shaeiwitz, West Virginia University

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Chemical Engineering

covered in the lectureportion of the senior design course. Only a few of the basics of batch operations might becovered in an undergraduate curriculum; unsteady material and energy balances (Stoichiometryand Heat Transfer), design of batch reactors (Chemical Reaction Engineering) and control ofsimple batch operations such as tank filling, etc. (Process Control). To complement the coverageof batch operations and to familiarize students with additional concepts relating to batchoperations such as scheduling and intermediate storage, a short module in batch operation wasdeveloped for a senior design course.Integration of Batch Operations into the Existing Senior Design CurriculumThe senior design course at our University comprises two semesters. The

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2011 North Midwest Section

Authors

Alon McCormick

Junior Spring Numerical Methods course toreview and develop principles Had to repackage the computational approach approach again to accommodate new biomolecular engineering required course, and to make computation instruction more robust, and to better prepare students for computational research, Sophomore year , introduce Matlab TOOLS only Very little coding (except simple iteration associated with staged separation). Address both transient problems and staged equilibrium calculations Mostly rely on Matlab as an appliance, keeping focus on material and energy balances reasoning. Through Sophomore and Junior year, encourage students to use these tools through

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

M. Hossein Hariri

coalgasification.In order to assist the students in calculations, spreadsheets were set up parallel to theslides. For each unit shown on a slide, a number of sheets were produced involvingcalculations specific to material and energy balances around that unit. Spreadsheets werenamed after the corresponding slide name. For example, there were four spreadsheets formaterial and energy balances around Coal Gasifier and were named Coal Gasification (1)to (4). In Windows 95 environment, one can easily switch between spreadsheet and slidepresentation in order to interact between the unit flowsheets and the correspondingspreadsheet calculations.Project Assignment ProcessIn the beginning of the course students were given the slides in order to learn about theprocess

Conference Session

Improving Laboratory Education in Chemical Engineering

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joshua A Enszer, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

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Chemical Engineering

Paper ID #9339A Course in Problem Solving with Experimental DesignDr. Joshua A Enszer, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Page 24.39.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 A Course in Problem Solving with Experimental DesignAbstractTo address needs for accreditation and our university’s requirements for graduation, we haveimplemented a sophomore-level course on problem solving and experimental design. This coursereinforces problem-solving strategies from material and energy balances and requires students

Conference Session

Learning Outcomes and Assessment Within Chemical Engineering

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

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

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Chemical Engineering

problems substituted homework from textbook, students recorded improved learningattitudes [21, 22]. YouTube problems are qualitatively similar in content with textbook problemsand could be administered as in class, homework, quiz, or exam problems. This study is limited todeployment of YouTube problems as homework pertaining to reacting systems with recycle — atopic in Material and Energy Balances course.2. Methodology2.1 YouTube ProblemsThe YouTube pedagogy was implemented in a Material and Energy Balances course, which is anintroductory freshman/sophomore-level course in most chemical engineering programs. Whilemany problems that were not part of the current study were completed by students, we consideredonly problems covering the topic of

Conference Session

ChE: Curriculum Reform & Assessment

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Turton, West Virginia University; Joseph Shaeiwitz, West Virginia University

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Chemical Engineering

elective(s) in unit operations could be Table 1: Suggested Traditional Chemical Engineering Curriculum Required Subjects Basic Sciences basic skills/freshman class math material and energy balances chemistry thermodynamics physics fluid mechanics biology heat transfer mass transfer/separations Possible Electives transport phenomena§ safety reaction engineering biochemical engineering control materials/polymers unit operations laboratory class(es

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Taryn Melkus Bayles, University of Pittsburgh

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Chemical Engineering

sheet. At aminimum, each process included:  A reactor with catalyst  Incorporation of recycle streams to maximize reactant conversion  Incorporation of a separation system(s)  Heat exchange network (with the eventual goal of applying heat integration principles to conserve energy) The following deliverables were required for the first design project report:  Identification of raw material costs and selling price of the product  Detailed process flow diagram with all major pieces of equipment identified and conditions specified  Develop and effectively communicate the material and energy balances for the process (and each major piece of equipment).Design Project II Each team had to provide detailed

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Courses in Emergent Areas

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Taryn Melkus Bayles, University of Pittsburgh

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Diversity

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Chemical Engineering

understanding of the value of a liberal arts education and academic integrity) and develop in the student the essential academic skills (time management, problem solving, communication, library skills, etc.) for success at our institution  Facilitate student’s involvement as active members of the university community  Maximize students’ personal development and self-awareness for major/career decision making and life-long learning  Resume and cover letter writing and mock interviews to assist in attaining a summer internship  Homework assignments to supplement the material and energy balance course (which included homework assignments requiring the students to complete practice exams

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Wade Kenny; Kevin Myers; Heather Cornell

by Louis9 as those activities thatcommunicate to organizational newcomers the roles and behaviors they should adopt. Theintroductory Material and Energy Balances (MEB) course to be studied is, in itself, anenculturation process where students learn the basic skills they will use for at least the rest oftheir academic career, if not for the rest of their lives. Dr. Richard Felder hypothesizes that muchof the difficulty in MEB courses arises because the basic concepts are inherently simple.Students may feel at first that they need not learn the engineering approach to a problem, and,instead, use other methods learned in algebra and chemistry to solve the problems.Unfortunately, as problems become more difficult and new concepts are introduced

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

William B. Perry; Victor Barocas; David E. Clough

GEEN 1300 and CHEN 4580. Each module introduces aproblem relating to material in the course, which must be solved using programming andcomputational methods. Listed below are the six sophomore- and junior-level courses in whichprogramming modules have been implemented: Year Semester Course(s) Sophomore Fall CHEN 2120 Material and Energy Balances Sophomore Spring CHEN 3200 Chemical Engineering Principles 1 (Fluid Mechanics) Junior Fall CHEN 3210 Chemical Engineering Principles 2 (Heat Transfer) CHEN 3838 Applied Data Analysis Junior Spring

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerry A. Caskey

oflaptops in class in several ways. Students in Material and Energy Balances use them to workgroup problems in class that were too unwieldy previously. Students in Process Control can callup software from the campus network ( for example Tutsim ) for in-class demonstrationsbecause each seat in most classrooms can be connected to the Institute network. Students in ourStatistics elective course can also connect to software such as Minitab for in-class calculations.Student groups in Unit Operations Laboratory can perform data analysis and calculations whilein the laboratory. During the 1998-99 academic year all chemical engineering students hadChemCad IV design simulation software available for loading onto their laptops. ChemCadhas been used to

Conference Session

Teamwork and Assessment

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Josephson; Nader Vahdat; K.C. Kwon

. Currently, T.U.chemical engineering undergraduates are required to take one introductory programming course(either C++ or FORTRAN) offered by the university’s Department of Computer Science. Theproper use of commercial software packages such as Excel is taught as a part of requiredchemical engineering courses. The use of chemical engineering specific software is also requiredbeginning with the gateway Materials and Energy Balances course. The departmental reviewteam examined the relevance of the programming course in addition to how well the othersoftware packages were being learned. The team also studied the computer programmingrequirements within the chemical engineering curricula at other institutions. This latter study wasdone via a combination

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University; C. Stewart Slater, Rowan University; Zenaida Otero Gephardt, Rowan University; Mariano Javier Savelski, Rowan University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

participants work to modify acourse they teach. Page 25.1500.4Figure 1. Example introductory slide illustrating complex organic structure of a drug tabletshowing active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) and excipients.The active learning exercises and demonstrations can be used directly in a material and energybalance course or in a freshman engineering course. These educational materials conveyessential concepts in pharmaceutical terminology, drug delivery, and manufacturing within thecontext of a material and energy balance calculation. For example, one problem explores therole of active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) and excipients (binders, filler

Conference Session

Innovative Classroom Techniques

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Todd Johnson, Washington State University; Reid Miller, Washington State University

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Educational Research and Methods

education, and assessment methodologies31-32. For some engineering programs, ablended instructional environment could provide the initial step towards the development of anonline learning experience for students and faculty31-32. However, additional research into theblended learning environment for engineering students’ learning, satisfaction, and retention isneeded to assist these programs in using the technology wisely31-32.PurposeThe purpose of the present study was to compare blended instruction to a traditionally taughtsophomore level chemical engineering material and energy balances course (a traditionalintroductory course in the chemical engineering curriculum). Specific research questions to thisstudy were: 1). How does the use of

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard L. Zollars, Washington State University; Christopher Hundhausen, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Washington State University; Derrick Wayne Smith, University of Alabama in Huntsville; Adam Scott Carter, Washington State University

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Chemical Engineering

approach byproviding a common tool and format both for solving material and energy balance problems, andfor presenting solutions to peers and instructors for feedback and discussion. This made it easierfor the groups to understand what the problem solver was trying to accomplish and thus easier tooffer suggestions about how to solve the problem. If the problem solver was stuck, groups couldcorrect any errors in the solution that was presented, or suggest alternatives to the solutionoffered. Attitudinal surveys indicated that the students liked the SBL format and felt they hadlearned from the experience.In order to make it possible to implement SBL asynchronously and online, we have integratedChemProV with OSBLE, an online learning management

Conference Session

Teaching and Assessment in Chemical Engineering

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Cooper, North Carolina State University; Lisa G. Bullard, North Carolina State University; Christopher C. Willis, North Carolina State University - DELTA; Dan Spencer, North Carolina State University

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Chemical Engineering

Paper ID #25079Direct and Indirect Assessment of Student Perspectives and Performance inan Online / Distance Education Chemical Engineering Bridging CourseDr. Matthew Cooper, North Carolina State University Dr. Matthew Cooper is a Teaching Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at NC State University where he teaches courses in Material and Energy Balances, Unit Op- erations, Transport Phenomena and Mathematical/Computational Methods. He is the recipient of numer- ous teaching and pedagogical research awards, including the NCSU Outstanding Teacher Award, NCSU Alumni Distinguished

Conference Session

ChE: Innovations in undergraduate and graduate programs

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lale Yurttas, Texas A&M University; Zachry Kraus, Texas A&M University; Jeffrey Froyd, Texas A&M University; Jean Layne, Texas A&M University; Mahmoud El-Halwagi, Texas A&M University; Charles Glover, Texas A&M University

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Chemical Engineering

material. The pre-test might be especially valuable for studentswho are using the ICC for review. Students who are learning about applications of CoM for thefirst time may find the pre-test helpful in organizing their prior knowledge8 about the topic. Theweb site also displays a score for the student who takes the test and provides a chance to improvethis score after going through the topic notes, exercises, and examples in the ICC. Pre-testquestions are being revised and updated continuously. A future plan is to ask the students takingthe material and energy balances course in each semester to develop new concept questions andcontribute to the concept inventory. This technique is especially useful as the students oftenidentify a difficult concept

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 3: Work-in-Progress Part 1

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Cooper, North Carolina State University, Raleigh; Lisa G. Bullard, P.E., North Carolina State University, Raleigh

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

. There is a needto bridge this knowledge gap in order to position each accepted student to succeed in graduatestudies.Since 2018 the department has offered a self-paced online course sequence consisting of twocourses, three credit hours each which are typically taken Fall/Spring or Spring/Summer, forstudents with a BS degree in a non-CHE science or engineering field. This two-course sequenceserves as a “bridging course” and teaches the core concepts in chemical engineering to students,covering material including material and energy balances, thermodynamics, transportphenomena, and reactor design. The course content, organization and continuous improvementhave been previously presented and documented [1-5].Now that the two-course sequence has

Conference Session

Experiential Learning in Chemical Engineering

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Susan M. Stagg-Williams, The University of Kansas; Molly McVey, The University of Kansas; Andrew David Yancey, The University of Kansas; Akash Anand, The University of Kansas; Arthur A. Lee, The University of Kansas

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Chemical Engineering

introduction to work done by professional chemicalengineers, the resources available to help them be successful at KU, the curricular requirementsand expectations of chemical engineering students, and possible career opportunities; 2) anintroduction to engineering ethics, basic safety considerations, teamwork, and technical writing;and 3) an introduction to basic material and energy balances and fluid flow. This course was theonly chemical engineering course the students took during the freshman year. While teaching the first semester sophomore Material and Energy Balance course between2009 and 2012, students often remarked that the freshman class was boring and that they still didnot understand what chemical engineers did. Based on this feedback

Collection

2003 GSW

Authors

David L. Cocke; John L. Gossage; Emrah Alicli; Beytullah Misirli; Kuyen Li

for technological exploitation in the convergent classroom.ContentThe undergraduate chemical engineering curriculum typically encompasses the followingchemical engineering courses: material and energy balances, thermodynamics, transportphenomena (often separated into fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and mass transfer), kinetics (orreactor design), process control, plant design, analysis, and unit operations laboratory. Each ofthese classes contributes more or less directly to one or more of the three pillars of chemicalprocess engineering: design, control, and optimization. In particular, process design reliesheavily on the concepts taught in thermodynamics (to determine whether or not a proposedprocess is even possible), material and energy

Conference Session

ChE: Innovations in Student Learning

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Christensen, Texas A&M University; Lale Yurttas, Texas A&M University; Janie Stratton Haney, Texas A&M University; Mahmoud El-Halwagi, Texas A&M University; Jeffrey Froyd, Texas A&M University; Charles Glover, Texas A&M University

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Chemical Engineering

officer in Texas A&M University Student Chapter of AIChE. She has significantly contributed to the implementation of the service learning project as directed studies and also served as a mentor to the participating students both in Fall 2006 and Spring 2007 semesters.Janie Stratton Haney, Texas A&M University Janie Haney has graduated with a B.S. degree from Artie McFerrin Chemical Engineering Department in December, 2006. Prior to her graduation, she has served as a teaching assistant in introductory level material and energy balances course for three semesters consecutively. She has participated fully in the implementation of the service learning project and also mentored the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

F. Carl Knopf, Louisiana State University; Kerry Dooley, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge

tooperational data from the cogeneration gas turbine and HRSG, and students are asked todetermine reconciled values in Excel as, 2 ⎛ Measured Value − Reconciled Value ⎞ Minimize ⎜⎜ ⎟⎟ ⎝ Instrument Standard Deviation ⎠ Subject to : Material and Energy Balances with Reconciled Values = 0The first time this DR module was used (Spring 2006), the average time to solve was 10.4 hr.When the statement “the problem promoted your understanding of the topic” was scored on a 0-5scale an average of 4.3 was obtained. Utilizing student feedback, we now provide an Exceltemplate

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles U. Okonkwo

theiremphasis area. We recommend that the students begin with the course, Manufacturingand the Environment to learn basic principles of manufacturing processes and theirenvironmental impact. Knowledge gained from this course will be valuable in the WasteMinimization and Prevention course. The Material and Energy Balance in ManufacturingProcesses course will benefit from the previous two in terms of application toenvironmental systems. Ethics and Regulations course will be better appreciated afterenvironmental principles have been laid down in the first three courses. The fifth course,Energy, would incorporate the principle of ethics and regulations into equipment andprocess design. Environmental Site Planning for industries would come as the lastcourse

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph A. Shaeiwitz; Ph.D., Richard H. Turpin

increased steam pressure. This can be accomplished by pumping the boiler feedwater to a higher temperature; but, there might be equipment limitations should the temperature need to risemore than about 10”C. In reality, the temperature profile in the reactor probably looks more like the dotted line in Figure 2.Although the analysis for this case would involve simultaneous material and energy balances along the reactorlength, the same qualitative conclusions regarding the temperature and the boiler feed water will be found.Thus, the simple analysis presented is a powerfhl tool and gives correct qualitative results even if thequantitative results may be somewhat off. Discussion When this