Conference Session

Pedagogy in Chemical Engineering Education

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura Ford, The University of Tulsa; Janie Brennan, Washington University in St. Louis; Kevin Dahm, Rowan University; David Silverstein, University of Kentucky; Lucas Landherr, Northeastern University; Christy West, University of South Alabama; Jennifer Cole, Northwestern University; Stephen Thiel, University of Cincinnati; Bruce Vaughen, American Institute of Chemical Engineers; Marnie Jamieson, University of Alberta

Program-level ResponsesThe Curriculum Survey Committee of the Education Division (EdDiv) of AIChE surveysinstitutions in the United States and Canada each fall on different aspects of the undergraduatecurriculum. For Fall 2021, the topic was material and energy balances (MEB). The topic wasdefined in the survey as “a material and energy balances course covers the conservation of massand energy in a chemical process context”. The survey was directed at faculty of courses inwhich this was the main topic, not a simple introduction, and not at faculty of thermodynamicscourses unless they covered balances in a chemical process context. The Committee surveyedthis topic in 1972, 1990, 1999, and 2011 [1].A link to the survey was sent to the EdDiv

Collection

2019 ASEE PNW Section Conference

Authors

Jonathan Verrett P.Eng., University of British Columbia, Vancouver

Conference Session

ChemE Potpourri

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David L. Silverstein, University of Kentucky; Lisa G. Bullard, North Carolina State University; Margot A. Vigeant, Bucknell University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

the course and itscontent; and the remainder seeks to bring out the most innovative and effective approaches toteaching the course in use by instructors. Additionally, a limited historical comparison is madebetween the selected survey results and surveys on the same course conducted in 1972, 1990,and 1999.IntroductionThis survey represents the continuation of a series of surveys of undergraduate curricular topicsbegun in 1957 by the AIChE Education Projects Committee and more recently resumed by theAIChE Education Division. This paper presents the results for the third in the series of surveysconducted by the Education Division.Survey BackgroundThe Material and Energy Balance course (MEB) is the topic of the 2010 survey. Theaforementioned

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

S. Patrick Walton, Michigan State University; Amanda Portis Malefyt, Michigan State University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

Future Academic Scholars in Teaching (FAST) Fellowship program at Michigan State University. She received her bachelor’s degree from Trine (formerly Tri-State) University. Her research interests include engineering education and nucleic acid therapeutics. Page 25.770.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Increasing the Spirality of Material and Energy BalancesStudents in the material and energy balances course often cannot keep up with the pace of thematerial, in particular as it evolves from simple systems with only material balances to complexsystems consisting of

Conference Session

Teaching Outside the Box

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

R. Artigue; M. H. Hariri; M. Misovich; M. Anklam; David Miller

Session 1613 A Modified Approach to Material & Energy Balances D. C. Miller, M. H. Hariri, M. Misovich, M. Anklam, and R. Artigue Department of Chemical Engineering Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyIntroduction The first course in chemical engineering (material and energy balances) has traditionallybeen a challenging course, which many students approach with fear and trepidation. Over thepast several years, we have developed an approach, which we believe helps the students to betterlearn the concepts by reorganizing the material that more strongly emphasizes

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Randy Russell; Nicholas Basker; Lisa Scranton; J. L. P Jessop; A. B. Scranton

Session 3613 Teaching Material and Energy Balances on the Internet A.B. Scranton,a* R.M. Russell,b N. Basker,c J.L.P. Jessop,a and L.C. Scrantona Michigan State University a Department of Chemical Engineering/ b Virtual University/ c Department of Computer Science East Lansing, MI 48824AbstractStrategies for designing effective multimedia educational materials for lessons that are deliveredover

Conference Session

Pedagogy in Chemical Engineering Education

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sidney Stone, The University of Toledo; Breanne Crockett; Kevin Xu, The University of Toledo; Matthew Liberatore, The University of Toledo

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 Thermodynamics are available from zyBooks.com. His website is: https://www.utoledo.edu/engineering/chemical-engineering/liberatore/ © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Animation Analytics in an Interactive Textbook for Material and

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Connor Robert Bilchak, Columbia University; J. Patrick Abulencia, Manhattan College

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

Paper ID #15555Environmental Awareness in the Material and Energy Balances CourseMr. Connor Robert Bilchak, Columbia University Connor received his B.S. in chemical engineering from Manhattan College in 2014 and his M.S. from Columbia University in 2015. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. at Columbia under the advisement of Sanat Kumar and Christopher Durning. His work involves the morphological control of polymer-grafted nanocomposites for increased flux and selectivity in vapor separations.Dr. J. Patrick Abulencia, Manhattan College J. Patrick Abulencia is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Manhattan College

Conference Session

Virtual and Web Learning in Chemical Engineering

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew W Liberatore, University of Toledo

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

elaborate on why the answer wascorrect, which may include a few lines of detailed calculations. On the other hand, incorrectresponses detail how and why the students could have come to the incorrect answer as well asinformation suggesting a path or information needed to identify the correct answer.One example of a multiple choice question on the topic of reacting systems demonstrates thelearning question format for material and energy balance students (Figure 1).Figure 1. One multiple choice learning question related to reacting systems with all threeanswers selected. Each answer includes explanation on the correct or incorrect response.Animations are another feature of a zyBook, which may be the first of its kind in a chemicalengineering textbook

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael A. Collura, University of New Haven; W. David Harding, University of New Haven

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

AC 2012-5004: MATERIAL AND ENERGY BALANCES TAUGHT IN AMULTIDISCIPLINARY COURSEDr. Michael A. Collura, University of New Haven Michael A. Collura, professor of chemical engineering at the University of New Haven, received his B.S. in chemical engineering from Lafayette College and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in chemical engineering from Lehigh University. He is currently the Buckman Professor of chemical engineering and Coordinator of the Chemical Engineering program. His professional interests include the application of computers to pro- cess modeling and control (particularly for energy conversion processes), engineering education research (student self-assessment, developing conceptual understanding, and

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 6: First-Year & Sophomore Year Curriculum

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tanner Hilsabeck; Breanne Crockett; Amir Parsaei; Kevin S. Xu, Case Western Reserve University; Matthew W. Liberatore, The University of Toledo

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

an Erskine Fellow at the Uni- 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 Clustering of Animation View Times

Conference Session

Assessment in Chemical Engineering Education

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Araoluwa Adaramola, Purdue University at West Lafayette (PPI); Allison Godwin, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

’ identity development. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.comContextualized Self-Regulated Learning: Chemical Engineering Students’ Learning Experiences in a Materials and Energy Balances CourseAbstractThe transition into an engineering discipline via introductory discipline-specific courses can bechallenging for many undergraduate students. These reasons include the demanding nature ofengineering coursework which can be exacerbated by the documented equity and inclusionissues. Chemical engineering students are often introduced to the curriculum through thematerials and energy balances (MEB) course. Because students

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Pedagogy

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Sidney Jay Stone III P.E., The University of Toledo; Matthew W. Liberatore, The University of Toledo

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

, and interactive textbooks. His website is: http://www.utoledo.edu/engineering/chemical-engineering/liberatore/ American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Attitudes Toward and Usage of Animations in an Interactive Textbook for Material and Energy BalancesAbstractThe concept of active learning or “learning by doing” is applied through animations within aninteractive textbook. A Material and Energy Balance (MEB) course for undergraduate chemicalengineering students has generated large data sets by using an interactive textbook fromzyBooks. MEB is a foundational course that includes new terminology, the basic principles ofmass and energy

Conference Session

New Trends in CHE Education I

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Hanyak, Bucknell University; Timothy Raymond, Bucknell University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

AC 2009-1936: TEACHING MATERIAL AND ENERGY BALANCES TOFIRST-YEAR STUDENTS USING COOPERATIVE TEAM-BASED PROJECTSAND LABSMichael Hanyak, Bucknell University Michael E. Hanyak, Jr. is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Bucknell University since 1974. He received his B.S. from The Pennsylvania State University, M.S. from Carnegie Mellon, and his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1976. His teaching and research interests include computer-aided engineering and design, courseware development and the electronic classroom. He was one of the principal investigators with Brian Hoyt, William J. Snyder, Edward Mastascusa, and Maurice Aburdene on a five-year National

Conference Session

ChemE Curriculum: Freshman and Sophomore

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew W. Liberatore, University of Toledo; Katherine Roach

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

Student c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Quantifying self-guided repetition within an interactive textbook for a material and energy balances courseAbstractInteractive technology has quickly integrated into daily lives through handheld electronics and theInternet. Here, an interactive textbook replacement from zyBooks for a material and energybalances course has been used in recent years. While features of the interactive textbook werehighlighted previously, including animations replacing figures and question sets in lieu of largeblocks of text, student usage will be the focus of this contribution. Similarly, reading

Conference Session

Focus on Entry Experiences in Chemical Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Suzanne M. Kresta, University of Alberta; Inci Ayranci, University of Alberta

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

Fellowship, she is teaching material and energy balances to 2nd year students under the supervision of Dr. Suzanne Kresta. Page 22.286.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Bi-modal No More: Shifting the Curve in Material and Energy Balances Courses In the early 1990’s, common wisdom stated that a bi-modal distribution in process analysisis “normal”, with a significant number of students needing to take the course twice before they“get” the material. As class sizes in second year chemical engineering at the University ofAlberta grew to over 100

Conference Session

The Computer, the Web, and the ChE

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

G.T. Lineberry; David Silverstein

Session 3413 An Improved Distance Learning Environment for the Material and Energy Balances Course David L. Silverstein G. T. Lineberry University of KentuckyAbstractThe Kentucky Council on Post-Secondary Education has mandated goals of substantiallyincreased enrollments in Engineering for Kentucky state-funded institutions over the nextdecade. As part of the process designed to meet this goal, the University of Kentucky hascollaborated with other state institutions providing (or soon to provide

Conference Session

SPECIAL SESSION: Educational Methods and Tools to Encourage Conceptual Learning I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew W. Liberatore, Colorado School of Mines

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering, Educational Research and Methods

. Page 22.828.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Improved student achievement in Material and Energy Balances using personalized online homeworkAbstractPersonalized, online homework was used to supplement textbook homework, quizzes, and examsfor one section of a course in material and energy balances. The use of online homework duringthe Spring 2010 semester is summarized here and detailed by Liberatore in 1, and additionalresults from Spring 2011 will be included in the presentation. The objective of this study was totest the hypothesis that students using personalized, online homework earned better grades in thecourse. The online homework system asks the same questions of

Conference Session

Adaptive and Supportive Learning Environments

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shiran Zhavian; James P. Abulencia, Manhattan College

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering, Minorities in Engineering

AC 2012-4540: PERSPECTIVES OF TEACHING A DEAF STUDENT INTHE MATERIAL AND ENERGY BALANCES COURSEMiss Shiran ZhavianDr. James P. Abulencia, Manhattan College Page 25.1037.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Perspectives of Teaching a Deaf Student in the Material and Energy Balances CourseAbstract This paper discusses the experience of a Deaf student and their professor in amaterial and energy balances course. This non-traditional combination was challengingfor a few reasons. First, from a professor’s perspective, it was initially distracting to havetwo interpreters by your side

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 6: First-Year & Sophomore Year Curriculum

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

Erskine Fellow at the Uni- 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 Reproducible High Reading Participation and Auto-Graded Homework

Conference Session

Instructional and Learning Assessment in Chemical Engineering

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin D. Dahm, Rowan University; Mariano Javier Savelski, Rowan University; Mary Staehle, Rowan University; Joseph Francis Stanzione III, Rowan University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

Paper ID #14472Is Student Performance in CHE Core Courses Affected by Time ElapsedSince Completion of Material and Energy Balance Course Sequence?Dr. Kevin D. Dahm, Rowan University Kevin Dahm is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Rowan University. He earned his BS from Worces- ter Polytechnic Institute (92) and his PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (98). He has pub- lished two books, ”Fundamentals of Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics” and ”Interpreting Diffuse Reflectance and Transmittance.” He has also published papers on effective use of simulation in engineer- ing, teaching design and engineering

Conference Session

Novel Pedagogical Techniques I: Online, Electronic, and Apps!

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew W Liberatore, University of Toledo

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

Paper ID #18452Reading analytics and student performance when using an interactive text-book for a material and energy balances courseProf. Matthew W Liberatore, University of Toledo Matthew W. Liberatore is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Toledo. He earned a B.S. degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, all in chemical engineering. His current research involves the rheology of complex fluids as well as active learning and interactive textbooks. c American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

Teaching and Assessment in Chemical Engineering

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew W. Liberatore, University of Toledo; Kayla Chapman, University of Toledo

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

Paper ID #25201Reading Anytime: Do Students Complete Missed Readings After the DueDate When Using an Interactive Textbook for Material and Energy Balances?Prof. Matthew W. Liberatore, University of Toledo Matthew W. Liberatore is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Toledo. He earned a B.S. degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, all in chemical engineering. His current research involves the rheology of complex fluids as well as active learning, reverse engineering online videos, and interactive textbooks. His

Conference Session

Assessment in Chemical Engineering Education

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Liberatore, The University of Toledo; Kayla Chapman

Paper ID #36566Can I have More Problems to Practice? Part 2. StudentSuccess Related to Auto-graded, End-of-chapter YouTubeProblems in a Material and Energy Balances CourseMatthew Liberatore Matthew W. Liberatore is a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Toledo. He earned a B.S. degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, all in chemical engineering. From 2005 to 2015, he served on the faculty at the Colorado School of Mines. In 2018, he served as an Erskine Fellow at the University of Canterbury in

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Pedagogy

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Kayla Chapman; Matthew W. Liberatore, The University of Toledo

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

-chapter problems in a material and energy balances courseAbstractOnline homework and interactive textbooks provide big data that can help address manyquestions about student engagement and learning. Auto-graded homework questions withrandomized numbers and content can explore students’ proficiency in course material. Using afully interactive online textbook, Material and Energy Balances zyBook, success and attempts onhomework questions are quantified. In past studies, students with an unlimited number ofattempts completed a median of 94% correct over hundreds of questions. To provide studentswith more practice before exams, end-of-chapter problems were assigned. Students were onlyassigned a fraction of these summative, end-of-chapter problems. A

Conference Session

Computers in Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cindy Stowell Ph.D., Sapling Learning

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

-levelengineering courses?This paper examines the need and effectiveness of online homework for upper-level engineeringcourses as well as the difficulties in creating such a product. The experiences and outcomes of ane-learning company, Sapling Learning, that developed commercial online homework for thesecond year chemical engineering course, Material and Energy Balances are presented.Because online homework in the engineering fields is a rarity, some background is required tounderstand how Sapling Learning began developing online chemical engineering homework. In2008, Sapling Learning began developing textbook-independent homework and sold the productdirectly to instructors and universities to be paired with any textbook. “Technology T.A.’s” atSapling

Conference Session

ChE: Computers and Simulation in the Classroom

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Zollars, Washington State University; Christopher Hundhausen, Washington State University; Melissa Stefik, Washington State University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

Programming Lab (http://eecs.wsu.edu/~veupl), Dr. Hundhausen pursues research on computer-based visualization, simulation, and programming environments for science and engineering education.Melissa Stefik, Washington State University Melissa Stefik is a graduate student in computer science in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Washington State University. Page 12.1592.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Visual Learning in a Material/Energy Balance Class The material and energy balance class is frequently the “gateway” class inchemical engineering. Our

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering in the Sophomore Year

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Matthew W Liberatore, The University of Toledo; Megan Davidson, The University of Toledo; Kayla Chapman

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

help answer many questionsabout student engagement and learning. In addition, some data is available to instructors in realtime, so individual or class-level interventions do not need to wait for the next exam. In this study,a fully interactive online textbook, Material and Energy Balances zyBook, has been employed withseveral cohorts of students. Recent findings focused on quantify reading across three cohortsrepresenting over 280 students and almost 300,000 reading interactions. Median reading rates wereas high as 99% for over 1,300 interactions per student were found, but these reading clicks onlyquantify effort and not competence in the course material. Now, auto-graded homework questionswith randomized numbers and content are explored

Conference Session

Disruptive Innovations

Collection

2016 EDI

Authors

Frank Vahid, zyBooks

CEO, co-founder, former Co-founder, co- UC Davis professor oversight authors,Programming in MATLAB UC Riverside professorProgram. Embedded SystemsDigital DesignData Structures EssentialsComputing Technology for All Scott Sirowy, Kathleen Hayes, Russ Anderson, Roman Lysecky,Computer Organization & Design Engin. Director, VP of Sales VP of Finance Assoc. Prof. of ECE,Material and Energy Balances UCR CS Ph.D. Univ of Arizona, co

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

William M. Clark; Anthony G. Dixon; David DiBiasio

thermodynamics as a stand alone subject that has little relationship to the othermaterial. The fact that thermodynamics underlies the material and energy balance andseparation process courses is often obscured because in teaching the methodology forthose courses, the thermodynamic information is simplified or taken for granted as beinggiven in the problem statements. Also, note that traditional students spend about three Page 3.39.2quarters of a year acquiring skills and concepts before actually applying them to anydesign tasks in the last part of the year. Moreover, after two terms of thermodynamics,students tend to forget the material balance skills they