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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 3: Work-in-Progress Part 1
Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)
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10.18260/1-2--44386
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Pelumi Abiodun is a current doctoral student and research assistant at the Department of Civil Engineering, Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland. Pelumi got his BSc and MSc degree in Physics from Obafemi Awolowo University, where he also served as a research assistant at the Environmental Pollution Research unit, in Ile-Ife, Nigeria. As part of his contribution to science and engineering, Pelumi has taught as a teaching assistant both at Morgan State University and Obafemi Awolowo University. With a passion to communicate research findings gleaned from experts in the field as he advances his career, Olaitan has attended several in-person and virtual conferences and workshops, and at some of them, made presentations on findings on air pollution, wastewater reuse, and heavy metal contamination.
Dr. Oludare Owolabi, a professional engineer in Maryland, joined the Morgan State University faculty in 2010. He is the director of the Sustainable Infrastructure Development, Smart Innovation and Resilient Engineering Research Lab.
EDUCATION/TRAINING
University of Turku (Finland) Ph.D. 03/2007 Bioorganic Chemistry
University of Maryland Baltimore County (USA) Post-doc 10/2007-08/2013 Chemistry/Toxicology
B. Positions and Honors
Positions and Employment
10/2007 – 08
Krishna Bista is an Associate Professor at Morgan State University, Maryland (USA).
Dr. J. 'Kemi Ladeji-Osias is Professor in the School of Engineering at Morgan State University in Baltimore. She is a rotating Program Director in the Division of Engineering Education from 2021 - 2023.
The hands-on approach in teaching and learning is an important resource to be explored because it offers a meaningful platform for student-instructor interaction that fosters sound scientific reasoning and improves the understanding of abstract chemistry concepts. Experiment-centric pedagogy (ECP) is a contemporary teaching approach that integrates active student participation in problem-based activities through hands-on mobile devices. This paper describes how experiment-centric pedagogy (ECP) has been used to teach key chemistry concepts to undergraduate students in the chemistry discipline at Historically Black University (HBCU). To assess whether ECP achieves a lasting increase in undergraduate student curiosity and engagement in the chemistry discipline, ECP was implemented from Fall 2021 to Fall 2022 using an inexpensive, safe, and portable electronic instrumentation system usable in both classrooms and laboratories. The Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire developed by Pintrich, Smith, García, and McKeachie in 1991 was used to measure the key constructs associated with students’ curiosity and engagement. The classroom observation protocol (COPUS) was used to assess instructors’ effectiveness, and signature assignments were used to evaluate knowledge gains. Keywords –experimental-centric learning, hands-on, curiosity, engagement.
Ibirinde, T. O., & Olude, A. I., & Abiodun, P. O., & Owolabi,, O. A., & Koissi, N., & Bista, K., & Bazyar Shourabi, N., & Efe, F., & Ladeji-Osias, J. K. (2023, June), Work in Progress: Using Experiment-centric Learning Pedagogy to Increase Student Understanding of Chemical Principles and Concepts Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland. 10.18260/1-2--44386
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