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Shiv Krishna Madi Reddy; Meng Guo; Long Cai; Ralph E. White – Chemical Engineering Education, 2024
A method is presented which can be used to obtain analytical solutions for boundary value problems (BVPs) using the matrix exponential and Maple. Systems of second order, linear differential equations are expressed as two or more first order equations in matrix form, and their solutions are obtained using the matrix exponential, matrix…
Descriptors: Chemical Engineering, Engineering Education, Computer Software, Mathematics Instruction
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Paul Scovazzo – Chemical Engineering Education, 2025
Simplifying equations via assumptions is integral to the "engineering method." Algebraic scaling helps in teaching the engineering skill of making good assumptions. Algebraic scaling is more than a pedagogical tool. It can create a solution where one was not possible before scaling. Scaling helps in engineering proper design…
Descriptors: Algebra, Scaling, Engineering Education, Mathematics Skills
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Stierle, Rolf; Fischer, Matthias; Braun, Thorsten; Gross, Joachim – Chemical Engineering Education, 2023
How is it possible to create and continuously improve a quality learning environment for our students? We present our one-year course on engineering thermodynamics as a case study in which we investigate the learning environment based on a competency model from the students' perspective. Based on the analysis of our course structure and exam…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Thermodynamics, College Students, Student Attitudes
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Alexis N. Prybutok; Ayinoluwa Abegunde; Kenzie Sanroman Gutierrez; Lauren Simitz; Chloe Archuleta; Jennifer Cole – Chemical Engineering Education, 2024
Engineering curriculum often fails to connect content and decisions to impacts on diverse, particularly marginalized, communities. Given that integration of social justice ideas into curriculum is currently uncommon among most faculty, we provide resources in the form of a workshop to help catalyze these efforts by teaching faculty how to…
Descriptors: Chemical Engineering, Social Justice, Racism, Workshops
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Burkholder, Eric; Hwang, Lisa; Wieman, Carl – Chemical Engineering Education, 2021
We have developed an assessment of authentic problem-solving in chemical engineering, which we used to measure students' problem-solving at the beginning and end of a cornerstone design course. We measured how much problem-solving students learned, and how these students compared with data collected from seniors at the beginning of the capstone…
Descriptors: Authentic Learning, Problem Solving, Chemical Engineering, Student Evaluation
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Christopher V. H.-H. Chen; Scott Banta – Chemical Engineering Education, 2023
As more chemical engineering students enter careers beyond the field, students need more guidance in applying their problem solving skills to a challenges beyond the plant or refinery. Since Fall 2019, we have implemented case-based learning across our Material and Energy Balances course to help students practice chemical engineering thinking as a…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Chemical Engineering, Engineering Education, Problem Solving
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Asogwa, Uchenna; Duckett, T. Ryan; Mentzer, Gale A.; Liberatore, Matthew W. – Chemical Engineering Education, 2021
The impact of solving novel video-inspired homework problems on learning attitudes toward chemical engineering was examined at beginning and end of an undergraduate material and energy balances course using a modified Colorado Learning Attitudes about Science Survey instrument. Mean overall attitude of participants improved by a normalized gain…
Descriptors: Homework, Student Attitudes, Video Technology, Problem Solving
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Robert J. Fisher – Chemical Engineering Education, 2025
Strategies are proposed that promote use of an Integrated Applied Mathematics (IAM) approach to enhance teaching of advanced problem-solving and analysis skills. Three scenarios of 1-dimensional transport processes are presented that support using Error Function analyses when considering short time/small penetration depths in finite geometries.…
Descriptors: Chemical Engineering, Mathematics, Problem Solving, Skill Development
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Scholes, Colin A.; Hu, Guoping – Chemical Engineering Education, 2021
A practical for students to experience a process plant is presented, based on operating a solvent absorption plant for carbon dioxide capture. The student must operate the plant in assigned roles that closely identify with a chemical plant environment, to achieve specific performance targets. Students must overcome technical challenges that…
Descriptors: Chemical Engineering, Engineering Education, Facilities, Chemistry
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Ó Súilleabháin, Cilian; Foley, Greg – Chemical Engineering Education, 2019
Membrane separation processes, from reverse osmosis to ultrafiltration to microfiltration, are gradually receiving more and more emphasis in undergraduate chemical engineering curricula. Of these processes, ultrafiltration tends to be the most amenable to the standard chemical engineering approach of theory development, mass and/or energy…
Descriptors: Chemical Engineering, Engineering Education, Teaching Methods, Undergraduate Students
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Ghorashi, Bahman – Chemical Engineering Education, 2023
Due to the structured format of most engineering courses, the number of opportunities for engineering students to view matters differently from the traditional ways is limited. Therefore, a mandatory requirement was introduced into three engineering courses for students to propose an out of the ordinary solution to certain technical problems,…
Descriptors: College Students, Engineering Education, Creativity, Assignments
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Clay, John D.; Collins, Eric – Chemical Engineering Education, 2020
Generating a problem that addresses multiple course learning objectives can be a challenging, but worthwhile exercise for a professor. These types of problems are particularly useful late in a course to help students tie together seemingly disparate concepts to solve an integrated problem that requires them to review concepts mastered throughout…
Descriptors: Smoking, Electronic Equipment, Educational Objectives, Teaching Methods
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Hirshfield, Laura J.; Mayes, Heather B. – Chemical Engineering Education, 2019
With the advance of engineering education research and scholarship, there has been an increased focus on amending chemical engineering courses to increase student learning, engagement and enjoyment. These approaches are often incorporated in project-based courses such as capstone design courses and laboratory courses, providing opportunities to…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Chemical Engineering, Engineering Education, Inclusion
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Nagma Zerin – Chemical Engineering Education, 2024
Project-Enhanced learning is an excellent way to facilitate student-centered learning along with traditional lecture-based learning. In this Class and Home problem, an example of Project-Enhanced learning is provided that can be used in the Mass and Energy Balances (MEB) course. The students solve this problem as part of a group while receiving…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Active Learning, Student Centered Learning, Teaching Methods
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Felse, P. Arthur – Chemical Engineering Education, 2018
Cross-disciplinary fields such as biotechnology require chemical engineers and non-engineers to routinely work together, thus creating a need for non-engineers to learn chemical engineering. But limited knowledge on non-engineers' learning preferences and the lack of pedagogical methods to teach non-engineers restricts the opportunities available…
Descriptors: Biotechnology, Mechanics (Physics), Teaching Methods, Engineering Education
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