2014 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Free Forum on Engineering Education: Junior and Senior Years

This session will cover broad topics in ChE education focused on the junior and senior year.

Chair

Tamara Floyd-Smith, Tuskegee University

Co-Chair

Mariano Savelski, Rowan University

Presentations

03:15 PM

Welcoming Remarks

03:20 PM

(559a) Does Time-to-Degree Matter? Survival Analysis and Students' Scores Evaluation
Adelmo Filho, Karla Esquerre, Elaine Albuquerque

03:38 PM

(559b) Optimizing the Design and Implementation of the Upper Level Curriculum: Making the Case for Scheduling Analysis of an Undergraduate Program
Benjamin A. Wilhite

03:56 PM

(559c) The New Spiral Initiative to Unify the Chem.E. Curriculum at the University at Buffalo
Jeffrey R. Errington, Andrew Schultz, Johannes M. Nitsche

04:14 PM

(559d) A Unit Operations V-Mixing Experiment to Integrate Particle Technology, Experimental Design and Advanced Data Analysis with Pharmaceutical Applications in the Undergraduate Curriculum
Z. Otero Gephardt, Michael R. Brusca, Daniel A Woodhead, Rachel Schwartz

04:32 PM

(559e) How to Teach Best a Basic Understanding of Molecular Interactions and Fluid Phase Thermodynamics
Andreas Klamt

04:50 PM

(559f) A Laboratory Tool for Distributed Solar PV Systems Education
Xiaohui Liu, James Dietz, Sudheera Fernando, Russell P. Lachance, Andrew Biaglow, Derrick Kearney, Ann Christine Catlin, Joseph Pekny

05:08 PM

(559g) Illustrative and Easy Topics for Undergraduate Thesis, and Their Influence on Students to Pursue Graduate Studies
Benito Serrano Rosales, Blanca Flor Orozco Salazar, Jose Ramses Garcia Elias, Patricio Javier Valades Pelayo, Jesus Moreira del Rio, Jorge Alberto Torres Rodriguez, Omar Uriel Valdez Martinez

05:26 PM

Discussion

05:41 PM

Concluding Remarks