2025 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Curriculum Assessment and Core ChE Courses

Papers in this session assess the current state of the CHE curriculum and focus on methods employed in several core CHE courses such as thermodynamics, transport, kinetics, and process control.

Chair

Troy Vogel, University of Notre Dame

Co-Chairs

Mechteld Hillsley, Penn State
Saadet Albayrak-Guralp, University of Michigan

Presentations

12:34 PM

(532a) Towards Modernization of the Chemical Engineering Curriculum: Findings from a Mixed-Methods Curriculum Assessment
Laura Hirshfield, Saadet Albayrak-Guralp

12:52 PM

(532c) Productive Confusion in Learning Thermodynamics
Harpreet Auby, Shirin Kuppusamy, Claudia Henry, Sandra Huffman, Milo Koretsky

01:10 PM

(532d) One Semester Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics: Keeping the Classroom Active & Fitting It All in!
Margot Vigeant

01:28 PM

(532e) Open-Ended Assignments in Undergraduate Transport Phenomena Courses
Erick Vasquez

01:46 PM

(532f) WIP: Using Assessments to Observe Conceptual Changes in Chemical Engineering Students
AraOluwa Adaramola

02:04 PM

(532g) Integrating Reinforcement Learning into Process Control Curriculum with a Water Level Control Example
Aycan Hacioglu, Melda Ulusoy, George Amarantidis Koronaios, Emmanouil Tzorakoleftherakis