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May 2012

Promoting Acceptance of Process Safety Curriculum Requirements

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
October 17, 2011
In 2009, the US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) recommended to AIChE and ABET to develop requirements related to understanding...

New Techniques for Just-In-Time Teaching of Chemical Engineering

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
October 16, 2011
The use of web-based resources in teaching holds promise for increasing the level of communication between students and instructors and for allowing...

Chemical Engineering Education in Colombia. the Universidad De Los Andes Experience

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
October 16, 2011
Though the general framework of the current analysis is chemical engineering education in Colombia, this report is centered in the Universidad de los...

Resources, Recommendations and Overcoming Challenges for Integrating Safety Into the Chemical Engineering Curriculum

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
October 17, 2011
Interviews were performed with more than ten instructors and professors who are currently incorporating safety into the chemical engineering...

Safety Education throughout the Undergraduate and Graduate Experience At Michigan Tech

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
October 17, 2011
Michigan Tech has a mature safety program in its capstone Unit Operations and Plant Operations courses (senior required laboratories; see...

Girl Scout STEM Workshop: Experience with 6th-10th Grade Girls in Rural Oklahoma

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
November 8, 2009
Recently, Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. has launched a science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) initiative to engage girls in hands-on...

OPTIMIZING IN-VITRO FERTILIZATION TREATMENT: A Pedagogical Case Study of Random Phenomena Analysis

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
October 16, 2011
Engineering practice has always required involvement in the acquisition, analysis, interpretation and exploitation of data in one form or another, so...

Intentional Course Design and Outcomes Assessment - Shifting the Curve In Material and Energy Balances Course

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
October 16, 2011
Intentional Course Design and Outcomes Assessment Shifting the Curve in Material and Energy Balances Courses Inci Ayranci and Suzanne Kresta...

Using Gas Sparger Models to Determine Mass Transfer Coefficients and Bubble Area for Fermentation

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
October 16, 2011
It is often challenging experimentally to determine the mass transfer area, a, in the constitutive equation for the rate of mass transfer, , where is...

Building Human Capacity in Chemical Engineering in Kazakhstan

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
October 16, 2011
The collapse of the former Soviet Union and the transition of the new independent states to market economies has highlighted the need for a radical...

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