Paneled and Painless: Improving Student Interest, Confidence, and Understanding through Comics
AIChE Annual Meeting
2017
2017 Annual Meeting
Student Poster Sessions
Undergraduate Student Poster Session: Education & General Papers
Monday, October 30, 2017 - 10:00am to 12:30pm
Writing the comics is completed in alignment with professors' lectures, with script edits and illustrations being performed by a student artist. Work is periodically sent back and forth to ensure the artist portrays accurate information in the visual aspect of the comic. The work is then either published to a journal, a website, or distributed to colleges and schools to be used as a curriculum supplement to whatever subject the comic accompanies. Future projects may include experiments alongside the comics or an entire textbook written like a graphic novel.
These comics have been shown to increase understanding of the particular subject matter. The humor in the comic helps readers to keep things to memory, as humor has been linked to storing information in long-term memory. Future work will include producing these comics in a variety of subjects and departments, presenting up-and-coming research in a form that can be understood by as wide an audience as possible.