Happy fall to all of my colleagues! I know that here in Missouri, the weather is finally hinting at being chillier, and the semester is quickly ramping up. Because I know we’re all busy, I’ll try to keep this message short.
First, thanks to everyone who made ASEE 2024 in Portland such a huge success. Particular thanks go out to Sarah Wilson, our program chair, who not only dealt with NEMO and planning all of our paper sessions, but also put together a really wonderful banquet.
Thank you also to our Awards Committee for coordinating judging of the awards, and Reg Rogers, our outgoing Chair, who kept everything working smoothly.
Speaking of which, I’d also like to
recognize the fantastic work presented by our division authors. This newsletter
issue will highlight our 2024 award winners, so I hope you will read all about
their findings and accomplishments. Also, please consider nominating your peers
for this year’s awards! More information can be found on our division website (ched.asee.org).
Next, even though it probably feels
like we were just in Portland, it’s already time to submit abstracts for next
year’s conference in Montreal! Abstract submission also closes earlier than
usual – October 1 – so don’t miss the deadline. See the Call for Papers for
more details, and please consider what you can contribute to our community’s
shared knowledge.
Finally, I hope you will join me
and Taryn Bayles for our book club on Teaching
with AI
this fall and spring semester. Learning how to adapt our classrooms to a world
with ChatGPT seems like a critical part of the next few years for all of us.
You are always welcome to join our sessions, even if you haven’t read the text
– what’s important is that we all learn and share with each other.
Enjoy the rest of this newsletter
put together so well by Lorena and Monika. Feel free to email me at jbrennan@wustl.edu
if you have any suggestions for the division, or if you simply want to get more
involved with ChED. I
am looking forward to seeing many of you in San Diego for the AIChE Annual
Meeting!
ChEers,
Janie Brennan
Newsletter
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Greetings from the ASEE Membership Committee! George Prpich, Joanne Beckwith, and I (Tracy Carter) are your committee members. We are the folks that remind you to renew your membership. We recognize the importance of this community for our professional development, and we encourage you to reach out to your faculty colleagues and invite them to join. We also suggest you invite our future faculty, graduate students, to become members of ASEE! Please be sure to check the Chemical Engineering Division box when you renew.
The full description of responsibilities for each office are posted on the Division website and can be found through the links with each officer above.
Nominations are being accepted by the current Past Chair, David Silverstein, at david.silverstein@uky.edu). Self-nominations are encouraged, as are nominees for Director and Secretary-Treasurer who are fairly new to the Division and looking for a way to meaningfully contribute. Nominations are requested as soon as practical but will be accepted through February 29, 2024. Questions about the offices may be sent to the same email address as nominations.
ChE Division “Engineering Education” Mentoring Grant
All chemical engineering or chemistry faculty who have not attended an ASEE Annual Conference in the past five years are eligible for this grant. More than one grant may be given annually. A faculty member may apply for this grant by the last day of February. The application consists of a curriculum vitae and a maximum one-page statement of interests in educational scholarship.
Applications will be reviewed by a committee consisting of the awards chairs and directors. If there is a conflict of interest, the directors will identify another member of the committee.
The grant will be a ticket to the ChE Division Banquet. The grant winner(s) will be provided with a ChE Division mentor (an individual determined by the ASEE ChED executive committee) who will meet with the grant winner for both formal and informal interactions during the meeting. Nomination information can be found on the division website: http://ched.asee.org/awards/ and any questions can be directed to our awards chair, Ashlee Ford Versypt, at ashleefv@buffalo.edu.
ASEE CP12 Teacher Conference
The 2024 ASEE CP12 Teacher’s Conference (centered on K-12 teaching) will be held immediately before the 2024 ASEE Conference on June 22, 2024. It will be hosted at Portland State University’s Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science.
ASEE Map of PreK-12 Engineering Opportunities
Get listed on the ASEE map of PreK-12 engineering opportunities. Check out the map and provide feedback using the gray button on the home page. If you have an engineering program, camp, or event it can be highlighted on this website!
Call for Abstracts for the Biennial Conference on Chemical Education
Abstract submission is now open for oral and posters presentations for the 28th Biennial Conference on Chemical Education (BCCE 2024) to be held at the University of Kentucky July 28-August 1, 2024.
The conference will be organized around four themes:
Classroom Practice and Learning Environments
Curriculum and Cognition
Assessment and Research Methods
Professional Development – within the K-12, two-year college, and university communities.
College/university faculty and staff, K-12 teachers, graduate students, postdocs, and anyone else working in chemical education are welcome to submit an abstract. The deadline for submissions is February 28. Information about the conference is available at https://bcce.divched.org/ or by contacting the program co-chairs, Kim Woodrum or Irv Levy at bcce2024@uky.edu. Abstracts should be submitted at https://bcce24.exordo.com/. Instructions for presenters can be found at http://bcce.divched.org/presenters.
Teaching Professor Position at UC Merced
The Chemical Engineering faculty at the University of California Merced invites applications for the open-level position of Assistant/Associate/Full Teaching Professor to coordinate, develop and teach undergraduate courses and coordinate laboratories in all areas of Chemical Engineering with an anticipated start date as early as July 1, 2024. Please see the link for more information or email Kara McCloskey (kmccloskey@ucmerced.edu) directly with any questions. Apply by March 15. More info: https://aprecruit.ucmerced.edu/JPF01645
Postdoc Position at Cornell
The Robert Frederick Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (CBE) is seeking a highly motivated and talented individual to join our Active Learning Initiative (ALI) team as a Postdoctoral Researcher in Engineering Education. This position is part of an exciting project aimed at deconstructing the existing Unit Operations Laboratory course and developing new inquiry-based learning modules to be embedded across the curriculum to achieve our vision of making the School a “living laboratory.”
The postdoctoral scholar will work directly with Professor Allison Godwin, a tenured engineering education faculty member in CBE. The impacts of this change will be studied using both qualitative and quantitative tools to understand how active and open-ended problem-solving throughout the curriculum affects student learning, identities as engineers, motivation, and career pathways. Interested candidates should apply online at https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/27060. If you have other questions or comments, please contact: Allison Godwin, afg64@cornell.edu
Reginald Rogers University of Missouri ChED Chair, 2023-2024
Greetings
to everyone! I hope the start of the new academic year is going well for all of
you. It has been a busy time for all of
us and for the ASEE Chemical Engineering Division since our last newsletter. It
was great to see many of you in Baltimore for the ASEE Annual Meeting back in
June. We had a huge success with our
2023 meeting. A huge thank you to Janie
Brennan who served as our Program Chair.
Additional thank you goes out to Neha Raikar
for her hard work in serving as our local events coordinator.
It
was also a time to recognize our peers for their outstanding work, and to
continue that recognition please take note of all of the award winners
highlighted in this newsletter. Thanks to the Awards Committee for coordinating
all of the judging! Please take note that the nomination period for 2024 is
opening soon, so be thinking about who you work with that should be recognized
next year. Please especially consider
nominating individuals for the Donald R. Woods Lectureship for Lifetime
Achievement in Chemical Engineering Pedagogy.
Additional information on all of the ChED
Awards can be found on the division website.
Even
as the Fall term continues to cruise by us all, there is yet more to come!
Planning is underway for the 2024 ASEE Annual Meeting in Portland, OR. The Call
for Papers will be issued in the coming weeks. Submissions will soon be
accepted for the program. Please take a few minutes to review the Call featured
in this issue and consider what you can share with the community at the June
2024 meeting.
Finally,
I want to thank Elif Eda Miskioğlu
for her dedicated work of producing this newsletter. Since 2017, Elif
has worked hard to ensure our members had the most up-to-date information on
the business of the division. After 6
years in the role, she has transitioned the role to our new newsletter
co-editors. I would like to take this
opportunity to welcome Monika Crowl and
Lorena Grundy to the team. They will be
working together to continue publishing the newsletter, picking up where Elif
left off in her role. We are planning to
continue the format of a monthly email newsletter featuring the same items but
becoming more current with announcements.
In
the meantime, enjoy this newsletter. If you’d like to offer your perspective on
the continuance of the newsletter or to volunteer to take on a more active role
in the ChED,
drop me an email at rerogers@missouri.edu.
In the meantime, I look forward to hopefully seeing many of you in person in
Orlando in early November at the AIChE
Annual Meeting!
AIChE Education Division Awards Nominations Due June 30, 2018!
The Education Division grants three awards:
Service to Chemical Engineering Education: Recognizes an individual who, within 20 years of completion of the highest degree, has shown dedication and broad service to chemical engineering teaching and learning, especially in Chemical Engineering professional societies
Excellence in Engineering Education Research: Recognizes outstanding research in education, with a focus on chemical engineering pedagogy, encompassing methods, applications, and assessment.
Innovation in Chemical Engineering Education: Recognizes an individual who has implemented a pedagogical innovation into a class or course that has made a significant and documented positive impact on teaching effectiveness and has enhanced student learning.
Further descriptions of the awards and nomination procedures are available on the web site (https://www.aiche.org/community/sites/divisions-forums/education-division/awards). Please consider nominating a colleague! The Division award nomination form and two supporting letters should be submitted to the current awards committee Chair, Polly Piergiovanni (PiergioP@lafayette.edu) by June 30, 2018.
