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Societies and Divisions relevant to Chemical Engineering Education

• American Society for Engineering Education  The national professional society for engineering educators across all disciplines
  • ASEE Chemical Engineering Division   ASEE's discipline-specific division for ChE faculty
• American Institute of Chemical Engineers
  • AIChE Education Division  AIChE's home for teaching-focused programming

Engineering Education Journals - Related to Chemical Engineering

• Chemical Engineering Education Journal  The discipline's flagship teaching journal
  • Archive of Chemical Engineering Education Papers  The full CEE backfile going back decades 
• American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE)
  • Journal of Engineering Education - ASEE 's Flagship engineering-education-research journal
  • Advances in Engineering Education - ASEE  An open-access ASEE journal on curriculum and course innovations
  • ASEE Prism  ASEE's member magazine
  • Computers in Education Journal  ASEE division publication focused on using computing tools and software
• International Journal of Engineering Education  An international, discipline-spanning engineering education journal

Resources for Online Education

• Best practices in online teaching (Arizona State University)  A concise checklist of pedagogical practices for structuring an online course 
• Semester online teaching guide (Purdue University)  Guide to expectations and standards for teaching online
• Harvard University’s Best Practices  Short guide to the fundamentals of remote and online teaching
• Online Advice Guide (Chronicle of Higher Education)  A collection of online-teaching advice pieces
• Elearning Industry Top Ten  A general higher-ed list of ten online-teaching best practices 
• Adapting Courses for Online teaching (Johns Hopkins University)  2020 guide written for the emergency shift to remote instruction during the pandemic
• Effective Online Teaching (Inside Higher Ed)  Veteran online instructors share practical tips on pacing, feedback, and keeping students engaged
• Preparing screencasts
  • Why Prepare Screencasts?  A short video making the case for recording brief screencasts
  • Advantages of Screencasts for Explaining Diagrams/Graphs  Shows why screencasting works especially well for visual, diagram-heavy ChE content
  • Using Screencasts to Explain Equations  Demonstrates techniques for narrating derivations and equation manipulation on screen
  • Tips for Making Effective Screencasts  Practical, ChE-specific advice on screencast length, pacing, and structure
  • Before-After Editing: A side-by-side example of a raw screencast recording versus its lightly edited final version
  • Camtasia  A video walkthrough of Camtasia, one of the two software packages most commonly used for ChE screencasting
  • Microsoft OneNote  A video walkthrough of using OneNote's

Teaching with Generative AI

Assessment redesign when AI can solve homework

• Adoption of Generative AI in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Education: A Scoping Review of Pedagogy, Assessment, and Governance  A 2026 review synthesizing how chemistry and ChE courses are redesigning assessment, verification, and governance now that AI is ubiquitous.
• Generative AI Submission Requirement and Ethical Guidelines (CEE Journal)  CEE's policy on disclosing AI use in submitted manuscripts.

Policies and syllabus language

• Examples of Academic Integrity Policies Addressing Generative AI (Carnegie Mellon Eberly Center)  A short menu of ready-to-adapt syllabus statements.

Using AI for problem generation and worked-example scaffolding

• Generative AI in Chemical Engineering Education: Rebuilding Thermodynamics, Material and Energy Balances, and Kinetics Courses with AI (ASEE PEER, 2025)  Documents a full redesign of three core ChE courses using AI to help generate syllabi, homework, quizzes, and case studies

Discipline-specific cautions about AI on engineering calculations

• Translating UNESCO Artificial Intelligence Guidelines to Chemical Education  A 2026 Journal of Chemical Education perspective.
• ASEE ChED Resources page  

Other Useful Links and Resources

• American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) National Effective Teaching Institute  Intensive workshop on evidence-based teaching methods
• Richard Felder Resources in Science and Engineering Education (North Carolina State University) The Felder/Brent collection of papers and columns on active learning and student-centered teaching
• LearnChemE (University of Colorado Boulder)  The largest single free repository of ready-to-use ChE teaching content.
• AIChE Concept Warehouse (Tufts University)  A free, searchable bank of ConcepTests and concept inventories across the core ChE curriculum
• Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative (University of British Columbia): Extensive resources for transforming courses to active learning
• The Leonardo Project (University of California Berkeley) Educational materials (99 reports) on the interface between chemical technology and society; a way to introduce relevant social and humanistic content into chemical engineering courses
• Gradescope: Software that streamlines grading, while also providing better feedback to students
• QR-ED: A repository of more than 1,000 Problems and Questions for Instructors of Engineering and Science (Trine University)

Verified and updated August 23, 2026