Submissions

Author Guidelines

Focus and Scope:   Chemical Engineering Education (CEE) is a quarterly, peer-reviewed journal serving the needs of the international community of educators in chemical engineering and related disciplines. CEE is the premier archival journal within the field and originated in 1962.

Papers published in CEE must be of interest to chemical engineering and related educators. Thus, papers are expected to focus on teaching chemical engineering, ChE curriculum and courses, ChE students, the future of the field, etc.

CEE accepts a wide-variety of articles types (e.g., general manuscripts, class and home problems, lifelong learning, teaching tips, guest editorials, etc.)   However, all submissions are expected to be scholarly.  Each submission receives an initial review from the Editor, who decides whether the submission is rejected, returned to the author for edits prior to review or moves to review.

Submission Guidelines, Template and Keywords:   To improve workflow and reduce unnecessary delays in the production of articles, CEE requests that all authors read and follow the submission guidelines found at the link below.  The closer the guidelines are followed at submission, the fewer stylistic modifications that need to occur during the post-submission phases.  It is noted that the template includes author affiliation and biographical information.  If you would like the review to be performed in a double-masked manner, the expectation is the author will remove this information from the submission.

Additionally, it would be beneficial to select appropriate keywords for your submission.  To the extent possible, please select from those keywords.  They are located within the Submission Template below.

Submission Template 1.8 (updated 12/21) PDF version

Submission Template 1.8 (updated 12/21) WORD version

For those using EndNote, a CEE style file is available here.  For more information on installing EndNote style files, visit their detailed information page.

Reviewing Interests (keywords):   For those reviewers who are updating their profiles to include/edit their reviewing interests, please choose from the "keywords" list found in the file below (in as much as possible).

Reviewing Interests (keywords) - updated 10/20 - version 1

Types of Submissions

All submissions described below are externally peer-reviewed.*

Manuscripts:  These are the most common submission types.  Manuscripts are typically limited to 10 pages (typeset).  A reasonable estimate for the maximum length manuscript the journal would publish with an average number of citations and no figures or tables would be about 7600 words.  For every table, reduce by about 375 words;  for every figure, reduce by about 200 words.   Please use this as a rough guide when planning your submission.

Class and Home Problems:   These submissions typically present scenarios that enhance the teaching of chemical engineering at the undergraduate or graduate level, normally within specific courses.  Submissions should have clearly stated learning objectives.

Lifelong Learning:  These submissions address aspects of lifelong learning for current students, alumni and faculty.  Examples of student and faculty activities that involve industrial practice and engagement, as well as continuing education are welcome.  

Teaching Tips:  These are one-page (typeset), peer-reviewed tips about some aspect of teaching that the readership may find useful and valuable.  Typical submission length is about 600 words (w/o figures or tables).  Figures or tables within a Teaching Tip are used sparingly.  Some references, where appropriate, are common for a Teaching Tip.

Laboratory Feature:  The laboratory experience in chemical engineering education has long been an integral part of the curriculum.  CEE encourages the submission of manuscripts describing innovations in the laboratory ranging from large-scale unit operations experiments to demonstrations appropriate for the classroom.   Typical submissions contain sections such as Introduction, Laboratory Description, Data Analysis, Summary of Experiences and Conclusions.  It is important to address safety issues as well in any laboratory feature.

* -- Though it is commissioned, all Food for Thought columns are externally peer reviewed. 

Other submission options include the following:

Book Review:  Typically the CEE Editorial team will identify relevant books to review and contact someone to perform the review.  If you have a book review suggestion, please contact cee@che.ufl.edu.  It is not recommended that an author contact CEE to request a review of their book.  All Book Reviews receive an internal, Editorial Staff review to ensure submissions are scholarly and informative.

Departmental Profile:  These contributions serve at least three purposes: (1) educate the community about different domestic and international chemical engineering departments/programs, (2) highlight unique aspects of profiled chemical engineering programs, and (3) promote the partnership and investment that exists between chemical engineering programs and the journal.  All Departmental Profiles receive an internal, Editorial Staff review to ensure submissions are scholarly and informative.

The process to nominate a department for consideration is as follows:

Email cee@che.ufl.edu with the subject line: “Department Profile Nomination."  Since it is very likely that a nomination will come from someone's home department, the expectation is that the nominator will serve as the Lead Author on the profile or have a firm commitment from a lead author at the institution nominated.   The email should contain the following information:

• Name of Department being nominated and the institution.
• Name and contact information for the nominator.
• Name and contact information of the Lead Author (if different from the nominator).
• One page (of a separate document) that identifies at least three reasons why the nominator feels this program/department should be profiled by Chemical Engineering Education.  It is encouraged that a nomination uses the entire page to provide the committee with enough information to make an informed decision.

Educator Profile:  The purpose of the CEE Educator Profile is to highlight and recognize those educators who have had an important and notable impact within the broad chemical engineering community through their efforts that impact education. Candidates to be profiled will have participated in the classroom education process and have been engaged in education activities (post-degree) for at least ten years, and often longer. While local and campus impacts would be expected, an individual’s engagement outside their campus is anticipated as well in a profiled educator. However, depending on the individual and their impact, it is possible that the committee would recommend someone whose impact has been very substantial, yet mostly (or fully) local.

It is noted that the journal would expect to recognize individuals from the wide breadth of the chemical engineering community, demonstrating not only the inclusiveness of the community, but the diversity of individuals who have made impacts.

All Educator Profiles receive an internal, Editorial Staff review to ensure submissions are scholarly and informative.

The process to nominate an individual for consideration is as follows:

Email cee@che.ufl.edu with the subject line: “Educator Profile Nomination."  The expectation is that if you are nominating a person, you will serve as the Lead Author on the profile or work with the Profiled Educator and CEE Editorial Staff member to identify a Lead Author.  The email should contain the following information:

• Name, cv, and affiliation of person being nominated.
• Name and contact information for the nominator.
• Up to two pages (of a separate document) that address the reasons why this individual should be a Profiled Educator in CEE. In particular, the nomination letter should highlight the notable and important impacts that the Profiled Educator has made within the broad chemical engineering community through their efforts that impact education, both on their local campus and beyond.  While it is anticipated that almost all profiled educators will have made some impact beyond their own campus, if an individual’s impact off campus is minimal, then the on- campus impact is expected to be substantial – thus, this should be the focus of such a nomination.  In all cases, the final paragraph of the nomination should conclude with three reasons why the nominator feels this individual should be profiled by Chemical Engineering Education. 

Policy on Unpublished References

Authors should comply with CEE's policy on unpublished references: CEE does not have a policy against in-press papers. Occasionally authors want to cite a private conversation with someone but an acknowledgment is more appropriate. Papers submitted to CEE but not yet accepted can be cited in the original manuscript submission provided the author provides a permanent designation when preparing their final draft materials for production. If a paper was submitted but a decision about acceptance is not known when production files are handed off by the author, it should probably be eliminated by the author at that time. (We say probably because in some cases it is clear from the editor's letter that the paper will eventually be accepted). "In-preparation" means nothing; thus, the in-preparation references need to be deleted at time of submission. The authors can state in the manuscript that additional research is being conducted or completed.

Guidelines for Papers Already Published in ASEE or FIE Proceedings

This guideline is for submitting to CEE manuscript that has been published, in part, in another ASEE venue, typically in the conference proceedings. Since ASEE holds copyright to your initial paper (e.g. proceedings), no reprint permissions are required.   CEE publications policy has two relevant requirements for publishing enhancements of papers to ensure clarity in the literature.  First, the initial paper must be cited in the enhanced version.  Second, the author(s) must explain in the introduction specifically how the initial paper has been enhanced.  It is anticipated that at least a third of the enhanced manuscript contains relevant material that was not in the initial paper. This is not meant to be a rigid quantitative requirement but rather a guideline for editors and reviewers.  There is no deadline for submitting an enhanced manuscript. 

Suggestions for Manuscript Enhancement:  The following comments are only pointers and not intended to be comprehensive, but should improve the likelihood that an editor will recommend an enhanced conference paper for publication.  The most obvious enhancement is that new results have been generated, for example, by additional experiments or modeling.  Furthermore, the interpretation of the results may also be expanded.  Questions posed by conference attendees at the time of presentation can often give clues to weaknesses in the presentation, pointing out areas of ambiguity, critical gaps in the data, or questionable conclusions. It may also be appropriate to expand the discussion portion to explain subtleties or clarify the domain of validity of the conclusions.  Other areas for enhancement include providing a more complete list of references and expanding the introduction to explain better why the study was needed. Figure labels and captions may be able to be improved, or new figures may be necessary to better illustrate a point. Removing redundant figures may also be useful. Details of a laboratory design may have been missed. Authors may find these useful as pointers to areas that need additional attention.

Note: These guidelines do not apply to reprinting papers.  The editors of CEE will select papers to be reprinted and will request permission from the authors.  Reprinting will normally be restricted to papers that have won an award such as the Martin award for best ChED paper at the ASEE Annual Conference. Authors should NOT request that a paper be reprinted.

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