Conference Session

Engineering Communication I: History and Praxis

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Marcy Bloom Milhomme, Pennsylvania State University; Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University; Lori B. Miraldi, Pennsylvania State University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

atstake, engineering education should place more value and emphasis on the garnering ofprofessional communication skills within the discipline. This paper presents a detailed account of how one large mid-Atlantic university designeda targeted communication course, which focuses on meeting the communication demands placedon engineers. The course, currently taken by about 350 engineering students per semester (14sections with no more than 26 students per section), is the collaboration of the College ofEngineering and the Department of Communication Arts and Sciences. This partnership, referredto as integrated instruction, is defined as a collaboration between communication experts in theliberal arts and a college of engineering. By offering

Conference Session

Engineering Education Culture: Mental Health, Inclusion, and the Soul of Our Community

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jessica R. Deters, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

)Relationships Beliefs around the right way for people to relate to each other within engineeringRelationship to the Environment How engineering education interacts with broader systems (i.e., university, higher education, engineering profession, national context)MethodsThis paper presents a single pilot case study, where a mechanical engineering department is acase and students are subunits of that case [13]. We draw on hour-long interviews with threemechanical engineering students at a U.S. university in the mid-Atlantic region. This universityshifted all courses online in March 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic