Conference Session

International Division (INTL) Technical Session #5: Best Practices

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alyson Grace Eggleston, Pennsylvania State University; Robert J. Rabb P.E., Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

International Division (INTL)

stand-alone EC course.This trajectory is set to change rapidly with the rise of interdisciplinary, remote engineeringteams, increasingly visually-focused publication modes [25], and ChatGPT [26] and other AI-powered writing tools. It is beyond the scope of this paper to detail communication-supportingapproaches to integrating AI- and non-AI-powered tools in the EC course context [27]; however,selected emerging apps show clear promise for students for visual and presentation contexts(Tome.ai, Orai) [28-29] and written contexts (WordTune, ChatGPT) [30].The New EC CurriculumIdeally introduced in the second year of engineering curricula, an EC course is able to scaffoldand develop authentic communicative capacity grounded in students’ interests and