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Why Industry Says that our Engineering Students Cannot Write

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn Mobrand, University of Washington; Jennifer A Turns, University of Washington

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Mechanical Engineering

AC 2011-2241: REVISITING COMMUNICATION EXPERIENCES TO PRE-PARE FOR PROFESSIONAL PRACTICEKathryn Mobrand, University of Washington Kathryn Mobrand is a doctoral candidate and research assistant in the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering at the University of Washington. She is working with Dr. Jennifer Turns on preparedness portfolios for engineering undergraduates; her focus is on the communication of practicing engineers.Jennifer A Turns, University of Washington Jennifer Turns is an Associate Professor in the Department of Human Centered Design and Engineering at the University of Washington. She is interested in all aspects of engineering education, including how to support engineering

Conference Session

Rethinking PowerPoint and Other Acts of Communication

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christine G. Nicometo, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Traci M. Nathans-Kelly, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

needs to be done about these “decks of drudgery,” as one of ourengineers labeled them. And in our own academic interface with industry, we have founda way to encourage more thoughtful slide design, and thus better organizationalcommunication, within the engineering and technical fields.The Design: Crafted from Research in Engineering Education and CognitiveScienceBeginning in 2006, using the emerging research from engineering education and drawingupon the established research on multimedia learning from Richard E. Mayer and JohnSweller, we designed a technical presentation component into our online graduate courseenrolled with practicing engineers. This new component of the course curriculumchallenged the slide design methods widely in use in

Conference Session

Why Industry Says that our Engineering Students Cannot Write

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey A. Donnell, Georgia Institute of Technology; Betsy M. Aller, Western Michigan University; Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; April A. Kedrowicz, University of Utah

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Mechanical Engineering

the best practices to teach and for students to learn. For instance, such is thecase with the design of presentation slides.39Finally, we do not need yet another study that comes to the final conclusion that communicationskills in engineering are important. No one disputes this. What we need is a study that minesdown to determine what important things about communication we are teaching well and whatwe are failing to teach, based on students’ needs and professional activities beyond theclassroom. Much could be handled through individual department surveys of visiting boards andrecent graduates, and by using surveys already given out by co-op offices. If these surveys could

Conference Session

Myths About Gender and Race

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jordana Hoegh, Purdue University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Minorities in Engineering, Women in Engineering

practices. Human capital analyses are problematic in explaining women’s location in the workforce and perpetuate the deficit model of gender inequality. (p. 156-157)Taken together, these three sets of critics point out major methodological flaws in using pipelineas a metaphor for structuring research studies: • Most studies do not articulate what counts as a “successful” scientific or engineering career. Must a person remain in the same profession for her entire working life for her to be considered “in” the pool? Or might there be more “kinds” of scientific-related careers that should “count” than that of bench scientist or design engineer?18 • Assuming that “gender effects” on career choices can be studied

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Why Industry Says that our Engineering Students Cannot Write

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William K. Durfee, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Benjamin Adams, University of Minnesota; Audrey J. Appelsies, University of Minnesota; Pamela Flash, University of Minnesota

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Mechanical Engineering

drawn from student work and evaluated by a group of threeor four faculty members. The evaluation uses a rubric with metrics based on the desired writingabilities. Writing samples may include a portfolio, a lab report, a design report and one or more Page 22.125.4problem sets. The sampling takes place on the biennial cycle that matches assessment of coursematerial for ABET purposes.At periodic intervals, the curriculum committee reviews the department writing programresources such as the style guides, grading rubrics and instructor resources, and recommendschanges. A small sample of students in the major, department faculty and practicing

Conference Session

Liberal Education Revisited: Five Historical Perspectives

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Geselowitz, IEEE History Center; John Vardalas, IEEE

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

AC 2011-928: USING HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY TO PROMOTE ANUNDERSTANDING OF THE IMPACT OF ENGINEERING SOLUTIONSAMONG ENGINEERING STUDENTSMichael Geselowitz, IEEE History Center Michael N. Geselowitz is Staff Director of the IEEE History Center. Immediately prior to joining IEEE in 1997, he was Group Manager at Eric Marder Associates, a New York market research firm, where he supervised Ph.D. scientists and social scientists undertaking market analyses for Fortune 500 high-tech companies. He is also a registered Patent Agent. He holds S.B. degrees in electrical engineering and in anthropology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in anthropology from Harvard University. His

Conference Session

Liberal Education Revisited: Five Historical Perspectives

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

ABET‟s EC 2000.The paper then employs the historical perspective gained from this analysis to revisit thequestion of the relevance of engineering and liberal arts integration in the context of theoutcomes oriented approach to engineering education represented by ABET‟s EC 2000. Thispaper also serves as a historical introduction to a new initiative and educational research networkassembled by Deans Cherrice Travers and J. Douglass Klein at Union College for contemporaryexplorations in engineering and liberal education integration. Their efforts are also beingpresented at this year‟s conference.While the material presented here is also intended for publication in a historical journal, it iswritten up here in a way so as to provide practical

Conference Session

Myths About Gender and Race

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carroll Suzanne Seron, University of California, Irvine; Erin A. Cech, University of California, San Diego; Susan S. Silbey, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Brian Rubineau, Cornell University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Minorities in Engineering, Women in Engineering

persistence in the major or their intentions to stay in the profession post-graduation.9,10Much of this research has focused, moreover, on how the culture, climate, and professionalsocialization itself push women out of the field.7,11,12 In this article, we turn this question on itshead and ask: how do women conceptualize their token, or deviant, status as engineeringstudents? In asking this question we contribute a new perspective for understanding how womenconstruct rationales for persistence and exit.Women‟s tokenism in engineering education is structurally and culturally organized.Structurally, women remain a numerically small proportion of their classmates at most majorinstitutions of engineering education. Culturally, engineering education

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Special Session: Moving Towards the Intended, Explicit, and Authentic: Addressing Critical Misalignments in Engineering Learning within Secondary and University Education

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kevin Anderson, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Sandra Shaw Courter, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Mitchell J. Nathan, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Amy C. Prevost, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Christine G. Nicometo, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Traci M. Nathans-Kelly, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Thomas Dean McGlamery, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Amy K. Atwood, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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Educational Research and Methods, K-12 & Pre-College Engineering, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

AC 2011-1452: SPECIAL SESSION: MOVING TOWARDS THE INTENDED,EXPLICIT, AND AUTHENTIC: ADDRESSING MISALIGNMENTS IN EN-GINEERING LEARNING WITHIN SECONDARY AND UNIVERSITY ED-UCATIONKevin Anderson, University of Wisconsin-Madison Kevin Anderson is a Ph.D. candidate in the Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research focuses on primary through university STEM education policy and practice, and the alignment of education with professional practice. He previously taught science and math at the secondary level and earned the distinction of National Board Certified Teacher.Sandra Shaw Courter, University of Wisconsin, Madison Sandra Shaw Courter is PI for the ”Aligning

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Liberal Education Revisited: Five Historical Perspectives

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Heywood, Trinity College, Dublin

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

from the Royal Charters awarded theseinstitutions. In practice, although they set their own examinations each year, very fewcandidates entered for them. Instead they took examinations and courses in the technicalcolleges that comprised the bulk of the third level public sector. These examinations wereregarded as equivalent to those set by the institutions. In practice the majority of thestudents in science and technology took „ordinary‟ and „higher national certificates‟ thattogether with „endorsement‟ subjects were considered to be the degree equivalent that theinstitutions required. For purposes of teaching the Ministry for Education regarded themas such.By 1966 a new composite examination that covered all the recognized institutions led

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Integration of Liberal Education into Engineering

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kacey Beddoes, Virginia Tech; Maura J. Borrego, Virginia Tech; Brent K Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Engineering Ethics, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Future WorkWe found evidence that boundary negotiating artifacts offer a useful theoretical framework forstudying interdisciplinary engineering teamwork. They provide information on, and sites ofanalysis for, interactions and practices that remain underexplored in engineering educationresearch. Our findings suggest that BNAs deserve more consideration within engineeringeducation because of the increasing significance the field is placing on teamwork,interdisciplinarity, communication, and project management skills.The purpose of this paper was to introduce the concept of boundary negotiating artifacts andpresent preliminary data on their use in one interdisciplinary graduate research team. We willcontinue this work during a second, similar study

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Making Students Aware of Their World: Five Perspectives

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cherrice Traver, Union College; Douglass Klein, Union College; Borjana Mikic, Smith College; Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Steven B. Shooter, Bucknell University; Ari W. Epstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; David Gillette, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

enhancing innovation and leveraging assets in developing new products and systems. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the state of Pennsylvania and has been the PI on numerous projects with industry involving new product development and the design of production infrastructure. He is the co-author of ”Foundations for Interop- erability in Next-Generation Product Development Systems” that was recognized by ASME as one of the most influential papers in computers and information in engineering from 1980-2000. During the summer of 1997 and the year of 1998/99 he was a research faculty fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the Design Engineering Technologies Group. Prior to graduate

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Integration of Liberal Education into Engineering

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donald Arthur Brown, Penn State University ; Mary Lynn Brannon, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Engineering Ethics, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Human Development specializing in Educational Technology Leadership. Her work focuses on projects that measure and assess student perceptions of learning related to their experiences with engineering course innovations. She is a faculty development consultant with previous experience in instructional design and instructor of the Graduate Assistant Seminar for engineering teaching assistants. Page 22.906.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011  Integrating Ethics into Undergraduate Environmental Science and Economics Education Abstract Good

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Integration of Liberal Education into Engineering

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vassilios Tzouanas, University of Houston, Downtown; Lea Campbell, University of Houston, Downtown

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Engineering Ethics, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Colleges and Universities, has been the need for higher education toplace greater emphasis on helping graduates develop strong teamwork skills. Teamwork skillsare particularly necessary for professionals in the engineering fields where diverse groups mustwork together to solve complex problems. But how and in what context can those skills betaught? Once taught, how can these skills be assessed and how can faculty provide objectivefeedback to students when teamwork is often conducted outside the classroom? Based on thework of Patrick Lencioni and other leading authorities on teaming and organizationalpsychology, University of Houston – Downtown has developed a curriculum designed to teachstudents to be both good team members and to provide the