Conference Session

Communication: From Pecha Kucha to Bullets

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Micah Hale, University of Arkansas; Richard A. Coffman, University of Arkansas

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

presented their paper to their classmates.The course addressed much more than forming a complete sentence. Topics ranged from figuretitle placement to a thorough review of a journal’s style manual to reading and interpretingauthor guidelines. Students were also presented with examples of published articles fromleading journals.As with any class, the goal was for the students to learn more about the course subject matter andimprove their writing skills. This paper presents observations of the course project from theprofessor’s and the students’ perspectives. Recommendations for future writing projects are alsopresented.IntroductionWhen do students learn to write? It is a question that is often asked of employers and of faculty.When surveyed

Conference Session

Rethinking PowerPoint and Other Acts of Communication

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elena Poltavtchenko, Northern Arizona University; John Tingerthal, Northern Arizona University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

AC 2011-1170: PROJECT-DIRECTED WRITING ASSISTANCE IN CON-STRUCTION MANAGEMENT PROGRAMElena Poltavtchenko, Northern Arizona University Elena Poltavtchenko is a Ph.D. candidate in the Applied Linguistics program at Northern Arizona Univer- sity. She is a graduate teaching assistant at NAU’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Elena obtained her B.A. in Russian Linguistics and Literature in Novosibirsk State University, Russia, and M.A. in English Applied Linguistics at the University of Houston, TX. Her current research interests lie in the area of writing in the disciplines, with a specific focus on writing in engineering.John Tingerthal, Northern Arizona University John joined the Construction

Conference Session

Making Students Aware of Their World: Five Perspectives

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nadia N. Kellam, University of Georgia; Tracie Costantino, University of Georgia; Joachim Walther, University of Georgia; Nicki Wendy Sochacka, University of Georgia

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Uncovering the Role of Emotion in Engineering Education within an Integrated Curricular ExperienceAbstractThe purpose of this paper is to uncover the role of emotion within an interdisciplinary, project-based design studio as implemented in 2009 and 2010. This qualitative research study involves anarrative analysis of data collected over two semesters of the design studios to identify the typesof emotions described, the change in these emotions over the semester, and the interaction ofthese emotions with learning. This analysis is conducted on students’ written reflections, as it isimportant to understand emotions from the perspective of the student and within the desiredcontext

Conference Session

Making Students Aware of Their World: Five Perspectives

Collection

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

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

conference. Her teaching interests are in the Computer Engineering area including Digital Design, Embedded Systems, and VLSI. She has co-taught international project courses in Turkey and in Spain. Her research has been focused on timing issues in digital systems. She has directed local and national outreach programs, including Robot Camp and the P. O. Pistilli Scholarship.J. Douglass Klein, Union College J. Douglass Klein is Dean of Interdisciplinary Studies and Special Programs and Kenneth B. Sharpe Professor of Economics at Union College. Klein joined the Union faculty in 1979, after earning a BA in Mathematics at Grinnell College, and a PhD in Economics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has written on

Conference Session

Communication: From Pecha Kucha to Bullets

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sandra Soto-Caban, Muskingum University; Emre Selvi, Muskingum University; Ferdinand Avila-Medina, Ohio State University, Newark

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

22.831.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Improving Communication Skills: Using PechaKucha Style in Engineering Courses      AbstractIn an effort to improve oral communication skills in engineering students, MuskingumUniversity, a traditional liberal arts institution, tested the PechaKucha presentation style. In thisstyle, students were required to present their design and/or research projects in 6 minutes andforty seconds. The presentation included 20 slides with duration of 20 seconds each. This stylewas used in two different courses with different kinds of projects. Senior students presented theirresearch project for the Electromagnetics course, and

Conference Session

Integration of Liberal Education into Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

on a project in a way that could be described asmultidisciplinary. “Interdisciplinarity is a means of solving problems and answering questionsthat cannot be satisfactorily addressed using single methods or approaches.”21Multidisciplinarity, on the other hand, is less integrative, and combines contributions frommultiple disciplines in a weaker and often temporary manner, with collaborators staying rootedin their own disciplines.22-25 Because most engineering design work at minimum requiresengineers to engage in multidisciplinary interactions,10, 11, 26, 27 knowledge of and attention toBNAs could benefit faculty and students in many teamwork settings, and not only those that areinterdisciplinary. 
Literature ReviewFrom Boundary Objects to

Conference Session

Integration of Liberal Education into Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

internal team leadership needed toresolve common behaviors within dysfunctional teams. While no new theoretical results onteamwork are presented, the authors have focused instead on applying their experience asmanagers of teams in major corporations and institutions of higher education to explore what aneffective teaming curriculum might include and to develop related assessment tools. This paperoutlines a strategy for integrating deliberate teaming instruction into senior-level engineeringcapstone or project courses. The curriculum focuses on building team leadership skills andtechniques for addressing challenges such as planning and execution, social loafing, andprocrastination. Models for assessing students‟ teaming skills and for providing

Conference Session

Why Industry Says that our Engineering Students Cannot Write

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott Duncan, Valparaiso University; Mark M. Budnik, Valparaiso University; Jeffrey Will, Valparaiso University; Peter E. Johnson, Valparaiso University; Shahin S. Nudehi, Valparaiso University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Mechanical Engineering

22.1135.2communication skills to engineering students, an effective implementation faces manychallenges. Students must have the time to complete technical communication assignmentswhile also mastering the design process and completing a project with intensive design andmanufacturing content. Faculty must create assignments in a variety of technical communicationmediums that allow them to provide constructive feedback while working under resourceconstraints. In addition, the evaluation of technical communication skills must be consistentacross multiple faculty members and the assignments must allow faculty to evaluate and providetechnical communication feedback to individuals as well as to complete teams so that individualswith weak communication skills cannot

Conference Session

Rethinking PowerPoint and Other Acts of Communication

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

April A. Kedrowicz, University of Utah; Maria Dawn Blevins, University of Utah

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

withactual engineering projects to show students how intricately linked communication andteamwork skills are with engineering problem solving and design. Much emphasis is placed onsenior capstone courses, as this meets the immediate demand of preparing graduating seniors forthe non-technical aspects of their careers. In contrast, freshman classes receive less attention interms of their position to “set the tone” for the coupling of communication and engineering,likely because the demands placed on freshman engineering classes are already high. They serveas a recruitment tool, pique interest in engineering, expose students to the many and varied areasof concentration in the discipline, and perhaps, introduce students to engineering projects andbasic

Conference Session

Why Industry Says that our Engineering Students Cannot Write

Collection

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

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Mechanical Engineering

AC 2011-1503: WHY INDUSTRY SAYS THAT ENGINEERING GRADU-ATES HAVE POOR COMMUNICATION SKILLS: WHAT THE LITERA-TURE SAYSJeffrey A. Donnell, Georgia Institute of Technology Jeffrey Donnell coordinates the Frank K. Webb Program in Professional Communication at Georgia Tech’s George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical EngineeringBetsy M. Aller, Western Michigan University Betsy M. Aller is an associate professor in industrial and manufacturing engineering at Western Michigan University, where she teaches and coordinates the capstone design project sequence. She also teaches first-year engineering, manufacturing for sustainability, and graduate-level project management courses.Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University

Conference Session

Myths About Gender and Race

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna M Riley, Smith College; Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

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

Purdue University’s ADVANCE program, and PI on the Assessing Sustainability Knowledge project. She runs the Research in Feminist Engineering (RIFE) group, whose projects are described at the group’s website, http://feministengineering.org/. She is interested in creating new models for thinking about gender and race in the context of engineering education. She was recently awarded a CAREER grant for the project, ”Learning from Small Numbers: Using personal narratives by underrepresented undergraduate students to promote institutional change in engineering education.” Page 22.356.1

Conference Session

Ethical Perspectives on the Grand Challenges of Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph R. Herkert, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

an end in itself: “Overtime [the Enlightenment] conception was transformed, or partly supplanted, by the now familiarview that innovations in science-based technologies are in themselves a sufficient and reliablebasis for progress.”The technocratic view is clearly on display in the work of Moses who was responsible for muchof New York City’s public works and infrastructure.4 Though originally a popular figure, asMoses’ power grew, his projects continued to displace more and more people and seemed to takeon a life of their own. As Marx noted, the Enlightenment view of progress was that technologyshould be a means to social progress—e.g., the realization of democratic values. To Moses, the

Conference Session

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

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Tagged Divisions

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

Educational Experiences with Ways of Knowing Engineering (AWAKEN): How People Learn” project. She is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Engineering Professional Development and Wendt Commons: Teaching and Learning Services. Her area of research is engineering education including assessment of student learning. She taught technical communication courses to undergraduate engineering students and currently consults with faculty and teaching assistants. She earned her Ph.D. in educational administration at UW-Madison.Mitchell J. Nathan, University of Wisconsin-Madison Mitchell J. Nathan, BSEE, PhD, is professor of Educational Psychology, with affiliate appointments in Curriculum & Instruction and Psychology at the

Conference Session

Ethical Perspectives on the Grand Challenges of Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna M Riley, Smith College

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

of engineering.For those interested in engineering ethics and the delivery of engineering ethics curricula, theGrand Challenges offer a rich field of proposals. While ethical questions associated with many ofthe topics have been addressed elsewhere,10-15 the descriptions of the Challenges mostly do notinclude ethical analysis.This paper, along with others in this session, takes the risk of asking some hard questions of theGrand Challenges. Underlying the Grand Challenges project is a presumption that, having beenselected, the fourteen Challenges are not only important undertakings, but also that they shouldgo forward. But are they necessarily morally imperative? Are they necessarily for the greatergood? Ought they be undertaken at all? Such

Conference Session

Communication: From Pecha Kucha to Bullets

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Isabel Simões de Carvalho P.E., ISEL, Lisbon, Portugal; Christy Moore, University of Texas, Austin

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

the course development along the last years and on theexercises and the short and long term assignments as well as on the several engagementtechniques is provided elsewhere (Carvalho, 2006; 2007; 2009; 2010).Although the course curriculum is wide and fairly standard, the main goal of the EnergyProduction and Management course is to confront students with the advantages anddisadvantages related with the usage of different technologies and fuels for energyproduction. To raise awareness and promote understanding the links between Energy andEnvironment and Policy and Economy and to become acquainted with the ongoingresearch in this field (Technology Platforms and International Projects) at National,European and World wide levels. The energy

Conference Session

Integration of Liberal Education into Engineering

Collection

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

Conference Session

Why Industry Says that our Engineering Students Cannot Write

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Conrad, Portland State University; Timothy James Pfeiffer P.E., Foundation Engineering, Inc.

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Mechanical Engineering

. Page 22.1169.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Preliminary Analysis of Student and Workplace Writing in Civil EngineeringIn this paper we describe some preliminary results of a project that addresses a continuingproblem in engineering education: the mismatch between the writing skills of engineeringprogram graduates and the demands of writing in the workplace. This problem is commonlyidentified in surveys of employers, who express dissatisfaction with the writing skills of theirnew hires, and in survey of alumni from even strong engineering programs, who expressdissatisfaction with the writing preparation they received1,2. In engineering education

Conference Session

Why Industry Says that our Engineering Students Cannot Write

Collection

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

, for example that by graduation students must know and canapply basic principles of thermodynamics.At graduation, undergraduate students in mechanical engineering should be able to: 1. Apply knowledge of physics, mathematics, and engineering in their writing 2. Record and analyze activity related to laboratories and design projects 3. Visually represent designs and explain salient features of a part or concept 4. Synthesize and summarize key points 5. Strategize and demonstrate engineering project metrics such as productivity, costs and time to completion 6. Analyze the audience and create a document that meets the needs of the audience 7. Represent themselves professionally 8. Explain, discuss, and demonstrate

Conference Session

Liberal Education Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Smitesh Bakrania, Rowan University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

tendency forthe students to associate a good presentation with a “naturally” gifted presenter, even though it isa strong sign of a well rehearsed talk. On the other hand, without the correct technique evenrehearsing is not sufficient to deliver powerful presentation. Therefore, a senior elective coursewas tailored to reinforce our future professionals with the necessary steps to yield a compellingtechnical talk via judicious practice. Beyond exposing students to the topic, the ‘Introduction toNanotechnology’ course was designed with an additional skill-building objective: to teachstudents to present well. This paper discusses how this objective was attained via several classactivities, resources and assignments that culminated into a final project

Conference Session

Making Students Aware of Their World: Five Perspectives

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Warren N. Waggenspack Jr., Louisiana State University; Warren R. Hull, Louisiana State University; David Bowles, Louisiana State University; Sarah Liggett, Louisiana State University; Stephen O. Sears, Louisiana State University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

retention and graduation rates as well as supporting faculty with development with effective learning and teaching pedagogies.Warren R Hull, Louisiana State University Warren Hull is the Engineering Communication Studio Manager at Louisiana State University. He earned a baccalaureate in Mechanical Engineering from Louisiana State University and master’s degree in En- vironmental Health from Harvard University. He is a licensed Professional Engineer with over 40 years engineering experience. Prior to joining LSU he was an engineering consultant who managed numerous domestic and international projects. He is also a retired U.S. Air Force Colonel.David Bowles, Louisiana State University David (Boz) Bowles is a Technical

Conference Session

Ethical Perspectives on the Grand Challenges of Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy E. Slaton, Drexel University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

AC 2011-1553: NOTE TO SELF: SAVE HUMANITY (A SOCIAL AND CUL-TURAL HISTORY OF THE ”GRAND CHALLENGES”Amy E. Slaton, Drexel University (Eng.) Amy E. Slaton is an associate professor of history at Drexel University and a visiting associate professor at Haverford College. She received her PhD in the History and Sociology of Science from the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania and has written on the history of standards and instrumentation in materials science, engineering and the building trades. Her most recent book , Race, Rigor, and Selectivity in U.S. Engineer- ing: The History of an Occupational Color Line (Harvard University Press, 2010), traces American ideas about race and technical aptitude since 1940. Current projects

Conference Session

Communication: From Pecha Kucha to Bullets

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth R. Leitch, West Texas A&M University; Rhonda B Dittfurth, West Texas A&M University; Freddie J Davis P.E., West Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

had approximately ten group laboratory assignments (including a thoroughfinal design project) requiring written reports or memos.In addition to the assignments described above, one of the laboratory activities in the ENGR 1201 was a two-partexercise and report on the creation of a paper airplane design. This laboratory involved the documentation of thesteps to create a paper airplane design in a group setting in a memo format and then sharing that design with anothergroup. Three ENGR 1201 sections had lab groups swap the designs and attempt to construct the paper airplanesfrom those instructions. One ENGR 1201 section swapped its instructions with a COMM 1315 section, with eachsection commenting to the original group on the ease of following

Conference Session

Making Students Aware of Their World: Five Perspectives

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Linda M. Head, Rowan University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Department. The initial target audience isfirst-year electrical and computer engineering majors and undergraduate music majors, althoughthe course will have neither math nor music prerequisites and can be taken by any student on theRowan University campus. The course will treat the title-topics from a holistic perspective asboth a systems-engineering project and a music-composition project. A syllabus for the currentoffering of the course is shown in Table 3. Table 3: Course Syllabus SIGNALS, SYSTEMS & MUSIC SYLLABUSSESSION TOPICS LABORATORY 1 History of Electronic Music & Music Theory Demonstration Units 1-4

Conference Session

Liberal Education Revisited: Five Historical Perspectives

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Heywood, Trinity College, Dublin

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

instrument, textile 6 Totals (%) 100 105*  The mis-match is due to difficulties in making direct comparisons between the studies. For example Social Science could be classified a liberal study in the US A major problem was that only rarely did universities show any interest in design. It was not arespectable subject, and in any case it was debatable as to whether it could be taught. This wasnot the case among those who undertook project work especially in dip.tech courses whobelieved that they helped students understand the design process. W. A. Pullman argued thatbecause of the industrial experience obtained on sandwich courses students could undertakeambitious

Conference Session

Communication: From Pecha Kucha to Bullets

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia; Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

period, theshape of the mark is less important than its size or characteristic position in the text. Bullets areunderstood as a device to attract the attention of readers and as a complement to white space inmaking text easier for readers to understand.A Confluence of Forces 1984-1986: The ―Birth‖ of Presentation SoftwareThe proposals of Robert Gaskins (1984 and 1986), as described above, provide a rich account ofthe context in which and the confluence of factors that gave rise to PowerPoint.xi,xii The first ofthese, dated August 14, 1984, printed on a dot matrix printer, and titled ―Sample ProductProposal: Presentation Graphics for Overhead Projection,‖ is a two page document that begins asa hierarchical topic outline but also consists of two

Conference Session

Why Industry Says that our Engineering Students Cannot Write

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Mechanical Engineering

. Thisportfolio series was a research project and was not associated with a course. As such, theparticipants were paid, and the facilitator made no judgments or assessments of the participants’work. We refer readers wanting more details about this intervention to several articles describingprevious work that we have done using this methodology.5-8ParticipantsThe five participants whose portfolio content and survey responses we analyzed in this studychose to make preparedness portfolios that focused entirely on communication. This was thelargest number of participants choosing any one particular competency, a statistic that supportsthe idea that students know communication to be an important competency for their futures aspracticing engineers. All five of

Conference Session

Rethinking PowerPoint and Other Acts of Communication

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura R. Grossenbacher, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Christina Matta, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Technical Communication Program

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

require that they write and speak in such a way that they can be understoodby all of the others; the Mechanical Engineers must be able to talk to classmates who arestudying Civil and Environmental Engineering, Industrial and Systems Engineering, EngineeringMechanics, Nuclear Engineering, or any other of the eleven undergraduate majors within ourcollege – not including the students from other programs who venture into our class. Allstudents, regardless of their major, must be able to describe their chosen technical projects using Page 22.579.3the jargon of their field but explaining those concepts well enough that all of those otherengineers

Conference Session

Integration of Liberal Education into Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tom A. Eppes, University of Hartford; Ivana Milanovic, University of Hartford; Frederick Sweitzer, University of Hartford

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

engaged in a pluralistic,complex world, we have undertaken a project to develop and assess core liberal educationoutcomes. This paper describes the planning and actions thus far to meet these new requirementsat the university and specifically in our engineering programs. We have begun to expandoutcome assessment to include five “intellectual and practical skills,” specifically, critical andcreative thinking, inquiry/analysis, problem-solving, and information literacy. VALUE rubricsare being used as part of the process to ascertain where the best opportunities are to measurestudent achievement within the engineering and technology programs. An assessment frameworkis presented and successful pilot results are discussed.The ChallengeOur regional

Conference Session

Myths About Gender and Race

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy E. Slaton, Drexel University

Tagged Divisions

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

projects include the blog STEMequity.com, and a study, with sociologist Mary Ebeling, of economic equity in nanotechnology training and employment. She is also writing on distributions of blame between workers and materials for failures in contemporary building technologies, as economies of scale and automation continue their long incursion on the labor of commercial construction. Page 22.1061.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Metrics of Marginality: How Studies of Minority Self-Efficacy Hide Structural InequitiesAbstractIn ongoing

Conference Session

Integration of Liberal Education into Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George D. Ricco, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

approach to the question of the engineer’sperception of his/her place in the field of engineering and how a different, philosophicalviewpoint can aid engineering education research. Why is this a problem that merits significantstudy? Engineering has been assaulted from all sides by the demands of industry, academicrewiring and strife, professional requirements, and all along has had the requirement ofproducing students!(10-14) The formation of myriad of professional societies in recent years,coupled with new projects such as the Engineer of 2020 and the EC2000 have left many in thefield unsure if the knowledge required to be an engineer can even be properly taught andevaluated.(15-17) Surely, any ideology that furthers our understanding of the