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A Challenge to Engineering Educators

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Harold R Underwood, Messiah College

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Page 23.1344.4also the specialized fields of engineering practiced in all of the application groups.Purposes for Portfolio Assessment of Engineering Project WorkOver the 5+ years that the portfolio has been used, engineering department faculty haverefined the approach to facilitate its use for both student and faculty purposes20 so as toaddress a full range of typical engineering design project activities. For students, havingto assemble the portfolio motivates them to create, select and document best-practiceexamples of their engineering work, reflect on the significance of each artifact to theproject, and evaluate its impact on their own formation as an engineer. As previouslystated, the portfolio becomes a professional showcase they can

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Rethinking Engineering Writing

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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David M. Beams P.E., University of Texas, Tyler; Luke Niiler, University of Alabama; Beth Todd, University of Alabama; Marcus Brown, University of Alabama; Garry W. Warren, University of Alabama

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #6250The Coach: a Web-based Resource for Improving the Writing Skills of Engi-neering StudentsDr. David M. Beams, University of Texas, Tyler David Beams earned the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1974 and 1977, respectively, and spent 16 years in industrial practice as a design engineer before returning to graduate study. He earned the Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin- Madison in 1997 and joined the founding faculty of the School of Engineering of the University of Texas at Tyler. Dr. Beams has authored or co-authored a number of papers

Conference Session

Communication and Engineering Careers: Motivating Our Students

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Julie E. Sharp, Vanderbilt University; Christopher J Rowe, Vanderbilt University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #6832Implementing a Student-Suggested Course in Engineering Career Develop-mentDr. Julie E. Sharp, Vanderbilt University Dr. Julie E. Sharp, M.A.T., M.A., Ph.D., is Professor of the Practice of Technical Communications in the Vanderbilt University School of Engineering, where she teaches written and oral communication courses in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and the General Engineering Division. Her teaching and research interests include job search communication, learning styles, and integrating com- munication in engineering courses. In 2012, she won an Apex Award for Excellence in

Conference Session

Integrating Engineering & Liberal Education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dominic M. Halsmer PE, Oral Roberts University; Peter Wesley Odom, Oral Roberts University; Jessica Fitzgerald, Oral Roberts University; Taylor Gipson Tryon, Oral Roberts University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

, and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from UCLA in 1992. He is currently pursuing an M.A. in Biblical Literature from Oral Roberts University. His current research interests involve contributions from the field of engineering to the current science/theology discussion, reverse engineering of natural systems, and the preparation of scientists and engineers for missions work within technical communities.Hon. Peter Wesley Odom Mr., Oral Roberts University P. W. Odom is currently an undergraduate student of Engineering Physics at Oral Roberts University. His intentions are to begin graduate work in modern physics and engineering after graduation with the eventual goal of obtaining a Ph.D. and becoming a professor of

Conference Session

Institutional Perspectives and Boundary Work

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ron D Dempsey, Southern Polytechnic State University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

SPSU. This historical datademonstrates a continuing confusion about engineering technology and the role of an1 SPSU is an unit of the University System of Georgia located in Marietta, Georgia. Its vision is to be acomprehensive university with a unique purpose. Through a fusion of technology with the liberal arts andsciences, we create a learning community that encourages thoughtful inquiry, diverse perspectives, andstrong preparation of our graduates to be leaders in an increasingly technological world. The university –faculty, staff, students, and graduates – aspires to be the best in the world at finding creative, practical,and sustainable solutions to real-world problems and improving the quality of life for people around theglobe.2

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Integrating Engineering & Liberal Education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bill D. Bailey, Southern Polytechnic State University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

employability in the 21st century. This skill list has been modified and adopted bymany institutions. The SCANS report of 20001 identified the following essential workforce skillareas; use of resources, acquiring and using information, interpersonal skills, understandingsystems, selecting and using technology, basic skills, thinking skills, and personal qualities.This report was the starting point for the definition of 21st century Workforce Skills at acommunity college. A college team was assembled to review this report, assess its applicabilityto local employers and community college graduates, and advise on implementation. Localemployers were interviewed to determine which of these Workforce Skills best fit and bestserved graduates of 2 year

Conference Session

Restructuring/Rethinking STEM

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nicola Sochacka, University of Georgia; Kelly Woodall Guyotte, University of Georgia; Joachim Walther, University of Georgia; Nadia N. Kellam, University of Georgia

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

cognition. She created the synthesis and design studios in the environmental engineering program and is currently developing the professional and design spines for the upcoming mechanical engineering program. She is also interested in faculty development and recently co-organized the NSF-sponsored PEER workshop for tenure-track engineering education research faculty. Page 23.597.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Faculty Reflections on a STEAM-Inspired Interdisciplinary Studio CourseAbstractConcerns regarding America’s

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Difference, Disability, and (De)Politicization: The Invisible Axes of Diversity

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amy E. Slaton, Drexel University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

generally do not address barriers embedded within the curriculum design, and may or may not increase faculty understanding of best practices for [students with disabilities] (p. 182).27As is the case in other instances of identity-based discrimination in America, even the mostenergetic and best intentioned practitioners continue to operate in settings that tolerate limitedreform.Critical social scientific work on disabilities has offered important framing for understanding thisongoing inequity. To my mind, foremost among its contributions is the idea, developed duringthe 1990s, that that which a culture treats as physical or mental capacity derives from socialvalues and conditions. This “social model” of disability to a degree displaced

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Communication, Professional Development, and the Engineering Ambassador Network

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Catherine Talbot; Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Melissa Marshall, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Christine Haas, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Sarah E Zappe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Joanna K. Garner, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Engineering Education 6.1 (2002): 91-100. Web. .[2] ASME, "Vision 2030―Creating the Future of Mechanical Engineering Education," American Society of Mechanical Engineers, New York 2010.[3] Donnell, J. A. (2011). Why industry says that engineering graduates have poor communication skills: What the literature says. ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings,[4] Michael Alley & Kathryn A. Neeley (2005). Rethinking the design of presentation slides: A case for sentence headlines and visual evidence. Technical Communication, 52 (4), 417-426[5] Michael Alley (2013). The Craft of Scientific Presentations, 2nd ed. New York: Springer-Verlag.[6] Nancy Duarte (2011). Resonate. Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly Media.[7

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Restructuring/Rethinking STEM

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joe Tranquillo, Bucknell University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Interdisciplinary Design Experience and a core faculty member in the Institute for Leadership in Technology and Management at Bucknell. He was the founder and inaugural chair of the Undergrad- uate Research Track at the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) conference, and co-organized the Biomedical Engineering Body-Of-Knowledge Summit. He served on the board of the Biomedical En- gineering Division of the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) and was elected as chair of the division in 2012. He is the winner of the 2010 National ASEE Biomedical Engineering Teach- ing Award and in 2011 was selected to be a National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering Education faculty member