Conference Session

A Challenge to Engineering Educators

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Harold R Underwood, Messiah College

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

capstone course by extending the time period over which such credited treatmentoccurs, while offering additional benefits. Among the added benefits is increased projectcontinuity, as senior students pass on knowledge, expertise and progress to juniorstudents, sustaining project work in service of the client over multiple academic cycles.While clients and faculty enjoy project continuity and longevity, the multi-year projectplan benefits students by increased opportunities for management and leadership, makingthe educational experience a more complete and realistic one. Coyle, et al. has presentedthe EPICS model for a multi-year engineering project program with multidisciplinary andservice-oriented emphases, as implemented at a large university.1

Conference Session

Communication and Engineering Careers: Motivating Our Students

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John C. Anderson, Northwestern University; David W. Gatchell, Northwestern University; Barbara Shwom, Northwestern University; Stacy Benjamin, Segal Design Institute; John Andrew Lake, Segal Design Institute, Northwestern University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Kellogg School of Management. For the past fifteen years, Professor Shwom has been teaching communication to engineering students within the context of engineering design courses– both at the freshman level and the capstone level.Mrs. Stacy Benjamin, Segal Design InstituteMr. John Andrew Lake, Segal Design Institute, Northwestern University Page 23.476.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Embedding communication in an interdisciplinary project-based upper-level engineering design courseAbstractOur experience working with junior and senior students in a

Conference Session

Communication and Engineering Careers: Motivating Our Students

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tristan T. Utschig, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jeffrey S. Bryan; Judith Shaul Norback, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

analysis for ongoing CETL projects. His master’s thesis is an analysis of choice and player narratives in video game storytelling.Dr. Judith Shaul Norback, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Judith Shaul Norback, Ph.D. is faculty and the Director of Workplace and Academic Communication in the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. She has developed and provided instruction for students in industrial engineering and biomedical engineering and has advised on oral communication instruction at many other universities. The Workplace Communica- tion Lab she founded in 2003 has had over 19,000 student visits. As of Spring 2013, she has shared her instructional materials with

Conference Session

Communication, Professional Development, and the Engineering Ambassador Network

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julia M. Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

. Capstone design courses, integrationof communication across the engineering curriculum, the consideration of social, economic, andenvironmental issues in the solution of engineering problems, the use of assessment to measurethe impact of pedagogy on student learning: these are all evidence of change in engineeringeducation. As such, they are hallmarks of what Froyd, Wankat, and Smith have identified as fivemajor shifts in engineering education over the past 100 years, which include “a shift tooutcomes-based education and accreditation” and “a shift to applying education, learning, andsocial-behavorial sciences research.”1Now that the ABET Engineering Criteria have been in place since the mid-1990s, we may expectfurther shifts, specifically in the

Conference Session

Restructuring/Rethinking STEM

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joe Tranquillo, Bucknell University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

thecontext of capstone design courses, is certainly one of those topics. In the biomusicproject, the MIDI standard fell naturally out of the scope of the project. But another Page 23.1237.4surprising connection came from a question about how the LabView program mapped   3  keyboard strokes to numbers, and why it was the same mapping on Macs and PCs. Thiswas a classic case (many that occurred during the program) where I did not know theanswer. I mentioned that there was likely a standard keyboard layout mapping that wasbeing exploited by the program. After five

Conference Session

Institutional Perspectives and Boundary Work

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth Reid, Ohio Northern University; Tyler J Hertenstein, Ohio Northern University; Graham Talmadge Fennell, Ohio Northern University; Elizabeth Marie Spingola, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Talmadge Fennell, Ohio Northern UniversityElizabeth Marie Spingola Elizabeth is a junior at Ohio Northern University. She is the Project Manager of an organization at school that is designing and fabricating a model Mars Rover for a local museum. She is, also, has leadership roles in Phi Sigma Rho, the engineering sorority at ONU. Other organizations she belongs to include SWE, ASME, Flute Choir, JEC, and more. Page 23.238.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Bachelor of Science in Engineering Education: Differentiating from Traditional

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society (LEES) Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig J. Gunn, Michigan State University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

– 471 Machine Design II ME 481 – Senior Capstone Design Design Project Documentation: Problem Definition, Progress Formal Design Reports report, Project Report ( 1 @ 35- 200 pages) Detailed description of design approach, results, and conclusions, with supporting

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society (LEES) Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christine Haas, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Lynn S. McElholm, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Sonya M Renfro, University of Connecticut; Elizabeth S. Herkenham, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ; Melissa Marshall, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

school visits, theAmbassadors present in pairs on topics chosen by the hosting teachers. Typically two to fourpairs of Ambassadors present on a given day for the entire school day. This allows theAmbassadors to give classroom presentations to most students at the targeted grade level.Oftentimes Ambassadors are invited to present on “What is Engineering” and “My CollegeExperience” in an auditorium setting to allow a second touch point for all students in the school.Additionally, the group selects two to four schools each semester to partner with on long-termprojects, which are modeled after UConn’s Capstone Senior Design projects. Typically, theEngineering Ambassadors present a project kick off, maintain communications with teams atlocal schools

Conference Session

Communication and Engineering Careers: Motivating Our Students

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katherine Golder, British Columbia Institute of Technology; Deanna Gail Levis, British Columbia Institute of Technology; Darlene B Webb, British Columbia Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

the main focus of this polytechnic institute?The institute that is home to Idol focuses primarily on preparing students for successful careers,and most often hires instructors who bring prior industry experience to their teaching positionsalong with their academic credentials. Industry involvement with instructors, course materials,and collaboration with student projects is common and encouraged, so students get firsthandexperience with workplace standards and practices.For students, assignments and extracurricular activities that have clear links to their futureworking life make their courses more meaningful to them and more practical for the workplace.For instructors, this system demands time in keeping up to date on current industry