Conference Session

Rethinking Engineering Writing

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven R Walk, Old Dominion University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Other Written Assignments (LtW) 10 Peer-assessed Team Skills 10The prompts were introduced approximately weekly using an overhead projection andverbal instruction. The purpose of the low-stakes writing exercise was repeated: to help thestudent improve his or her technical writing skills and to improve learning of lecture- andlaboratory- based knowledge. Each submitted assignment was scored, i.e., marked-up, bythe author according to a writing skills rubric made available and reviewed with thestudents.17 (See Table 2). Students were provided also a list of common editor’s marks sothat they could readily decipher and interpret the author’s comments and corrections.Trends in

Conference Session

Rethinking Engineering Writing

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brad Jerald Henderson, University of California, Davis

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

class’ new engineering report assignment and method. Thestudents were assigned to write a one- to two-page reflective statement responding to the promptbelow. The students were directed to target as primary audience the Dean of the College ofEngineering, with peers and the instructor being a “transparent” secondary audience. Prompt: "How and why (or why not) did your experience working on the Lego car assembly line Report Project provide you with educational benefit(s) toward developing your engineering communication skills?” Page 23.15.15To remove instructor bias from the review of student feedback, the instructor solicited

Conference Session

Rethinking Engineering Writing

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elisa Warford, University of Southern California

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #7066Engineering Writing for the General Public: A Classroom ApproachDr. Elisa Warford, University of Southern California Elisa Warford is a senior lecturer in the Engineering Writing Program at the University of Southern Cal- ifornia, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in written and oral engineering commu- nication. Her current research interests include the rhetoric of science and portrayals of engineering and technology in American literature. She is also a professional technical editor specializing in engineering writing for academia and industry. She holds a Ph.D. in English from the

Conference Session

A Challenge to Engineering Educators

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa DuPree McNair, Virginia Tech; Wende Garrison, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

curriculum divides the process ofcreating a professional digital portfolio into ten weekly tasks, each of which takes between thirtyminutes to an hour to complete. A fundamental part of the P2P process is the weekly feedbackto students on their portfolio progress provided by faculty. In addition, at each campus, studentshave been offered the opportunity to engage in a peer feedback process—sometimes online andother times in person.Throughout the ten weeks of creating a professional portfolio, students are asked to uploadevidence of and write narratives about their accomplishments in four categories: 1) Research, 2)Teaching, 3) Service, and 4) Lifelong Learning.Typically, students upload published papers or powerpoints used during conference

Conference Session

Integrating Engineering & Liberal Education

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bill D. Bailey, Southern Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

and documenting results had always been part of the course, but tended to beinformal. After assignment level integration, each project requires a written plan anddocumented results. Additionally, students are required to write a short reflective paper aftereach project summarizing what went well with the project, what might be improved in the future,and lessons learned. A similar approach is used for the semester long team project, but a longerpaper is required as part of the team project. This paper is the basis for a presentation at the endof the semester. Structured team planning, reporting and presentation, as well as peer reviewemphasize and reinforce the skills in item 4.Changes were also made in the lecture portion of courses within

Conference Session

Communication and Engineering Careers: Motivating Our Students

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Education and Training Writing for her ASEE 2012 Proceedings article, ”Behavioral Interview Training in Engineering Classes.” In 2004, she earned the ASEE Southeastern Section’s Thomas C. Evans Award for the most out- standing paper pertaining to engineering education. As a consultant, she has edited and written documents and presented workshops for educators, industry, and professional organizations.Dr. Christopher J Rowe, Vanderbilt University Dr. Christopher J. Rowe, M.Eng., Ed.D., is associate professor of the Practice of Engineering Manage- ment and Director of the Division of General Engineering at Vanderbilt University. He holds degrees in biomedical engineering, management of technology, and higher education

Conference Session

Integrating Engineering & Liberal Education

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pradeep Kashinath Waychal, College of Engineering Pune; Anil Dattatraya Sahasrabudhe, College of Engineering, Pune

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

consulting and verification and validation. He has headed the corporate product and technology innovations and quality and delivery innovation departments. He has designed and delivered workshops in the areas of problem solving, project management and innovation management that were received very well by the participants. Pradeep was on the apex senior management group before proceeding on to pursue his academic, research and social interests. Before Patni, he has worked at IIT Delhi, IIT Bombay, SGGS College of Engineering and Crompton Greaves R & D Electronics in different research and academic positions. Pradeep Waychal has also published papers in peer reviewed journals, presented keynote invited talks in many

Conference Session

Integrating Engineering & Liberal Education

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

information pathways and observed the resulting performance. In assessing theoverall achievement and results of the study, the reviewers concluded that “the mechanism usedin Escherichia coli to combat heat shock is just what a well trained control engineer woulddesign, given the signals and the functions available.”35One can easily see that these kinds of conclusions naturally lead to interesting discussions abouthow such exquisite engineering can emerge by accident. Nevertheless, researchers continue toapply reverse engineering techniques to natural systems simply because it works. Biologist E. O.Wilson writes, “The surest way to grasp complexity in the brain, as in any other biologicalsystem, is to think of it as an engineering problem…Researchers

Conference Session

Restructuring/Rethinking STEM

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Conference Session

A Challenge to Engineering Educators

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Harold R Underwood, Messiah College

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

freeindividual use, we select the Corporate option at a monthly premium to accommodate asufficient number of projects and adequate online storage space. Logbook21 instructionsspecify for students to clearly identify personal contact information in case of loss, dividethe composition book into logical sections, and bring to all project related meetings andclass sessions. Besides these basic expectations for its use, the logbook is graded oncontent, organization and neatness. The Adjustment Factor allows a student’s grade to beincreased or decreased based on self, peer and faculty evaluation of that student’s overallcontribution and growth during the semester. Thus, we believe the portfolio approachworks best with other forms of assessment, as indicated

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

, using technology in the classroom, faculty development in instructional design, teaching diversity, and peer coaching. Dr. Utschig completed his PhD in Nuclear Engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.Jeffrey S. Bryan Jeffrey S. Bryan is currently in his second-year of Georgia Tech’s M.S. program in digital media. He at- tended Southern Utah University as an undergraduate, and majored in English education. He worked for several years as a trainer for AT&T, teaching adult learners, and as an editor for an opinion research com- pany. He currently works as a Graduate Research Assistant in Georgia Tech’s Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL), where he assists with assessment and data

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

training in communications, leadership, and presentationskills. The course also includes sessions on networking, gender and diversity issues, and otherspecial topics.Throughout the academic year, Engineering Ambassadors participate in special seminars acrosscampus as determined by group advisors and student leaders. The students plan and invitespeakers for professional development including topics of “Sexual Harassment in the Workplaceand Classroom”, “Advanced Presentation Skills”, “Technical Writing and Presentation Skills”and special leadership workshops offered by UConn’s office of student leadership. Page 23.496.14Additionally, during each

Conference Session

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

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna M Riley, Smith College

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

identity, either passing as heterosexual orcovering up expressions of their LGB identities in the company of other engineers. While hatespeech was relatively rare in this study, some of the most overtly homophobic comments wereunderstood by those who experienced them to be related to a need for male peers to prove theirmasculinity to each other.Sexualized and hyper-able or violent forms of masculinity bring attention to those who do notlaugh at the jokes, those who question the metaphors or do not relate to them in the same way asthe hegemonic group. This explains both why diversity groups might deem it necessary tocordon off an Island of Other and why doing so does not begin to break down hegemonicnormativities.Subaltern Masculinities: Black

Conference Session

Restructuring/Rethinking STEM

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joe Tranquillo, Bucknell University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #7610The T-shaped Engineer: Connecting the STEM to the TOPProf. Joe Tranquillo, Bucknell University Joe Tranquillo was the second faculty member in the new Biomedical Engineering Program at Bucknell University and helped build an accredited department with seven faculty and 60 undergraduate students. His teaching interests are in biomedical signals and systems, neural and cardiac electrophysiology, and medical device design. Nationally Tranquillo has published or presented over 50 peer reviewed or invited works in the field of engineering education. In 2012 he was a founding faculty member of the KEEN Winter