Conference Session

Engineering as a Professional Calling

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joseph M LeDoux, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jacquelyn E. Borinski, Georgia Institute of Technology; Kimberly Danielle Haight, Georgia Institute of Technology ; Elaine Catherine McCormick, Georgia Institute of Technology; Alisha A.W. Waller, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

aspects of the flipped and blended learning environments.Ms. Jacquelyn E. Borinski, Georgia Institute of Technology Jacquelyn E. Borinski will receive a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Georgia Tech in 2014. She is the External Vice President for the Georgia Tech Chamber Choir and volunteer with the Georgia Aquar- ium. Her research interests include pediatric device design and human-robot interaction. She is an Under- graduate collaborator with Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta designing interactive teaching modules for math and science using the patient’s condition as motivation. She was awarded a Women in Engineering Scholarship from Axion BioSystems.Kimberly Danielle Haight, Georgia Institute of TechnologyMs

Conference Session

Engineering as a Professional Calling

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Qin Zhu, Purdue University; Brent K Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jian Yuan, Beihang University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

background and/or practical experience in the Chinese context. For instance, in thegeneral criteria, the ten “graduate outcomes” include a considerable number of requirements thatare new to China’s traditional engineering education, such as “social, professional, and ethicalresponsibilities”, “design a system and process within the economic, environmental, legal, safety,health and ethical constraints”, working on “teams”, “global”, and “multicultural context.”25These requirements are strongly linked to an American or more generally Western historical andcultural context. For instance, terms such as “safety”, “global”, and “multicultural” may assumea liberal or cosmopolitan view that sees everyone has the right to freedom, basic health andsafety, and

Conference Session

Teaching Communication II

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Victoria Vadyak; Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Joanna K. Garner, Old Dominion University; Christine Haas, Christine Haas Consulting

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

, research, and service. Teaching. With respect to teaching, UTREE mentors teach or assist the teaching ofclass periods about communication and teamwork in several engineering courses. In2013, UTREE taught more than 60 class periods on communication and teamwork. Mostof the students that UTREE teaching mentors instruct are first-year design students, butUTREE also teaches upper level classes and assists in the teaching of graduate studentseminars. Table 1 shows a breakdown of the types of class periods taught. One of the class periods that UTREE mentors teach concerns rethinking the topic-subtopic approach that most engineers and scientists follow for structuring theirengineering presentations. In this class period, the mentors first

Conference Session

The Interdisciplinary Nature of Engineering

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mehmet Vurkaç, Oregon Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

graduates need a broaderperspective of the role they and their activities play in the world at large.In addition to the practical purpose of strengthening our graduates’ engineering careers, theliterature also has much to say about the role of engineers in society, and the societal value ofHSS in preparing engineering graduates (who may function as engineers, managers,entrepreneurs, lawmakers, etc.) for that role. “The liberal arts help equip us for citizenship,”states Unfinished Design [2, p. 7]. “They can sharpen our critical powers and help us examineour preconceptions.” (Ibid.) Arms writes about “the development of the student as a person” [4,p. 141], and emphasizes Drexel’s E4 program’s selection of “[m]eritorious texts … to

Conference Session

Integration of Engineering and Other Disciplines (Including Liberal Arts)

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Arthur Felse, Northwestern University; Igor Kourkine

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

PhD in Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology from the Indian Institute of Technology. Arthur is a recipient of the EPA’s Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award and has served as a faculty in the Chemical Engineering Summer School. Arthur is actively involved in engineering education research with particular emphasis on teaching engineering to non-engineers, and including industry practices in university education. Arthur is a member of American Society for Engineering Education.Dr. Igor Kourkine Page 24.103.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014A Sequence

Conference Session

Teaching Communication II

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jodi F. Prosise, St. Ambrose University; Hank Yochum, Sweet Briar College

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Development Group. Page 24.873.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Long-distance collaboration, international perspective, and social responsibility through a shared interdisciplinary engineering design courseAbstractToday’s societal characteristics are compelling engineering graduates to have a broader range ofskills rather than the highly focused technical repertoire demanded of engineers in the past,including teamwork and communication skills1, as well as an awareness of the effects oftechnologies on cultures, societies, and economies2. In

Conference Session

Engineering & Our Global Society

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

students should learn. Although thereis a large body of material published on best practices for study abroad experiences, theobjectives of study abroad are typically vague at best and only implied in the worst cases. Thenext step in this line of research will involve generalizing the approach used in this course to thestudy abroad community at large.Bibliographic Information 1. Hammer, M. (2012). The Intercultural Development Inventory: A new frontier in assessment and development of intercultural competence. In M. Vende Berg, R.M Paige, and & K.H. Lou (Eds.) Student Learning Abroad (Ch. 5, pp. 115-136). Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing. 2. Lohmann, J.R., Rollins, Jr., H.A., and Hoey, J.J. (2006). Defining

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jay Patrick McCormack, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Steven W. Beyerlein, University of Idaho, Moscow; Ashley Ater Kranov, Washington State University; Patrick D. Pedrow P.E., Washington State University; Edwin R. Schmeckpeper, Norwich University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

at the course level for developing engineering professional skills and providing feedback, aswell as at the program level for data collection and accreditation reporting purposes. The EPSAproject is currently in the third year of a four year National Science Foundation sponsoredvalidity study.This paper outlines best practices and provides an assessment tool for crafting timely, relevant,and engaging scenarios. This paper also includes a score sheet that can be used to provide real-time feedback to students immediately following a group discussion. The current version of theanalytic rubric used for rating audio transcripts for program-level assessment purposes isprovided as well. These practices and tools are illustrated in conjunction with

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Canek Moises Luna Phillips, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #8602Engineering Education Outside the Classroom: Informal Learning Environ-ments as Settings for Engineering Education for both the Public and Engi-neersCanek Moises Luna Phillips, Purdue University, West Lafayette Canek Phillips is a graduate student in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University-West Lafayette and works as a graduate assistant in Dr. Alice Pawley’s Research in Feminist Engineering Lab. He holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Rice University and an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Colorado State University. His research is focused on how people relate knowledge in engineering

Conference Session

Integrating Engineering & Liberal Education

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Pete Hylton, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Wendy Otoupal-Hylton, IUPUI

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Motorsports class is required inthe engineering degree. The LA website even credits E&T in their description of the program:“The Certificate is interdisciplinary and draws on the expertise of the School of Engineering andTechnology and their BS in Motorsports Engineering, and, depending upon a student’s interests,may include courses taught in the Schools of Business, Journalism, and Physical Education andTourism Management.”12Additionally, faculty members from motorsports engineering and the history departmentcombined to write a grant proposal for a unique research project which would have assessed oneof America’s early roadways, the Pennsylvania Turnpike, and its impact on the development ofhigh speed travel. By looking for common ground and

Conference Session

The Interdisciplinary Nature of Engineering

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Xiaofeng Tang, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

are but tools to assist our reflection. The engineering profession is empowered as wellas constrained by a number of firmly held assumptions.17 Liberal education should strive to helpstudents re-imagine engineers’ roles in society by reflecting on the most powerful andconstraining assumptions.Knowledge is meaningful only within particular contexts. This lesson applies to not onlyengineering but also history, literature, music, and any other field of study. Understanding thecontextual nature of knowledge will help students assess engineering knowledge morecomprehensively and practice engineering in ways more sensitive to local and global contexts.AcknowledgementsThis research is partly supported by Philip L. Alger Fellowship for graduate study

Conference Session

The Interdisciplinary Nature of Engineering

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alan Chong, University of Toronto; Lydia Wilkinson, University of Toronto; Deborah Tihanyi, University of Toronto

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

to how the rehearsal process begins. In professional practice, the table read is anopportunity for the actors to begin to explore their characters and for the designers and directorto share their initial ideas. As such, it gives us a forum in which to discuss the responsibilities ofeach theatrical position, helping students to later choose their role for the final sceneperformance (one of actor, designer, director). The table read also serves the purpose to explorecritical analysis and its application within theatrical practice: the need to make use of extra-textual resources (e.g., historical research) to deepen the interpretation of the play; howindividual words, lines and scenes contribute to the construction of character, theme and story

Conference Session

Integration of Engineering and Other Disciplines (Including Liberal Arts)

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Katherine Hennessey Wikoff, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Cynthia Wise Barnicki, Milwaukee School of Engineering; James R. Kieselburg II, Grohmann Museum at Milwaukee School of Engineering

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

the purpose he envisioned; that the collection be used as aneducational tool through which viewers would gain a better understanding of past ways of works,industrial and engineering principles, and over 400 years of human achievement.As a result of his connection with MSOE and admiration for the school and its programs, Dr.Grohmann ultimately decided that it was the best venue for fully exploring the potential of his artcollection. So, in 2001, he made the initial gift of nearly 500 works to the school with the initialplan being to display the works on campus while researching individual works, artists, andsubject matter. In making this gift, the ultimate goal was to establish a venue that would be apermanent home for the housing, care, and

Conference Session

Teaching Communication I

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brad Jerald Henderson, University of California, Davis

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

instructor had the studentsevaluate and inventory a second loaded document. Post-test instructions were identical to thepre-test instructions. The instructor did not inform the students that they were evaluating thesame loaded document a second time. Table 1 in Results shows anonymous class-level resultsfor the diagnostic, as well as for the pre- and post- tests.Engineering Design Class: During the first round of assessment and test teaching, SpringQuarter 2013, academic year 2012-2013, the writing instructor began a partnership with a seniormechanical engineering faculty and department co-vice-chair. The agenda of this partnershipwas to investigate new methods and best practices for assessing and improving student writing inengineering classes

Conference Session

Sustainability

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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James E. Wilcox , Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

Paper ID #9583Nature/Society: Situating student learning outcomes in a first-year Sustain-ability Studies courseMr. James E Wilcox , Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute James Wilcox is a doctoral student in Science & Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where his dissertation project investigates the practices and politics of energy policy interventions. From 2011 to 2013 he was the Program Coordinator for Vasudha, an Undergraduate Living & Learning Com- munity dedicated to sustainability at RPI. Prior to coming to RPI, he served as an Education & Outreach Fellow in the Office of

Conference Session

Integrating Engineering & Liberal Education

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brent K. Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

about preparing Americanengineers to work abroad surfaced after World War II, with diplomatic and internationaldevelopment concerns acting as primary drivers.6 During this period, a handful of commentatorsstarted discussing specific attributes and experiences that could enable these new career paths,including some supporting roles that schools of engineering might play. Paul McKee, Presidentof Pacific Power and Light Company, took one of the more conservative positions of the time: [I]f one is to practice engineering abroad, he should first of all be given the finest and highest type of engineering education available. … [F]rom an educational standpoint the best possible basic training for work abroad is a sound and

Conference Session

Integrating Engineering & Liberal Education

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dara R. Fisher, Harvard University; Aikaterini Bagiati, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Sanjay E. Sarma, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

University of Technology and Design (SUTD). In addition to her particpation in higher education professional activities, Dara has worked in several science policy roles in Washington, DC, including at the National Research Council and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Dara’s undergraduate degree is from the University of Michigan, where she studied Earth Systems Science Engineering with a focus on science and space policy issues. During her time at Michigan, Dara served as student body president of the Michigan College of Engineering.Dr. Aikaterini Bagiati, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Aikaterini (Katerina) Bagiati, Ph.D.: After graduating with a Diploma in Electrical and Computers Engi

Conference Session

Sustainability

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mary Katherine Watson, The Citadel; Joshua Pelkey, AirWatch; Michael Owen Rodgers, Georgia Institute of Technology; Caroline R. Noyes, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

, she has been involved in research projects to develop, refine, and apply innovative assessment tools for characterizing student knowledge of sustainability. Her ultimate goal is to use this assessment data to guide the design and evaluation of educational interventions to improve undergraduate sustainability education. In the area of bioprocessing, Dr. Watson has experience using bacteria and algae to convert waste materials into high-value products, such as biofuels.Joshua Pelkey, AirWatch Joshua Pelkey is currently a product manager at AirWatch in Atlanta, GA. He completed his MS in Elec- trical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech and his BS in Computer Engineering from Clemson University. He has