Conference Session

Sustainability

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Justin L. Hess, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Sarah Aileen Brownell, Rochester Institute of Technology; Alexander T. Dale, Engineers for a Sustainable World

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

24.1257.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 The Wicked Problems in Sustainable Engineering (WPSE) Initiative: Pilot Results of a Cross-Institutional Project-Based Course OfferingAbstractWicked problems are characterized as problems that lack a conclusive formulation, havenumerous stakeholders, and have responses rather than solutions. Many technical sustainabilityproblems show elements of wickedness (e.g. climate change, infrastructure, urban planning).Exposure to wicked problems during a student’s undergraduate education is both critical andchallenging. As a response to instructional barriers in this area, Engineers for a SustainableWorld has developed the Wicked Problems in Sustainable

Conference Session

Integration of Engineering and Other Disciplines (Including Liberal Arts)

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anneliese Watt, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Scott Kirkpatrick, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Ashley Bernal, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

twelve credit experience.Table 1- Course Objectives for the Summer Grand Challenge ProgramRH330 • Analyzing contexts, audiences, and genres to determine how they influence communication • Crafting documents to meet the demands and constraints of professional situations • Integrating all stages of the writing process, ethically and persuasively, to respond to technical contexts and audiences—from planning, researching and drafting to designing, revising and editing • Collaborating effectively within and across teams with overlapping interestsME497 • Provide strategies and practice for design development • Applying a systems approach

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

% had bachelor’sdegrees and 47% had graduate degrees. But only 37% had degrees in engineering or technology.Thus, those leading the majority of companies which are advancing our technology have liberal,non-technical degrees. It is therefore surprising that many collegiate engineering programs havereduced the number of liberal arts courses required in their plan of study in favor of moretechnical courses.4Fortunately, some still recognize the importance of a diverse foundation to build a well-roundedgraduate. Yale and Johns Hopkins universities have begun offering Bachelors of Arts degrees inengineering for students seeking greater technical understanding within a broader liberal artscontext.6 Such schools are integrating the two disciplines in

Conference Session

Teaching Communication I

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald S Harichandran, University of New Haven; David J Adams, Technical Communications Consultant; Michael A. Collura, University of New Haven; Nadiye O. Erdil, University of New Haven; W. David Harding, University of New Haven; Jean Nocito-Gobel, University of New Haven; Amy Thompson, University of New Haven

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

outcomes (listed in Table 1 below) focus on both products and habits. Table 1. PITCH Outcomes. 1. Technical Communication Products 2. Technical Communication Habits a) Plan, design and produce letters, a) Use appropriate format and content; technical memoranda, short reports, b) Exhibit clear, precise and logical formal e-mails, reports documenting expression; experimental or simulation methods c) Demonstrate appropriate organization, and results, and formal level of detail, style and tone for a reports (proposals, analyses, progress given audience, situation and purpose; reports

Conference Session

Integration of Engineering and Other Disciplines (Including Liberal Arts)

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arthur Felse, Northwestern University; Igor Kourkine

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

Page 24.103.8tested their ability to do patent searchs and write patent claims.The IP module was followed by a four class project management module which was taught inworkshop format. The broad goal of this module was to learn the steps in planning and running aproject. A project management consultant was the guest instructor for this module. Eachworkshop had a brief lecture followed by hands-on activities by student teams. Students weretaught the essential elements of project management such as project charter, communicationplan, scope statement, and work breakdown structure. Student teams were assessed through amini-project which was given out as a homework assignment. Teams were allowed to choose aproject that they can relate to and found

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

following way,“Uh...I did, uh, a little bit of research to just, just give people preface, and that was on theeconomic side, specifically. And then, um, involved in planned discussions, obviously gave input,and also set up the mechanism where people could ask questions via text.” He also helpedmoderate small group discussions which he described as, “[B]asically, uh, just trying to keepanybody from kind of grandstanding within the discussion and being, like I know, that somebodycan even be a professor, as a student we are kind of supposed to tamper them down and allow a lotof different voices to come out, generate questions, compile those questions, and kind of move ahandful to the top.” As a result, even though Way characterized his role as a small

Conference Session

Integrating Engineering & Liberal Education

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brent K. Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

reluctance among the engineering faculty to opening up their courses to studentsfrom outside of engineering – itself representing a potent example of the technical core ofengineering being insulated from perceived outside incursions. In fact, only one elective programin the College wanted to have its courses recognized as part of the core curriculum, which meantthe Associate Dean was eager get a class like Discovering Engineering on the books for allstudents at Purdue. Given such factors, my department head and I agreed that the time was rightto take over the effort, and the Associate Dean replied in kind by partially funding one of mygraduate students to help design and teach the next iteration of the course.We planned to offer the course again in

Conference Session

Sustainability

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

future generations from doing so as environment.” well.”Multi-Structural “Sustainability is the concept of “Providing for the needs of the using materials and energy in a way present while maintaining the that will not affect the population of environment and resources for the the future.” needs of the future.”Relational “Responsible planning and use of “The use of resources in a way that natural and economic resources enhances the current situation with long-term survival and economically, environmentally

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

students’communication skills and is important for the development of a quality end-product. Whilecompleting projects for persons with disabilities or the underprivileged is not unique to ourprogram, it is a critical component to the success of our virtual teams because it appeals to thestudents’ desire to complete the design successfully and motivates them to work through anydifficulties encountered with team dynamics.Program planning and managementPrior to the start of the semester, faculty from each institution carefully organize and discuss the Page 24.873.3course organization, delivery, and management (Figure 1). Two main faculty, one at eachinstitution

Conference Session

Sustainability

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Julia M. Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Caroline Carvill, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Richard A. House, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Jessica Livingston, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Anneliese Watt, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

Paper ID #10531The Grandest Challenge: Models for Communication Development in Tech-nical ContextsDr. Julia M. Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Dr. Julia M. Williams is Executive Director of the Office of Institutional Research, Planning, and Assess- ment & Professor of English at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Her research areas include techni- cal communication, assessment, accreditation, and the impact of pen-based technologies on learning and teaching. Her articles have appeared in the Journal of Engineering Education, International Journal of En- gineering Education, IEEE Transaction on

Conference Session

Critical Thinking, Leadership, and Creativity

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

a graduate student, Rudolpho Azzi, who happened to be an experienced teacher, thegroup worked to assemble a research program and teaching laboratory in behaviorism at theUniversity.15This work was deemed a success, and Bori and Keller were invited to take their work to theUniversity of Brasilia, Bori to create a new department of psychology, and Keller to continue onas advisor. With the university’s doors yet to open, they had the time and space to plan. It was inthe course of designing from scratch an introductory course in experimental psychology that thegroup came up with PSI. Pressed to be experimental in form as well as content, the group beganconsidering how their knowledge of behaviorist principles could be applied to the

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steve E. Watkins, Missouri University of Science & Technology; Les Kinsler, Kansas State University, Salina; Julia L. Morse, Kansas State University, Salina; Doug Carroll, Missouri University of Science and Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

example topics weresenior or capstone design, competition (e.g., steel bridge, concrete canoe, Formula SAE, solarcar, and robotics), outreach (such as Engineers without Borders), and student research projects.The poster sessions were organized as part of the regular conference planning. Page 24.964.3B. Poster Session ChallengesThe authors have seen prior attempts at encouraging student involvement in conferences. Often,these attempts had poor participation and were not sustaining. Key issues were identified duringthe organization of the student poster component. These issues and how they were addressed arelisted below.How can the content of posters

Conference Session

The Interdisciplinary Nature of Engineering

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xiaofeng Tang, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

research questions presented at the end of the “Introduction” section.3 Transcriptionexcerpts were first grouped into six categories: “choice of major,” “choice of college,”“evaluation of college experience,” “career plan,” “imagination of the profession,” and “notionof engineering learning.” Within each category, inductive coding was conducted to discoverrecurring themes from student reflections.4 Where appropriate, field notes from participantobservation were used to supplement students’ narratives (e.g., sometimes students in theinterviews referred to their projects, the content of which was documented in my field notes).Data from archival research was used to compose a brief introduction of the historical andcontemporary background of the

Conference Session

The Interdisciplinary Nature of Engineering

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

the pedagogical approaches and classroomstructure in their HSS lectures and tutorials. If they manage to enroll in a course withcomparatively low engineering representation, they often feel isolated from their peers, and ifthey choose to enroll in an HSS elective with high out of department enrollment they are oftenshepherded into a non-arts and science lecture section or tutorial with no change in the way thatmaterial is delivered or discussed. While they may watch different modes of thought at work, it’sunlikely that they are proficient in their use or convinced of their benefit by course’s end. Andwhile another calendar entry strongly encourages students to “plan their complementary studieselectives in accordance with their career

Conference Session

Engineering as a Professional Calling

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

the object of learningtogether, as co-inquirers. When the teacher does speak, it is as a co-learner, so that studentscome to see themselves as equals with the instructor. In essence, the instructor relinquishes theirpower over the course, while maintaining their authority (Finkel defines power as “the ability tomake things happen”, and authority as “that which justifies or makes legitimate a particulararrangement or set of affairs” (pp. 121)). To teach this way, the instructor must have a deepunderstanding of what they want their students to experience, and they must carry out asignificant amount of planning to help ensure that the learning they want to happen actuallyhappens.Course DesignThe first critical task of planning the course was to

Conference Session

The Interdisciplinary Nature of Engineering

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mehmet Vurkaç, Oregon Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

Decision Making (IDM) and HUM 207h:Science, Medicine and Reason (SMR), respectively.This is an exploratory paper about the two courses (and plans for additional future courses),detailing the experiences of students and the instructor in the pilot (IDM) as well as the designand the plan of assessment of the resulting new course (SMR). In the process, we examine theneed for and some challenges in integrating liberal education into engineering, technology, IT,and management curricula, along with the role of the humanities, social sciences, andcommunication in engineering education as the means for deepening students’ undergraduateexperiences.1 Although the course has a Humanities prefix, it involves almost equal parts psychology

Conference Session

Teaching Communication II

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nabila A. Bousaba, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; James M. Conrad, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Jean L. Coco, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Mehdi Miri, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Robert W. Cox, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

workplace readiness, the design faculty will continue the current practice of asking apanel of local engineers to evaluate the students’ final presentations in the second senior designclass. To plan this project, the ECE design team and the CAC coordinator met twice during thesummer of 2011 to develop a standardized analytic rubric for use during the study. We thentested the rubric during a senior design presentation in October 2011 and revised it to improve itsusability.The impact goal of the proposed project was the creation of new pedagogy that is moreeffective in imparting oral communication skills to electrical engineering students in order toprepare graduates for oral presentations required for employability and professionaladvancement. The

Conference Session

Engineering & Our Global Society

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zhihui Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Xiaofeng Tang, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

FrenchAcademy of Sciences (French/Russian) and the specialized technical school system.In this system, majors and other institutions in schools were carefully designed torespond to social needs. Both of the particular domestic and international situation ,and the implementation of the first Five-year Plan (1953-1957), promoted asignificant expansion of engineering colleges in a short time.In his first report to the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, JiangNanxiang as the president of Tsinghua University wrote, one of the most fundamentalissues that must be addressed by Tsinghua University in the next five years is to gainpractical experience in training a large number of new engineers equipped with hightechnology and political quality

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

-curricularmultidisciplinary design program established in 19954. Through this program, student follow afive-stage approach to an engineering design project to respond to the needs of a communitypartner such as a museum, school, community center, or another service organization4. As aresult of participation in this program, students report that they develop skills in leadership,communication, and project planning, as well as an increased resolve to pursue a degree inengineering4. Other studies of engineering co-curricular service and development projects –such as Borg and Zitomer’s research on student solar water pump projects5 or Amadei,Sandekian, and Thomas’ model for undergraduate experience in sustainable humanitarianengineering design6 – have shown positive

Conference Session

Engineering & Our Global Society

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

and very general objectives such as improvingstudents’ understanding of “their place in the world”’ (p. 10). Parkinson explains, “Specificobjectives can help drive preparation beforehand and the planned experience during the stay[abroad]. They can also be a useful vehicle to promote student reflection during the experience”(p. 10) The design and assessment of “Jefferson in France 1787” responded to these criticisms.Course OverviewThe course replicated portions of Thomas Jefferson’s 1787 journey through the south of France.It began just after final exams and concluded in mid-June, so that students could participatewithout foregoing the opportunity for a summer internship or other employment. Using theInstitute of Political Studies (Sciences Po

Conference Session

Teaching Communication II

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Maryellen Meny Overbaugh; Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Christine Haas, Engineering Ambassadors Network

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

. Third, the instructors asserted that having the students view the contest presentations hashelped the students select topics that are more focused. Often students (and professionals) try tocover too broad of a scope in their presentations. Doing so prevents them from achieving a depththat satisfies the audience [18]. The instructors contended that viewing the contest presentationsgave students a better idea for what type of topic could achieve depth in a 10-minutepresentation. Moreover, students who viewed the contest presentations were more willing toadopt strategies to limit the scope (such as defining limitations or making assumptions).Conclusion and Plans for DisseminationOverall, having students in a technical presentations course view the

Conference Session

Engineering & Our Global Society

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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wenjuan wang, Beihang University ; Ming Li, Beihang University; Brent K Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Qin Zhu, Purdue University; Jian Yuan, Beihang University; Qing Lei, Beihang University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

liberal arts. Thus, the renzi kuichou school systemprescribed in general that “university should teach advanced scholarship, cultivate excellenttalents, serve the country”, and yet a growing divide between the disciplines meant that theseobjectives might be that much more difficult to achieve.The concept of “xueshu erfen” (“learning and technique were separated”) was also applied to theengineering discipline planning in both the renzi kuichou and renxu school systems. Thisreflected Cai Yuanpei’s educational philosophy of “xue wei jiben, shu wei zhigan” (“learning asthe trunk and technique as the branch”). For instance, it was argued that “agriculture, engineering,medicine, pharmacy, law, business, and other applied sciences are based on liberal

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

teaching by UTREE members effective?This work-in-progress paper outlines our plans to answer these two questions. First, toprovide a sense of possible teaching, research, and service that such an organizationcould provide to a college of engineering, this paper provides an overview of thoseactivities by UTREE at Pennsylvania State University. Second, to determine whether aformal analysis would even be warranted, this paper analyzes the results of two surveys.The first is a self-evaluation by the UTREE members of their own professionaldevelopment, and the second is a survey by faculty about the effectiveness of theteaching by UTREE members. Third, this paper discusses what would be needed to makean organization such as UTREE a sustainable

Conference Session

Teaching Communication I

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marie C Paretti, Virginia Tech; Kelly J Cross, Virginia Tech; Holly M Matusovich, Virginia Tech

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

team members to ensure overall team success. As withcommunication, this disconnect between the rubric and engineering faculty beliefs may suggestthe need to adapt, and here expand, the rubric to capture components of teamwork that arecentral to professional engineering practice. In this case, engineering faculty do not appear toexpect everyone to be a leader, but rather, to be able to identify the strengths of individual teammembers and develop reasonable work plans that effectively utilize the team’s personnelresources.Implications and Future WorkAnalysis of a subset of 16 of 50 faculty interviews suggests that while faculty often articulatecriteria for effective communication that aligns with national standards, their beliefs show

Conference Session

Engineering & Our Global Society

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bhavna Hariharan, Stanford University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

care about. One of the big concerns with this second approach is that thebroad, general problems in the future might not be addressed in how we live today.However, Groves makes the argument though that if we are really planning for the futurewith the things individual people really care about, then we will be forced to consider thethings that affect these personal interests. Then, this will eventually lead to addressingthe big issues, but almost with more of a passion than the indifferent approach becausewe are then aware of the impact that the broad future issue might have on the presentsmaller issue we care about.” [Student 3, Weekly Paper 2013]Majority of the students struggled with this philosophical paper. It however, made forexcellent

Conference Session

Integration of Engineering and Other Disciplines (Including Liberal Arts)

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kevin Otto, Singapore University of Technology and Design; Bradley Adam Camburn, University of Texas, Austin, and Singapore University of Technology & Design; Kristin L. Wood, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD); Giacomo Nannicini, SUTD; Roland Bouffanais, Singapore University of Technology and Design; Elica Kyoseva, Singapore University of Technology and Design; Jean Wan Hong Yong, SUTD; Dario Poletti, Singapore University of Technology and Design; Robert E Simpson; Aditya Prasad Mathur

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

solving industrial problems.Chesler et al.9 report on an introduction to design course where they make use of virtualepistemic games focused on design trade-offs and client conflict management. In groups of 5,they solve the design projects in 11 hours. Page 24.763.3The approach here is less ambitious in curriculum coordination and planning structure than anyof these efforts; rather this paper discusses a multidisciplinary experience targeting a single term,orchestrated in the courses offered during that term. This is simpler in scope, requiring morelimited coordination of four courses rather than an entire sequence of courses.Introduction

Conference Session

Integration of Engineering and Other Disciplines (Including Liberal Arts)

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

and engineering classes would be held. Next, it wasdecided that the Museum project would also furnish new office space for the General StudiesDepartment. As a result, the Museum was to become a dynamic space; a laboratory for learningand a venue for the synthesis of art and engineering.Following two years of intensive planning and effort, the Grohmann Museum opened in Octoberof 2007 as the newest and arguably the finest Museum in Milwaukee, in addition to being to only Page 24.784.3Museum of its type in the world. Nowhere else will one find as comprehensive a collectionsurrounding the themes of art, engineering, and occupation. Subjects

Conference Session

The Interdisciplinary Nature of Engineering

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Benjamin Cohen, Lafayette College; Jenn Stroud Rossmann, Lafayette College; Kristen L. Sanford Bernhardt, Lafayette College

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

sports projectiles. She is the co-author of an innovative textbook integrating solid and fluid mechanics for undergraduates.Dr. Kristen L. Sanford Bernhardt, Lafayette College Dr. Kristen Sanford Bernhardt is Chair of the Engineering Studies Program and Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Lafayette College. Her expertise is in sustainable civil infras- tructure management and transportation systems. She teaches a variety of courses including sustainability of built systems, transportation systems, transportation planning, civil infrastructure management, and Lafayette’s introductory first year engineering course. Dr. Sanford Bernhardt serves on the American Society of Civil Engineers

Conference Session

Critical Thinking, Leadership, and Creativity

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kacey Beddoes, Oregon State University; Corey M. Schimpf, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

. Thousand Oaks: Sage.93. Koro-Ljungberg, M. & Douglas, E.P. (2008). State of Qualitative Research in Engineering Education: Meta- Analysis of JEE Articles, 2005-2006. Journal of Engineering Education, 97(2), 163-175.94. Koro-Ljungberg, M. & Douglas, E.P. (2008). State of Qualitative Research in Engineering Education: Meta- Analysis of JEE Articles, 2005-2006. Journal of Engineering Education, 97(2), 163-175.95. Anyon, J. (2009). Theory and Educational Research: Toward Critical Social Explanation. New York: Routledge.96. E.g., Creswell, J., W. (2007). Educational Research: Planning, Conducting and Evaluating Quantitative and Qualitative Research (3rd Edition.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.97. Charmaz, K. (2006

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William E. Genereux, Kansas State University, Salina

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

already know how to do. Engineers andprofessionals of all fields routinely tackle problems to which they do not have ready solutions,yet the educational experience of most American students typically involves a smoothly paved,pre-planned route to the “correct answer.” Perhaps the most valuable aspect of this form oflearning is that it is something unknown that must be mastered. Making video is not terriblydifficult to learn to do at a basic level, but it requires practice and persistence. Persistence in theface of adversity is a valuable attribute, but one that may be lacking among today’s collegestudents depending on levels of maturity and intellectual development.Perhaps this is a factor that partially explains some of the observed differences