Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Suzanne W. Scott, The Petroleum Institute; Jamal Sheikh-Ahmad, The Petroleum Institute; Jaby Mohammed, Petroleum Institute; Samuel N. Cubero Jr., The Petroleum Institute; Khalid Abdalla Alhammadi, The Petroleum Institute

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

effect of multidisciplinary information gathering  Eye-opening preparation for future work with other disciplines (learning what other disciplines do, how they approach problems differently)  The unexpected acquisition of skills in the “other” disciplinesThe students acknowledged the following challenges:  Lack of understanding of the other disciplines (jargon, technical skills)  Difficulty of combining the multidisciplinary subsystems of the project into their designIntroductionIn the past 20 years industry and engineering educators have recognized the need for engineeringstudents to acquire not only technical competencies but also soft skills associated with thepractices of engineering, including teamwork, communication

Conference Session

The Interdisciplinary Nature of Engineering

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

socio-technical concepts as away to enhance the range of skills that engineering education is intended to teach and to fosterthe status of the engineer as a professional with social responsibility and public engagement. Itasks for engineers to cultivate their identity as technology designers cognizant of foundationalattributes inclusive of technical and non-technical skills.e                                                                                                                e The spatial metaphor that helps promote this vision is important as well. Instead of proposing a radial, atomicmodel, with the core technical attributes in the nucleus and so-called “soft” skills of communication, economicattention, and cultural value awareness