Conference Session

Creative and Cross-disciplinary Methods Part II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Tech; Wende Garrison, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

 describes  the  initial  stages  of  a  longitudinal  project  to  design,  implement,  and  assess  an  ePortfolio  curriculum  that  supports  graduate  engineering  students  in  developing  professional  identities  both  as  educators  and  as  engineers.  It  is  part  of  an  NSF-­‐funded  research  study  that  addresses  the  major  task,  articulated  in  Jamieson  &  Lohmann’s  2009  report  Creating  a  Culture  for  Scholarly  and  Systematic  Innovation  in  Engineering  Education1,  of  institutionally  prioritizing  connections  between  engineering  education  research  and  practice.  The  purpose  of  this  project  is  to  use  electronic  portfolios  (ePortfolios)  to  help  engineering  graduate  students  achieve  the

Conference Session

Innovations in Promoting Technological Literacy II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zbigniew J. Pasek, University of Windsor

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

particular of 1st yearstudents, who apparently have difficulty in building their engineering identity and opt-out toother non-engineering area, while students from other disciplines very rarely transfer toengineering.The key motivation in initiating the proposed study is thus a quest for new educational solutionsthat will help explaining in appealing terms what engineers do and how they contribute to thewell-being of society in the short term, and that will, in the long term encourage potentialstudents to take on engineering careers.Declining engineering enrollment trends are directly related to the public understanding ofscience (PUS), technology and engineering (although that relation is far from simple). PUStrends are closely monitored by a

Conference Session

Creative and Cross-disciplinary Methods Part II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah E. Zappe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Melissa Marshall, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Enrique D. Gomez, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Esther Gomez, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Angela D. Lueking, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

interest. Non-persisters tended to choose SME fields for reasons not related to the nature ofthe work associated with the major such as the influence of family members, high school 2  teachers, and others, for materialistic reasons, and/or through uninformed choices, such aschoosing engineering because they did well in high school math and science courses (p. 290).In their study, Matusovich and her colleagues found that women did not have a strongconnection between engineering-related values and their attainment value, or the value that anindividual places on an activity as it fits with one’s identity. The authors had suggestions on howto encourage students to persist in engineering by focusing on

Conference Session

Creative and Cross-disciplinary Methods Part I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jean Hertzberg, University of Colorado, Boulder; Bailey Renee Leppek, University of Colorado, Boulder; Kara E. Gray, University of Colorado, Boulder

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

engineering and fine arts students, and studies the impact of this and other courses using mixed-method approaches.Ms. Bailey Renee Leppek, University of Colorado, BoulderMrs. Kara E. Gray, University of Colorado, Boulder School of Education Page 25.206.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Art for the Sake of Improving Attitudes towards EngineeringAbstract Since 2003, a course that incorporates art and engineering has been offered to mixed teams ofengineering and fine arts photography and video students at the University of Colorado, Boulder. The course