Conference Session

Linking Engineering and Liberal Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

J. Ledlie Klosky, U.S. Military Academy; Scott M. Katalenich, U.S. Military Academy; Steven D. Hart, U.S. Military Academy

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, N.Y. He received his B.S. from the U.St. Military Academy, M.Phil. in engineering from the University of Cambridge, and M.S. in civil engineering from Stanford University. His research interests include sustainable design, construction, infrastructure systems, and engineering education.Lt. Col. Steven D. Hart, U.S. Military Academy Steve Hart is a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers with more than 23 years of service in both command and staff positions in Iraq, Kuwait, Panama, Germany, Korea, and the United States. He is currently assigned as the ERDC Engineering Fellow and Director of Infrastructure Studies in the Center for Innovation and Engineering

Conference Session

Advances in Assessment of Communication and Interdisciplinary Competence

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patricia Carlson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Arlene Ann Russell; Warren N. Waggenspack Jr., Louisiana State University; Chester G. Wilmot, Louisiana State University; Boz Bowles, Louisiana State University; David R. Voltmer, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; W. Todd Monroe, Louisiana State University; Warren R Hull Sr. P.E., Louisiana State University; Dianne Raubenheimer, Meredith College

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

; • To develop and field-test engineering communication assignments; • To contribute these assignments to a central library (maintained at UCLA), accessible to all CPR users; • To assess the impact of the integration of visual communication on course development, student performance, and student confidence levels in visual communication skills.Re-designed through successive iterations during the grant period, CPR5 extends the platform’scapability to allow for the creation and evaluation of student work, be it graphics, visuals, oralpresentations, movies, or posters.Basic Features of CPR: Four structured workspaces perform in tandem to create a series ofactivities that reflect modern pedagogical strategies for using writing in

Conference Session

Accreditation and Outcomes-based Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy E. Slaton, Drexel University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

. engineeringeducation to identify ways in which alternative pedagogies and applications of engineering mightbe foreclosed by these “best practices,” however well-intentioned. It focuses on ABETformulations regarding undergraduate engineering since 1980 as a set of epistemic and sociallyregulatory instruments. Analyzing both the purported function and the content of outcomesincluded in ABET documents over the last three decades, the paper shows how ABET hasprojected a formative role for outcomes in curricular development and institutional credibility. Inparticular, impacts of ABET outcomes-focused practices upon diversity, public participation, andthe pursuit of social justice in engineering education (and thus in the profession of engineering)will be examined

Conference Session

Advances in Communication Instruction

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth A. DeBartolo, Rochester Institute of Technology; Margaret B. Bailey, Rochester Institute of Technology; Risa Robinson, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

mechanical engineering students who are involved in her research. Bailey teaches courses related to thermodynamics, engineering and public policy, and design. She is actively involved in curricular development and assessment activities ranging from individual courses to college and institute wide programs. Bailey and her graduate students conduct research in thermodynamic analyses of complex, energy intensive systems, such as coal-fired power plants, and commercial refrigeration plants.Dr. Risa Robinson, Rochester Institute of Technology Page 25.121.1 c American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

STS Perspectives on Engineering Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

conducted,” the faculty did encourage them to seek broad input, creatingsubsidiary committees as necessary. Lewis’ committee wound up speaking primarily with theirown administrators and faculty, apart from a handful of outside experts, in developing a coursefor MIT.18 Operating in the fashion of an investigative hearing, it was through this process ofsynthesizing ideas and practices that the committee wound up with a blueprint for MIT’s future. Page 25.1322.4Positive EnvironmentalismIn thinking how best to structure this talk in the time available, I thought it might be best to focuson the specific themes that emerged in the final report, but to

Conference Session

Creative and Cross-disciplinary Methods Part I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chad A. B. Wilson, University of Houston

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

WritingThis paper describes how ENGI 2304: Technical Communications for Engineers uses best-selling novels to provide course content and to introduce students to the conventions ofengineering genres by building on their familiarity with humanities readings. Students read thenovels Pompeii by Robert Harris and Prey by Michael Crichton and complete projects based onor inspired by the novels. This paper explains some standard research projects used in technicalwriting classes and outlines several problems with these projects before introducing the conceptof using literature in a technical writing class. While previous studies by Jo Allen and othershave argued against the practice of mixing literature with technical writing, this paper explains anew

Conference Session

Linking Engineering and Liberal Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert O. Grondin, Arizona State University, Polytechnic

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

practice as an engineer. While we love to tell students that anengineering degree is an excellent preparation for other professions such as law or medicine, thepossibility that the degree should prepare the graduate for a broad set of post-baccalaureateopportunities not necessarily limited to engineering plays little role in the curricular design. Thisreliance on a pipeline metaphor may play a significant role in the huge disparity betweenengineering and most other college majors in the demographic of in-migration of students fromother majors11.The final result is the expanded table that we provide in Table 2. Page 25.537.12Table 2. Kagan’s

Conference Session

Advances in Assessment of Communication and Interdisciplinary Competence

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carolyn Kusbit Dunn, East Carolina University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

safetyinformation should be placed, and how to make it prominent and easy to read. Students are alsotaught what particular issues should be addressed in the draft, and those particular issues arereviewed in the bullets below item five on the rubric students are given before writing theassignment. These bullets can be seen below item five in Figure 1. Once these general issues areaddressed, the focus turns to best practices for writing individual steps in instructions. Studentsare taught to use sequential numbers for each step, as well as the imperative mood to write eachstep. There is a discussion of feedback statements, and when such a statement might beappropriate to place within a step. Finally, students review the techniques for cross cultural

Conference Session

Accreditation and Outcomes-based Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna M. Riley, Smith College

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

AC 2012-4282: AIDING AND ABETING: THE BANKRUPTCY OF OUTCOMES-BASED EDUCATION AS A CHANGE STRATEGYDr. Donna M. Riley, Smith College Donna Riley is Associate Professor and a founding faculty member in the Picker Engineering Program at Smith College. Her research interests include liberative pedagogies, engineering ethics, engineering and social justice, and exclusionary structures of power in engineering education. Page 25.141.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Aiding and ABETing: The Bankruptcy of Outcomes-Based Education as a

Conference Session

Creative and Cross-disciplinary Methods Part II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Justin L Hess, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jessica Erin Sprowl; Rui Pan, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Melissa Dyehouse, Purdue University; Carrie A. Wachter Morris, Purdue University; Johannes Strobel, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

to change to environmental awareness. He is a member of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), Chi Epsilon (XE), Institute for P-12 Engineering Research and Learning (INSPIRE), and Engineering Education Graduate Student Association (ENEGSA).Miss Jessica Erin Sprowl Jessica Sprowl is currently a graduate student at Purdue University, pursuing a master’s degree in School Counseling. She earned her B.S. in mathematics teaching from Purdue University, Fort Wayne, in 2009. She worked as a high school math teacher for two years before returning to Purdue to continue her ed- ucation. She is actively involved in Chi Sigma Iota, an international honor society in the field of school counseling. She is also

Conference Session

STS Perspectives on Engineering Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wesley Marshall P.E., University of Colorado, Denver; Michael Tang, University of Colorado, Denver; Stephan A. Durham, University of Colorado, Denver

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

. As a result, it is critical thatengineering graduates understand the impacts that technology has on individuals, society, and theenvironment. This paper discusses two Science, Technology, and Society (STS) courses in thearea of cultural diversity and international perspectives. This paper briefly overviews science,technology, and society (STS) as an emerging field, describes the content and purpose of the twoSTS courses at the University of Colorado Denver, discusses the research that has emerged fromthese courses, explains how the courses have been used to satisfy ABET criteria for accreditingengineering colleges and schools, and considers the effectiveness of these courses in broadeningthe education of engineers

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

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

AC 2012-5477: PORTFOLIOS TO PROFESSORIATE: HELPING STUDENTSINTEGRATE PROFESSIONAL IDENTITIES THROUGH EPORTFOLIOSDr. Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Tech Lisa McNair is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she also serves as Assistant Department Head for Graduate Programs and co-directs the Virginia Tech Engineering Communication Center. Her research includes interdisciplinary collaboration, com- munication studies, identity theory, and reflective practice. Projects supported by the National Science Foundation include: interdisciplinary pedagogy for pervasive computing design; writing across the cur- riculum in statics courses; a a CAREER award to explore the use of e