Conference Session

Creative and Cross-disciplinary Methods Part II

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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

Conference Session

Creative and Cross-disciplinary Methods Part II

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joachim Walther, University of Georgia; Shari E. Miller, University of Georgia ; Nadia N. Kellam, University of Georgia

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

AC 2012-4670: EXPLORING THE ROLE OF EMPATHY IN ENGINEER-ING COMMUNICATION THROUGH A TRANSDISCIPLINARY DIALOGUEDr. Joachim Walther, University of Georgia Joachim Walther is an Assistant Professor of engineering education research at the University of Georgia (UGA). He is Co-director of the Collaborative Lounge for Understanding Society and Technology through Educational Research (CLUSTER), an interdisciplinary research group with members from engineering, art, educational psychology, and social work. His research interests span the formation of students’ pro- fessional identity, the role of reflection in engineering learning, and interpretive research methods in en- gineering education. He was the first international

Conference Session

Advances in Assessment of Communication and Interdisciplinary Competence

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lisa R. Lattuca, University of Michigan; David B. Knight, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Inger M. Bergom, University of Michigan

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

organization oftheir major fields and learning to think like practitioners in those fields, undergraduates shouldalso learn from a properly constructed major program of study “the necessarily partial vision” ofthe field and critically reflect on “the successes and limitations of any particular approach toknowledge” (p. 535).Interdisciplinary Evaluation. Despite the increase in the number of interdisciplinary programs oncollege and university campuses36, some have argued that methods and criteria to evaluate theeffectiveness of these programs are lacking or weak4,37. In order to “perform” interdisciplinaritysuccessfully, students and faculty need to be able to evaluate the effectiveness ofinterdisciplinary work. The seeds of interdisciplinary

Conference Session

STS Perspectives on Engineering Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Harold R. Underwood, Messiah College

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Appropriate Technology, Biotechnology, History of Modern Science, Religion &Science in Modern America, Scientific Revolution, Plants & People, Eco-UrbanFootprints and Exploring Electrical Technology (EET). Such variety is afforded by thefreedom instructors have to plan courses reflecting their own interests and expertise,while satisfying a common set of STW objectives. Over the years this author hasdeveloped and taught EET, a typical distribution of student disciplines has emerged asshown in Table 1. The classroom presence of students with certain major disciplines has Page 25.1255.3naturally led to developing particular illustrations, emphases and

Conference Session

Advances in Communication Instruction

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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

Observation constructive feedback to other student teachers, receive constructive feedback on your own teaching, reflect on how you can use the feedback you receive to improve your teaching.The first one-hour session begins with an introduction to The TEAK Project and motivation forthe overall workshop. Participants are given time during the session to consider what topic theywould like to address for their 15 minute microteaching exercise, as well as who their targetaudience will be. Depending on the workshop participants, the target audience may range fromelementary school students (for participants who will be teaching at summer camps or outreachprograms) to college students (for

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

instructors and students, or of the leaders of such influential bodies as ABET, theNational Academy of Engineering, or the American Society for Engineering Education, are not Page 25.1348.2in question. We cannot presume to know what any individual thinks without asking her or him,nor whether the pronouncements one might make in a professional capacity reflect one's ownbeliefs. Instead, this paper considers how the formal expression of professional aims embodied inABET's accreditation criteria, in university engineering department documents, and in writing onthose criteria by educators, helps to promote certain, ideologically narrowed approaches

Conference Session

Advances in Assessment of Communication and Interdisciplinary Competence

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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

Innovations in Promoting Technological Literacy II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William R. Loendorf, Eastern Washington University

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

and above along with a total assessment averagescore of 4.69 is very good. It reflects that using storytelling to promote technological literacy ismeeting its objectives and succeeding.The evaluation tool also offered the opportunity for making comments on the way the course was Page 25.1441.8facilitated. A number of relevant comments were received offering further insight into the waythat stories were used to enhance the material covered. Some representative student commentsincluded: 1. Instructor used his experience in engineering to relate real-life stories and examples. 2. Instructor did an excellent job of keeping the class engaged

Conference Session

Creative and Cross-disciplinary Methods Part I

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig J. Gunn, Michigan State University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

. Poetry writing for those interested individuals has provided an avenue forcommunication.When an earlier paper began with the following quotation, “Variety's the spice of life, that givesit its flavor,” it echoed a feeling that stifling the creativity of any group of individuals is notproductive. Allowing these individuals to range across various types of communication is notonly good for engineers expressing themselves but for the production they produce in theirengineering activities. These lines in "The Task, I" by William Cowper (English poet 1731-1800) still reflect an attitude over two hundred later that must he fostered in the minds ofengineers. No man is an island, and no field of study can divorce itself from the activities,interests

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

processes orproducts.21 Within this frame, they argued that the choices an engineer can make are always “acombination between objective criteria and subjective reflection” (p. 182f) and that the bestproduct would be designed “in the sense of care and compassion for the other in a socialcontext”. (p.183)21HumanitarianHumanitarian engineering is “a balance of technical excellence, economic feasibility, ethicalmaturity, and cultural sensitivity”. (p.1)22 It requires engineers to “design under constraints todirectly improve the wellbeing of underserved populations”. (p.2)22 These constraints might be“not just physical and economic, but also environmental, legal, political, cultural and ethical”.(p.2)23Haselkorn believed that engineers should apply

Conference Session

Accreditation and Outcomes-based Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jens Kabo, Chalmers University of Technology; Xiaofeng Tang, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Dean Nieusma, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; John Currie, University of Sydney; Hu Wenlong, Beihang University; Caroline Baillie, University of Western Australia

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

towhat they see as an instrumental logic, which is part of what Riley refers to as the particular“mindsets” commonly found in engineering.8 In light of Seron and Silbey’s study, it becomesimportant to reflect on what is considered “common sense” within the engineering community,and how this gets agreed upon in the context of engineering. As discussed here, “common sense”is tied to the (often unspoken) social relations that constitute and govern much of humanexistence.9 Of course, the common sense that a group of people share and understand is certainlynot “common” to everyone. Engineering education accreditation documentation and theirrequirements can both be seen as a reflection of the dominant common sense in engineeringwithin their national

Conference Session

Creative and Cross-disciplinary Methods Part I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katherine Hennessey Wikoff, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Michael Hoge Carriere, Milwaukee School of Engineering

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

and an undergraduate degree in politicalscience. We are in the business of helping students develop their methodological toolkits through the liberal arts practices of reflection, insight, and synthesis. Using thesepractices, innovation and entrepreneurship have been integrated into an engineeringcurriculum through a year-long liberal arts seminar at Milwaukee School of Engineering.This three-course freshman-level honors sequence has “The City” as its topical focus.Although we did not set out to create a course in entrepreneurship, the relationshipbetween our intended goals and the tenets of entrepreneurial education became clearwhen we examined the content of our classes in connection with a grant application webecame involved with that

Conference Session

Advances in Communication Instruction

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

process and assessment of teams 19-22 However,much work remains to advance our understanding of how students learn to effectively functionon teams and best practices on how faculty can facilitate the team learning.The Importance of engineering faculty beliefs and practicesIn their review article considering the “ABET professional skills,” including teamwork andcommunication, Shuman et al. 23 ask the question, “Can they be taught?” and their answer is “aqualified yes” (p. 51). Noting, for example that the teaching delivery strategy required is not thetraditional lecture format, but rather one that leverages strategies such as active learning andcooperative learning. The extensive body of research on communication pedagogy, moreover,reflects the

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

25.1122.4surrounding the bridge and the many others like it? Upon reflection, it is less clear where theblame lies; society selected that person to lead, and the politician holds a degree in law from avery well-respected institution. The politician learned what we (those charged with providing anadvanced education) had deemed important: an introduction to science, likely very little onengineering as a discipline, and almost certainly little or nothing about infrastructure.To explore this further, the authors searched for infrastructure courses offered to undergraduatesnot taking a technical degree and came up largely empty-handed. Though the engineeringcommunity is clearly moving to provide infrastructure programs related to civil engineering,sustainability

Conference Session

Accreditation and Outcomes-based Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sandra A. Yost, University of Detroit Mercy; Laurie A. Britt-Smith, University of Detroit Mercy

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Moving toward a system of learning outcomes assessmentDuring the 2009-2010 academic year, the English department drafted course and programoutcomes that reflected the then ongoing conversation about revising the core curriculum. Thegoal of drafting the new outcomes was to write them so that they both align with the newoutcomes based core document for eventual implementation into the new core curriculum, andcan also used to assess and improve the program in the meantime.The new learning outcomes for ENL 1310:Students will: • Demonstrate an ability to read actively, analyze, question, and respond to readings. • Recognize the importance of audience for their writing: identifying their audience, evaluating its needs, and applying those needs

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

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

was an unknown quantity to ourstudents, a disproportionate number of women M.E. students enrolled in it, both graduate and undergraduate.Since then it has been so popular with both male and female students that it fills up immediately, and itsdemographics reflect our student population. The hypothesis that women might be influenced by the aestheticsof mechanical engineering is supported by recent work by Cheryan et al, 30,31 who found that women instereotypically male environments (containing ‘Star Trek’ posters and soda cans) , either physical or virtual,were much less interested in computer science careers than women in environments that conveyed ‘ambientbelonging’, such as water bottles and art on the walls. We summarize our

Conference Session

Advances in Communication Instruction

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Beth Bateman Newborg, University of Pittsburgh; Teresa L. Larkin, American University; Dan Budny, University of Pittsburgh

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

reflect power andstatus. She points out the importance of word choice, phrasing, and document format inconstructing and communicating knowledge in communally sanctioned ways. Membersof a community—for instance, scholars within a discipline—are, Gunnarsson argues,putting themselves at significant risk if they deviate from the familiar language practices.Thus, a composition scholar encountering directives about envisioning a writing projectaccording to a notion of quantification or “percentages” is likely to see such language andthe knowledge construct it represents as not just a bit of a different perspective, or asinherently just a little problematic, but as quite dramatically dangerous.Why might a composition scholar’s initial strong impulse be

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

c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 The MIT Lewis Survey: Creating a Cold War Blueprint for a Technological University, 1947-1949Amidst the structural changes and the “reengineering” of higher education, historical perspectivecan provide us with a vantage point from which to reflect upon the many changes we are seeingtoday. In my talk, I approach this opportunity through a study of MIT’s Committee onEducational Survey, or the “Lewis Survey,” whose 1949 report is regarded by many as the ColdWar “blueprint” for MIT. Rooted in conversations that originated within our society, MITfaculty members embraced the notion of a broader and more fundamental approach toengineering education, even as they

Conference Session

Innovations in Promoting Technological Literacy II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zbigniew J. Pasek, University of Windsor

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

science andtechnology, and see no difference between a scientist and an engineer10,12,18. Existence ofengineer’s image in the film has been acknowledged25, but not studied thoroughly, except for agender-specific focus. While creating a learning environment that educates about engineering and engineers ingeneral, it is also important to leverage and apply the most recent theories of learning. Learningis viewed as an active process where students process, organize and reflect upon their personalideas in the development of knowledge and meaning. Current models of science learningembrace the paradigm of constructivism, where students learn by constructing personalrepresentations of knowledge instead in the idea that knowledge can be transmitted

Conference Session

Advances in Communication Instruction

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Keri Lynn Wolfe, Pennsylvania State University; Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Joanna K. Garner, Old Dominion University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

content score reflects total Page 25.694.7points earned, without any deductions for misconceptions, while the overall score accounts for 6those deductions. From this data, it is evident that equal amounts of the deductions from theassertion-evidence content scores come from each of the four categories, whereas many of thetopic-subtopic deductions come from major process misconceptions. One possible reason for the lack of a statistical difference is that in this experiment, thevisual evidence used for the topic-subtopic slides was very similar in quality to the assertion-evidence condition. For

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

informed decisions and providethem with the ability to adapt to future environments and act independently on acquiredknowledge. University Core courses expose students to multiple literacies, technologies, andsensitivity to diversity, as reflected in the particular course content. Another goal of theUniversity Core is to engage students in developing a sense of their place in our urbanenvironment and in the greater global environment. Thus, when submitting ENGR 3400 and3600 to the Core Committee, the reasoning was that goals and objectives of these engineeringcourses would fit well within the mission of the University’s General Education CoreRequirements and satisfy core curriculum requirements at the University level. The courseswere then

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

primary interest of scientists reflects just the motive of understandingthe world. Snow himself characterized the reaction of pure scientists towards applied scienceand engineering as being “dimwitted” and criticized them for failing to recognize that appliedquestions could require first-rate intellectual efforts.Scientists are intelligent people and we should take them at their word when they give primacy tothe understanding of the natural world in their definition of their domain of activity. Here wewill choose to separate engineering from science and explore the consequences of this differencein motive. That does not mean though that there isn’t an overlap or similarity between scienceand engineering that needs exploration. We will use Kagan’s

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

Fe, NM: The SAR Press, pp. 117-141.47. Mikic, B. and Grasso, D. (2002). Socially-Relevant Design: The TOY-Tech Project at Smith College. Journal of Engineering Education, 91: 319-326.48. Ellis, G. W., Mikic, B., & Rudnitsky, A. (2003). Getting the "big picture" in engineering: Using narratives and conceptual maps. ASEE Conference Proceedings.49. Riley, D. Employing Liberative Pedagogies in Engineering Education. Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, 9 (2): 137-158 (2003).50. Howe, S., Moriarty, M.A., and Errabelli, A. (2011). Transfer from Capstone Design: A Model to Facilitate Student Reflection. ASee Conference Proceedings, 2011.51. Cech, E.A. (2010). Trained to Disengage? A Longitudinal Study of

Conference Session

Linking Engineering and Liberal Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gayle E. Ermer, Calvin College

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

words of the poet AdrienneRich, historians of technology often “fall short of ‘naming the complexity’ involved in theinteraction between technology and the social fabric.” xiiAll of these aspects of complexity (complicatedness, incomprehensibility, in-determinacy andsocial enmeshment) have in common the acknowledgement of interactions. These interactionsare present between and among system sub-components, and also between elements of thesystem and its environment. Engineering design needs to reflect an accurate and robustunderstanding of these interactions in order to successfully predict overall system behavior. Thenext section of this paper will present techniques currently employed to address thesecomplexities in the traditional engineering

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

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

rate varied by institution. Most institutions have dedicated a significant amount ofresources to recruiting and retaining their female students and students from underrepresentedgroups.Seymour and Hewitt identified several reasons why students leave science, math, andengineering majors.5 Reasons related to competence, confidence, persistence, assertiveness,interest in the discipline, interest in the career, and a support system. As summarized byMatusovich, Steveler, and Miller,6 “…choices to leave SME fields tend to reflect the reasonsthey originally chose SME fields. Persisters were more likely to have chosen engineering based Page 25.1442.3on