Conference Session

Studying Engineering Education Research & Institutions

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Corey Owen, University of Saskatchewan; Debora Rolfes, University of Saskatchewan

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Page 26.366.7well as (aspiring) engineers. Our small classes attempt to enculturate students into a rhetoricalmanner of thinking, that is, into a way of evaluating and responding to communicative situationsefficiently and effectively. As a result of this enculturation into a community of practice, ourclassroom is more like a laboratory than a lecture hall, a concept we discuss in section 5.As Wenger24 writes, “An identity is … more than just a single trajectory; instead, it should beviewed as a nexus of multimembership” (159). Thus, while communication professors seem tobelong to a community of practice that is fundamentally different from that which engineeringstudents hope to identify with, Wenger’s concept of multimembership enables

Conference Session

Communication Across the Divisions I: Communication in Engineering Disciplines

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David A. Saftner, University of Minnesota Duluth; Mary U. Christiansen; Adrian T. Hanson, University of Minnesota Duluth; Jill D. Jenson, University of Minnesota Duluth; Sara Ojard; Rebecca L. Teasley, University of Minnesota Duluth; Emily Woster, University of Minnesota Duluth

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Civil Engineering, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

and writing studies faculty. The collaboration reinforced workdone in the required writing classes and allowed both parties to leverage their expertise. Thewriting guide currently contains sections detailing reports, figures, tables, equations, references,memos, homework, professional e-mails, and a general grading rubric. The rubric is generalenough so that individual instructors can adapt it for a given assignment, while maintaining aconsistent framework as students move from course to course. Civil engineering faculty used theproposed rubric to evaluate Fall 2014 assignments from a freshman-level introduction to civilengineering course, two required junior-level laboratory courses, and the department’s capstonedesign course; all four

Conference Session

Communication Across the Divisions I: Communication in Engineering Disciplines

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alyssa Catherine Taylor, University of Washington; Stephanie Pulford, Center for Engineering Learning and Teaching (CELT)

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

this work, we use and adapt the critique to provide students with a fundamental learningexperience that scaffolds observing and envisioning, toward the creation of effective figures.To help them complete the activity, we provide them with a brief set of adapted designprinciples, drawn from visual design10, data communication11, and an assessment of previousyears’ figures from bioengineering capstone reports.ParticipantsBioengineering senior undergraduates at the University of Washington participate in a capstonedesign course, in which most of the project work is done in laboratories, but students also meetas a group once a week throughout the academic year. We utilized one of the spring quarterclass meetings for our workshop. Students were

Conference Session

Communication as Performance

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Alley, The Pennsylvania State University; Lori B. Miraldi, The Pennsylvania State University; Joanna K. Garner, Old Dominion University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

. What the students are not accustomed to, though, is our requirement that they designvisual aids using the assertion-evidence approach.7 In this approach, the slides have a succinctsentence headline that states the main takeaway of the slide (scene). That takeaway is supportedthen by visual evidence—bulleted lists are not used. Because this approach has so few words onthe slides, the students have to fashion almost all of the sentences on the spot. In our sections of the course, we have chosen the assertion-evidence approach for threereasons. First, the approach has its roots at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,7 whichmeans that the approach was designed with scientists and engineers in mind. Second, test resultsshow that audiences

Conference Session

Studying Engineering Education Research & Institutions

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lauren A. Sepp, University of Washington; Mania Orand, Human Centered Design and Engineering ; Jennifer A Turns, University of Washington; Lauren D. Thomas, University of Washington; Brook Sattler, University of Washington; Cynthia J. Atman, University of Washington

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Educational Research and Methods, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Design Challenge." The Bridge 2013: 16-23. 9. Walther, Joachim, Nicki Wendy Sochaka and Nadia N. Kellam. "Emotional Indicators as a Way to Initiate Student Reflection in Engineering Programs." ASEE Annual Conference. American Society of Engineering Education, 2011. 10. Borrego, Maura, Margaret J, Foster and Jeffry E. Froyd. "Systematic Literature Reviews in Engineering Education and Other Developing Interdisciplinary Fields." Journal of Engineering Education 103.1 (2014): 45-76. 11. Schmaltz, Kevin, et al. "Senior ME Capstone Laboratory Class." ASEE Annual Conference. American Society of Engineering Education, 2005. 12. Martinez, Alexandra and Marcelo Jenkins. "An Experience Using

Conference Session

Communication Across the Divisions I: Communication in Engineering Disciplines

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Conrad, Portland State University; William A. Kitch, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Timothy James Pfeiffer P.E., Foundation Engineering, Inc.; Tori Rhoulac Smith, Howard University; John V. Tocco J.D., Lawrence Technological University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

to takeon the “professional role” of a graduate student in a research laboratory.3 In sum, few universityprograms place practitioner concerns with writing at the same level they place practitionerconcerns with technical skills.With funding from the National Science Foundation, we are addressing this problem with newteaching materials that incorporate writing instruction into undergraduate civil engineeringcourses. The approach is innovative because it integrates the expertise of engineeringpractitioners, engineering faculty, and writing specialists, and is empirically grounded in the Page 26.1432.2analysis of a large collection of

Conference Session

Communication Across the Divisions III: Writing as Social–Technical Integration

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vukica M. Jovanovic, Old Dominion University; Megan McKittrick, Old Dominion University; Pilar Pazos, Old Dominion University; Daniel Richards, Old Dominion University; Julia Romberger

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Computing & Information Technology, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

their design course or to record a blinking LED circuit to showthem that they properly programmed and wired an electrical circuit. These videos are especiallyimportant in distance education.Analytical Writing Explanation of equations: Faculty members participating in the workshop noted thatstudents generally have difficulty articulating how they solved a specific problem using equationsor why they selected a specific equation. This problem is apparent in laboratory reports but alsoin capstone/senior design technical reports. Explicit argumentation of the rationale for theselection the equation and how it was used to solve the problem was identified as an importantgenre during the workshop. Chart or diagram with explanation and

Conference Session

Interactive Panel on Improving the Experiences of Marginalized Students on Engineering Design Teams

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lorelle A Meadows, Michigan Technological University; Denise Sekaquaptewa, University of Michigan; Marie C Paretti, Virginia Tech; Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Shawn S. Jordan, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Debbie Chachra, Olin College of Engineering; Adrienne Minerick, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education, Electrical and Computer, Engineering Libraries, First-Year Programs, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Minorities in Engineering, Student, Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering, Women in Engineering

University. Adrienne’s research interests include electrokinetics, predominantly di-electrophoretic characterizations of cells, and the development of biomedical microdevices. She earned aNSF CAREER award and was nominated for Michigan Professor of the Year in 2014. Research within herMedical micro-Device Engineering Research Laboratory (M.D. – ERL) also inspires the development ofDesktop Experiment Modules (DEMos) for use in chemical engineering classrooms or as outreach activi-ties in area schools (see www.mderl.org). Adrienne is currently co-Chair of ASEE’s Diversity Committeeand PIC I Chair; she has previously served on WIED, ChED, and NEE leadership teams and contributedto 37 ASEE conference proceedings articles

Conference Session

Integrating Social Justice in Engineering Science Courses

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Juan C. Lucena, Colorado School of Mines; Jon A. Leydens, Colorado School of Mines

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

socialimplications in terms of diversity (an overly used, minimalist justification) or some form ofdissemination into K-12. Yet they rarely find a way to connect course content with socialproblems, particularly those related to SJ. For example, and existing REU Site grant titled “FluidMechanics with Analysis using Computations and Experiments” is aimed at mentoringundergraduate students in “the current need for basic and applied research in fluid mechanicsacross a range of engineering disciplines as well as the training of undergraduate students instate-of-the-art laboratory environments.” And in traditional fashion, the grant justifies meetingCriterion 2 “by enhancing and diversifying the pool of students considering a research career inengineering

Conference Session

Studying Engineering Education Research & Institutions

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Xiaofeng Tang, Penn State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

move toexpand enrollments, Aalborg University, which is located in the northern part of Jutland, alsoopened a new downtown campus in Copenhagen. Quite telling, this campus is housed in aformer R&D laboratory for Nokia, which Nokia released as a result of the economic downturn.The two main challenges for Aalborg University are those of choosing an appropriate growthstrategy, and maintaining appropriate balance between their well-established degree programs inAalborg, and the degree programs created at its new Copenhagen Campus. A former regionaluniversity with a focus on industrial education, Aalborg University found it difficult to meetnational mandates for higher enrollments. Since governmental fund to universities is based onenrollment

Conference Session

Reflective & Critical Pedagogies

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Prashant Rajan, Iowa State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

,family, friends, and innovation users about their experiences, routines, and practices related toinnovation at the grassroots. Go-alongs were supplemented by semi- structured interviews whereI queried grassroots community members regarding their motivations for and experiences duringthe design and development of particular innovations. I also conducted archival research ondocuments pertaining to the design, development and use of grassroots technological innovations(e.g. summary reports on grassroots community members and their innovations, reports on theresults of laboratory tests on the material properties of innovations, market research and prior artsearches on innovations, correspondence between grassroots organizations, design

Conference Session

Communication Across the Divisions I: Communication in Engineering Disciplines

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mike Ekoniak, Virginia Tech; Molly Scanlon, Virginia Tech; M. Jean Mohammadi-Aragh, Mississippi State University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

series of laboratory activitiesdesigned to build knowledge and skills across these ECE topics. In the second half of thesemester, there were two major assignments: the team-based design project and an individualContemporary Issue Report (CIR). For example, in one unit, students were introduced during lecture to the concept ofcochlear implants. Students learned about how the device itself works, including microphone, Page 26.1482.6microcontroller, digital signal processor, implanted electrodes, etc. They also learned about anddiscussed ethical issues surrounding cochlear implants from the perspective of both the medicalengineering and deaf