Conference Session

Communication as Performance

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie Pulford, Center for Engineering Learning and Teaching (CELT); Cibele V. Falkenberg, Auburn University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

an aircraft engineer. Her research and professional interests include faculty development, innovations in engineering communication education, engineering student learning motivation, and narrative structure in technical communication.Dr. Cibele V. Falkenberg, Auburn University Dr. Cibele V. Falkenberg is a Research Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Auburn University. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 “Give Me Every Idea You Have”: Building With Improvisation in Engineering EducationWe engineering educators, as a community, are very interested in active learning pedagogies.Active learning is a very good match to

Conference Session

Exploring Student Affairs, Identities, and the Professional Persona

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexandra Vinson, Northwestern University; Reed Stevens, Northwestern University

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

, engineering students make use of internship opportunities totry on several different occupational settings, and by reflecting on and juxtaposing theirexperiences in these settings they discern what kind of job they want after graduation. Ourinductive analysis generated three types of fit: personal fit, career values fit and intellectual fit,which we operationalize below.Cech et al.8 have operationalized a set of concepts that are similar to our concept of self-assessment of fit. Their analysis builds the concept of professional role confidence, which iscomposed of career fit confidence and expertise confidence. These measures are developed fromlongitudinal survey data measuring students’ confidence, based on their engineering coursework,in a number

Conference Session

Exploring Student Affairs, Identities, and the Professional Persona

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Najla Mouchrek, Virginia Tech ; Liesl M Baum, Virginia Tech; Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Tech

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

interests include interdisciplinary collaboration, design education, communication studies, identity theory and reflective practice. Projects supported by the National Science Foundation include exploring disciplines as cultures, interdisciplinary pedagogy for pervasive computing design; writing across the curriculum in Statics courses; as well as a CAREER award to explore the use of e-portfolios to promote professional identity and reflective practice. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Student Persistence Through Uncertainty Toward Successful Creative PracticeAbstract: To increase creative practice among students in engineering and other

Conference Session

Writing and Communication I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie Pulford, Auburn University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

were doing it to satisfy their own intrinsic values. While they still believed that good writingwas important to an engineering professional, the lack of continuity in the curriculum madewriting seem far less important to an engineering student.Compounding this devaluation, students often received negative social messages from otherstudents and even faculty about the value of communication coursework. Some students hadbeen told by peers to expect their writing class to be tedious, and mostly just a meaninglessrequirement. One student reported that in a subsequent class with a communication component,the instructor explicitly messaged that the students were there to get an easy grade on thatcomponent and pass through to more important work.The