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Social Responsibility and Social Justice I: Pedagogical Perspectives

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jonathan Beever, University of Central Florida; Andrew O. Brightman, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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environmental ethics and bioethics, focusing on questions of ethics, science, and representation. He teaches a wide variety of undergraduate and graduate courses on related topics.Dr. Andrew O. Brightman, Purdue University, West Lafayette Andrew O. Brightman is an Associate Professor of Engineering Practice in the Weldon School of Biomed- ical Engineering at Purdue University where he serves as Assistant Head for Academic Affairs. His re- search background is in cellular biochemistry, tissue engineering, and engineering ethics. He and his multidisciplinary team are committed to developing effective pedagogy and tools for enhancing ethical reasoning skills for innovative engineering design and socially responsible engineering

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Research on Diversification, Inclusion, and Empathy II

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joanna K. Garner, Old Dominion University; Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University - University Park; Christine Haas, Engineering Ambassadors Network; Avi Kaplan, Temple University

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Paper ID #15745From Undergraduates to Ambassadors: The Impact of Engineering Ambas-sador Network TrainingDr. Joanna K. Garner, Old Dominion University Dr. Garner is Associate Director for Program Development and a Research Associate Professor in The Center for Educational Partnerships at Old Dominion University, VA.Mr. Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University - University Park Michael Alley is an associate professor of engineering communication at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of The Craft of Scientific Presentations (Springer-Verlag, 2013) and founder of the web- site Writing Guidelines for

Conference Session

Pedagogies of Making and Design

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Geetanjali R. Date, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research; Sanjay Chandrasekharan, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

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that highlights and seeks to address the two-fold gap identified above.Section 2 focuses on engineering design, which is the specific aspect of engineering examined inthis paper. Section 3 outlines a case study and analysis of the design practice of an engineeringprofessional, as EP addresses a grassroots engineering problem. Section 4 discusses theimplications of this analysis. We close with a conclusion section.Section 1: The need for a socio-technical understanding of engineeringA core component of Engineering Education Research (EER) focuses on the differences betweenclassroom problems and workplace problems, and points to the need to prepare students for real-world problem-solving. “If students are to learn to think like engineers, they

Conference Session

Exploring Student Affairs, Identities, and the Professional Persona

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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experiences in order to promote student’s empowerment and engagement in sustainability and social change.Dr. Liesl Baum, Virginia Tech Dr. Liesl Baum is a Research Assistant Professor and Senior Fellow at Virginia Tech’s Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Design. She is a former middle school teacher and spent seven years teaching in Virginia public schools. Her research interests and goals are to develop a frame of mind that allows for creativity to occur for public school teachers, university faculty, and students of all levels. She works with both university faculty and public school teachers to combine the arts, technology, and critical and creative thinking to teach content standards. Her research and work interests

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Exploring Student Affairs, Identities, and the Professional Persona

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sherif Elmeligy Abdelhamid, Virginia Tech; Chris J. Kuhlman, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute; Madhav V. Marathe, Virginia Tech; S. S. Ravi, University at Albany - SUNY; Kenneth Reid, Virginia Tech

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Paper ID #16861Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation of Depression and Its Impact on Stu-dent Success and Academic RetentionSherif Elmeligy Abdelhamid, Virginia Tech Sherif is a PhD candidate at the Department of Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and is a graduate research assistant at Network Dynamics and Simulations Science Laboratory. Sherif’s research work lies at the intersection of computation, biology and education: in particular, he is interested in designing and building software systems to enable domain experts to easily access and effectively use high performance computing to

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Exploring Student Affairs, Identities, and the Professional Persona

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alexandra Vinson, Northwestern University; Reed Stevens, Northwestern University

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holds a B.A. in Mathe- matics from Pomona College and PhD in Cognition and Development from the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Stevens began his professional career as a mathematics teacher. For the past two decades, he has studied STEM learning both in and out of school. His research seeks to understand how and when learning environments are productive for people and to translate those findings into practical use in the design and resdesign of learning environments. In recent years and in collaboration with colleagues at Northwestern, he created FUSE Studios to reimagine STEAM education around the values of innova- tion, making, and collaboration (https://www.fusestudio.net/). Since 2012, FUSE has

Conference Session

Social Responsibility and Social Justice I: Pedagogical Perspectives

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ricky T. Castles, East Carolina University

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area of hospital patient health monitoring and K-12 education. He is actively engaged in K-12 outreach and interested in collaborative research across colleges. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Getting Engineering Majors to Work with Students in Other Disciplines on Issues Impacting SocietyAbstractDespite all of the physics problems engineering majors learn to solve assuming ideal conditions,engineering problems rarely exist in a vacuum. Engineers are impacted in their work by laws,regulations, and policy, standards, business practices, and communication. This paper showcasesa research-based course for

Conference Session

Pedagogies of Making and Design

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christopher Lombardo, Harvard University; Daniela Faas, Harvard University; Avinash Uttamchandani, Harvard University

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and p values for changes in self-efficacy between genders. Survey Question F(1,109) p Conduct engineering design 0.59 0.44 Identify a design need 1.23 0.26 Research a design need 0.42 0.51 Develop design solutions 0.26 0.60 Select the best possible design 0.86 0.35 Construct a prototype

Conference Session

Research on Diversification, Inclusion, and Empathy II

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Marissa H. Forbes, University of Colorado - Boulder; Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado - Boulder; Jacquelyn F. Sullivan, University of Colorado - Boulder

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taught a year-long, design-based engineering course for seniors. Forbes earned her PhD in civil engineering, with an engineering education research focus.Dr. Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado - Boulder Angela Bielefeldt is a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder in the Department of Civil, Envi- ronmental, and Architectural Engineering (CEAE). She serves as the ABET assessment coordinator for the department. Professor Bielefeldt is the faculty director of the Sustainable By Design Residential Aca- demic Program, a living-learning community where interdisciplinary students learn about and practice sustainability. Bielefeldt is also a licensed P.E. Professor Bielefeldt’s research interests in engineering

Conference Session

Assessing Literacies in Engineering Education

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Xiaofeng Tang, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Qin Zhu, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Haishao Pang, Beijing Institute of Technology

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learning,students at Smith also practice sophisticated engineering problem solving through collaboratingwith faculty in research or participating in student clubs. For example, the local chapter ofEngineers for a Sustainable World, a student-run engineering outreach club, organizes a varietyof projects that engage students, faculty, and community stakeholders.The Product Design and Innovation program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute was founded in1999, first as a dual-degree program between the Mechanical Engineering and Science andTechnology Studies. Over the years, it has evolved into a series of interdisciplinary Programs onDesign and Innovation (PDI). Housed in the Department of Science and Technology Studies, aninterdisciplinary social

Conference Session

Social Responsibility and Social Justice I: Pedagogical Perspectives

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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). Dr. Leydens won the James F. Lufkin Award for the best conference paper—on the intersections between professional communication research and social jus- tice—at the 2012 International Professional Communication Conference. In 2015, he won the Ronald S. Blicq Award for Distinction in Technical Communication Education from the Professional Communica- tion Society of the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). His current research focuses on rendering visible and integrating the social justice dimensions inherent in three components of the engineering curriculum—in engineering sciences, engineering design, and humanities and social science courses. That research, conducted with co-author Juan C

Conference Session

Writing and Communication I

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Emre Selvi, Jacksonville University; Sandra Soto-Cabán, Muskingum University

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Paper ID #15570Experiences in Teaching Writing Unit Design Courses to Engineering Stu-dents with Advanced Rube Goldberg ProjectsDr. Emre Selvi, Jacksonville University Emre Selvi is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Jacksonville University. He received his B.S. and M.S. from Middle East Technical University and Ph.D. from Texas Tech University. He worked as a Design and Production Engineer for Aselsan Inc. for four years and as a Faculty at Musk- ingum University for six years. His research interests are high pressure material science and engineering design, especially as it relate to educational

Conference Session

Trends in Accreditation and Assessment

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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recognition, on the other hand, of a greater need for integration if engineering graduates are to effectively utilize their skills in engineering practice.  Related to this, a stronger articulation of engineering as a design process that begins with problem formulation; analysis and synthesis; and testing.  Likewise, a shift towards a more instrumental view of the humanities and social sciences, with a specific call for evaluating all so-called “soft skills” in the context of professional practice.  The elimination of other, especially “soft skills” deemed to be difficult to assess, or else their transfer to Criterion 5 (curriculum), thus exempting these skills from detailed student outcomes level

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Social Responsibility and Social Justice II: From Classroom to Community

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Donna M. Riley, Virginia Tech; Janice L. Hall, Virginia Tech

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Paper ID #16350Privatization of Public Education: Lessons from New Orleans for Engineer-ing Education in K-12 and BeyondDr. Donna M. Riley, Virginia Tech Donna Riley is Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech.Mrs. Janice L. Hall, Virginia Tech I am a doctoral student in Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. I have B.S. and M.S. degrees in biolog- ical and bio-medical engineering respectively. It was through my participation in extracurricular activities and my experience as a graduate teaching assistant I found my passion for engineering education. My research interests include broadening participation and

Conference Session

Communication as Performance

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Scott A. Morris, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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beadapted and should be applicable9,10.Course Development Background:An ongoing seminar series has been explicitly designed to bring students out of their usualsurroundings and to give them practical experience with a variety of public presentation toolsintended to help them to present more effectively and to move from a subject-centered mode ofpresentation to audience-aware communication.The Graduate Seminar is a required part of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign(UIUC) curriculum, but the offerings are quite varied among those instructors within thedepartment, giving the students a wide range of topics. The instructor has extensive backgroundin engineering and industry relations.Since our department is quite widely constituted, our

Conference Session

Social Responsibility and Social Justice I: Pedagogical Perspectives

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Devin R. Berg, University of Wisconsin, Stout; Tina Lee, University of Wisconsin, Stout

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potential to influence the engineeringprofession for great benefit to society. As noted by Chan and Fishbein: “As the world becomes more complex and interrelated, so do the problems engineers face. The engineering profession and individual engineers need to adapt or else risk getting lost in these global changes, thus abandoning our social responsibilities.” 11The University of Wisconsin-Stout’s institutional mission encourages faculty and staff to“integrate applied learning, scientific theory, humanistic understanding, creativity and research tosolve real-world problems, grow the economy and serve a global society.” However, with thepolytechnic designation comes an increased focus on applied learning techniques and careerfocused

Conference Session

Assessing Literacies in Engineering Education

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Susan McGrade, Indiana Institute of Technology

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-based learning (PBL) and general engineering industry concepts (problemsolving, professional practices, and quality control) to guide literary research and analysis andcontinuously improve students’ written, oral, and visual communication (WOV) skills, as well astheir abilities to understand new social, political, and economic contexts, an important criterionof EC 2000. In short, this strategy presents students with a problem: determine the best Americanfiction of a particular year. The faculty member then guides students through literary researchpractices, and a formal call for proposal process. She divides the class into teams, and each teamproposes a selection of texts to read during the semester. After the winning proposal is selected,the

Conference Session

Writing and Communication II

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sarah Liggett, Louisiana State University; Boz Bowles, Louisiana State University; Annemarie Galeucia, Louisiana State University; Warren R Hull Sr. P.E., Louisiana State University

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at graduation and to annotate the award on their permanent transcripts.  Conducting a three-day “Summer Institute” to inform faculty of ways to integrate communication instruction into technical curricula. Participants learn to use innovative teaching tools and to design discipline-specific assignments and rubrics for each of four CxC communication modes.During the continuing development of the CxC program, assessment has been vital to validate itsacademic value and to demonstrate its importance in the professional development ofengineering graduates. This latter outcome is particularly meaningful, not only to our studentsbut also to budget-conscious public funding agencies. It was with the goal of improving the

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Assessing Literacies in Engineering Education

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christopher Leslie, New York University Tandon School of Engineering ; Lindsay Anderberg, New York University Tandon School of Engineering

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Paper ID #15219Making History Active: Archival Interventions for Engineering EducationDr. Christopher Leslie, New York University Tandon School of Engineering Christopher Leslie is a Lecturer of Science, Technology and Media Studies at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering in Brooklyn, New York, and he is codirector of the Science and Technology Studies program there. Dr. Leslie’s research considers the cultural formations that surround technology, science, and media in the 19th- and 20th-century United States. He is the head writing consultant for the Introduction to Engineering and Design course, and

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Social Responsibility and Social Justice II: From Classroom to Community

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Andrew Katz, Virginia Tech

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Paper ID #15937The Revealing Effect of Disasters: A Case Study from Tulane UniversityMr. Andrew Katz, Virginia Tech Andrew Katz is a graduate student in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. He holds a B.S. in chemical engineering from Tulane University and M.Eng. in environmental engineering from Texas A&M University. Most recently, prior to beginning his doctoral studies at Virginia Tech, he taught physics in Dallas, TX. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 The Revealing Effect of Disasters:A Case Study from Tulane UniversityIntroductionIn the wake of Hurricane

Conference Session

Trends in Accreditation and Assessment

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rebecca A. Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Cheryl Allendoerfer, University of Washington; Ronald R. Ulseth, Itasca Community College; Bart M. Johnson, Itasca Community College

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theABET Criterion 3 a-k outcomes, engineering faculty from around the United States who werewell versed in education research imagined the best way to get to those outcomes if they couldstart from the ground up.5 Given that the outcomes are used to establish values, pedagogicalapproaches that support learning all outcomes in an integrated fashion make sense. In a contextof solving ill-structured, open-ended problems to complete a project, defining technical contentat a curricular level makes less sense. The implementation of that vision uses project-basedlearning to teach engineering design, professional skills and technical competencies to upper-division students. Reflecting values also held by the greater community, the programs alsoinclude

Conference Session

Writing and Communication II

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nadiye O. Erdil, University of New Haven; Ronald S Harichandran P.E., University of New Haven; Michael A. Collura, University of New Haven; Jean Nocito-Gobel, University of New Haven; David J. Adams, Technical Communications Consultant; Amanda Simson, The University of New Haven

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Survey to Assist Curriculum Designers.” Journal of Engineering Education, ASEE, 88(1), 43–51.4. Koelsh, J. R. (2011). “Is Writing an Essential Skill for Engineers?” Automation World, December. Retrieved from .5. Evans, D. L., Beakley, G. C., Crouch, P. E., and Yamaguchi, G. T. (1993). “Attributes of Engineering Graduates and Their Impact on Curriculum Design.” Journal of Engineering Education, ASEE, 82(4), 203-211.6. Ford, J. D., and Riley, L. A. (2003). “Integrating Communication and Engineering Education: A Look at Curricula, Courses and Support Systems.” Journal of Engineering Education, ASEE, 92(4), 325-328.7. Schriver, K. and Hayes, J. R. (2009). “Bioengineers as Professional Communicators: Assessing the

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Social Responsibility and Social Justice II: From Classroom to Community

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Donna M. Riley, Virginia Tech; Jonathan Grunert, Virginia Tech; Yousef Jalali, Virginia Tech; Stephanie G. Adams, Old Dominion University

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community and conducted research at the Highlander Center to exposeillegal dumping of hazardous wastes in their community, which had rendered their rivers un-fishable, among other negative environmental impacts. The citizens in the community beganwith no prior expertise and some without a high school education. Their research forced the stateof Tennessee to take action and end the illegal dumping. As the cleanup progressed, thecommunity members became not only citizen scientists, but also citizen engineers as theyprovided input into design processes for environmental remediation.21While the use of the word citizen is clearly problematic in the term citizen science or citizenengineering because of its connotations of national citizenship, we chose

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Trends in Accreditation and Assessment

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Donna M. Riley, Virginia Tech

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twoproblematic ideologies at work in engineering education: an over-reliance on Outcomes-BasedEducation (OBE) and an emphasis on “evidence-based” research and practice, where “evidence”is narrowly defined following the medical model of randomized controlled trials (RCTs), nearlyimpossible to execute validly in educational settings. The changes remove or weakenrequirements for educational breadth, including global and social context, engineering ethics, andlifelong learning.One of the stated rationales for these changes is that some outcomes are difficult to assess. To thecontrary, the engineering education community has invested a great deal of time and effortinnovating assessment methods to create increasingly valid, concise, and easy to implement

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Writing and Communication I

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephanie Pulford, Auburn University

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, encompassing broadsurveys and deep interviews. These sources are triangulated via a “holistic description” design,coded around themes that emerge in the survey analysis, in order to reveal contexts andbackground that contribute to trends in quantitative data23. By showcasing the stories beneaththe survey, we provide images of possible student thoughts and reactions that may yieldtransferrable insights for educators. A schematic of the research is shown in Figure 1, and anexplanation of each component follows.Figure 1: A schematic of the research design.1. Student SurveysThe quantitative component of this research was collected via a survey administered to studentsonline, through their participating engineering writing class, near the beginning of the

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Exploring Student Affairs, Identities, and the Professional Persona

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jillian Seniuk Cicek, University of Manitoba; Sandra Ingram, University of Manitoba; Marcia R. Friesen, University of Manitoba

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Paper ID #14631On Becoming an Engineer: The Essential Role of Lifelong Learning Compe-tenciesJillian Seniuk Cicek, University of Manitoba Jillian Seniuk Cicek is a PhD Candidate in Engineering Education in the Department of Biosystems Engi- neering at the University of Manitoba, in Winnipeg, Canada. She is a research assistant for the Centre for Engineering Professional Practice and Engineering Education in the Faculty of Engineering. Her research areas include outcomes-based teaching and assessment methods and tools, student-cantered instruction (SCI), the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board (CEAB) graduate

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Social Responsibility and Social Justice II: From Classroom to Community

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jessica Mary Smith, Colorado School of Mines; Carrie J. McClelland P.E., Colorado School of Mines; Nicole M. Smith, Colorado School of Mines

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industries and their social and environmentaleffects pose special ethical challenges for engineers seeking to work at the intersection ofcorporate interests, the welfare of communities, environmental sustainability, and professionalautonomy. Yet in interviews, practicing engineers routinely state that the most influentialtraining and mentorship in managing these competing demands takes place primarily on the job,after a student has graduated with an engineering degree. Our NSF-funded research project seeksto push back that training and mentorship to the undergraduate experience by introducingeducational innovations, informed by ethnographic research with practicing engineers. Thispaper reports on the preliminary results from a pilot project in a