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A Principlist Approach for Thinking About the Social Impacts of Engineering

Conference Session: Social Responsibility and Social Justice I: Pedagogical Perspectives
Collection: 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Jonathan Beever, University of Central Florida; Andrew O. Brightman, Purdue University, West Lafayette
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #16973A Principlist Approach for Thinking About the Social Impacts of Engineer-ingDr. Jonathan Beever, University of Central Florida Jonathan Beever is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and faculty with the Texts & Technology Program at The University of Central Florida. He has held postdoctoral positions with Penn State’s Rock Ethics Institute and with Purdue University’s Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering before joining UCF. He has held fellowships with the Kaufmann Foundation, the Aldo Leopold Foundation, and the Global Sustainable Soundscape Network. Jonathan works and publishes at the intersection of

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Petroleum Engineering Students' Views of Corporate Social Responsibility

Conference Session: Social Responsibility and Social Justice II: From Classroom to Community
Collection: 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Jessica Mary Smith, Colorado School of Mines; Carrie J. McClelland P.E., Colorado School of Mines; Nicole M. Smith, Colorado School of Mines
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

and Family in the American West (Rutgers University Press, 2014), which was funded by a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Her current research project, ”The Ethics of Extraction: Integrating Corporate So- cial Responsibility into Engineering Education,” investigates the sociotechnical dimensions of CSR for engineers in the mining, oil and gas industries and is funded by the National Science Foundation.Dr. Carrie J. McClelland P.E., Colorado School of Mines Carrie J McClelland is an Associate Teaching Professor at Colorado School of Mines. Carrie is a regis- tered professional engineer with a passion for teaching the next generation of engineers to be well-rounded professionals who consider

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Incorporation of Liberal Education into the Engineering Curriculum at a Polytechnic

Conference Session: Social Responsibility and Social Justice I: Pedagogical Perspectives
Collection: 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Devin R. Berg, University of Wisconsin, Stout; Tina Lee, University of Wisconsin, Stout
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Education, 2016 Incorporation of Liberal Education into the Engineering Curriculum at a PolytechnicAbstractTraditional engineering education often falls short when it comes to the inclusion of issues relatedto social justice, ethics, and globalization. While engineering programs are required to includeethics content for accreditation, most seem to rely primarily on general education electives,providing only a high-level overview and including the bare minimum in the program core. Thiscan lead to an inconsistent student experience and minimal exposure to topics which are criticallyimportant for achieving worldwide equity and operating responsibly in the engineeringworkplace. Given the role that engineers play in

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The Development and Growth of Empathy Among Engineering Students

Conference Session: Research on Diversification, Inclusion, and Empathy II
Collection: 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Justin L Hess, Purdue University - West Lafayette; Nicholas D. Fila, Purdue University
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #16281The Development and Growth of Empathy Among Engineering StudentsDr. Justin L Hess, Purdue University - West Lafayette Justin L. Hess received his PhD from Purdue University’s School of Engineering Education along with his Master’s of Science and Bachelor of Science from Purdue’s School of Civil Engineering. Justin is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher in the STEM Education Research Institute at IUPUI. Justin’s research interests include developing pedagogical strategies to improve STEM students’ ethical reasoning skills; exploring the role of empathy within design, innovation and sustainability

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We Assess What We Value: "Evidence-based" Logic and the Abandonment of "Non-Assessable" Learning Outcomes

Conference Session: Trends in Accreditation and Assessment
Collection: 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Donna M. Riley, Virginia Tech
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

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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Learning about Design from the Lakota Nation

Conference Session: Research on Diversification, Inclusion, and Empathy I
Collection: 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: George D. Catalano, Binghamton University
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

the possible implications and consequences for any proposed solution are explored. What are the ethical considerations involved? The societal implications? The global consequences? The effects on the natural environment? • Via Creativa. The third step refers to the act of creation. The solution is chosen from a host of possibilities, implemented and then evaluated as to its effectiveness in meeting the desired goals and fulfilling the specified criteria. • Via Transformativa. The fourth and final step asks the following questions of the engineer: Has the suffering in the world been reduced? Have the social injustices that pervade our global village been even slightly ameliorated? Has the notion of a community of

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Learning Out Loud (LOL): How Comics Can Develop the Communication and Critical Thinking Abilities of Engineering Students

Conference Session: Communication as Performance
Collection: 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Caitlin Donahue Wylie, University of Virginia; Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

we might wear coats and why we don’t putthem on snowmen. Perhaps political cartoons are the most evident example of cartoons’ relianceon the viewer’s awareness of current events, social debates, and even stereotypes common to thesociety in which the cartoon was made. Political cartoons are unusual cartoons because theyarguably reflect as well as influence a society’s beliefs, in their roles as neutral socialcommentary or as propaganda intended to promote a certain outcome (Mills et al., 2013, p.183).17 As a result, political cartoons are often used in educational activities to teach studentstextual analysis and interpretation skills as well as content information included in the cartoons,such as political science, history, and ethics

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A Philosophical Perspective on ABET's Proposed Changes to Criterion 3

Conference Session: Trends in Accreditation and Assessment
Collection: 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Alan Cheville, Bucknell University
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

by applying (b) an ability to design and conduct principles of engineering, science, and experiments, as well as to analyze and mathematics. interpret data (2) An ability to apply both analysis and (c) an ability to design a system, component, synthesis in the engineering design process, or process to meet desired needs within resulting in designs that meet desired needs. realistic constraints such as economic, (3) An ability to develop and conduct environmental, social, political, ethical, health appropriate experimentation, analyze and and safety, manufacturability, and interpret data, and use engineering judgment sustainability

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Citizen Engineering: Disrupting Expertise in Classroom and Community

Conference Session: Social Responsibility and Social Justice II: From Classroom to Community
Collection: 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Donna M. Riley, Virginia Tech; Jonathan Grunert, Virginia Tech; Yousef Jalali, Virginia Tech; Stephanie G. Adams, Old Dominion University
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

such as ethics, and smoothing outlogistical challenges with the course should result in improved student learning.IntroductionA new engineering course at a large land-grant university seeks to introduce non-engineers to theprofession via a combination of artistic endeavors, social science analyses, engineering designthinking, and community practice. The course introduces a new concept, “citizen engineering,”borrowed from a tradition of citizen science in which community members (“non-experts”)identify scientific questions and proceed through formal processes, such as participatory actionresearch, to systematically seek answers to their questions by defining and driving their ownprocesses of inquiry and analysis, sometimes but not always with

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Toward a Cross-cultural Conversation: Liberal Arts Education for Engineers in China and the U.S.

Conference Session: Assessing Literacies in Engineering Education
Collection: 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Xiaofeng Tang, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Qin Zhu, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Haishao Pang, Beijing Institute of Technology
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #16096Toward a Cross-cultural Conversation: Liberal Arts Education for Engineersin China and the U.S.Dr. Xiaofeng Tang, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Xiaofeng Tang is a postdoctoral fellow in engineering ethics at Penn State University. He received his Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.Mr. Qin Zhu, Purdue University, West Lafayette Qin Zhu is a PhD Candidate in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. His main research interests include global, comparative, and international engineering education, engineering ed- ucation policy, and

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Fostering Empathy in an Undergraduate Mechanical Engineering Course

Conference Session: Research on Diversification, Inclusion, and Empathy II
Collection: 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Joachim Walther, University of Georgia; Shari E. Miller, University of Georgia; Nicola W. Sochacka, University of Georgia; Michael Alvin Brewer jr., University of Georgia
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

blaming the crisis on a recent change of the water sourcefrom Detroit’s water system to the Flint River, the timing of which coincides with the elevatedlead levels. Reading about the revelations in Michigan brings to our minds the discovery andattempted cover-up of lead in the Washington D.C. water supply, which Drs. Donna Riley andYanna Lambrinidou wrote about in their 2015 ASEE paper, “Canons against Cannons? SocialJustice and the Engineering Ethics Imaginary” [5]. Similar to in Washington D.C., Flint Stateofficials are being accused of failing to act soon enough and in the best interests of the citizens.Both of these cases highlight the inherent socio-technical nature of engineered systems – afeature of engineering which, we and many others

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On the Use of Outcomes to Connect Students to an Engineering Identity, Culture, and Community

Conference Session: Trends in Accreditation and Assessment
Collection: 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Rebecca A. Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Cheryl Allendoerfer, University of Washington; Ronald R. Ulseth, Itasca Community College; Bart M. Johnson, Itasca Community College
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

information to solve problems, life-long learning, communication, and ethical behavior. At IRE, and its sister program Twin CitiesEngineering (TCE), incoming students are presented with the outcomes during orientation. Asnew, innovative programs recruiting students before being accredited, discussion of theoutcomes and aligning program activities with the outcomes provided external credibility. Thissupported change and student buy-in to program activities that were designed to move themtowards better meeting the outcomes, but that would not be familiar to students in traditionalprograms, such as a professional development plan or metacognitive reflection activities.The IRE and TCE programs were developed as outcomes-based programs. Beginning with

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In Their Shoes: Student Perspectives on the Connection between Empathy and Engineering

Conference Session: Research on Diversification, Inclusion, and Empathy II
Collection: 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Nicholas D. Fila, Purdue University; Justin L Hess, Indiana University - Purdue University, Indianapolis
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

along with his Master’s of Science and Bachelor of Science from Purdue’s School of Civil Engineering. Justin is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher in the STEM Education Research Institute at IUPUI. Justin’s research interests include developing pedagogical strategies to improve STEM students’ ethical reasoning skills; exploring the role of empathy within design, innovation and sustainability; synthesizing the influence of societal and individual worldviews on decision-making; assessing STEM students’ learning in the spaces of design, ethics, and sustainability; and exploring the impact of pre-engineering curriculum on students’ abilities and career trajectories. c American Society for

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Improving Design Competency in Introductory Engineering Courses within a General Education Requirement

Conference Session: Pedagogies of Making and Design
Collection: 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Christopher Lombardo, Harvard University; Daniela Faas, Harvard University; Avinash Uttamchandani, Harvard University
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

understand themselves as products of, and participants in, traditions of art, ideas, and values • To enable students to respond critically and constructively to change • To develop students’ understanding of the ethical dimensions of what they say and doStudents must complete one letter-graded course in each of the eight categories in GeneralEducation where one of those courses must also engage substantially with the Study of the Past.The eight Gen Ed categories at Harvard College are: • Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding • Culture and Belief • Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning • Ethical Reasoning • Science of Living Systems • Science of the Physical Universe • Societies of the World

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Making the Invisible Visible: Integrating Engineering-for-Social-Justice Criteria in Humanities and Social Science Courses

Conference Session: Social Responsibility and Social Justice I: Pedagogical Perspectives
Collection: 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Jon A. Leydens, Colorado School of Mines; Juan C. Lucena, Colorado School of Mines
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

engineering students often dothe opposite: they focus on social (and sometimes SJ) dimensions but exclude technical ones.With the exception of Science and Technology Studies (STS) and occasionally ProfessionalCommunication and Engineering Ethics, most HSS disciplines rarely try to bridge the social andthe technical. Combined, this dichotomy of the engineering curriculum into the technical(engineering sciences) and the social (HSS), with perhaps some occasional (yet often superficial)sociotechnical integration in engineering design, constitutes a disservice to future engineers.Engineers-to-be need to practice thinking not just technically or socially, but sociotechnically.By practicing sociotechnical thinking, engineering students can improve their

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Students' Perceptions of Tablet-Enhanced Learning Environment on the Development of Communication and Critical Thinking Skills: An Interdisciplinary Study

Conference Session: Communication Across the Divisions I
Collection: 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Yupeng Luo, California State University - Fresno; Wei Wu, California State University - Fresno; Zhanna Bagdasarov, California State University - Fresno
Tagged Divisions: Educational Research and Methods, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

member of ASCE, a member of DBIA, Green Globes, and National Institute of Building Science. He is also a board member of USGBC Central California Chapter, and a Senior Fellow of the Environmental Leadership Program (ELP).Dr. Zhanna Bagdasarov, California State University - Fresno ”Dr. Zhanna Bagdasarov is an Assistant Professor of Management at California State University, Fresno. She received her Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from the University of Oklahoma. Her research interests focus on ethical decision making in organizational contexts, trust repair between leaders and subordinates, and the influence of emotions in the workplace. She has published her work in such outlets as Journal of Business

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Making History Active: Archival Interventions for Engineering Education

Conference Session: Assessing Literacies in Engineering Education
Collection: 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Christopher Leslie, New York University Tandon School of Engineering ; Lindsay Anderberg, New York University Tandon School of Engineering
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

a humanities course, and the archivist fromNYU Libraries. This activity shows how liberal education can have a natural fit within theengineering curriculum. In particular, we wish to demonstrate how even a small-scale project,using available resources, will help to accomplish ABET Criterion 3: Student Outcomes.ABET’s Student Outcomes encourage engineering education to follow an active learning model,to discuss the social context and ethics of engineering solutions, and to develop skills of analysis,teamwork, and communication. Our archival interventions, though admittedly limited in scope,embody the principles ABET’s Student Outcomes. By working in groups with primary sourcematerials related to science and engineering, we encouraged

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The Socio-Technical Connection is Plastic, but Only When Design Starts from Need Formulation

Conference Session: Pedagogies of Making and Design
Collection: 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Geetanjali R. Date, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research; Sanjay Chandrasekharan, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

courses in Sustainability, Humanitiesand Social Sciences, Ethics, as well as soft skills such as writing, communication and teamwork.7,8,9 Strategies for pedagogical reforms included cornerstone and capstone courses, projectand problem-based learning, active participatory learning opportunities, instructionallaboratories, learning a second language, and foreign country internships.10,11,12,13Nevertheless, most engineering education programs continue to emphasize the technical aspects,while the social and environmental aspects remain externalized.14 Barbara Olds15 notes that “theeducation of science and engineering students has for too long been merely “technical”, oftenneglecting human complexity in order to achieve quantifiable correctness

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Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Getting Engineering Majors to Work with Students in Other Disciplines on Issues Impacting Society

Conference Session: Social Responsibility and Social Justice I: Pedagogical Perspectives
Collection: 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Ricky T. Castles, East Carolina University
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

and business. Each team had to research policiesor regulations that relate to their topic, determine the stakeholders for the problem, and develop astudy to investigate the issue. Given the limited time of one semester to develop and completetheir study, all groups conducted survey-based research or observational studies. Each grouplearned about ethics in research and was required to complete human subjects based researchtraining and to submit their study to the university institutional review board.A total of six research projects were completed with each requiring a problem statement and/orresearch questions, literature review, development of data collection procedures, experimentaldesign, data analytics, oral presentations, and a final

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Experiences in Teaching Writing Unit Design Courses to Engineering Students with Advanced Rube Goldberg Projects

Conference Session: Writing and Communication I
Collection: 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Emre Selvi, Jacksonville University; Sandra Soto-Cabán, Muskingum University
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

enrolled in talent developmentprogram5, using web-based instructional materials to learn with Rube Goldberg projects in K-12classrooms6, using Rube Goldberg projects as a design based learning tool for freshmenengineering students7, providing early experience in multidisciplinary teaming and an earlyexposure to ethics in an interdisciplinary freshmen course8, integrating design andexperimentation to freshmen students with an electromechanical Rube Goldberg design project9,introducing design early in the curriculum to improve motivation and increase retention10,assessing engineering students’ understanding of design after a short workshop given precedingthe beginning of their first semester11.Besides K-12 and freshmen level, RGMs were also used in

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Better Together: Connecting with Other Disciplines Builds Students' Own Skills and Professional Identity

Conference Session: Exploring Student Affairs, Identities, and the Professional Persona
Collection: 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Donna C. Llewellyn, Boise State University; Patricia Pyke, Boise State University; Sharon Paterson, Boise State University; R. Eric Landrum, Boise State University; Arthur Scarritt, Boise State University ; Jocelyn B. S. Cullers, Boise State University; Don L. Warner, Boise State University
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

activities: • Co-housing. Out-of-area students across REUs and other research programs were intermingled most years and lived together in student on-campus apartments. • Orientation and training. One-time activities such as campus tours, city orientation, lab safety training, library methods, and research compliance introduction. • Weekly research seminars. These were held at a regularly scheduled time such as Thursdays from 9:00-10:30 a.m. so that everyone could plan to fit them into their summer schedules. Seminars have included research ethics, research topics across STEM and non-STEM disciplines, collaboration, applying to graduate school, research-related careers, and much more. • Networking

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Integrating Literature and Problem-Based Learning in a First-Year Engineering Academy

Conference Session: Assessing Literacies in Engineering Education
Collection: 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Susan McGrade, Indiana Institute of Technology
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

about the place of humanities and social sciences (HSS). This debate historically, andto some degree, currently, occurs between some HSS faculty who seek to develop students’understanding of cultural, ethical, and political contexts, and some engineering faculty who seethe study of language primarily as a tool for service within the profession and a method toimprove WOV communication skills. This debate has become known as the culture/utility debateand the engineering curriculum has seen many shifts in the past 100 years, with each side gainingand losing traction according to different historical drivers (ranging from shifts in educationalemphasis resulting from political events such as the cold war, to new accreditation standards

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On Becoming an Engineer: The Essential Role of Lifelong Learning Competencies

Conference Session: Exploring Student Affairs, Identities, and the Professional Persona
Collection: 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Jillian Seniuk Cicek, University of Manitoba; Sandra Ingram, University of Manitoba; Marcia R. Friesen, University of Manitoba
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

like a rigid cylinder” (FG 1, student 1)Senior-level students (i.e., final year engineering/graduating students): “…you have to respect the machinists and respect your trades… having a little bit more of that experience just seeing the depth of what they have to know is very useful in just being an engineer.” (FG 4, student 2) “I don’t think as students we’re taught enough about how important it is to be a professional faculty and what that means to you and what that means is your responsibilities…a lot of it is in regard to ethics. As a professional you have the ethics code to stand by… Also about understanding your role and the potential for you to do harm to the public and also your role and

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Communication Across Divisions: Overview, Trends, and Implications Based on the ASEE 2015 Conference

Conference Session: Communication Across the Divisions I
Collection: 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia; Judith Shaul Norback, Georgia Institute of Technology
Tagged Divisions: Educational Research and Methods, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

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Implicit Bias? Disparity in Opportunities to Select Technical versus Non-Technical Courses in Undergraduate Engineering Programs

Conference Session: Research on Diversification, Inclusion, and Empathy II
Collection: 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Marissa H. Forbes, University of Colorado - Boulder; Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado - Boulder; Jacquelyn F. Sullivan, University of Colorado - Boulder
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

education include service-learning, sustainable engineering, social responsibility, ethics, and diversity.Dr. Jacquelyn F. Sullivan, University of Colorado - Boulder Jacquelyn Sullivan is founding co-director of the General Engineering Plus degree program in the Uni- versity of Colorado Boulder’s College of Engineering and Applied Science. She spearheaded design and launch of the Engineering GoldShirt Program to provide a unique access pathway to engineering for high potential, next tier students not admitted through the standard admissions process and the CU teach Engineering Program - creating a pathway to secondary math and science teacher licensure through engi- neering. Sullivan was conferred as an ASEE Fellow in 2011