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Design and Making

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Marisa Exter, Purdue University; Iryna Ashby, Purdue University; Colin M. Gray, Purdue University; Denise McAllister Wilder NCIDQ, Purdue University; Terri S. Krause, Purdue University

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simulations, smart home technology and aging in place, and retrofitting existing homes to create net zero homes for aging in place.Mrs. Terri S. Krause, Purdue University Terri Krause is a second year PhD student in Learning Design & Technology, a Graduate Research Assis- tant in Purdue Polytechnic Institute, and is serving on the research and evaluation team for the Transdis- ciplinary Studies in Technology (TST) program. Her interests include adapting learning experiences for cross-cultural instructional and online instructional environments; with a values-based, ethical focus. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Systematically Integrating Liberal Education in a

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The Big Picture in Engineering Education

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Donna M. Riley, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Dean Nieusma, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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CenturyLiberal Education?” Web. Last accessed 12 February 2017 at https://www.aacu.org/leap/what-is-a-liberal-education.4 AAC&U. (2017). “What is a 21st Century Liberal Education?” Web. Last accessed 12February 2017 at https://www.aacu.org/leap/what-is-a-liberal-education.5 Author2, 2015.6 Author2 and Author 1, 2016.7 Tobias, S. Engineering-Enhanced Liberal Education Project, “Introduction.” Web. Lastaccessed 12 February 2017 at https://www.asee.org/documents/teagle/TobiasIntro.pdf8 Berg, B. L. and Lune, H. (2013). “Introduction to Content Analysis.” In Qualitative ResearchMethods for the Social Sciences, 8th ed. Pearson, pp. 373-410.9 Gee, J. P. (2004). “Discourse Analysis: What Makes It Critical.” In An Introduction to CriticalDiscourse

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Improving Presentation Skills Through Summer Research and Ambassador Programs

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer R. Amos, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Marie-Christine Brunet, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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also beused in the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) Career Readiness programoffered on our campus as part of career preparation education for engineering students [21].References 1. Ledbetter, S. (October 13, 2015). America’s Top Fears. Retrieved from https://blogs.chapman.edu/wilkinson/2015/10/13/americas-top-fears-2015/2. Nixon, S., Brooman, S., Murphy, B., & Fearon, D. (2016). Clarity, consistency and communication: using enhanced dialogue to create a course-based feedback strategy. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 1-11.3. Boyce, J. S., Alber-Morgan, S. R., & Riley, J. G. (2007). Fearless public speaking: Oral presentation activities for the elementary classroom. Childhood

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Writing and Communication

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Necia Werner, Carnegie Mellon University; Suguru Ishizaki, Carnegie Mellon University

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Grant and has received IRB approval fromCarnegie Mellon University.References [1] J. Hope and M. Witmore. “The hundredth Psalm to the tune of ‘Green Sleeves’: Digital approaches to Shakespeare’s language of genre.” Shakespeare Quarterly, vol. 61, no. 3, pp. 357-390, 2010. [2] J. Hope and M. Witmore. “The very large textual object: A prosthetic reading of Shakespeare.” Early Modern Literary Studies, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 1-36, 2004. [3] D. Kaufer, C. Geisler, P. Vlachos and S. Ishizaki, S., “Mining textual knowledge for writing education and research,” in Writing and Digital Media, L. v. Waes, M. Leijten, and C. Neuwirth, Eds. Oxford, UK: Elsevier Science, 2006, pp. 115-130. [4] D. Kaufer, S

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Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: The Role of Engineering Education towards Attaining UN Sustainable Development Goals

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tripp Shealy, Virginia Tech; Allison Godwin, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Haley Margaret Gardner

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Civil Engineering, Community Engagement Division, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Minorities in Engineering

careers to solvesocietal challenges that mitigate and prepare for climate change and its global implications forsustainability. Attached below is the survey instrument developed and currently undergoing validatingand reliability testing.AcknowledgementsThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No.1635534. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material arethose of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.ReferencesABET. (2013). Criteria for accrediting engineering programs, 2014 - 2015. Retrieved from http://www.abet.org/eac-criteria-2014-2015/Allenby, B., Murphy, C., Allen, D., & Davidson, C. (2009

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The Big Picture in Engineering Education

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dina Verdín, Purdue University

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understanding this community. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Quantifying and Assessing Trends on National Science Foundation’s Broader Impact Criterion The American Innovation and Competitiveness Act (S.3084) reapproved the NationalScience Foundation’s (NSF) merit review criteria i.e. Intellectual Merit and Broader Impacts,called for an update of the policy guidelines for NSF staff members and merit review processparticipants, and emphasized the importance of transparency and accountability. EvaluatingProject Summaries based on Intellectual Merit and Broader Impacts has been the standard ofmaintaining excellence and accountability since 1997. Intellectual

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The Big Picture in Engineering Education

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephen Secules, University of Maryland, College Park

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Design and Making

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jewell Amanda Brey, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Danianne Mizzy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Richard Goldberg, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

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finished their projects (see figures 2a and 2b). Participants were asked to reflect back tobefore the project began to rate their confidence on skills on a Likert scale, and then considertheir confidence at the conclusion of the project. In the future, a survey will be given to studentsat the first build session, and the same survey upon completion to measure competencies.A statistical analysis of the survey results was performed. For each category considered, the datawas first tested for normality. For normally distributed data sets, a paired t-test was used. For thedata that was not normal, the Wilcoxon R-S test was used to test for significance. A p-value lessthan 0.05 was considered statistically significant. Figure 2a: First part of survey

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Integrating Liberal Education and Engineering

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mehmet Vurkac, Oregon Institute of Technology

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, and biology, in the commonpractice of creating microorganism by the billions even in undergraduate labs, have also movedfrom the domain of observing and explaining, into the creative domain of ‘making’. Likewise,engineers in academia as well as corporate and government labs carry out primary research,discovering the principles underlying complex artificial systems17. The line has been blurred.Nonetheless, for the typical engineer at a company and the typical scientist at a research lab,Billington’s distinction that “[s]cience is discovery[;] engineering is design” restated as“[s]cientists study the natural [while] engineers create the artificial”18 still stands in the majorityof cases.In creating the artificial, engineers design products that

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Assessment and Liberal Education

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sean Ferguson, University of Virginia; Rider W. Foley, University of Virginia

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. In this case, student 8o had taken an elective STScourse on the Societal Implications of Nanotechnology (STS 3110).Even when students may have misunderstood ideas from prior classes there is anacknowledgement that technological change does not occur in a vacuum nor does it drive societyin some determined way. For example, Participant 77’s pre-map (not shown) includes the term“technological determinism” as a node linked to “design”, “unintended consequences”, and“ethical decision making” and a side note that states “I do not subscribe wholesale to this theory,but some professors in the past have treated this as doctrine.” It should be noted thattechnological determinism as an argument for what primarily drives social change is critiqued bySTS

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Flexible Engineering Curricula

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2017 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; Dua Chaker, University of Colorado, Boulder

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., Bielefeldt, A. R., Sullivan, J. F., & Littlejohn, R. L. (2017). Divergent requirements for technicaland non-technical coursework in undergraduate engineering programs. International Journal of EngineeringEducation, in press.9. Ohland, M. W., Sheppard, S. D., Lichtenstein, G., Eris, O., Chachra, D., and Layton, R. A. (2008). Persistence,engagement, and migration in engineering. Journal of Engineering Education, 97(3), pp. 259-278.10. The College Board. Trends in Higher Education. Retreived December 15, 2016.https://trends.collegeboard.org/college-pricing/figures-tables/tuition-fees-room-board-over-time-unweighted11. DeAngelo, L., Franke, R., Hurtado, S., Pryor, J. H., & Tran, S. (2011). Completing college: Assessinggraduation rates at four

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Social Justice, Social Responsibility, and Critical Pedagogies

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yousef Jalali, Virginia Tech ; Christian Matheis, Virginia Tech

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Student Affairs, Washington, DC: Author.2. Schneider, C.J. and Miller, R. (2005). Liberal education outcomes: A preliminary report onstudent achievement in college, Association of American Colleges and Universities, Washington.DC.3. Baxter Magolda, M.B. (2001). Making their own way: Narratives for transforming highereducation to promote self-development. Stylus Publishing.4. Parks Daloz, L.A., Keen, C.H., Keen, J.P. and Daloz Parks, S. (1996). Common fire: lives ofcommitment in a complex world. Beacon.5. Paul, R. and Elder, L. (2010) The miniature guide to critical thinking: Concepts and Tools,Foundation for Critical Thinking Press.6. Paul, R., Niewoehner, R. and Elder, L. (2006). The thinker’s guide to engineering reasoning,Foundation Critical

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Integrating Liberal Education and Engineering

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel B. Oerther, Missouri University of Science & Technology

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strong data that could indicate best practices, and which do not? Format of Final Product: The team would spend one (or if desired, two) semester(s) developing a set of critical areas for further investigation, culminating in an article suitable for a peer-reviewed journal.additional references, each, to clarify their portion of the outline. To share his or herfindings, each student used a 5-slide PowerPoint presentation to explain what he or shehad learned. The DoS participated via teleconference in the instructor-facilitateddiscussion. Then, for four weeks, each student worked independently to write a five-page, singled-spaced, draft document with a minimum of fifteen references, each, thatclarified his or her

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Assessment and Liberal Education

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kirsten A. Davis, Virginia Tech; Chris Gewirtz, Virginia Tech; Ramon Benitez, Virginia Tech; Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Tech

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Conference Session

Design and Making

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sarah Summers, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Renee D. Rogge, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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publicartifact (an advertisement, a tv clip, song lyrics, part of a policy debate, a toy) that representsdisability and analyze the representation based on our course readings and discussions. Onestudent might choose to bring in the catalog pages that depict an American Girl doll that wearsan insulin pump, another might show a YouTube video of a child receiving a cochlear implant,and a third might play part of 3OH!3’s song “Don’t Trust Me” that includes the lyrics “Shush,girl. Shut your lips. / Do the Helen Keller and talk with your hips.” As students share theseartifacts with their peers, they are honing their ability to see how representation matters indisability studies. The presentation assignment also asks them to look beyond the good

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Design and Making

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ayush Gupta, University of Maryland, College Park

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localdevelopment: the contribution of engineers without borders from Italy and Colombia: towardsthe improvement of water quality in vulnerable communities. Systemic Practice and ActionResearch, 24(1), 45-66.Richards, L. G., & Gorman, M. E. (2004). Using case studies to teach engineering design andethics. In CD) Proceedings, 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Conference (Vol.52).Richards, J., Elby, A., Gupta, A. (2014) Characterizing a New Dimension of Change inAttending and Responding to the Substance of Student Thinking. In Polman, J. L., Kyza, E. A.,O’Neill, D. K., Tabak, I., Penuel, W. R., Jurow, A. S., O’Connor, K., Lee, T., and D’Amico, L.(Eds.). (2014). Learning and becoming in practice: The International Conference of the

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Professional Development and Lifelong Learning

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rose M. Marra Ph.D., University of Missouri; So Mi Kim, University of Missouri; Carolyn Plumb, Montana State University; Douglas J. Hacker, University of Utah; Shann Bossaller, University of Missouri

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, D.C.: National Academy Press.Braun, V., & Clarke, V. (2006). Using thematic analysis in psychology. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 3 (2), 77- 101. doi: 10.1191/1478088706qp063oaCandy, P. C. (2000). Reaffirming a proud tradition Universities and lifelong learning. Active Learning in Higher Education, 1(2), 101-125.Ertmer, P. A., & Newby, T. J. (1996). The expert learner: Strategic, self-regulated, and reflective. Instructional science, 24(1), 1-24.Flavell , J.H. (1979). Metacognition and cognitive monitoring: A new area of cognitive- developmental inquiry. American Psychologist, 34, 906-911.Gick, M.L. & Holyoak, K.J. (1987). The cognitive basis of knowledge transfer. In S. M. Cormier

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Professional Development and Lifelong Learning

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alexandra Vinson, Northwestern University; Pryce Davis, University of Nottingham; Reed Stevens, Northwestern University

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difficult to get along with, very shy, or skilled at forging relationshipswith others. While interpersonal obstacles are not always related to discrete work tasks, anengineer’s social skills can influence how tasks are carried out.An engineer who is particularly well connected socially can have an easier time gatheringinformation to complete a work task, particularly if s/he needs to gather backchannel informationor rely on colleagues’ candor. In one example, Hannah, a member of the Quality Team at a steelmill, needed to find out why a slab of steel was being transported back and forth between twostorage locations, especially since she had submitted written documentation weeks before tohave it taken to the scrapyard. One constraint in her situation

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Professional Development and Lifelong Learning

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Serhiy Kovalchuk, University of Toronto; Mona Ghali, University of Toronto; Mike Klassen, University of Toronto; Doug Reeve P.Eng., University of Toronto; Robin Sacks, University of Toronto

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Diversity and Inclusion

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mel Chua, Olin College; Tess Edmonds, Olin College

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of framing an engineering problem as being composed of discretesystems, the Circle Way recognizes that the parts are not only interacting, but that the boundariesbetween them are shifting, arbitrary, and often far from clear. The Circle Way challengesparticipants to shift their orientation from a collection of individuals to a co-creating community.For instance, consider a technical project team: one typical approach would be to break down theproject into the electrical, mechanical, and software (etc.) engineering sub-projects, assign eachto the student(s) of that major, and integrate the completed parts into the whole system at thevery end. If instead students used the Circle Way approach to discuss and share ideas about thewhole project

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Integrating Liberal Education and Engineering

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ravi T. Shankar, Florida Atlantic University; Diana Mitsova, Florida Atlantic University; Alka Sapat, Florida Atlantic University; David J. Terrell, Florida Atlantic University

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thinking part). Forengineering students, this will be followed by reflection on engineering solutions to improve thecase-study framework (the doing part), and making a presentation on their alternate solution(s) toa group of professional engineers (the knowing part). It is hoped that these students, when theyeventually choose a capstone design project in their senior year, will build a relevant engineeringsolution (the making part). By monitoring these various stages with rubrics, we will be able toput the process on a firmer footing to learn from and improve.Assessment Strategy:Bransford et al. (2000), a National Research Council sponsored committee on developments inthe science of learning, recommend conducting research on formative assessment

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The Big Picture in Engineering Education

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephanie Quiles-Ramos, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Donna M. Riley, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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andorganizations in engineering education, with a view to governance structures. Then we offer amore in depth comparison of ABET’s development of Engineering Criteria 2000 (EC 2000) withthe current proposed revisions as they have unfolded. We seek to develop insights on the role ofgovernance in effecting change in engineering education, and specifically on historical changesin ABET’s processes for decision making and theories of change. These insights will point topossible interventions in governance structures to facilitate more inclusive participation in settingfuture directions for engineering education.IntroductionABET, Inc.’s proposed changes to Criteria 3 and 5 of the Engineering Accreditation Criteria,now in their third round of review and comment

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Assessment and Liberal Education

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jenn Stroud Rossmann, Lafayette College; Mary Roth, Lafayette College

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Colleges and Universities (2016). Recent Trends in GeneralEducation Design, Learning Outcomes, and Teaching Approaches, Association ofAmerican Colleges and Universities, Washington, DC.Barber, James. Integration of Learning: A Grounded Theory Analysis of CollegeStudents’ Learning, American Educational Research Journal, June 2012, Vol. 49, No. 3,pp. 590-617.Bloom, B. S.; Engelhart, M. D.; Furst, E. J.; Hill, W. H.; Krathwohl, D. R. (1956).Taxonomy of educational objectives: The classification of educational goals. HandbookI: Cognitive domain. New York: David McKay Company.Boix-Mansilla, V. (2005). Assessing student work at disciplinary crossroads. Change, 37(January/February), 14–21.Bordogna, Joseph, Fromm, Eli, and Ernst, Edward W. (2013

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Writing and Communication

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amanda Simson, University of New Haven; Judy Randi Ed.D., University of New Haven; Amanda Lynn Becker, University of New Haven

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/218525261154.Andrade, H. L., Wang, X., Du, Y., & Akawi, R. L. 2009. "Rubric-referenced self-assessment and self-efficacy for writing." The Journal of Educational Research 102 (4): 287-302.Elawar, M. C., & Corno, L. 1985. "A factorial experiment in teachers’ written feedback on student homework: changing teacher behavior a little rather than a lot." Journal of Educational Psychology 77: 162–173.Griffin, J., & Minter, D. 2013. "The rise of the online writing classroom: Reflecting on the material conditions of college composition teaching." College Composition and Communication 140-161.Harvey, R., Johnson, F. S., Newell, H. L., Dahm, K., Marchese, A. J., Ramachandran, R. P., ... & Von

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Innovation and Reflection

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chris Gewirtz, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Tech; Kirsten A. Davis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Ramon Benitez, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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. Seattle, WA; 2012.13. Morris MH, Avila RA, Allen J. Individualism and the modern corporation: Implications for innovation and entrepreneurship. J Manage. 1993;19(3):595-612. doi:10.1016/0149-2063(93)90006-9.14. Kirton M. Adaptors and innovators: A description and measure. J Appl Psychol. 1976;61(5):622-629. doi:10.1037/0021-9010.61.5.622.15. Lozano F, Sabicer A. Creativity and Innovation: Building Ecosystems to Support Risk Taking, Resiliency, and Collaboration. Lib Educ. 2016;102(2).16. Ferguson D, Ohland M. What is Engineering Innovativeness? Eng K-12 Educ. 2009;28(January):1-35.17. Edmonds EA, Weakley A, Candy L, Fell M, Knott R, Pauletto S. The Studio as Laboratory: Combining Creative Practice and Digital

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Diversity and Inclusion

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder

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could influence students to change their majorout of engineering were explored.The required courses that were primarily indicated by students to impact their understanding ofthe ‘impact of engineering on society’ (for ABET outcomes assessment) and ‘socialresponsibility’18 are highlighted in Table 7. All four majors at this institution require students totake a first-year projects course; across the many sections of the course, some of these projectsmay be service-learning (S-L), others are community contextualized, and some are purelytechnical exercises (like a Rube Goldberg machine).26 Additional introductory courses to themajor required in the first semester for architectural, civil, and environmental engineeringstudents contain an emphasis

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Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: The Role of Engineering Education towards Attaining UN Sustainable Development Goals

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Charles Cowan, James Madison University; Elise Barrella P.E., James Madison University; Mary Katherine Watson, The Citadel; Robin Anderson, James Madison University

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quality of life B5: Identifies and addresses future community needs B6: Reflects social responsibility C1: Considers economic impacts of environmental design criterion C2: Considers economic impacts of a social design criterion C3: Considers trade-offs between social and environmental criteria Economic C4: Evaluates economic lifecycle costs and benefits C5: Considers affordability or demonstrates cost competitiveness or cost reduction X1: Uses and/or creates innovation(s) in its specific field to achieve

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Diversity and Inclusion

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lorena Colcer, Oregon State University; Christina Smith, Oregon State University; Devlin Montfort, Oregon State University

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Academy of Sciences, Barriers and Opportunities for 2-Year and 4-Year STEM Degrees: Systemic Change to Support Diverse Student Pathways. 2016.[3] C. Henderson, N. Finkelstein, and A. Beach, “Beyond Dissemination in College Science Teaching: An Introduction to Four Cour Change Strategies,” J. Coll. Sci. Teach., vol. 39, no. 5, pp. 18–26, 2010.[4] J. Turns, M. Eliot, R. Neal, J. Wise, and A. Linse, “Investigating the Teaching Concerns of Engineering Educators,” J. Eng. Educ., vol. 96, no. 4, p. 295, 2007.[5] M. Borrego, J. E. Froyd, and T. S. S. Hall, “Diffusion of Engineering Education Innovations : A Survey of Awareness and Adoption Rates in U. S. Engineering Departments,” J. Eng. Educ., vol. 99, no. 3, pp. 185

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Social Justice, Social Responsibility, and Critical Pedagogies

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ashley R. Taylor, Virginia Tech ; Cynthia Hampton, Virginia Tech; Walter C. Lee, Virginia Tech; Bevlee A. Watford, Virginia Tech; Ben David Lutz, Virginia Tech

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week of the course, open-ended entrance surveys were used to gauge students’ priorknowledge and current conceptions of engineering. For the entrance survey, students werespecifically asked the open-ended question, “What is an engineer?” The open-ended entrancesurvey also included short-answer questions on preferred name and pronoun(s), intended major,and particular course topics of potential excitement or concern to students. During the fifth(final) week of the course, participants were asked to reflect on their definition of what it meansto be an engineer and how these perceptions changed during STEP. These reflections werewritten, open-ended responses on the course final exam. Table 2 displays the two prompts usedfor data collection.Table 2

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Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: The Role of Engineering Education towards Attaining UN Sustainable Development Goals

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Zelinka, University of Colorado, Boulder; Bernard Amadei, University of Colorado, Boulder

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SDGs “… seek tobuild on the [previous] Millennium Development Goals and complete what they did not achieve(United Nations General Assembly 2015).” In launching the SDGs in 2015, the GeneralAssembly of the United Nations “recognize[s] that eradicating poverty in all its forms anddimensions (including extreme poverty) is the greatest global challenge and an indispensablerequirement for sustainable development (United Nations General Assembly 2015).” To thatend, the SDGs represent “a plan of action for people, planet, and prosperity,” which in additionto peace and partnership, define the five “P’s” of the mission of the SDGs. To accomplish thatmission, there needs to be a “balance [between] the three dimensions of sustainabledevelopment: the