Conference Session

Writing and Communication

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Professor of English in the Department of English at Carnegie Mellon. His current research interests include pedagogy of communication and design for students and professionals in the technology/engineering disciplines, and computer-aided rhetorical analysis. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Making the Invisible Visible in Writing Classrooms: An Approach to Increasing Textual Awareness using Computer-Aided Rhetorical AnalysisIntroductionWriting requires countless composing decisions that are typically beyond the writer’s consciousgrasp. For students, writing can feel like a process that they have little control over, and a skillthat only a certain few possess. Much of the skill in being

Conference Session

Professional Development and Lifelong Learning

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

engineering faculties and educators. First, there is a need forwhat Stevens refers to as “socio-technical engineering education” [22], which combines the socialand technical development of engineering students, in order to better prepare them for the transitionfrom university to employment. The three graduates were able to build their social knowledge andskills through co-curricular rather than curricular activities, which do not prioritize the socialdevelopment among students and are, as Stevens, Johri, and O’Connor argue, “the bastion for thetechnical rationalist view of engineering” [23, p. 133]. By incorporating the social aspect intocurricular activities, engineering educators can strengthen the stock of capital among all studentsand

Conference Session

Design and Making

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Transdisciplinary Design Studio EnvironmentAbstractMany scholars have cited the importance of integrating humanities and social science contentinto engineering and technology education, noting the value in building students’ deepcompetence in communication and interpersonal skills, including an understanding of howtechnology is intertwined with societal and human needs. However, there is relatively littleguidance as to how viewpoints and content from liberal education perspectives might beintegrated systematically into a single, transdisciplinary learning experience that allows studentsto view the world through different lenses from a variety of disciplinary perspectives whilelocating and synthesizing information crucial to solving interesting and

Conference Session

Assessment and Liberal Education

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

engineering profession, and through this coursework, to learn frameworks for analysis: a policy or an economic framework, for example. These courses are also open to (and popular with) nonmajors, leading to interdisciplinary discussions and project teams. The curriculum builds to a unique capstone experience (e.g. Rossmann and Sanford Bernhardt, 2015).Engineering students at Lafayette College also take approximately one-third of theircourses outside STEM subjects, in the humanities, arts, and social sciences. Thesedistribution requirements introduce engineering students to alternate “ways of knowing,”comprising a liberal education. However, these requirements are not necessarilyintegrative; they may provide opportunities for

Conference Session

Integrating Liberal Education and Engineering

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David DiBiasio, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Paula Quinn, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Kristin Boudreau, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Laura A. Robinson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; John M. Sullivan Jr, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; John Bergendahl, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Leslie Dodson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Engineering Through a Humanistic Lens” in Engineering Studies 2015 and ”A Game-Based Approach to Information Literacy and Engi- neering in Context” (with Laura Hanlan) in Proceedings of the Frontiers in Education Conference 2015. A classroom game she developed with students and colleagues at WPI, ”Humanitarian Engineering Past and Present: Worcester’s Sewage Problem at the Turn of the Twentieth Century” was chosen by the Na- tional Academy of Engineering as an ”Exemplary Engineering Ethics Activity” that prepares students for ”ethical practice, research, or leadership in engineering.”Ms. Laura A. Robinson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Lead Research & Instruction LibrarianProf. John M. Sullivan Jr, Worcester

Conference Session

Flexible Engineering Curricula

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leland Giovannelli, University of Colorado, Boulder; Robyn Sandekian, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

encounters with the Other. (This is most obvious in her latest new course, A Global State of Mind.) Whatever the subject, her courses are grounded in accountability–to the text, to oneself, and to one’s fellows.Ms. Robyn Sandekian, University of Colorado, Boulder Robyn Sandekian is the Managing Director of the Mortenson Center in Engineering for Developing Com- munities (MCEDC) at the University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder). She joined the Engineering for Developing Communities Program (now known as the Mortenson Center) in spring 2004, just as the first EDC graduate track was approved. With MCEDC, her main duties have included student advising and academic program development. Recently, she co-developed the