Conference Session

Integrating Liberal Education and Engineering

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel B. Oerther, Missouri University of Science & Technology

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

enrolled in the course earned a grade of ‘A. To assess studentsatisfaction with the course, anonymous surveys were made available to each student viaan online tool as administered by the campus-wide Committee on Effective Teaching(CET). The results of student satisfaction for the courses examined in this case study areprovided in Table 1. Overall, the graduate students were more satisfied with the courseas compared to the undergraduate students. To better understand any concerns of thestudents, anonymous, open-ended free-response questions are also included in theelectronic survey. Table 2 provides representative results to the question of what arestrengths, weakness, or opportunities for improvement for the instructor or for the course.Table 1

Conference Session

Integrating Liberal Education and Engineering

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

this perspective comes from social studyresearch that working with real-world and narrative problems might help these students toembrace better their identity as engineers.To facilitate such collaboration, we (three faculty members from engineering and socialsciences) will teach concurrent courses for students in our disciplines, and bring our studentstogether during the semester to interact and collaborate. Each team of 4 students will beassigned a case study to discuss, collect data on, and analyze by conducting what-if analysis.Since our engineering course will be an elective course, it may attract predominantly URM andwomen students because of this case-study focus. Our desire to incorporate state-of-the-art toolsmay also facilitate the