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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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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

socialresponsibility and engineering macro-ethics into the fabric of the engineering curriculum. In thispaper, writing as an engineering design instructor, I present my own successes and challengeswith incorporating notions of social responsibility and macro-ethics in an engineering designlesson. The lesson plan evolved over a period of 10 semesters. I document the process of thatevolution and discuss how students’ responses to activity prompts influenced that evolution.IntroductionWith few exceptions, ethics education within STEM disciplines has mostly remained separatefrom courses that provide instruction in what is perceived as technical knowledge (Leydens &Lucena, 2016). This paradigm tacitly reinforces that science, engineering, and technology

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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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under development by faculty instructors. Thisinitial iteration would form a baseline or snapshot of where we are starting with relation to thelearning outcomes we are required to meet, allowing us to begin the process of continuousimprovement as soon as possible.Academic Planning, Interdisciplinarity, and Innovation in General EducationAs we brought the faculty and assessment teams together in this environment of institutionalchange, we turned to Lattuca and Stark’s academic planning model, which conceptualizescurricula as academic plans that are developed and implemented within a larger socioculturalcontext.6 This framework guided the effort to bring together previous interdisciplinary curriculawith new, measurable learning outcomes centered

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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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practice and Baxter Magolda’s Learning PartnershipsModel, which is based on self-authorship, was developed for ethnographic classroomobservation. The collected data will help us better understand the educational environment andeducational processes3, as well as the actors situated within them. In this paper, we offer ananalysis of pilot data to better understand how the classes might align with desired outcomes -such as student development of self-authorship, reflective practice, and capacity for innovation.Using this analysis, we identify possible implications for (a) adjustment of academic plans, and(b) evaluating and adjusting the educational environment, both described by Lattuca & Stark’smodel.Introduction / Purpose Statement

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Flexible Engineering Curricula

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Diana A. Chen, University of San Diego; Gordon D. Hoople, University of San Diego

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our Catholic university, we are infusing ourcurriculum with a humanistic approach to engineering by orienting the core of our departmentaround social justice. We plan to educate engineers that are able to integrate the appropriateperspective -- be it global, local, environmental, or social -- into the engineering decision-makingprocess. In this paper, we describe the founding of our new department and describe theinstitutional context that made it possible. We also lay out our proposed curricular structure anddiscuss several courses currently under development.IntroductionAt an alumni panel for first year engineering students in Fall 2016, we listened as recentgraduates reported working in engineering jobs where they “did not use” their

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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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Steven J. Burian, University of Utah; Mercedes Ward, University of Utah; Tariq Banuri, University of Utah; Sajjad Ahmad, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Rasool Bux Mahar P.E., Mehran University, Pakistan; David Lawrence Stevenson, University of Utah; James A. VanDerslice, University of Utah; Kamran Ansari; Abdul Latif Qureshi

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

Utah.Dr. Mercedes Ward, University of UtahProf. Tariq J. Banuri, University of UtahProf. Sajjad Ahmad, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Dr. Ahmad is a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). His teaching and research interests are in the area of sus- tainable planning and management of water resources, water-energy nexus, and stormwater management . He is particularly interested in using systems approach to address water sustainability issues.Dr. Rasool Bux Mahar, Mehran University, Pakistan He is a working as Professor in U.S.-Pakistan Center for Advanced Studies in Water at Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro

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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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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

need for instructional resources and strategies to teachcommunication skills, engineering faculty at the University of New Haven have beencollaborating to develop technical communication curriculum, including a series of onlinemodules. The present study is a pilot study intended to evaluate the implementation of selectedinstructional resources and strategies integrated into a chemical engineering laboratory course,where students were required to write bi-weekly technical memos based on the results ofexperimental work.One innovative aspect of this pilot project was the team-taught approach to instruction. In thislaboratory course, the engineering instructor collaborated with a writing instructor to plan anddeliver instruction. Although team

Conference Session

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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utilitarian goals supportingcareer development and professionalism to more holistic goals of citizenship and broadliberal education. The goal of this work is to support ongoing conversations in highereducation about integrative and interdisciplinary education efforts by providing a sharedlanguage and classification system for understanding these efforts.Higher education wrestles with the balance of what Kwame Appiah has called its“utopian” and the “utilitarian” instincts: the “utopian” motivation to educate citizensbroadly, regardless of their future plans; and the “utilitarian” goal of burnishing theircredentials for the job market. Stewart-Gambino and Rossmann (2015), surveyingevidence of the effectiveness of integration efforts both historically

Conference Session

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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checks; helps toschedule and staff the build sessions; and plans and runs the capstone events. Makers receive anhonorarium, project materials, a capstone event budget, and a small travel stipend. Theseexpenses are partially funded by a small grant from the Parents Council and other donors.The first MIR was an amateur astronomer who led students in the fabrication of a telescope.Using this telescope, more than 500 students and community members have been able to viewthe moon, planets and stars during the capstone event as well as other events both off campusand at the planetarium on campus. The second MIR was a local engineering professional who ledworkshops in the fabrication of Arduino-based musical circuits. Students played their

Conference Session

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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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

antibiotic resistance as a significant global threat to health and development and have noted that we are on course to quickly enter a post-antibiotic era – an end to modern medicine. In recognition of this threat, the May 2015 World Health Assembly is expected to adopt a Global Action Plan on antimicrobial resistance (AMR). The conservation of current antibiotics is particularly important for combatting AMR. The development of new therapeutics is critical, but ultimately a temporary fix if the global community does not practice measures to conserve antibiotics. Antibiotic stewardship is challenging because it hinges on a variety of social and behavioral phenomena. Social science, while

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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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years. He has 7 US patents, of which 3 have been commercialized by the university. This research work is a collaboration with the Children’s Services Council of Broward county in FL.Dr. Diana Mitsova, Florida Atlantic University Diana Mitsova has a background in research design, statistical and spatial analysis, as well as environ- mental planning and modeling using geographic information systems, and interactive computer simula- tion. Her primary area of research involves the impact of urban development on ecosystems and other environmentally sensitive areas.Her recent publications focus on the impact of climate-related stressors on coastal communities and the implementation of planning approaches related to

Conference Session

Writing and Communication

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Vukica M. Jovanovic, Old Dominion University; Denise Tombolato-Terzic, Christopher Newport University; Daniel P. Richards, Old Dominion University; Pilar Pazos, Old Dominion University; Megan McKittrick, Old Dominion University; Julia Romberger, Old Dominion University; Otilia Popescu, Old Dominion University

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specifically addressed in the majority of engineering courses. Hence,university initiatives such as the Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP), emerging out of accreditationand institutional assessments, are focusing on infusing scholarship from other disciplines (in thiscase English) for the purpose of student learning improvement. Engineering and Scienceprograms do include various courses in English Composition as the part of the curriculum;however, writing is not embedded in all discipline-specific courses at the upper-division level.The program outlined here focuses on the exploration of possible methods for engineering andscience faculty to embed more writing assignments in their STEM courses so that undergraduatestudents can adequately transfer what

Conference Session

Innovation and Reflection

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Irene B. Mena, University of Pittsburgh; Alexander T. Dale, Engineers for a Sustainable World

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

problems, as listed in Rittel & Webber4 1. There is no definitive formulation of a wicked problem 2. Wicked problems have no stopping rule 3. Solutions to wicked problems are not true-or-false, but good-or-bad 4. There is no immediate and no ultimate test of a solution to a wicked problem 5. Every solution to a wicked problem is a "one-shot operation"; because there is no opportunity to learn by trial-and-error, every attempt counts significantly 6. Wicked problems do not have an enumerable (or an exhaustively describable) set of potential solutions, nor is there a well-described set of permissible operations that may be incorporated into the plan 7. Every wicked

Conference Session

Professional Development and Lifelong Learning

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Greg Rulifson P.E., Colorado School of Mines; Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder

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planning on taking one or two moresemesters to finish their undergraduate degree (n=5) or were continuing on to graduate school(n=4); these students often did not have concrete ideas of what an ideal career would be. Whilethere was a significant diversity in responses, the researchers identified trends that fit into fourgroups that are distinguished by the degree to which the student described helping people orimproving society as integral to a careers desirability, and whether they expressed this desirebefore or after being asked what would make a career rewarding (Table 2). The types of eachstudent and other demographics are shown in Table 3. For students with internships, theinterview in which they discussed this experience are noted in the

Conference Session

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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yearprogram. Faculty from multiple disciplinary backgrounds stressed the need for students to beexposed to multiple ways of thinking and making meaning, noting that the benefits of liberaleducation far exceed the writing, presentation, and teamwork skills often considered sufficient toaugment technical content in preparing students to work in industry.The group planned to merge pedagogical approaches traditional to the humanities (seminar) andvisual and performing arts and design disciplines (studio). Each of these approaches would beused to help students integrate knowledge from both technical and liberal education domains.Faculty members’ own experience with these models informed our initial vision of the learningexperience. The initial intention

Conference Session

Innovation and Reflection

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Scott A. Newbolds P.E., Benedictine College; Patrick F. O'Malley, Benedictine College; Meredith Stoops, Benedictine College

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[15][Bellevue College FG07, as cited in [14]]. This is recommended in theservice-learning literature as well [5]. ii. Intentionally and explicitly connecting reflection to learning outcomesAn observed or suspected obstacle to reflection is the thought that it is irrelevant to the task athand [Cal Poly-SLO FG02, as cited in [14]][12][15][10]. This challenge seems to be addressedby the recommendation found in the literature to establish a clear link between reflection and thelearning or course outcomes. This is in reference both to planning of reflection activities [Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology FG09, as cited in [14]][9][17] and also in making thisconnection explicit to students [14][9]. iii. Practical and cultural

Conference Session

Flexible Engineering Curricula

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Claudio da Rocha Brito, Science and Education Research Council; Melany M. Ciampi, Safety, Health and Environment Research Organization; Rosa Maria Castro Fernandes Vasconcelos, Universidade de Minho; Luis Alfredo Martins Amaral P.E., University of Minho; Henrique Dinis Santos, University of Minho; Victor F. A, Barros, Science and Education Research Council

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World Council on System Engineering and Information Technology (WCSEIT), Vice President of Safety Health and Envi- ronment Research Organization (SHERO) and Vice President of World Council on Communication and Arts (WCCA). He is Chairman of Working Group ”Ingenieurp¨adagogik im Internationalen Kontext” since 2002, Member of International Monitoring Committee in IGIP since 2004, Member of Strategic Plan- ning Committee of Education Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc (IEEE- EdSoc) since 2009, Board Member of ”Global Council on Manufacturing and Management” (GCMM) since 2004 and Director of Brazilian Network of Engineering (RBE) since 1998. He is also Member of Board of Governors

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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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

perceived divisions between STEM andthe liberal arts by linking those perspectives and assignments to broader habits of mind that arenecessary for engineers and designers. We then describe our strategies for integrating a richdesign experience into the course and consider how that integration alters typical approaches todesign projects. Finally, we discuss our plan to implement assessments that account for bothstudents’ technical abilities and their application of course theories and concepts.Course development was supported at the Institution by a summer course development grant thatencouraged faculty to partner across disciplines to create unique course offerings. Thepartnership between the Humanities & Social Sciences (HSS) and the

Conference Session

Writing and Communication

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephanie Sheffield, University of Michigan; Robin Fowler, University of Michigan; Laura K. Alford, University of Michigan; Katie Snyder, University of Michigan

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

positive effects on students’ ability to plan and assess theirown work and to reduce student anxiety and uncertainty about how grades are determined(Panadero & Jonsson, 2013), and these beneficial effects are compounded when students aregiven the opportunity to review and discuss the rubrics with instructors in advance of completingan assignment (Reddy & Andrade, 2010).Our course: Introduction to EngineeringOur course, Introduction to Engineering, is a team-based, project-based engineeringcommunication course that serves as both the introductory engineering course and the first-yearwriting course for incoming engineering students. Ours is only one of between 12-15 sections ofthe course regularly offered each semester, each with a different

Conference Session

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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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

research infrastructure and educational opportunities to ensure an innovative and productivescience and engineering enterprise, and supports the advancement of our nation’s most pressingchallenges, as reiterated in the most recent strategic plan “Empowering the Nation throughDiscovery and Innovation—NSF Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years 2011-2016.” The strategic plansupports NSF’s mission, providing programmatic and operational underpinnings, and setting thecontext for a broad, balanced NSF portfolio2,3.To maintain its high standards of excellence and accountability, in 1997, the National ScienceFoundation incorporated a policy that would evaluate proposals submitted to the agency under twoMerit Review criteria: Intellectual Merit and Broader

Conference Session

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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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

time, however, I constantly feel an obligation to take on more work because I can do itwell, and I want people to see that a woman can fill the roles that men have typically filled untilnow. I still am not sure how to reconcile those pressures.DevlinI found myself responsible for starting and guiding the group of students Lorena discussed. Inaddition to planning how to establish these groups for other students, the working groupfunctioned as pilot test where we attempted to enact the practices and achieve our goals.My intent was to establish clear goals for the group and then focus on supporting the students’authority and autonomy. Based on past experience I assumed that it was impossible to designthe authentic connections that would be

Conference Session

Improving Presentation Skills Through Summer Research and Ambassador Programs

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2017 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; Suzanne Sontgerath, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Avi Kaplan, Temple University

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. For many, the ambassador rolebegins during a large, multi-institution workshop. Post-event surveys reveal high levels ofability, confidence, and preparedness to create and deliver outreach presentations. Post-workshopinterviews reveal that the training offers a platform for role identity development. Theambassador role aligns career-related motivations, resonance with messages contained in theNational Academy of Engineering’s Changing the Conversation report, beliefs about the missionof the EAN, and plans for fulfilling the Network’s mission. After the initial training, students’role identities reflect an integration of their undergraduate engineering student role with the newrole of ambassador, with the intermediary role of an effective

Conference Session

Integrating Liberal Education and Engineering

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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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solutionsby way of challenging their opponents. We plan to take advantage of this discovery next time,moving from a formal poster presentation to a managed debate.DiscussionOur use of theatre through role-playing brings together humanistic and engineering learning inthe context of a complex problem within the rapidly expanding, heterogeneous, nineteenth-century context of Worcester, Massachusetts: a city whose heterogeneity in many waysrepresents the challenges that contemporary engineers face. In some cases, students are naturallydrawn to the role-playing activities: some of them have performed in theatrical productions orhave immersed themselves in role-playing games like Dungeons and Dragons. We have seenstudents who embrace the opportunity to

Conference Session

Assessment and Liberal Education

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Caitlin Donahue Wylie, University of Virginia; Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia; Toluwalogo Odumosu, University of Virginia

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

theappendix to this paper.) As the attached article demonstrates, cities around the country are considering whether equipping police officers with body cameras can restore trust between police and citizens and discourage police misconduct. Imagine that you are the lead engineer working with the city council of a mid-sized American city to develop a plan for integrating a network of body cameras into the city’s information technology networks. The city leadership has not purchased the body cameras yet, but they are clearly excited about the potential of body cameras to resolve disputes and restore trust between citizens and local police. The city leaders are looking to you to advise them because

Conference Session

Flexible Engineering Curricula

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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

,the students yet remained receptive to them. Dr. Giovannelli credits this to that firstunthreatening text on day one: to Augustine’s observation of a silent reader.The Course Reader (Giovannelli, 2016) also provided a list of cultural dimensions (from GeerteHofstede, 2005), i.e., of over-arching cultural characteristics. These include, for example, how aculture deals with time or space; how a culture regards honor, power, or identity; whether themembers of a culture operate as a collective or as individuals; and to what extent the culturepractices long-term or short-term planning. Each week featured one specific cultural dimension,strategically paired with that week’s content.For example, the week on the Industrial Revolution featured the

Conference Session

Design and Making

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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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to analyzethe downstream effects of technologies on unknown or silent users (Casper & Clarke 1998).These efforts can also be understood as a way of organizing others’ work (Suchman 2000),particularly when the users come from inside one’s own organization.In this paper we describe and analyze how early career engineers learn about users and theirneeds in the engineering workplace. We draw special attention to how users are conceptualizedduring product development and how notions of how users might employ technologies can shapedesigners’ plans. These data are part of a larger project that examines the workplace learning ofearly career engineers, and so several of our examples highlight the orientations early careerengineers hold toward

Conference Session

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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sciences (2) majors that were started before the 2000-2001 academic year (Table 1).The environmental design degree was housed in the College of Architecture and Planning. Eightof the programs were accredited by ABET’s EAC; one was Computing Association Commission(CAC)-accredited; 12 were non-accredited.The admissions criteria for majors in the CEAS differed from those in the College of Arts andSciences. These differences were reflected in the average high school GPA of the first-year students who matriculated into various majors, which ranged from a high of 3.90 in Aerospace Engineering to a low of 3.28 in Geography (based on the fall 2008 class). Table 1. The 21 studied undergraduate degree programs

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Social Justice, Social Responsibility, and Critical Pedagogies

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yanna Lambrinidou, Virginia Tech; Nathan E. Canney, Seattle University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

36 151 Strategic Plan 2015-2020 11 Codes of Ethics ASCE Code of Ethics 12 4 22 123 (COE) ASME Code of Ethics 13 2 18 51 National Society of Professional 2 19 97 Engineers (NSPE) Code of Ethics 14 Profession-wide ABET Criteria for Accrediting 31 22 103 Position Statements Engineering Programs 15 (Prof-wide Position) National

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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

section of the survey and the initial validity tests. Though, more validity of the instrumentincluding psychometric statistical analyses, correlation matrices of theoretically related items forconstruct validity, and empirically testing the factor structure using maximum likelihood exploratoryfactor analysis are planned in the coming months. The paper ends with future research steps includingvalidation and distribution across universities in the United States. As mentioned earlier, the hope is thatothers are able to use and adapt the survey instrument and its supportive literature. While, our goal isspecific to measure senior engineer students, the survey could be adapted for recently graduated studentsearly in their professional

Conference Session

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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contributing to the overall achievements of the institutional goals.Programmatic accreditation, on the other hand, can apply to schools, departments, or programsthat are part of a larger educational institution.According to the US Department of Education, there are specific roles that accreditation isexpected to play within the educational system:7 1. Assess the quality of academic programs at institutions of higher education 2. Create a culture of continuous improvement of academic quality at colleges and universities and stimulate a general raising of standards among educational institutions 3. Involve faculty and staff comprehensively in institutional evaluation and planning 4. Establish criteria for professional certification and

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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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instructors, changes in student-outcomesover time, and demonstrate a means to evaluate how student learning aligns with non-technicalcriteria. This paper offers an initial evaluation of the strengths and limitations of the methodology,comparisons to past use of concept maps in education assessment, and offers next steps for thisresearch.2.0 Research DesignOne of the challenging aspects of any assessment is determining what are sufficient direct andindirect measures and how to incorporate both into a continuous improvement plan (CIP)7. Directmeasures such as tests and problem sets, which are used in most courses, coupled with indirectsurveys can lead to a “death by assessment” if they are not connected to a CIP focused onprogrammatic goals or if the