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Design, Assessment, and Redesign of Writing Instruction for Engineers

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Y. Yoritomo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Nicole Turnipseed, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign; S. Lance Cooper, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Celia Mathews Elliott, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; John R. Gallagher, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; John S. Popovics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Paul Prior, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Julie L Zilles, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

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identified by our team as having a significantwriting component. The second survey, hereafter referred to as the department survey, was givento faculty having key department administrative roles in every engineering department of theuniversity. Both surveys contained multiple-choice, select-all-that-apply, rate-on-a-scale, andshort-answer questions. The instructor survey consisted of four sections: i) participants’perceptions of writing within their discipline and expectations for their students after graduation,ii) instructional practices and assignment design related to writing, iii) participants’ perceptionsof challenges related to writing instruction, and iv) participants’ current best practices. Thesurvey contained 30 questions and took

Conference Session

Ethical Awareness and Social Responsibility in a Corporate/Team Context

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jessica Mary Smith, Colorado School of Mines; Juan C. Lucena, Colorado School of Mines

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judgments and exercise ethical practices.With funding from the National Science Foundation’s Cultivating Cultures of Ethical STEMprogram (Award 1540298), the research team has been integrating CSR content into targetedcourses in petroleum engineering, mining engineering, design, and the liberal arts at theColorado School of Mines, Marietta College, and Virginia Tech. As described in greater depthbelow, those modules range from single assignments and lectures to a course-long, scaffoldedcase study. The material for the modules draws from existing peer-reviewed literature as well asthe researchers’ ongoing ethnographic research with engineers who practice in the mining and oiland gas industries. One of the common findings from interviews and

Conference Session

Ethical Awareness and Social Responsibility in a Corporate/Team Context

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Katharine E. Miller, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Patrice Marie Buzzanell, University of South Florida; David Torres, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Danielle Corple, Purdue University; Megan Kenny Feister, California State University, Channel Islands

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social responsibility and moral decision-making,specifically in terms of engineering pedagogy.Keywords: social responsibility, embedded teams, human-centered design (HCD), engineeringeducationIntroductionSince Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) was first introduced in the 1950’s to expandorganizational bottom-lines from profit and legal considerations to issues of social impact, CSRhas grown into a global force for linking corporations with the areas in which members live andwork. Extant research has explored CSR on a broader organizational level, without necessarilyconsidering how social responsibility manifests on the team level. Thus, we contend that feelingsand understandings of responsibility experienced by students working on design

Conference Session

Seeking Resilience and Learning to Thrive Through Engineering Education

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Julianna Sun Ge, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Edward J. Berger, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Paper ID #23362Thriving for Engineering Students and Institutions: Definition, Potential Im-pact, and Proposed Conceptual FrameworkMs. Julianna Sun Ge, Purdue University, West Lafayette Julianna Ge is a Ph.D. student in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She is also a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and a Purdue Doctoral Fellow. At Purdue, she developed and currently teaches a novel course on thriving for undergraduate engineering students. At the broadest level, her research interests intersect the fields of engineering education, positive psychology, and human development

Conference Session

Ethical Awareness and Social Responsibility in a Corporate/Team Context

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Greg Rulifson P.E., Colorado School of Mines; Carrie J. McClelland P.E., Colorado School of Mines; Linda A. Battalora, Colorado School of Mines

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students and faculty in a larger effort to create distinctive and impactful learningexperiences for all students: • A new center for teaching and learning that supports innovative and active learning was opened. • Teaching faculty, which comprise 20% of the faculty on campus, are encouraged to participate in ASEE and engineering education scholarship and applications within the classroom • A new division and major were recently created that provides the opportunity to re- design educational offerings and incorporate PBL. • Through NSF-funded research projects outside of the work presented in this paper, faculty from multiple departments already enjoyed strong relationships that were combining new

Conference Session

Learning Outcomes and Pedagogical Strategies: Problems of Alignment

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Madeline Polmear, University of Colorado, Boulder; Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder; Nathan E. Canney, CYS Structural Engineers Inc.; Chris Swan, Tufts University

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, Environ- mental, and Architectural Engineering (CEAE). She has served as the Associate Chair for Undergraduate Education in the CEAE Department, as well as the ABET assessment coordinator. Professor Bielefeldt was also the faculty director of the Sustainable By Design Residential Academic Program, a living- learning community where interdisciplinary students learn about and practice sustainability. Bielefeldt is also a licensed P.E. Professor Bielefeldt’s research interests in engineering education include service- learning, sustainable engineering, social responsibility, ethics, and diversity.Dr. Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder Daniel W. Knight is the Program Assessment and Research Associate at Design

Conference Session

Ethical Awareness and Social Responsibility in a Corporate/Team Context

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Natasha D. Mallette P.E., Oregon State University; Michelle Kay Bothwell, Oregon State University; Christine Kelly, Oregon State University

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during class time. They guide the students through best practices for team formation andare prompted with thought questions for team norms, motivation, goals and performancemeasures. Mid-way through teaming for the term, a team refinement activity is designed to havethe students analyze their team experience and functionality, as well as self-reflect on their ownbehavior. In addition, the teams revisit their performance definitions to adjust as necessary.The initial team formation activities were also repeated for Winter 2018 courses, and a conflictresolution module series has been incorporated to build on the Fall 2017 activities (Table 1). Themodule consists of an initial conflict handling mode training workshop, a mid-term conflictresolution

Conference Session

Imagining and Reimagining Engineering Education as a Dynamic System

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Donna M. Riley, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Alan Cheville, Bucknell University; Jennifer Karlin, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Thomas A. De Pree, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

private colleges; comprehensive universities, dedicated engineering schools, andliberal arts colleges; and rely on an articulated system of education that includes communitycolleges and extends into various, non-standardized opportunities for continuing professionaldevelopment and graduate work. We can add to this the fact that we have 50 separate statesystems for higher education, significant regional variation in industrial capabilities and theirattendant workforce needs, and a variety of federal policies and programs not the least of whichis the federal commitment to scientific and engineering research. While scholars such as KenAlder (1997) have noted how institutional diversity exists even in state-centered systems ofengineering education as

Conference Session

Imagining and Reimagining Engineering Education as a Dynamic System

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer Karlin, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Rebecca A. Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Cheryl Allendoerfer, University of Washington; Dan Ewert, Anderson Industries; Ronald R. Ulseth, Itasca Community College

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Diversity

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Paper ID #22147Building Your Change-agent Toolkit: The Power of StoryDr. Jennifer Karlin, Minnesota State University, Mankato Jennifer Karlin spent the first half of her career at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, where she was a professor of industrial engineering and held the Pietz professorship for entrepreneurship and economic development. She is now a research professor of integrated engineering at Minnesota State University, Mankato, and the managing partner of Kaizen Academic.Prof. Rebecca A. Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato Rebecca A. Bates received the Ph.D. degree in electrical

Conference Session

Embedding Sociotechnical Systems Thinking II

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anne-marie Nickel, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Jennifer Kelso Farrell, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Alicia Domack, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Gina Elizabeth Mazzone, Milwaukee School of Engineering

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+, July 2009. [Online]. Available: ProQuest, https://search.proquest.com. [Accessed January 23, 2018].[7] G. D. Kuh, High-Impact Educational Practices: What are they, who has access to them, and why they matter. Washington, DC: Association of American Colleges and Universities, 2008.[8] The Moral Writings of John Dewey. J. Gouinlock, Ed.; New York, NY: Promethius Books, 1994.[9] P. Felten, J. N. Gardner, L, M. Lambert, C. C. Schroeder, B. O. Barefoot, and F. A. Hrabowski, The Undergraduate Experience: Focusing on What Matters Most. San Francisco, CA: John Wiley & Sons, 2016.[10] S. A. Ambrose, M. W. Bridges, M. DiPietro, M. C. Lovett, M. K. Norman, R. E. Mayer, How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart

Conference Session

Revealing the Invisible: Engineering Course Activities that Address Privilege, -Isms, and Power Relations (Interactive Session)

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joel Alejandro Mejia, University of San Diego; Diana A. Chen, University of San Diego; Odesma Onika Dalrymple, University of San Diego; Susan M Lord, University of San Diego

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ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity, Faculty Development Constituency Committee

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Design in Engineering Education, International, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Minorities in Engineering

practice of design and the resulting impact of engineering designs on society.The CoursesCourse InstructorsAs discussed earlier, the endeavor of teaching engineering as a sociotechnical discipline whileintegrating issues such as race, justice, and -isms can be a daunting task for instructors, and weare no exceptions. As the background and positionality of the instructor is critical tounderstanding the risks and rewards associated with these courses, this section briefly describeseach of the instructors who have taught or are currently teaching the course.J. A. Mejia self-identifies as Mexican American and his research investigates the funds ofknowledge of Latinx adolescents. He grew up in a binational setting where the majority of thepopulation

Conference Session

Embedding Sociotechnical Systems Thinking I

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jon A. Leydens, Colorado School of Mines; Kathryn Johnson, Colorado School of Mines; Stephanie Claussen, Colorado School of Mines; Jenifer Blacklock, University of Colorado, Boulder; Barbara M. Moskal, Texas Tech University; Olivia Cordova, Colorado School of Mines

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 at  a  non-­‐profit  or  NGO   □ Research  assistant   □ Teaching  assistant   □ Work-­‐study  student   □ University-­‐sponsored  extracurricular  activities   □ Other  (please  specify):________________________________   □ Briefly  tell  how  any  of  these  experiences  have  impacted  your  perspective  in  this   survey.  [text  box]    13. Future  employment:  immediately  following  graduation,  which  of  the  following  are  you   most  likely  to  pursue  as  your  primary  position?  [Select  one]   □ Working  for  a  “traditional”  engineering  company  (at  least  50%  focus  on   engineering  practice  within  one  engineering  discipline)   □ Working  for  a

Conference Session

Imagining Others, Defining Self Through Consideration of Ethical and Social Implications

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alexis Papak, University of Maryland, College Park; Ayush Gupta, University of Maryland, College Park; Chandra Anne Turpen, University of Maryland, College Park

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professor in physics at the University of Maryland in the Physics Education Research (PER) Group. Turpen’s work involves designing and researching contexts for learn- ing within higher education (for both students and faculty). Her research draws from perspectives in an- thropology, cultural psychology, and the learning sciences. Through in-situ studies of classroom practice and institutional practice, she focuses on the role of culture in science learning and educational change. She pursues projects that have high potential for leveraging equitable change in undergraduate STEM pro- grams and she makes these struggles for change a direct focus of her research efforts. She also serves on several national leadership bodies

Conference Session

Imagining Others, Defining Self Through Consideration of Ethical and Social Implications

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tina Lee, University of Wisconsin-Stout; Devin R. Berg, University of Wisconsin-Stout; Elizabeth A. Buchanan, University of Wisconsin-Stout

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

motivationfor in-country offices), enhanced training on the importance of seeing communities asheterogeneous, and explicitly making sure differences are accounted for in project assessment areall important best practices that should be implemented more widely.However, it is also important to note that project timelines, even in the best of circumstances, willpresent important challenges to creating positive impacts. At the very least, projectimplementation is slow given travel and student schedules. One student interviewee expressedthis concern nicely: But for them [community members] to be like, “ok so they’re gonna come do a survey, and in a half a year they’ll be back to do the rest of that survey, and in half a year they might be

Conference Session

Seeking Resilience and Learning to Thrive Through Engineering Education

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Claudio Cesar Silva de Freitas, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Zachary James Beyer, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Hassan Ali Al Yagoub, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jennifer Deboer, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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experience at K&A Wireless as a research associate in Albuquerque (USA). Additionally, he has profes- sional experience at Hitachi Automotive Systems America as an Intern in Research & Development in Detroit (USA) and Senior Product Engineer at Fiat Chrysler Automobiles in Brazil. He served as the President of Student Platform for Engineering Education Development (SPEED). Before joining SPEED, Claudio served as co-founder of the Student Chapter of the Brazilian Automation Society. Among his many achievements, his project was awarded the Best Student Initiative for Engineering Students pro- moted by Cengage Learning. He received the Leadership Award by ISTEC, and the Young Scientist Award supported by

Conference Session

Maps, Metaphors, Tweets, and Drafts

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jared David Berezin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

-technical audiences are too significant to ignore. In this time of ongoing discord betweenscientists, policymakers, and the public, the ways in which scientists communicate with thoseoutside of their profession is critical to improving scientific literacy [14], [15]. As Chan [16]argues, “In order for the lay public to shape an informed opinion of scientific discoveries andcontroversial developments, it is critical that scientists can communicate about research and theimplications of that research to promote awareness, clarity, as well as to respond to publicconcerns. These are the abilities that are lacking amongst many new science graduates.”Currently, there is a dearth of research regarding undergraduate students’ creative explanationsin their

Conference Session

Diversity and Inclusion: Concepts, Mental Models, and Interventions

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Toluwalogo Odumosu, University of Virginia; Sean Ferguson, University of Virginia; Rider W. Foley, University of Virginia; Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia; Caitlin Donahue Wylie, University of Virginia; Sharon Tsai-hsuan Ku, University of Virginia; Rosalyn W. Berne, University of Virginia

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Diversity

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Knowledge,” Handb. Sci. Technol. Stud., p. 377, 2008.[20] R. Duschinsky, “Tabula Rasa and Human Nature,” Philosophy, vol. 87, no. 4, pp. 509– 529, 2012.[21] S. M. Wilson and P. L. Peterson, “Theories of Learning and Teaching: What Do They Mean for Educators? Working Paper.,” Natl. Educ. Assoc. Res. Dep., 2006.[22] M. G. Jones and L. Brader-Araje, “The impact of constructivism on education: Language, discourse, and meaning,” Am. Commun. J., vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 1–10, 2002.[23] E. Wenger, Communities of practice: learning, meaning, and identity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.[24] C. D. Wylie, “‘I just love research’: Beliefs about what makes researchers successful,” Soc. Epistemol., 2018.[25] A. L

Conference Session

Undergraduate Peer Educators: Mentoring, Observing, Learning

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico; Catherine Anne Hubka, University of New Mexico; Eva Chi, University of New Mexico

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ASEE Board of Directors

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

designs might cause harm, even when wellintentioned. And because most programs provide few opportunities for students to frame—andreframe—engineering problems from different points of view, students tend to frame engineeringproblems from only one, often dominant point of view. We argue the writing process can hold akey role in developing framing practice, as it can be threaded into core coursework to supporttechnical understanding that is contextual and open to critique.In this paper, we detail our approach to and student outcomes from a comprehensive andcollaborative writing intervention. Our approach supports students to develop as critical thinkersand writers in tandem with technical understanding. Our approach builds on past research

Conference Session

Communicating Across Cultural and Epistemological Boundaries

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gordon D. Hoople, University of San Diego; Joel Alejandro Mejia, University of San Diego; Diana A. Chen, University of San Diego; Susan M. Lord, University of San Diego

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

interdisciplinary experience of the authors and avoid creating silos within differentsections of the course.Future WorkWe argue that CSPs are a promising area for enhancing engineering education and we lookforward to investigating these methods. Future work will focus on identifying appropriateexamples for teaching energy concepts through CSP, developing and offering the course, andmeasuring the impact of CSP on student learning. One of our major challenges will bedetermining how the examples identified in this research can best be integrated to achieve ourdesired learning outcomes. We anticipate that we will need to overcome our own biases aboutwhat counts as engineering and that by working as a group we can collectively broaden our owndefinitions of

Conference Session

Diversity and Inclusion: Concepts, Mental Models, and Interventions

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sean M. Eddington, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Andrew O. Brightman, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Rucha Joshi, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Patrice Marie Buzzanell, Purdue University, West Lafayette; David Torres, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

, and has been published in 2015 Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education along with his research team. Eddington has also served as a series editor, contributed to trade publications, and facilitated workshops all related to higher education administrators’ work experiences.Dr. Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette Carla B. Zoltowski is an assistant professor of engineering practice in the Schools of Electrical and Com- puter Engineering and (by courtesy) Engineering Education at Purdue University. She holds a B.S.E.E., M.S.E.E., and Ph.D. in Engineering Education, all from Purdue. Prior to this she was Co-Director of the EPICS Program at Purdue where she was responsible for

Conference Session

Maps, Metaphors, Tweets, and Drafts

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sean Michael Ferguson, University of Virginia; Rider W. Foley, University of Virginia; John Kofi Eshirow Jr., University of Virginia; Catherine Claire Pollack, University of Virginia

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

’ final academic year of classes. The learning objectives for STS 4500and STS 4600 (hereby referred to as STS 4500/4600) are, “engaging students with the challengeof framing and solving engineering problems in a manner that requires attention to socialdimensions. Students are introduced to STS theories and methods as a means to prepare them fortheir STS research papers.” The STS research papers are bound with the student’s technicalreport and together constitute their senior thesis requirement for graduation. Given that student’stechnical research varies, that students utilize different STS frameworks and methods (given theinterdisciplinary nature of the field). As many of the technologies they explore are emerging,there can be no “perfect” or

Conference Session

Embedding Sociotechnical Systems Thinking II

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel B. Oerther, Missouri University of Science & Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

of Environmental Engineers and Scientist (AAEES), and registered as a Chartered Engineer (CEng) by the U.K. Engineering Council. He is recognized as a Diplomate of the American Academy of Sanitarians (D.AAS). His scholarship, teaching, service, and professional practice focus in the fields of environmental biotechnology and sustainable development where he specializes in promoting Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WaSH), food and nutrition security, energy efficiency, and poverty alleviation. Oerther’s awards for teaching include the best paper award from the Environmental Engineering Division of ASEE, as well as recognition from the NSPE, the AAEES, and the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science

Conference Session

Imagining Others, Defining Self Through Consideration of Ethical and Social Implications

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nathan E. Canney, CYS Structural Engineers Inc.

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

well-being, health, and quality oflife,” 2 forward-thinking innovators who “make a world of difference,” 3 and agents of technicalsolutions that can “ensure the sustainability of civilization and the health of its citizens, whilereducing individual and societal vulnerabilities and enhancing the joy of living in the modernworld” 4. Similarly, most engineering professional societies market themselves with statementscentered on their contribution to society like “Advancing Technology for Humanity” 5 and“ASCE stands at the forefront of a profession that plans, designs, constructs, and operatessociety’s economic and social engine…” 6. The relationship between engineers and “the public”sits at the very core of engineers’ professional identity and

Conference Session

Undergraduate Peer Educators: Mentoring, Observing, Learning

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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ASEE Board of Directors

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teaching,mentors do give a sample research presentation, proposal presentation, and final presentation inthe large design course. Before such presentations, the students practice a model teampresentation (with speaker notes in the notes pages of the PowerPoint) beforehand. That practiceincludes a rehearsal with the writing instructor the evening before the classroom performance.Mentors generally receive no formal training before mentoring sessions on speaking and writing.However, mentors do receive access to the assignments and lecture slides, which they arefamiliar with from their own course experience. In addition, the mentors receive emailsdiscussing particular questions and issues that have arisen in class this semester. For instance, ifthe

Conference Session

Embedding Sociotechnical Systems Thinking I

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn Waugaman, University of Colorado Boulder; Janet Y Tsai, University of Colorado, Boulder; Malinda S Zarske, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Janet Y. Tsai is a researcher and instructor in the College of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research focuses on ways to encourage more students, especially women and those from nontraditional demographic groups, to pursue interests in the eld of engineering. Janet assists in recruitment and retention efforts locally, nationally, and internationally, hoping to broaden the image of engineering, science, and technology to include new forms of communication and problem solving for emerging grand challenges. A second vein of Janet’s research seeks to identify the social and cultural impacts of technological choices made by engineers in the process of designing and creating new