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Conference Session
Undergraduate Peer Educators: Mentoring, Observing, Learning
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park
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ASEE Board of Directors
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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society
the standalone technical communication courses in the Departments ofChemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Civil and Environmental Engineering at theUniversity of Texas at Austin [3]. Finally, rather than using a standalone course to teach writing,a number of engineering departments try to interweave the teaching of writing into a sequence ofengineering courses. Such a course sequence occurs with two upper-level laboratory courses inthe Mechanical Engineering Department of Virginia Tech [4]. However, with recent increases in engineering undergraduate enrollments [5], many suchcourses are stretched. Faculty are asked to teach greater loads, often without additional resources.One such example is Pennsylvania State University
Conference Session
Undergraduate Peer Educators: Mentoring, Observing, Learning
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
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
important problems at the interface between chemistry, physics, engi- neering, and biology preparing the trainees for careers in academe, national laboratories, and industry. In addition to research, she devotes significant time developing and implementing effective pedagogical approaches in her teaching of undergraduate courses to train engineers who are critical thinkers, problem solvers, and able to understand the societal contexts in which they are working to addressing the grand challenges of the 21st century. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Peer Review and Reflection in Engineering Labs: Writing to Learn and Learning to WriteAbstractClear
Conference Session
Design, Assessment, and Redesign of Writing Instruction for Engineers
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
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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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society
postdoctoral research associate at AT&T Bell Laboratories from 1988-1990. Cooper’s research interests include optical spectroscopic studies of novel magnetic and superconducting materials at high pressures, high magnetic fields, and low temperatures. Each spring since 2013, Cooper has co-taught (with Celia Elliott) a graduate- level technical writing course, ”Communicating Physics Research,” to physics and engineering graduate students.Celia Mathews Elliott, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Celia Mathews Elliott is a science writer and technical editor in the Department of Physics at the Uni- versity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has been teaching technical communications to upper-level
Conference Session
Ethical Awareness and Social Responsibility in a Corporate/Team Context
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Natasha D. Mallette P.E., Oregon State University; Michelle Kay Bothwell, Oregon State University; Christine Kelly, Oregon State University
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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society
chemicals.Michelle Kay Bothwell, Oregon State University Michelle Bothwell is an Associate Professor of Bioengineering at Oregon State University. Her teaching and research bridge ethics, social justice and engineering with the aim of cultivating an inclusive and socially just engineering profession.Dr. Christine Kelly, Oregon State University Dr. Kelly earned her BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Arizona and her PhD in Chem- ical Engineering from the University of Tennessee. She served as an Assistant Professor for 6 years at Syracuse University, and has been an Associate Professor at Oregon State University in the School of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering since 2004, where she also served for
Conference Session
Diversity and Inclusion: Concepts, Mental Models, and Interventions
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
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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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society
and sociocultural norms as well as in classic studies of socialization in scientific andtechnical careers, which don’t mention novices’ existing knowledge, skills, or identities (e.g.,[17], [18], [19]). Despite ongoing critiques of this mindset as inaccurate and a barrier to learningand identity formation (e.g., [20], [21], [22]), some academic communities, such as theengineering research laboratory groups that co-author Wylie studies, continue to talk aboutnovices according to this model. This approach does great injustice to newcomers to expertcommunities as well as robs experts of opportunities to learn from “a wisdom of peripherality”([23] p. 216), i.e., the invaluable perspective of outsiders. In ongoing observations and interviewsof
Conference Session
Embedding Sociotechnical Systems Thinking II
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Amber Genau, University of Alabama at Birmingham; Andre Millard, University of Alabama at Birmingham
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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society
participation in engineering and providing international experiences and perspectives to undergraduate students.Dr. Andre Millard, University of Alabama at Birmingham PhD from Emory University in economic history Editor of the Thomas Edison papers publications include ”Edison and the Business of Innovation” (Johns Hopkins university press), ”America on Record: A His- tory of Recorded Sound (Cambridge) Historian of technology, technology & culture, American studies. teach at the University of Alabama at Birmingham c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Reclaiming General Education: History for EngineersAbstractUS institutions generally take a broad view of higher education
Conference Session
Imagining and Reimagining Engineering Education as a Dynamic System
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Janet Y. Tsai, University of Colorado, Boulder; Kevin O'Connor, University of Colorado, Boulder; Beth A. Myers, University of Colorado Boulder; Jacquelyn F. Sullivan, University of Colorado, Boulder; Derek T. Reamon, University of Colorado, Boulder; Kenneth M. Anderson, University of Colorado, Boulder
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Diversity
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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society
pairings prescribed by the instructor. Each pairing lastedroughly five weeks, ensuring that students worked with at least three different peers during thesemester.The course was supported by one instructor and two dedicated teaching assistants (TAs), with allthree members of the instructional staff holding at least two office hours each week. One TA,Herman, also worked as a student staff member in one of the student-focused hands-on learningengineering laboratories on campus, while the other TA, Mary, also worked as a tutor for theengineering college and held additional office hours in one of the on-campus engineering studentdormitories. Both TAs were engineering majors simultaneously pursuing K-12 secondaryteaching licensure in mathematics, so
Conference Session
Embedding Sociotechnical Systems Thinking II
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Daniel B. Oerther, Missouri University of Science & Technology
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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society
environment, science, technology, and health (ESTH). Oerther earned his B.A. in biological sciences and his B.S. in environmental health engineering from Northwestern University (1995), and he earned his M.S. (1998) in environmental health engineering and his Ph.D. (2002) from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He has completed postgraduate coursework in Microbial Ecology from the Marine Biology Laboratory, Environmental Health from the University of Cincinnati, Public Health from The Johns Hopkins University, and Public Administration from Indiana University, Bloomington. Oerther is a licensed Professional Engineer (PE, DC, MO, and OH), Board Certified in Environmental Engineering (BCEE) by the American Academy
Conference Session
Maps, Metaphors, Tweets, and Drafts
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
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
thestudents. By design, CMs also offer flexibility for students to explore the relationships betweencourse and lived experiences, offering assessment opportunities to determine what students bringinto a course and what they take with them as they progress through the curriculum. Further,concept mapping is widely accepted as encouraging improved learning experiences incomparison to, or in conjunction with, traditional teaching methods [2]. However, concept maps are less well understood as an approach to understandknowledge acquisition and competency for representing complex and dynamic interactionsbetween socio-cultural and technological systems. . a static body of knowledge from a textbook.Learning assessments are confounded by such ambiguity
Conference Session
Maps, Metaphors, Tweets, and Drafts
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Jared David Berezin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society
Paper ID #22728Undergraduate Engineering Students’ Use of Metaphor in Presenting Proto-types to a Technical and Non-technical Public AudienceMr. Jared David Berezin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jared Berezin is a Lecturer in the Writing, Rhetoric, and Professional Communication (WRAP) program within the Comparative Media Studies/Writing Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Jared teaches in a range of communication-intensive courses at MIT, including Communicating Science to the Public, Product Design, Flight Vehicle Design, Environmental Engineering, and Nuclear Science. He has also been a
Conference Session
Ethical Awareness and Social Responsibility in a Corporate/Team Context
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Jessica Mary Smith, Colorado School of Mines; Juan C. Lucena, Colorado School of Mines
Tagged Topics
Diversity
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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society
CSR modules. Finally, weconclude by laying out future directions for research and tying our research back to the existingwork on engineering students’ attitudes and learning about social responsibility to consider theopportunities and pitfalls of integrating CSR into teaching and learning about socialresponsibility more generally.2. The coursesThe three universities selected for the project—Colorado School of Mines, Virginia Tech, andMarietta College—all have long-standing and large undergraduate programs in mining and/orpetroleum engineering, but are located in different regions of the country (West, Midwest andEast), have different overall student population sizes (31,000 at VT, 5500 at Mines, and 1200 atMarietta), and place students in
Conference Session
Maps, Metaphors, Tweets, and Drafts
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Judy Randi, University of New Haven; Ronald S. Harichandran, University of New Haven; Joseph A. Levert P.E., University of New Haven; Bijan Karimi, University of New Haven
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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society
Paper ID #21594Improving Senior Design Proposals Through Revision by Responding to Re-viewer CommentsProf. Judy Randi, University of New Haven Judy Randi, Ed.D. is Professor of Education at the University of New Haven where she is currently teaching in the Tagliatela College of Engineering and coordinating a college-wide initiative, the Project to Integrate Technical Communication Habits (PITCH).Dr. Ronald S. Harichandran, University of New Haven Ron Harichandran is Dean of the Tagliatela College of Engineering. He led the Project to Integrate Technical Communication Habits at the Tagliatela College of Engineering. All