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

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Idalis Villanueva, Utah State University; Louis S. Nadelson, Colorado Mesa University; Jana Bouwma-Gearhart; Katherine L. Youmans, Utah State University; Sarah Lanci, Colorado Mesa University; Adam Lenz, Oregon State University

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Paper ID #21891Exploring Students’ and Instructors’ Perceptions of Engineering: Case Stud-ies of Professionally Focused and Career Exploration CoursesDr. Idalis Villanueva, Utah State University Dr. Villanueva is an Assistant Professor in the Engineering Education Department and an Adjunct Pro- fessor in the Bioengineering Department in Utah State University. Her multiple roles as an engineer, engineering educator, engineering educational researcher, and professional development mentor for un- derrepresented populations has aided her in the design and integration of educational and physiological technologies to research

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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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engineering. Among the courses, we identify differences in the extent to which theclasses of students: 1) improved in defining CSR and identifying historical trends in itsdevelopment; 2) broadened their understanding of stakeholders to include oppositional groups;3) believed that CSR would be relevant to their careers as engineers; and 4) considered thattraining in CSR had enhanced their interest in engineering ethics more broadly. We offerpreliminary thoughts on the main causes of those differences, including course content andcontext, instructor background, and length and depth of the CSR modules. Finally, we concludeby tying our research back to the existing work on engineering students’ attitudes and learningabout social responsibility to

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Learning Outcomes and Pedagogical Strategies: Problems of Alignment

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert Graham, Johns Hopkins University; Tobin Porterfield, Towson University

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successful career in journalism and mar- keting, Graham launched Bigger Pie Strategies, a marketing company formed in 2010, and co-founded Serious Soft Skills, an education and training company, in 2017.Dr. Tobin Porterfield, Towson University Dr. Tobin Porterfield is an active business educator and researcher. While he has an extensive profes- sional career in supply chain management, in 2007 he earned his Ph.D. in Supply Chain Logistics from the R.H. Smith School at the University of Maryland. Since earning his Ph.D. he has focused on teaching and research. He has taught around the world and presented his research at regional, national, and global conferences. His work has been published in journals including Team

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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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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

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Diversity and Inclusion: Concepts, Mental Models, and Interventions

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Megan Keogh, University of Colorado, Boulder; Malinda S. Zarske, University of Colorado, Boulder; Janet Y. Tsai, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Paper ID #21888Active Learning Group Work: Helpful or Harmful for Women in Engineer-ing?Ms. Megan Keogh, University of Colorado, Boulder Megan Keogh is an undergraduate student studying environmental engineering and environmental policy at the University of Colorado Boulder. Megan has been involved in education outreach and mentorship for much of her college career. She completed a STEM education class in which she shadowed a local 5th grade teacher and taught three of her own STEM lessons. Megan has also been a new-student mentor through her department’s peer mentoring program. Now, Megan is interested in researching

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Communicating Across Cultural and Epistemological Boundaries

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cindy Rottmann, University of Toronto; Doug Reeve P.Eng., University of Toronto; Robin Sacks, University of Toronto; Mike Klassen, University of Toronto

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help our students navigate ethicallyambiguous situations and patterns of privilege likely to arise in their professional lives.Unfortunately, there are several barriers to this process. Our critical analysis of career historyinterviews with 15 engineers committed to ethics and equity highlight three such barriers: 1)dominant narratives in engineering that make it difficult for social justice viewpoints to beacknowledged; 2) limited organizational influence on the part of junior engineers trying tochallenge inequitable workplace practices; and 3) a fear that raising equity issues will result inpersonal attacks rather than positive change. Together, these three barriers—raised almostexclusively by female, racially under-represented, and LGBTQ

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Learning Outcomes and Pedagogical Strategies: Problems of Alignment

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard Melnyk, United States Military Academy; Brian J. Novoselich, United States Military Academy; Gregory Martin Freisinger, United States Military Academy

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anandragogical mindset. However the authors cautioned that undergraduate mechanicalengineering students may lack some of the attributes which form the underlying assumptions ofandragogical learning practices. Specifically, young undergraduate mechanical engineeringstudents may be unable to visualize how their education applies to a future career and may lackthe experiences or intrinsic motivation to be an andragogical learner. Correspondingly, Melnykand Novoselich advocated a deliberate and steady increase in self-directed (andragogical)learning practices as students progress along their undergraduate engineering education pathway(Figure 1). Figure 1: Student transition from youth to adult learning over four-year experience. Methods To

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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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Paper ID #23613Project-based Learning as a Vehicle for Social Responsibility and Social Jus-tice in Engineering EducationDr. Greg Rulifson P.E., Colorado School of Mines Greg currently teaches in Humanitarian Engineering at Mines where he bridges the gaps, so to speak, for the many students who do not quite see how their future engineering careers, design, and humanitarianism can be woven together. Greg earned his bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering with a minor in Global Poverty and Practice from UC Berkeley where he acquired a passion for using engineering to facilitate developing communities’ capacity for success

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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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encountered in this training getreplaced with newer innovations throughout the engineer’s career. Therefore, proper training ofengineering students for their future careers must include experience in considering the impact ofnew technology on society. Educators must allow their students to practice this by allowingstudents to consider, evaluate and employ new technologies based on their societal impact.Solving tomorrow’s problems, engineers will employ new technologies. Engineering studentsmust learn to evaluate new technologies’ impacts as they employ them to solve tomorrow’sproblems. As engineers solve problems, they need to collaborate with people from other fields andnot work exclusively within their own field of expertise. The opportunity

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Seeking Resilience and Learning to Thrive Through Engineering Education

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Karin Jensen, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Kelly J. Cross, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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notorious national reputation ofbeing competitive and rigorous (see institutional context below). In this intense environment, theperception that high levels of stress and anxiety are part of the culture in engineering academicsmay discourage students from pursuing engineering degrees at the undergraduate and graduatelevels. Attributing stress to be characteristic of engineering students may negatively impact thesuccess of students currently enrolled in engineering programs and deter them from continuing topursue engineering in graduate school or from entering engineering careers. Feelingoverwhelmed due to pace and workload in coursework was a top reason cited by students forleaving STEM programs19. Stress and anxiety portrayed as a norm within the

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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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three and half years as the Associate Dean for Academic and Student Affairs of the College of Engineering. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Developing an Integrated Curriculum-wide Teamwork Instructional StrategyAbstractGraduating engineering students need many technical and professional skills to be successful intheir careers, including those in communication and teamwork. The School of Chemical,Biological and Environmental Engineering (CBEE) at Oregon State University administers threeundergraduate degree programs, and the curriculums have many courses, which incorporateteamwork and group activities (often multidisciplinary). However, until recently

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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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gender gap can be found within different engineering disciplines. One of themost commonly-cited reasons for why systems and industrial engineering attracts more womenthan other engineering disciplines is that it is perceived as having more feminine qualities.Brawner et. al [3]surveyed 70,000 students and concluded that feelings of “warmth” and the ideathat systems engineering is more generally applicable to a career led women to choose theconcentration. Blosser [4]made a similar conclusion, presenting evidence that systemsengineering is seen as feminine while mechanical and electrical engineering are seen as moremasculine pursuits. Other research suggests that math confidence, a common explanation usedby researchers to explain why women choose

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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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acrossthe School of Engineering. Rather than teaching a slightly revised version of Circuits orThermodynamics, we envision a complete redesign of the course. Our approach will provide amodern look at energy and emphasize concepts relevant to students regardless of theireventual career path. Our development will be guided by the question “What does the engineerof 2040 need to understand about energy?” Following best pedagogical practices, we will startby identifying learning objectives for the course. Our current draft of learning objectives includesthe following:Students should be able to: 9 1. Solve engineering problems using energy concepts (e.g. heat, work, conservation of energy) 2

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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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amount of ambiguity, necessary collaboration, sociotechnical complexity, andpersuasion needed: Many [of the interviewed engineers] felt frustrated because they did not think that their jobs provided them with enough technical challenges. Others felt frustrated because they thought that a different career choice might have led to a job that would enable them to make more use of the advanced technical subjects they had studied in their university courses. Many of them were actually planning to leave their career in engineering. In our research, we found that more experienced engineers, those who had stuck with it for a decade or more, had mostly realized that the real intellectual challenges in engineering

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Diversity and Inclusion: Concepts, Mental Models, and Interventions

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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David DiBiasio, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Kristin Boudreau, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Paula Quinn, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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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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andpersonal competencies that engineering education researchers identified as important forsuccessful engineering. This list is summarized in a preliminary version of Table 1.Second, we reviewed a subset of professional reports that highlighted competencies relevant toengineering student success, including ABET, National Science Foundation (NSF), the NationalAcademy Press, and the National Academy of Science, Engineering, and Mathematics. Similarto our review of engineering education research papers, we expanded the list of academic andpersonal competencies that these reports argued as crucial for successful professionalengineering or STEM careers. Furthermore, we refined personal competencies based oninterpersonal and intrapersonal competencies to

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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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education, advising and mentoring, students’ persistence, engineering career pathways, and school-to-work transition of new engineers. He holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. Prior to beginning his doctoral studies, Hassan worked for five years at General Electric where he graduated from their Edison Engineer- ing Development Program (EEDP) and then worked as a gas turbine fleet management engineer. In addi- tion to his technical role, Hassan supported the recruiting, interview, and selection process of the EEDP Program, where he mentored interns, co-ops and Edison associates from the Middle East and Africa

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Embedding Sociotechnical Systems Thinking I

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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’ perception of a learning environment that fails to motivate them[2]. Engineering Ethics lessons are important in the world of increasingly complex issues, asengineers with rigid, mono-cultural perspectives will not be able to see the spectrum of diversehuman experiences within the contemporary complex world [3]. To overcome the hurdles thataspirational, change-making engineers face, universities must nurture a culture that producesengineers who are knowledgeable and passionate about the social justice implications ofdecisions made in their careers. These goals can in part be accomplished by engaging students ina first-year Ethics lesson that helps them to retain the content through interest-elicitinginstructional methods.At the University of

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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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the Brian Lamb School of Communication and the School of Engineering Education (courtesy) at Purdue University. Editor of three books and author of over 150 articles and chapters, her research centers on the intersections of career, gender communication, lead- ership, and resilience. Fellow and past president of the International Communication Association, she has received numerous awards for her research, teaching/mentoring, and engagement. She is working on Purdue-ADVANCE initiatives for institutional change, the Transforming Lives Building Global Commu- nities (TLBGC) team in Ghana through EPICS, and individual engineering ethical development and team ethical climate scales as well as everyday negotiations of

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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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negotiationson a common topic, namely: agricultural productivity incorporating the use of geneticallymodified organisms, sustainable intensification, and agro ecology. One optional term project (U8) offers students an opportunity to submit an application for a national or internationalfellowship opportunity in the broad area of “science policy” (i.e., Fulbright program, [31]) toallow students an opportunity to explore alternative career paths beyond the traditionalengineering approach of working for a company, consulting firm, or regulatory agency. Andone optional term project (U 9) offers students an opportunity to write a case study of sciencediplomacy on a topic of their choosing using the lessons of the Antarctic Treaty of 1959 as aguide [32] to

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Maps, Metaphors, Tweets, and Drafts

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Caroline Carvill, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Anneliese Watt, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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rhetorical analysis. In aprior paper, we provided a rhetorical analysis of Donald Trump’s twitter feed during three timeperiods: while he was campaigning for the primary nomination, after he received it and wasPresident-elect, and once he became president [5].Using short examples of rhetorical devices can foreground classical rhetoric used in public waysin an attempt to influence policy. Throughout their career at Rose-Hulman (and later during theircareers as engineers, scientists, and mathematicians), students serve on numerous teamsproposing solutions to problems. As part of their analysis, they must also use the same lessonson a larger scale. What change will this project effect? What audiences are you addressing andwhat attitudes, biases, and

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Seeking Resilience and Learning to Thrive Through Engineering Education

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mark V. Huerta, Arizona State University

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andengineering. One study explored the relationship between mindfulness and innovation inengineering and found that dispositional mindfulness significantly correlated with innovationself-efficacy among students (Rieken et al, 2017). This study defined innovation self-efficacy asone’s confidence in their ability to innovate. There was another study that demonstratedmindfulness correlated with business skills self-efficacy (i.e. students’ confidence in performingbusiness skills) and the intent to pursue a career in a start-up or entrepreneurship (Rieken, Schar,and Sheppard, 2016). The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether engineering studentswould be receptive to potentially integrating contemplative practices such as mindfulnessmeditation to

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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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’ previous experiences with college writing.These results paint a rather bleak picture of our engineering undergraduates’ education aswriters. As Figure 4 indicates, many students will likely receive no disciplinary writinginstruction until their 3rd year of study. All of our students will be required to write at some pointin their undergraduate careers. However, considering the rate at which students place out of thefirst-year composition course and the lack of writing instruction in engineering courses havingwriting components, some students may never receive any writing instruction, disciplinary orotherwise, during their entire college career.Ideally, writing would be integrated throughout the curriculum by incorporating writinginstruction and

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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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150 articles and chapters, her research centers on the intersections of career, gender communication, lead- ership, and resilience. Fellow and past president of the International Communication Association, she has received numerous awards for her research, teaching/mentoring, and engagement. She is working on Purdue-ADVANCE initiatives for institutional change, the Transforming Lives Building Global Commu- nities (TLBGC) team in Ghana through EPICS, and individual engineering ethical development and team ethical climate scales as well as everyday negotiations of ethics in design through NSF funding as Co-PI. [Email: buzzanel@purdue.edu]David Torres, Purdue University, West Lafayette David is a fourth year

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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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great area, but it's less than 15% of the courses that students take in an undergraduate career… then in the other 85% it’s completely invisible, you're going to think, as an engineering student, just doesn't matter. This broader impacts, if it had really mattered, my professors would have mentioned it more. But we’re trying to change that culture.Teaching ESI throughout the educational experience conveys the inherent interconnectedness ofethical decision-making and engineering. A psychology professor who teaches at a privatereligiously affiliated baccalaureate college with arts and science focus [26] developed an ethicscourse for computer science students that is integrated into the program. He described how thewhole department bought

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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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EWBprojects, with their explicit social justice mission, has already been shown to have a positive effecton students, attitudes towards community service, and career expectations [2–7]. Other work hasdocumented the effects of service learning participation on meeting ABET learning outcomes [6]and providing global engineering competencies [8, 9]. While the benefits of service learning forstudent education are enticing, there is also some evidence that participation in projects with localcommunities, in contrast to internationally-based field work, can achieve the same studentoutcomes in terms of technical and professional skills [10, 11].Integration of service learning into the curriculum also necessitates the consideration of impactson the

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Maps, Metaphors, Tweets, and Drafts

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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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. Requiring students torevise writing in response to specific feedback may motivate them to pay attention to feedbackand apply it to improve their writing, especially when they consider the written productimportant to their career success. Feedback delivered within the context of professional work isespecially salient to students. Some research has found that participation in engineering designprojects provides opportunities for coaching and mentoring in professional skills, including 1teamwork and communication [10]. Researchers concluded that feedback on professional skillshelped students become enculturated into the community of engineering practice.Clearly, the acquisition of writing skills is an

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Embedding Sociotechnical Systems Thinking II

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amber Genau, University of Alabama at Birmingham; Andre Millard, University of Alabama at Birmingham

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Program, the authors invited many of ourcolleagues to join us in creating an interdisciplinary class experience. We have drawn on severaldepartments in the School of Engineering, not only to bring in other fields of knowledge but alsodifferent approaches to pedagogy. We have exploited some interesting new initiatives within theSchool of Engineering, such as the “Smart Cities” project developed by the Department of Civil,Construction and Environmental Engineering. We also encourage guest speakers to tell thestudents a little about their education and career choices, as we feel this provides valuablemodels for our students, most of whom are in their first or second year of studies and havelimited interaction with engineering faculty.In planning

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Panel: Embedding Writing in Experiential Learning

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lindsay Corneal, Grand Valley State University; Debbie Morrow, Grand Valley State University; Tracy Volz, Rice University; Ann Saterbak, Duke University; Susan Conrad, Portland State University; Timothy James Pfeiffer P.E., Foundation Engineering, Inc.; Kenneth Lamb, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; William A. Kitch, Angelo State University

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Nevada Las Vegas (BSCE and PhD) and from Norwich University (MCE). c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Paper ID #22876Dr. William A. Kitch, Angelo State University Dr. Kitch is Professor and Chair of the David L. Hirschfeld Department of Engineering at Angelo State University. Before starting his academic career he spent 24 years as a practicing engineer in both the public and private sector. He is a registered professional engineer in both Colorado and California. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Panel: Embedding Technical Writing with

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Undergraduate Peer Educators: Mentoring, Observing, Learning

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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YunJeong Chang, University of Virginia; Rider W. Foley, University of Virginia

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“Easier to walk about the class today; students and interactions with fourth-year students. or career. started approaching me as well.” (UTA, 3)Table 1. The left-hand column notes the opportunities for improvement, as well as an excerpt from the undergraduate teachingassistants’ classroom observations and then a suggested alternative.4.1 ARCS Model of Motivation4.1.1 Attention: Peer-to-peer mini-lessons The identified opportunity to improve student motivation and engagement was that the timespent in the discussion section was often underutilized by the first-year students. The UTAsobservations routinely noted that the less structured time made many students feel that it wasacceptable to skip class and nothing happens, as