Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth A. Reddy, University of San Diego; Breanne Przestrzelski, University of San Diego; Susan M. Lord, University of San Diego; Imane Khalil, University of San Diego

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

, and educators have advocated moving from educating engineers in a waythat reinforces that engineering is a purely technical endeavor to one that recognizes that it issociotechnical, and happens in a global context. As part of a National Science Foundation -funded project, our engineering program is exploring ways for engineering educators to do thiswithin required engineering courses. In this paper, we present an example of how content relatedto sociotechnical and global context was integrated into a required senior-level Heat Transfercourse in mechanical engineering. We describe the design of the Social Relevance and GlobalContext Module and its use with students in Fall 2017. The module is designed for use in theHeat Exchanger section of