to science and engineering communication studies 17,18, 19 and a plethora of advice from scientists and communication scholars about how to write forthe public20. Despite this interest, few university science or engineering programs dedicateformal coursework in public communication to undergraduate or graduate students 21. Whenprograms do offer such training, they are usually limited to teaching students to write intraditional genres such as press releases, newspaper-style articles, and essays13, 14, and fail toconsider more personal, informal, and affective forms of communication such as face-to-faceconversations that can occur through science cafes or street science 22, 23 or to make use ofmultimedia genres such as podcasts, blogs, or
currently facilitates an interdisciplinary project entitled ”Developing Reflective Engineers through Artful Methods.” His scholarly interests include both teaching and research in engineering education, art in engineering, social justice in engineering, care ethics in engineering, humanitarian engineering, engineering ethics, and computer modeling of electric power and renewable energy systems.Ms. Ngan T.T. Nguyen, Texas Tech University Ngan Nguyen is a research assistant and doctoral student in the Department of Curriculum and Instruc- tion at Texas Tech University. Her research is focused on fostering the learning experiences of Asian international graduate students in higher education.Dr. Roman Taraban, Texas Tech
of Research ethics, the MIT Kaufman Teaching Certificate Program (KTCP) course, and un- dergraduate genetics. She believes in the power of peer-coaching as a method of improving an entire community’s ability to communicate effectively.Dr. Marina Dang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Dr. Marina Dang holds a PhD in Chemistry from Brandeis University, where she also served as an instructor for the Science Posse Boot Camp program. She taught chemistry at Emmanuel College and later became a STEM curriculum developer for an educational startup. In 2014, she joined the MIT Department of Nuclear Science & Engineering to serve as its first Communication Lab manager. As the Communication Lab model spread to new
Resources Engineering and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin, while working with the Austin chapter of Engineers Without Borders as a volunteer and project lead for a project in Peru. She has published and presented on incentivizing decentralized sanitation and wastewater treatment, on sustainability of coastal community water and sanitation service options, as well as on integrating liberal arts and STEM education, currently through the vehicle of the Grand Challenges Scholars Program. She has co-designed workshops oriented toward educational change for Olin’s Summer Institute and the joint Olin College-Emerson College event: Remaking Education.Dr. Selin Arslan, Lawrence Technological
9what that means in practice, and what role the Engineering Studies Program should play increating and sustaining that culture. Too often, the program has been understood in terms of whatit is not, and the ways it diverges from our ABET-accredited BS majors, rather than for theunique combination of disciplinary methods it combines. This was damaging to the identity ofour AB students. Worryingly, the program’s existence can sometimes permit other Collegeprograms to abdicate their own potential contributions to interdisciplinary integration. Weunderstand from both the history of engineering education, and history itself, that a single“bridge” is insufficient. The program continues to work hard to communicate effectively withprospective and
focuses on career, work-life policy, resilience, gender, and engineering design. She received ICA’s Mentorship Award and the Provost Outstanding Mentor Award at Purdue, where she was University Distinguished Professor and Endowed Chair and Director of the Susan Bulke- ley Butler Center for Leadership Excellence. She has worked with Purdue-ADVANCE initiatives for institutional change, four EPICS teams including Transforming Lives Building Global Communities (TL- BGC) in Ghana, and individual engineering ethical development and team ethical climate scales as well as everyday negotiations of ethics in design and professional formation of engineers through NSF funding. [Email: pmbuzzanell@usf.edu; buzzanel@purdue.edu
Epistemological Boundaries M534: Who’s in the Driver’s Seat of Engineering Education? (Interdivisional Town Hall Meeting) W134: Seeking Resilience and Learning to Thrive Through Engineering Figure 2. Sessions, Panels, Workshops, and Distinguished Lectures By Category. U=Sunday, M=Monday, T=Tuesday, W=Wednesday. The sections that follow develop the five themes listed above and provide some examples ofparticular sessions or papers that exemplify the theme. The treatments of each theme arenecessarily selective and provide only a glimpse of the richness and nuance of the workpresented in our division. At a minimum, however, they form a rough draft of the
Communication Quarterly, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 381–412, 2008.[16] P. R. Polak and M. W. Kirby, “A Model to Replace Psychiatric Hospitals,” Journal ofNervous and Mental Disease, vol. 162, no. 1, pp. 13-22, 1976.[17] H.W. Rittel & M.M. Webber, “Dilemmas in the General Theory of Planning,” PolicySciences, vol. 4, no. 2, 1973.[18] R. Buchanan, “Wicked Problems in Design Thinking,” Kepes, vol. 8, no. 6, pp. 7–35, 2010.[19] L. Light and L. Mitchell, “Increasing Student Empathy Through Immersive StakeholderEngagement Experiences in First Year Design Education,” American Society for EngineeringEducation, Seattle, WA, June 2015.[20] W. Faulkner, “‘Nuts and Bolts and People’: Gender-troubled Engineering Identities,” SocialStudies of Science, vol. 37, no. 3, pp
official course pathways of a large public engineeringcollege. While prior research investigating change models in engineering education hasdiscussed the importance of developing a shared vision, utilizing the power of stories,implementing change through just and fair processes, and viewing curricular change as thecreation of alternative educational scales [4]–[7], we acknowledge that these change strategieswere neither explicitly adopted nor employed prior to making a significant policy changebetween Year 1 and Year 2 of pilot course implementation. Specifically, the status of the WSMclass at our institution changed from optional in Year 1 to mandatory in Year 2 for all studentsentering the engineering college classified as not ready for single
primarily tasked with the education of undergraduate engineers. In her courses, she employs active learning techniques and project-based learning. Her previous education research, also at Stanford, focused on the role of cultural capital in science education. Her current interests include en- gineering students’ development of social responsibility and the impact of students’ backgrounds in their formation as engineers.Dr. Janet Y. Tsai, University of Colorado, Boulder 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
adding context, especially asit improves professional skills, student understanding of engineering identity and the meaning ofengineering, understanding of real world applications, and even skills related to empathy. Wecould build on these desires to develop curriculum that focuses on context. However, we alsoidentified significant challenges to adapting curriculum to include contextualized problems. Forinstance, there is a danger to relating contextualized problems to professional development, asone student sees it: I think decontextualized questions are lacking in purpose because they fail to address the real life situation that is requiring the question to be solved. This causes many college graduates to have