Paper ID #30310Communication across Divisions: Trends Emerging from the 2019 AnnualConference of ASEE and Some Possibilities for Strategic ActionDr. Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia Kathryn Neeley is Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society in the Engineering & Society Department of the School of Engineering and Applied Science. She is a past chair of the Liberal Educa- tion/Engineering & Society Division of ASEE and is particularly interested in the role of liberal education in developing engineering leaders.Dr. Judith Shaul Norback, Georgia Institute of Technology Biography Judith
sociotechnical thinking into diverse engineeringcourses,” in Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, 2019.[6] B. Przestrzelski, E. Reddy, and S. Lord, “Teaching social responsibility in a circuitscourse,” in 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings, Tampa, FL, 2019.[7] S. A. Claussen and J. M. Smith, “Incorporation of corporate social responsibility intoproblem-based learning in a semiconductor device course,” presented at 2019 ASEEAnnual Conference & Exposition, Tampa, FL, 2019.[8] E. Reddy and J. C. Lucena, “Engagement in practice paper: Engineering students vs.geological risk in the gold supply chain: Using geological risk in gold miningcommunities to overcome technical instrumentalism among engineering
help them see how projects undertaken in the course labscomplement and build on themes addressed in the weekly lectures. In what follows I elaborate how I developed the new patent assignment for a pilotSummer semester version of the course in 2019 and how it was later implemented in the maincourse in the Fall 2019 semester. I also explain how students at once welcomed and resistedworking with the SDGs and the effects that reorienting the patent assignment around them hadon their perception of the course’s value. I conclude that both qualitative and quantitative data instudent course evaluations suggest that reorienting course lectures and assignments around theSDGs played an important role in increasing students’ appreciation of the
. The program launched nationally in 2007 with 21 partneruniversities, reaching approximately 3,500 students. In 2019, 9,930 university students wereengaged across 26 universities in Australia and New Zealand. This represents between 60-80%of all incoming first year engineering students in accredited engineering programs across the twocountries. Figure 1 below shows the growth in student participants and university partners withthe Challenge from 2007 to 2019. EWB-A Challenge 12000 40
is that these resources are helping students learn to write andpresent as engineers and scientists in design courses, laboratory courses, and professionaldevelopment workshops across the United States. From September 2019 through April 2020,these resources received more than 39,000 film views.Introduction From grade school through first-year composition, engineering students take severalcourses on general writing. Although valuable, these courses by themselves do not sufficientlyprepare students for the challenges of writing as an engineer. The reason is that engineeringwriting is significantly different from general writing. For one thing, the content of engineeringdocuments is, on the whole, both more specific and more complex than
LGBTQIA+ CommunityThroughout this paper, we reference the term “LGBTQIA+,” which is an umbrella acronym usedto describe any person who does not identify with heterosexual and cisgender norms (Gold,2019). Recent research on the LGBTQIA+ student experience shows a growing interest on thistopic, both within and outside of the field of engineering education (Lange et al., 2019). Withinthis encouraging trend, the disciplines that have placed the greatest sense of urgency onunderstanding this community’s experiences appear to have been higher education, psychology,and queer and gender studies. Research from these fields have shown that LGBTQIA+ studentsexperience heightened levels of verbal and physical violence, harassment, and discrimination. Asa
communityrecognizes the importance of communication skills, research on measuring visualcommunication skills of engineering students is limited [9]. For the study presented in this paper,students’ visual communication skills were assessed by comparing visual displays submittedearly in the term with those submitted at the end of the term.The study population used for this paper includes 71 students who have enrolled in andcompleted the course, The Way Things Work, in 2017, 2018, and 2019. Class enrollment by yearand gender are given in Table 1. Note that in 2017 enrollment was not limited but in 2018 and2019 enrollment was limited to 16 students and 24 students, respectively. In 2017, the coursecarried Technical and Applied Science (TAS) credit. All Dartmouth
96 students in 2017, 88students in 2018, and 79 in2019. Table 1 summarizes the enrollment in GEN1001 for the Fall semesters 2017 to 2019. Table 1: GEN1001 Course/Semester Summary Semester Total number of Majors RTTP? UN students enrolled Sust. (number each section) Goals? Fall 2017 96 (48, 48) CE, ME, UE, EE Yes No Fall 2018 88 (45, 43) CE, ME, UE No No Fall 2019 79 (41, 38) CE
, being recognized by the United States White House as a Champion of Change for STEM. She has been recognized by Penn State’s Rosemary Schraer Mentoring Award and Howard B. Palmer Faculty Mentoring Award. She was recognized in 2014 by the Society of Women Engineers’ Distinguished Engineering Educator Award and in 2016 by ASME’s Edwin F. Church Medal ASME’s George Westinghouse Medal. In 2017, she received ABET’s Claire L. Felbinger Award for her work in diversifying engineering. In 2019, she received AIAA’s Air Breathing Propulsion Award for her contributions to promoting diversity and for her technical work in gas turbine cooling. Dr. Thole holds two degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois
combined undergraduate programs had 1,807 enrolled students. Biosystems Engineering isthe smallest of these, with 140 students. It also has the highest percentage of female students, at41%, as compared to 21% in the Faculty as a whole. 3.3 ParticipantsThis study targets students who are currently enrolled in undergraduate Biosystems Engineeringat University of Manitoba. Participants have been recruited from the Fall 2019 section of Design1, the first of four required undergraduate biosystems engineering courses that comprise theprogram’s “design spine.” All students in this class are emerging adults. Nineteen studentsagreed to share their coursework to be analyzed in this study and 11 volunteered to participate inindividual interviews. This
), IntegratingEthical Considerations In Design. Paper presented at the 2016 ASEE Annual Conference &Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana. 10.18260/p.25804Gunnarsson, C., Birch, C., & Hendricks, D. G. (2019, June 15). Curriculum on Diversity andEthics: Impact in an Introductory Bioengineering Course [Poster]. 2019 ASEE AnnualConference & Exposition, Tampa, Florida. https://peer.asee.org/32340Harden, R. M. (1999). What is a spiral curriculum? Medical Teacher, 21(2), 141–143.https://doi.org/10.1080/01421599979752Lord, S. M., & Chen, J. C. (2013). Curriculum Design in the Middle Years. In A. Johri & B. M.Olds (Eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Engineering Education Research (pp. 181–200).Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017
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, negotiating the environmental – consumer nexus, and the role of STS in engineering education.Dr. Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia Kathryn Neeley is Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society in the Engineering & Society Department of the School of Engineering and Applied Science. She is a past chair of the Liberal Educa- tion/Engineering & Society Division of ASEE and is particularly interested in the role of liberal education in developing engineering leaders.Dr. Kari Zacharias, Concordia UniversityDr. Brandiff Robert Caron, Concordia University ... American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020
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creative response, encouragingfaculty and administrators to focus on experiences of students, staff, and others in moreprecarious positions in the academy. Convening both virtually and in person to document,process, and share both our analysis and our feelings, in the hopes of building relationship,networks, and a stronger movement toward engineering that embraces diversity, inclusion,justice, and liberation.References[1] S. Quiles-Ramos, E. K. Foster, D. M. Riley, and J. Karlin, (2019, June), InfrastructureSinkholes: The Pretense of Operating Gender Neutral Organizations Erodes EngineeringEducation Paper presented at 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Tampa, Florida.https://peer.asee.org/32964[2] L. M. Frehill, (2011). Moving beyond
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and institutional data set. It is our goal tounderstand the social and organizational processes that determine how changes in engineeringeducation occur, and understand this well enough to present policy recommendations on how topursue effective, meaningful, and enduring changes in engineering education at differentinstitutional scales.Our first major work-in-progress report was presented last year at ASEE 2019 in Tampa, Floridaand was on the development and implementation of ABET EC 2000 [1]. While ABET is a majorpart of what drives change in engineering education, we do not address accreditation directly inthis paper. Instead, this year we focus on the broader social and organizational processesassociated with “higher education governance
, semiconductor technology has improved at anexponential rate following the self-fulfilling prophecy of Moore’s Law. Improvements insemiconductor technology have in turn enabled remarkable improvements in communication andinformation technology, leading to major changes in the way people communicate, compute,acquire and use information, and seek entertainment.This paper describes a First-Year Seminar taught in 2017 and 2019 in which students from arange of different majors explore the history and societal impact of semiconductor and relatedtechnologies throughout the semiconductor era. The goals of the seminar are to provide studentswith a qualitative understanding of how semiconductors are designed and manufactured, anappreciation for how the technology
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Engineering Students Change the WorldAbstractAs part of the ongoing work described in “Work in Progress: Transformation through LiberalArts-Focused Grand Challenges Scholars Programs” (from the ASEE 2019 Annual Conferenceand Exposition), a professor of environmental engineering and a professor of the history ofscience and technology collaborated to add a new liberal arts course to the engineeringcurriculum at Olin College of Engineering in spring 2019. That work suggested that studentslearn new ways of thinking, knowing, doing, and being through participation in a transformativeliberal-arts infused Grand Challenges Scholars Program. This project-based course was createdwith learning objectives of communication
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Recogni- tion, and Bioinformatics. She is a former member of the ABET Engineering Accreditation Commission, and is on the board of the Women in Engineering Division of ASEE. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Introducing an Engineering Program in an Emphatically Liberal Arts InstitutionAbstractThe introduction of an engineering program into an institution with a proud, strong, liberal arts his-tory is likely to face some challenges. This paper explores the journey of introducing engineeringinto an institution that has a 96-year history as a liberal arts institution and which only introducedits first professional degrees in the past six years. Each of
Table 1.Table 1: Spring 2019 Focus groups in two engineering courses. Students were invited to selecttheir own non-identifying pseudonyms. Course Focus Participant Pseudonym Participants Group # Intro to ME 01 Bob, Brian, Cleopatra, Dakota, Pete, and Sheila 6 Intro to ME 02 Colson, Grace, Kai, and Seven 4 Electromagnetism 03 Cheddar, Pepperjack, Mozzarella, and Swiss 4 Electromagnetism 04 Ponyboy, Krump, Johnathan, John, and Spencer 5 Total 19As seen in Table 1, Spring 2019 FG data came from four FGs across two
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communities in Alaska. Her passion for understanding the intersectionality of engineering and society was fostered through her involvement in Cal Poly’s Engineers Without Bor- ders Student Chapter and work for the California State Water Quality Control Board. Her interests have also been shaped by her involvement with the UN Major Group for Children and Youth (MGCY) and her participation in the 2017, 2018, and 2019 UN Science, Technology, and Innovation for the SDGs Multistakeholder Forums.Dr. Rebekah Oulton P.E., California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Rebekah Oulton is an Associate Professor at California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo, in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
year over year changes in Creating & Making willhelp to confirm further analysis of this initial finding.Expansion of survey depth was identified as an area of improvement in this study. With thestatements generated and evaluated by a sole researcher it is imperative to expand the dataset togradate the distribution of what constitutes liberal arts, active learning and engineering elements.To refine this distribution a further survey will be conducted at the annual ASEE conference inorder to survey a more sophisticated population of engineering education researchers.References [1] D.A. Norman, The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition. New York: Basic Books, 2013. [2] D. Epstein, Range: Why
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themestogether has been the teaching and assignment of critical reflection. The underlying principlesand practice of critical reflection have been taught by two authors and reinforced by the thirdauthor on this paper. Catherine Groves developed and delivered the original lecture materialsduring the 2017-18 academic year and Gabrielle Orbaek White adopted and delivered themduring the 2018-2019 academic year.Reynolds, a critical management scholar, provides the theoretical framework used in theinstruction of critical reflection in this program [18]. Informed by the Freirian ideal of usingreflection to inform action, Reynolds defines critical reflection as a process that should: questiontaken-for-granted assumptions; be social rather than individual; be
Rocky Mountain North America Region Award for distinguished achievement by Petroleum Engineering Faculty award recipient, and the 2014 Rocky Mountain North America Region Award for distinguished contribution to Petroleum Engi- neering in Health, Safety, Security, Environment and Social Responsibility award recipient. She is also a SPE Distinguished Lecturer (2019-2020).Dr. Stephanie Claussen, Colorado School of Mines Stephanie Claussen is a Teaching Professor with a joint appointment in the Engineering, Design, and Society Division and the Electrical Engineering Department at the Colorado School of Mines. She ob- tained her B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2005 and her