Conference Session

Ethical and Global Concerns

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Ellen Lynch, Australian National University; Jeremy Ingle Smith, Australian National University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

becalled upon to be deployed at short-notice for international (non-Australian) disaster response.In 2003, Engineers Without Borders Australia (EWB-A) was established as an independentnational organisation. EWB-A’s focus was on long-term community development both inAustralia and overseas. When first established, this had a mission of working “withdisadvantaged communities to improve their quality of life through education and theimplementation of sustainable engineering programs,” in order to achieve sustainabledevelopment [15]. Before 2010, both RedR Australia and EWB-A provided expertise to localorganisations through placements and provided education and training programs in Australia.In 2011, the peak professional body for engineering in

Conference Session

Technical Courses and Liberal Education

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Kenneth W. Van Treuren, Baylor University; William M. Jordan, Baylor University; Cynthia C. Fry, Baylor University

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

://qprinstitute.com/ , accessed on Jan13, 2020.[30] Slavich, G., & Zimbardo, P. (2012). Transformational Teaching: TheoreticalUnderpinnings, Basic Principles, and Core Methods. Education Psychology Review, 24, 569-608.[31] SkillsYouNeed, “What are Social Skills?” https://www.skillsyouneed.com/ips/social-skills.html accessed on February 2, 2019.[32] Lopes, D. C., Gerolamo, M. C., Musetti, M. A., and Prette, A. D., “Social Skills: A KeyFactor for Engineering Students to Develop Interpersonal Skills,” International Journal ofEngineering Education, 31(1(B)), pp 405-413, 2015.[33] Waters, C., Chen, H., and Sheppard, S., “Delivering Engineering Education ResearchFindings to the Practitioners: A New Workshop Model Approach, AC 2010-253, 2010 ASEEAnnual

Conference Session

Identity, Culture, and Socialization

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Benjamin Goldschneider, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University; Nicole P. Pitterson, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University; Jennifer M. Case, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

mayexplain the prevalence of the other sources for disciplinary friends.Lack of Participation in Professional OrganizationsOne of the ways for undergraduate students to establish connections to their broader disciplinarycommunity is through participation in a professional organization. These exist for a wide varietyof disciplines and serve to provide connections between industry professionals, researchers,students, and faculty alike. Student chapters exist for many of these organizations and at thestudy institution, there are student chapters of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers(AIChE) and the American Chemical Society (ACS). Though there is no student chapter for aBiochemistry organization, though there is an established club for