Conference Session

Sustainability and Social Responsibility

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Bryn Elizabeth Seabrook, University of Virginia; Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia; Kari Zacharias, Concordia University; Brandiff Robert Caron, Concordia University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

institutionalarrangements necessary to help students develop these skills have not yet settled into a widelyadopted standard. Many engineering programs have turned to STS to provide students withconceptual tool kits to think about engineering problems and solutions in more sophisticatedways. Some programs feature standalone courses on the sociocultural aspects of technology andengineering, often taught by faculty from outside the engineering school. Others incorporate STSmaterial into traditional engineering courses, e.g., by making ethical or societal impactassessments part of capstone projects. This work in progress paper draws on the research team’s personal experience to examinethe character of an atypical, but potentially very powerful, model: STS

Conference Session

Programmatic Integration of Liberal Education

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Jenn Stroud Rossmann, Lafayette College; Kristen L. Sanford P.E., Lafayette College; Julia Nicodemus, Lafayette College; Benjamin Cohen, Lafayette College

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

has been honored for its community-Collegepartnership. Projects also often address matters of campus value. Recent work, for example,conducted research to support the College’s adoption of a Climate Action Plan aimed atachieving carbon neutrality by 2035. As a few examples, students in capstone seminars in 2017,2018, and 2019 assessed the capacity for campus buildings to hold solar panels, investigatedoptions for microgrids on certain quads on campus, and helped the Office of Sustainability assessthe economic implications of bringing biogenic fuels to the College’s power plant.The 114 students enrolled in Engineering and Society over the last five years have been 39%female, and 25% of those who chose to specify an ethnoracial identity

Conference Session

Relationships Between Skills and Knowledge Domains

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Keith E. Hedges, Drury University

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

experimental section had aparti pris pedagogy [31] with a reverse content sequence where the central big ideas ofarchitectural structures preceded their refinement into statics and mechanics. The instructionalmethod is traditional lecture via marker on whiteboard. The learning outcomes are primarilyhomework and examinations. The assessment follows an absolute grading system [27, p. 433]. Capstone Architectural Structures The course originally had a researchemphasis due to the accreditation shift to the five-year Master of Architecture degree. Theresearch projects commonly dealt with building failures and natural disasters [32]. Theinstructional method was discussion [33]. The student work was posters and scholarly papers inthe case

Conference Session

Ethical and Global Concerns

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Elizabeth A. Reddy, Colorado School of Mines; Stephen Campbell Rea, Colorado School of Mines; Qin Zhu, Colorado School of Mines

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

through a capstone project, thesis, or other participatory design process inwhich students engage with stakeholders ([22] see also [23] [24]). In these, material dealing withethics is not considered separate from the main topics of the engineering course, but instead asinextricably related to it as blood is when infused into a human body. Infusions of ethics mayentail complicated course planning that can be a challenge for educators who are inexperiencedin method and topic areas, but they can nonetheless be strong options for helping engineeringstudents see ethical implications in their work.A “high dose” of ethics, on the other hand, might entail a larger-scale endeavor such as adedicated course of study focused explicitly on engineering ethics

Conference Session

Sustainability and Social Responsibility

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Jessica Taylor, Iowa State University; Rebekah Oulton P.E., California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

. She started in Fall of 2013 after completing her PhD in Environmental Engineering at the University of Iowa. She teaches both water resources engineer- ing and environmental engineering, emphasizing water sustainability via wastewater reuse and resource protection. She also teaches sustainability principles in civil and environmental engineering design, from first-year classes through capstone classes. Her primary research focus is advanced treatment methods for removal of emerging contaminants during water and wastewater treatment. At CalPoly, she works with both civil and environmental engineering undergraduate students to to expand her research into application of sustainable reuse of wastewater reuse, as

Conference Session

Ethical and Global Concerns

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

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Number of TripsFigure 2 Student participation in summits since 2015. 2019 student data not available at this time. Data taken from [16]–[21]EWB-A Research ProgramDesigned for final year-students completing individual or group research projects, the EWB-AResearch Program is a service-learning style program that works with partner organisations andstudents on a specific topic. This provides students the opportunity to apply their university skillsand knowledge alongside community engagement to work in the HumEng sector. These projectsusually fit within a final year capstone or honours research project, with each of the partneruniversities working with EWB-A to incorporate projects into the curriculum. Since its inceptionin 2007, over 180 projects

Conference Session

Novel Strategies for Studying Liberal Education

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Jakob C. Bruhl, United States Military Academy; Win Gilbert Bruhl, University of Arkansas, Little Rock

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

capstone design project appears at the end of the program requiring studentsto apply creative problem solving and develop innovative design solutions. Instead, it is vital thatstudents have opportunities to practice and develop creative skills from the beginning of theprogram. Rather than giving our students projects that require them to use creative approachesand hoping they can rise to the challenge, this paper provides information and techniques to helpour students develop the necessary skills to do so. Courses of study or experiences directlyencouraging creative thought, at best, should precede working in historically structured coursessuch as engineering. Doing so will develop future engineers who will be better prepared to “thinkoutside the

Conference Session

Programmatic Integration of Liberal Education

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Michael Oudshoorn, High Point University; Claire Lynne McCullough P.E., High Point University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

for Social Scienceswithin the university core. This required the course to conduct some surveys and analyze the datain a meaningful way, and this activity had to be a reasonable percentage of the course content.Fortunately the four-credit course structure permits this to happen and still retain sufficient classtime and activities to explore project management, the functions of an engineering team within thecontext of a business operation, and aspects of entrepreneurship. The course allows the engineeringstudents to have a basic understanding of business principles and terminology.3.2 ABET AssessmentWhile much of the liberal arts core does not directly contribute to ABET assessment, the courseon Engineering and Technology Ethics will be used

Conference Session

Promoting Communication Skills

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Gabrielle Orbaek White, Swansea University ; Patricia Xavier, Swansea University; Catherine Groves, Swansea University

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

action.Critical reflection is embedded within a program that recruits both engineers and non-engineers,with teaching and learning strategies drawn from the social sciences and humanities andintegrated with engineering management and problem-based learning. The program connectsstudents to a project partner in Sierra Leone or Zambia, the students work to understand theirpartners’ needs and assets and then develop an intervention plan consistent with the aims of theSDGs.In this paper, we provide results of a critically reflexive thematic analysis to explore the nature ofstudent reflections within the context of this interdisciplinary program. Evidence suggests arange of student interpretation of the purpose and application of critical reflection. Some are

Conference Session

Relationships Between Skills and Knowledge Domains

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Ryan H. Koontz, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Daniel F. Dolan, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Kimberly Karen Osberg, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #28642Correlating the student engineer’s design process with emotionalintelligence.Dr. Ryan H Koontz, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Ryan Koontz received his Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1999 and an M.S. degree in mechanical engineering in 2002 from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SDSMT). In 2004, Ryan joined the Center of Excellence for Advanced Multi-Disciplinary Projects (CAMP) as the manufacturing specialist. He currently instructs students of CAMP through the design and manufacturing process and helps produce parts for the co-curricular teams of CAMP. He completed

Conference Session

Technical Courses and Liberal Education

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Dianne Grayce Hendricks, University of Washington

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

for engineering educators by providing atransferable, easy-to-implement reflection activity that can be implemented in any engineeringcourse that includes a presentation assignment.Reflection to Enhance Learning and AssessmentReflection as a teaching approach is becoming increasingly recognized in engineering education[1, 2], where it is often used to promote cognitive development and can help students learn morefrom projects, internships, and other educational experiences [3-7]. For example, a common in-class reflective activity is the “exam wrapper”: shortly after an exam, students articulate whatthey did that helped them do well on the exam and what they could do differently to improvetheir performance on a future exam.Recently, reflection

Conference Session

Promoting Communication Skills

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Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia; Judith Shaul Norback, Georgia Institute of Technology; Charlie Bennett, Georgia Institute of Technology; Benjamin J. Laugelli, University of Virginia

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, INFORMS Transactions on Education, and the International Journal of Engineering Ed- ucation, and others. She authored the book Oral Communication Excellence for Engineers and Scientists, published in summer 2013. Over the past 15 years Dr. Norback has given over 40 conference presen- tations and workshops at nation-wide conferences such as ASEE, where she has served as chair of the Liberal Education/Engineering & Society (LEES) Division. She has been an officer for the Education Forum of INFORMS and has served as Associate Chair for the National Capstone Design Conference. Dr. Norback has a Bachelors’ degree from Cornell