Conference Session

Experiences of Multidisciplinary Engineering Students

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Bosman, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Nathalie Duval-Couetil, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

accidental. A study by Borrego and Newswander [5] suggested thatfaculty are intentional about improving specific student learning outcomes when developing newmultidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary programs. Through a content analysisof 129 successfully awarded interdisciplinary studies proposals to the National ScienceFoundation, the authors discovered five focus areas for student learning outcomes specific tointerdisciplinary graduate education including content integration, teamwork, critical awareness,communication, and disciplinary grounding. Yet, challenges associated with these types ofdegrees still exist, such as the need to balance curriculum depth with breadth, offer stability andflexible simultaneously, and update

Conference Session

Promoting Multidisciplinary Efforts

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Harold R Underwood, Messiah College

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Diversity

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

literature have addressed the development of assistivetechnologies as a focus for engineering project applications. Over the past eight years, theCollaboratory for Strategic Partnerships and Applied Research at Messiah College has fosteredseveral interdisciplinary undergraduate student and faculty projects, such as the assistivecommunication technology Wireless-Enabled Remote Co-presence (WERCware) described here.WERCware is designed for those who depend on job- or life-coaching, to ameliorate cognitiveand behavioral challenges that affect performance at home or in the workplace. It facilitatesremote communication between coach and consumer, for training and/or other support asneeded, to increase independence of the consumer. WERCware development

Conference Session

Program-Level Assessments for Multidisciplinary Areas

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Katherine Watson, The Citadel; Elise Barrella P.E., James Madison University

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Diversity

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

defining sustainability or answering objective questions (e.g., multiple choice).Assessments of design skills capture higher-order cognitive processes which may require bothconceptual and procedural knowledge; for example, students applying sustainable design to theircapstone projects. Assessments of beliefs, attitudes, or interests reflect self-knowledge and aremore indicative of motivation to perform sustainable design or act sustainably, rather than ademonstrated ability to do so.Accordingly, the research questions guiding this review were:1. What tools are available for assessing students’ (a) conceptual knowledge, (b) design skills or application of knowledge, and/or (c) beliefs/attitudes/interests related to sustainability?2. Which fields

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Experiential Learning

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn Jablokow, Pennsylvania State University; Jack V. Matson, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Darrell Velegol, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

delivered in September/October 2013 over an 8-week period (with a 2-week extension for final assignment submissions). Our team wascomposed of three core faculty in different engineering fields (chemical, environmental, andmechanical/design), a faculty member from theater (who also served as an acting coach), a teamprocess coach (psychology), an instructional designer, several university technical staff wholiaised with Coursera and managed contractual issues, and a mix of graduate and undergraduatestudents from engineering and education who assisted as staff with many tasks along the way.3.1 Levels of Student EngagementStudent engagement and retention are major issues in the current MOOC context4. In particular,the low percentages of enrolled

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Endeavors: Engineering, Art and Society

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Brianna Benedict McIntyre, Purdue University

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Diversity

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

workplace for students in the seminar course orstopping by the nest.While there is nearly a decade between my experiences in undergraduate engineering and myparticipants’ experiences, I relate to my participants in various ways, albeit my racial, gender,spiritual, or role identity. I intentionally excluded questions about race, gender, or class in theinterview protocol because I was not interested in generalizing certain groups concerning theirrace, gender, class, sexual orientation, or identification as a first-generation or continuinggeneration college student. Instead, I preferred for these aspects of their social identity to emergeorganically. One particular experience that arose throughout an interview involved one of myparticipants, Simone

Conference Session

Intercollegiate and Cross-disciplinary Collaboration

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barbara Burks Fasse PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology; James William Schwoebel, Georgia Institute of Technology; Ethan James Craig, Georgia Institute of Technology; Anish Joseph, Georgia Institute of Technology; Ajit Vakharia, Georgia Institute of Technology; Steve M. Potter PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology; Kim Dooley, Texas A&M University; James DUPE Linder, Texas A&M University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

) , graduate student mentors (n=6), and the undergraduate LINCR Fellows (n=3). Thecomplex interactions between these elements prevents this analysis from being devoid ofinfluence from each— meaning that we cannot study the LINCR URE or the LINCR Fellows’experience without also examining the influence from and on the other elements/roles.All participants were made explicitly aware that they were the subjects in a funded researchproject studying the effects of their participation in LINCR. They signed IRB-approved consentforms to acknowledge their agreement to participate as well as to approve the use of theirartifacts as data.Undergraduates: Georgia Tech undergraduate students were recruited by announcement and email. Threestudents were chosen

Conference Session

The Interdisciplinary Nature of Engineering

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alan Chong, University of Toronto; Lydia Wilkinson, University of Toronto; Deborah Tihanyi, University of Toronto

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

differences between pure science and applied science, and asked teamsto argue for or against the motion that “science with no immediate application has no value.” Thedebaters had to review all three plays studied over the semester to develop arguments for oragainst this idea, and could build the strongest arguments while relating this issue back to theirown experiences as applied scientists. Through this exercise, students were given an opportunityto define and reflect upon their field of study, while engaging more closely with the course texts.In the table read, we select a few scenes from the play currently under consideration; students areassigned roles and read the text several times. Part of the purpose of the table read is to introducestudents

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Endeavors: Engineering and Liberal Arts

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah Summers, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Anique Julienne Olivier-Mason, Brandeis University; Marina Dang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Diana M. Chien, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

within the Division of Science, and its clients range between undergraduates and faculty(Table 1 and Figures 2 and 3). This structure encourages interdisciplinary collaboration andnetworking, since peer tutors regularly run coaching sessions or workshops with students outsidetheir specific disciplines. Brandeis also has a strong commitment to social justice. In Comm Labsessions with students, graduate student and postdoctoral tutors intentionally normalizeexpectations around how much effort goes into communicating science to cultivate a sense ofbelonging for all clients—a strategy that has been shown to help broaden the participation ofunderrepresented groups in science and engineering [8]. Additionally, the Comm Lab hasdeveloped strategic

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Courses

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Samuel Aaron Snyder, Virginia Tech; Desen Sevi Özkan, Virginia Tech; Diana Bairaktarova, Virginia Tech; Thomas W. Staley, Virginia Tech; Stephen Biscotte, Virginia Tech

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

also been utilized in explaining how faculty knowledge and innovation transferand flow throughout departments. Social, informal connections instill trust between colleagues,which can create buy-in to an otherwise unwanted institutional change. Interactions amongfaculty are a valuable but often overlooked commodity of higher education [28].In examining interdisciplinary student learning, Rienties and Heliot found that the social tiesformed among graduate students in the first four weeks of a course were indicative of social tieslater on in the course [29]. Over the course of the 11-week module, students primarily discussedwith and learned from students of the same discipline, even when instructors balanced the teamswith interdisciplinary

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward F. Crawley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Anette Hosoi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Gregory L. Long Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Timothy Kassis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; William Dickson, General Motors; Amitava 'Babi' Mitra, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Diversity

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

Transformation (NEET) Living Machines (LM) thread and is also the instructor for 20.051, 20.052 and 20.053 which are the three classes entitled ’Living Machines’ required by all students participating in the LM thread. Dr. Kassis’ research interests lie at the convergence of engineering, biology, and computation. He is particularly interested in creating engineering tools to answer difficult biological questions. Dr. Kassis has worked on a variety of interdisciplinary research projects from elucidating the role of lymphatics in lipid transport to designing organ-on-chip microfluidic models to developing deep convolutional networks for biomedical image processing.Mr. William Dickson, General Motors Will graduated with a