Conference Session

TS3: Working with Students

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jodi A. Bolognese, Northeastern University; Richard Whalen, Northeastern University; Evie Dee Cordell, Northeastern University; Alissa P. Link Cilfone, Northeastern University; Brooke D. Williams, Northeastern University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

Engineering, all first-year students follow a commoncurriculum, as part of a “Cornerstone to Capstone” curriculum design adopted in 2015. TheCornerstone course is taken in the students’ first year, and uses projects to emphasize the ways inwhich engineering can develop practical problem-solving applications. The course was carefullydesigned to help first-year students achieve success in the program regardless of the specificengineering major they select in their second year. The program has been continually reevaluatedand redesigned over the past several years, and the addition of the information literacy workshophas been one step in Cornerstone’s evolution. Prior to the workshops, instructors noted limiteduse of citations and academic references in

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division Technical Session 1: Diversity

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Shalini Ramachandran, Boise State University; Steven Matthew Cutchin, Boise State University; Sheree Fu, California State University, Los Angeles

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

experts within the fields on their assessment of scenarios andethical problems. The students notably disagreed with the trained experts in half of theidentified scenarios. The disagreement between students and experts possibly shows thatfurther exposure to real-world scenarios may be needed in engineering ethics courses. Thesekinds of disagreement may have implications for algorithm bias instruction as well becausestudents are not trained to respond to cases of systemic bias but may be responding to scenariosfrom an individual perspective.A paper by Bowers, Maccarone, & Ricco [7] discussed their experiences integrating ethical,legal and societal issues within a senior design computing capstone program. The courseintegrated consideration of an