Conference Session

Institutional Perspectives and Boundary Work

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth Reid, Ohio Northern University; Tyler J Hertenstein, Ohio Northern University; Graham Talmadge Fennell, Ohio Northern University; Elizabeth Marie Spingola, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Education and Math Education.The Engineering Education degree program offers an opportunity to introduce teachers into K-12with an inherent appreciation of engineering, producing graduates that are capable of trulyintegrating math, science, engineering analysis and design into the classroom. Further, itprovides a mechanism to strengthen pre-engineering programs like Project Lead the Way(PLTW) by producing additional teachers licensed and capable of entering PLTW training;teachers who can promote the value of engineering from “inside” the system. Page 23.238.3Engineering Education Plan of StudyThe plan of study has been approved by the Ohio Board of

Conference Session

Engineering Communication II: Curricular Practices, Integrations, and Collaborations

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Sheila Anne Gobes-Ryan, University of South Florida; Kingsley A. Reeves Jr., University of South Florida

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

, CLW (now Cassidy Turley), and Jacobs Advanced Planning Group, which seeded her interest in understanding the relationship of workers, workplaces and technology. She has held a variety of positions in engineering, architecture, interior design, and con- struction firms, which drives her interest in teaching essential communication skills to students in those fields. Gobes-Ryan is on the Board of Directors of The Environmental Design Research Association. In this organization she has also served as Co-Chair of the Workplace Environments Network (WEN) since 2000 and Co-Chair of the Communication Network since 2016. She is a member of the National Communication Association. Gobes-Ryan is a Florida Licensed Interior

Conference Session

Design and Making

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ayush Gupta, University of Maryland, College Park

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

socialresponsibility and engineering macro-ethics into the fabric of the engineering curriculum. In thispaper, writing as an engineering design instructor, I present my own successes and challengeswith incorporating notions of social responsibility and macro-ethics in an engineering designlesson. The lesson plan evolved over a period of 10 semesters. I document the process of thatevolution and discuss how students’ responses to activity prompts influenced that evolution.IntroductionWith few exceptions, ethics education within STEM disciplines has mostly remained separatefrom courses that provide instruction in what is perceived as technical knowledge (Leydens &Lucena, 2016). This paradigm tacitly reinforces that science, engineering, and technology

Conference Session

Why Industry Says that our Engineering Students Cannot Write

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William K. Durfee, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Benjamin Adams, University of Minnesota; Audrey J. Appelsies, University of Minnesota; Pamela Flash, University of Minnesota

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Mechanical Engineering

three-phase WEC process is (1) to develop awriting plan based on discipline-specific writing outcomes desired for graduating majors, (2)implement the plan and (2) assess the plan and revise based on the assessment. The plan formechanical engineering defined nine attributes of mechanical engineering writing and 14 desiredwriting ability outcomes for graduating majors. Stakeholders agreed that problem sets were thenumber one form of writing for engineering students and that attention paid to writing a problemset would help students to learn the material. The plan was implemented by targeting three corecourses for explicit writing instruction and raising the awareness of writing in other requiredcourses in the program. Assessment is on-going and

Conference Session

Assessment and Liberal Education

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kirsten A. Davis, Virginia Tech; Chris Gewirtz, Virginia Tech; Ramon Benitez, Virginia Tech; Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Tech

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

under development by faculty instructors. Thisinitial iteration would form a baseline or snapshot of where we are starting with relation to thelearning outcomes we are required to meet, allowing us to begin the process of continuousimprovement as soon as possible.Academic Planning, Interdisciplinarity, and Innovation in General EducationAs we brought the faculty and assessment teams together in this environment of institutionalchange, we turned to Lattuca and Stark’s academic planning model, which conceptualizescurricula as academic plans that are developed and implemented within a larger socioculturalcontext.6 This framework guided the effort to bring together previous interdisciplinary curriculawith new, measurable learning outcomes centered

Conference Session

Promoting Technical Communication Skills

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Sarah Summers, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Rebecca Bercich, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Phillip Cornwell, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Daniel Takashi Kawano, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; James E. Mayhew, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Sean Moseley, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Tech- nology. He received a B.S. from The Georgia Institute of Technology and an M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 The impact of scaffolded writing instruction on follow-up course assignmentsThe Mechanical Engineering Department at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology implementeda series of scaffolded assignments across several required courses to improve memo writinginstruction. The goal of the scaffolding plan was to encourage students to transfer previouswriting instruction to new contexts and write professional documents

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Endeavors: Engineering and Liberal Arts

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ashraf Ghaly P.E., Union College

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

and devise a plan of action. This isusually a lacking starting point without which nothing will change. In the following, twoexamples from two different places in the world show how peace engineering can play apositive role in eliminating the sources of conflict and in implementing a plan to dealwith the root causes that created the conflict in the first place.2.1. The War in SyriaTrying to dissect the raging war in Syria in a few lines of text will be extremely naïve.This war encompasses an enormous entanglement of political, economic, religious,cultural, historical, and societal aspects [7]. In addition, regional and global powers thathave something to gain or lose in this part of the world became deeply involved, whichadded fuel to the

Conference Session

Communication as Performance

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Alley, The Pennsylvania State University; Lori B. Miraldi, The Pennsylvania State University; Joanna K. Garner, Old Dominion University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Page 26.1145.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Work in Progress: Memory Maps as a Means to Help Engineering Students Fashion Words on the Spot in Their Technical PresentationsSummary and Introduction In public speaking, the words that the speaker says traditionally arise from one of foursources: (1) reciting from memory; (2) reading from a script or notecards; (3) fashioning on thespot with no planning (impromptu); or (4) fashioning on the spot but after practice with aplanned structure (extemporaneous).1 Historically, the public speaking courses that engineeringstudents take in high school or in colleges of liberal arts advocate that

Conference Session

Communication, Professional Development, and the Engineering Ambassador Network

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julia M. Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #5874Leading Through Difficult Conversations: Developing Students’ LeadershipCommunication SkillsDr. Julia M. Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Dr. Julia M. Williams is Executive Director of the Office of Institutional Research, Planning, and Assess- ment & Professor of English at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Her research areas include techni- cal communication, assessment, accreditation, and the impact of pen-based technologies on learning and teaching. Her articles have appeared in the Journal of Engineering Education, International Journal of En- gineering Education, IEEE Transaction on

Conference Session

Innovation and Reflection

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chris Gewirtz, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Tech; Kirsten A. Davis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Ramon Benitez, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

practice and Baxter Magolda’s Learning PartnershipsModel, which is based on self-authorship, was developed for ethnographic classroomobservation. The collected data will help us better understand the educational environment andeducational processes3, as well as the actors situated within them. In this paper, we offer ananalysis of pilot data to better understand how the classes might align with desired outcomes -such as student development of self-authorship, reflective practice, and capacity for innovation.Using this analysis, we identify possible implications for (a) adjustment of academic plans, and(b) evaluating and adjusting the educational environment, both described by Lattuca & Stark’smodel.Introduction / Purpose Statement

Conference Session

Community-Engaged Engineering Education Challenges and Opportunities in Light of COVID-19 Paper Presentations 2

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

William C. Oakes, Purdue University at West Lafayette ; Paul A. Leidig P.E., Purdue University at West Lafayette; Nusaybah Abu-Mulaweh, Purdue University at West Lafayette ; Andrew Pierce, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Jorge Martinez

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Community Engagement Division, Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

consistency across teams. Each sectioncomprises multiple project teams. A common design process, where interactions withcommunity partners is central, guides students through the design process. Once a project isdelivered, a new project is identified by students, their faculty mentor(s) and communitypartner(s). Example projects include assistive technology, database software for human servicesagencies, and energy-efficient and affordable housing solutions [1-3].Spring 2020 move to onlineLike many campuses, Purdue University moved online in March of 2020 and sent students homewhere possible. This began an odyssey that would last into 2021. The major milestones areshown in Figure 1. Before the formal announcement, the staff prepared plans to move to

Conference Session

Learning Outcomes and Pedagogical Strategies: Problems of Alignment

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Melnyk, United States Military Academy; Brian J. Novoselich, United States Military Academy; Gregory Martin Freisinger, United States Military Academy

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Current strategic plan for Georgia Institute of Plan and Vision Technology. Olin College Curricular Vision A guiding document for the development of Olin College curriculum. The purpose of this examination was to discover mandates within the documents that wouldfavor an andragogical teaching and learning approach. Expanding the bounds of this studybeyond a single engineering discipline and institution provides a richer context for theincorporation of andragogy into the greater field of engineering education. For the analyses, twoof the authors individually coded each document for text related to the five andragogicalassumptions. These instances were then evaluated to

Conference Session

Integrating Engineering & Liberal Education

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pradeep Kashinath Waychal, College of Engineering Pune; Anil Dattatraya Sahasrabudhe, College of Engineering, Pune

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

. The data elements include student, area, faculty, sub-area, andcluster. Course assessment consisted of mid-term and end-term presentations which were evaluated by the peersand moderated by the faculty mentors. Results of self appraisals with respect to the learning attributes and theconsequent development plans were also examined during the assessment.IntroductionIn today’s knowledge economy, educational institutes need to recognize that lifelong and interdisciplinarylearning are the most critical skills, and take steps to inculcate them in students. A course in Liberal Learningoffers a good solution to achieve that objective. This is a different paradigm for both the students and faculty,though. The current K-12 education does not prepare

Conference Session

Trends in Accreditation and Assessment

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca A. Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Cheryl Allendoerfer, University of Washington; Ronald R. Ulseth, Itasca Community College; Bart M. Johnson, Itasca Community College

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

information to solve problems, life-long learning, communication, and ethical behavior. At IRE, and its sister program Twin CitiesEngineering (TCE), incoming students are presented with the outcomes during orientation. Asnew, innovative programs recruiting students before being accredited, discussion of theoutcomes and aligning program activities with the outcomes provided external credibility. Thissupported change and student buy-in to program activities that were designed to move themtowards better meeting the outcomes, but that would not be familiar to students in traditionalprograms, such as a professional development plan or metacognitive reflection activities.The IRE and TCE programs were developed as outcomes-based programs. Beginning with

Conference Session

Panel Session: The Grammar Elephant in the Engineering Classroom

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brad Jerald Henderson, University of California, Davis; Ruth Ann McKinney, The University of North Carolina School of Law; Julia M. Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

experts to publish Core Grammar for En- gineers, a discourse-specific, self-instructional program for engineering students that will be released in 2016-17 (see www.thegrammarproject.com).Dr. Julia M. Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Dr. Julia M. Williams is Executive Director of the Office of Institutional Research, Planning, and Assess- ment and Professor of English at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Her research areas include tech- nical communication, assessment, accreditation, and the development of change management strategies for faculty and staff. Her articles have appeared in the Journal of Engineering Education, International Journal of Engineering Education, IEEE Transactions on

Conference Session

Integrating Engineering & Liberal Education

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bill D. Bailey, Southern Polytechnic State University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

and Mold Making program, leadingto an Associate of Applied Science degree.Identifying linkage to outcomes such as these is fairly common at the program and course level.In this study, the relevant skills are integrated at the assignment level as well. In courses whereassignments did not support these skills, assignments were added or modified as appropriate.For example: communication, critical thinking, and teamwork were integrated into laboratory(machining) sections through the use of individual and team based projects. These projectsrequired written plans, written evaluations at the conclusion, a reflective paper to cementlearning, and a presentation to the class and others.This paper will provide a detailed description of how this

Conference Session

Programmatic Integration of Liberal Education

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Rebecca Balakrishnan, University of Manitoba; Jillian Seniuk Cicek, University of Manitoba; Priya Subra Mani

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #30819Program: Study DesignMs. Rebecca Balakrishnan, University of Manitoba I am a career development professional with 8 years of experience working with post-secondary students at University of Manitoba on all aspects of career exploration, planning and job search. This takes a variety of forms, including one-on-one appointments, facilitating workshops, and writing resources. Recently, as part of my Master of Education in Counselling Psychology thesis, I have collaborated with faculty in the Faculty of Engineering to integrate career development activities into the Biosystems Engineering curriculum.Dr

Conference Session

Social Justice: Pedagogy, Curricular Reform, and Activism

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Gabriel Medina-Kim, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

approaches to equity. Titled “Power, Equity,and Praxis in Computing,” the course plan is discussed and assessed through three facets: thecourse’s purpose, its content, and its (intended) learning environment. The purpose of the courseis to make space for undergraduate computing students to explore how systems of power arecoproduced with computing so that students can practice making social justice-centeredtransformations as critical participants of their field. The content of the course plan is organizedthrough modules that overview opportunities and considerations for intervention in computing.The learning environment is discussed through commitments to queer and critical racepedagogies, interdisciplinarity, and mixed methods in which teacher

Conference Session

Seeking Resilience and Learning to Thrive Through Engineering Education

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Claudio Cesar Silva de Freitas, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Zachary James Beyer, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Hassan Ali Al Yagoub, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jennifer Deboer, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

university-level engineering [31]. Given the context of theclassroom in the camp, as well as the challenge of teaching engineering in a politicallycomplicated and highly regulated environment, we followed a course methodology based onrecent studies about education in fragile contexts and previous experience from the researchers inteaching engineering [32] [33] [34]. Also, we designed our intended outcomes, content,assessment, and pedagogy with the goal of fostering social responsibility so that the coursewould be meaningful and applicable to students’ local community. For example, we consideredexisting engineering problems in the community and pedagogical constraints in the classroom aspart of our course planning based on democratic basis

Conference Session

Ethical and Global Concerns

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

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

not specialize in ethics and do not feelqualified to teach more substantial engagements with it, as well as those who are concerned thatthey have limited time in their courses to spend on topics related to ethics. In this context, themicrodose approach can be attractive because it allows engineering faculty to introduce someethical material to students as a part of another lesson. Though integrating microdoses of ethics isoften the result of substantial planning, it may not require investing too much class time in theprocess.Sustained microdoses of ethics may be administered by “infusions,” in which material related toethics is connected directly and thoroughly to the technical content of engineering courses. Thisis particularly viable

Conference Session

Advances in Communication Instruction

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth A. DeBartolo, Rochester Institute of Technology; Margaret B. Bailey, Rochester Institute of Technology; Risa Robinson, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

average felt that each of the fivesessions was helpful (minimum score 4.18/5), and all students agreed or strongly agreed that theywould recommend the workshop to other students. We hypothesize that participation in thisworkshop will improve the communication skills of students working as TAs in engineeringdepartments. This informational paper presents an overview of the workshop, along with studentfeedback to date and future plans that will enable testing of the hypothesis.BackgroundThis paper discusses a Teaching Workshop that was developed to enhance college-levelstudents’ communication and teaching skills, so that students would be prepared enough to gainthe benefits of teaching others about engineering. In engineering departments where

Conference Session

Trends in Accreditation and Assessment

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nathan M. Hicks, University of Florida; Richard J. Aleong, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

what types ofknowledge, skills or attitudinal sets are needed to become an effective ‘life-long learner.’” (p.105)12 Thus, despite McGourty et al.’s call for operational clarification, 1 outcome (i) still appearsto confound many engineering programs.Our research was guided by the question, “How do engineering programs address ABET studentoutcomes as reported within their program self-study documents?” Our research goal was to helpeducators interpret the breadth and specificity of ABET student outcomes by offering a structuraltechnique to interpret outcomes and to plan, implement, and evaluate curricula. This paperpresents our research process—a curriculum design framework to map the components ofstudent outcomes. To illustrate its

Conference Session

Infusing Engineering with Art (and Vice Versa)

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David M. Beams P.E., University of Texas - Tyler; Kyle Gullings, University of Texas - Tyler; Catherine Elizabeth Ross Ph.D., University of Texas - Tyler

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

an appendix that described thegenesis of the novel, including Flaubert’s development of detailed scenarios for the events of hisnovel in which Flaubert described the setting, characters involved, and outcomes of these events.The level of detail and planning seems remarkable to an engineer; Flaubert even drew a simplemap of the fictional village of Yonville-l’Abbaye in which much of the story takes place. Manypages include cross-outs and marginal notes related to the plot. Faculty in the arts, however, areused to seeing such careful mapping of setting, plot, and characters in imaginative texts,especially in longer works such as novels. Similar plans were made by Charles Dickens andJane Austen for their novels, and by William Wordsworth and

Conference Session

Teamwork: Priming, Empathy, and Metacognition

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Andrea L. Schuman, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; David Gray, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Desen Sevi Özkan, Tufts University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

sufficient preparation. In order tolearn and retain ways of continuously gaining knowledge across disciplines, students must alsopractice processes of self-regulating their own ways of learning. In the context of atransdisciplinary design education course, we used in-class critique as a type of metacognitioninstruction. Through thematic coding of student reflective writings, this qualitative study revealspatterns of metacognition that emerged as student teams identified problem spaces, conductedproblem framing research, and proposed solutions. Results indicated that while some studentswere prompted by the critiques to advance in cycles of metacognitive Knowledge andRegulation, the metacognitive action of planning was largely overlooked

Conference Session

Sociotechnical Thinking II: Interpretation, Curricular Practices, and Structural Change

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Melissa C Kenny, Wake Forest University; Olga Pierrakos, Wake Forest University ; Monique O'Connell, Wake Forest University

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

needs with consideration of public health, safety, and welfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors. ● ABET Student Outcome 3: an ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences. ● ABET Student Outcome 4: an ability to recognize ethical and professional responsibilities in engineering situations and make informed judgments, which must consider the impact of engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts. ● ABET Student Outcome 5: an ability to function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 9

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Stephanie Cutler, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Joseph C. Tise, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

that 52 percent of the supervisorsviewed the writing preparation of early career engineers as weak. This paper investigates a model for larger engineering departments that differssignificantly from the two common ones discussed above. This third model consists of a full-fledged writing course embedded within a large engineering design course that has 150 – 200students each semester. While small departments have attempted similar integrations with fewerthan 50 students [7, 8], this paper presents the second year of an experiment to do so at a largerscale with currently 75 students in the writing course and plans to scale to more than 100. Oneexample in the literature of such an effort has occurred at MIT [9]. Although this courseprovided

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 8

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Gallagher, Montana State University; Irina Karapetyants, Russian University of Transport; Karalyn Clouser, Western Transportation Institute at Montana State University; Natalie Marie Villwock-Witte P.E., Western Transportation Institute at Montana State University

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

, international relations in the sphere of transport communications, iternational logistics and supply chain management, sustainable development and ecology.Mrs. Karalyn Clouser, Western Transportation Institute at Montana State University Karalyn Clouser is a GIS and planning specialist with the Western Transportation Institute. She has expe- rience editing and managing spatial data to support transportation planning and implementation projects, and offers skills with numerous GIS tools and platforms. At WTI, she has provided GIS and planning support to the Paul S. Sarbanes Transit in Parks Technical Assistance Center, which assists with the de- velopment of alternative transportation on federal lands. Her experience includes

Conference Session

Sustainability

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Justin L. Hess, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Sarah Aileen Brownell, Rochester Institute of Technology; Alexander T. Dale, Engineers for a Sustainable World

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

24.1257.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 The Wicked Problems in Sustainable Engineering (WPSE) Initiative: Pilot Results of a Cross-Institutional Project-Based Course OfferingAbstractWicked problems are characterized as problems that lack a conclusive formulation, havenumerous stakeholders, and have responses rather than solutions. Many technical sustainabilityproblems show elements of wickedness (e.g. climate change, infrastructure, urban planning).Exposure to wicked problems during a student’s undergraduate education is both critical andchallenging. As a response to instructional barriers in this area, Engineers for a SustainableWorld has developed the Wicked Problems in Sustainable

Conference Session

Flexible Engineering Curricula

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Diana A. Chen, University of San Diego; Gordon D. Hoople, University of San Diego

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

our Catholic university, we are infusing ourcurriculum with a humanistic approach to engineering by orienting the core of our departmentaround social justice. We plan to educate engineers that are able to integrate the appropriateperspective -- be it global, local, environmental, or social -- into the engineering decision-makingprocess. In this paper, we describe the founding of our new department and describe theinstitutional context that made it possible. We also lay out our proposed curricular structure anddiscuss several courses currently under development.IntroductionAt an alumni panel for first year engineering students in Fall 2016, we listened as recentgraduates reported working in engineering jobs where they “did not use” their

Conference Session

Design, Assessment, and Redesign of Writing Instruction for Engineers

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca Bercich, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Sarah Summers, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Phillip Cornwell, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; James Mayhew, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

) informal and formal reports2) memos3) oral presentations4) technical drawings5) otherThe “other” category is a catch-all for uncommon or less significant forms of TC such as briefpresentations, memos written from a template, lab books, and brochures. These categoriesallowed us to organize the information collected during the interviews into a single figure basedon a plan of study flow chart that has been used in the ME department for many years. Figure 1shows this flow chart in which each of the TC categories is assigned a color. The colored band(s)contained in a course box indicate which types of TC are required within that course. A half bandin a course box indicates that this type of TC is required by some instructors but not others. Aswe move