Conference Session

Relationships Between Skills and Knowledge Domains

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Keith E. Hedges, Drury University

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

publicuniversity with an articulation agreement with an out-of-state university. Our private institutionhas a significantly lower acceptance rate and a higher graduation rate than the pubic university Itaught previously. The lower acceptance rate is a result of admitting students with higher gradepoint averages and higher college admissions test scores. The lower rate has less, albeittraditional retention issues. Unlike the public university, the private institution does MTBIpersonality preference testing, but the purpose is to help identify potential career paths.The department’s retention issues occur at the end of the first semester and at the end of thesecond year. The preprofessional program is two years long. During the first year, the studentsare

Conference Session

Relationships Between Skills and Knowledge Domains

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Wei Yao, Zhejiang University; Bifeng Zhang, Zhejiang University; Hu Shunshun, Zhejiang University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

alone in Berlin, wrestlingwith general relativity. “Whenever he felt that he had come to the end of the road orfaced a difficult challenge in his work,” said his son Hans Albert, “he would takerefuge in music and that would solve all his difficulties [1].” Though Einstein neverbecame a professional violinist, it is believed that art made him more creative.Another famous example is Leonardo da Vinci, who is widely considered as one ofthe greatest painters of all time. He started his art career in his teens. When he was 14years old, he became an apprentice in a workshop in Florence and remained intraining in painting and sculpture for six years [2]. Apart from art, his areas of interestincluded mathematics, engineering, anatomy, geology

Conference Session

Social Justice, Social Responsibility, and Critical Pedagogies

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ashley R. Taylor, Virginia Tech ; Cynthia Hampton, Virginia Tech; Walter C. Lee, Virginia Tech; Bevlee A. Watford, Virginia Tech; Ben David Lutz, Virginia Tech

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

and intensive summer bridgeprogram. The purpose of STEP is to provide incoming College of Engineering (CoE) students(1) an opportunity to become familiar with the university community prior to the start of theiracademic career, (2) academic enrichment in subjects known to be historically difficult for first-year students at the particular university, and (3) opportunities for personal and professionaldevelopment. STEP participants take courses in chemistry (lecture + lab), calculus, andengineering fundamentals.STEP 2016 consisted of 63 incoming first-year students accepted to the CoE. Although notexplicitly advertised, some participants had not been accepted into the CoE and had anopportunity to be admitted though their performance in STEP

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 7

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Caitlin Donahue Wylie, University of Virginia; Ian Linville, University of Virginia; Angielyn Campo, University of Virginia; Suk Jun Kim, University of Virginia

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

, communication, andexperimental design [20], [21], and they are more likely to stay in engineering fields and careers[22], [23], especially students from underrepresented groups in STEM [24]. Undergraduates alsoreport feeling more comfortable with graduate students than professors [17], suggesting that theymight prefer the informality and lower stakes of student-to-student learning in GradUPs. Thanksto working with undergraduates on research, graduate students report gains in theircommunication skills, confidence, and knowledge of their field’s technical knowledge [16], [25].How then are these students learning from and teaching each other?MethodologyWe used qualitative methods and an interpretive approach for this exploratory study, to identifystudents

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ramiro Jordan P.E., University of New Mexico; Indira Nair, Carnegie Mellon University; Kamil Agi, SensorComm Technologies Inc.; Donna M. Koechner, eNova Solutions, LLC

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

. • One of the best that I have attended. • Knowing that engineers “make a difference” will be key to getting more kids interested in a career in engineering! The theme of Peace Engineering certainly resonates. • Peace Engineering referring the planet, should indeed include more people from different countries and not only North Americans, the world is not North America! • The topic could continue growing and we need to accommodate this growth. • Un buen evento. Felicidades! • A very interesting, challenging, at times depressing conference. I came looking for leadership and guidance on this subject, and was disappointed to find out that as a sector, we are far further behind that I thought. Not enough self-critical

Conference Session

Communication Across the Divisions I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia; Judith Shaul Norback, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Educational Research and Methods, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

individuals involved in advancing their own careers.• Collaborate with a relevant engineering education journal to publish a special issue of that journal that focuses on engineering communication. One precedent for such an approach is the special issue of the International Journal of Engineering Education that publishes papers from the Capstone Design Conference. We might also be able to collaborate with ASEE to create an online compilation of all of the communication related papers from each conference.We plan to continue this analysis in depth and add to our data the communication-related paperspresented at the 2016 ASEE Annual Conference and look forward to broadening collaborationand awareness of each

Conference Session

Communication Across the Divisions I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yupeng Luo, California State University - Fresno; Wei Wu, California State University - Fresno; Zhanna Bagdasarov, California State University - Fresno

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Educational Research and Methods, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

pedagogical approaches and curriculum designs are most effective to cultivate these twocritical skills and prepare students for their academic and professional careers. In thisinterdisciplinary study, the researchers selected three tablet courses (i.e. Construction Graphics,Green Building Design and Delivery, and Administration of Personnel) from engineering andbusiness management curricula. Project-based learning and flipped classroom pedagogies wereadopted in all three courses. Direct and indirect measures, along with associated rubrics weredeveloped to assess the targeted student learning outcomes: (1) oral/written/graphicalcommunication, and (2) critical thinking, in a tablet-enhanced learning environment with anemphasis on active and

Conference Session

Communication as Performance

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katherine Golder, British Columbia Institute of Technology; Darlene B. Webb, British Columbia Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

, we may be able to supplement our qualitativefindings with more quantitative data.Second, while we have in the past looked at what motivated competitors to participate,we would also like to investigate the effects of participation on competitors after theycompeted: until they graduated and through their careers. One case that seemsparticularly rich is that of the student who organized the Idol-preparation workshops forhis fellow Electrical and Computer Engineering students. Related to this is the questionof how to motivate other Idol participants and winners to become similar ambassadors forthe personal and professional benefits of participating in Idol.Third, we intend to investigate industry’s perception of Idol. This may include

Conference Session

Communication as Performance

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lydia Wilkinson, University of Toronto

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

accommodator. Kolb’sassertion that convergers are most suited for a profession like engineering and that divergers aremost attracted to careers in the arts is a significant one[7]. His description of the Converger readsin part: Page 26.609.2 Convergers’ dominant learning abilities are Abstract Conceptualization and Active Experimentation. Their greatest strength lies in the practical application of ideas…These persons organize knowledge in such a way that, through hypothetical deductive-reasoning, they can focus it on specific problems. 7]This description provides an obvious contrast to that of Divergers

Conference Session

Writing and Communication I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nancy B. Barr, Michigan Technological University

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

teachingassistants (GTAs) from within the department, many of whom speak English as a secondlanguage, teach the labs and evaluate the reports. Previously, the GTAs received no training inevaluating student writing. They were required at some point in their academic career to takeED 5100 College Teaching, which taught basic course management skills such as developing asyllabus, leading discussion, and interacting with students – all of which are valuable skills, butnot exactly what the lab GTAs needed to effectively evaluate writing. Because of this lack oftraining, undergraduate students often complained they received inadequate feedback on their labreports, that grading was inconsistent between GTAs, and that they learned little or nothing abouttechnical

Conference Session

Undergraduate Peer Educators: Mentoring, Observing, Learning

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

YunJeong Chang, University of Virginia; Rider W. Foley, University of Virginia

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ASEE Board of Directors

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

“Easier to walk about the class today; students and interactions with fourth-year students. or career. started approaching me as well.” (UTA, 3)Table 1. The left-hand column notes the opportunities for improvement, as well as an excerpt from the undergraduate teachingassistants’ classroom observations and then a suggested alternative.4.1 ARCS Model of Motivation4.1.1 Attention: Peer-to-peer mini-lessons The identified opportunity to improve student motivation and engagement was that the timespent in the discussion section was often underutilized by the first-year students. The UTAsobservations routinely noted that the less structured time made many students feel that it wasacceptable to skip class and nothing happens, as

Conference Session

Programmatic Integration of Liberal Education

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

David Robert Bruce P.E., Fulbright University Vietnam; Sebastian Dziallas, Fulbright University Vietnam

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

student survey is reflective qualitative remarks from individual commentssubmitted after course completion. The individual comments were in the form of an open endedessay with the writing prompt framed with three questions: What are the things you reallyappreciated about the course or things that could have be done better, what are the concepts thatyou learned that you think will help you in your continued career at Fulbright (and beyond!), andwhat are the things that surprised you that you learned about yourself through your time inCreating & Making.Students wrote between 500 to 1500 words for their personal reflections and the information wasthen compiled and evaluated as to congruence with the breakdown of elements in active learning

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

Students 28 34 29 20 12 16 8 32 70 237 Female Students 7 7 5 8 8 13 2 12 2 77 % Female Students 20% 17% 15% 29% 40% 45% 20% 27% 3% 25%Table 1: Allocation of students to different areas.It is interesting to note the overall and gender wise distribution of students among topics. Sports, business, anddefense studies earned better patronage. Female students chose traditional areas like fine arts, performing artsand medicine. Although they have chosen engineering career, their extracurricular interest seemed to havefollowed the

Conference Session

Engineering & Our Global Society

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bhavna Hariharan, Stanford University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

reportsand also directly through interviews. Similarly, another interest would be to track alumniof the course through the remainder of their undergraduate careers and see if exposure tothese readings encourages them to take more classes in humanities and social sciences.What this paper demonstrates is that creating a course where student engineersunderstand the relevance and importance of research in other disciplines to theirengineering problem makes them more receptive to interdisciplinary readings. Thearticulation of care allows them to create their own meaning and narrative, which in turnenables them to better understand and appreciate interdisciplinary content and providesthe necessary impetus to actively engage with interdisciplinary research

Conference Session

Advances in Communication Instruction

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Beth Bateman Newborg, University of Pittsburgh; Teresa L. Larkin, American University; Dan Budny, University of Pittsburgh

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

sense of ‘community’ among average students ofscience.”8 As faculty clinging solely to the modes and practices of established, liberal artsbased composition courses are likely to face counterproductive confusion from anengineering community, the modes and practices of a traditional science classroom may,especially for students not already versed in the sciences, present potential barriers thatcould inhibit learning.With the University of X’s E/FEWP, composition faculty members’ increasing awarenessof the “language” and of science and technology oriented fields such as engineering hasled to more effective ways of engaging engineering students in a project of discursivelyexploring how they position themselves in the disciplines and career choices

Conference Session

Advances in Assessment of Communication and Interdisciplinary Competence

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carolyn Kusbit Dunn, East Carolina University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

technology tends toemphasize global competence as a way to make students more mobile in careers and focuses onspecific ways to reach that idealized vision – in other words, not surprisingly, practicalapplication. There is discussion of the benefit of requiring a second language or internationalstudies courses or study abroad and, also not surprisingly ―Doing some of these or all of these?How long, how much, in what combination or proportion?‖ [3]. It‘s perhaps the quintessentialdifference between the liberal arts and engineering/technology scholars: where one asks why, theother asks how. Regardless, the multitude of conversations and options regarding what to callglobal competence and how to address it indicates that as of yet, there is no consensus

Conference Session

STS Perspectives on Engineering Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Page 25.1322.2translated into a local decision to expand the “humanistic-social” program at MIT to eightsubjects, or one course taken during each semester of a student’s career.7From the standpoint of MIT’s history, the most significant consequence of Compton efforts wasthat it placed MIT squarely within the path of the U.S. science mobilization effort during WorldWar II. As recounted on many occasions, MIT garnered a lion’s share of the total OSRD wartimeexpenditures, a significant portion of which was dispersed across the institute.Origins of the SurveyVarious accounts make it clear that sponsored research was on the minds of many faculty atMIT. Still, as an indication of MIT’s vestigial orientation towards being an undergraduateinstitution

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steve E. Watkins, Missouri University of Science & Technology; Les Kinsler, Kansas State University, Salina; Julia L. Morse, Kansas State University, Salina; Doug Carroll, Missouri University of Science and Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Technology Doug Carroll is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Missouri S&T and is the Director for the Cooperative Engineering Program, a cooperative effort with Missouri S&T and Missouri State University. Dr. Carroll founded the student design center at Missouri S&T and served as its first director. He also served as the advisor for the solar car project for 12 years, including two national champion teams. He has worked with many students on design projects in his career. Page 24.964.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014

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

. IntroductionMono-disciplinary solutions are falling short as we face complex issues (e.g. climate change,housing shortages, medical crises) in a globalized world where individuals with diverseexperiences and training work beyond disciplinary categories, often leading to expandedperspectives on daunting problems with socio-technical concerns [1]. As undergraduate studentsprepare for careers that will involve solving complex problems requiring input fromheterogeneous domains, they need practice working in interdisciplinary teams. However,students and instructors face challenges in these settings. Within undergraduate curricula, suchlearning objectives are often measured as individual outcomes in courses but accomplishedthrough teamwork. In these scenarios

Conference Session

Governance, Diplomacy, and International Comparisons in Engineering Education

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Sarah Appelhans, University at Albany-SUNY; Alan Cheville, Bucknell University; Thomas De Pree, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Soheil Fatehiboroujeni, Cornell University; Jennifer Karlin, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Donna M. Riley, Purdue University at West Lafayette

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #34563 Soheil Fatehiboroujeni received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Merced in 2018. As a postdoctoral researcher at Cornell University, Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Soheil is working in the Active Learning Initiative to promote student learning and the use of computational tools such as Matlab and ANSYS in the context of fluid mechanics and heat transfer.Dr. Jennifer Karlin, Minnesota State University, Mankato Jennifer Karlin spent the first half of her career at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, where she was a professor of industrial engineering and held the Pietz professorship for entrepreneurship and economic

Conference Session

Imagining and Reimagining Engineering Education as a Dynamic System

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janet Y. Tsai, University of Colorado, Boulder; Kevin O'Connor, University of Colorado, Boulder; Beth A. Myers, University of Colorado Boulder; Jacquelyn F. Sullivan, University of Colorado, Boulder; Derek T. Reamon, University of Colorado, Boulder; Kenneth M. Anderson, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

co-directs Project EPIC, an NSF-funded project since 2009 that investigates how members of the public make use of social media during times of mass emergency. Professor Anderson leads the design and implementation of a large-scale data collection and analysis system for that project. Prof. Anderson was a participant in the first cohort of the NCWIT Pacesetters program, a program de- signed to recruit more women to the field of computer science and encourage them to pursue their careers in technology. As part of his Pacesetters efforts, Prof. Anderson led the charge to create a new BA in CS degree at CU that allows students in Arts and Sciences to earn a degree in computer science. This new degree program

Conference Session

Reflective & Critical Pedagogies

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joe Tranquillo, Bucknell University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

importance when a facultymember teaches some classes that are not squarely within their narrow research program. On theteaching side, there are rewards too. Simply dusting off notes and assigning the same (or verysimilar) projects from year to year is not a sustainable model for a career. Faculty will discovernew pedagogical tools because they will actively search out other instructors and tools that willaid them. In this regard they will become more capable of guiding future students, both in theclassroom and the research lab.The Ulysses Contract also can have a more profound impact on the mindset of the faculty member.All of our training is based on the idea that content comes first, and it is through content mindsetswill emerge. This is the basis

Conference Session

Engineering as a Professional Calling

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph M LeDoux, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jacquelyn E. Borinski, Georgia Institute of Technology; Kimberly Danielle Haight, Georgia Institute of Technology ; Elaine Catherine McCormick, Georgia Institute of Technology; Alisha A.W. Waller, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Conference Session

Social Justice: Pedagogy, Curricular Reform, and Activism

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Rachel Koh, Smith College; Jenn Stroud Rossmann, Lafayette College

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

identities, social locations, and values are relevant to thiswork.First author (RSK) is an early-career contingent faculty member at Smith College, a privateliberal arts women’s college with one engineering degree program. They are a white-passing transperson of Chinese and European descent who lives and works on unceded Nipmuc and Pocumtucterritory. They approach this paper from the perspective of a new engineering educator whoseformal training is in mechanical engineering and who aspires to teach towards principles ofcollective liberation from systems of oppression and domination.Second author (JSR) approached this research from the perspective of an engineering educatorwho places a premium on interdisciplinarity and inclusion. She has taught

Conference Session

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

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jenifer Blacklock, University of Colorado - Boulder; Kathryn Johnson, Colorado School of Mines; Randy Cook, Colorado School of Mines; Natalie Ann Plata; Stephanie Claussen, San Francisco State University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Conference Session

Socially Responsible Engineering I: Context, Innovation, and Reflection

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Marie Stettler Kleine, Colorado School of Mines; Kari Zacharias, Concordia University; Desen Sevi Ozkan, Tufts University

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

challenge for sociotechnical engineering instruction is the evaluation of itseffects. Some of the difficulty results from the breadth of educators’ goals. Most of these effortsdo not define specific desired outcomes beyond increasing students’ ability to understand “thetechnical” and “the social” as deeply connected, and to appreciate that sociotechnical thinking isan important part of engineering work. That is, sociotechnical engineering programs andinterventions rarely prescribe desired career paths or other, more easily quantifiable goals fortheir students. Attempts to measure the success of sociotechnical thinking contextualizationtherefore require ascertaining how students’ thoughts about their work and identities haveshifted, if at all

Conference Session

Sustainability and Social Responsibility

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

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

departments, despite being considerably smaller than most andlacking its own degree program. Faculty in CES participate in the administrative operation of theuniversity just as faculty from other departments do. Their position between engineering and thehumanities and social sciences has also enabled CES members to easily interact with colleaguesfrom across the university, to take on administrative roles that have normally been reserved forsenior faculty, and to consistently advance up the career ladder. Finally, CES has been able tofacilitate frequent interdisciplinary discussions and initiatives within the university.Accreditation The Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board (CEAB) specifies 12 attributes whichgraduates of accredited

Conference Session

Novel Strategies for Studying Liberal Education

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Michael Lachney, Michigan State University; Madison C. Allen, Michigan State University ; Briana P. Green, Michigan State University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

different types of belonging and different supports of belonging, in classroom and out-of-school learning spaces, can serve to foster STEM- related identities and career aspirations in Black youth. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 The Double Bind of Constructionism: A Case Study on the Barriers for Con- structionist Learning in Pre-college Engineering EducationIntroduction In the United States, constructionist learning theory (i.e. constructionism) has been one ofthe dominant paradigms underpinning pre-college engineering education both out-of-school andin-school. Historically grounded in mathematician Seymour Papert’s research with the educa

Conference Session

Non-Canonical Canons of Engineering Ethics

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna M Riley, Virginia Tech; Amy E. Slaton, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.); Joseph R. Herkert, Arizona State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

discussion of the events that led to the restriction on advice toindividuals, see Stephen Unger’s essay on the topic. 17)Ironically, in a Policy Statement adopted in 2004, IEEE appears to endorse EMCC support of Page 26.1723.8individuals in upholding the Code: The EMCC emphasizes that IEEE is committed to being supportive of any member who acts to uphold the IEEE Code of Ethics. It recognizes that voicing concern about ethical violations could jeopardize a member’s career opportunities. Nevertheless, the EMCC believes that by raising awareness of IEEE’s strong stance on ethical conduct through this Position Paper

Conference Session

Design and Making

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marisa Exter, Purdue University; Iryna Ashby, Purdue University; Colin M. Gray, Purdue University; Denise McAllister Wilder NCIDQ, Purdue University; Terri S. Krause, Purdue University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

: A Case StudyThe context of this case study is the development of a technology-focused, transdisciplinaryprogram at a large research-intensive Midwestern university. This program is part of a largerinitiative supported by the university to experiment with new educational approaches. The visionfor this initiative was to prepare students to succeed across their future career—which mayinclude jobs that do not exist today. A group of interested faculty fellows were charged withinvestigating new educational approaches that met the values of: (a) viewing the student as awhole person; (b) welcoming diversity and access for all; (c) student autonomy; (d) risk-takingas an important component to learning; and (e) openness fostered through sharing