Conference Session

Trends in Accreditation and Assessment

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna M. Riley, Virginia Tech

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

contemporary issues and realism for therelevance that produces passion to learn. One needs multidisciplinarity and educational breadthto develop intellectual power and critical thinking. 42Perhaps the most unsurprising change to Criterion 3 is the removal of the word “political” and itsreplacement with the more palatable idea “policy.” Of course the two are not interchangeable.Political processes produce, enact, sustain, mediate, and change policies. 43 Political is the broaderterm, encompassing policy-making processes. By shifting to the term policy instead of political,ABET is shrinking the intended domain of action for engineers. Understanding the politicalcontexts that give rise to engineering projects, and analyzing potential political

Conference Session

Teaching Communication I

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca R Essig, Purdue University; Cary David Troy, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Brent K Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Josh Boyd, Purdue University; Natascha Trellinger Buswell, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

the best of their ability. One of the allures of incidental writing isits ability to encourage students to be open about their opinions, and typical assessment methodsused in quantitative assignments could potentially discourage students from fully sharing theirviews and beliefs. On the other hand, not giving an assessment can potentially lead students tonot fully complete assignments and thus not benefit from these learning opportunities. Thisresults in the challenge of balancing completion versus encouraging free and open thought.9 Page 24.141.5One challenge that this project strives to investigate is the proper pairing of the types of

Conference Session

'Diversity' and Inclusion? Pedagogy, Experiences, Language and Performative Action

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jenn Stroud Rossmann, Lafayette College; Mary A. Armstrong, Lafayette College

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

—rather than investigating systemic or “watershed”-type hazards [13]-[15]. Someapproaches that aim toward broadening faculty teaching strategies rather than protecting studentsfrom them include integrating relevant applications of STEM content; emphasizing the societalcontext and social justice implications of engineering work [16]; and using project-basedlearning to engage students in real-world applications and collaborative work [17].Moreover, engineering’s tendency to cling to an idea of itself as “apolitical” and “neutral,” ratherthan acknowledging its social construction and baked-in centering of white masculinity, has beenshown to be correlated with the marginalization of under-represented participants in engineeringculture [18],[19]. The

Conference Session

Technical Courses and Liberal Education

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Kenneth W. Van Treuren, Baylor University; William M. Jordan, Baylor University; Cynthia C. Fry, Baylor University

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

-related courses and does research with natural fiber composite materials. He is also interested in entrepreneurship,sustainable engineering, and appropriate technology in developing countries.Ms. Cynthia C. Fry, Baylor University CYNTHIA C. FRY is currently a Senior Lecturer of Computer Science at Baylor University. She worked at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center as a Senior Project Engineer, a Crew Training Manager, and the Science Operations Director for STS-46. She was an Engineering Duty Officer in the U.S. Navy (IRR), and worked with the Naval Maritime Intelligence Center as a Scientific/Technical Intelligence Analyst. She was the owner and chief systems engineer for Systems Engineering Services (SES), a computer

Conference Session

Professional Development and Lifelong Learning

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicholas Robert Welling, Seattle University; Nathan E. Canney, Seattle University; Yanna Lambrinidou, Virginia Tech

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

co-teaching to students in engineering and science. She is co-Principal Investigator on a National Science Foundation (NSF) research and education project developing an ethnographic approach to engineering ethics education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Where Does the Personal Fit Within Engineering Education? An Autoethnography of One Student’s Exploration of Personal-Professional Identity AlignmentAbstract This paper presents an exploration of personal-professional identity alignment throughthe use of an autoethnography. To understand identity and identity formation, my researchadvisor and I drew from post-modernist

Conference Session

Design and Making

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexandra Vinson, Northwestern University; Pryce Davis, University of Nottingham; Reed Stevens, Northwestern University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

to analyzethe downstream effects of technologies on unknown or silent users (Casper & Clarke 1998).These efforts can also be understood as a way of organizing others’ work (Suchman 2000),particularly when the users come from inside one’s own organization.In this paper we describe and analyze how early career engineers learn about users and theirneeds in the engineering workplace. We draw special attention to how users are conceptualizedduring product development and how notions of how users might employ technologies can shapedesigners’ plans. These data are part of a larger project that examines the workplace learning ofearly career engineers, and so several of our examples highlight the orientations early careerengineers hold toward

Conference Session

Minoritization Processes and Critical Responses

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Madeleine Jennings, Arizona State University; Rod D. Roscoe, Arizona State University; Nadia N. Kellam, Arizona State University; Suren Jayasuriya, Arizona State University

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

to generate awareness of the LGBTQIA+engineering student experience and research on this community, while also highlighting areasthat are lacking or receiving insufficient attention. This work is part of a larger project that aimsto review engineering education research with respect to LGBTQIA+ students, higher educationfaculty and staff, and industry professionals. This literature review was conducted in two phases.First, works from non-engineering disciplines were reviewed to identify popular threads andmajor areas of research on the LGBTQIA+ student experience. This phase was not an exhaustivereview; rather, it was meant to establish specific themes of importance derived from the largerbody of literature on the LGBTQIA+ student experience

Conference Session

Technical Courses and Liberal Education

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Shehla Arif, University of Mount Union

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

a commongoal (a new way of being and relating requires imagining what non-hierarchical structures wouldlook like). The project of liberation is the project of daring to imagine.IntroductionTeaching takes place in a physical space with configured interactions of the instructor with thestudents. The traditional mode of education presupposes the instructor as an authority“depositing” knowledge into the “clean-slates” (students’ minds), who in turn regurgitate thatdeposited (memorized) knowledge in assessments. This is described as the banking concept ofeducation by Freire [1]. This model discourages creative engagement of the student with theworld and encourages uncritical acceptance of the oppressive power structures. This process

Conference Session

Design, Assessment, and Redesign of Writing Instruction for Engineers

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Y. Yoritomo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Nicole Turnipseed, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign; S. Lance Cooper, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Celia Mathews Elliott, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; John R. Gallagher, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; John S. Popovics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Paul Prior, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Julie L Zilles, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

anddifficult to scale up.An alternative model is to develop the skills of engineering faculty so that they can effectivelyincorporate writing instruction and practice into their existing technical courses. The DavisEducational Foundation has supported a project following this faculty-development model forengineering curricula at the University of New Haven. The first cohort to go through thisprogram just graduated in 2016, so assessment of its effectiveness is not complete [55]–[57].However, this approach is less resource-intensive and therefore may be more amenable to scalingup for universities having larger student bodies. An interdisciplinary team of researchers atPurdue is working to adapt techniques for writing in large-scale engineering classes

Conference Session

Maps, Metaphors, Tweets, and Drafts

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sean Michael Ferguson, University of Virginia; Rider W. Foley, University of Virginia; John Kofi Eshirow Jr., University of Virginia; Catherine Claire Pollack, University of Virginia

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

; society program in the De- partment of Engineering and Society at the University of Virginia. He is the principal investigator at University of Virginia on the ’4C Project’ on Cultivating Cultures of Ethical STEM education with col- leagues from Notre Dame, Xavier University and St. Mary’s College. He is also the co-leader of the ’Nano and the City’ thematic research cluster for the Center for Nanotechnology in Society at Arizona State University. Rider is a Research Collaborator with the Sustainability Science Education program at the Biodesign Institute. His research focuses on wicked problems that arise at the intersection of society and technology. Rider holds a Ph.D. in Sustainability from Arizona State University

Conference Session

Liberal Education Division Technical Session Session 12

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura Kasson Fiss, Michigan Technological University; Lorelle A. Meadows, Michigan Technological University; Mary Raber, Michigan Technological University; Kari B. Henquinet, Michigan Technological University; Richard Jason Berkey, Michigan Technological University

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

, gender, and human rights in Niger (West Africa) and American global human- itarian and service engagement of students and nonprofits. She has published her work in a variety of col- laborative book projects and peer-reviewed journals: http://www.mtu.edu/social-sciences/department/faculty/henquinet/.Prof. Richard Jason Berkey, Michigan Technological University Rick Berkey is a Professor of Practice in the Pavlis Honors College (PHC) at Michigan Technological University. His teaching responsibilities and research interests include continuous improvement (Lean and Six Sigma), quality engineering, and design methodologies. Since 2015, Rick has served as Director of The Enterprise Program, a multi-year, multidisciplinary

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society (LEES) Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christine Haas, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Lynn S. McElholm, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Sonya M Renfro, University of Connecticut; Elizabeth S. Herkenham, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ; Melissa Marshall, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

morning and provide age and subject appropriate presentations and activities that are integrated with the science and math curriculum. Because the Ambassadors present in pairs, they present in up to three parallel classrooms at a time during the school day. The Ambassadors show how engineering is relevant to these subjects such as highlighting an engineering project such as developing a spinal implant. In addition, the Ambassadors start or conclude the day with a presentation about Engineering Careers in the school auditorium. The audience for this presentation usually ranges from 100 to 300 students. On campus recruiting of prospective students and community STEM events. The Engineering Ambassadors are active

Conference Session

Difference, Disability, and (De)Politicization: The Invisible Axes of Diversity

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy E. Slaton, Drexel University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

efficaciouslyreplaced by an audio or tactile one; or that hands-on and observational exercises might beequivalent to one another; or that different persons might justifiably use different instruments toundertake the same technical learning or labor. In short, this paper sketches a politics ofengineering epistemologies around issues of disability.This is part of a larger project regarding the meanings of identity in STEM education moregenerally, a body of work by scholars loosely grouped under the emergent Engineering Studies(ES) rubric.* This scholarship is not extensive but in the last few years it has carefully ∗considered the social instrumentality of categories including race, class, gender, LGBT identities,and age as enacted in

Conference Session

Assessing Social Responsibility & Sustainability

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark H Minster, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Richard A House, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Patricia Brackin P.E., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Corey M. Taylor, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods, Engineering Ethics, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

”). Professional codes of ethics and ABET requirements are sometimes applied, withsustainability introduced as a design constraint.3 In our experience, these professionalrequirements are often treated only in senior design projects, and then only as items on achecklist. Optional minor and certificate programs may exist for those engineering students whoare interested, but even here crucial tensions often go unexplored between definitions ofsustainability (between weak and strong sustainability4, 5, between “technological sustainability”and “ecological sustainability”6, between “eco-efficiency” and “eco-effectiveness”7, or betweensustainability and sustainable development8, 9, 10, 11) and even between areas of the triple bottomline.3 Missing, too, are

Conference Session

Communication Across the Divisions I: Communication in Engineering Disciplines

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alyssa Catherine Taylor, University of Washington; Stephanie Pulford, Center for Engineering Learning and Teaching (CELT)

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Civil Engineering, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

communication must be thoughtfully designed tohelp readers make meaning of data. Such visual design for readers requires our students tobecome metacognitive of their own experience as consumers of visual communication. Yet oftenengineering students are not prompted to think about or design visual data communication untilthey must present their own data, typically as part of a senior capstone project. Our students’ lackof experience leaves them without a solid foundation for critical thought about figures, and thuswith scant preparation to learn from the experience of creating and refining them. If capstonesare to be an opportunity to learn about visual communication rather than simply perform it,students are in need of a swift means to gain perspective

Conference Session

Revealing the Invisible: Engineering Course Activities that Address Privilege, -Isms, and Power Relations (Interactive Session)

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joel Alejandro Mejia, University of San Diego; Diana A. Chen, University of San Diego; Odesma Onika Dalrymple, University of San Diego; Susan M Lord, University of San Diego

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ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity, Faculty Development Constituency Committee

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Design in Engineering Education, International, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Minorities in Engineering

undergraduates in class.User-Centered DesignUser-Centered Design (UCD) is a required course for all engineering majors taken during eitherthe second semester of the first-year or the first semester of the second-year. It introducesstudents to strategies for identifying the needs, capabilities and behaviors of a user group, anddeveloping designs that reflect the empathy gained for the user group to address their needs. Itincludes iterative design methods to elicit user requirements, generate alternative designs,develop low-fidelity prototypes, and evaluate designs from the perspective of the users. Theculminating course project involves students developing relationships with and designing anengineering innovation that meets the needs of users in the

Conference Session

Communication as Performance

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John W. Brocato, Mississippi State University; Amy Barton, Mississippi State University; Kelly Agee, Mississippi State University; Ed Dechert, Mississippi State University; Greg Carlisle, Morehead State University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

activity that correlates naturally with delivering professional technicalpresentations. For this project, students completed a pre-survey about their to-date presentationexperiences and overall public-speaking confidence followed by an interactive workshop on thetheatre-based exercises mentioned above. They then completed a post-workshop survey on thesesame concepts before giving their first presentation of the semester in a technical-communicationcourse. Significantly, the workshop was conducted by a theatre professor (one of the currentpaper’s authors) who began his career with an electrical-engineering degree and several years ofexperience in industry. The paper discusses the philosophy behind this pilot study; full details onthe workshop

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

longitudinalstudy is purposed to investigate the impact of the integration of career development supports inan undergraduate biosystems engineering program on students’ vocational identity developmentin order to improve career education and engineering education. The study will take place overfour-years, with one cohort of students followed through the three-year biosystems program atthe University of Manitoba, in Canada, and into their first year as alumni. This Work-in-Progresspaper focuses on Phase 1 of this project: the career supports integrated into a first year requireddesign course. Little research has been conducted on the topic of career interventions inengineering programs. This study proposes to fill this gap through qualitative analysis

Conference Session

Governance, Diplomacy, and International Comparisons in Engineering Education

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Daniel B. Oerther, Missouri University of Science and Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

purpose of elevating the understanding of all parties; this is anexample of both the challenge and the reward for teaching science diplomacy. And yetengineers are not entirely excluded from practicing a form of subterfuge in negotiation asexemplified through the process of entering a low bid to win a construction project andrelying upon cost overruns to turn a profit [3]. It is within this dynamic tension, betweenpractices shared by engineers and diplomats and practices shared by engineers andscientists, where a pilot course entitled, “Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, andMath (STEAM) Diplomacy” was initially proposed in 2017 [4].As defined in 2010, in a report co-published by the Royal Society and the AmericanAssociation for the Advancement

Conference Session

Engineering Education Culture: Mental Health, Inclusion, and the Soul of Our Community

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Hector Enrique Rodriguez-Simmonds, Purdue University; Avneet Hira, Boston College

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

. They crossed paths at events on campus before attendingthe same open house session for the Ph.D. program. Once they enrolled in the same program,they were part of the same cohort where they took many of the same classes, were part of thesame project teams and reading groups, and eventually shared social circles. Through theseshared experiences, they started talking about their experiences with the Ph.D. program,including similar observations and commonalities. Their similar prior experiences withengineering (especially their prior M.S. degrees at Purdue) and the accompanying uneasecontributed to them interrogating their experiences further, which formed the seed for this work.ScopingWe find it important to note that we write about the soul of

Conference Session

Writing and Communication

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amanda Simson, University of New Haven; Judy Randi Ed.D., University of New Haven; Amanda Lynn Becker, University of New Haven

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

need for instructional resources and strategies to teachcommunication skills, engineering faculty at the University of New Haven have beencollaborating to develop technical communication curriculum, including a series of onlinemodules. The present study is a pilot study intended to evaluate the implementation of selectedinstructional resources and strategies integrated into a chemical engineering laboratory course,where students were required to write bi-weekly technical memos based on the results ofexperimental work.One innovative aspect of this pilot project was the team-taught approach to instruction. In thislaboratory course, the engineering instructor collaborated with a writing instructor to plan anddeliver instruction. Although team

Conference Session

Assessment and Liberal Education

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sean Ferguson, University of Virginia; Rider W. Foley, University of Virginia

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

professor in the science, technology & society program in the De- partment of Engineering and Society at the University of Virginia. He is the principal investigator at University of Virginia on the ’4C Project’ on Cultivating Cultures of Ethical STEM education with col- leagues from Notre Dame, Xavier University and St. Mary’s College. He is also the co-leader of the ’Nano and the City’ thematic research cluster for the Center for Nanotechnology in Society at Arizona State University. Rider is a Research Collaborator with the Sustainability Science Education program at the Biodesign Institute. His research focuses on wicked problems that arise at the intersection of society and technology. Rider holds a Ph.D. in

Conference Session

Targeted Harassment in Engineering Education: What It Looks Like, Why Now, and What Is at Stake

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alice L Pawley, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Erin A. Cech, University of Michigan; Donna M Riley, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

inclusive, engaged, and socially just. She runs the Feminist Research in Engineering Education Group whose diverse projects and group members are described at pawleyresearch.org. She received a CAREER award in 2010 and a PECASE award in 2012 for her project researching the stories of undergraduate engineering women and men of color and white women. She has received ASEE-ERM’s best paper award for her CAREER research, and the Denice Denton Emerging Leader award from the Anita Borg Institute, both in 2013. She was co-PI of Purdue’s ADVANCE program from 2008-2014, focusing on the underrepresentation of women in STEM faculty positions. She helped found, fund, and grow the PEER Collaborative, a peer mentoring group of early

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

Paper ID #18243Critical Pedagogies and First-year Engineering Students’ Conceptions of ’Whatit Means to be an Engineer’Ms. Ashley R. Taylor, Virginia Tech Ashley Taylor is a doctoral student in engineering education at Virginia Polytechnic and State University, where she also serves as a program assistant for the Center for Enhancement of Engineering Diversity and an advisor for international senior design projects in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Ashley received her MS in Mechanical Engineering, MPH in Public Health Education, and BS in Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Tech. Her research interests include

Conference Session

Exploring Student Affairs, Identities, and the Professional Persona

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna C. Llewellyn, Boise State University; Patricia Pyke, Boise State University; Sharon Paterson, Boise State University; R. Eric Landrum, Boise State University; Arthur Scarritt, Boise State University ; Jocelyn B. S. Cullers, Boise State University; Don L. Warner, Boise State University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

opportunities for participants to translate theirindividualized experiences to an internalized identity as a STEM professional.A second study focused on first- and second-year college students who participated in a 10 weekresidential REU program that took place in a chemistry department.11 The REU was found topromote growth in professional identity through the interactions with mentors and advisors, theresponsibilities associated with conducting the research project, and the engagement inprofessional behaviors. The REU was found to increase the participants' self-reliance and self-confidence, which are directly related to professional identity development. The students gainedexpert-level knowledge that they were eager to share with the greater

Conference Session

Writing and Communication I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brad Jerald Henderson, University of California - Davis

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

and Hewlett-Packard Inkjet. Henderson was featured in the book—Engineers Write! Thoughts on Writing from Contemporary Literary Engineers by Tom Moran (IEEE Press 2011)—as one of twelve ”literary engineers” writing and publishing creative works in the United States. Henderson’s current project is a book pioneering a new method for teaching engineers workplace writing skills through the lens of math. A Math-Based Writing System for Engineers: Sentence Algebra & Document Algorithms will be published by Springer, New York, 2016/2017. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Pioneering a Math-Based Grammar Course for Engineering

Conference Session

Assessing Literacies in Engineering Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xiaofeng Tang, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Qin Zhu, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Haishao Pang, Beijing Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

education for more than 30 years. As a manager, teacher and researcher, she has served many departments, including Office of BIT President, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, School of Law, etc. In 2011, she built the Center for Faculty Development (CFD) of BIT, which has been named as the National Demonstrational Center by the Ministry of Education of China. Now, professor Pang is the head of Graduate School of Educational and the director of CFD at BIT. Her teaching, research, and writing focused on general education and suzhi education, faculty de- velopment, and higher education management. She has published 8 books, more than 50 papers, and undertook around 15 research projects. Her monograph ”General

Conference Session

Writing and Communication I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie Pulford, Auburn University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

students. While one student felt that the values of her writing class werepositively echoed in her discipline’s collaborative coursework, others lamented the few explicitopportunities to formally practice technical communication as an engineering value outside oftheir writing classes. In effect, these students felt that any additional quality that a student’swriting brought to a project or assignment outside of their writing class was not recognized inrubrics or grades. This lack of explicit curricular value for writing disappointed students who’dinvested effort in their writing classes. Three students noted that they made a personal point oftransferring the skills and standards of their writing class to other coursework, but they felt thatthey

Conference Session

Integrating Engineering & Liberal Education

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dominic M. Halsmer PE, Oral Roberts University; Peter Wesley Odom, Oral Roberts University; Jessica Fitzgerald, Oral Roberts University; Taylor Gipson Tryon, Oral Roberts University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

the “big picture” of engineering.6 One such effort integrates theintroduction to engineering course and the engineering graphics course around a reverseengineering project, making use of 3-D computer modeling and rapid prototyping of thedisassembled parts for reengineering considerations.7 Another study compares eight differentmethods for teaching design to first-year students and concludes that a reverse engineeringmodel is preferred.8An attempt to increase student interest is made by creating a game whereby students are awardedachievement levels for gaining particular insights during reverse engineering activities.9 Oneengineering educator went so far as to report that reverse engineering has “proven to be theinstructor’s fire keg that

Conference Session

Communication and Engineering Careers: Motivating Our Students

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tristan T. Utschig, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jeffrey S. Bryan; Judith Shaul Norback, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

analysis for ongoing CETL projects. His master’s thesis is an analysis of choice and player narratives in video game storytelling.Dr. Judith Shaul Norback, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Judith Shaul Norback, Ph.D. is faculty and the Director of Workplace and Academic Communication in the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. She has developed and provided instruction for students in industrial engineering and biomedical engineering and has advised on oral communication instruction at many other universities. The Workplace Communica- tion Lab she founded in 2003 has had over 19,000 student visits. As of Spring 2013, she has shared her instructional materials with