Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cynthia Hampton, Virginia Tech; David Reeping, Virginia Tech

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

graduate career was the concept of reflexivity.This reflexivity was represented in my methodological coursework as a tool to be used whileconducting qualitative research. As a means of checks and balances, this tool’s purported usebecame a way to navigate through qualitative research in a manner that acknowledged therelationship between the researcher as an instrument and the processing of information over thecourse of research projects [8]. This navigation can be conceptualized in practices such as fieldtexts and reflections before, after, and during interaction with research participants as a means toshow proof of consideration of positionality, specifically for communities of color [9]. This tool,however, seemed to be accepted as a one size

Conference Session

Communication Across the Divisions I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lori Breslow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Christina Kay White, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Daniel E. Hastings, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Educational Research and Methods, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

. [4] Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. (2005). Definition and Selection of Competencies (DeSeCo) Project. Retrieved from http://www.oecd.org/education/skills-beyond-school/41529556.pdf [5] Williams, J. (2002). The engineering portfolio: Communication, reflection, and student learning outcomes assessment. International Journal of Engineering Education, 18(2), 199–207. [6] Boiarsky, C. (2004). Teaching engineering students to communicate effectively: A metacognitive approach. International Journal of Engineering Education, 20 (2), 251–60. [7] Gömleksi˙ z, M. N. (2007). Effectiveness of cooperative learning (jigsaw II) method in teaching English as a foreign language to

Conference Session

Studying Engineering Education Research & Institutions

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Justin L Hess, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Nicholas D. Fila, Purdue University; Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Johannes Strobel, Texas A&M University

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Educational Research and Methods, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

clientto work with (e.g. within project-based learning approaches). Similarly, the other positive linksbetween Empathic Concern, Fantasy, and the innovative behaviors may require the engineer tohave mindsets oriented towards real-world users who would be impacted by the design.The pervasive negative relationship between Personal Distress and each innovative behaviorseems to be an especially critical area for further investigation. At the individual course level, itsuggests that instructors seeking to inspire innovation should emphasize alleviating stress to the Page 26.740.10extent possible. Fostering an individual instructor’s empathic

Conference Session

Rethinking Engineering Writing

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elisa Warford, University of Southern California

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

forreading and varying levels of technical expertise. These constituencies range from managers andcolleagues to general audiences, who may have a significant stake in an engineering project ortechnology. Engineers need sophisticated rhetorical skills to accommodate the varying interestsand levels of knowledge of these audiences. In recognition of the importance of these skills forengineering graduates, and in part to meet ABET requirements, most engineering schools acrossthe country have incorporated some form of writing instruction in their engineering curricula.At the University of Southern California’s Viterbi School of Engineering, all undergraduates are

Conference Session

Engineering & Our Global Society

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

wenjuan wang, Beihang University ; Ming Li, Beihang University; Brent K Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Qin Zhu, Purdue University; Jian Yuan, Beihang University; Qing Lei, Beihang University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

a modern profession,per Western standards. Confucian liberal learning remains a promising resource that could helpdevelop personal and professional integrity among Chinese engineering students and practicingprofessionals, including in terms of both “micro-ethical” and “macro-ethical” considerations.20At the micro level, Confucianism provides guidelines for how to appropriately deal with human Page 24.474.9relations, including the relations between engineers and other stakeholders. At the macro level, aConfucian outlook offers processes and standards to evaluate the sociopolitical ramifications ofengineering projects in terms of their roles in

Conference Session

The Interdisciplinary Nature of Engineering

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

should not diminish their success in helping students not only to understand,but to successfully practice the unfamiliar ‘modes of thought’ that characterize a liberal artsclassroom.Bibliography:[1] Kastenberg, William E., Gloria Hauser-Kastenberg, David Norris. “An Approach to Undergraduate Engineering Education for the 21st Century,” American Society for Engineering Education Conference Proceedings, 2006.[2] Duderstadt, James J. Engineering for a Changing World. A Roadmap to the Future of Engineering Practice, Research, and Education. The Millenium Project, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2008.[3] Akera, Atsushi. “Liberal Learning Revisited: A Historical Examination of the Underlying Reasons, Frustrations, and Continued

Conference Session

Linking Engineering and Liberal Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

J. Ledlie Klosky, U.S. Military Academy; Scott M. Katalenich, U.S. Military Academy; Steven D. Hart, U.S. Military Academy

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

. Conversely, engineers acting alone are equally unlikely to makewell-informed decisions about system-level concerns like climate change. Sadly, engineers inthe past have too often made decisions that were good for the project or purpose within theirpurview only to find that the solution had broader societal harms that far outweighed the projectgains. It will take an intellectually diverse team to meet the Triple Bottom Line of EconomicProsperity, Health Environment and Social Equity (Regional Plan Association 2008).GEN ED 231: INFRASTRUCTURE APPRECIATIONUnfortunately, the truth is that very few universities offer, much less require, even a singlegeneral education course covering the composition and function of infrastructure; call itInfrastructure

Conference Session

Teaching Communication II

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Victoria Vadyak; Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Joanna K. Garner, Old Dominion University; Christine Haas, Christine Haas Consulting

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

university. For instance, eachsemester, three UTREE teaching mentors help teach a video-conferenced class periodabout slide design to engineering students at five different Korean universities. Shown inFigure 1 is a photo that captures the projected teaching slide (shown on the left screen)and a UTREE mentor teaching five classrooms at different Korean universities (shown onthe right screen). After this class period, which occurs in the evening for Penn State andin the morning of the next day for the Korean universities, each student team from thesefive Korean universities submits a set of slides that the UTREE teaching mentors critique.Figure 1. Scene from video teleconference class taught by UTREE students at Penn Stateto engineering students at

Conference Session

Integrating Engineering & Liberal Education

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brent K. Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

kinds of global and professional competencies and outcomes. Yet for avariety of reasons, at most schools the core has remained largely impervious to change.Such trends have not gone unnoticed. Cech and Sherick, for example, have written persuasivelyabout how a stubbornly entrenched “ideology of depoliticization” has powerfully inflected theform and content of engineering education, namely by demarcating the technical dimensions ofengineering from any associated political, social, or cultural considerations.2 This ideologicalboundary-work projects a sanitized and idealized image of engineering as ultimately divorceablefrom anything deemed subjective, sociocultural, or humanistic – that is, anything “non-technical.” The idea of “social/technical

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

requirement, under learningoutcome (d), that students be able to “function on multidisciplinary teams” [25]. Insofar as mostprograms utilized their capstone design experience to bring their students together, most collegesmix, at best, students from different engineering disciplines rather than drawing on studentsmajoring in business, economics, and other relevant fields such as history, psychology, andanthropology. Some programs also simply choose projects that require multiple disciplinaryperspectives to be applied without requiring the students themselves to come from differentdisciplinary backgrounds. The current guideline says multidisciplinary capstone design. [In] the new guideline, which will probably go live December 1

Conference Session

Imagining Others, Defining Self Through Consideration of Ethical and Social Implications

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexis Papak, University of Maryland, College Park; Ayush Gupta, University of Maryland, College Park; Chandra Anne Turpen, University of Maryland, College Park

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

professor in physics at the University of Maryland in the Physics Education Research (PER) Group. Turpen’s work involves designing and researching contexts for learn- ing within higher education (for both students and faculty). Her research draws from perspectives in an- thropology, cultural psychology, and the learning sciences. Through in-situ studies of classroom practice and institutional practice, she focuses on the role of culture in science learning and educational change. She pursues projects that have high potential for leveraging equitable change in undergraduate STEM pro- grams and she makes these struggles for change a direct focus of her research efforts. She also serves on several national leadership bodies

Conference Session

Engineering Communication II: Curricular Practices, Integrations, and Collaborations

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Kali Lynn Morgan, Georgia Institute of Technology; Cristi L. Bell-Huff, Georgia Institute of Technology; Janece Shaffer, StoryReady LLC; Joseph M. LeDoux, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

five years have really refined me as a person and I just want to finally communicate that...like I feel pretty confident of who I am. (italics added for emphasis)For Amelia, the course allowed her to step out of herself and see how she had grown, that is, howshe developed her identity, as she listened to younger students. The benefit of the course to her,then, was not only having furthered her understanding of her identity development, but feelingready to share that with the world. Taken together, these data suggest the course was able to helpstudents progress in their self-concept clarity and the projection of that clarity, regardless of thelevel of self-concept clarity with which they entered.With these findings from the inductive

Conference Session

Liberal Education Division Technical Session 11

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Qin Zhu, Colorado School of Mines

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

considered as dominant images in American engineeringeducation, but it does not mean that these shifts have already occurred in all Americanengineering programs. Let me suggest that the reader consider the following scenario that I hopewill be helpful for the reader to better understand the concept of dominant images. Let usimagine a scenario in which a Chinese engineering professor meets an American colleague on aflight. If the Chinese professor is interested in learning more about American engineeringeducation and ask the American professor to summarize some major defining characteristics ofAmerican engineering education, it is probably not surprising to imagine that the Americanprofessor will talk about concepts such as student-centered, project

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Endeavors: Engineering and Liberal Arts

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

offeringappointments in December 2018. The Comm Lab is staffed by 5 advanced undergraduate peertutors, all of whom are engineering students. During the two-year pilot phase funded through agrant from a private foundation, the Comm Lab is tailoring its services to student competitionteams in Rose-Hulman’s makerspace, where students work on co-curricular projects like HumanPowered Vehicle and Concrete Canoe (Figure 1). These teams must submit design and safetyreports and make presentations as part of their national competitions, but because these teams’activities happen outside the context of a course, students received no formal writing orcommunication support, and team leaders and faculty advisors do not have the expertise or timeto devote to enhancing teams

Conference Session

Trends in Accreditation and Assessment

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alan Cheville, Bucknell University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

communitywithin the engineering team.Proposed Changes Aligned with the Philosophy of the PersonalWhile the ABET criteria have significant flaws from the perspective of Macmurray’s philosophyof the personal, there are positive features that emerge from the revisions. Several of these havebeen mentioned previously. One additional positive change is the merging of outcomes (a) and(e) since this shift more closely integrates knowing and acting. Another positive shift is theinclusion of language on codes and standards in the preamble. This has the opportunity toengage students into a larger community and consider how personal relations can be extended tothose we do not directly interact with. Furthermore the culminating design project outlined inCriterion 5

Conference Session

Integrating Social Justice in Engineering Science Courses

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James L. Huff, Harding University

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Diversity

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Engineering Ethics, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

other engineering instructors share my sentiment of being a novice in reconciling thesocial and technical worlds of the engineering science course. To us, it is tempting to abandonthe pursuit of reconciling these worlds. Though we may agree such integration would benefitstudents’ professional preparation, the tension of the social/technical paradox might be a placethat the instructor wishes to avoid. I find Palmer’s guidance to be a useful conceptual tool here.We may long to embody and project a coherent integration between the technical concepts weare drawn to and the social world that we live in. Until we find that integration, however, we can“live out the resolution” of the social/technical paradox that accompanies our profession, thereby

Conference Session

Accreditation and Outcomes-based Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jens Kabo, Chalmers University of Technology; Xiaofeng Tang, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Dean Nieusma, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; John Currie, University of Sydney; Hu Wenlong, Beihang University; Caroline Baillie, University of Western Australia

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

meaningful integration of social-analyticcapabilities of engineering education.Finally, we noticed variations across the countries in their presentation of social-analyticcapabilities as constraints, awareness, responsibility and cultivation in engineering education.We suggest that these variations reflect the dominant common sense within the engineering(profession) in each particular national context. Although a similar engineering common senseexists in all the four countries, each presents a particular articulation and respective emphasis atthe national level, which deserves consideration in any contextualized application of the findingspresented here.As our research team moves forward on this project, we anticipate looking more closely at

Conference Session

Advances in Assessment of Communication and Interdisciplinary Competence

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Jeffrey S. Bryan is currently in his first year of Georgia Tech’s M.S. program in digital media. He attended Southern Utah University as an undergraduate, and majored in English education. He worked for several years as a trainer for AT&T, teaching adult learners, and as an Editor for an opinion research company. He currently works as a Graduate Research Assistant in Georgia Tech’s Center for the Enhancement of Teach- ing and Learning (CETL), where he assists with assessment and data analysis for ongoing CETL projects. His master’s thesis involves an investigation of choice and transgression in video game storytelling

Conference Session

Engineering & Our Global Society

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zhihui Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Xiaofeng Tang, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Page 24.1218.14Development of Higher Engineering Education in China]. Beijing Institute of TechnologyPress.2012:144.2“The College and Department Adjustment of Higher Education” in the 1952, “the Anti-RightistMovement" in 1957, “The Socialist Education Movement ”in the 1960s, the ten-years long "CulturalRevolution" movement (from 1966 to 1976), and “The Improvement and Rectification” period after1976 and “The Reform and Opening Up” period after 1978 in the so called "post-Cultural Revolution"era.3 Kimball, B. A. 1995. Orators and Philosophers: A History of the Idea of Liberal Education. CollegeBoard.4The Research Group of General Education Project in Institute of Higher Education, Beijing Universityof Aeronautics and Astronautics. Zhuan

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mitch Cieminski, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

prevalent in engineering projects. The Dramatistsseemed to have a consistent role-based infrastructure that different plays run atop of, each playassigning its own roles to actors and making its own demands of the different technical positions.I recognized this model as being analogous to an engineering administrative one: assigning aproject manager, a software lead, a senior developer for backend, etc. Still, the students I spoketo saw the structure as meaningfully distinct. This distinction is perhaps explained by somestudents’ inexperience with industry teaming structures. However, I believe more is going on.Perhaps, the particulars of the Dramatists’ system is flexible enough so as to encourage effectiveteamwork, whereas hierarchies on

Conference Session

The Interdisciplinary Nature of Engineering

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mehmet Vurkaç, Oregon Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

, delegating andaccepting responsibility, and dealing with the interpersonal conflicts that inevitably arise—maybe more vital to the success of a project than technical expertise” [5, p. 18]. Whether these aremore important than technical expertise may be debated—the best approach to teamwork maynot solve the problem if no one on the team has the requisite knowledge and experience—butperhaps the two can be seen on an equal footing as necessary-but-not-sufficient conditions forsuccessful engineering design.Lee, in a paper presented at the ASEE Southeast Section Conference in 2002 [6], pulls nopunches when it comes to stating the role of an understanding of philosophy of science inbattling junk science, or fraud, as part of engineers’ responsibility to

Conference Session

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

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Lucy Elizabeth Hargis, University of Kentucky; Courtney Janaye Wright, University of Kentucky; Ellen L. Usher, University of Kentucky; Joseph H. Hammer, University of Kentucky; Sarah A. Wilson, University of Kentucky; Melanie E. Miller, University of Kentucky

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

bachelor’s degree at Rowan University in New Jersey before attending graduate school for her PhD at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, MA. Her research interests in- clude engineering communication, process safety, and undergraduate student mental health. Recently, she was awarded an NSF RIEF grant to student mental health-related help-seeking in undergraduate engineer- ing students. She is completing this project in collaboration with faculty members from educational and counseling psychology. With this work, they aim to better understand the help-seeking beliefs of under- graduate engineering students and develop interventions to improve mental health-related help-seeking. Other research interests include

Conference Session

Exploring Student Affairs, Identities, and the Professional Persona

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sherif Elmeligy Abdelhamid, Virginia Tech; Chris J. Kuhlman, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute; Madhav V. Marathe, Virginia Tech; S. S. Ravi, University at Albany - SUNY; Kenneth Reid, Virginia Tech

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Education. He was named NETI Fac- ulty Fellow for 2013-2014, and the Herbert F. Alter Chair of Engineering (Ohio Northern University) in 2010. His research interests include success in first-year engineering, engineering in K-12, introducing entrepreneurship into engineering, and international service and engineering. He has written two texts in Digital Electronics, including the text used by Project Lead the Way. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation of Depression and Its Impact on Students’ Success and Academic RetentionAbstractIn the U.S., major depressive disorder affects approximately 14.8 million American adults.Furthermore

Conference Session

Integrating Social Justice in Engineering Science Courses

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Juan C. Lucena, Colorado School of Mines; Jon A. Leydens, Colorado School of Mines

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Diversity

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Engineering Ethics, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

lessexpensive goods (that more people can afford) at the expense of loss of jobs.During the fall 2014 semester, it was clear that students easily grasped the connection betweencontrol system design and safety, with a large portion of the team-based final projects using asafety-related concept to drive one or more of their selected design specifications. In classdiscussion and individual conversations, it was also clear that students could see thephilosophical connection between the bigger picture engineering decisions (e.g., moving towardindustrial automation) and social justice, though they clearly perceived a disconnect betweenthese more philosophical concepts and the details of the classroom activities.Since the fall 2014 semester was the first

Conference Session

Communication as Performance

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Caitlin Donahue Wylie, University of Virginia; Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

tocommunicate complex and relatively open-ended meanings.Before class began, Wylie would project a PowerPoint slide of 2-4 cartoons relevant to the day’stopic, much as Cheesman (2006) describes.5 As students arrived, they would read the slide andoften react, with a smile or a groan or a look of confusion. To start class, Wylie would ask theclass about each comic, “What is this author’s message?”, “How do you know?”, “Why is itfunny? Or why is it not funny?”. She was surprised at the variety of interpretations, whichthankfully made for interesting discussions and even debates about a cartoon’s meaning. Forexample, Wylie showed this image on the first day of the large introductory class, to introducethe idea of the interactions between science