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

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

, Salt LakeCity, Utah. Jun. 2018.[3] Yoritomo, J. Y., Turnipseed, N., Cooper, S. L., Elliott, C. M., Gallagher, J. R., Popovics, J.S., Prior, P., and Zilles, J. L. “Examining engineering writing instruction at a large researchuniversity through the lens of writing studies,” in Proceedings of the 2018 ASEE AnnualConference, Salt Lake City, Utah. Jun. 2018.[4] Hanson, A. J., Lindahl, P., Strasser, S. D., Takemura, A. F., Englund, D. R., and Goldstein, J.“Technical communication instruction for graduate students: The Communication Lab vs. acourse,” in Proceedings of the 2017 ASEE Annual Conference, Columbus, Ohio. Jun. 2017.[5] R. Day Babcock and T. Thonus, “A sample research question: What is a successful tutorial?”in Researching the Writing

Conference Session

Integrating Liberal Education and Engineering

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mehmet Vurkac, Oregon Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

studies focused on solving is at the core of adistinction that we wish to draw attention to between ‘problem-solving’ and the solving ofproblems.According to a joint executive report from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and theNational Endowment for the Arts (NEA), student skills in engineering problem-solving(specifically in electrical engineering and computer science) are in dire need of a boost. Thereport states that “undergraduate and graduate students who study electrical engineering andcomputer science lack the ability or self-efficacy to create new ideas and innovations that stretchbeyond rote classroom exercises”1.Other high-profile reports agree: The National Academy of Engineering lamented in 2004 that“engineering students are not