Conference Session

Integrating Liberal Education and Engineering

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mehmet Vurkac, Oregon Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

constraint are key components ofart-making, but also that strong (although general) quantitative, causal connections have beendrawn by industry, government, and academic sources between arts engagement and success inengineering and the sciences. We then take the natural next step by proposing to test thehypothesis that problem-solving in design under constraint is a transferrable skill with thepotential to augment engineering students’ problem-solving ability if practiced in multipledomains rather than only (and seldom) in the engineering domain.The literature review presented here is intended to form the basis for a long-term pedagogicalstudy on the impact of substantive and progressive engagement in an art practice on students’problem-solving

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

. Unlike the prevailing curricular model inengineering education—in which introductory courses teach basic science and mathematics,prior to the intense disciplinary specialization and professionalism of upper-level courses—thescholarship on sustainability education25, 26, 27, 28 points to the need for “learning for sustainabledevelopment [to be] embedded in the whole curriculum, not as a separate subject.”29 Authentic,transformative impact is only possible when the concerns of sustainability transcend theperiphery of a curriculum to pervade student skill development.The HERE (Home for Environmentally Responsible Engineering) program, a first-yearliving-learning community at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, was designed to introducestudents

Conference Session

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

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

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

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

with the WFU Program for Leadership and Character and many colleagues across the university. With inclusion being a core value, she is proud that the WFU Engineering team represents 60% female engineering faculty and 40% female students, plus 20% of students from ethnic minority groups. Her areas of expertise include engineering identity, complex problem solving across cognitive and non-cognitive domains, recruitment and retention, PBL, engineering design, learning through ser- vice, character education in engineering contexts, etc. She also conducts research in cardiovascular fluid mechanics and sustainable energy technologies. Prior to joining Wake Forest University, Olga served as a Program Director at the

Conference Session

Assessing Social Responsibility & Sustainability

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Diversity

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

for oneblock or neighborhood is not directly replicable at another. Sustainable housing is tied with manyother wicked problems such as issues of poverty, equitable education, resource conservation, andclimate change. As a result, any response to this wicked problem will impact the others. Withinthe participating WPSI courses, student teams were tasked to develop viable responses to thiswicked problem through staged design reviews, while being exposed to its overall complexityand interconnectedness of sustainable housing with other wicked problems.Our MotivationWPSI is organized through Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW). As an organization, ourvision is for a world of environmental, social, and economic prosperity created and sustained

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

we focus on in this study is skills required for an engineering student to be innovative,what we call innovative design. We describe innovative design as the act of generating novelconcepts, processes, or designs. Innovative design is closely linked to creativity,6 using andimplementing creative ideas to develop something tangible, real, or meaningful in a societalcontext. This type of innovation may be described as incremental, leading to small changes, orradical, leading to a complete rethinking of existing practices and designs, or generating entirelynew concepts altogether.7Innovative design may be broken up into constituent components by identifying what skills ortraits are necessary for being innovative. For example, Eris (2004

Conference Session

Engineering Communication I: History and Praxis

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia; Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

implied anintegrated approach that could deliver on the potential of the HSS to contribute to engineeringeducation. A report commissioned by ABET to assess the impact of the EC2000 redesigndescribed the motivation for change: “For most of the second half of the 20th century, ABET’saccreditation criteria dictated all major elements of an accredited engineering program, includingprogram curricula, faculty, and facilities. In the mid-1990s, however, the engineering communitycollectively began to question the validity of such rigid accreditation requirements” (Lattuca,Terenzini, and Fredericks, 2006, p. 1). The new criteria were designed to allow flexibility and promote pedagogical andcurricular innovation. Perhaps most significantly, they

Conference Session

Exploring Student Affairs, Identities, and the Professional Persona

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexandra Vinson, Northwestern University; Reed Stevens, Northwestern University

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

holds a B.A. in Mathe- matics from Pomona College and PhD in Cognition and Development from the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Stevens began his professional career as a mathematics teacher. For the past two decades, he has studied STEM learning both in and out of school. His research seeks to understand how and when learning environments are productive for people and to translate those findings into practical use in the design and resdesign of learning environments. In recent years and in collaboration with colleagues at Northwestern, he created FUSE Studios to reimagine STEAM education around the values of innova- tion, making, and collaboration (https://www.fusestudio.net/). Since 2012, FUSE has

Conference Session

Advances in Assessment of Communication and Interdisciplinary Competence

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patricia Carlson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Arlene Ann Russell; Warren N. Waggenspack Jr., Louisiana State University; Chester G. Wilmot, Louisiana State University; Boz Bowles, Louisiana State University; David R. Voltmer, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; W. Todd Monroe, Louisiana State University; Warren R Hull Sr. P.E., Louisiana State University; Dianne Raubenheimer, Meredith College

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

; • To develop and field-test engineering communication assignments; • To contribute these assignments to a central library (maintained at UCLA), accessible to all CPR users; • To assess the impact of the integration of visual communication on course development, student performance, and student confidence levels in visual communication skills.Re-designed through successive iterations during the grant period, CPR5 extends the platform’scapability to allow for the creation and evaluation of student work, be it graphics, visuals, oralpresentations, movies, or posters.Basic Features of CPR: Four structured workspaces perform in tandem to create a series ofactivities that reflect modern pedagogical strategies for using writing in

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jessica R. Deters, Virginia Tech; Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Tech; Christopher Zobel, Virginia Tech; Margaret Cowell, Virginia Tech; Jennifer L. Irish, Virginia Tech

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

build community among the DRRM scholars(horizontally across disciplines but also, as the program grows, vertically across cohorts), deepenstudents understanding of one another’s research, promote peer feedback, and foster ongoingcollaborations. The seminar students collaborate to facilitate an annual workshop for theprogram’s advisory board, bring in guest speakers, develop outreach opportunities, and – everyother year – design and host a stakeholder workshop.Because students took the two courses concurrently in the fall, the resulting concept maps reflectthe learning across both courses. The assignment itself was assigned in the 3-hour course, but itwould be impossible to isolate the impact of that course alone because all study participants

Conference Session

Rethinking PowerPoint and Other Acts of Communication

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christine G. Nicometo, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Traci M. Nathans-Kelly, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

needs to be done about these “decks of drudgery,” as one of ourengineers labeled them. And in our own academic interface with industry, we have founda way to encourage more thoughtful slide design, and thus better organizationalcommunication, within the engineering and technical fields.The Design: Crafted from Research in Engineering Education and CognitiveScienceBeginning in 2006, using the emerging research from engineering education and drawingupon the established research on multimedia learning from Richard E. Mayer and JohnSweller, we designed a technical presentation component into our online graduate courseenrolled with practicing engineers. This new component of the course curriculumchallenged the slide design methods widely in use in

Conference Session

Why Industry Says that our Engineering Students Cannot Write

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey A. Donnell, Georgia Institute of Technology; Betsy M. Aller, Western Michigan University; Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; April A. Kedrowicz, University of Utah

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Mechanical Engineering

the best practices to teach and for students to learn. For instance, such is thecase with the design of presentation slides.39Finally, we do not need yet another study that comes to the final conclusion that communicationskills in engineering are important. No one disputes this. What we need is a study that minesdown to determine what important things about communication we are teaching well and whatwe are failing to teach, based on students’ needs and professional activities beyond theclassroom. Much could be handled through individual department surveys of visiting boards andrecent graduates, and by using surveys already given out by co-op offices. If these surveys could

Conference Session

Accreditation and Outcomes-based Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy E. Slaton, Drexel University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

. engineeringeducation to identify ways in which alternative pedagogies and applications of engineering mightbe foreclosed by these “best practices,” however well-intentioned. It focuses on ABETformulations regarding undergraduate engineering since 1980 as a set of epistemic and sociallyregulatory instruments. Analyzing both the purported function and the content of outcomesincluded in ABET documents over the last three decades, the paper shows how ABET hasprojected a formative role for outcomes in curricular development and institutional credibility. Inparticular, impacts of ABET outcomes-focused practices upon diversity, public participation, andthe pursuit of social justice in engineering education (and thus in the profession of engineering)will be examined

Conference Session

The Big Picture in Engineering Education

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dina Verdín, Purdue University

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

one, the discussion will be aroundproposals, while research question two will only address appraised awarded Project Summaries.MethodI employed a convergent parallel mixed method research design, collecting both quantitative andqualitative data simultaneously17. This method was selected because it provided a way to developa complete understanding of the Broader Impact Criterion using different but complementarydatasets. Figure 1 best outlines the use of a convergent parallel mixed method research design,depicting the collection of two independent strands of data—quantitative and qualitative—simultaneously. The data were collected in parallel strands, independently from each other, andwere be brought together to compare the results

Conference Session

Myths About Gender and Race

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jordana Hoegh, Purdue University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Minorities in Engineering, Women in Engineering

practices. Human capital analyses are problematic in explaining women’s location in the workforce and perpetuate the deficit model of gender inequality. (p. 156-157)Taken together, these three sets of critics point out major methodological flaws in using pipelineas a metaphor for structuring research studies: • Most studies do not articulate what counts as a “successful” scientific or engineering career. Must a person remain in the same profession for her entire working life for her to be considered “in” the pool? Or might there be more “kinds” of scientific-related careers that should “count” than that of bench scientist or design engineer?18 • Assuming that “gender effects” on career choices can be studied

Conference Session

Sustainability and Social Responsibility

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Benjamin J. Laugelli, University of Virginia

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

they could design mightplay a role in helping the university achieve the SDGs, even Goals that may initially appear notto pertain to them. To do that would require some research and imagination on their parts. Although some students resisted working with the SDGs, the course evaluations suggestthat integrating them into the course themes and assignments generally increased students’perception of the course’s value and contribution to engineering education and practice. Inresponse to a question that asked students to identify aspects of the course that most helped theirlearning, students frequently commended the strength of the curriculum and the course’s focuson “real-world” challenges and applications for engineering knowledge

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alberto Esquinca, San Diego State University; Lidia Herrera-Rocha, University of Texas at El Paso

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

focus is on the intersecting factors of gender, socio-economic status [SES],national origin, and language, and its impact on Latinx persistence in engineering. In our study,persistence is defined as both completion of an engineering undergraduate program and stayingin the field for one year following graduation. Few studies examine persistence beyond graduation, and, because almost half ofengineering degree holders do not enter engineering occupations [2], we studied participantsduring a critical juncture in their trajectory — the last year of their studies and the first year oftheir professional lives — to better understand this phenomenon. Thus, the research is expectedto contribute to the extant knowledge base on Latinx’ positionality

Conference Session

Promoting Technical Communication Skills

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

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

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

independently by the timethey graduate. Research in engineering education has demonstrated both the importance ofwriting in the engineering workplace and the extent to which new graduates struggle with thegeneric and rhetorical features of workplace writing [1], [2], [3]. The ME department establisheda committee of four engineers and one writing instructor to determine how better to preparestudents for writing in the curriculum and in their careers.As documented in a previous study, the committee first identified all of the courses in the MEcurriculum that included technical communication instruction. We then categorized thatinstruction by genre, including memos, presentations, reports, and technical drawings. Usingmemos as a starting point, we then

Conference Session

Social Responsibility and Social Justice I: Pedagogical Perspectives

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ricky T. Castles, East Carolina University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

area of hospital patient health monitoring and K-12 education. He is actively engaged in K-12 outreach and interested in collaborative research across colleges. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Getting Engineering Majors to Work with Students in Other Disciplines on Issues Impacting SocietyAbstractDespite all of the physics problems engineering majors learn to solve assuming ideal conditions,engineering problems rarely exist in a vacuum. Engineers are impacted in their work by laws,regulations, and policy, standards, business practices, and communication. This paper showcasesa research-based course for

Conference Session

Minoritization Processes and Critical Responses

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Kelly J. Cross, University of Nevada, Reno; Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University; Rocio C. Chavela Guerra, American Society for Engineering Education

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

). She holds a Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Purdue University, a B.S. and a M.S. in Chemical Engineering from Universidad de las Americas, Puebla in Mexico. Rocio’s current efforts focus on engineering faculty and graduate student development, with particular emphasis on the adoption of evidence-based instructional practices. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Work in Progress: Building a Safe Queer Community in STEM—It Takes a Village to Support a VillageIntroductionRecognizing the need to attract and retain talented individuals to Science, Technology,Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) professions, the National Academies advocate

Conference Session

A Challenge to Engineering Educators

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Harold R Underwood, Messiah College

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Page 23.1344.4also the specialized fields of engineering practiced in all of the application groups.Purposes for Portfolio Assessment of Engineering Project WorkOver the 5+ years that the portfolio has been used, engineering department faculty haverefined the approach to facilitate its use for both student and faculty purposes20 so as toaddress a full range of typical engineering design project activities. For students, havingto assemble the portfolio motivates them to create, select and document best-practiceexamples of their engineering work, reflect on the significance of each artifact to theproject, and evaluate its impact on their own formation as an engineer. As previouslystated, the portfolio becomes a professional showcase they can

Conference Session

Research on Diversification & Inclusion

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Lachney, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Dean Nieusma, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Topics

Diversity

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, New Engineering Educators, Student, Women in Engineering

reform effort risks being undermined by the curricular and cultural practices thatpervasively shape student experience and outcomes and drive away too many could-be engineerswith diverse interests, aptitudes, lived experiences, and values.PDI’s response to the bait-and-switch problem employs design-oriented logics of engagement inparallel with the fundamentals-first approach, which provides a partial corrective to the logic ofexclusion. This configuration offers educators new avenues for thinking about explicit andimplicit connections between the design-centric emphasis in K-12 and the content-driven modelof fundamentals first. Moving forward, we hope to conduct empirical research using participantobservation and interviews to compare students

Conference Session

Engineering as a Professional Calling

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Qin Zhu, Purdue University; Brent K Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jian Yuan, Beihang University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

background and/or practical experience in the Chinese context. For instance, in thegeneral criteria, the ten “graduate outcomes” include a considerable number of requirements thatare new to China’s traditional engineering education, such as “social, professional, and ethicalresponsibilities”, “design a system and process within the economic, environmental, legal, safety,health and ethical constraints”, working on “teams”, “global”, and “multicultural context.”25These requirements are strongly linked to an American or more generally Western historical andcultural context. For instance, terms such as “safety”, “global”, and “multicultural” may assumea liberal or cosmopolitan view that sees everyone has the right to freedom, basic health andsafety, and

Conference Session

Pedagogies of Making and Design

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher Lombardo, Harvard University; Daniela Faas, Harvard University; Avinash Uttamchandani, Harvard University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

and p values for changes in self-efficacy between genders. Survey Question F(1,109) p Conduct engineering design 0.59 0.44 Identify a design need 1.23 0.26 Research a design need 0.42 0.51 Develop design solutions 0.26 0.60 Select the best possible design 0.86 0.35 Construct a prototype

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

, research, and service. Teaching. With respect to teaching, UTREE mentors teach or assist the teaching ofclass periods about communication and teamwork in several engineering courses. In2013, UTREE taught more than 60 class periods on communication and teamwork. Mostof the students that UTREE teaching mentors instruct are first-year design students, butUTREE also teaches upper level classes and assists in the teaching of graduate studentseminars. Table 1 shows a breakdown of the types of class periods taught. One of the class periods that UTREE mentors teach concerns rethinking the topic-subtopic approach that most engineers and scientists follow for structuring theirengineering presentations. In this class period, the mentors first

Conference Session

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

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Cijy Elizabeth Sunny, Baylor University; Kathleen Koenig, University of Cincinnati

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

dependent on their capacityto implement, plans for sustainability, innovation, STEM engagement best practices, more high-risk students, schools within the business vicinity, and sponsor priority [12].Post-secondary sample. In Spring of 2019, an updated APT-STEM was administered to 667students enrolled in a first semester calculus-based introductory physics course for engineers.This was done for continued validation of the instrument. However, because this was an oldergroup of students, the items were slightly reworded by the primary researcher in collaborationwith the course instructor. Also, this updated version had a total of 30-items compared to 24-items from the post-validation phase of the 2017 sample. This resulted because the items werere

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

of the Center for Educational Networks and Impacts at the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology (ICAT). Her research interests include interdisciplinary collaboration, design education, communication studies, identity theory and reflective practice. Projects supported by the National Science Foundation include exploring disciplines as cultures, liberatory maker spaces, and a RED grant to increase pathways in ECE for the professional formation of engineers.Dr. David Gray, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Dr. Gray receieved his B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Virginia Tech in 2000. He then earned a M.S. and a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Virginia Tech in

Conference Session

The Interdisciplinary Nature of Engineering

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mehmet Vurkaç, Oregon Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

graduates need a broaderperspective of the role they and their activities play in the world at large.In addition to the practical purpose of strengthening our graduates’ engineering careers, theliterature also has much to say about the role of engineers in society, and the societal value ofHSS in preparing engineering graduates (who may function as engineers, managers,entrepreneurs, lawmakers, etc.) for that role. “The liberal arts help equip us for citizenship,”states Unfinished Design [2, p. 7]. “They can sharpen our critical powers and help us examineour preconceptions.” (Ibid.) Arms writes about “the development of the student as a person” [4,p. 141], and emphasizes Drexel’s E4 program’s selection of “[m]eritorious texts … to

Conference Session

Integration of Engineering and Other Disciplines (Including Liberal Arts)

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arthur Felse, Northwestern University; Igor Kourkine

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

PhD in Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology from the Indian Institute of Technology. Arthur is a recipient of the EPA’s Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award and has served as a faculty in the Chemical Engineering Summer School. Arthur is actively involved in engineering education research with particular emphasis on teaching engineering to non-engineers, and including industry practices in university education. Arthur is a member of American Society for Engineering Education.Dr. Igor Kourkine Page 24.103.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014A Sequence

Conference Session

Ethical Awareness and Social Responsibility in a Corporate/Team Context

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Natasha D. Mallette P.E., Oregon State University; Michelle Kay Bothwell, Oregon State University; Christine Kelly, Oregon State University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

during class time. They guide the students through best practices for team formation andare prompted with thought questions for team norms, motivation, goals and performancemeasures. Mid-way through teaming for the term, a team refinement activity is designed to havethe students analyze their team experience and functionality, as well as self-reflect on their ownbehavior. In addition, the teams revisit their performance definitions to adjust as necessary.The initial team formation activities were also repeated for Winter 2018 courses, and a conflictresolution module series has been incorporated to build on the Fall 2017 activities (Table 1). Themodule consists of an initial conflict handling mode training workshop, a mid-term conflictresolution

Conference Session

Studying Engineering Education Research & Institutions

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Xiaofeng Tang, Penn State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

high school graduates continue on to Baccalaureate-level (B.Eng. or B.Sc.) instruction, and for 50% of these to obtain the higher Candidate’s degree (M.Sc.)  Simultaneously, an attempt to contain the costs of higher education through the rationalization of higher education, both through the legislatively mandated consolidation of the nation’s semi-professional schools (those established for teachers, technicians, nurses and others) into a single University College system, and through fiscal policies designed to force administrative restructuring within the nation’s universities. Many nationally funded, not-for-profit research institutes were also absorbed into the nation’s universities under