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Long-Distance Collaboration, International Perspective, and Social Responsibility through a Shared Interdisciplinary Engineering Design Course

Conference Session: Teaching Communication II
Collection: 2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Jodi F. Prosise, St. Ambrose University; Hank Yochum, Sweet Briar College
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

institution offers an ABET accredited engineering degree (Engineering Scienceand Industrial Engineering) and each graduates ~7-12 engineers per year. Sharing expertise,capabilities, and faculty time are important considerations in developing the program because ofthe very small size of each school’s departments.The mission of the program is to allow students to practice engineering skills while they developstrong communication and teamwork skills, gain global perspective, and learn socialresponsibility through projects for persons with disabilities that otherwise could not affordassistance, both locally and globally. At each institution the program is incorporated intorequired sophomore and junior-level design-intensive courses. The course is offered

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From Workplace to Classroom - Document Workflow and Engineering Communication Pedagogy

Conference Session: Writing and Communication II
Collection: 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Julia M. Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Bernadette Longo, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Dave M. Kmiec, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

(forthcoming in 2016 fromIEEE Wiley Press) provides an alternative view of engineering communication that can be used byengineering communication teachers because it presents project documents within their workflow.1Central to the document workflow approach is bringing the authors of the documents into thediscussion of how engineering communication is constructed. The IEEE Guide is supplemented withonline resources that will be available at the IEEE Professional Communication Society webpage(pcs.ieee.org). These resources include a suite of document workflows that cover engineering andtechnology projects that are annotated and narrated by the professional engineers who produced them.These individuals can speak to the process by which the documents are

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Examining How Skill-building Workshops Affect Women’s Confidence over Time

Conference Session: Liberal Education Division Technical Session Session 12
Collection: 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Megan Keogh, University of Colorado, Boulder; Malinda S. Zarske, University of Colorado, Boulder; Janet Y. Tsai, University of Colorado, Boulder
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

how team dynamics affect undergraduate women’s confidence levels in engineering.Dr. Malinda S. Zarske, University of Colorado, Boulder Malinda Zarske is a faculty member with the Engineering Plus program at the University of Colorado Boulder. She teaches undergraduate product design and core courses through Engineering Plus as well as STEM education courses for pre-service teachers through the CU Teach Engineering program. Her primary research interests include the impacts of project-based service-learning on student identity - es- pecially women and nontraditional demographic groups in engineering - as well as pathways and retention to and through K-12 and undergraduate engineering, teacher education, and

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Improving Senior Design Proposals Through Revision by Responding to Reviewer Comments

Conference Session: Maps, Metaphors, Tweets, and Drafts
Collection: 2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Judy Randi, University of New Haven; Ronald S. Harichandran, University of New Haven; Joseph A. Levert P.E., University of New Haven; Bijan Karimi, University of New Haven
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #21594Improving Senior Design Proposals Through Revision by Responding to Re-viewer CommentsProf. Judy Randi, University of New Haven Judy Randi, Ed.D. is Professor of Education at the University of New Haven where she is currently teaching in the Tagliatela College of Engineering and coordinating a college-wide initiative, the Project to Integrate Technical Communication Habits (PITCH).Dr. Ronald S. Harichandran, University of New Haven Ron Harichandran is Dean of the Tagliatela College of Engineering. He led the Project to Integrate Technical Communication Habits at the Tagliatela College of Engineering. All

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Quantifying and Assessing Trends on the National Science Foundation's Broader Impact Criterion

Conference Session: The Big Picture in Engineering Education
Collection: 2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Dina Verdín, Purdue University
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

convergent parallel mixedmethod design, collecting both quantitative and qualitative data, simultaneously, to answer tworesearch questions 1) What trends are Program Officers seeing in the Broader Impacts criterionand 2) Which Broader Impacts statements are being addressed in Project Summaries submitted tothe National Science Foundation. The quantitative approach consisted of examining 82 awarded Project Summaries in theEEC division to obtain a quantifiable assessment of the extent to which PIs who applied to EECaddressed the Broader Impacts suggestions outlined in NSF’s Proposal and Award Policies andProcedures Guide. The qualitative approach involved interviews of four program officers from theEEC division regarding the trends in addressing

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Fostering Innovation through the Integration of Engineering and Liberal Education

Conference Session: Making Students Aware of Their World: Five Perspectives
Collection: 2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Cherrice Traver, Union College; Douglass Klein, Union College; Borjana Mikic, Smith College; Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Steven B. Shooter, Bucknell University; Ari W. Epstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; David Gillette, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

conference. Her teaching interests are in the Computer Engineering area including Digital Design, Embedded Systems, and VLSI. She has co-taught international project courses in Turkey and in Spain. Her research has been focused on timing issues in digital systems. She has directed local and national outreach programs, including Robot Camp and the P. O. Pistilli Scholarship.J. Douglass Klein, Union College J. Douglass Klein is Dean of Interdisciplinary Studies and Special Programs and Kenneth B. Sharpe Professor of Economics at Union College. Klein joined the Union faculty in 1979, after earning a BA in Mathematics at Grinnell College, and a PhD in Economics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has written on

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Integrated 2D Design in the Curriculum: Effectiveness of Early Cross-Subject Engineering Challenges

Conference Session: Integration of Engineering and Other Disciplines (Including Liberal Arts)
Collection: 2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Kevin Otto, Singapore University of Technology and Design; Bradley Adam Camburn, University of Texas, Austin, and Singapore University of Technology & Design; Kristin L. Wood, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD); Giacomo Nannicini, SUTD; Roland Bouffanais, Singapore University of Technology and Design; Elica Kyoseva, Singapore University of Technology and Design; Jean Wan Hong Yong, SUTD; Dario Poletti, Singapore University of Technology and Design; Robert E Simpson; Aditya Prasad Mathur
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

inmultidisciplinary engineering design problems. Modern-world engineering problems are oftendescribed as no longer solely within a single discipline. For example, traditional mechanicalengineering designs often now involve software, controls, electronics and perhaps biology, etc.One primary difficulty in posing multidisciplinary design problems in the undergraduatecurriculum is that within the student body of a course there is variety in the past courses andexperiences. An instructor can only expect students to have taken the pre-requisite courses,which thereby limits the range of multiple disciplines that a project can cover. Further,instructors from these other disciplines are typically not available during the course project forlearning and consulting on

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Design Meets Disability Studies: Bridging the Divide between Theory and Practice

Conference Session: Design and Making
Collection: 2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Sarah Summers, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Renee D. Rogge, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

perceived divisions between STEM andthe liberal arts by linking those perspectives and assignments to broader habits of mind that arenecessary for engineers and designers. We then describe our strategies for integrating a richdesign experience into the course and consider how that integration alters typical approaches todesign projects. Finally, we discuss our plan to implement assessments that account for bothstudents’ technical abilities and their application of course theories and concepts.Course development was supported at the Institution by a summer course development grant thatencouraged faculty to partner across disciplines to create unique course offerings. Thepartnership between the Humanities & Social Sciences (HSS) and the

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Students Writing for Professional Practice: A Model for Collaboration Among Faculty, Practitioners, and Writing Specialists

Conference Session: Communication Across the Divisions I: Communication in Engineering Disciplines
Collection: 2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Susan Conrad, Portland State University; William A. Kitch, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Timothy James Pfeiffer P.E., Foundation Engineering, Inc.; Tori Rhoulac Smith, Howard University; John V. Tocco J.D., Lawrence Technological University
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Civil Engineering, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #12608Students Writing for Professional Practice: A Model for Collaboration amongFaculty, Practitioners and Writing SpecialistsProf. Susan Conrad, Portland State University Susan Conrad, Ph.D., is a Professor of Applied Linguistics and head of the Civil Engineering Writing Project. She has written numerous articles and books about English grammar, discourse, and corpus linguistics.Dr. William A Kitch P.E., California State Polytechnic University, Pomona Dr. Kitch is a Professor of Civil Engineering at Cal Poly Pomona. Before starting his academic career he spent 24 years as a practicing engineer in both the

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Seeking New Perspectives: Engineers Experiencing Design through Creative Arts

Conference Session: Infusing Engineering with Art (and Vice Versa)
Collection: 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: David M. Beams P.E., University of Texas - Tyler; Kyle Gullings, University of Texas - Tyler; Catherine Elizabeth Ross Ph.D., University of Texas - Tyler
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

experience of the creative arts beyond the superficial might reveal thatthe artist and the engineer are not as different as is usually supposed. The University of Texas atTyler has conducted an experimental project in which engineering students were encouraged toexperience the design process afresh from the perspective of the creative arts. Juniors inelectrical engineering worked under the mentorship of arts faculty in a chosen medium (studioart, writing, or music) to produce legitimate works of art that were displayed, performed, or readpublicly, and documented how their experiences of design in the arts have informed and shapedtheir perspectives as engineers. The structure, expectations, and results of this course aredescribed in this paper.A

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Organizing a Student Poster Session in an ASEE Section Conference

Conference Session: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Poster Session
Collection: 2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Steve E. Watkins, Missouri University of Science & Technology; Les Kinsler, Kansas State University, Salina; Julia L. Morse, Kansas State University, Salina; Doug Carroll, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

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

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On the Use of Outcomes to Connect Students to an Engineering Identity, Culture, and Community

Conference Session: Trends in Accreditation and Assessment
Collection: 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Rebecca A. Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Cheryl Allendoerfer, University of Washington; Ronald R. Ulseth, Itasca Community College; Bart M. Johnson, Itasca Community College
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Minnesota.Bart M. Johnson, Itasca Community College Bart Johnson is the Provost of Itasca Community College. Prior to this position, he was the Dean of Aca- demic Affairs and an engineering instructor and program coordinator at Itasca. His areas of engineering education research focus are project-based learning, learning communities, professional identity develop- ment, and professional competencies. Prior to Itasca, he was an engineer in John Deere’s Construction and Forestry Division and a research fellow for Whirlpool Corporation. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 On the Use of Outcomes to Connect Students to an Engineering Culture, Identity, and

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Comparatively Mapping Genres in Academic and Workplace Engineering Environments

Conference Session: Communication Across the Divisions III: Writing as Social–Technical Integration
Collection: 2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Vukica M. Jovanovic, Old Dominion University; Megan McKittrick, Old Dominion University; Pilar Pazos, Old Dominion University; Daniel Richards, Old Dominion University; Julia Romberger
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Computing & Information Technology, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Comparatively Mapping Genres in Academic and Workplace Engineering EnvironmentsAbstract In the Engineering workplace, one must be able to negotiate many genres of writing: he orshe must deliver updates, understand technical requirements, weigh project priorities, develop andcarry out problem-solving techniques, all while using different forms of technical communication.Engineering work relies on the ability to flexibly transition between a variety of technical writinggenres, while also navigating the broad array of technologies required to effectively complete theseprojects. However, the genres and types of writing present in the workplace do not always reflectthe genres and types of writing undergraduate Engineering students

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A Sequence of Technology Commercialization Courses for Science and Engineering

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

education has been noted by the National Academyof Sciences 4 and echoed in the “Engineer of 2020” report of the National Academy ofEngineering5 and more recently in President Obama’s strategy for American innovation6.Following the lead of the NAS and NAE, several universities have launched a variety oftechnology commercialization and entrepreneurship programs – short courses, workshops, cross-disciplinary courses, commercialization projects, and others7.This paper describes a sequence of three technology commercialization courses in the Master ofBiotechnology Program at Northwestern University. We developed these courses based onrecommendations of our industrial advisory board, our interactions with business developmentprofessionals, previously

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Integration of General Education into the Senior Capstone Class in Engineering

Conference Session: Assessing Literacies in Engineering Education
Collection: 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Patricia R Backer, San Jose State University; Laura E Sullivan-Green, San Jose State University
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

the engineering major. Advanced GE at SJSU is designed to help students become integrated thinkers who can see connections between and among a variety of concepts and ideas. In the College of Engineering at SJSU, we believe that it is critical that engineering students integrate the GE student learning outcomes into their engineering studies. In these two courses, students are challenged to understand the relationship of engineering to the broader community both in the U.S. and worldwide. In addition to the assignments in this course, the engineering faculty have created linked activities in the senior project courses that allow the students to apply these concepts to your engineering disciplines. The engineering senior level general

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Exploring Team Social Responsibility in Multidisciplinary Design Teams

Conference Session: Ethical Awareness and Social Responsibility in a Corporate/Team Context
Collection: 2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Katharine E. Miller, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Patrice Marie Buzzanell, University of South Florida; David Torres, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Danielle Corple, Purdue University; Megan Kenny Feister, California State University, Channel Islands
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Feister is an Assistant Professor of Organizational Communication at California State Uni- versity Channel Islands. She previously held a postdoctoral research position working on her grant funded research in Engineering Projects in Community Service at Purdue University. She is a recipient of the Purdue Research Foundation dissertation grant and co-wrote a National Science Foundation grant for her dissertation and postdoctoral work in Organizational Communication at Purdue. Her primary research in- terests include collaboration and innovation; negotiations of expertise in team-based organizational work; team processes and decision-making; ethical reasoning, constitution, and processes; engineering design; technology

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The Virtues of Teamwork: A Course Module to Cultivate the Virtuous Team Worker

Conference Session: Socially Responsible Engineering II: Pedagogy, Teamwork, and Student Experiences
Collection: 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors: Michael D. Gross, Wake Forest University; Joseph Wiinikka-Lydon, Wake Forest University; Michael Lamb, Wake Forest University ; Olga Pierrakos, Wake Forest University ; Adetoun Yeaman, Wake Forest University
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

the Promise of Virtue, the subject of an upcoming symposium on Syndicate. Commit- ted to interdisciplinary collaborations that translate academic research for larger, professional audiences, he has contributed to Uppsala University’s Engaging Vulnerability Project and, most recently, collabo- rated with Dr. Shelly Rambo at Boston University developing an ebook, Trauma and Moral Injury: A Guiding Framework for Chaplains. He holds a BA from Georgetown University, an MDiv from Harvard University, and PhD in religion, ethics, and society from Emory University.Dr. Michael Lamb, Wake Forest University Michael Lamb is Executive Director of the Program for Leadership and Characterand Assistant Professor of Politics, Ethics

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"Making" a Bridge: Critical Making as Synthesized Engineering/Humanistic Inquiry

Conference Session: Pedagogies of Making and Design
Collection: 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Dean Nieusma, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; James W. Malazita, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

history of bridging content from engineering andliberal education, but the making activities that are currently being carried out have not yet beentheorized as one of the mechanisms through which technical-social integration is achieved. In thepaper, we provide specific examples of making practices and projects that exemplify the desiredintegration, and then argue that even engineering-centered design pedagogy can make use ofmaking activities as a vehicle for integrating critical social inquiry and humanistic educationalframeworks.Background: Making in the Context of the Digital HumanitiesAs in engineering (and STEM fields generally), making activities have been embraced in thehumanities and interpretive social sciences. In fact, wide-ranging

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“The Road Less Travelled”: Engineering With Vulnerable Communities Through NGOs

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: Juan C. Lucena, Colorado School of Mines
Tagged Divisions: Community Engagement Division, Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

effective, responsible, andaccountable to the communities they hope to serve? How do engineering students understandhow to work in these organizations that historically have not been part of traditionalengineering career pathways – “The Road Less Travelled”? This paper presents a conceptualmodel for understanding, partnering, and building relationships between engineering teamsand NGOs, organizations that rarely figure in the employment landscape of engineering. Itproposes that sustainable community development (SCD) projects require a level ofembeddedness in communities, engagement, continuity and logistical maturity that mostengineering schools with community-engagement programs are ill equipped to provide bythemselves but that in partnership

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Ethics and Responsible Innovation in Biotechnology Communities: A Pedagogy of Engaged Scholarship

Conference Session: Innovation and Reflection
Collection: 2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Joseph R. Herkert, North Carolina State University; Jennifer Kuzma, North Carolina State University; Patricia Mae Roberts, North Carolina State: School of Public and International Affairs; Erin Banks, North Carolina State University ; Sharon A Stauffer, NC State University Genetic Engineering and Society Center
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

minority students enrolling and graduating with graduate level de- grees. Dr. Banks also has experience in program evaluation and research involving health disparities and psychosocial issues and is a lecturer in the psychology and interdisciplinary studies program.Ms. Sharon A Stauffer, NC State University Genetic Engineering and Society Center Sharon joined the Genetic Engineering and Society Center in the fall of 2013, at the beginning of its inaugural year. She brings to the Center many years of experience in event planning, office management, project management, and financial management. She is the current project manager on the Centers’ NSF- funded grant titled ”Cultivating Cultures in Ethics STEM:Comparing Meanings

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A Novel Approach to Teaching Technical Writing

Conference Session: Creative and Cross-disciplinary Methods Part I
Collection: 2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Chad A. B. Wilson, University of Houston
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

WritingThis paper describes how ENGI 2304: Technical Communications for Engineers uses best-selling novels to provide course content and to introduce students to the conventions ofengineering genres by building on their familiarity with humanities readings. Students read thenovels Pompeii by Robert Harris and Prey by Michael Crichton and complete projects based onor inspired by the novels. This paper explains some standard research projects used in technicalwriting classes and outlines several problems with these projects before introducing the conceptof using literature in a technical writing class. While previous studies by Jo Allen and othershave argued against the practice of mixing literature with technical writing, this paper explains anew

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Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Getting Engineering Majors to Work with Students in Other Disciplines on Issues Impacting Society

Conference Session: Social Responsibility and Social Justice I: Pedagogical Perspectives
Collection: 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Ricky T. Castles, East Carolina University
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #16856Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Getting Engineering Majors to Work withStudents in Other Disciplines on Issues Impacting SocietyDr. Ricky T. Castles, East Carolina University Dr. Ricky Castles is an assistant professor in the Department of Engineering at East Carolina University. He is primarily affiliated with the ECU Electrical Engineering concentration. His research work focuses on the use of wireless sensor networks, microcontrollers, and physiological data collection for a variety of applications. His primary interest is in the area of adaptive tutorial systems, but he has ongoing projects in the

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Cyber Science - Interdisciplinary Approach to Cyber Studies

Conference Session: Integrating Engineering & Liberal Education
Collection: 2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Heath Tims, Louisiana Tech University; Krystal S Corbett, Cyber Innovation Center; Galen E. Turner III, Louisiana Tech University
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

the project include activities developed such as: historical/policy essay assignments,robotics challenges, as well as computer science fundamentals. This paper will describe theapproaches used in addressing ethical and social issues related to cyber technology, as well ashow STEM fundamentals are enhanced by integrating with liberal arts.IntroductionCyberspace technology has become an integral part of our world, uniting individuals acrossinternational boundaries and offering them an unprecedented level of interaction. Personal,business, academic, and military applications across cyberspace have become intertwined. Butthere has been a negative consequence to this phenomenon. Individuals with particular personalor political agendas have

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The Faculty Ulysses Contract

Conference Session: Reflective & Critical Pedagogies
Collection: 2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Joe Tranquillo, Bucknell University
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

students) behind fancy sounding pedagogical techniques. In re-ality, we are still a sage, we simply don’t stand on the stage all the time. An inductive classroomis therefore only “flipped” in delivery, as we are still very much the arbiters of skill and knowledge.What I will present is a way to assign problems and projects where the instructor is not the content Page 26.1532.2expert. Faculty instead make a contract with their students to guide them without being able todirect them with regard to content. The end goal is for students to experience what it is like todrive forward their own learning. I will call such an approach a Faculty Ulysses

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Usability Testing: Influencing Design Decisions and Improving Documentation

Conference Session: Pedagogies of Making and Design
Collection: 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors: Anneliese Watt, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Ashley Bernal, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Scott Kirkpatrick, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Tagged Topics: Diversity
Tagged Divisions: Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

. They need to learn to choose carefully elements ofdocument design, visual depiction, inclusion of any needed warnings, cautions, or tips, wordchoice, and sentence structure. A basic instruction-writing assignment in a technicalcommunication course might be to build an original Lego creation, and then write instructions sothat other individuals can successfully reproduce the exact same design. As a warm-upassignment, one of the authors has her students write instructions for how to use the instructionaltechnology in the classroom. Summers and Watt have described “quick and dirty” instruction-writing projects assigned in their technical writing courses, such as creating paper prototypes ofmobile applications, and revising existing instructions