Conference Session

Design and Making

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jewell Amanda Brey, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Danianne Mizzy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Richard Goldberg, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

checks; helps toschedule and staff the build sessions; and plans and runs the capstone events. Makers receive anhonorarium, project materials, a capstone event budget, and a small travel stipend. Theseexpenses are partially funded by a small grant from the Parents Council and other donors.The first MIR was an amateur astronomer who led students in the fabrication of a telescope.Using this telescope, more than 500 students and community members have been able to viewthe moon, planets and stars during the capstone event as well as other events both off campusand at the planetarium on campus. The second MIR was a local engineering professional who ledworkshops in the fabrication of Arduino-based musical circuits. Students played their

Conference Session

Embedding Sociotechnical Systems Thinking II

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anne-marie Nickel, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Jennifer Kelso Farrell, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Alicia Domack, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Gina Elizabeth Mazzone, Milwaukee School of Engineering

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

froman asychronistic reading and writing assignment to an interactive, experiential-learning activity.The challenges related to collaborating across departments and associated with measuringstudent learning will be discussed as well as planned future work in this collaboration.Introduction Two faculty from different departments, science and humanities, realized that throughoutboth of their very different courses, was the common theme of the societal impacts of newtechnologies. The courses were both engineering electives, one a science fiction course and theother a course on nanotechnology. Initial discussions uncovered another area of commonality.The nanotechnology course required students to read a science fiction novel on

Conference Session

Ethical and Global Concerns

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Ellen Lynch, Australian National University; Jeremy Ingle Smith, Australian National University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

education in Australia, enabling strategic andsustainable collaborations and partnerships, ventures and initiatives. This attitude of opportunity-seeking and openness allowed an equal space for any organisation, individual or university tocontribute. In the education sector, academics at many universities have worked very closely,generating enhanced learning opportunities for students and consortium funding. The collegialspirit fostered by EWB-A helped to create cohesion in a uniform development of HumEng andallowed continued and supported growth.NCP fundingNew Colombo Plan (NCP) Mobility Grant funding from the Australian Government is a keyenabler of overseas programs such as the Design Summits. The NCP supports Australianundergraduate students 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

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

Page 24.103.8tested their ability to do patent searchs and write patent claims.The IP module was followed by a four class project management module which was taught inworkshop format. The broad goal of this module was to learn the steps in planning and running aproject. A project management consultant was the guest instructor for this module. Eachworkshop had a brief lecture followed by hands-on activities by student teams. Students weretaught the essential elements of project management such as project charter, communicationplan, scope statement, and work breakdown structure. Student teams were assessed through amini-project which was given out as a homework assignment. Teams were allowed to choose aproject that they can relate to and found

Conference Session

Rethinking Engineering Writing

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven R Walk, Old Dominion University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

students.This paper provides a brief summary of Learning through Writing pedagogy objectives,methods, and outcomes from the learning methods literature. Samples of reported objectives andclassroom experiences and outcomes in undergraduate science, mathematics, engineering, andtechnology (STEM) curricula are given. This paper presents also the author’s strategy, planning,applications, and results using Learning through Writing in the chosen laboratory. Lessonslearned and continuous improvement objectives and activities are described.IntroductionLearning through Writing (LtW) has become a popular and successful pedagogical advanceapplied across undergraduate curricula and disciplines, including engineering curricula, asnoted in many articles in the

Conference Session

Liberal Education Division Technical Session 11

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chandra Anne Turpen, University of Maryland, College Park; Jennifer Radoff, University of Maryland, College Park; Ayush Gupta, University of Maryland, College Park; Hannah Sabo; Andrew Elby, University of Maryland, College Park

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

. Lopez Roshwalb), who had extensive experience (and was concurrently) teaching within the engineering design course. In our second iteration of the pedagogy seminar for engineering design LAs, we conceptualized the course as having three primary conceptual themes: (1) Theories and strategies for teaching and learning, (2) Design thinking in engineering, and (3) Equity (see the Appendix for a list of weekly readings and links to lesson plans). As mentioned above, all LAs enrolled in this seminar were concurrently working within the same introduction to engineering design course. As a consequence all students were able to bring in concrete “problems of practice” (Horn

Conference Session

Novel Strategies for Studying Liberal Education

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Joanna K. Garner, Old Dominion University; Karen A. Thole, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

in astudy by Anagnos, Lyman-Holt, Marin-Artieda and Momsen [15]. The study was grounded inthe premise that ambassadors would benefit from self-efficacy for outreach and its associatedcomponents, including engineering knowledge and professional communication skills. Most ofthe 51 ambassadors responded that they perceived gains in skills to motivate others, resolveinterpersonal conflicts, adjust when things were not going to plan, manage time, engage inteamwork, explain technical concepts, and speak in front of an audience. Ambassadors’confidence in their abilities was also high as a result of participating in outreach. Longer time inthe ambassador program and more senior roles were associated with high rates of studentagreement that they had

Conference Session

Social Responsibility and Social Justice II: From Classroom to Community

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Katz, Virginia Tech

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

city. Everyone wanted to contribute to the communal effort. Acutestress is known to have a bonding effect on affected people, and this was no different.44Most of us planned in anticipation of the spring. We tracked the intermittent campus updatesfrom the administration, which apprised us of the recovery efforts. We planned not only for thespring semester, but, even more basically, for the times when we could simply retrieve ourpossessions that we stowed away in the dorm rooms before the evacuation. At the same time, itwas important to remain cognizant of the fact that, as inconvenient as it may have been for someof the students, there were countless other students native to New Orleans in much starkersituations. In many cases, they had lost

Conference Session

Integrating Liberal Education and Engineering

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel B. Oerther, Missouri University of Science & Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

antibiotic resistance as a significant global threat to health and development and have noted that we are on course to quickly enter a post-antibiotic era – an end to modern medicine. In recognition of this threat, the May 2015 World Health Assembly is expected to adopt a Global Action Plan on antimicrobial resistance (AMR). The conservation of current antibiotics is particularly important for combatting AMR. The development of new therapeutics is critical, but ultimately a temporary fix if the global community does not practice measures to conserve antibiotics. Antibiotic stewardship is challenging because it hinges on a variety of social and behavioral phenomena. Social science, while

Conference Session

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

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Idalis Villanueva, Utah State University; Louis S. Nadelson, Colorado Mesa University; Jana Bouwma-Gearhart; Katherine L. Youmans, Utah State University; Sarah Lanci, Colorado Mesa University; Adam Lenz, Oregon State University

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

. One course had the central focusto help engineering students develop professional skills based upon communication while theother course aimed to help underrepresented women in engineering to understand and plan forcareers in engineering. Both cases are uniquely positioned to help engineering educationresearchers to understand how professionally-focused and career-planning engineeringcourses could guide students’ perceptions about engineering. A sub-element of this work wasto understand if there were any time-dependent (e.g., freshmen versus junior) or gender-dependent differences in their perceptions. Finally, we aimed to understand if the instructors’perception of engineering varied or paralleled their students’ perceptions about the

Conference Session

Communication and Engineering Careers: Motivating Our Students

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julie E. Sharp, Vanderbilt University; Christopher J Rowe, Vanderbilt University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Page 23.705.3demonstrate the institution’s commitment to students’ post-college career planning.17Course Development and CollaborationIn the spring 2012 semester, a group of undergraduate engineering students taking a systemsengineering management course asked to do their semester project on the feasibility of a careerdevelopment course for engineering undergraduates. Such a course had been debated off and onfor many years by the faculty and had been deemed not academically rigorous to be offered in atraditional engineering curriculum. In any case, the students’ request was granted and thefeasibility study was done. The resulting project for the systems engineering management classwas presented to the course professor, who also invited the

Conference Session

Communication and Engineering Careers: Motivating Our Students

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katherine Golder, British Columbia Institute of Technology; Deanna Gail Levis, British Columbia Institute of Technology; Darlene B Webb, British Columbia Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

the event successful, the following seven steps need to be taken: (1) finding thesponsors, (2) marketing the competition, (3) registering the students, (4) planning the twoevents, (5) preparing refreshments and gifts, (6) voting for audience choice prizes, and (7)updating after the event.1. Finding SponsorsFinding sponsors is the most important and probably most challenging task, particularly in thefirst year or two. We find most sponsors by canvassing engineering companies, book publishers,and engineering departments at the institute. Page 23.486.22. Marketing the Competition

Conference Session

Advances in Assessment of Communication and Interdisciplinary Competence

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carolyn Kusbit Dunn, East Carolina University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

can work and live competently outsidetheir own culture. The phrase global competence has been adopted in engineering andtechnology fields, while intercultural competence, cultural competence, multiculturism, culturalintelligence and even global citizenship are used elsewhere [1]. Regardless of its label, the ideathat universities have a responsibility to promote understanding of other cultures has becomesomething of a buzzword in higher education. Lutz noted that ―more and more institutions ofhigher learning adopt global awareness as part of their strategic plans and QEP‖ [2]. It is in fact astrategic plan at the university in question that first brought the notion of global competence tobear on the Technical Writing course discussed

Conference Session

Liberal Education Division Technical Session 11

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alison Wood , Olin College of Engineering; Selin Arslan, Lawrence Technological University; Jason Barrett, Lawrence Technological University; Sarah Aileen Brownell, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Andrew Mark Herbert, Rochester Institute of Technology; Matthew Marshall, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Karen Kashmanian Oates, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; David Spanagel, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; James J. Winebrake, Rochester Institute of Technology; Yevgeniya V. Zastavker, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

serves or has served on several National Academies of Science committees, the New York State Energy Planning Board, and other professional boards related to energy and environmental technology and policy. In 2010 Dr. Winebrake was awarded the RIT Trustees Scholar Award in recognition of his scholarly contributions in the energy and environmental fields. He has also received numerous other research and teaching awards during his career, including the Madison Scholar Award and the Outstanding Teacher Award while serving as a faculty member at James Madison University in Virginia. Dr. Winebrake received his PhD in Energy Management and Policy from the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA). He also holds a B.S

Conference Session

Social Responsibility and Social Justice II: From Classroom to Community

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna M. Riley, Virginia Tech; Janice L. Hall, Virginia Tech

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

. Itshould be noted that Algiers is located in the West Bank district of New Orleans and was one ofthe less-impacted areas after Katrina, an “Immediate Opportunity Area”a as it would later becalled in the action plan set forth by the Urban Planning committee for the Bring New OrleansBack Commission.23 The vice president and Algiers legislators presented the proposal for thenew charter schools to an invitation only group on October 5, 2005 without informing theOPSB.21 The vice president for Algiers schools emailed the proposal to board members the nightbefore the scheduled OPSB meeting, which was held on October 7, 2005. It was announced atthe OPSB meeting by New Orleans Governor Kathleen Blanco that charter schools were to bebuilt in New Orleans and

Conference Session

Research on Diversification, Inclusion, and Empathy II

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joanna K. Garner, Old Dominion University; Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University - University Park; Christine Haas, Engineering Ambassadors Network; Avi Kaplan, Temple University

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

that purpose. A third component is beliefs – knowledge and conceptions that arestated as being true about the world or about a domain, such as engineering. The fourthcomponent is action possibilities – plans, intentions, strategies, and behaviors that the individualfeels are possible or impossible in the role. These four components emerge continuously throughsocial interactions in different contexts, and interact in a dynamic fashion among themselves, andwith analogous components that belong to other important roles of the person. The four components interact dynamically to form the basis for motivated decisionmaking and action in the role. For example, a student might have a particular set of beliefs aboutthe field of engineering such

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

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #16271From Workplace to Classroom - Document Workflow and Engineering Com-munication PedagogyDr. Julia M. Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Dr. Julia M. Williams is Executive Director of the Office of Institutional Research, Planning, and Assess- ment and Professor of English at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Her research areas include tech- nical communication, assessment, accreditation, and the development of change management strategies for faculty and staff. Her articles have appeared in the Journal of Engineering Education, International Journal of Engineering Education, IEEE Transactions on

Conference Session

Integrating Liberal Education and Engineering

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ravi T. Shankar, Florida Atlantic University; Diana Mitsova, Florida Atlantic University; Alka Sapat, Florida Atlantic University; David J. Terrell, Florida Atlantic University

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

years. He has 7 US patents, of which 3 have been commercialized by the university. This research work is a collaboration with the Children’s Services Council of Broward county in FL.Dr. Diana Mitsova, Florida Atlantic University Diana Mitsova has a background in research design, statistical and spatial analysis, as well as environ- mental planning and modeling using geographic information systems, and interactive computer simula- tion. Her primary area of research involves the impact of urban development on ecosystems and other environmentally sensitive areas.Her recent publications focus on the impact of climate-related stressors on coastal communities and the implementation of planning approaches related to

Conference Session

Writing and Communication

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vukica M. Jovanovic, Old Dominion University; Denise Tombolato-Terzic, Christopher Newport University; Daniel P. Richards, Old Dominion University; Pilar Pazos, Old Dominion University; Megan McKittrick, Old Dominion University; Julia Romberger, Old Dominion University; Otilia Popescu, Old Dominion University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

specifically addressed in the majority of engineering courses. Hence,university initiatives such as the Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP), emerging out of accreditationand institutional assessments, are focusing on infusing scholarship from other disciplines (in thiscase English) for the purpose of student learning improvement. Engineering and Scienceprograms do include various courses in English Composition as the part of the curriculum;however, writing is not embedded in all discipline-specific courses at the upper-division level.The program outlined here focuses on the exploration of possible methods for engineering andscience faculty to embed more writing assignments in their STEM courses so that undergraduatestudents can adequately transfer what

Conference Session

Innovation and Reflection

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Irene B. Mena, University of Pittsburgh; Alexander T. Dale, Engineers for a Sustainable World

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

problems, as listed in Rittel & Webber4 1. There is no definitive formulation of a wicked problem 2. Wicked problems have no stopping rule 3. Solutions to wicked problems are not true-or-false, but good-or-bad 4. There is no immediate and no ultimate test of a solution to a wicked problem 5. Every solution to a wicked problem is a "one-shot operation"; because there is no opportunity to learn by trial-and-error, every attempt counts significantly 6. Wicked problems do not have an enumerable (or an exhaustively describable) set of potential solutions, nor is there a well-described set of permissible operations that may be incorporated into the plan 7. Every wicked

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Endeavors: Engineering and Liberal Arts

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katie Evans, Louisiana Tech University; Kirk St.Amant, Louisiana Tech University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

sent prior REU participants a survey askingthem to provide their perceptions of these workshops and what they learned from them. (SeeAppendix.) The authors designed the survey to collect data on student perceptions of both theirsummer REU experiences and post-REU activities. The authors planned to use this data toassess the efficacy of this interdisciplinary approach in terms of teaching soft skills toengineering students.Study DesignResearch Questions and ObjectivesThe question guiding the data collection for this project was RQ: To what extent do STEM students participating in integrated summer REU program believe this approach provided them with effective training in hard and soft skills essential to contributing in the

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kelly Ann Cave, Colorado State University; Zinta S. Byrne, Colorado State University; Thomas J. Siller, Colorado State University; Anthony A. Maciejewski, Colorado State University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

science and engineering programs is not a new concept.According to the review done by Shuman, Besterfield-Sacre, and McGourty, there isencouraging evidence to suggest that the Accrediting Board for Engineering and Technology(ABET) professional skills can be taught effectively [5]. Specifically, these authors highlight theimportance of incorporating real-world experiences into the engineering curriculum as the mosteffective way to integrate both professional and technical skill development into acomprehensive educational experience [5]. Though informative, students’ attitudes regardingthese methods are essential to understand as theory suggests attitudes are immediate precursorsto actual behaviors (i.e., theory of planned behavior) [6]. To date

Conference Session

Communication Across the Divisions II: Communication and Transdisciplinary Pedagogies

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey J. Evans, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Amy S. Van Epps, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Michael Thomas Smith; Sorin Adam Matei, Purdue University Polytechnic Institute; Esteban Garcia

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Diversity

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Civil Engineering, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Mechanical Engineering, Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

that gamification of education provides both intrinsic and extrinsicmotivation is outlined. In this source, it’s further outlined that this type of gamification seems “to fosterhigher order thinking such as planning and reasoning”. Hence, badging fits well into our stated goals.This type of learning is only amplified by the feedback loop a badge system invites. Students all begintheir college experience with different backgrounds and levels of learning in written and oralcommunication. The badge feedback loop is designed to bring students to a solid integration of thecommunication skills at a developing or foundational level as outlined in the AAC&U VALUE rubrics,which provided the framework for our University’s Core Curriculum. The switch

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

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

graduated from their respective highschools and enrolled in universities. Three students from the pilot program reported changes intheir college plans as a direct result of their Cyber Discovery experience. One male student whowas originally focused on liberal arts decided to supplement his education by pursuing a dualdegree in Computer Information Sciences and Business, while one female student changed her Page 23.362.4major from pre-med to biomedical engineering. Another male student decided to major inmechanical engineering and then pursue a masters in electrical engineering after exploringengineering concepts through the Cyber Discovery program.The

Conference Session

Integration of Liberal Education into Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donald Arthur Brown, Penn State University ; Mary Lynn Brannon, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Engineering Ethics, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

. This feedback will be used to improve the module for thethird year. Feedback from faculty was positive. Because the training was a modeled afterthe lecture participants periodically stopped the presenter to give just-in-time comments.It was important to have their perspective because the training module was to ultimatelybe used as a standalone lesson plan. We wanted the faculty to be able to take the lessonplan and adapt it to their courses using it in its entirety or using segments as wereapplicable to their content.Design of the ProgramThe program consists of two modules. Module 1 is the teaching module on the ethics of Page 22.906.4climate change

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Diana A. Chen, University of San Diego; Mark R. Peters, University of San Diego; Gordon D. Hoople, University of San Diego; Joel Alejandro Mejia, University of San Diego; Susan M. Lord, University of San Diego

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

previous to the activity (Q6). While these percentages suggest that we need tomake the connection more explicitly in the future, it was encouraging to see that students foundvalue in the activity. In fact, one student insightfully pointed this out in their comment: “Theboundary between engineering identity and personal identity could be examined more.”To address this disconnect, in future iterations of this activity, we plan to tie this personal valuesactivity to “resume values” following the engineering career fair. As first- and second-yearstudents, attending the engineering career fair pushes them to think critically about what sort offuture they are seeking as professional engineers, and how they should begin constructing theirresumes to

Conference Session

Embedding Sociotechnical Systems Thinking II

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey C. Evans P.E., Bucknell University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

, Parliament, 10 Downing Street. Daily life Homes, recreation (baths), villasSome discussion of context, planning, organization and logistics is warranted althoughnot the principle purpose of this paper. This course was developed by a single facultymember (the author). Academic content and expertise is added to the course through theparticipation of colleagues (e.g. Dr. Nicholas James, Professor of Urban Anthropology atCambridge during our site visit to Cambridge and Dr. Andrew Heath, Professor of CivilEngineering at the University of Bath) and choice of local (paid) guides. This course isthe core, or common course for our Spring 2018 Bucknell-in-London program andprovides a common experience for all fourteen enrolled students. Recruiting

Conference Session

Communication Across the Divisions II: Communication and Transdisciplinary Pedagogies

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Valenzuela P.E., University of Evansville; Valerie A. Stein, University of Evansville

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Diversity

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Civil Engineering, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Mechanical Engineering, Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

readings from Engineering: Its Role and Function in Human Society (Davenport and Rosenthal, editors, 1967).7 Page 26.1153.6 The Vision for Civil Engineering in 2025 (ASCE 2006)8Uncertainty, Risk, Climate Change, and the Future (Sorting Fact, Fear, and Fiction) The Essential Engineer: Why Science Alone Cannot Solve Our Global Problems (Petroski 2010)9 The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future (Oreskes and Conway 2014)10Energy: Public Reactions and Engineering Alternatives (Or, is there really a “War onCoal”?) The Essential Engineer (Petroski 2010)Infrastructure: Planning for the Future (Or

Conference Session

Communication: From Pecha Kucha to Bullets

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth R. Leitch, West Texas A&M University; Rhonda B Dittfurth, West Texas A&M University; Freddie J Davis P.E., West Texas A&M University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

effectively to accomplish a project or assignment.7 I can create and give a technical presentation using notes, a whiteboard/blackboard, visual displays, and/or presentation program such as Microsoft PowerPoint ®.8 I plan to pursue a career in a STEM (science, technology, engineering, or mathematics) field when I complete my university education.Table 1: Technical Communication Quantitative Survey QuestionsThe ENGR 1201, ENGR 1171, and ET 2371 courses were all surveyed at the start and end of the Fall 2010 semesterinstruction period. Figures 1 and 2 show the results for the combined three courses and for ENGR 1201 by itself,respectively. The three courses together cover a wide range of

Conference Session

Sociotechnical Thinking I: Classroom Experiences, Identity, and Theory

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Desen Sevi Ozkan, Tufts University; Kenyetta Anisah Rose Neal Akowa

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

‘Real-World’ Question 2019 What tools would you use to analyze historical natural disaster response patterns in an effort to decrease response time and increase resource availability immediately following a natural disaster? Start by determining what information you would collect, and then explore the tools/analysis techniques you would apply to that information in order to draw a meaningful conclusion. 2020 Imagine that you are a data scientist working for the World Health Organization. Propose a plan to analyze historical natural disaster response patterns in an effort to decrease response time and increase resource availability immediately