Conference Session

Technical Courses and Liberal Education

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Kenneth W. Van Treuren, Baylor University; William M. Jordan, Baylor University; Cynthia C. Fry, Baylor University

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

-related courses and does research with natural fiber composite materials. He is also interested in entrepreneurship,sustainable engineering, and appropriate technology in developing countries.Ms. Cynthia C. Fry, Baylor University CYNTHIA C. FRY is currently a Senior Lecturer of Computer Science at Baylor University. She worked at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center as a Senior Project Engineer, a Crew Training Manager, and the Science Operations Director for STS-46. She was an Engineering Duty Officer in the U.S. Navy (IRR), and worked with the Naval Maritime Intelligence Center as a Scientific/Technical Intelligence Analyst. She was the owner and chief systems engineer for Systems Engineering Services (SES), a computer

Conference Session

Promoting Communication Skills

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia; Judith Shaul Norback, Georgia Institute of Technology; Charlie Bennett, Georgia Institute of Technology; Benjamin J. Laugelli, University of Virginia

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

single offering of a course) at a single institution. As long as the majorityof papers report on a single intervention or single institution, with little reference to what otherinstitutions are doing, coherence in the scholarly conversation will be an elusive goal. The “one-off,” as we might call it, creates a publishable unit but gains significance for the broaderscholarly community only when it is integrated into a larger pattern of practice and assessment.To identify areas for potentially strategic action, we focused papers that either demonstrated orsuggested potentially more impactful ways of organizing research and publishing oncommunication in engineering. One example of a potentially more impactful design was“Preliminary Investigation of

Conference Session

Embedding Sociotechnical Systems Thinking I

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jon A. Leydens, Colorado School of Mines; Kathryn Johnson, Colorado School of Mines; Stephanie Claussen, Colorado School of Mines; Jenifer Blacklock, University of Colorado, Boulder; Barbara M. Moskal, Texas Tech University; Olivia Cordova, Colorado School of Mines

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

 at  a  non-­‐profit  or  NGO   □ Research  assistant   □ Teaching  assistant   □ Work-­‐study  student   □ University-­‐sponsored  extracurricular  activities   □ Other  (please  specify):________________________________   □ Briefly  tell  how  any  of  these  experiences  have  impacted  your  perspective  in  this   survey.  [text  box]    13. Future  employment:  immediately  following  graduation,  which  of  the  following  are  you   most  likely  to  pursue  as  your  primary  position?  [Select  one]   □ Working  for  a  “traditional”  engineering  company  (at  least  50%  focus  on   engineering  practice  within  one  engineering  discipline)   □ Working  for  a

Conference Session

Myths About Gender and Race

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carroll Suzanne Seron, University of California, Irvine; Erin A. Cech, University of California, San Diego; Susan S. Silbey, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Brian Rubineau, Cornell University

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

persistence in the major or their intentions to stay in the profession post-graduation.9,10Much of this research has focused, moreover, on how the culture, climate, and professionalsocialization itself push women out of the field.7,11,12 In this article, we turn this question on itshead and ask: how do women conceptualize their token, or deviant, status as engineeringstudents? In asking this question we contribute a new perspective for understanding how womenconstruct rationales for persistence and exit.Women‟s tokenism in engineering education is structurally and culturally organized.Structurally, women remain a numerically small proportion of their classmates at most majorinstitutions of engineering education. Culturally, engineering education

Conference Session

Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: The Role of Engineering Education towards Attaining UN Sustainable Development Goals

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Zelinka, University of Colorado, Boulder; Bernard Amadei, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Civil Engineering, Community Engagement Division, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Minorities in Engineering

chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing fluids in coal-bed methane and regular oil and gas wells in Colorado. While in the middle of his master’s degree, he also spent a year as a graduate intern at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory studying renewable energy commercialization in Caribbean countries among other areas. He is currently completing is second master’s in engineering for developing communities in conjunction with his PhD Civil Systems Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder. His trans-disciplinary research involves addressing global development issues from an engineering, political, and economic perspective.Dr. Bernard Amadei, University of Colorado, Boulder Dr. Amadei is Professor of Civil

Conference Session

Professional Development and Lifelong Learning

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rose M. Marra Ph.D., University of Missouri; So Mi Kim, University of Missouri; Carolyn Plumb, Montana State University; Douglas J. Hacker, University of Utah; Shann Bossaller, University of Missouri

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

ofmetacognition are necessary for students to become “self-regulatory organisms who are capableof assessing themselves and others and directing their behavior toward specified goals,” (Hacker,1998, p. 10) that is, to become in control of their thinking and direct those cognitive processestowards identified learning goals.Although metacognitive strategies are linked to effective learning as well as life-long learning,few researchers have studied the metacognitive capacity or development of metacognition inengineering students. The most pertinent studies concern the role metacognition plays inengineering problem solving and design in a school setting. One study used verbal protocols tocompare strong and weak problem solvers in engineering statics and found

Conference Session

Creative and Cross-disciplinary Methods Part I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chad A. B. Wilson, University of Houston

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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

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

University Megan McKittrick is a Lecturer and PhD candidate in the Department of English at Old Dominion Univer- sity. She teaches composition, scientific, digital, and technical writing, and her research interests include technical communication and game studies.Dr. Julia Romberger, Old Dominion University Julia Romberger is an Associate Professor of Professional Writing at Old Dominion University. Her research interests include pedagogical practices, visual rhetoric, and the rhetoric of interface design. She teaches courses at the undergraduate and graduate level in business writing, technical writing, writing for the web, visual rhetoric, and has mentored business and professional writing teaching staff. She has

Conference Session

Rethinking Engineering Writing

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David M. Beams P.E., University of Texas, Tyler; Luke Niiler, University of Alabama; Beth Todd, University of Alabama; Marcus Brown, University of Alabama; Garry W. Warren, University of Alabama

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #6250The Coach: a Web-based Resource for Improving the Writing Skills of Engi-neering StudentsDr. David M. Beams, University of Texas, Tyler David Beams earned the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1974 and 1977, respectively, and spent 16 years in industrial practice as a design engineer before returning to graduate study. He earned the Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin- Madison in 1997 and joined the founding faculty of the School of Engineering of the University of Texas at Tyler. Dr. Beams has authored or co-authored a number of papers

Conference Session

Sustainability and Social Responsibility

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Bryn Elizabeth Seabrook, University of Virginia; Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia; Kari Zacharias, Concordia University; Brandiff Robert Caron, Concordia University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

, andscience and technology studies. Faculty members took on increased responsibilities and becamemore integrated into the engineering faculty as a whole, alternately embracing and resisting the“service department” designation [5]. Faculty members were enthusiastic about working toimprove the practice of engineering and computer science students, but the unit’s lack ofindividual degree programs constrained research and mentorship opportunities. A 2008 facultyreport and five-year plan for the unit’s development identified these frustrations and emphasizedthat existing solely in a service role would be untenable for tenure-stream faculty [6]. In 2011, the General Studies Unit was renamed the Centre for Engineering in Society(CES). While CES

Conference Session

Social Justice: Pedagogy, Curricular Reform, and Activism

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Rachel Koh, Smith College; Jenn Stroud Rossmann, Lafayette College

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

the dictatorship to producepseudoscientific research and advance technologies that enabled, for instance, colonization andenergy independence. However, Lino Camprub´ı [2] contends that they “could hardly be calledpolitically neutral technocrats,” pointing to examples of highly regarded scientists and engineerswho were supportive of the surveillance, control, and “purifying” of science. Similarly, JoanneTuck [3] notes that many German engineers struggled after a massive job shortage induced by theGreat Depression at the end of the Weimar Republic. They competed for whatever business theycould find, including in the design and construction of the technologies that enabled ethniccleansing by genocide– and they did so knowingly. As Eric Katz [4

Conference Session

Trends in Accreditation and Assessment

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

recognition, on the other hand, of a greater need for integration if engineering graduates are to effectively utilize their skills in engineering practice.  Related to this, a stronger articulation of engineering as a design process that begins with problem formulation; analysis and synthesis; and testing.  Likewise, a shift towards a more instrumental view of the humanities and social sciences, with a specific call for evaluating all so-called “soft skills” in the context of professional practice.  The elimination of other, especially “soft skills” deemed to be difficult to assess, or else their transfer to Criterion 5 (curriculum), thus exempting these skills from detailed student outcomes level

Conference Session

Special Session: Moving Towards the Intended, Explicit, and Authentic: Addressing Critical Misalignments in Engineering Learning within Secondary and University Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin Anderson, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Sandra Shaw Courter, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Mitchell J. Nathan, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Amy C. Prevost, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Christine G. Nicometo, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Traci M. Nathans-Kelly, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Thomas Dean McGlamery, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Amy K. Atwood, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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Educational Research and Methods, K-12 & Pre-College Engineering, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

AC 2011-1452: SPECIAL SESSION: MOVING TOWARDS THE INTENDED,EXPLICIT, AND AUTHENTIC: ADDRESSING MISALIGNMENTS IN EN-GINEERING LEARNING WITHIN SECONDARY AND UNIVERSITY ED-UCATIONKevin Anderson, University of Wisconsin-Madison Kevin Anderson is a Ph.D. candidate in the Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research focuses on primary through university STEM education policy and practice, and the alignment of education with professional practice. He previously taught science and math at the secondary level and earned the distinction of National Board Certified Teacher.Sandra Shaw Courter, University of Wisconsin, Madison Sandra Shaw Courter is PI for the ”Aligning

Conference Session

Reflective & Critical Pedagogies

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katarina Larsen, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology; Johan Gustav Gärdebo, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

. Thesechanges to the course, we argue, have the potential of shifting learning outcomes fromdescriptive to analytical and reciprocal learning.In terms of learning outcomes, students were to demonstrate an ability to write acritical analysis of a chosen topic in an essay drawing on course literature anddiscussions from seminars and other course activities. The activities were designed to:  Stimulate seminar groups to discuss course content in order to practice deconstructingtexts, get the students familiar with the course readings early on in the course.  Practice constructive comments and feedback on other students‟ texts and incorporate comments received into arguments in the course essay.Pedagogy for Analytical

Conference Session

Professional Formation and Career Experiences

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Samantha Ruth Brunhaver, Arizona State University; Benjamin David Lutz, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Nathan E. Canney, Taylor Devices, Inc.

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

conducts studies of new engineering pedagogy that help to improve student engagement and understanding.Dr. Benjamin David Lutz, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Ben D. Lutz is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Design at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. He is the leader of the Critical Research in Engineering and Technology Education (CREATE) group at Cal Poly. His research interests include critical pedagogies; efforts for diversity, equity, and inclusion in engineering, engineering design theory and practice; conceptual change and understanding; and school- to-work transitions for new engineers. His current work explores a range of engineering education design contexts, including the

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

Paper ID #16350Privatization of Public Education: Lessons from New Orleans for Engineer-ing Education in K-12 and BeyondDr. Donna M. Riley, Virginia Tech Donna Riley is Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech.Mrs. Janice L. Hall, Virginia Tech I am a doctoral student in Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. I have B.S. and M.S. degrees in biolog- ical and bio-medical engineering respectively. It was through my participation in extracurricular activities and my experience as a graduate teaching assistant I found my passion for engineering education. My research interests include broadening participation and

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

a Master of Science in Computer Science from Florida Atlantic University in 2015 and has worked within the Engineering field since completing his degree. The objective of Mr. Terrell’s graduate research was to identify socioeconomic demographic risk factors impacting the life chances of minority groups within 100 of the top populated metropolitan areas in the USA. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017A Case-Study Approach to Interlink Humanities with Engineering EducationAbstract:We have developed an executable case-study approach to expose engineering students to socialand community issues. Undergraduate engineering students can team up with social sciencestudents to identify, analyze

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Canek Moises Luna Phillips, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #8602Engineering Education Outside the Classroom: Informal Learning Environ-ments as Settings for Engineering Education for both the Public and Engi-neersCanek Moises Luna Phillips, Purdue University, West Lafayette Canek Phillips is a graduate student in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University-West Lafayette and works as a graduate assistant in Dr. Alice Pawley’s Research in Feminist Engineering Lab. He holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Rice University and an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Colorado State University. His research is focused on how people relate knowledge in engineering

Conference Session

Reflective & Critical Pedagogies

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mania Orand, University of Washington ; Brook Sattler, University of Washington; Jennifer A. Turns, University of Washington; Lauren D. Thomas, University of Washington

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

experiences is widely understood as an essential component oflearning and development of expertise for both educators and students. However, incorporatingreflection in a way that engages engineering students can be challenging, and educators seekways to design or introduce effective and efficient reflective practices that best address this issue.In this paper, we describe three example case studies that use the concept of probes and weanalyze their potential for stimulating reflection to help identify new ways of supportingreflection in engineering education. Our goal is to introduce engineering educators to the conceptof probes as a method to support students’ reflection and also to inspire and facilitatecollaboration between engineering educators

Conference Session

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

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

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

Conference Session

Linking Engineering and Liberal Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert O. Grondin, Arizona State University, Polytechnic

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

practice as an engineer. While we love to tell students that anengineering degree is an excellent preparation for other professions such as law or medicine, thepossibility that the degree should prepare the graduate for a broad set of post-baccalaureateopportunities not necessarily limited to engineering plays little role in the curricular design. Thisreliance on a pipeline metaphor may play a significant role in the huge disparity betweenengineering and most other college majors in the demographic of in-migration of students fromother majors11.The final result is the expanded table that we provide in Table 2. Page 25.537.12Table 2. Kagan’s

Conference Session

Communication as Performance

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott A. Morris, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

beadapted and should be applicable9,10.Course Development Background:An ongoing seminar series has been explicitly designed to bring students out of their usualsurroundings and to give them practical experience with a variety of public presentation toolsintended to help them to present more effectively and to move from a subject-centered mode ofpresentation to audience-aware communication.The Graduate Seminar is a required part of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign(UIUC) curriculum, but the offerings are quite varied among those instructors within thedepartment, giving the students a wide range of topics. The instructor has extensive backgroundin engineering and industry relations.Since our department is quite widely constituted, our

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

Paper ID #6832Implementing a Student-Suggested Course in Engineering Career Develop-mentDr. Julie E. Sharp, Vanderbilt University Dr. Julie E. Sharp, M.A.T., M.A., Ph.D., is Professor of the Practice of Technical Communications in the Vanderbilt University School of Engineering, where she teaches written and oral communication courses in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and the General Engineering Division. Her teaching and research interests include job search communication, learning styles, and integrating com- munication in engineering courses. In 2012, she won an Apex Award for Excellence in

Conference Session

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

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tina Lee, University of Wisconsin-Stout; Devin R. Berg, University of Wisconsin-Stout; Elizabeth A. Buchanan, University of Wisconsin-Stout

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

motivationfor in-country offices), enhanced training on the importance of seeing communities asheterogeneous, and explicitly making sure differences are accounted for in project assessment areall important best practices that should be implemented more widely.However, it is also important to note that project timelines, even in the best of circumstances, willpresent important challenges to creating positive impacts. At the very least, projectimplementation is slow given travel and student schedules. One student interviewee expressedthis concern nicely: But for them [community members] to be like, “ok so they’re gonna come do a survey, and in a half a year they’ll be back to do the rest of that survey, and in half a year they might be

Conference Session

'Diversity' and Inclusion? Pedagogy, Experiences, Language and Performative Action

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jenn Stroud Rossmann, Lafayette College; Mary A. Armstrong, Lafayette College

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

. Engineering students who had completed the WGS 250course in Spring 2018 or 2019 but had not yet graduated (N = 7) were invited to one of two focusgroup sessions held in February, 2020. The invitation included a description of the study and anassurance of confidentiality.Informed consent was obtained from the study participants in writing before any questions wereposed. Discussions were facilitated by one author and a faculty colleague, neither of whom hadserved as an instructor for any WGS class. Focus group facilitators provided copies of the WGS250 reading list as a way of reminding participants of past course content and providingreference points for specific reading and authors. In keeping with best practices for focus groupinteractions

Conference Session

Social Responsibility and Social Justice I: Pedagogical Perspectives

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Devin R. Berg, University of Wisconsin, Stout; Tina Lee, University of Wisconsin, Stout

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

potential to influence the engineeringprofession for great benefit to society. As noted by Chan and Fishbein: “As the world becomes more complex and interrelated, so do the problems engineers face. The engineering profession and individual engineers need to adapt or else risk getting lost in these global changes, thus abandoning our social responsibilities.” 11The University of Wisconsin-Stout’s institutional mission encourages faculty and staff to“integrate applied learning, scientific theory, humanistic understanding, creativity and research tosolve real-world problems, grow the economy and serve a global society.” However, with thepolytechnic designation comes an increased focus on applied learning techniques and careerfocused

Conference Session

Assessing Literacies in Engineering Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan McGrade, Indiana Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

-based learning (PBL) and general engineering industry concepts (problemsolving, professional practices, and quality control) to guide literary research and analysis andcontinuously improve students’ written, oral, and visual communication (WOV) skills, as well astheir abilities to understand new social, political, and economic contexts, an important criterionof EC 2000. In short, this strategy presents students with a problem: determine the best Americanfiction of a particular year. The faculty member then guides students through literary researchpractices, and a formal call for proposal process. She divides the class into teams, and each teamproposes a selection of texts to read during the semester. After the winning proposal is selected,the

Conference Session

Writing and Communication II

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah Liggett, Louisiana State University; Boz Bowles, Louisiana State University; Annemarie Galeucia, Louisiana State University; Warren R Hull Sr. P.E., Louisiana State University

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

at graduation and to annotate the award on their permanent transcripts.  Conducting a three-day “Summer Institute” to inform faculty of ways to integrate communication instruction into technical curricula. Participants learn to use innovative teaching tools and to design discipline-specific assignments and rubrics for each of four CxC communication modes.During the continuing development of the CxC program, assessment has been vital to validate itsacademic value and to demonstrate its importance in the professional development ofengineering graduates. This latter outcome is particularly meaningful, not only to our studentsbut also to budget-conscious public funding agencies. It was with the goal of improving the

Conference Session

Engineering Communication I: History and Praxis

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Marcy Bloom Milhomme, Pennsylvania State University; Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University; Lori B. Miraldi, Pennsylvania State University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

targeted engineers. For the two sections of engineeringstudents (roughly 25 students in each section for a total of 50 students), the course was a success[11]. In this paper, we outline the history, curriculum design, and implementation of acommunication course targeted to engineering students. While the course centers on oralcommunication and public speaking, it is best described as a targeted communication coursebecause the curriculum also includes written and teamwork components. Because the course is acollaborative effort between a Communication Arts and Sciences Department and a College ofEngineering, it serves as a model for other universities and colleges interested in implementing acommunication skills course specifically for

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

safetyinformation should be placed, and how to make it prominent and easy to read. Students are alsotaught what particular issues should be addressed in the draft, and those particular issues arereviewed in the bullets below item five on the rubric students are given before writing theassignment. These bullets can be seen below item five in Figure 1. Once these general issues areaddressed, the focus turns to best practices for writing individual steps in instructions. Studentsare taught to use sequential numbers for each step, as well as the imperative mood to write eachstep. There is a discussion of feedback statements, and when such a statement might beappropriate to place within a step. Finally, students review the techniques for cross cultural