Conference Session

Non-Canonical Canons of Engineering Ethics

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna M Riley, Virginia Tech; Yanna Lambrinidou, Virginia Tech

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Diversity

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

each person in a caring and respectful fashion, mindful of individual differences and cultural and ethnic diversity. Engineers promote clients’ socially responsible self-determination. Engineers seek to enhance clients’ capacity and opportunity to change and to address their own needs. Engineers are cognizant of their dual responsibility to clients and to the broader society. They seek to resolve conflicts between clients’ interests and the broader society’s interests in a socially responsible Page 26.322.11 manner consistent with the values, ethical principles, and ethical standards of the profession. ● Value

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

Paper ID #19972A Case-Study Approach to Interlink Humanities with Engineering EducationDr. Ravi T. Shankar, Florida Atlantic University Ravi Shankar has a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Madi- son, WI, and an MBA from Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL. He is currently a senior professor with the Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at Florida Atlantic Uni- versity. His current research interests are on K-12 education, engineering learning theories, and education data mining. He has been well funded by the high tech industry over the

Conference Session

Communicating Across Cultural and Epistemological Boundaries

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cindy Rottmann, University of Toronto; Doug Reeve P.Eng., University of Toronto; Robin Sacks, University of Toronto; Mike Klassen, University of Toronto

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

codes of conduct ashistorically contextualized, negotiated settlements, rather than uncontested statements of moralgood.One of the ways that equity-minded engineering educators have addressed this problem is byrevealing the omission of social justice issues in engineering education. Riley and her colleagueshave written extensively on this topic [7, 9, 12, 20, 21]. Related to the accreditation process, forexample, Riley highlights the incompatibility of diversity initiatives with outcomes-basededucation [20]. Beyond accreditation, Riley, Slaton and Herkert trace the uphill battle faced byengineering educators trying to infuse specific equity issues into their professional code ofconduct [21], Riley and Lambrinidou note the omission of social

Conference Session

Creative and Cross-disciplinary Methods Part I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jean Hertzberg, University of Colorado, Boulder; Bailey Renee Leppek, University of Colorado, Boulder; Kara E. Gray, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

AC 2012-5064: ART FOR THE SAKE OF IMPROVING ATTITUDES TO-WARD ENGINEERINGProf. Jean Hertzberg, University of Colorado, Boulder Jean Hertzberg is currently Associate Professor of mechanical engineering at CU, Boulder. Her research centers around pulsatile, vortex dominated flows with applications in both combustion, and bio-fluid dy- namics. She is also interested in a variety of flow field measurement techniques, and has recently begun work in engineering education research. Hertzberg teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in mea- surement techniques, thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, design, and computer tools. She has pioneered a spectacular new course on flow visualization, co-taught to

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jay Patrick McCormack, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Steven W. Beyerlein, University of Idaho, Moscow; Ashley Ater Kranov, Washington State University; Patrick D. Pedrow P.E., Washington State University; Edwin R. Schmeckpeper, Norwich University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

, Microethics, and Macroethics:Product Liability as an Ethical Issue in Engineering Design, International Journal of Engineering Education, 19(1), 2003, pp. 163–167. 9. Herkert J., “Future Directions in Engineering Ethics Research: Microethics, Macroethics, and the Role of Professional Societies,” Science and Engineering Ethics, 7, no. 3, pp. 403-414, 2001. 10. Gentile, M., Giving Voice to Values: How to Speak Your Mind When You Know What’s Right. Yale University Press, 2010. 11. Kelvin Thompson, Aimee DeNoyelles, Baiyun Chen and Linda Futch (2013). Discussion Prompts. In K. Thompson and B. Chen (Eds.), Teaching Online Pedagogical Repository. Orlando, FL: University of Central Florida Center for

Conference Session

Social Justice, Social Responsibility, and Critical Pedagogies

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yanna Lambrinidou, Virginia Tech; Nathan E. Canney, Seattle University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #18325Engineers’ Imaginaries of ”the Public”: Content Analysis of FoundationalProfessional DocumentsDr. Yanna Lambrinidou, Virginia Tech Yanna Lambrinidou is a medical ethnographer and affiliate faculty in the Department of Science and Technology in Society (STS) at Virginia Tech. For the past 10 years, she has conducted extensive research on the historic 2001-2004 Washington, DC lead-in-drinking-water contamination. This work exposed wrongdoing and unethical behavior on the part of engineers and scientists in local and federal government agencies. In 2010, Dr. Lambrinidou co-conceived and co-developed the

Conference Session

Myths About Gender and Race

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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

AC 2011-2091: EXPLODING PIPELINES: MYTHOLOGICAL METAPHORSSTRUCTURING DIVERSITY-ORIENTED ENGINEERING EDUCATIONRESEARCH AGENDASAlice L. Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette Dr. Alice L. Pawley is an assistant professor in the School of Engineering Education and an affiliate faculty member in the Women’s Studies Program at Purdue University. She has a B.Eng. in Chemical Engineering from McGill University, and an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering with a Ph.D. minor in Women’s Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is Co-PI and Research Director of Purdue University’s ADVANCE program, and PI on the Assessing Sustainability Knowledge project. She runs the Research in Feminist

Conference Session

Engineering & Our Global Society

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #10251Study Abroad as a Means to Achieving ABET Criterion 3 Outcomes: A CaseStudy in Course Design and AssessmentDr. Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia Kathryn Neeley is Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society in the Department of Engi- neering and Society. She is a past chair of the Liberal Education Division of ASEE. Page 24.1136.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Study Abroad as a Means to Achieving ABET Criterion 3 Outcomes: A

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

Paper ID #7372Cyber Science - Interdisciplinary Approach to Cyber StudiesDr. Heath Tims, Louisiana Tech UniversityDr. Krystal S Corbett, Cyber Innovation CenterProf. Galen E. Turner III, Louisiana Tech University Galen Turner is the Maxfield Professor of Mathematics and Statistics in the College of Engineering and Science at Louisiana Tech University. He received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Louisiana State Uni- versity in 1999. His primary research areas include graph theory, network analysis, matroid theory, and combinatorics, as well as engineering education. He currently serves as the Chief Academic Officer for the

Conference Session

The Interdisciplinary Nature of Engineering

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mehmet Vurkaç, Oregon Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

who received humanities education tend to have better performance” in the workplace,based on pre-and-post surveys given to employers of graduates.In a recent blog post for Science [11] on the reasons to include the Humanities in careerpreparation, and even though writing about science careers, not engineering, Albert brings forthten enumerated reasons, many of which are relevant to engineering practice as well. Reason 2 isthat “[s]tudying the humanities allows you to become familiar with and use the creative ideasfrom great minds outside of science. As a poignant example in support of this argument, considerthe application of art-inspired mathematics to the applied chemistry of an oil-spill clean-up,presented at the Bridges 2012: Mathematics

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

Paper ID #14759Integrating Literature and Problem-Based Learning in a First-Year Engi-neering AcademyDr. Susan McGrade, Indiana Institute of Technology Dr. McGrade is a Professor of English at Indiana Institute of Technology, where she teaches a range of classes from First-Year Composition to African American Literature. She often works closely with the College of Engineering, and has developed both an integrated model for English instruction within a Software Engineering program, and a problem-based learning curriculum for a First-Year Engineering Academy. She is also the current NSBE Chapter Advisor

Conference Session

Assessing Literacies in Engineering Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xiaofeng Tang, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Qin Zhu, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Haishao Pang, Beijing Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

arts through the studio-baseddesign pedagogy. In order to design technically feasible and socially acceptable products andservice, students combine the methods and tools from a variety of disciplines, such as designthinking (e.g., mind-mapping), engineering technology (e.g., Arduino), and cultural studies (e.g.,ethnography). In contrast to the focus on problem solving in typical engineering classrooms,teaching in PDI emphasizes problem finding. PDI students usually start their design projects bystudying the relevant objectives and constraints from rich and heterogeneous real-world context,such as the shortage of food and clear water in underdeveloped regions and the stagnation ofpublic schools in American cities. Students also critically

Conference Session

Engineering & Our Global Society

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bhavna Hariharan, Stanford University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

technologically mediated social networks, it has become difficult to remainignorant of the realities experienced by people across the globe3. This social connectivityhas also made it easier for like-minded people to act on problems that they findcompelling simultaneously making the need and the motivation to act more apparent andurgent.The engineering community has responded to this call as evidenced in the emergence ofgroups such as Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW)a, Engineers Without Borders(EWB)b and Engineers Against Povertyc. At the heart of these organizations is a desire tocreate an equitable, sustainable future by mobilizing engineers around the world to makemeaningful contributions to complex, global problems.Evidence from a number of

Conference Session

Understanding Students' Narratives of Grand Challenges Scholars Program as a Nexus Between Liberal and STEM Education

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yevgeniya V. Zastavker, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Abigail M Fry, Olin College of Engineering; Holly Nguyen; Gretchen Rice, Olin College; Sydney Ross, Lawrence Technological University; Sebastien Zenzo Selarque, Rochester Institute of Technology (CET); Bridgit Spies; Margarite Vaccaro; Jason Barrett, Lawrence Technological University; Sarah Aileen Brownell, Rochester Institute of Technology; Matthew Marshall, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Karen Kashmanian Oates, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; David I. Spanagel, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; James J. Winebrake, Rochester Institute of Technology; Alison Wood, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

engineering student from Maine attending OlinCollege and will be graduating in May of 2020. I chose Olin for the community, but also for theirpassionate mantra, “Engineering starts with people and ends with people.” This mantra painted anew picture of engineering for me as I had previously believed engineering was about usingmath to make cool things. In fact, I originally wanted to be an engineer to continue my passionfor robotics that I had developed over 9 years on a robotics team. But, this mantra created analmost invisible itch in the back of my mind that has slowly grown into the driving factor of mebecoming an engineer.My first real experience with people in engineering was my second semester at Olin in a classcalled Engineering for Humanity

Conference Session

Integrating Engineering & Liberal Education

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna M. Riley, Smith College

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #9995What’s wrong with Evidence? Epistemological Roots and Pedagogical Impli-cations of ”Evidence-based Practice” in STEM educationDr. Donna M Riley, Smith College Donna Riley is Associate Professor and founding faculty member in the Picker Engineering Program at Smith College Page 24.1373.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 What’s wrong with Evidence? Epistemological Roots and Pedagogical Implications of “Evidence-based

Conference Session

Engineering & Our Global Society

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

wenjuan wang, Beihang University ; Ming Li, Beihang University; Brent K Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Qin Zhu, Purdue University; Jian Yuan, Beihang University; Qing Lei, Beihang University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

independent discipline status. For example, engineering learningcould only occur after “xin shu yi gui yu chun zheng” (one’s heart is pure and rectified) and “yizhongguo jingshi zhi xue weiji” (training in Chinese Confucian classics as fundamental). Toachieve this kind of foundational moral and intellectual development, it was assumed that theConfucian classics were covered in all levels of schooling, from the small xuetang (elementaryschools) to preparatory colleges and universities. In fact, the policy documents indicated thattreatment of Confucian teachings in elementary schools and universities should be well-aligned,especially in order to rectify human mind and human nature.10 Engineering was more specificallytreated as “yineng” (“artistic

Conference Session

Integrating Liberal Education and Engineering

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mehmet Vurkac, Oregon Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

therefore significantly underestimates the total value being generated in unlicensed usage over this time period.’ A market of which 15% is $25 billion would be a $166 billion market.85In analyzing how Lamarr and Antheil moved from disconnected knowledge of weapons, radios,and pianos to the emergent notions of frequency hopping and synchronization, one of theconsultant’s to the author of the Hedy Lamarr story, an inventor and engineer, explains what ittakes to connect unrelated concepts for invention: “‘the inventive process follows a cascade ofideas and thoughts interconnected from previous concepts that for the most part lie separate,unconnected and unrelated. It takes a clear state of mind, which is usually someone thinking`outside

Conference Session

A Challenge to Engineering Educators

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Isolde Adriana Parker, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah; Seetha Veeraghanta, University of Utah

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

them how toevaluate and synthesize sources of information. Their research is integrated into team presentationsand writing assignments for LEAP 1501 and LEAP 1500 courses.Collaborative modelThe majority of first-year students come into the E-LEAP program with rudimentary informationliteracy skills. Through student feedback, we know that the majority has experience usingcommercial search engines to search the Open Web. The majority has experience in a library setting,though usually not an academic library. The majority has produced research papers, pre-universityadmission.With that in mind, the librarian makes five visits to the E-LEAP classroom over an eight-week periodduring the semester. In the first librarian visit, we--the faculty member

Conference Session

STS Perspectives on Engineering Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

AC 2012-3854: THE MIT LEWIS SURVEY: CREATING A BLUEPRINTFOR A COLD WAR TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY, 1947-1949Dr. Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Atsushi Akera is Associate Professor of history in the Department of Science and Technology Studies and the Director of First-year Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He has published Calculating a Natural World: Computers, Scientists and Engineers During the Rise of U.S. Cold War Research with MIT Press (2006) and is currently working on a book on the history of engineering education reform in the United States. Page 25.1322.1

Conference Session

A Challenge to Engineering Educators

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa DuPree McNair, Virginia Tech; Wende Garrison, Virginia Tech

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #7218Raze the Silos: Using Digital Portfolios to Increase Integrative ThinkingDr. Lisa DuPree McNair, Virginia Tech Dr. Lisa DuPree McNair is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she also serves as Assistant Department Head of Graduate Education and co-Director of the VT Engineering Communication Center (VTECC). She received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Chicago and an M.A. and B.A. in English from the University of Georgia. Her research interests include interdis- ciplinary collaboration, design education, communication studies, identity theory and reflective

Conference Session

A Challenge to Engineering Educators

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Canek Moises Luna Phillips, Purdue University; Kacey Beddoes, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

little conception of how science, technology, and engineering are related to one another, and they do not clearly understand what engineers do and how engineers and scientists work together to create technology. (p. 15 – 16)Third, it caused the public to define engineering incorrectly: In the ITEA survey, respondents were asked to name the first word that comes to mind when they hear the word "technology." Approximately two-thirds said "computers." Moreover, when given a choice of two definitions for "technology," 63 percent chose "computers and the Internet," whereas 36 percent chose "changing the natural world to satisfy our needs."… A majority of survey respondents (59 percent) associated the word

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

?. Science, Technology,& Human Values, 39(1), 42-72.8. Leydens, J. A., Johnson, K., Claussen, S., Blacklock, J., Moskal, B. M., & Cordova, O.(2018). Measuring change over time in sociotechnical thinking: A survey/validation model forsociotechnical habits of mind. In 2018 Proceedings of the American Society for EngineeringEducation.9. Malazita, J. W., & Resetar, K. (2019). Infrastructures of abstraction: how computer scienceeducation produces anti-political subjects. Digital Creativity, 30(4), 300-312.10. Slaton, A. E. (2015). Meritocracy, technocracy, democracy: Understandings of racial andgender equity in American engineering education. In International perspectives on engineeringeducation (pp. 171-189). Springer, Cham.11. Riley, D

Conference Session

Assessing Social Responsibility & Sustainability

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Diversity

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

viable.For us, this starts with developing a community of support to give faculty the confidence toeffectively introduce wicked problems into their existing courses. Through this community,faculty may leverage one another’s expertise in order to expose students to real-world wickedproblems. In the spirit of holistic engineering education, our hope is to enable instructors toconfidently develop their students’ non-technical skills which are integral for generatingsustainability-minded leaders of the future.5,6Research MethodsIn this paper, our primary research objective was to develop a valid and reliable psychometricinstrument that measures a series of sustainability-related learning objectives that are central toWPSI. Our second objective was to

Conference Session

Improving Presentation Skills Through Summer Research and Ambassador Programs

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joanna K. Garner, Old Dominion University; Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Christine Haas, Engineering Ambassadors Network; Suzanne Sontgerath, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Avi Kaplan, Temple University

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

pedagogical goals in mind. One goal is to provide an opportunity for students todeepen their learning of science and engineering concepts. Another goal is to experienceactivities that mimic those of an engineer. In both cases, ambassadors seem to be refining theircapacity to convey technical content in ways that appeal to specific (non-technical) audiences,which is very much aligned with the overall goals of the ambassador program. The activity design process demonstrated the potential for this aspect of ambassadortraining to further undergraduates’ thinking as subject matter experts and communicators to non-technical audiences. Most of the ambassadors gave specific examples of how the content of theirpresentation was manifest in the hands-on

Conference Session

Sociotechnical Integration

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Maysam Nezafati, Georgia Institute of Technology; Mel Chua, Georgia Institute of Technology; Joseph M. LeDoux, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

address both analytical skill-building and contextual awareness.Biomedical engineering in particular has been constrained by the cost and scale of existingmanufacturing techniques; although the variability of the human body has long been recognized(Tilley & Henry Dreyfuss Associates, 2002), customized equipment and medications havehistorically been labor-intensive and therefore expensive. With the advent of personalizedmanufacturing and medicine, the technical limitations prohibiting this kind of work are startingto dissolve. Engineering habits of mind must shift to take this into account, and engineeringeducators have a role to play in making students aware of historical and existing biases in modelsand designs so that they do not perpetuate

Conference Session

Sustainability and Social Responsibility

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jessica Taylor, Iowa State University; Rebekah Oulton P.E., California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

solutions to apparentsocial issues, will help engineers develop these sociotechnical skills in context along with theirdeveloping engineer mindset [1], [8]. That is, opening engineers’ minds while they are students,still developing their ideas about their roles and responsibilities as future engineers, will helpthem more readily embrace their opportunities to effect global change [1]–[3]. The SDGsprovide an ideal framework for developing this multi-faceted perspective on what it means to bean engineer in today’s society, and how to prepare to tackle today’s global challenges [2], [3].Course pedagogyTraditional engineering education has not emphasized the development of multidisciplinaryskills or consideration of challenges from multiple

Conference Session

Ethical Perspectives on the Grand Challenges of Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George D. Catalano, State University of New York, Binghamton

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

pedagogyin all of my teaching. Maybe I can create a bit of anti-entropy. I encourage others among us toalso consider the idea.




























































1 National Academy of Engineering Grand Challenges of Engineering, http://www.engineeringchallenges.org/2 Tobin Hart, Opening the Contemplative Mind in the Classroom, Journal of Transformative Education Vol. 2 No. 1,January 20043 Arthur Zajonc, “Contemplative and Transformative Pedagogy,” Kosmo Journal, Vol. V, No.1, Fall/Winter 20064 Jon Kabatt Zinn, “Education as if It Really Mattered: The Unification of Knowing through ContemplativePractice”, Conference on Contemplative Practices and Education: Making Peace in Ourselves and in the World,Teachers College

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie A. Claussen, Colorado School of Mines; Janet Y. Tsai, University of Colorado, Boulder; Alyssa Miranda Boll, Colorado School of Mines; Jenifer Blacklock, Colorado School of Mines; Kathryn Johnson, Colorado School of Mines

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

began engineering education research related to social justice in control systems engineering in fall 2014. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Pain and gain: barriers and opportunities for integrating sociotechnical thinking into diverse engineering coursesAbstractThis paper uses narrative analysis to study the barriers and opportunities one research teamencountered as we set out to create a class assignment aimed at developing engineering students’sociotechnical habits of mind. One of the goals of this assignment was for it to be transferableacross multiple course contexts, including different engineering disciplines, course instructors,level of students, and course

Conference Session

Integration of Liberal Education into Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George D. Ricco, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Engineering Ethics, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

, he would not go so far as to say that the needs of society are overruled bythe needs of the individual or even in continuous conflict. Vygotsky’s observations stemmedfrom cultural change in Russia during his lifetime. He noticed change in what would then becalled the developmental learning pathways of individuals based on grand scale societal changes.Thus, the societal impetus was responsible for changing lifelong learning habits and the minds ofindividuals. In the engineering education community, many efforts are spent on developingphenomenographical approaches to problems, but almost none are spent on phenomenological orexistential approaches to problems. The issue at hand may be two-fold: first, phenomenographyas a research

Conference Session

Integration of Liberal Education into Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tom A. Eppes, University of Hartford; Ivana Milanovic, University of Hartford; Frederick Sweitzer, University of Hartford

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Engineering Ethics, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

recovery plans. In remarks by President Barack Obama on the AmericanGraduation Initiative, a top priority is to ensure that the U.S. has the highest percentage ofcollege-educated workers in the world.10 However, to make excellence truly inclusive, qualitymust drive commitment to college completion.3The implications of LEAP on the engineering and technology higher education community leadsto the following question: What is the purpose of liberal education and how should it permeateour curricula? Newman’s approach to liberal education is that of “enlargement or expansion ofthe mind,” a process in which university education helps students develop skills necessary forintellectual expansion.11 Heywood12 introduced the idea of engineering literacy being