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

PhD student in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. His main re- search interests include global/comparative/international engineering education, engineering education policy, and engineering ethics. He received his BS degree in material sciences and engineering and first PhD degree in philosophy of science and technology (engineering ethics) both from Dalian University of Technology, China. His first PhD dissertation on improving the practical effectiveness of engineering ethics that draws on theories in hermeneutics, practical philosophy, and discourse ethics has recently been awarded the ”Outstanding Dissertation Award” in Liaoning Province, China.Jian Yuan, Beihang University Jian YUAN is a

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

-project so students can apply EM knowledge to a real(istic) scenario and the resulting consequences. Students focus on technical aspects and analyze social and technical consequences. • Redesign classroom assessment rubrics to incorporate engineering habits of mind. Include sections for systems thinking (technical aspects), innovation (design aspects), adaptations and improvements (iterative processes), socio-cultural and ethical considerations (social aspects), communication (understanding the problem and considering multiple perspectives), collaboration (teamwork and fostering new strategies), and finally sociotechnical integration (understanding emergent factors).The Projects course taught at

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

Page 23.478.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013Embedding Information Literacy within Undergraduate Research Page 23.478.2 Embedding Information Literacy within Undergraduate ResearchIntroductionEngineering curricula have witnessed an expansion of its subject areas to include an appreciation of“realistic constraints such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety,manufacturability, and sustainability” (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology(ABET), 2011-2012) [1]. More than half of eleven ABET student outcomes focus on students’abilities to view engineering within a broader

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Natasha Andrade, University of Maryland, College Park; David Tomblin, University of Maryland, College Park

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

and based on active learning activities. More recently, she started work on engineering education research that aims to effectively incorporate socio-technical thinking in required technical courses. Her discipline research is focused on the production of stabilized biosolids, its use as a fertilizer and its impact on environmental pollution concerning organic contaminants. She recently has started work on Amazonic mercury contamination due to illegal mining.Dr. David Tomblin, University of Maryland, College Park David is the director of the Science, Technology and Society program at the University of Maryland, Col- lege Park. He works with STEM majors on the ethical and social dimensions of science and technology

Conference Session

Social Justice, Social Responsibility, and Critical Pedagogies

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yousef Jalali, Virginia Tech ; Christian Matheis, Virginia Tech

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #19511Liberation in Education: What Role Do Liberatory Praxis and Theory Playin Fostering Critical Thinking?Yousef Jalali, Virginia Tech Yousef Jalali is a Ph.D. student in Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. He received a B.S. and M.S. in Chemical Engineering and M.Eng. in Energy Systems Engineering. His research interests include ethics, critical thinking, and process design and training.Dr. Christian Matheis, Virginia Tech I serve as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Government and International Affairs in the School of Public and International Affairs at Virginia Tech. Concurrently, I serve as a Teaching

Conference Session

The Interdisciplinary Nature of Engineering

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Benjamin Cohen, Lafayette College; Jenn Stroud Rossmann, Lafayette College; Kristen L. Sanford Bernhardt, Lafayette College

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

the engineer as an appliedscientist/mathematician working outside of society is outdated.Over the last several decades engineering leaders have emphasized the role of the engineer insociety through documents such as the National Academy of Engineering’s Engineer of 20201,the American Society of Civil Engineers’ Body of Knowledge2, and ABET’s EngineeringChange report on the effects of the EC2000 accreditation criteria3. Further, increasing concernsabout sustainability, as evidenced by these documents as well as recent changes to engineeringcodes of ethics, require engineers to understand themselves and their work as existing within thesocial, environmental, and economic context of the present and the future.However, as we hear these calls for

Conference Session

Reflective & Critical Pedagogies

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Devika Patel, Stanford University; Jonathan Edward Pang, Stanford University; Sarah Salameh, Stanford University

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

through multidisciplinary projectsand ethics from three students’ perspectives. From these case studies we examine the way we, asstudent engineers, reconcile technocentrism with ways of thinking utilized in liberal education.Analysis of the case studies imply a role for reflection and care in addressing technocentrism andour paper ends with a call for further studies analyzing these relationships.Introduction:“My app will change the world, my product is a disruptive innovation”―these are the mantras ofstartup founders, engineers, and computer scientists throughout the Silicon Valley. Writer JoelStein presents this profile of tech entrepreneurs in his Bloomsberg Businessweek article,Arrogance is Good: In Defense of Silicon Valley.3 This stereotype

Conference Session

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

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Donna M Riley, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Rosalee A Clawson, Purdue University; Dragan Maksimovic, University of Colorado Boulder; Beth A. Myers, University of Colorado Boulder; Ivonne Santiago P.E., University of Texas at El Paso; Nick A. Stites, University of Colorado Boulder; Jennifer L. Taylor, University of Colorado Boulder

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

problem definition, multiple interconnectedproblems, consequences difficult to imagine, let alone characterize, and riddled with ideological,political, and cultural conflict. Climate change looms large as an example of a social mess thatengineers will need new capacities to effectively confront.The capacities engineers need include many attributes long discussed within the LiberalEducation/Engineering and Society Division of ASEE and echoed in the NAE Engineer of 2020report at the turn of this century: creativity, leadership, communication, lifelong learning, ethics,resiliency, and flexibility. There is increasing recognition that we additionally need to grow ourcapacity for holistic systems (or systems-of-systems) thinking, data-informed

Conference Session

Trends in Accreditation and Assessment

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alan Cheville, Bucknell University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

by applying (b) an ability to design and conduct principles of engineering, science, and experiments, as well as to analyze and mathematics. interpret data (2) An ability to apply both analysis and (c) an ability to design a system, component, synthesis in the engineering design process, or process to meet desired needs within resulting in designs that meet desired needs. realistic constraints such as economic, (3) An ability to develop and conduct environmental, social, political, ethical, health appropriate experimentation, analyze and and safety, manufacturability, and interpret data, and use engineering judgment sustainability

Conference Session

Social Responsibility and Social Justice II: From Classroom to Community

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna M. Riley, Virginia Tech; Jonathan Grunert, Virginia Tech; Yousef Jalali, Virginia Tech; Stephanie G. Adams, Old Dominion University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

such as ethics, and smoothing outlogistical challenges with the course should result in improved student learning.IntroductionA new engineering course at a large land-grant university seeks to introduce non-engineers to theprofession via a combination of artistic endeavors, social science analyses, engineering designthinking, and community practice. The course introduces a new concept, “citizen engineering,”borrowed from a tradition of citizen science in which community members (“non-experts”)identify scientific questions and proceed through formal processes, such as participatory actionresearch, to systematically seek answers to their questions by defining and driving their ownprocesses of inquiry and analysis, sometimes but not always with

Conference Session

Assessment and Liberal Education

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kirsten A. Davis, Virginia Tech; Chris Gewirtz, Virginia Tech; Ramon Benitez, Virginia Tech; Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Tech

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

research interests include: engineering for social justice, engineering with community, innovation, ethics, transformative learning, reflection, professional identity.Mr. Ramon Benitez, Virginia Tech Ramon Benitez is interested in how engineering identity and animal participatory design can be used to recruit Chicano K-12 students to engineering professions. Benitez completed his BS in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), and is now a Ph.D. student in Engineering Education at Virginia Tech (VT). Benitez seeks to understand how to best instruct and assess ethical reasoning of engineering practices and engineering responsibilities, including wildlife and humanity, in

Conference Session

Communication Across the Divisions I: Communication in Engineering Disciplines

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mike Ekoniak, Virginia Tech; Molly Scanlon, Virginia Tech; M. Jean Mohammadi-Aragh, Mississippi State University

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Civil Engineering, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

” [1].It is up to individual programs how they implement and assess ABET criteria, and manyprograms meet the non-technical criteria through service courses taught by other departments,such as a technical communication course taught by the English department or by specialized butseparate courses such as an engineering-oriented ethics class. However, there has also beenextensive work on integrating communication skills throughout the engineering curriculum andcourses, and that is the focus of this work [6]–[8]. Engineering faculty generally value written communication skills and recognize that theyhave a role in helping students to develop those skills. Many see their role as that of providingopportunities for students to write in their

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

Paper ID #16096Toward a Cross-cultural Conversation: Liberal Arts Education for Engineersin China and the U.S.Dr. Xiaofeng Tang, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Xiaofeng Tang is a postdoctoral fellow in engineering ethics at Penn State University. He received his Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.Mr. Qin Zhu, Purdue University, West Lafayette Qin Zhu is a PhD Candidate in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. His main research interests include global, comparative, and international engineering education, engineering ed- ucation policy, and

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Canino, Trine University; Kendall B. Teichert, Trine University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

demonstration. The connection between the quote and the text drawn comes from the role ethics play in science. The quote comes as Victor has realized the consequences of animating his creation. Ethics are important when researching in science because there are things that should not be done. There has to be boundaries for research so that whatever is being researched is used for the right reasons. Atomic technology is a perfect example of a double edged sword. On one hand, atomic energy is clean, medicines using radioactive markers are extremely useful in research, and may be useful in making discoveries in astronomy. However, the original research had a much more violent use. By splitting an atom to create a nuclear chain

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

: Designing for the Future of the Field convey it succinctly: “Becauseengineers’ work directly affects the world, engineers must be able and willing to thinkabout their ethical responsibility for the consequences of their inventions in anincreasingly interlinked world environment”5.In the centennial issue of the Journal of Engineering Education (Jan 2011), an essay onhow to engage future engineers suggests, “engineering education has a funny, maybeeven neglectful relationship to people” and there is a call to re-imagine engineeringeducation as something more “socio-technical”6. Rigorous engineering educationresearch is needed to advance fundamental understanding of the nature of today’sincreasingly socio-technical engineering work, as well as

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

communication skillsin the existing engineering curricula. Communication instruction has always been an important part of theuniversity education process but this current initiative strives to focus on the study and improvement of technicalcommunication skills throughout engineering coursework requirements. This reflects the need of employers forengineers with strong communication skills and the desire of our students to improve these skills. Three engineeringcourses have been targeted for the initiative: ENGR 1201 (Fundamentals of Engineering), ET 2371 (Metals andCeramics), and ENGR 1171 (Engineering Ethics). The first two courses have a laboratory component with writtenlaboratory reports and oral presentations while the third is a course created in

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maggie Swartz, Colorado School of Mines; Jon A. Leydens, Colorado School of Mines; Jacquelene D. Walter, Colorado School of Mines; Kathryn Johnson, Colorado School of Mines

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Communication in Engineering (Routledge, 2014). In 2016, Dr. Leydens won the Exemplar in Engineering Ethics Education Award from the Na- tional Academy of Engineering, along with CSM colleagues Juan C. Lucena and Kathryn Johnson, for a cross-disciplinary suite of courses that enact macroethics by making social justice visible in engineering education. In 2017, he and two co-authors won the Best Paper Award in the Minorities in Engineering Division at the American Society for Engineering Education annual conference. Dr. Leydens’ recent research, with co-author Juan C. Lucena, focused on rendering visible the social justice dimensions in- herent in three components of the engineering curriculum—in engineering sciences

Conference Session

Professional Development and Lifelong Learning

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Greg Rulifson P.E., Colorado School of Mines; Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

education include service-learning, sustainable engi- neering, social responsibility, ethics, and diversity. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Fourth Year Engineering Students’ Descriptions of the Importance of Improving Society Through their Engineering CareersAbstractAs engineering students graduate and enter the workforce, they gain significant responsibility forindividuals and society through their future decisions. Problematically, multiple recent studieshave shown that over their time in college, students tend to become more disengaged from theimpact of their work and their feelings of social responsibility decrease. The question explored inthis research was to determine the

Conference Session

Research on Diversification, Inclusion, and Empathy II

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joachim Walther, University of Georgia; Shari E. Miller, University of Georgia; Nicola W. Sochacka, University of Georgia; Michael Alvin Brewer jr., University of Georgia

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

blaming the crisis on a recent change of the water sourcefrom Detroit’s water system to the Flint River, the timing of which coincides with the elevatedlead levels. Reading about the revelations in Michigan brings to our minds the discovery andattempted cover-up of lead in the Washington D.C. water supply, which Drs. Donna Riley andYanna Lambrinidou wrote about in their 2015 ASEE paper, “Canons against Cannons? SocialJustice and the Engineering Ethics Imaginary” [5]. Similar to in Washington D.C., Flint Stateofficials are being accused of failing to act soon enough and in the best interests of the citizens.Both of these cases highlight the inherent socio-technical nature of engineered systems – afeature of engineering which, we and many others

Conference Session

Embedding Sociotechnical Systems Thinking II

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amber Genau, University of Alabama at Birmingham; Andre Millard, University of Alabama at Birmingham

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

required to submit a written outline oftheir planned arguments and a short video introducing their topic before the in-class debates nearthe end of the semester. This activity is meant to emphasize that there are always both positiveand negative consequences of technology, an important theme particularly of the second course.Throughout the course, the instructors tried to use historical content to develop studentspreparing to enter technical professions. For example, during one class period, students workedin small groups to investigate an engineering disaster and write a short essay addressing whatwent wrong, what ethical issues surrounded the disaster, and what the effects of the disaster werein terms of changes to government oversight, societal

Conference Session

Trends in Accreditation and Assessment

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca A. Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Cheryl Allendoerfer, University of Washington; Ronald R. Ulseth, Itasca Community College; Bart M. Johnson, Itasca Community College

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

information to solve problems, life-long learning, communication, and ethical behavior. At IRE, and its sister program Twin CitiesEngineering (TCE), incoming students are presented with the outcomes during orientation. Asnew, innovative programs recruiting students before being accredited, discussion of theoutcomes and aligning program activities with the outcomes provided external credibility. Thissupported change and student buy-in to program activities that were designed to move themtowards better meeting the outcomes, but that would not be familiar to students in traditionalprograms, such as a professional development plan or metacognitive reflection activities.The IRE and TCE programs were developed as outcomes-based programs. Beginning with

Conference Session

Engineering as a Professional Calling

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julia D Thompson, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Mel Chua, Purdue University; Cole Hatfield Joslyn, Purdue University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

interests include engineering as a socially just profession in service to humanity and holistic ap- proaches to engineering education such as ethics of care, humanistic education, and spirituality. He holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering and a M.Ed. specializing in math education and has worked as an engi- neer, a pastor, and a high school math teacher. Page 24.491.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Engineering Education as a Spiritual VocationAbstractSpirituality and engineering education are often kept in separate compartments of our lives. Theymay slip

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

role of power in brainstorming activities, epistemological and conceptual develop- ment of undergraduate learning assistants, as well as the experiences of recent engineering graduates as they navigate new organizational cultures.Dr. Nathan E. Canney, Taylor Devices, Inc. Dr. Canney conducts research focused on engineering education, specifically the development of social responsibility in engineering students. Other areas of interest include ethics, service learning, and sus- tainability education. Dr. Canney received bachelors degrees in Civil Engineering and Mathematics from Seattle University, a masters in Civil Engineering from Stanford University with an emphasis on struc- tural engineering, and a PhD in Civil

Conference Session

Research on Diversification, Inclusion, and Empathy II

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicholas D. Fila, Purdue University; Justin L Hess, Indiana University - Purdue University, Indianapolis

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

along with his Master’s of Science and Bachelor of Science from Purdue’s School of Civil Engineering. Justin is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher in the STEM Education Research Institute at IUPUI. Justin’s research interests include developing pedagogical strategies to improve STEM students’ ethical reasoning skills; exploring the role of empathy within design, innovation and sustainability; synthesizing the influence of societal and individual worldviews on decision-making; assessing STEM students’ learning in the spaces of design, ethics, and sustainability; and exploring the impact of pre-engineering curriculum on students’ abilities and career trajectories. c American Society for

Conference Session

Technical Courses and Liberal Education

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Linda Vanasupa, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Lizabeth T. Schlemer, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Yevgeniya V. Zastavker, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

critically, some caringrelationships seem to have a significance in ‘excess’ of the labor they enable” [21, p. 14]. Tounpack this statement, in her book The Ethics of Care, Virginia Held offers a comparison(originally provided in [21]) of the ways in which a parent and a child-care provider may care forone and the same child in that “both can perform the same work of reassuring the child, hugging[them], transferring [them] from [a parent] to worker, and so on. But the character and meaningof the [parent’s] care may be in excess of the work itself. For the [parent], the work is a responseto the relationship, whereas for the day-care worker, the relationship is probably a response tothe work” [21. p. 33]. In other words, for Vanasupa, the “labor” of

Conference Session

Teamwork: Priming, Empathy, and Metacognition

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Nathalie Al Kakoun, Swansea University; Frederic Boy, Swansea University; Catherine Groves; Patricia Xavier, Swansea University

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

integrating community knowledge into projects; and (d) addressing ambiguous questionsand ethics” [23, p.6].Niles et al [23, p.6] explain the struggles engineering students experience when publicwelfare related assignments are “foregrounded”. They [23] explain how that disrupts the“technical/social dualism in engineering” which eventually leads to the complications of thestudents’ understanding of “what it means to be an engineer, what engineers do, and whatconstitutes engineering knowledge and expertise”. Niles et al [23, p.6] further explain howthis “created difficulties for students as they contended with conflicting conceptions ofengineering knowledge and practice”.Moreover, the findings of Niles et al [23], along with others that describe how

Conference Session

Socially Responsible Engineering II: Pedagogy, Teamwork, and Student Experiences

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Michael D. Gross, Wake Forest University; Joseph Wiinikka-Lydon, Wake Forest University; Michael Lamb, Wake Forest University ; Olga Pierrakos, Wake Forest University ; Adetoun Yeaman, Wake Forest University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

- partment of Engineering and the Program on Leadership and Character to integrate character education into the Engineering Department’s core curriculum. He has lectured widely in North America and Eu- rope, including giving the Goodspeed Lecture last spring at Denison University. Prior to Wake Forest, he was a founding Fellow and Lecturer at the E.U.-funded Center for Ethics outside of Prague, formed to expand ethics research and education in Central Europe, and has held teaching positions at Sewanee: The University of the South, Denison University, and Birmingham-Southern College. Trained in reli- gious studies and moral philosophy, his research has focused on moral injury and trauma. He is author of Moral Injury and

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Endeavors: Engineering and Liberal Arts

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ashraf Ghaly P.E., Union College

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

, together withpolicy, to address societal ills resulting from natural disasters, man-made disasters,irresponsible and non-sustainable consumption of resources, pollution and contamination,and lack of opportunity. This program trains students to pursue practical solutions thatproactively promote peace and reduce the potential for disputes in a world plagued withproblems that require unconventional thinking to overcome. Students are exposed toinnovative approaches toward addressing multidimensional problems in addition togaining skill in economic, social, environmental, political, ethical, legal, cultural, andhistorical aspects associated with the effort of building enduring peace. This paper willdetail the elements that constitute a peace

Conference Session

Integrating Engineering & Liberal Education

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dara R. Fisher, Harvard University; Aikaterini Bagiati, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Sanjay E. Sarma, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

“soft” skill development inundergraduate engineers3. Many of these programs were designed to address the six“professional” skills of the ABET Engineering Criteria 2000 (EC2000) Criterion 3 Outcomes,which include teamwork, ethics, communication, understanding of engineering impacts, passionfor life-long learning, and knowledge of contemporary issues2. Page 24.623.2While many curricular programs can help engineering undergraduates to develop these skills andattributes, co-curricular activities also present a unique opportunity for students to develop these“professional” learning outcomes and other “soft” skills related to engineering education

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

engineering programs with? This study examinessociotechnical dimensions suggested by students in a real-world problem-solving exercise at theearly stages of their academic engineering careers.While several studies have documented a decline in engineering students' public engagement [7],sociotechnical thinking [8], and ethical considerations [9] from their first to final years inundergraduate engineering, there is less examination on students' complex problem-solvingability at these early points in their academic careers. Seemingly, students come in with a moreintegrated understanding of the technical and social dimensions in problems but learn throughthe curriculum what is valued and what is not in an engineering degree and profession [7], [10],[11