Conference Session

Teaching Communication II

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nabila A. Bousaba, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; James M. Conrad, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Jean L. Coco, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Mehdi Miri, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Robert W. Cox, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #8823Incorporating Oral Presentations into Electrical and Computer EngineeringDesign Courses: A Four-Course StudyMs. Nabila A. Bousaba, University of North Carolina, Charlotte Nabila (Nan) BouSaba is a faculty associate with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte since 2008; she is the senior design instructor for the department, additional courses taught include Basic Circuit for non- majors, and Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship course ECGR4090/5090. Nan Earned her BS and Master Degrees in Electrical Engineering (1982, 1986) from North

Conference Session

Creative and Cross-disciplinary Methods Part II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah E. Zappe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Melissa Marshall, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Enrique D. Gomez, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Esther Gomez, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Angela D. Lueking, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

successful student: internships, study abroad, studyskills, and extracurricular involvement. Each ambassador hosted a “station” that focused on oneof the four topics. Small groups of students spent 10 minutes at each station before rotating tothe next station. The ambassador provided a 3-5 minute informational conversation starter aboutthe topic and then the remaining time was used for questions and discussion with the students.SummaryIn summary, the goal of each of these events was to utilize the Engineering Ambassadors asrelatable role models to communicate the messages of Changing the Conversation to first yearstudents. These messages are important to keep fresh in the mind of new undergraduates as theydeal with the challenge of core math and

Conference Session

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

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Cole Hatfield Joslyn, University of Texas at El Paso; Meagan R. Kendall, University of Texas at El Paso

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #32918A Sojourn of Engineering Identity Conflict: Exploring IdentityInterference Through a Performative LensDr. Cole Hatfield Joslyn, University of Texas at El Paso Cole Joslyn is an Assistant Professor of Practice in the Department of Engineering Education and Lead- ership at The University of Texas at El Paso. His research emphasizes humanizing engineering education, particularly 1) increasing Latinx students’ sense of belonging in engineering by a) integrating holistic, socio-culturally responsive practices and Latinx cultural assets and values into educational success strate- gies, and b) understanding how

Conference Session

Revealing the Invisible: Engineering Course Activities that Address Privilege, -Isms, and Power Relations (Interactive Session)

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joel Alejandro Mejia, University of San Diego; Diana A. Chen, University of San Diego; Odesma Onika Dalrymple, University of San Diego; Susan M Lord, University of San Diego

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ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity, Faculty Development Constituency Committee

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Design in Engineering Education, International, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Minorities in Engineering

prison: Vintage, 2012.[25] P. C. Gorski. (n.d., February 04). Circles of my multicultural self. Available: http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/activities/circlesofself.html[26] J.A. Mejia, I. Villanueva, and R. A. Revelo, Using literacy to identify hidden factors that compromise equitable and effective engineering education, In Proceedings of the 2018 American Educational Research Association Annual Conference, New York, 2018.[27] K. Boykin. (2007, September 05). Have the folks at intel lost their minds? Available: http://thenewblackmagazine.com/view.aspx?index=939[28] G. Ladson-Billings and W. F. Tate, "Toward a critical race theory of education," Teachers College Record, vol. 97, pp. 47-68, 1995.[29] E

Conference Session

Communication as Performance

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Alley, The Pennsylvania State University; Lori B. Miraldi, The Pennsylvania State University; Joanna K. Garner, Old Dominion University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

. What the students are not accustomed to, though, is our requirement that they designvisual aids using the assertion-evidence approach.7 In this approach, the slides have a succinctsentence headline that states the main takeaway of the slide (scene). That takeaway is supportedthen by visual evidence—bulleted lists are not used. Because this approach has so few words onthe slides, the students have to fashion almost all of the sentences on the spot. In our sections of the course, we have chosen the assertion-evidence approach for threereasons. First, the approach has its roots at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,7 whichmeans that the approach was designed with scientists and engineers in mind. Second, test resultsshow that audiences

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

may signify a core societalbelief in the capability of technology to solve human problems. Indeed, the popularity oftechnological approaches to education as well as health and fitness may be indicative of thismindset. Page 26.1339.2Perhaps these inroads are reminiscent of what Seymour Papert cautions against in A Critique ofTechnocentrism in Thinking About the School of the Future, an essay on the unscrupulousincorporation of technology in the classroom. In the essay, Papert presents a poignant definitionof technocentrism that may be salient for all engineers to be mindful of: the fallacy of referringall questions to technology.4This paper

Conference Session

Creative and Cross-disciplinary Methods Part II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joachim Walther, University of Georgia; Shari E. Miller, University of Georgia ; Nadia N. Kellam, University of Georgia

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

AC 2012-4670: EXPLORING THE ROLE OF EMPATHY IN ENGINEER-ING COMMUNICATION THROUGH A TRANSDISCIPLINARY DIALOGUEDr. Joachim Walther, University of Georgia Joachim Walther is an Assistant Professor of engineering education research at the University of Georgia (UGA). He is Co-director of the Collaborative Lounge for Understanding Society and Technology through Educational Research (CLUSTER), an interdisciplinary research group with members from engineering, art, educational psychology, and social work. His research interests span the formation of students’ pro- fessional identity, the role of reflection in engineering learning, and interpretive research methods in en- gineering education. He was the first international

Conference Session

Sociotechnical Thinking I: Classroom Experiences, Identity, and Theory

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Stephanie Claussen, San Francisco State Unviersity; Janet Y Tsai, University of Colorado Boulder; Kathryn Johnson, Colorado School of Mines; Jenifer Blacklock, University of Colorado Boulder; Jon A. Leydens, Colorado School of Mines

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

dichotomy of some kind betweensocial and technical thinking: “Yeah, I think I've definitely heard some people mention it, or it'sbeen explained to me in some way, but never with the term ‘engineering’ at the end of it”(00:11:06).Throughout the focus group, much of the discussion from Dorothy related social and technicalthinking to engineering design. Dorothy pointed out the importance of social impacts onengineering design and of designing products with everyone in mind. The idea that Dorothyrelates social considerations to engineering design and creativity shows that Dorothy possesses abasic sense of sociotechnical integration, a level of understanding likely also held by other first-year engineering students. One research team member noted during

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

learning activities in their professional positions. This study of IRE graduates in theworkforce provides evidence of the value of this approach showing that these engineers see thevalue of these skills, continue to practice them (albeit in modified ways from when at IRE), andshow evidence of being at an advantage in the “learning to learn” activities that are necessary intheir jobs.ReferencesABET, Inc., (2016). Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs, 2016-2017. Retrieved from http://www.abet.org/accreditation/accreditation-criteria/criteria-for-accrediting- engineering-programs-2016-2017/.Bransford, J.D., Brown, A.L., & Cocking, R.R., eds. (2000). How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School. Washington

Conference Session

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

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

learner.” (ID 54, File 05) Instructors: Individual (62%): -“Math is the skill that springs to mind first, but there are more skills that define a professional engineer. A “professional” has a level of expertise, responsibility, and accountability that he or she

Conference Session

Research on Diversification, Inclusion, and Empathy II

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marissa H. Forbes, University of Colorado - Boulder; Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado - Boulder; Jacquelyn F. Sullivan, University of Colorado - Boulder

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

technical versus non-technical course choiceallocations. Perhaps an unstated bias exists that choice equates to less “rigor,” and so theunintended message to students of differential choice in technical versus non-technicalcoursework may be that knowledge and courses in non-technical subjects are comparativelyunimportant. Values are inherent in engineering design; so just as the technical content of anengineering program is (hopefully) carefully scaffolded, “the same intentionality and evaluationshould be undertaken for the liberal component of a student’s undergraduate experience.”6Though some choice is necessary, too much choice can be detrimental;29 thus, providing choicein a balanced manner is essential. Engineering educators must be mindful

Conference Session

Integration of Engineering and Other Disciplines (Including Liberal Arts)

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin Otto, Singapore University of Technology and Design; Bradley Adam Camburn, University of Texas, Austin, and Singapore University of Technology & Design; Kristin L. Wood, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD); Giacomo Nannicini, SUTD; Roland Bouffanais, Singapore University of Technology and Design; Elica Kyoseva, Singapore University of Technology and Design; Jean Wan Hong Yong, SUTD; Dario Poletti, Singapore University of Technology and Design; Robert E Simpson; Aditya Prasad Mathur

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

Paper ID #8653Integrated 2D Design in the Curriculum: Effectiveness of Early Cross-SubjectEngineering ChallengesProf. Kevin Otto, Singapore University of Technology and Design Dr. Otto is an Associate Professor in the Engineering Product Development Pillar at the Singapore Uni- versity of Technology and Design. He teaches the design courses as well as disciplinary courses including thermodynamics, and is very interested in multidisciplinary education.Mr. Bradley Adam Camburn, University of Texas, Austin, and Singapore University of Technology & Design BSME Carnegie Mellon 2008 MSME University of Texas at Austin 2010 PhD

Conference Session

Sociotechnical Thinking I: Classroom Experiences, Identity, and Theory

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jonathan Seth Krones, Boston College; Jenna A. Tonn, Boston College; Russell C. Powell, Boston College

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #34327Integrating History and Engineering in the First-Year Core Curriculum atBoston CollegeDr. Jonathan Seth Krones, Boston College Dr. Krones is an Assistant Professor of the Practice in Boston College’s new Department of Human- Centered Engineering (HCE). Before starting this position in 2021, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Environmental Studies at BC, where he introduced engineering-style ped- agogy into the first-year Core Curriculum and helped to establish HCE. In addition to engineering educa- tion, his research focuses on industrial ecology and environmentally

Conference Session

Imagining and Reimagining Engineering Education as a Dynamic System

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janet Y. Tsai, University of Colorado, Boulder; Kevin O'Connor, University of Colorado, Boulder; Beth A. Myers, University of Colorado Boulder; Jacquelyn F. Sullivan, University of Colorado, Boulder; Derek T. Reamon, University of Colorado, Boulder; Kenneth M. Anderson, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

, and learning as socio- culturally organized phenomena. A major strand of his research explores the varied trajectories taken by students as they attempt to enter professional disciplines such as engineering, and focuses on the dilem- mas encountered by students as they move through these institutionalized trajectories. He is co-editor of a 2010 National Society for the Study of Education Yearbook, Learning Research as a Human Science. Other work has appeared in Linguistics and Education; Mind, Culture, and Activity; Anthropology & Education Quarterly, the Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science; the Journal of Engineering Education; and the Cambridge Handbook of Engineering Education Research. His teaching interests

Conference Session

Interactive Panel on Improving the Experiences of Marginalized Students on Engineering Design Teams

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lorelle A Meadows, Michigan Technological University; Denise Sekaquaptewa, University of Michigan; Marie C Paretti, Virginia Tech; Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Shawn S. Jordan, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Debbie Chachra, Olin College of Engineering; Adrienne Minerick, Michigan Technological University

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education, Electrical and Computer, Engineering Libraries, First-Year Programs, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Minorities in Engineering, Student, Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering, Women in Engineering

experiences.Dr. Marie C Paretti, Virginia Tech Marie C. Paretti is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she co- directs the Virginia Tech Engineering Communications Center (VTECC). Her research focuses on com- munication in engineering design, interdisciplinary communication and collaboration, design education, and gender in engineering. She was awarded a CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation to study expert teaching in capstone design courses, and is co-PI on numerous NSF grants exploring com- munication, design, and identity in engineering. Drawing on theories of situated learning and identity development, her work includes studies on the teaching and learning of communication

Conference Session

Novel Strategies for Studying Liberal Education

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

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

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #29913Work In Progress (WIP): A Systematic Review Describing Impacts onEngineering Undergraduates who Participate in OutreachDr. Joanna K. Garner, Old Dominion University Dr. Garner is Executive Director of The Center for Educational Partnerships at Old Dominion University, VA.Prof. Karen A. Thole, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Karen A. Thole serves as the head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Pennsylvania State University and also holds the title of Distinguished Professor. She is the co-founder of the Engineering Ambassador Network, which is a professional development program for

Conference Session

Diversity and Inclusion

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mel Chua, Olin College; Tess Edmonds, Olin College

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

interacting points of view) alongside discussions of“objectivity.” Integrating conversation architectures that value and develop intersubjectivestatements allows multiple perspectives to come out so teams can take advantage of them in theirwork. Open Sentences also allow students to share their personal interests and values; connectingwith these inner interests can increase their intrinsic motivation [15].Open Sentences can lead to emotionally vulnerable spaces when students share their values,motivations, and fears. In our experiences, engineering curricula do not typically provide manyspaces for the development of affective skills, and facilitators should keep this in mind. Forinstance, it may be helpful to use a progression of Open Sentences that

Conference Session

Maps, Metaphors, Tweets, and Drafts

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sean Michael Ferguson, University of Virginia; Rider W. Foley, University of Virginia; John Kofi Eshirow Jr., University of Virginia; Catherine Claire Pollack, University of Virginia

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

technology and society. There is aneed to reliably capture student learning about complex and dynamic socio-technical systemswithout privileging an assessment tool that a priori evaluates “more is better”. With that in mind this manuscript addresses three key issues in this area. The firstobjective, efficiency, is to interrogate the use of concept maps to capture student learning aboutthe complexity of socio-technical systems in large-scale engineering programs where a review ofeach individual map would require extensive time investments. Conducting the conceptmapping exercise and analysis strategy are impacted under this objective. This leads to thesecond objective, methodological development, which assesses how complexity can be evaluatedin

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

Paper ID #11993Tools for Transformation – How Engineering Education benefits from inter-active e-learning and the HumanitiesDr. Katarina Larsen, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology Katarina Larsen, researcher at KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. Experience from teaching and course development in Engineering Education at Masters level and graduate courses level in areas of Organizational Studies. Ongoing research interests includes studies of institutional change, science and innovation policy, and sustainability in engineering education.Mr. Johan Gustav G¨ardebo, KTH Royal Institute of Technology Johan G¨ardebo

Conference Session

Seeking Resilience and Learning to Thrive Through Engineering Education

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julianna Sun Ge, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Edward J. Berger, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

positiveinterpersonal (such as belongingness) and intrapersonal (such as mindfulness) competencies thatcomplement the field’s traditional focus on academic competencies (such as GPA). Thisapproach to conceptualizing thriving is consistent with Seligman’s (2013) claim thatinterventions which mitigate problems differ from those that foster thriving.The purpose of this conceptual framework for engineering thriving is to take the first step indefining the competencies relevant to engineering student success, as informed by a search ofengineering education literature, review of professional reports relevant to undergraduateengineering student success, feedback from engineering education faculty and conversationswith undergraduate engineering students. As a result

Conference Session

Rethinking PowerPoint and Other Acts of Communication

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura R. Grossenbacher, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Christina Matta, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Technical Communication Program

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

AC 2011-999: ENGINEERING COMMUNICATION ACROSS THE DIS-CIPLINES: USING ONLINE VIDEO MODULES TO STANDARDIZE IN-STRUCTION AND EXPECTATIONSLaura R. Grossenbacher, University of Wisconsin, Madison Laura Grossenbacher is Director of the Technical Communication Program in the College of Engineer- ing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Texas at Austin, and has been teaching courses in engineering communication for fifteen years. She has done consulting work in professional engineering writing for private firms (such as HNTB, Inc. and Affiliated Engineers, Inc.) and has taught technical communication as part of the UW-Madison College of Engineer- ing study abroad

Conference Session

Integration of Engineering and Other Disciplines (Including Liberal Arts)

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anneliese Watt, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Scott Kirkpatrick, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Ashley Bernal, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

reflections isthat “doing something” was at the forefront of Watt’s mind, a more seasoned professor amongus, who was aware of other groups she’d been involved with that never moved past the planningstage. Bernal, though--our newest faculty member and an engineer--took for granted that theprogram would come to fruition. While the seasoned communication professor was impressedthat “we took the idea from inception to implementation in one year,” the new engineeringprofessor hadn’t considered one year to be a particularly quick timeframe. A related key traitthat all three share is accepting the need to do things “on the fly”; for instance, we agreed from

Conference Session

Research on Diversification, Inclusion, and Empathy I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George D. Catalano, Binghamton University

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #14503Learning about Design from the Lakota NationDr. George D. Catalano, Binghamton University Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Binghamton University Previously member of the faculty at U.S. Military Academy and Louisiana State University. Two time Fullbright Scholar – Italy and Germany. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Learning about Engineering Design from the LakotaAbstractAn engineering design paradigm is developed using an enriched morally deep world-view. Thenew design approach borrows from the wisdom of the Lakota Nation as evidenced through anexamination of

Conference Session

Sociotechnical Integration

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jacquelene Erickson, Colorado School of Mines; Stephanie Claussen, Colorado School of Mines; Jon A. Leydens, Colorado School of Mines; Kathryn Johnson, Colorado School of Mines; Janet Y. Tsai, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

]. Engineering faculty frequently provide closed-ended,decontextualized technical problems to solve, which sends the message that social considerationsare either irrelevant or of significantly lesser importance. Prior research has suggested thatsociotechnical integration could benefit engineering students by allowing them to think moresociotechnically and better develop engineering habits of mind [2].Sociotechnical integration refers to the integration of the social and technical dimensions ofengineering problems [3]. Such an integration is integral to engineering work [1], but often notmade visible in engineering education. Furthermore, sociotechnical thinking refers to ability toidentify, address, and account for “the interplay between relevant social

Conference Session

Engineering Communication II: Curricular Practices, Integrations, and Collaborations

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Kali Lynn Morgan, Georgia Institute of Technology; Cristi L. Bell-Huff, Georgia Institute of Technology; Janece Shaffer, StoryReady LLC; Joseph M. LeDoux, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

they need to communicate theirmeaning-making and its value to others? The purpose of this paper is to describe a newlyrequired course, The Art of Telling Your Story, for undergraduates in biomedical engineering atone highly selective STEM-focused university. In this course, students develop and sharepowerful stories of events that transformed them in some meaningful way. The course instructorand students engage in joint dialogues around these stories that build self-concept and that helpthem to see themselves as being entrepreneurially minded. Preliminary findings suggest thatstudents: 1) thoroughly enjoy the course, but more importantly, 2) explore their unique identities,and 3) improve their self-concept clarity. In this paper, we describe

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

mode ofreflection constitutes Macmurray’s criticism of the Cartesian emphasis on rationality; that therational mind can exist in isolation but as humans we cannot exist as people without otherpeople.Thus from the perspective offered by Macmurray’s system how assessment and evaluation isperformed, for what purpose, and the mental models developed by this activity have a large rolein the form of the engineering profession that we all contribute to creating. The next sectionprovides several critiques of the existing ABET criteria and the potential impacts the proposedchanges to criteria three and five may have.CritiquesThis section provides several critiques of the EC 2000 process from the perspective ofMaymurray’s philosophy system. These

Conference Session

Restructuring/Rethinking STEM

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicola Sochacka, University of Georgia; Kelly Woodall Guyotte, University of Georgia; Joachim Walther, University of Georgia; Nadia N. Kellam, University of Georgia

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #6555Faculty Reflections on a STEAM-Inspired Interdisciplinary Studio CourseDr. Nicola Sochacka, University of Georgia Dr. Nicola Sochacka received her doctorate in Engineering Epistemologies from the University of Queens- land (Brisbane, Australia). She currently holds a research and teaching position at the University of Geor- gia where she transfers her expertise in qualitative research methodologies to a variety of research contexts at the intersection of social and technological issues. This includes engineering education projects con- cerned with transdisciplinary education, student reflection, and

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Reddy, Colorado School of Mines; Leslie Light, Colorado School of Mines

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

practices regardingearthquake risk mitigation, was asked to describe structural effects of various forms of earthmotion on the built environment, which is a better question for a civil engineer. She was able totalk about the social conditions of vulnerability to these hazards and about public understandingof seismic risk, but students seemed uninterested in this information. Instead, they approachedthis interview as a source of facts that they had already decided would be important for a designthat they already had in mind even though their faculty had encouraged them to try not to startdesigning until they had completed interviews. The first author took extensive notes on theexperience to refer to while writing this paper.When the students

Conference Session

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

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jenifer Blacklock, University of Colorado - Boulder; Kathryn Johnson, Colorado School of Mines; Randy Cook, Colorado School of Mines; Natalie Ann Plata; Stephanie Claussen, San Francisco State University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

class to see her as a real person – something studentssometimes place in the back of their minds; and 2) To remember that these conversations are,“an important step towards making us all more empathetic, compassionate, kind human beings -not words we typically associate with engineering.” (26 April 2019) The way sociotechnicaltopics are discussed may have huge effects on the audience. Having a level of connection fromsocial to technical by bringing in real emotions into the classroom is not only an effective way toreach students, but it shows a willingness to be open that may improve sociotechnicalunderstanding and natural integration.Simple IntegrationIn general, our team came away from the analysis process with a strong recommendation to

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

workshops thathighlight exemplary academic planning within our institution. Another external factor, marketforces, pointed to the need for interdisciplinary, “well-rounded,” and “T-shaped” students.17, 18 In addition to these external factors, internal factors also played a significant role in thedesign of the minor. For example, pre-existing faculty relationships influenced which classes weselected as core classes and student characteristics influenced logistical decisions related to theminor (e.g., prerequisites, capstone requirements, marketing strategies).Interdisciplinarity and General Education While the Innovation Pathways Minor is housed in the College of Engineering, it isimportant to keep in mind that it is a general