Conference Session

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

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Athena Lin, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Justin L. Hess, Purdue University at West Lafayette

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

themes into the following dimensions ofcivic responsibility: personal and professional, virtue and obligation, and non-maleficence andbeneficence. We close by connecting these findings to frameworks used to study other forms ofresponsibility in engineering education.IntroductionCivic responsibility reflects individual responsiveness and engagement with community needs.Thus, civic responsibility aligns with the mission of many universities to graduate engagedcitizens. For example, the mission statement of the Association of American Colleges &University is “to advance the vitality and public standing of liberal education by making qualityand equity the foundations for excellence in undergraduate education in service to democracy”[1]. Many

Conference Session

Liberal Education Division Technical Session 11

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Qin Zhu, Colorado School of Mines

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

. Their plans, actions, policymaking,reflections, and frustrations all aim to explore possible reactions to the challenges brought bythese dominant images. 1It is worth noting that the idea of dominant images is not an empirical concept. In other words,the dominant image active learning in American engineering education does not necessarily inferthat most American engineering schools and programs have adopted or developed active learningwell. Rather, dominant images often have normative value. Engineering programs and facultymay have different feelings about active learning, but active learning as a social image is relevantto their educational

Conference Session

Promoting Communication Skills

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

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

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

6Van Wie (26946), “Using Reflection to Facilitate Writing Knowledge Transfer in Upper-LevelMaterials Science Courses” by Mallette and Ackler (26638), and “Writing across Engineering:A Collaborative Approach to Support STEM Faculty’s Integration of Writing Instruction in theirClasses” by Ware, Turnipseed, Gallagher, Elliott, Popovics, Prior, and Zilles (26720). Thesepapers were presented in three different sessions (2 in LEES and 1 in chemical engineering); onewas funded by the NSF, while another had significant institutional funding.Many of the papers presented at the 2019 conference exemplify the fourth trend observed in the2016 analysis: collecting data (typically from student evaluations or surveys) for a single course(sometimes even for a

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Endeavors: Engineering and Liberal Arts

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah Summers, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Anique Julienne Olivier-Mason, Brandeis University; Marina Dang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Diana M. Chien, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

several department-specific Comm Labs, 2)Brandeis’s centralized Comm Lab for their Division of Science, and 3) Rose-Hulman’sundergraduate-only centralized Comm Lab for students using a multidisciplinary, co-curricularspace. We then discuss these adaptations with a focus on how our different institutional profilesshape our Comm Lab design. Specifically, we draw connections between institutional data andthe disciplinary focus, scale, and institutional fit of each Comm Lab. We conclude by sharingdata about the Comm Labs’ success, reflecting on the importance of continued data collection,and considering the value of cross-institutional collaboration. Our conclusion reflects both thelimitations of our study and the need for ongoing research. These

Conference Session

Liberal Education Division Technical Session 11

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia; Caitlin Donahue Wylie, University of Virginia; Bryn Seabrook, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

:  Numbers  of  papers  mentioning  "science  technology  and  society”  by  year,  with  the  emerging  time  period  and  the  three  time  periods  of  high  activity  that  we  studied  indicated  In this study as in most other contexts, STS is a spectrum of concern and activity, not a clearlydelineated body of knowledge or activities. This spectrum is reflected within ASEE in thenumber of different divisions in which papers on STS have been presented. As Figure 2   2  illustrates, STS is taken up as a topic broadly across ASEE with greatest concentrations in (a)Technological Literacy and Technological and

Conference Session

Communication Across the Divisions I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jessie Stickgold-Sarah, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Rebecca Thorndike-Breeze, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

haveworked through the steps of decoding the disciplines in conversation with technical-expertfaculty.e.g., 32 However, professional communication in “Preparation for Undergraduate Research”is taught by communication instructors – not disciplinary experts – and contains far too manysub-fields – and thus far too many bottlenecks – to manage this model as originally designed.Instead we have developed a different framework - inspired by “Decoding the Disciplines,” buttheoretically informed by RGS - upon which students reflect on their own aspiring-to-expertdomain knowledge, in order to make the rhetorical genre knowledge of their discipline explicit.B. Stage I: Identifying and Communicating ContributionsIn the fall semester, major deliverables (i.e

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

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

and American educators.Section two examines some institutional, curricular, and instructional strategies for educatingwell-rounded engineers in both countries. In this section, we briefly introduce the programs ofgeneral education in two Chinese engineering universities and compare them with threeAmerican engineering programs. Section three reflects upon the challenges faced by educators inChina and the U.S. in their attempt to bring together engineering and the liberal arts. Thesechallenges, in our analysis, reflect a more common instrumental attitude that works against theexpansion of professionals’ non-technical learning. To counteract this narrow and instrumentalview, we suggest a broader approach, one that fully appreciates the critical

Conference Session

Engineering & Our Global Society

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bhavna Hariharan, Stanford University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

the difference of cultures, our feeling of Page 24.398.6being a stranger, it can lead to a situation “designing for”. It is not “designing at theplace of”, but it means that the collaboration is not effective anymore. Indian membersbecome conductors and their points of view are seen as truth. So it is “designing for” inthe sense that we put our efforts at the service of 2 villagers” [Student 2, Final Report2012]. Another student echoed the sentiment reflecting “that it is important to know whatdesigning with means before any interaction with the community. Sometimes, I foundmyself losing my stand in the face of the participants from India, but I had

Conference Session

Integration of Engineering and Other Disciplines (Including Liberal Arts)

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katherine Hennessey Wikoff, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Cynthia Wise Barnicki, Milwaukee School of Engineering; James R. Kieselburg II, Grohmann Museum at Milwaukee School of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

Museum’s CollectionWithin STEM education, a movement called STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art,and Mathematics) is gathering momentum. Yet, while articles abound with ideas forincorporating STEAM concepts into K-12 classrooms, the literature on STEAM education at theuniversity level is scant. Complicating matters is the fact that the “A” in STEAM does notalways stand for “Art”; for example, in one recent ASEE paper that contains the words “STEAMcurricula” in its title, the “A” stands for “Agriculture” [1].However, reflections on STEAM at the university level can be found in a few papers presented atthe 2013 ASEE convention. One, “Faculty reflections on a STEAM-inspired interdisciplinarystudio course,” offers insights on the opportunities

Conference Session

Engineering & Our Global Society

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zhihui Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Xiaofeng Tang, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

, political, and economic needs shaped the Page 24.1218.3objectives, curriculum, and teaching methods for engineering education in China.Tsinghua University has played a very important role in the history of engineeringeducation in the People’s Republic of China. Its history of both general education andengineering education reflects not only China’s own political and social development,but also global trends. The system of engineering education at Tsinghua Universityexperienced numerous changes, often as a result of political movements or changes ingovernmental education policy.2 Influenced by several complicated factors, therelationship between engineering

Conference Session

Novel Strategies for Studying Liberal Education

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Nicola W. Sochacka, University of Georgia; Christian Michael Culloty, University of Georgia; Jacob Hopkins; Julie R. Harrell, University of Georgia; Joachim Walther, University of Georgia

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

education, the pro- fessional formation of engineers, the role of empathy and reflection in engineering learning, and student development in interdisciplinary and interprofessional spaces. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Using SenseMaker® to examine student experiences in engineering: A discussion of the affordances and limitations of this novel research approachIntroductionIn 2017, the National Science Foundation (NSF) organized a workshop in Washington D.C. tointroduce a new methodology, SenseMaker®, to the engineering education research community.This paper describes the development and implementation of a SenseMaker study, “TheEngineering

Conference Session

Non-Canonical Canons of Engineering Ethics

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xiaofeng Tang, Penn State University; Dean Nieusma, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

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

employment of another engineer, nor does he indiscriminately criticize another engineer’s work. 13. The Engineer endeavors to extend public knowledge, and to promote understanding of the contributions and achievements of engineering and the alternatives offered by modern technology. 14. The Engineer gives credit for work to those to whom credit is due, and recognizes the proprietary interests of others. 15. The Engineer advertises his work or merit in a dignified manner, and avoids conduct or practice likely to discredit or unfavorably reflect upon the dignity or honor of the profession. 16. The Engineer is guided in all his professional relations by the highest standards of integrity, and acts in professional matters for each

Conference Session

Writing and Communication II

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julia M. Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Bernadette Longo, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Dave M. Kmiec, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

wereproduced as part the project from start to finish.One of the inherent difficulties of the use of workplace documents is clearly illustrated in Figures 1and 2. It would be possible to bring these documents to an engineering communication class, or asoftware engineering class, but without Dr. Mohan’s verbal narration, it is possible that neitherinstructor nor students would have an idea of the important context that surrounds the documents.For instance, Figure 1 shows the original email that initiated the software project. The purpose of thedocument is explicit in the first sentence: “to outline a small data acquisition project for Amadeus.”In his narration, however, Dr. Mohan reflects on the long-standing and positive relationship betweenhis

Conference Session

Restructuring/Rethinking STEM

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joe Tranquillo, Bucknell University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

the path for student success. As in any PBL courses, Ineeded to play a role closer to that of a coach – using praise when groups were trying butfrustrated, but also honest feedback when groups were coasting or making excuses.I hope that the picture I have painted is of a course that was unique and rich with learningopportunities, and that criss-crossed from the technical to the non-technical many times.But one more aspect was critical – reflection. Every two weeks, the I conducted a shortreflection meeting with the students. The goal was to extract lessons learned. Some wereindividual, private and more formal, while others were informal public discussions. Incourse evaluations, students shared that it was during these reflection periods that

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cynthia Hampton, Virginia Tech; David Reeping, Virginia Tech

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

grapplingof personal identity and existence in society.The acknowledgment and processing of these perspectives will be explored below using aframework of researcher racial and cultural positionality [4]. This framework will assist inpresenting the “seen, unseen, and unforeseen” [4] by beginning to (1) research the self, (2)research the self in relation to others, (3) engage in reflection and representation, and (4) shiftfrom self to system. By exploring these facets of our own personal perspective or positionality,we can begin to more adequately investigate the phenomenon of interest involving individualswith different life experiences than our own.Thoughts of Positionality from a Qualitative ResearcherA key practice that was established early in my

Conference Session

Design and Making

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah Summers, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Renee D. Rogge, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

asupplement to more important learning. The course design outlined below reflects our bestattempts to use the lens of disability students to show STEM and the liberal arts as organic,essential, and generative partners.Course background and overviewAs an academic field, Disability Studies solidified in the 1990s alongside a social model ofdisability that rejected biological definitions of “normal” bodies and medical perspectives thatidentified disabilities as problems to be fixed. As a result, the study of disability fractured, oftenhighlighting conflicts between academic and professional interests4. At its foundation, the goal ofour Introduction to Disability Studies course is to bridge the chasm between theories andresearch in disability studies and

Conference Session

Communication Across the Divisions III: Writing as Social–Technical Integration

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vukica M. Jovanovic, Old Dominion University; Megan McKittrick, Old Dominion University; Pilar Pazos, Old Dominion University; Daniel Richards, Old Dominion University; Julia Romberger

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Computing & Information Technology, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

and texts as resulting from typified behaviors, knowledge, and actions of agiven community of practice: “[T]o write, to engage in any communication is to participate in acommunity; to write well is to understand the conditions of one’s own participation with thatcommunity and determine the success or failure of communication”11. As such, genres reflect thevalue systems of individual organizations (e.g., a stand alone business) and also large scalecommunities (e.g., engineers). Being a proficient writer means becoming intimatelyknowledgeable of the conditions of participation in a given community of practice. According toJames Dubinsky, “our work [as professors] involves more than teaching our students strategies orforms; it also

Conference Session

Myths About Gender and Race

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna M Riley, Smith College; Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

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

underrepresented1,2 reveal howcentral difference is to our explanations. For example, women’s lack of self-confidence or self-efficacy (or math anxiety) is understood relative to men.3-5 Women are seen to lack female rolemodels and peers relative to their male counterparts.6,7 A “chilly climate” that is hostile orcompetitive toward women drives women out,8-15 while men are more likely to stay. Stereotype Page 22.356.2threat, a reflection of perceived difference in ability, is seen to affect women and minoritystudents.16-17 Calls to alter curriculum and pedagogy focus on attracting women and minoritieswho are viewed to be more motivated by altruistic and

Conference Session

Communication: From Pecha Kucha to Bullets

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia; Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

communication." - Henry Petroski, To Engineer Is Human, 2005iIntroductionBullet lists are a common—many would say ―ubiquitous‖—feature of written and oralcommunication in business, government, academia, the military, and civil society. They areparticularly important in technical communication, as illustrated by a 2009 study that revealedthat bullets appear on more than two-thirds of the slides in engineering presentations, includingpresentations at engineering education conferences.ii Their pervasiveness suggests that theyserve important functions. The plentiful and vociferous critiques of bullet lists as commonly usedin PowerPoint presentations reflect a growing sense that bullet lists used

Conference Session

Advances in Communication Instruction

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth A. DeBartolo, Rochester Institute of Technology; Margaret B. Bailey, Rochester Institute of Technology; Risa Robinson, Rochester Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Observation constructive feedback to other student teachers, receive constructive feedback on your own teaching, reflect on how you can use the feedback you receive to improve your teaching.The first one-hour session begins with an introduction to The TEAK Project and motivation forthe overall workshop. Participants are given time during the session to consider what topic theywould like to address for their 15 minute microteaching exercise, as well as who their targetaudience will be. Depending on the workshop participants, the target audience may range fromelementary school students (for participants who will be teaching at summer camps or outreachprograms) to college students (for

Conference Session

Accreditation and Outcomes-based Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy E. Slaton, Drexel University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

instructors and students, or of the leaders of such influential bodies as ABET, theNational Academy of Engineering, or the American Society for Engineering Education, are not Page 25.1348.2in question. We cannot presume to know what any individual thinks without asking her or him,nor whether the pronouncements one might make in a professional capacity reflect one's ownbeliefs. Instead, this paper considers how the formal expression of professional aims embodied inABET's accreditation criteria, in university engineering department documents, and in writing onthose criteria by educators, helps to promote certain, ideologically narrowed approaches

Conference Session

Restructuring/Rethinking STEM

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chris Robinson, University of South Carolina; Sarah C. Baxter, University of South Carolina

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

23.1271.6identified.4. ScaleThe visual concepts emphasized here are universal elements, variety, visual interest, scale.Project 4: Establish two rectangular compositions employing multiple shapes and multiplevalues. One should be primarily objective, the other primarily non-objective. Select the best one,refine and print your image at a scale at least twice as tall and twice as wide as the normalprinted page (15 X 20”). Crop, composite, and mount your finished product leaving a 1”boarder all the way around the image (17 X 22”).Engineering Connections: Trigonometric (angular) relationships, symmetry, balance,equilibrium, and boundary conditions. How are intrinsic properties such as density, temperatureor stiffness reflected? by shape, composition or value

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

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

patience & endurance Earth (Below) Do no harm to the Earth and all creatures Table 1. The Four Directions and Brief Descriptions of the Characteristics associated with the Lakota Medicine WheelMorally Deep Design MethodologyAn engineering design algorithm based on a morally deep world view has been offeredpreviously by the author.7 The design algorithm is based on the following four steps: • Via Positiva. The problem is identified, fully accepted and broken down into its various components using the vast array of creative and critical thinking techniques which engineers possess. What is to be solved? For whom is it to be solved? • Via Negativa. Reflection on

Conference Session

Embedding Sociotechnical Systems Thinking II

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey C. Evans P.E., Bucknell University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

outcomes were formulated.By the end of the course students are expected to: • Be better prepared for meaningful involvement with a rapidly changing world characterized by diverse individual perspectives, globalization and multi-cultural interactions, and scientific/technological innovation. • Have taken advantage of opportunities to build and enhance abilities to understand the social and natural worlds around them; to analyze, evaluate, and integrate the information available; and to synthesize and communicate thought effectively. • Have enhanced their intellectual and academic development by exposure to knowledge, concepts, and/or experiences that reflect different cultural frames of reference

Conference Session

Writing and Communication I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emre Selvi, Jacksonville University; Sandra Soto-Cabán, Muskingum University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

problem.Iterations and revisions of the student work are required. Each update report requires the teams tobuild upon the content included in their initial design plan. The final report requires the teams tobuild upon the midterm report by including a results section that provides information for each ofthe steps included in the design plan. The process of returning to the same core of informationfor each of the reports and presentations encouraged the students to reflect upon the feedbackand evaluation given on the previous report and address problematic issues in the current reportor presentation they were working on. This allows students to build on learning as they applytheir engineering skills to solve the problem. Besides writing reports, students

Conference Session

Integrating Engineering & Liberal Education

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna M. Riley, Smith College

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

because it fails to value ways ofknowing outside positivist empiricism.Biesta26 further argues that Dewey’s theory of knowing can provide an alternative epistemologyfor education research, because it is not based on a dualism between mind and materiality.Instead of separating the self from the knowable world, Dewey conceived an action-theoreticalframework in which ways of knowing are active – they are ways of doing. Biesta notes that forDewey, knowledge is not prescriptive, and research would not dictate practice: “no conclusion ofscientific research can be converted into an immediate rule of educational art” (19).29 Reflexivity(a practice of reflection that is critical of its own power relations) requires integrating knowledgewith reflection and

Conference Session

Sustainability

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julia M. Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Caroline Carvill, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Richard A. House, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Jessica Livingston, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Anneliese Watt, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

content andtechnical content together in ways that are manageable by faculty who are not engineers. Thecourse in professional and technical writing at our college is required of all engineering andcomputer science majors and is usually taken in the junior year. The course has undergone manytransformations in content and focus since it was first developed in 1994. The latest iterationblends communication principles with technical projects that can bridge the divide and helpstudents see how the two fields are intricately intertwined in the engineering workplace.This paper reflects on the work-in-progress at Rose-Hulman focused on helping our studentsdevelop their communication skills in technical contexts. Currently five faculty are

Conference Session

Engineering Communication I: History and Praxis

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

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

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

of course scale-up from 6 sections in Spring 2014 to 10 sections in Spring2015 to 15 sections in Fall of 2018. In the decision to scale-up the course, key indicators ofsuccess were considered: (1) course enrollment numbers, (2) end-of-semester evaluations, and(3) students’ individual course reflections. When taken together, these key indicators were anespecially vital tool in the decision to scale-up the targeted course.Figure 2: A history of course section scale-up from Spring 2014 to Fall 2018.Sustained Enrollment Numbers Enrollment numbers for the targeted course have remained consistently high sinceimplementation. An analysis of enrollment data from Spring 2014 through Spring 2018 showed acourse enrollment average of 99% (see

Conference Session

Integrating Engineering & Liberal Education

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pradeep Kashinath Waychal, College of Engineering Pune; Anil Dattatraya Sahasrabudhe, College of Engineering, Pune

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

learning may show the same behavior as retention.We have proposed some modifications to the learning pyramid as shown in figure 2. Various methods likequestioning, reflecting, and experimenting have been incorporated in the Wood’s pyramid. However, no attemptis made to give specific numbers for the effectiveness or retention of learning. The pyramid has the leasteffective method at the bottom which is just passively attending lectures and speeches. That is followed byactively attending lectures - ―actively‖ implying thinking on what is being said and asking questions based onthat. This is superseded by intensely reflecting or experimenting and writing notes. At the next level comessmartly linking the concepts learnt to other related concepts

Conference Session

Promoting Communication Skills

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Lisa R. Volpatti, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Alex Jordan Hanson, University of Texas at Austin; Jennifer M. Schall; Jesse N. Dunietz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Amanda X. Chen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Rohan Chitnis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Eric J. Alm; Alison F. Takemura, U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute; Diana M. Chien, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

, our primary research question was: is the Comm Lab succeeding inimproving clients’ work according to our own metrics of success? I.e., do sessions bring clientscloser to our standards for a given communication task, which are informed by both rhetoricalprinciples and real-world field standards? To do so, we designed a quantitative, rubric-based,pre-post evaluation of authentic writing products: drafts for graduate school and graduatefellowship applications, assessed by authentic evaluators -- a team of our own peer coaches. Inorder to build a broader picture of the client’s analytical and reflective experience, wecomplemented the quantitative core of the study by collecting qualitative reflections about thecontent of the coaching session