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

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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her Bachelor’s at WPI with a major in Computer Science and a minor in Business.Gretchen Rice, Olin College Gretchen is originally from Maine and plans to graduate from Olin College in May 2020. Outside of classes and GCSP, Gretchen is president of Olin’s A Capella group and works as a Resident Resource, a teacher’s assistant, and a tour guide.Sydney Ross, Lawrence Technological University Sydney Ross is a first-year student at Lawrence Technological University (LTU). She is majoring in Com- puter Science with a concentration in Scientific Software Development.Mr. Sebastien Zenzo Selarque, Rochester Institute of Technology (CET) Sebastien Selarque is a fifth-year Electrical Mechanical Engineering Technology student at

Conference Session

Engineering as a Professional Calling

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph M LeDoux, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jacquelyn E. Borinski, Georgia Institute of Technology; Kimberly Danielle Haight, Georgia Institute of Technology ; Elaine Catherine McCormick, Georgia Institute of Technology; Alisha A.W. Waller, Georgia Institute of Technology

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the object of learningtogether, as co-inquirers. When the teacher does speak, it is as a co-learner, so that studentscome to see themselves as equals with the instructor. In essence, the instructor relinquishes theirpower over the course, while maintaining their authority (Finkel defines power as “the ability tomake things happen”, and authority as “that which justifies or makes legitimate a particulararrangement or set of affairs” (pp. 121)). To teach this way, the instructor must have a deepunderstanding of what they want their students to experience, and they must carry out asignificant amount of planning to help ensure that the learning they want to happen actuallyhappens.Course DesignThe first critical task of planning the course was to

Conference Session

Professional Formation and Career Experiences

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado Boulder; Jake Walker Lewis; Madeline Polmear, University of Florida; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado Boulder; Chris Swan, Tufts University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

perspective, before coming to a conclusion on an ethical course of action[14]. However, despite understanding an appropriate course of action, individuals may stillbehave unethically. Explorations of unethical behavior have explored this process using theTheory of Planned Behavior [15, 16] and identifying obstacles to ethical behaviors [17]. In astudy on temptations to engage in unethical behavior in academic settings and work settings(e.g., undergraduates with internship experiences), similar decision-making processes andmotivators were identified in the academic and work settings, although with differentialimportance in their model [18]. For example, engaging in cheating behavior in high school waspredictive of decisions to violate workplace

Conference Session

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

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

frompredictive analytics to autonomous drone warfare. Gupta, Turpen, and co-researchers, AndrewElby, Thomas Philip, and Daniel Dilliplane, participated in the design of the focus groupprompts. The sessions were loosely structured with planned prompts and activities, but withenough flexibility that facilitators could make decisions about adding new prompts or lettingstudents continue a conversation longer than intended. Ayush Gupta (Ayush) and DanielDilliplane (Dan) served as the facilitators for all the sessions. In addition to participating in thesesessions, students were given supplemental materials to read between many sessions and givenpost-session surveys. The first focus group session focused on students getting to know eachother, getting

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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moved througheducational systems; scales are ‘envelopes of spacetime’ into which certain school-basedidentities (and not others) can be folded” (p. 309). Educational scales are consequential forstudents as they define what constitutes success and failure, or belonging vs. not fitting in; asNespor additionally notes, “scale is thus both an object and a means of power in educationalpractice” (p. 309).Nespor (2004) defines five aspects of educational scale: 1. “Scale is made through the production and circulation of artifacts: school buildings, desks, curriculum standards, textbooks, tests, plans, homework assignments, and so forth… scales can also be defined by interrupting circuits of artifacts. Pupil activities may be tightly

Conference Session

Pedagogies of Making and Design

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Geetanjali R. Date, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research; Sanjay Chandrasekharan, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

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on Pahl and Beitz as depicted by Dubberly.54 According to this process model, “In principle, the planning and design process proceeds from the planning and clarification of the task, through the identification of the required functions, the elaboration of principle solutions, the construction of modular structures, to the final documentationFig. 1: Engineering design process of the complete product.”.53Many models55 of design

Conference Session

The Interdisciplinary Nature of Engineering

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mehmet Vurkaç, Oregon Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

Decision Making (IDM) and HUM 207h:Science, Medicine and Reason (SMR), respectively.This is an exploratory paper about the two courses (and plans for additional future courses),detailing the experiences of students and the instructor in the pilot (IDM) as well as the designand the plan of assessment of the resulting new course (SMR). In the process, we examine theneed for and some challenges in integrating liberal education into engineering, technology, IT,and management curricula, along with the role of the humanities, social sciences, andcommunication in engineering education as the means for deepening students’ undergraduateexperiences.1 Although the course has a Humanities prefix, it involves almost equal parts psychology

Conference Session

Social Justice: Pedagogy, Curricular Reform, and Activism

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Joseph Valle, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor; Israa Ali, University of Michigan ; Corin L. Bowen, California State University, Los Angeles; Donna M Riley, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

that makes working classstudents like me even able to pursue graduate studies … would be gone.”Richard described the impacts the union has on students’ standard of living and an example of aunion campaign for improved transgender health care led by transgender members: “… your standard of living has kind of been set by how much it is that the union has been able to push the university … One of the big wins that has … come out of the past three years has been … our trans healthcare coverage ... back in like 2017 … the university, pretty much said like ‘go away, like this isn't something that should be in the contract,’ … Now like I think our university has one of the best like trans health coverage plans in

Conference Session

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

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tripp Shealy, Virginia Tech; Allison Godwin, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Haley Margaret Gardner

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

section of the survey and the initial validity tests. Though, more validity of the instrumentincluding psychometric statistical analyses, correlation matrices of theoretically related items forconstruct validity, and empirically testing the factor structure using maximum likelihood exploratoryfactor analysis are planned in the coming months. The paper ends with future research steps includingvalidation and distribution across universities in the United States. As mentioned earlier, the hope is thatothers are able to use and adapt the survey instrument and its supportive literature. While, our goal isspecific to measure senior engineer students, the survey could be adapted for recently graduated studentsearly in their professional

Conference Session

The Big Picture in Engineering Education

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie Quiles-Ramos, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Donna M. Riley, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Diversity

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contributing to the overall achievements of the institutional goals.Programmatic accreditation, on the other hand, can apply to schools, departments, or programsthat are part of a larger educational institution.According to the US Department of Education, there are specific roles that accreditation isexpected to play within the educational system:7 1. Assess the quality of academic programs at institutions of higher education 2. Create a culture of continuous improvement of academic quality at colleges and universities and stimulate a general raising of standards among educational institutions 3. Involve faculty and staff comprehensively in institutional evaluation and planning 4. Establish criteria for professional certification and

Conference Session

Promoting Technical Communication Skills

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Kristine Horvat, University of New Haven; Judy Randi, University of New Haven

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

scientific community.Best Practices in Writing Instruction Developing students’ competence as writers within the discourse communities of theirdisciplines requires acknowledging the differences between school writing and professionalwriting practices [13]. In contrast to school writing that emphasizes knowledge telling and on-demand writing, best practices consistent with professional and disciplinary writing includeopportunities to communicate meaningful content to real audiences, extended writing processesthat allow time for planning, revision, and editing, and opportunities to act upon detailedfeedback [13, 14, 15]. Modern psychological theory conceptualizes writing as a social activity [16]. In thisview, writing is shaped by the

Conference Session

Design, Assessment, and Redesign of Writing Instruction for Engineers

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Y. Yoritomo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Nicole Turnipseed, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign; S. Lance Cooper, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Celia Mathews Elliott, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; John R. Gallagher, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; John S. Popovics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Paul Prior, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Julie L Zilles, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

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and writing-to-learn activities. For example, 9 of 13 instructor surveyrespondents (two participants did not respond) marked that assigned writing is “never” used onlyby a student or group of students, while 14 of 15 marked that the writing is "always" collectedand graded. Few opportunities are structured for students to use writing to communicate withother students or to write through course concepts in low stakes ways that promote learningbefore officially setting those ideas down in more formal products.Similarly, when instructors were asked about the purposes of student writing in their courses, thetwo least-marked purposes were “learning course concepts” and “planning” (marked by 7 and 8of 15, respectively). In contrast, the purposes of

Conference Session

Imagining and Reimagining Engineering Education as a Dynamic System

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Donna M. Riley, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Alan Cheville, Bucknell University; Jennifer Karlin, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Thomas A. De Pree, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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engineering education, both with regards to initiatives organized by theengineering professional societies, as well as by volunteer, service-based organizations suchABET. As we move up the chain, it’s evident that engineering deans have a variety of forums forexchanging information and assessing their competitive position. Meanwhile, executive directorsand key staff members within national organizations plan and orchestrate educational changeusing both well-defined bureaucratic practices as well as more improvised organizationalmaneuvers designed to spearhead change.While it is too early for us to speak to how these processes intersect, our work reveals thatunderstanding the interactions that occur between the macro and micro levels (or more likely

Conference Session

Research on Diversification & Inclusion

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Brewer, University of Georgia; Nicola Sochacka, University of Georgia; Joachim Walther, University of Georgia

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, New Engineering Educators, Student, Women in Engineering

theconclusion that engineers well deserve our “significantly higher” salaries? As I’m strugglingwith these thoughts the administrator answers my question for me: “Engineers are very important to our economy. Engineers create new companies, they create wealth, they create new jobs.”The “economic hero” rhetoric doesn’t land with me, and my reaction is personal. If engineersare very important because they create companies and “wealth”, then what is an engineerwhose primary concern isn’t economic growth? This is more than a philosophical point for me.My personal career plans not only take me away from service to “our economy” but put mesquarely in opposition to the values I’m hearing described by the one of the highest leveladministrators

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 9

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cheryl Q. Li, University of New Haven; Judy Randi, University of New Haven; Jenna Pack Sheffield, University of New Haven

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

traits, theCollege’s writing instructor (second author) teaches a first-year online introductory course intechnical writing, Short Engineering Reports (SER). In SER, in addition to learning aboutstylistic traits that distinguish technical writing from other styles, students learn to plan, writeand revise technical memoranda. Students are expected to apply this knowledge and skills, whenthey compose the two memoranda assigned in the co-requisite engineering course, Methods ofEngineering Analysis (MEA). After the students submit the first memo to their engineeringinstructors, the SER instructor provides students feedback and assigns revision tasks. Studentsalso learn to self and peer review their memos, using an analytic “feedback” rubric that

Conference Session

Promoting Communication Skills

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Bruce Kovanen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Ryan Ware, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Megan Mericle, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Nicole Turnipseed, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; J. Patrick Coleman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Celia Mathews Elliott, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; John S. Popovics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; S. Lance Cooper, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; John R. Gallagher, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Paul Prior, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Julie L. Zilles, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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the emphasis onformal features (grammar, organization, style, editing, content) of finished products, writingstudies would categorize these practices as emblematic of a traditional product orientation towriting [5]. Product-oriented approaches often ignore writing processes entirely or depict simple,linear processes of both writing (plan→write→edit) and writing instruction(assign→submit→grade). However, the field of writing studies has largely rejected the productapproach in favor of writing-as-process models for writing instruction since the 1970s [11].Writing-as-process shifts attention from the final products to the complex, cyclical processesthrough which writing is developed. Writing-as-process approaches attempt to account for

Conference Session

Sociotechnical Integration

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

John A. Nestor, Lafayette College

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

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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workplace readiness, the design faculty will continue the current practice of asking apanel of local engineers to evaluate the students’ final presentations in the second senior designclass. To plan this project, the ECE design team and the CAC coordinator met twice during thesummer of 2011 to develop a standardized analytic rubric for use during the study. We thentested the rubric during a senior design presentation in October 2011 and revised it to improve itsusability.The impact goal of the proposed project was the creation of new pedagogy that is moreeffective in imparting oral communication skills to electrical engineering students in order toprepare graduates for oral presentations required for employability and professionaladvancement. The

Conference Session

Liberal Education Revisited: Five Historical Perspectives

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Heywood, Trinity College, Dublin

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

responsibility for trainingthe first group belonged to the universities and for the second group to the technical colleges.The Committee criticised day release and evening study because it gave too little attention to thefundamental sciences in the earlier stages. It not only thought that 1500 engineers per annumshould be trained to the highest level in the technical colleges but that the aggregate length of theacademic course should be the same as that of a university programme, and that it should beinterwoven with a planned course of works practice. The sandwich (cooperative) courses thatemerged were a refinement of this principle and occupied four years of interwoven academicstudy and work experience.1000 of the 1500 would be educated via the higher

Conference Session

Rethinking PowerPoint and Other Acts of Communication

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christine G. Nicometo, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Traci M. Nathans-Kelly, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Council also listed these same skills as critical for the future ofengineering, noting attributes that a “global engineer” should possess.6 Similarly, theAmerican Society of Civil Engineers posited the Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge Page 22.875.2for the 21st Century 7 that echoed these sentiments and demands from undergraduateengineering programs.Other studies that focused on engineering skills highlight attributes that might not betypically considered in a description of general engineering work or in a plan foreducation. For example, Trevelyan observed a key attribute of effective engineers asbeing the ability to work with and influence “other

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

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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

and engineeringconcepts and skills. We identified four areas of analysis for each of the three curricula.From the student materials, we analyzed the planning materials, activities andassessments. From the teacher training materials, we looked at what teachers werepresented with at the official summer training institutes (Table 1). Our content analysisfocused on examining the content of the materials. We recorded the number of NCTMmathematics standards specifically connected to the engineering curriculum for each unit(Prevost et al., 2009). Page 22.1318.4 3Table 1: Materials for Analysis

Conference Session

Making Students Aware of Their World: Five Perspectives

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary Lee Downey, Virginia Tech; Masanori Wada, Tokyo Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

 intellectuals,  that  the  territory  of  the  Empire  must  expand  to  provide  resources  and  markets.   By  the  1920s,  a  clear  hierarchy  of  technical  schools  served  a  hierarchy  of  employment.  Formally  it  drew  ideas  and  plans  from  the  Prussians  who  were  building  a  hierarchy  of  technical  schools.  But  while  the  Prussians  were  expanding  the  population  of  those  who  could  emancipate  German  spirit  via  Techniks  (Downey  and  Lucena  2004),  the  Japanese  were  expanding  the  population  of  those  who  would  increase  strength  through  exports  and  military  hardware.   The  elites  completed  six  years  of  elementary  school,  four  years  of  middle  school,  three

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

and undergraduate research experiences inform and influence college students’ career decisions and future plans. Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, June 24-27.44. Trenor, J. M., Yu, S. L., Waight, C. L., Zerda, K. S., & Sha, T. L. (2008). The relations of ethnicity to female engineering students' educational experiences and college and career plans in an ethnically diverse learning environment. Journal of Engineering Education, 97(4), 449-465.45. Herkert, J. R. (2005). Ways of thinking about and teaching ethical problem solving: Microethics and macroethics in engineering. Science and Engineering Ethics, 11(3), 373-385.46. Cameron, K. S., &

Conference Session

Programmatic Integration of Liberal Education

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jenn Stroud Rossmann, Lafayette College; Kristen L. Sanford P.E., Lafayette College; Julia Nicodemus, Lafayette College; Benjamin Cohen, Lafayette College

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. Kristen L. Sanford, Lafayette College Dr. Kristen Sanford Bernhardt is chair of the Engineering Studies program and associate professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Lafayette College. Her expertise is in sustainable civil infrastructure management and transportation systems. She teaches a variety of courses including sustainability of built systems, transportation systems, transportation planning, civil infrastructure management, and Lafayette’s introductory first year engineering course. Dr. Sanford Bernhardt serves on the American Society of Civil Engineers’ Committees on Education and Faculty Development and the Transportation Research Board Committee on Education and Training. She previously has served

Conference Session

Assessment and Liberal Education

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sean Ferguson, University of Virginia; Rider W. Foley, University of Virginia

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

instructors, changes in student-outcomesover time, and demonstrate a means to evaluate how student learning aligns with non-technicalcriteria. This paper offers an initial evaluation of the strengths and limitations of the methodology,comparisons to past use of concept maps in education assessment, and offers next steps for thisresearch.2.0 Research DesignOne of the challenging aspects of any assessment is determining what are sufficient direct andindirect measures and how to incorporate both into a continuous improvement plan (CIP)7. Directmeasures such as tests and problem sets, which are used in most courses, coupled with indirectsurveys can lead to a “death by assessment” if they are not connected to a CIP focused onprogrammatic goals or if the

Conference Session

Assessing Social Responsibility & Sustainability

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nathan E Canney PE, Seattle University; Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Mikhail Russu

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Diversity

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

like this were very uncommon, however. This could point to a missing link withrespect to developing a professional sense of social responsibility in engineers that could drawfrom the existing HSS influences that students reported. One student actually discussed howtheir humanities class influenced them negatively with respect to their views of engineering,saying: “Mostly the humanities, the engineering classes I took made me realize how irrelevant my major (mechanical engineering) is to making a difference in the world. I don't plan on using my major for anything in the future- planning on shifting my career path to the humanities/social sciences.”This response came from a female, senior engineering student who

Conference Session

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

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles Cowan, James Madison University; Elise Barrella P.E., James Madison University; Mary Katherine Watson, The Citadel; Robin Anderson, James Madison University

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

practices in engineering education since 2003 (at Bucknell University) and began collaborating on sustainable engineering design research while at Georgia Tech. She is currently engaged in course development and instruction for the junior design sequence (ENGR 331 and 332) and the freshman design experience, along with coordinating junior capstone at JMU. In addition to the Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, Dr. Barrella holds a Master of City and Regional Planning (Transportation) from Georgia Institute of Technology and a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Bucknell University.Dr. Mary Katherine Watson, The Citadel Dr. Mary Katherine Watson is currently an Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at The Citadel

Conference Session

Professional Development and Lifelong Learning

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexandra Vinson, Northwestern University; Pryce Davis, University of Nottingham; Reed Stevens, Northwestern University

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

together to carry out degradation testing on the logo of a small plastic device. In order totest the pigment that had been stamped onto the plastic, Liam asked Trevor and Cassandra to rubthe logo with a bleach wipe to simulate cleaning during normal use. Cassandra asked, “So, forhow much time do we do this?” Liam replied, “Uhh, I think, just clean it as if—there’s noinstructions for it, so just clean it as if ((pause)) you wanted it to be clean.”Later, Cassandra, Trevor and Liam worked to determine if an instance of degradation was causedby the bleach or during the stamping process. Liam was unable to determine if the defect wassomething he overlooked in the quality control process (a precursor to the bleach testing). Liamexplained how he planned

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

Diversity and Inclusion: Concepts, Mental Models, and Interventions

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Megan Keogh, University of Colorado, Boulder; Malinda S. Zarske, University of Colorado, Boulder; Janet Y. Tsai, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

client and the design team. Similarly, many women in ​Invention andInnovation​ were reported to have been in charge of the business aspects of the project. Bothclient communication and business planning are introduced in these subsequent courses.Another explanation for the trend of women disproportionately taking on non-technical roles isbecause they lack technical confidence. This explanation corresponds to possibilities discussed inthe focus groups. Women in the focus group believe that women are more likely to take onnon-technical roles in teams because of three main factors: i) they feel that they do not haveenough technical experience to be useful to the team, ii) they are not asked by their malecounterparts to take on technical roles, or