Conference Session

Rethinking PowerPoint and Other Acts of Communication

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

April A. Kedrowicz, University of Utah; Maria Dawn Blevins, University of Utah

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

withactual engineering projects to show students how intricately linked communication andteamwork skills are with engineering problem solving and design. Much emphasis is placed onsenior capstone courses, as this meets the immediate demand of preparing graduating seniors forthe non-technical aspects of their careers. In contrast, freshman classes receive less attention interms of their position to “set the tone” for the coupling of communication and engineering,likely because the demands placed on freshman engineering classes are already high. They serveas a recruitment tool, pique interest in engineering, expose students to the many and varied areasof concentration in the discipline, and perhaps, introduce students to engineering projects andbasic

Conference Session

Why Industry Says that our Engineering Students Cannot Write

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William K. Durfee, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Benjamin Adams, University of Minnesota; Audrey J. Appelsies, University of Minnesota; Pamela Flash, University of Minnesota

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Mechanical Engineering

mathematics (STEM) educators in particular to engagetheir students in higher order modes of learning. The uneven rate at which writing and STEMreforms are implemented3,4 reinforces the need for a new approach to reform, one that isdiscipline specific and faculty-driven.The Writing-Enriched Curriculum (WEC) model is informed by shifts in the perception ofwriting itself. Since the mid-20th century, the traditional view of writing as a mode ofcommunication, has evolved. Guided by psycholinguistic research, the current, expanded view isthat writing is a mode of communication and learning. Writing is now recognized as an abilitythat students continue to develop throughout their academic education and later careers as theyengage with increasingly complex

Conference Session

Teaching Communication II

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jodi F. Prosise, St. Ambrose University; Hank Yochum, Sweet Briar College

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

used by students for team collaboration (typically Skype andsimple integrated webcams) works very well because of the comparatively smaller number ofindividuals utilizing the technology at a given time.One of the greatest advantages for students at small liberal arts institutions is the relationshipdeveloped with faculty. Students have faculty as an instructor for several courses throughouttheir undergraduate careers and interact with them at many different levels (e.g. advising,tutoring, and club mentoring). A lack of this history with collaborating faculty has, in the past,caused some stress in students and impeded progress on design teams. We would like to find away to make it possible for each faculty to spend a few days at the beginning

Conference Session

Engineering Education Culture: Mental Health, Inclusion, and the Soul of Our Community

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Lucy Elizabeth Hargis, University of Kentucky; Courtney Janaye Wright, University of Kentucky; Ellen L. Usher, University of Kentucky; Joseph H. Hammer, University of Kentucky; Sarah A. Wilson, University of Kentucky; Melanie E. Miller, University of Kentucky

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

involveintense identity exploration and a period of planning for the transition to a career and adulthood[1]. When coupled with the demands of rigorous academic coursework and requirements, thisperiod of development can present significant psychological challenges. Indeed, mental healthconcerns have been increasing on college campuses, as students report more symptoms of stress,depression, and anxiety [2], [3]. This is concerning given the evidence of the link betweenmental health during college and students’ academic achievement, retention, work-ethic, andsocial well-being [1], [4]. Perhaps more alarming is the fact that suicide is the second-leadingcause of death on college campuses [1], [5].Seeking help from mental health professionals is one way

Conference Session

Social Justice: Pedagogy, Curricular Reform, and Activism

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Gabriel Medina-Kim, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

—creating space for both declared and undeclaredcomputer science majors and minors. This is important for early computing undergraduates whomay need to see computing in a less depoliticized context that is clearly connected to the socialjustice to persist in the field. From an institutional and curricular standpoint, an electivedesignation reduces any illusory competition with other subject areas of computing. While late-career academics may have the authority among their department peers to bring such a courseinto the core, the elective designation supports early career academics who may not be supportedto make such a proposition. Thus, the elective designation settles for not exclusion from “core”computing curricular knowledge to be more

Conference Session

Engineering Communication I: History and Praxis

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

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

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

then used these scenarios to identify “the ideal attributes ofthe engineer of 2020” and describe “ways to improve the training of engineers to prepare themfor addressing the complex technical, social, and ethical questions raised by emergingtechnologies.” The Engineer of 2020 casts engineers in the role of change agents and leaders in both theprivate and public sector and focuses on the opportunities that lay ahead: “The years between thepresent and 2020 offer engineering the opportunity to strengthen its leadership role in society andto define an engineering career as one of the most influential and valuable in society and one thatis attractive for the best and the brightest” (p. 48). Realizing these aspirations, the report’sauthors

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)

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

produce scholarship linking their experiences to broader cultural phenomenaaround engineering and labor, further shaping a theory of change.PositionalityThe first and third authors, Valle and Bowen, are labor organizers with the American FederationFigure 1: Mapping of the components of this study to the liberatory engineering education modelproposed in [13].of Teachers (AFT) local GEO-3550, marginalized engineers, graduate student workers, childrenof union members, and participants within this study. As engineering graduate students whoseprimary fields of study are not engineering education, this work represents a departure from thetechnical scholarship of our fields. As early career scholars, we recognize forms of political riskinherent to

Conference Session

Social Responsibility and Social Justice I: Pedagogical Perspectives

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ricky T. Castles, East Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

experience greater levels of anxietythan male students (Papanastasiou, 2008). In order to encourage strong students to pursuegraduate study and to prepare for research-based professional positions, a strong exposure toundergraduate research is critical and the experiences students have with conductingundergraduate research can be very influential in continuing education decisions.Undergraduate engineering students also are often not exposed to the roles people outside oftheir major play in projects they may work on in their careers. In a recent study, Coso et al.(2010) researched second year engineering students conducting an interdisciplinary researchproject to identify the personnel who should be involved in the creation of a retaining wall

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn Johnson, Colorado School of Mines; Jon A. Leydens, Colorado School of Mines; Jacquelene Erickson, Colorado School of Mines; Alyssa Miranda Boll, Colorado School of Mines; Stephanie Claussen, Colorado School of Mines; Barbara M. Moskal, Colorado School of Mines

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

is concerning for many reasons. Stevens and collaborators point out that: “Students often have vague images of professional engineering work, and the images they do have are strongly colored by the experiences in their educational careers…As a result, students often ignore, discount, or simply do not see images of engineering that emphasize its nontechnical, noncalculative sides and its non-individual aspects” ([6], p. 120).Similarly, Jonassen also notes problems in the discrepancy between engineering problems solvedby students and practitioners: “Learning to solve classroom problems does not effectivelyprepare engineering graduates to solve workplace problems” ([7], pp. 103-104). When apracticing engineer fails to consider social

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sean Eddington, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Andrew O. Brightman, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Danielle Corple, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Patrice Marie Buzzanell, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #26697Tensions in Applying a Design-Thinking Approach to Address Barriers to In-creasing Diversity and Inclusion in a Large, Legacy Engineering ProgramSean Eddington, Purdue University, West Lafayette Sean Eddington (Ph.D., Purdue University) will be an assistant professor of Communication Studies at Kansas State University beginning Fall 2019. Sean’s primary research interests exist at the intersec- tions of organizational communication, new media, gender, and organizing. Within engineering contexts, Sean has examined career issues within the engineering discipline regarding (1) new faculty experiences

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicole Farkas Mogul, University of Maryland, College Park; David Tomblin, University of Maryland, College Park; Timothy Duane Reedy, University of Maryland, College Park

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

systemsthinking, ethics, social justice, and social responsibility (SR) into engineering education. Forexample, the problem rewrite assignment is a form of problem-based learning, a pedagogicalstrategy that others are using to teach SR and SJ [22]. Another promising strategy is usingcorporate social responsibility (CSR) as a tool in engineering ethics education, as a way ofpreparing students for “the CSR dimensions of their careers” and broadening studentsunderstanding of stakeholders, especially to include oppositional groups [23]. Nieusma andCieminski [24] suggest “a shift to ethics knowledge as ‘skills that must be practiced in order tobe learned’ [that] could fit nicely with the contemporary emphasis on active and problem-basedlearning approaches in

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 9

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janet Y. Tsai, University of Colorado, Boulder; Beth A. Myers, University of Colorado Boulder

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

apost-survey the last week of class, administered for course improvement purposes. However,only students that consented to participate in the research study have their responses analyzedand presented in this paper. The surveys ask questions about the students’ level of comfort in theclassroom, sense of belonging within many contexts, engineering identity, skills and abilities,intent to continue engineering in college and as a career, and some math confidence questions.Since reflection questions were assignments in the class, all students submitted them as part oftheir coursework. But, only the responses from consenting research participants are included inthis research dataset. Students who dropped the course after attending multiple class

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

listed in Table 1. Note that weuse the title “Professor” for all faculty members on our team, both teaching line and tenure line,without implying that this is their official university rank. Professors A, B, C, and D are allmembers of the academic faculty at their institutions. Professors A and B have reached thehighest teaching faculty rank at their university, Professor C is an early career non-tenure trackTable 1: Research team and roles. Research Team Role Selected Demographics Member Professor A Lead author and professor (teaching Female, white (non-Hispanic), faculty) teaching the third-year course heterosexual, cisgender, not

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

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

’ previous experiences with college writing.These results paint a rather bleak picture of our engineering undergraduates’ education aswriters. As Figure 4 indicates, many students will likely receive no disciplinary writinginstruction until their 3rd year of study. All of our students will be required to write at some pointin their undergraduate careers. However, considering the rate at which students place out of thefirst-year composition course and the lack of writing instruction in engineering courses havingwriting components, some students may never receive any writing instruction, disciplinary orotherwise, during their entire college career.Ideally, writing would be integrated throughout the curriculum by incorporating writinginstruction and

Conference Session

Ethical Awareness and Social Responsibility in a Corporate/Team Context

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katharine E. Miller, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Patrice Marie Buzzanell, University of South Florida; David Torres, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Danielle Corple, Purdue University; Megan Kenny Feister, California State University, Channel Islands

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

150 articles and chapters, her research centers on the intersections of career, gender communication, lead- ership, and resilience. Fellow and past president of the International Communication Association, she has received numerous awards for her research, teaching/mentoring, and engagement. She is working on Purdue-ADVANCE initiatives for institutional change, the Transforming Lives Building Global Commu- nities (TLBGC) team in Ghana through EPICS, and individual engineering ethical development and team ethical climate scales as well as everyday negotiations of ethics in design through NSF funding as Co-PI. [Email: buzzanel@purdue.edu]David Torres, Purdue University, West Lafayette David is a fourth year

Conference Session

Learning Outcomes and Pedagogical Strategies: Problems of Alignment

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Madeline Polmear, University of Colorado, Boulder; Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder; Nathan E. Canney, CYS Structural Engineers Inc.; Chris Swan, Tufts University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

great area, but it's less than 15% of the courses that students take in an undergraduate career… then in the other 85% it’s completely invisible, you're going to think, as an engineering student, just doesn't matter. This broader impacts, if it had really mattered, my professors would have mentioned it more. But we’re trying to change that culture.Teaching ESI throughout the educational experience conveys the inherent interconnectedness ofethical decision-making and engineering. A psychology professor who teaches at a privatereligiously affiliated baccalaureate college with arts and science focus [26] developed an ethicscourse for computer science students that is integrated into the program. He described how thewhole department bought

Conference Session

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

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tina Lee, University of Wisconsin-Stout; Devin R. Berg, University of Wisconsin-Stout; Elizabeth A. Buchanan, University of Wisconsin-Stout

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

EWBprojects, with their explicit social justice mission, has already been shown to have a positive effecton students, attitudes towards community service, and career expectations [2–7]. Other work hasdocumented the effects of service learning participation on meeting ABET learning outcomes [6]and providing global engineering competencies [8, 9]. While the benefits of service learning forstudent education are enticing, there is also some evidence that participation in projects with localcommunities, in contrast to internationally-based field work, can achieve the same studentoutcomes in terms of technical and professional skills [10, 11].Integration of service learning into the curriculum also necessitates the consideration of impactson the

Conference Session

Diversity and Inclusion

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mel Chua, Olin College; Tess Edmonds, Olin College

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

software tool I haven’t used before, and it might help me get a summer job. If I do, maybe I can buy my own flight home for Christmas and save my parents some money.  I am excited about learning how project management works, because I had some really disorganized teams in high school and want to do better...The two student examples above are truncated; in the actual activity, each would continue tospeak for several minutes, often with pauses and hesitations. Nevertheless, the differences inapproach are apparent (sustainability, teamwork, future-oriented, new to machining vs.experience, career-oriented, reflecting on high school experiences, etc.). The combination of theOpen Sentence and the open time for each person to speak

Conference Session

Research on Diversification, Inclusion, and Empathy II

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Justin L Hess, Purdue University - West Lafayette; Nicholas D. Fila, Purdue University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

; synthesizing the influence of societal and individual worldviews on decision-making; assessing STEM students’ learning in the spaces of design, ethics, and sustainability; and exploring the impact of pre-engineering curriculum on students’ abilities and career trajectories.Mr. Nicholas D. Fila, Purdue University Nicholas D. Fila is a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. He earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and a M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His current research interests include innovation, empathy, and engineering design. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 The

Conference Session

Social Responsibility and Social Justice II: From Classroom to Community

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna M. Riley, Virginia Tech; Janice L. Hall, Virginia Tech

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

stipend ($2000) for their completed work.As charter school reform has continued to develop in New Orleans the need for improvingSTEM education and developing an introduction to engineering for all students still exists. Asrecently as August 2015, a joint report by New Schools for New Orleans and Public Impactentitled Ten Years in New Orleans: Public School Resurgence and the Path Ahead, discussed thechallenges remaining as New Orleans schools struggle with filling talent gaps in specificsubjects, grades and educator roles.26 There are notable teacher shortages in several areas forstudents requiring special education, English as a second language, career and technicaleducation as well as educators for the STEM subject areas. 26 It is suggested

Conference Session

Maps, Metaphors, Tweets, and Drafts

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Judy Randi, University of New Haven; Ronald S. Harichandran, University of New Haven; Joseph A. Levert P.E., University of New Haven; Bijan Karimi, University of New Haven

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

. Requiring students torevise writing in response to specific feedback may motivate them to pay attention to feedbackand apply it to improve their writing, especially when they consider the written productimportant to their career success. Feedback delivered within the context of professional work isespecially salient to students. Some research has found that participation in engineering designprojects provides opportunities for coaching and mentoring in professional skills, including 1teamwork and communication [10]. Researchers concluded that feedback on professional skillshelped students become enculturated into the community of engineering practice.Clearly, the acquisition of writing skills is an

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

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

, she resigned from her faculty job and came to Connecticut for family reunion. Throughout her academic career in Australia and Sin- gapore, she had developed a very strong interest in learning psychology and educational measurement. She then opted for a second Ph.D. in educational psychology, specialized in measurement, evaluation and assessment at University of Connecticut. She earned her second Ph.D. in 2010. Li has a unique cross- disciplinary educational and research background in mechatronics engineering, specialized in control and robotics, and educational psychology, specialized in statistical analysis and program evaluation.Dr. Judy Randi, University of New Haven Judy Randi, Ed.D. is Professor of Education

Conference Session

Teaching Communication I

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brad Jerald Henderson, University of California, Davis

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #10394A Math-Based System to Improve Engineering Writing OutcomesMr. Brad Jerald Henderson, University of California, Davis Brad Henderson is a faculty in writing for the University Writing Program (UWP) at University of Cali- fornia, Davis. Henderson holds a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Cal Poly State University San Luis Obispo and a Masters in Professional Writing (MPW) from University of Southern California. Currently focusing his career on engineering communication and professionalism, he has worked as a design engineer and technical education specialist for Parker-Hannifin Aerospace and Hewlett

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Canek Moises Luna Phillips, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

. Potentially, informal learning environments offer the opportunity to promote scienceand engineering learning, which Bell et al. spoke to when they said, “There is mounting evidencethat structured, non-school science programs can feed or stimulate the science-specific interests ofadults and children, may positively influence academic achievement for students, and may expandparticipants’ sense of future science career options.” (p. 3) Furthermore, Bell et al. also said, “It isgenerally accepted that informal environments provide a safe, nonthreatening, open-endedenvironment for engaging with science.”I have connected the public forum I studied, a public engagement about an engineering topic, toBell et al.’s research that suggested that the event could

Conference Session

Engineering as a Professional Calling

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Qin Zhu, Purdue University; Brent K Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jian Yuan, Beihang University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

improving the practical effectiveness of engineering ethics that draws on theories in hermeneutics, practical philosophy, and discourse ethics has recently been awarded the ”Outstanding Dissertation Award” in Liaoning Province, China.Prof. Brent K Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette Dr. Brent K. Jesiek is Assistant Professor in the Schools of Engineering Education and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. He is also an Associate Director of Purdue’s Global En- gineering Program, leads the Global Engineering Education Collaboratory (GEEC) research group, and is the recipient of an NSF CAREER award to study boundary-spanning roles and competencies among early career engineers. He holds a B.S. in

Conference Session

Teaching Communication I

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca R Essig, Purdue University; Cary David Troy, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Brent K Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Josh Boyd, Purdue University; Natascha Trellinger Buswell, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Associate Director of Purdue’s Global En- gineering Program, leads the Global Engineering Education Collaboratory (GEEC) research group, and is the recent recipient of an NSF CAREER award to study boundary-spanning roles and competencies among early career engineers. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Michigan Tech and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Science and Technology Studies (STS) from Virginia Tech. Dr. Jesiek draws on expertise from engineering, computing, and the social sciences to advance understanding of geographic, disciplinary, and historical variations in engineering education and professional practice.Prof. Josh Boyd, Purdue University Josh Boyd is associate professor and director of undergraduate

Conference Session

Making Students Aware of Their World: Five Perspectives

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cherrice Traver, Union College; Douglass Klein, Union College; Borjana Mikic, Smith College; Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Steven B. Shooter, Bucknell University; Ari W. Epstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; David Gillette, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

individual schools and programs have begun to demonstrate the feasibility andthe benefit of integration, and many have been showcased at the Symposium on E&LE.63, 121Next steps are to provide tools that empower more faculty to act, to create a national communityof practice, and to demonstrate how the integration of E&LE elevates engineering students’capacities for innovative and entrepreneurial careers.3. EXAMPLES OF INTEGRATION OF E&LEExperiences and activities presented in this section all represent existing integrative activities.They illustrate ways to leverage expertise from non-engineering disciplines into importantcomponents of the engineering education spectrum. Study of these successful activities will leadto the insights and

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

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Conference Session

Restructuring/Rethinking STEM

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joe Tranquillo, Bucknell University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

expense of breadth.The question I will respond to is: “What, if any, value is there in T-shaped undergraduatecourses and curricula?” Many students have began to form a T-shape before college andwill continue to become more T-shaped over time. But it is that during the undergraduateyears that students will transform their various interests into a mindset that will guidethem throughout their career. Teaching the T-shape also brings natural contact with themessiness of the real world, and therefore exercises the capacity for complex thinking. Iwill use the two words mindset and real world to focus the discussion below. Page 23.1237.13

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

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

mightthey be feeling? What might they be seeing? What might they be hearing? Can you see yourselfin the subjects or do you see someone distinctly different from you? Can you hear your ownvoice narrating or the voice of someone you know? Can you feel what they are feeling or are youchallenged by the unfamiliarity of the narratives?The Circle DanceOn a round stage, circling the point of engineering identity, I fix my eyes on the identity I aspire to.Circling and circling my eyes stay fixed on the goal. All of me committed to an idea, my education, my career, my thoughts, my values, my sense of worth, my ego, my paradigm… me. I am going to be an engineer.Standing, tightly circling in place, on the point of