Conference Session

Communication: From Pecha Kucha to Bullets

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth R. Leitch, West Texas A&M University; Rhonda B Dittfurth, West Texas A&M University; Freddie J Davis P.E., West Texas A&M University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

had approximately ten group laboratory assignments (including a thoroughfinal design project) requiring written reports or memos.In addition to the assignments described above, one of the laboratory activities in the ENGR 1201 was a two-partexercise and report on the creation of a paper airplane design. This laboratory involved the documentation of thesteps to create a paper airplane design in a group setting in a memo format and then sharing that design with anothergroup. Three ENGR 1201 sections had lab groups swap the designs and attempt to construct the paper airplanesfrom those instructions. One ENGR 1201 section swapped its instructions with a COMM 1315 section, with eachsection commenting to the original group on the ease of following

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

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

accuracy”16,17 or “theory of mind.”18 Batson described the second as “adopting theposture or matching the neural response of an observed other”; other scholars have called this“motor mimicry.”19 Batson described the third as “coming to feel as another person feels”; thismay be described as emotional “catching” or “contagion.”20,21 Batson described the fourth as“intuiting or projecting oneself into another’s situation”; this has simply been called projection.22Batson described the fifth as “imaging how another is thinking or feeling”; this has been called“imagine other” perspective-taking (as opposed to imagining one’s self as the other).23 Batsondescribed the sixth, a corollary to the fifth, as “imagining how one would think and feel in theother’s

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Benjamin David Lutz, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Nathan E. Canney, CYS Structural Engineers Inc.; Samantha Ruth Brunhaver, Arizona State University

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

engineering juniors and seniors having recently completed a co-opor internship, the second investigates the experiences of recent engineering graduates during thefirst twelve weeks of their jobs, and the third explores the beliefs of more experienced engineerswho engaged in service-oriented projects as students. We selected these data because they bothrepresent three different points in time and speak to different levels of understanding of andfamiliarity with engineering organizations. We conducted a thematic analysis to identify majorthemes related to engineers’ agency and the way their organizational structure interacts with theirown beliefs and skills.Specifically, we explore themes of Relational Empowerment, Structural Empowerment,Organizational

Conference Session

Making Students Aware of Their World: Five Perspectives

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Linda M. Head, Rowan University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Department. The initial target audience isfirst-year electrical and computer engineering majors and undergraduate music majors, althoughthe course will have neither math nor music prerequisites and can be taken by any student on theRowan University campus. The course will treat the title-topics from a holistic perspective asboth a systems-engineering project and a music-composition project. A syllabus for the currentoffering of the course is shown in Table 3. Table 3: Course Syllabus SIGNALS, SYSTEMS & MUSIC SYLLABUSSESSION TOPICS LABORATORY 1 History of Electronic Music & Music Theory Demonstration Units 1-4

Conference Session

Flexible Engineering Curricula

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Diana A. Chen, University of San Diego; Gordon D. Hoople, University of San Diego

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

students, not just GE students. As such, it isbeing developed by faculty within and outside GE.1st Year: User-Centered DesignOne major challenge that engineers universally face is the disconnect of their work from itsusers. In this first year class, we stress that designs cannot be based simply on the designers’ ownunderstanding, and we emphasize the need to develop empathy for users, who may have differentassumptions and experiences. In an effort to better integrate social justice into engineering, thiscourse aims to help students understand their own privileges, which we achieve throughreflection journals, activities such as a trip to a local museum with an exhibit on race, andclassroom discussion. The course project entails a community

Conference Session

Integration of Engineering and Other Disciplines (Including Liberal Arts)

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

Presentation Oral Exam 1 Oral Presentation Scientific Knowledge County Fair Writing Written Reflections Teaming/Professionalism Press Conference Oral Presentation Design Deliverable Proposal Written Report Design Deliverable You-tube video Instructional Video Design Deliverable Page 24.1370.3 Employment Project Cover letter and Resume Resume & Cover LetterEach deliverable shown in Table 2 was assigned to a category with the grade distribution shownin Table 3. The design deliverable’s grade for each

Conference Session

Ethical and Global Concerns

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Elizabeth A. Reddy, Colorado School of Mines; Stephen Campbell Rea, Colorado School of Mines; Qin Zhu, Colorado School of Mines

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

navigateworkplace legal structures, but also changing how they perceive engineering as a field for ethicalaction. In this paper, we consider the degree to which ethics are integrated into engineeringcourses. To this end, we examine the popular use of the medical metaphor of “dosage” in relationto ethics in the engineering classroom. We identify this usage pattern and use thematic analysisto consider its implications in engineering education literature. Taking medical metaphorsseriously can sensitize us to certain troubles related to the limited integration of ethics intoengineering classrooms. This has implications for projects related to education research andengineering education reform. Focusing on what we expect ethics education to do can help us

Conference Session

Advances in Communication Instruction

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Keri Lynn Wolfe, Pennsylvania State University; Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Joanna K. Garner, Old Dominion University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

. For all eight slides presenting the complex concept of how magneticresonance imaging works, the visual evidence had the same design as in the assertion-evidenceslides. While the size of that evidence was typically smaller, the auditorium in which theexperiment occurred had a relatively larger projected image than exists in most rooms. If thevisual evidence of the topic-subtopic slides significantly affected the results, then the design ofvisual evidence appears to play a larger role in the comprehension of complex concepts thanpreviously assumed.Introduction In engineering conferences, meetings, and classrooms, presentation slides are oftenused to communicate key concepts and factual details. A recent sampling of several thousandslides

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ramiro Jordan P.E., University of New Mexico; Indira Nair, Carnegie Mellon University; Kamil Agi, SensorComm Technologies Inc.; Donna M. Koechner, eNova Solutions, LLC

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

reviewer in the National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) program. Dr. Agi received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. He received his MBA from the Berkeley-Columbia Executive MBA Program.Donna M. Koechner, eNova Solutions, LLC Donna Koechner earned her BS in Electrical Engineering at Kansas State University and her MS in Elec- trical and Computer Engineering at the University of New Mexico. She has worked in academia, research and industry on products and projects including image segmentation and pattern recognition, software design, software specification, development and testing, product engineering, technical writing, course

Conference Session

Novel Strategies for Studying Liberal Education

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jakob C. Bruhl, United States Military Academy; Win Gilbert Bruhl, University of Arkansas, Little Rock

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

of design courses. Walesh’s book comes closestbut, while interesting and valuable, does not provide clear ideas for implementation withintypical engineering courses. Building on the work of Sternberg and others, Cropley offersprinciples and strategies for incorporating the development of creativity in engineering curricula.Many of these center around the idea of providing more opportunities for students to engage increativity throughout the curriculum.13 Baillie and Walker offer case studies of how creativitymay be integrated into three different courses (first year mechanical engineering, materialsscience, and a physics seminar).14Too many times in our engineering programs, we assign constrained problems and projects inour courses until the

Conference Session

Sociotechnical Integration

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

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

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

. Lucena, focused on rendering visible the social justice dimensions inherent in three components of the engineering curriculum—in engineering sciences, engineering design, and humanities and social science courses; that work resulted in Engineering Justice: Transforming Engineering Education and Practice (Wiley-IEEE Press, 2018). His current research grant project explores how to foster and assess sociotechnical thinking in engineering science and design courses.Dr. Kathryn Johnson, Colorado School of Mines Kathryn Johnson is an Associate Professor at the Colorado School of Mines in the Department of Elec- trical Engineering and Computer Science and is Jointly Appointed at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s

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

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

into freshman-level humanities course and a junior-level technical course allowed students to make connections with what they learned earlier in their college careers. • Not insignificant is the fact that this interdisciplinary project brought together three people from very different academic areas to exchange ideas.The Museum - Contributions to the Synthesis of Art and EngineeringWhile the seeds may have been planted much earlier, the synthesis of art and engineering atMilwaukee School of Engineering formally began in 2001 with the gift of the Eckhart G. Page 24.784.2Grohmann Man at Work collection to the University

Conference Session

Socially Responsible Engineering I: Context, Innovation, and Reflection

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Rider W. Foley, University of Virginia; Rachel Sinclair, University of Virginia; Araba Dennis, Purdue University

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #34487Exploring Values and Norms of Engineering Through Responsible Innova-tionand Critiques of Engineering CulturesDr. Rider W. Foley, University of Virginia Dr. Rider W. Foley is an assistant professor in the science, technology & society program in the De- partment of Engineering and Society at the University of Virginia. He is the principal investigator at University of Virginia on the ’4C Project’ on Cultivating Cultures of Ethical STEM education with col- leagues from Notre Dame, Xavier University and St. Mary’s College. He is also the co-leader of the ’Nano and the City’ thematic research cluster

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Lachney, Michigan State University

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Mindstorms in theirstudents’ education, but encountered different barriers and constraints when trying to supportthose values. In common, they valued Mindstorms for two general reasons: 1) its role insupporting project-based learning; 2) its potential role in shaping students’ futures, specificallythe possibility that they might choose to pursue engineering, robotics, or another STEM field.The perceived additive value of Mindstorms to their schools is its support for hands-on, project-based learning. While sometimes this is framed by the fact that Mindstorms is a toy thatreferences popular youth culture, the larger focus was on its role in changing the content andstructure of instruction. For example, Jill compares lessons with Mindstorms to her

Conference Session

Imagining and Reimagining Engineering Education as a Dynamic System

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Karlin, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Rebecca A. Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Cheryl Allendoerfer, University of Washington; Dan Ewert, Anderson Industries; Ronald R. Ulseth, Itasca Community College

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

has a broad background in mechanical and electrical engineering, and physiology with specific training and expertise. His work includes mod- eling the cardiovascular system, ventricular assist devices, cardiac physiology, instrumentation systems and leadless cardiac pacing. He help developed and was the inaugural director of a project-based-learning engineering curriculum. As Chief Innovation and Culture Officer in industry, He is now involved in discovery-based-learning on multi-disciplinary teams.Mr. Ronald R. Ulseth, Itasca Community College Ron Ulseth directs and instructs in the Iron Range Engineering program in Virginia, Minnesota and he teaches in the Itasca Community College engineering program in Grand

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

Michael’s retrospective reflections on and systematic analysis of threeencounters he had with various members of his college during his freshman year. It is importantto point out that at the times when these encounters took place, Michael had not yet begunworking on the research project described above [12]. In other words, the encounters took place innatural settings and were not influenced or prompted by the goals and purposes of this study.As described above, the purpose of embarking on this exploratory study was to examine howstories ‘told’ about engineering in the public discourse influence, or “shape and reflect” [12],communications at an institutional level. The focus of the empirical analysis was therefore notthe stories that individuals

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

instrument, textile 6 Totals (%) 100 105*  The mis-match is due to difficulties in making direct comparisons between the studies. For example Social Science could be classified a liberal study in the US A major problem was that only rarely did universities show any interest in design. It was not arespectable subject, and in any case it was debatable as to whether it could be taught. This wasnot the case among those who undertook project work especially in dip.tech courses whobelieved that they helped students understand the design process. W. A. Pullman argued thatbecause of the industrial experience obtained on sandwich courses students could undertakeambitious

Conference Session

A Liberal Education Certified: A Panel on Integrating Liberal Education in a Large, Research-based Institution

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lydia Wilkinson, University of Toronto; Alan Chong, University of Toronto; Deborah Tihanyi, University of Toronto; Penny Kinnear, University of Toronto; Robert Irish, University of Toronto; Ken Tallman, University of Toronto

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

-author of the book, ”Sociocultural Theory in Second Language Education: An in- troduction through narratives.” Her current research projects include a longitudinal study on professional identity development of Chemical Engineering students and a study of meaning-making language and behaviour in student design teams.Dr. Robert Irish, University of Toronto Associate Professor, Teaching Stream in Engineering CommunicationProf. Ken Tallman, University of Toronto Ken is an Associate Professor, Teaching Stream with the Engineering Communication Program at the University of Toronto. Ken’s responsibilities include coordinating communication instruction in the De- partment of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the

Conference Session

Panel Session: The Grammar Elephant in the Engineering Classroom

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brad Jerald Henderson, University of California, Davis; Ruth Ann McKinney, The University of North Carolina School of Law; Julia M. Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Hewlett-Packard Inkjet. Henderson was featured in the book—Engineers Write! Thoughts on Writing from Contemporary Literary Engineers by Tom Moran (IEEE Press 2011)—as one of twelve ”literary engineers” writing and publishing creative works in the United States. Henderson’s current project is a book pioneering a new method for teaching engineers workplace writing skills through the lens of math. A Math-Based Writing System for Engineers: Sentence Algebra & Document Algorithms is forthcoming from Spring Nature, 2017.Prof. Ruth Ann McKinney, The University of North Carolina School of Law Ruth Ann McKinney, M.Ed., J.D., Emeritus Clinical Professor and former Assistant Dean, directed the writing program and academic

Conference Session

Communication, Professional Development, and the Engineering Ambassador Network

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Catherine Talbot; Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Melissa Marshall, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Christine Haas, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Sarah E Zappe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Joanna K. Garner, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

, biomedical engineeringstudents at Northwestern University also felt they gained valuable leadership,management and communication through developing and teaching a K-12 outreachprogram.13 In the Tufts University study, eight top graduate fellows from Tufts Universitywere given the opportunity to be paired with a K-12 teacher.11 Participating NSF GK-12fellows spent 20 hours a week on average working with the outreach project, with 16hours (2 full days) per week spent in the classroom of their partner teacher. Thesestudents did not possess training as educators or significant experience working inschools. Fellows learned effective teaching strategies directly from the students andteachers in the classroom. In addition, fellows became skilled at

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kamarza Mulia, Chemical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Indonesia; Elsa Krisanti, Chemical Engineering Department, Universitas Indonesia

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

multidisciplinaryteam as one of its undergraduate curriculum learning outcomes, listed in Appendix B.Communication skills are considered an important component within engineering curricula,either as stand-alone classes or integrated into a program curriculum along with otherimportant process skills. In the integrated approach, all of these skills are coveredprogressively in a series of courses. Examples of the integrated approach are those at theVirginia Tech's Materials Science and Engineering Department3 and the University ofQueensland’s Project Centred Curriculum in Chemical Engineering for the third and fourthyear students4.The communication skills course in our program is a stand-alone class, nevertheless, it hasbeen developed as part of our effort to

Conference Session

Community-Engaged Engineering Education Challenges and Opportunities in Light of COVID-19 Paper Presentations 1

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Reed Marshall ; Daylen James McGhee, United States Military Academy; Lixrine Epie Ngeme, United States Military Academy; Joseph Carl Price ; Aaron T. Hill Jr., United States Military Academy; Brad C. McCoy, United States Military Academy; Kevin P. Arnett P.E., United States Military Academy

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Community Engagement Division, Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

professional engineer in Virginia and a Project Management Professional. Aaron’s primary areas of research are engineering education, the behavior of steel structures, and blast. Aaron mentors students by serving as an advisor for capstone projects and through service as an Officer Representative for Women’s Volleyball and Men’s Basketball. His passion for teaching and developing tomorrow’s leaders resulted in his selection in 2009 for the American Society of Civil Engineers New Fac- ulty Excellence in Teaching Award and the 2013 Outstanding Young Alumni Award for the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech.Lt. Col. Brad C. McCoy, United States Military Academy Brad C. McCoy is a Lieutenant

Conference Session

Diversity and Inclusion: Concepts, Mental Models, and Interventions

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sean M. Eddington, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Andrew O. Brightman, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Rucha Joshi, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Patrice Marie Buzzanell, Purdue University, West Lafayette; David Torres, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

and engineering design and for increasing the diversity and inclusion of engineering education.Dr. Rucha Joshi, Purdue University, West Lafayette Rucha received her BS in Biotechnology from Kolhapur, India and thereafter came to Vanderbilt Uni- versity to work on her MS developing smart bio-materials for drug delivery applications. A biomedical engineer with expertise in biomaterials, tissue engineering, and drug delivery, Rucha is now pursuing post-doctoral research in biomedical engineering education. She is passionate about STEM pedagogy, design thinking, project-based learning and educational entrepreneurship.Prof. Patrice Marie Buzzanell, Purdue University, West Lafayette Patrice M. Buzzanell is a Professor in

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

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

and served as chair of LED. When theTechnological Literacy Constituency Committee was formed in 2006, most of the officers of thenew group were also members of LED.In alignment with the new committee, there is a marked increase in numbers of papersmentioning “technological literacy” in 2005 and 2006. As interest in technological literacy grewwithin ASEE and, perhaps more significantly, in the National Academy of Engineering and theNational Science Foundation, the projects and goals of the two groups diverged, though theywere never in competition or estranged from each other. Their interests began to overlap moreextensively again when the constituent committee became the Technological and EngineeringLiteracy/Philosophy of Engineering (TELPhE

Conference Session

Communication as Performance

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lydia Wilkinson, University of Toronto

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

. Page 26.609.5Team 1This team, composed of a number of highly motivated students, used strategies drawn frominside and outside of this classroom to produce a handful of different possible story scenarios.Most of the group began plotting the scene before the assignment had been formally introducedin the second studio class. Their enthusiasm actually impeded their process as their plans wereentrenched by the time they learnt that their poster was to be their primary creative source. As aresult, one team member who developed an entire storyline over the weekend was forced to letgo of his project when teammates argued that it did not align with the content of their poster.Despite the eventual rejection of his story, his systematic approach to story

Conference Session

Assessing Literacies in Engineering Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher Leslie, New York University Tandon School of Engineering ; Lindsay Anderberg, New York University Tandon School of Engineering

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

a humanities course, and the archivist fromNYU Libraries. This activity shows how liberal education can have a natural fit within theengineering curriculum. In particular, we wish to demonstrate how even a small-scale project,using available resources, will help to accomplish ABET Criterion 3: Student Outcomes.ABET’s Student Outcomes encourage engineering education to follow an active learning model,to discuss the social context and ethics of engineering solutions, and to develop skills of analysis,teamwork, and communication. Our archival interventions, though admittedly limited in scope,embody the principles ABET’s Student Outcomes. By working in groups with primary sourcematerials related to science and engineering, we encouraged

Conference Session

Improving Presentation Skills Through Summer Research and Ambassador Programs

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Necia Werner, Carnegie Mellon University; Joanna Dickert, Carnegie Mellon University; Nisha Shanmugaraj, Carnegie Mellon University ; Kevin G. Monahan, Carnegie Mellon University; Stephanie Wallach, Carnegie Mellon University; Jennifer Keating, Carnegie Mellon University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

College, includes a pre-program survey which is completed at the beginningof the summer experience, a post-program survey which is completed at the immediateconclusion of the summer experience, and a follow-up survey which is completed at theconclusion of the subsequent academic year. Funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute(HHMI), the SURE survey was first administered in 2004 [8]. With 44 total items, it includes 21items in which students rate individual learning gains on a 5-point Likert scale ranging from verylarge gain (5) to no gain or very small gain (1). The items cover a comprehensive range ofpotential gains including development of project-specific skills and theoretical understanding,engagement with the research process, and

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kristen L. Sanford Bernhardt P.E., Lafayette College; Jenn Stroud Rossmann, Lafayette College

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

cooperative, project-based integrative and interdisciplinary learning. Although aproposed AB program in engineering was neither successful nor sustained, this institutionalsensibility is still reflected in WPI practices at the course level (e.g. [13]) as well as larger-scaleinitiatives.Since the late-1960s moment at which boundary-transgressing programs like the WPI Plan andLafayette College’s AB in Engineering (which later became a program in Engineering Studies)curriculum were launched, disciplinary boundaries have remained strong, sometimes even beingfortified on campuses. Integrative activities flourished only on the margins of traditionaldisciplines, rarely offered much institutional nourishment or light (e.g. [7]). Even at HarveyMudd, the

Conference Session

Communication and Engineering Careers: Motivating Our Students

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julie E. Sharp, Vanderbilt University; Christopher J Rowe, Vanderbilt University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

leadership and policy. His research and teaching interests in engineering education include first-year engineering pedagogy and problem-based learning. His professional areas of expertise include technical project management and technology strategy. He advises the Dean of Engineering on strategy and is Communications Director for the School of Engineering. He is past-Chair of the First-year Programs Division of ASEE and member of ASEM. Page 23.705.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Implementing a Student-Suggested Course in Engineering Career

Conference Session

Linking Engineering and Liberal Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gayle E. Ermer, Calvin College

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

have to be addressed in the context of engineering design in orderto produce products and infrastructure that are safe and effective. This paper will explore variousaspects of complexity in technology, particularly in engineering design and analysis, and suggestsome ways that engineering education may need to be adjusted to address these needs, with aspecial focus on the complexities addressed by the interdisciplinary field of complexity theory.Complexity in TechnologyFor some, it may be intuitively obvious that technology is increasing in complexity, based on theincreasing scale and scope of our technological projects. However, our perception of the extentto which this is occurring is likely influenced by our own interpretation of the term