Conference Session

A Challenge to Engineering Educators

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Harold R Underwood, Messiah College

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #6638Using the Portfolio Approach to Assess Multi-year Engineering Projects: aCase StudyDr. Harold R Underwood, Messiah College Dr. Underwood received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at UIUC in 1989, and has been a faculty member of the Engineering Department at Messiah College since 1992. Besides teaching Circuit Analy- sis, Electromagnetics, and Communications Systems, he supervises students on projects in the Integrated Projects Curriculum (IPC) and within the Communications Technology Group of the Messiah College Collaboratory. His on-going projects include Flight Tracking and Messaging for small planes in

Conference Session

Integrating Engineering & Liberal Education

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna M. Riley, Smith College

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

and research. Educational Researcher, 31: 15–21.26. Biesta, G. (2007). Why “what works” won’t work: Evidence-based practice and the democratic deficit in educational research. Educational Theory. 57(1):1-22.27. Sanderson, I. (2003). Is it “what works” that matters? Evaluation and Evidence-based Policy Making. Research Papers in Education, 18(4):331-345.28. Winner, L. (1990). Engineering ethics and political imagination. In Broad and Narrow Interpretations of Philosophy of Technology: P. Durbin, Ed. Boston: Kluwer, 53-64.29. Dewey, J. (1929). The sources of a science of education. New York: Horace Liverlight.30. Freire, P. (1971). Pedagogy of the Oppressed. M. Bergman Ramos, trans. New York: Continuum.31. Chavez, Cesar.(2013

Conference Session

Governance, Diplomacy, and International Comparisons in Engineering Education

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Yi Cao, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Xiaoye Ma, Tsinghua University; Jennifer M. Case, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Brent K. Jesiek, Purdue University at West Lafayette ; David B. Knight, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; William C. Oakes, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Xiaofeng Tang, Tsinghua University; Zheping Xie, Tsinghua University; Haiyan Zhao

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #33256Visions of Engineers for the Future: A Comparison of American andChinese Policy Discourses on Engineering Education InnovationMiss Yi Cao, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University CAO Yi is a new PhD student at the Dapartment of engineering education in Virginia Tech with the guidance of Dr. Jennifer Case. She is also a research associate at the International Center for Higher Education Innovation(ICHEI), a UNESCO Category 2 Center situated in Shenzhen, China, on the premise of the Southern University of Science and Technology. With Yi’s a bachelor degree of Standardization of Engineering and

Conference Session

Sustainability and Social Responsibility

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Jessica Taylor, Iowa State University; Rebekah Oulton P.E., California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #30358Engineering for People and Planet: A Multidisciplinary Course Proposalfor Engineers on the UN Sustainable Development GoalsMs. Jessica Taylor, Iowa State University Jessica Taylor is a graduate student in Civil Engineering, who joined Iowa State University after graduat- ing from California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo with her B.S. in Environmental Engineering and minor in Science, Technology, and Society. Her work takes a holistic approach in understanding critical factors for supporting community-centered climate change adaptation, specifically looking at in- frastructure adaptation in rural

Conference Session

A Challenge to Engineering Educators

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa DuPree McNair, Virginia Tech; Wende Garrison, Virginia Tech

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

; whatmisconceptions, preconceived notions, and biases people bring to learning; how to work withdiverse groups; [and] how to use learning and collaboration technologies” 4, p. 11. However, manystudents do not have the opportunity to teach during their graduate career, and many teachingassistantship programs do not provide pedagogical training. Also, within prevailing academiccultures in engineering, teaching assistantships are often not as highly valued as researchassistantships.    Our project addresses this issue through an approach that promotes integrative thinking throughdigital portfolio construction. Our portfolio curriculum guides students through the process ofcollecting and posting evidence of their work in teaching, research, service and lifelong

Conference Session

Sociotechnical Thinking I: Classroom Experiences, Identity, and Theory

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Desen Sevi Ozkan, Tufts University; Kenyetta Anisah Rose Neal Akowa

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

centered on technology and haddisplayed assumptions of technology's benevolence [35, p. 140] in aiding in a natural disaster.In figure 1, we have organized the themes along a spectrum of social to technical and problem tosolution space to show the themes in relation to one another. The rounded shapes depictdimensions that were more in line with the social, while the trapezoid shapes show dimensionsmore in line with the technical.Figure 1. Student response codes along social to technical and problem to solution-focused axes.DiscussionStudents displayed a range of social and technical dimensions offered in their responses to thenatural disaster question. Even though the survey was administered in an engineering course andfollowing two close-ended

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

Mines. Qin is also Associate Editor for International Perspectives at the National Academy of Engineering’s Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science and Book Review and Digital Platforms Editor for the Journal of Engineering Studies. Qin’s research interests include the cultural foundations of engineering ethics, global engineering education, and ethics and policy of emerging technologies such as robotics and nanotechnology. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Toward a Globalized Engineering Education: Comparing Dominant Images of Engineering Education in the United States and China IntroductionAs a rising power in

Conference Session

Studying Engineering Education Research & Institutions

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kacey D Beddoes, Oregon State University; Corey T Schimpf, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #11421Undisciplined Epistemology: Conceptual Heterogeneity in a Field in the Mak-ingDr. Kacey D Beddoes, Oregon State University Kacey Beddoes is a Research Associate in the School of Civil and Construction Engineering at Oregon State University. She received her PhD in Science and Technology Studies (STS) from Virginia Tech, along with graduate certificates in Women’s and Gender Studies and Engineering Education. She serves as Managing Editor of Engineering Studies and Assistant Editor of the Global Engineering Series at Morgan & Claypool Publishers. Her current research interests include gender in engineering

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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[1-8], but also widely viewed as deficient [9]. The National Academy ofEngineering (NAE) [4] and National Science Foundation (NSF) [10] have devoted resources andattention to improving the ethics education of students. This includes both microethics, orindividual responsibilities, and macroethics, addressing the “role of engineers in societalimplications about technology” and the broader societal and environmental responsibilities of theprofession [11].Although accreditation requires some degree of ESI education [7,8], the precise nature is notconstrained and seems to be largely at the discretion of individual programs and their faculty.Lattuca and Stark’s Academic Plan Model [12] describes faculty teaching choices. It is similar toother

Conference Session

Assessing Literacies in Engineering Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bryan A. Jones, Mississippi State University; Mahnas Jean Mohammadi-Aragh, Mississippi State University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

addition to research in first year engineering, Dr. Mohammadi-Aragh investigates technology-supported classroom learning and using scientific visualization to improve understanding of complex phenomena. She earned her Ph.D. (2013) in Engineering Education from Virginia Tech, and both her M.S. (2004) and B.S. (2002) in Computer Engineering from Mississippi State. In 2013, Dr. Mohammadi-Aragh was honored as a promising new engineering education researcher when she was selected as an ASEE Educational Research and Methods Division Apprentice Faculty. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Employing Literate Programming Instruction in a

Conference Session

The Value of Interpersonal Skills Training in Engineering Education: An Interactive Panel Discussion with the Tau Beta Pi Engineering Futures Program

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katy Luchini-Colbry, Michigan State University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

interests in educational technology and enhancing undergraduate education through hands- on learning. Luchini-Colbry is also the Director of the Engineering Futures Program of Tau Beta Pi, the Engineering Honor Society, which provides interactive seminars on interpersonal communications and problem solving skills for engineering students across the U.S. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016A note to the reviewers:The abstract below proposes an interactive panel discussion. We do not intend to submit anaccompanying paper for publication in the conference proceedings. However, the ASEEconference submission system requires that a “draft” document be uploaded in order to moveforward in the review

Conference Session

Improving Presentation Skills Through Summer Research and Ambassador Programs

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joanna K. Garner, Old Dominion University; Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Christine Haas, Engineering Ambassadors Network; Suzanne Sontgerath, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Avi Kaplan, Temple University

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

activities of being an engineer andthe hands-on activities, but they emphasized different aspects of this relationship. Many referredto problem solving, visualization, creativity, and the potential to engage in addressing real-worldproblems. One ambassador described how the best activities “really connect with students” sothat they can see “how they can help develop technology to help other people and also help theworld around them.” Another ambassador provided an example of an activity about biomimicryand stated that it involved students engaging as engineers would by making “armor based off an 8animal that they know.” As engineers, the ambassador

Conference Session

Diversity and Inclusion

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erin A. Cech, University of Michigan; Tom J. Waidzunas, Temple University; Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

examines cultural mechanisms of inequality reproduction–specifically, how inequality is reproduced through processes that are not overtly discrimi- natory or coercive, but rather those that are built into seemingly innocuous cultural beliefs and practices. Her work on inequality in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) professions focuses on the recruitment and retention of women, LGBTQ, and racial/ethnic minority persons in STEM degree programs and STEM jobs. Cech’s research is funded by multiple grants from the National Science Foun- dation, including the first grant ever awarded by NSF to study LGBTQ inclusion in STEM.Prof. Tom J. Waidzunas, Temple University Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology

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

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

levels ofcognition and moral development. This change, plus the ever evolving demands of engineeringin an increasingly globalized and technology dependent world, put additional responsibility onengineering programs to effectively teach students about ethics and societal impacts (ESI). ESIincludes microethics, the decisions and responsibilities of individual engineers, and macroethics,the profession’s collective responsibility in terns of societal implications of engineering andtechnology [3, 4].Despite the growing recognition of the importance of ESI education, there is little consensus onthe most effective approach. A variety of curricular models have been advocated in the literature.Ethics across the curriculum (EAC) is a holistic and

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

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #33846Engineering Communication and Engineering Criteria 2000: Assessing theImpact Through Papers Presented at the ASEE Annual ConferenceDr. Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia Kathryn Neeley is Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society in the Engineering & Soci- ety Department of the School of Engineering and Applied Science. She has served twice as chair of the Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division of ASEE and received the Sterling Olmsted Award for outstanding contributions to engineering education. i She is co-chair (with Judith Norback) of the Com- munication Across

Conference Session

Embedding Sociotechnical Systems Thinking I

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn Waugaman, University of Colorado Boulder; Janet Y Tsai, University of Colorado, Boulder; Malinda S Zarske, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Janet Y. Tsai is a researcher and instructor in the College of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research focuses on ways to encourage more students, especially women and those from nontraditional demographic groups, to pursue interests in the eld of engineering. Janet assists in recruitment and retention efforts locally, nationally, and internationally, hoping to broaden the image of engineering, science, and technology to include new forms of communication and problem solving for emerging grand challenges. A second vein of Janet’s research seeks to identify the social and cultural impacts of technological choices made by engineers in the process of designing and creating new

Conference Session

The Big Picture in Engineering Education

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna M. Riley, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Dean Nieusma, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #19792Mapping ELE Initiatives: Approaches, Underlying Assumptions, and Con-ceptual ChallengesDr. Donna M. Riley, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Donna Riley is Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech.Dr. Dean Nieusma, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Dean Nieusma is Associate Professor in Science and Technology Studies and Director of the Programs in Design and Innovation at Rensselaer. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Mapping Engineering and Liberal Education Initiatives: Approaches, Underlying Assumptions, and Conceptual

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

Paper ID #27117In Search of Integration: Mapping Conceptual Efforts to Apply STS to Engi-neering EducationDr. Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia Kathryn Neeley is Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society in the Engineering & Society Department of the School of Engineering and Applied Science. She is a past chair of the Liberal Educa- tion/Engineering & Society Division of ASEE and is particularly interested in the role of liberal education in developing engineering leaders.Dr. Caitlin Donahue Wylie, University of Virginia Caitlin D. Wylie is an assistant professor of Science, Technology and

Conference Session

Design and Making

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ayush Gupta, University of Maryland, College Park

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

socialresponsibility and engineering macro-ethics into the fabric of the engineering curriculum. In thispaper, writing as an engineering design instructor, I present my own successes and challengeswith incorporating notions of social responsibility and macro-ethics in an engineering designlesson. The lesson plan evolved over a period of 10 semesters. I document the process of thatevolution and discuss how students’ responses to activity prompts influenced that evolution.IntroductionWith few exceptions, ethics education within STEM disciplines has mostly remained separatefrom courses that provide instruction in what is perceived as technical knowledge (Leydens &Lucena, 2016). This paradigm tacitly reinforces that science, engineering, and technology

Conference Session

Embedding Sociotechnical Systems Thinking I

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Natasha A. Andrade, University of Maryland, College Park; David Tomblin, University of Maryland, College Park

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

of stabilized biosolids, its use as a fertilizer and its impact on environmental pollution concerning organic contaminants. She has also specialized in redesigning engineering courses to make them more student-centered and encouraging of active learning. More recently, she started work on engineering education research that analyses the incorporation and effectiveness of engineering macro- ethics in-class activities that focus on sustainable development.Dr. David Tomblin, University of Maryland, College Park David is the director of the Science, Technology and Society program at the University of Maryland, Col- lege Park. He works with STEM majors on the ethical and social dimensions of science and technology

Conference Session

Sociotechnical Thinking I: Classroom Experiences, Identity, and Theory

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Elizabeth A. Reddy, Colorado School of Mines; Shannon Davies Mancus, Colorado School of Mines

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Social, Technical… and Environmental?: Addressing Environmental Entanglements as Part of Engineering EducationAbstractTraining students to be sensitive to the entanglements of technologies and social life has been animportant move for engineering educators interested in advancing generative critiques ofengineering, connecting to student values, and framing new perspectives about what engineeringcan be. However, scholarship in Science and Technology Studies (STS) and EnvironmentalHumanities makes the case that engineering is more than sociotechnical. Environmentalconditions, forces, and agents are critical to consider in relation to technologies, too.In this paper, we suggest that introducing students to engineering as a social, technical

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Endeavors: Engineering and Liberal Arts

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jason R. Harron, University of Texas, Austin

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

Paper ID #27404Work in Progress: Multidisciplinary Learning between Engineering, Com-munication, and Fine Arts Majors through the Creation of Movie SpecialEffectsMr. Jason R. Harron, University of Texas, Austin Jason Harron is a Ph.D. Candidate at The University of Texas at Austin. His research interests that focus on the intersection of creativity, technology, and learning. Jason’s dissertation research explores how collaborative design-based tasks can facilitate the emergence of collective creativity. By fostering curiosity, play, and tinkering, his work seeks to develop a better understanding of how to support people as

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

first year engineering course. Dr. Sanford Bernhardt serves on the Transportation Research Board Committee on Education and Training. She previously has served on the American Society of Civil Engineers’ Committees on Education and Faculty Development, and Task Committee on the 3rd Edition of the CIvil Engineering Body of Knowledge (BOK3); vice-chair of the ASCE Infrastructure Systems Committee, chair of the ASEE’s Civil Engineering Division, and a member of the Transportation Research Board committees on Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Com- puting, Asset Management, and Emerging Technology for Design and Construction. She received her Ph.D. and M.S. from Carnegie Mellon University, and her B.S.E. from Duke

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

Paper ID #25993Mind the Mindstorms: Technocultures of Engineering Education in ThreeU.S. Elementary SchoolsDr. Michael Lachney, Michigan State University Michael Lachney is an assistant professor of educational technology at Michigan State University. With expertise in qualitative social science methods, he is interested in the role that technologies can play in strengthening school-community relationships. He is currently working on educational technology design strategies and implementation tactics to help teachers enroll community-based expertise in culturally re- sponsive science, technology, engineering and

Conference Session

Integration of Liberal Education into Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tom A. Eppes, University of Hartford; Ivana Milanovic, University of Hartford; Frederick Sweitzer, University of Hartford

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Engineering Ethics, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

engaged in a pluralistic,complex world, we have undertaken a project to develop and assess core liberal educationoutcomes. This paper describes the planning and actions thus far to meet these new requirementsat the university and specifically in our engineering programs. We have begun to expandoutcome assessment to include five “intellectual and practical skills,” specifically, critical andcreative thinking, inquiry/analysis, problem-solving, and information literacy. VALUE rubricsare being used as part of the process to ascertain where the best opportunities are to measurestudent achievement within the engineering and technology programs. An assessment frameworkis presented and successful pilot results are discussed.The ChallengeOur regional

Conference Session

The Big Picture in Engineering Education

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Secules, University of Maryland, College Park

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

grounded in threeengineering educational cultural norms: competition, masculinity, and whiteness. It draws on acombination of work in critical history and Science Technology and Society fields, and theauthor’s literature reviews of engineering education publications. While primarily relying onsecondary sources, it is in the combination of the accounts, the connection to present dayeducational cultural settings, and the communication to a specific audience of educationalstakeholders that comprises this work’s intellectual contribution.A prominent theme of the historical narrative is to suggest a reflexive relationship between thedemographic representation of the discipline and its cultural normativities. This interrelationshipsuggests ways in which

Conference Session

Reflective & Critical Pedagogies

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Devika Patel, Stanford University; Jonathan Edward Pang, Stanford University; Sarah Salameh, Stanford University

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

sanitation crisisAbstract:According to the WHO, 2.5 billion people lack access to proper sanitation resources.1 Integral tothis alarming statistic is the absence of sanitation technology. Current engineering initiativeshave responded to this challenge with toilet fairs and competitions showcasing cutting-edgetechnologies in the sanitation sector. That is, engineers have often approached this sanitationcrisis as well as other world problems from a technocentric perspective―the philosophy thatconsiders technology as capable of solving human problems.2 Technocentrism speaks to thecurrent outlook of engineering education. We as engineering students are trained to design andbuild technical solutions for world problems. Furthermore, this focus within

Conference Session

Liberal Education Division Technical Session Session 12

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tomas Estrada, Elizabethtown College; Elizabeth D. Dalton, Elizabethtown College

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #25325Impact of Student Mindfulness Facets on Engineering Education Outcomes:An Initial ExplorationDr. Tomas Estrada, Elizabethtown College Dr. Tomas Estrada is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering and Physics at Elizabeth- town College, in Elizabethtown, PA. He received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Universidad de Costa Rica in 2002 and his M.S. and Ph.D. (both in Electrical Engineering) from the University of Notre Dame in 2005 and 2009, respectively. His research interests include control systems, engineering education, technology-related entrepreneurship, and sustainable engineering

Conference Session

Integration of Liberal Education into Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kacey Beddoes, Virginia Tech; Maura J. Borrego, Virginia Tech; Brent K Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Engineering Ethics, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

AC 2011-1369: USING BOUNDARY NEGOTIATING ARTIFACTS TO IN-VESTIGATE INTERDISCIPLINARY AND MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAMSKacey Beddoes, Virginia Tech Kacey Beddoes is a Ph.D. student in Science and Technology Studies at Virginia Tech. Her current research interests are interdisciplinary studies of gender and engineering education and international en- gineering education. She serves as Managing Editor of Engineering Studies. She is also co-editor of What is Global Engineering Education For? The Making of International Educators, and Assistant Editor of the Global Engineering series from Morgan & Claypool publishers.Maura J. Borrego, Virginia Tech Maura Borrego is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering

Conference Session

Teaching Communication II

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

order to meet these needs, anundergraduate engineering design course has been developed as a collaborative effort betweenfaculty members at two small liberal arts institutions separated by more than 800 miles. Eachinstitution offers an ABET accredited engineering degree (Engineering Science and IndustrialEngineering) and graduates ~7-12 engineers per year. In the shared course, engineering studentvirtual teams design and implement assistive technologies for persons with disabilities andunderprivileged individuals for both local and global clients. The course is required forengineering majors from both institutions and is usually taken in the sophomore or junior year asa pre-capstone experience. Sharing expertise, capabilities, and faculty time