Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Endeavors: Engineering and Liberal Arts

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katie Evans, Louisiana Tech University; Kirk St.Amant, Louisiana Tech University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

communication and management acumen (e.g., technicalwriting, technical presentations, and project management). Such an approach is essential topreparing future engineers for the workplace [1]. The challenge becomes providing studentswith effective exposure to both kinds of skills within engineering programs.Traditionally, the development of such skills has been a matter of content-specific courseworkintegrated into a school’s engineering program(s). (A classic example is the technical writingcourse often offer by English or communication departments and required of engineeringundergraduates.) As institutional resources shrink and student demand increases, the need tofind alternative methods for offering training in these “soft-skill” areas grows

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kelly Ann Cave, Colorado State University; Zinta S. Byrne, Colorado State University; Thomas J. Siller, Colorado State University; Anthony A. Maciejewski, Colorado State University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

forengineering colleges to evaluate and continuously monitor the success of this approach. It is ourhope that other universities will continue to find new ways to integrate ABET professional skilldevelopment into engineering core curriculum and that they will consider our findings whendeveloping those methods. References[1] National Academy of Engineering, The engineer of 2020: Visions of engineering in the new century. Washington, DC: The National Academics Press, 2004.[2] D. Beard, D. Schwieger, and K. Surendran, “Integrating soft skills assessment through university, college, and programmatic efforts at an AACSB accredited institution,” Journal of Information Systems Education, vol

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 9

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alyson Grace Eggleston, The Citadel; Robert J. Rabb P.E., The Citadel

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

tostruggling to intermediate-performing students in particular, a result supported in other studies[7], [8]. Figure 2: Means of Incoming GPAs Among Course Sections. Figure 3: Means of Final Scores Among Course Sections.Conclusions and Future ResearchIndustry wants engineering graduates with the requisite technical and soft skills who add valueand have the ability to make a difference in the workplace. Industry values are furtherinstitutionalized through ABET [15] student outcomes, particularly (g): “[demonstrate] an abilityto communicate effectively,” and in the 2020 student outcomes (3): “an ability to communicateeffectively with a range of audiences.” Aligning academic programs with industry needs iscritical in

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cynthia Hampton, Virginia Tech; David Reeping, Virginia Tech

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

savior film and reviewers' reception. Symbolic Interaction, 33(3), 475-496.[21] Donaldson, W. (2017). In Praise of the “Ologies”: A Discussion of and Framework for Using Soft Skills to Sense and Influence Emergent Behaviors in Sociotechnical Systems. Systems Engineering, 20(5), 467-478.[22] Smolenski, P. (2019). Proof by Verbosity. Bad Arguments: 100 of the Most Important Fallacies in Western Philosophy, 289-292.[23] Kaplan, R. M. & Saccuzo, D. P. (1997). Psychological testing: Principles, applications and issues. Pacific Grove: Brooks Cole Pub. Company.[24] Slaton, A. E., & Pawley, A. L. (2018). The Power and Politics of Engineering Education Research Design: Saving the ‘Small N’. Engineering Studies, 10(2-3

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 7

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Caitlin Donahue Wylie, University of Virginia; Ian Linville, University of Virginia; Angielyn Campo, University of Virginia; Suk Jun Kim, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

graduate students learna great deal from these partnerships, though they tend to learn different things. This findingsuggests that partnering novice and advanced researchers can help fill gaps in both partners’technical and professional knowledge and skills about research.Research skills, such as collaborating with others and identifying and producing “good”evidence, are crucial for future engineers and are difficult to learn. These skills overlap withother categories such as professional skills, technical skills, and "soft" skills. They are necessaryfor conducting research, although they are rarely explicitly defined. Scholars in Science andTechnology Studies (STS) have gained important insights into how experts, such as engineersand scientists

Conference Session

Liberal Education Division Technical Session Session 10

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society