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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 1

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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

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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

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 1

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Lachney, Michigan State University

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Mindstorms shouldnot be surprising, given its popularity among engineering educators and teachers. As Eguchi [1]explains, the kit has been around in one iteration or another for two decades, allowing it time tobecome one of the most marketed and accessible tools for educational robotics. Despite itspopularity, there has been little empirical work on Mindstorms as a cultural artifact. Given itspopularity, what is the cultural significance of Mindstorms in education? And, how does thisshape its meanings and uses in the classroom?To give partial answers to these questions, this paper uses ethnographic data from three NewYork State public elementary schools to analyze the technocultural forms and uses ofMindstorms. The concept of technoculture is meant

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 1

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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James Canino, Trine University; Kendall B. Teichert, Trine University

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% of students reported that there are importantconcepts in Frankenstein for today’s engineers, and 63% said it was moderately to highlyimportant to incorporate humanities into science and engineering. These findings suggest anacknowledgment of the importance of the humanities in STEM from the students, and providevaluable insight for future implementation.Introduction The first mechanical engineering class freshman take at Trine University incorporates adesign project as part of the class. Cornerstone design projects have been used as part offreshman or sophomore engineering curriculum for decades[1] and faculty continue to publishpapers on the development of their freshman design experiences today[2]. The current iterationsof freshman

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 7

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer C. Mallette, Boise State University; Harold Ackler P.E., Boise State University

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case study exploring the connections among women’s experiences in engineering, their identities as writers, and their writing.Harold Ackler P.E., Boise State University c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Using Reflection to Facilitate Writing Knowledge Transfer in Upper-Level Materials Science CoursesIntroductionWhen students enter upper-level engineering courses, they may bring with them unclear orinconsistent approaches to writing in engineering. Influenced by their past experiences withwriting, students encountering engineering genres such as reports and proposals may struggle towrite successfully [1]. They may struggle in part because of the messiness inherent in

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 4

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Diana A. Chen, University of San Diego; Mark R. Peters, University of San Diego; Gordon D. Hoople, University of San Diego; Joel Alejandro Mejia, University of San Diego; Susan M. Lord, University of San Diego

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lead tostudents choosing a career path that they eventually discover is unfulfilling. Indeed, three of theauthors on this paper took industry positions they later discovered were deeply at odds with theirpersonal values. A recent study of engineering graduates highlighted the importance of aligningpersonal goals of helping people with engineering careers [1]. For respondents that had leftengineering as a career, 40% indicated they were dissatisfied with service elements of their jobs.To address these concerns, we have incorporated the idea of vocation into one of our educationaloutcomes for our Integrated Engineering program at the University of San Diego. We aim to trainstudents who have developed a critical awareness of their personal

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 7

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kenneth W. Van Treuren, Baylor University; William M. Jordan P.E., Baylor University

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obviously not found what in engineering brings them joy [1]. Evenstudents graduating with jobs or who will attend graduate school exhibit some apprehension as towhat the future will bring. No matter what pathway students follow, the question facing bothstudents and faculty is “what skills do engineering students really need for the workplace andlife?” It is the desire of all faculty and universities to insure students are ready for graduationand prepared for that next chapter in life. Engineering programs are partially responsible toprovide the needed skills so that students will be successful upon graduation. This challengedoes require periodic review [2]. Are universities and engineering programs doing enough?With limited time and resources, are

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 5

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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. David also does public engagement with science and technology work with government agencies such as NASA, DOE, and NOAA. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019What are they talking about? Depth of engineering student socio-technical thinkingin a technical engineering courseDr. Natasha Andrade, University of MarylandDr. David Tomblin, University of MarylandAbstract In the last decade, there have been several efforts from engineering faculty to includesocial justice and socio-technical thinking in the engineering curriculum. For example, Leydensand Lucena report several examples of courses at different universities that aim to make socialjustice more visible in the engineering curriculum 1

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Liberal Education Division Technical Session Session 12

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Danielle Corple, Purdue University; Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Sean Eddington, Purdue University; Andrew O. Brightman, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Patrice Marie Buzzanell, University of South Florida

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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 throughout their on-boarding and (2) educational cultures that impact the professional formation of engi- neers, which was funded by the National Science Foundation. Both projects have been published in the Proceedings of the American Society of Engineering Education. He has also served as a series editor, contributed to trade publications, and facilitated workshops related to higher education

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Liberal Education Division Technical Session Session 10

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joanna K. Garner, Old Dominion University; Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Melissa G. Kuhn, Old Dominion University

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Undergraduate Engineering Outreach 1MotivationWhen undergraduate engineering students participate in various forms of community outreachthrough an ambassador-style group, the mission is often to promote engineering and engineering-related careers to K-12 students and their families, and increase interest in engineering amonghistorically underserved populations. Yet, the preparation and delivery of outreach activities mayalso impact the undergraduate students. In this Work in Progress paper we present the earlyfindings of a project seeking to identify common practices among university-based, ambassadorprograms, with a view to informing communities of researchers and practitioners. We exploredthree questions [1]: (1) What similarities and differences are

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 9

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Stephanie Cutler, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Joseph C. Tise, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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University.Joseph C. Tise, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Joseph Tise is a doctoral candidate in the Educational Psychology program at Penn State University. His research interests include self-regulated learning, measurement, and connecting educational research to practice. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Work-in-Progress: Embedding a Large Writing Course within Engineering Design—A New Model for Teaching Technical WritingSummary and Introduction A survey of more than 1000 professional engineers reveals that communication is one ofthe top two skills needed in the profession [1]. Not surprising, many engineering colleges haveresponded to such surveys with

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Multidisciplinary Endeavors: Engineering and Liberal Arts

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jason R. Harron, University of Texas, Austin

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developedthrough the construction of a design-based task. Often, DBL is challenge driven, where learnersseek to find a solution to a complex problem through a project-based approach [5], [7]. The useof DBL tends to be within a single discipline (e.g., only electrical engineers) [4] or as means of“unifying” or mixing sub-disciplines (e.g., electrical, mechanical, and civil engineers) [11].Recent movements towards multidisciplinary learning in higher education have called for thedesign process found science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) to be blendedwith the artistic and creative process of the arts. Often referred to as STEAM or STEM + Art [1],[8], this approach aims to pique student interest through opportunities to engage in

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Liberal Education Division Technical Session 11

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alison Wood , Olin College of Engineering; Selin Arslan, Lawrence Technological University; Jason Barrett, Lawrence Technological University; Sarah Aileen Brownell, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Andrew Mark Herbert, Rochester Institute of Technology; Matthew Marshall, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Karen Kashmanian Oates, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; David Spanagel, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; James J. Winebrake, Rochester Institute of Technology; Yevgeniya V. Zastavker, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

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institutions. Withimplementation of GCSP now in different stages at our four schools, all are finding evidence oftransformations occurring at the student, institute, and community level. We illustrate thesetransformations in this paper and suggest that they were driven by development of liberalarts-infused GCSPs.1. IntroductionThe National Academy of Engineering’s Grand Challenges Scholars Program (GCSP) wascreated to better prepare students to tackle the immense and immensely complex challenges ofthe twenty-first century. The program does this by providing education and experiences in fivecompetency areas: talent, multidisciplinary, viable business/entrepreneurship, multicultural, andsocial consciousness ​[1]​. These competencies align well with

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Liberal Education Division Technical Session Session 10

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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) courses. Despite the emphasis placed by theAccreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET) on developing engineeringstudents’ mastery of communication skills [1], we found a number of obstacles to teaching theseskills in our engineering courses, including large class sizes, lack of faculty and teaching-assistant (TA) training in teaching or grading writing, widely varying opinions about whatconstitutes “good” writing, and already crowded individual course content and departmentalcurricula [2]. Similar obstacles have been reported at other institutions [3].To address these issues, our team implemented a voluntary “Writing Across Engineering”(WAE) program for interested faculty that integrated concepts of “community of practice”models [4

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 2

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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

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to illustrate how sociotechnical factors impact problem framing andsolution processes ([1]-[4]). Thus, engineering curricula reinforce the notion that technicalproblem-solving processes can be separated from the social context in which the problememerged—and in which the solution will reside. In contrast, practicing engineers acknowledgethe importance of social contexts and diverse perspectives in their work ([5]-[9]). Students withinsuch traditional curricula often incorrectly expect engineering and social problems to be separatefrom each other based on their experiences in the classroom, leaving them ill-equipped to thinkcritically about the ambiguity of sociotechnical problems that they will encounter in theworkforce [7].This misalignment

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Multidisciplinary Endeavors: Engineering and Liberal Arts

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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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

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Liberal Education Division Technical Session Session 10

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia

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Engineering Education, 2019 Stuck on the Verge or in the Midst of a Sea Change? What Papers from the 2018 Annual Conference Tell Us About Liberal Education for Engineers Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made: Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange --Shakespeare, The Tempest (1611), Act 1, Scene 2In their editors’ preface, “A Sea Change in Engineering Education,” Ollis, Neeley, andLuegenbiehl (2004) argued that ABET had “freed undergraduate curricula from their disciplinaryfetters” and faculty from “our

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Multidisciplinary Endeavors: Engineering and Liberal Arts

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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both the institutionand specific programs. The paper also presents its institution-specific implementation, andcurrent student success markers. Finally, this paper makes recommendations for embeddingleader development opportunities within instructional design and peer assessment for thecollective benefit of other students.IntroductionIndustry has recognized the need for engineers with multidisciplinary backgrounds, blurring thelines between discipline specific boundaries. Machines, materials, and processes constantly growin complexity due to their purpose and flexibility as well as customer expectations. However,there is growing emphasis on engineers with “professional skills” as well. The NationalAcademy of Engineering (NAE) in two reports [1

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 5

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Katie Barillas, Rowan University; Stephen Fernandez, Rowan University

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ethical decisionmaking:​“... consider the impact of engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental,and societal contexts” [​ 1]In some engineering programs, ethics is studied as a unit within a course that is otherwisefocused on engineering while, in other cases, separate courses in ethics have been offered. Somestudies have found that engineering ethics, offered in this manner, have not resulted in studentsbeing able to apply ethics in actual engineering practice. With respect to ethics units offered asseparate entities within engineering classes, Newberry argued that making them separate, ratherthan integrating ethics throughout the curriculum makes ethics seem unimportant and illegitimate[2]. Similarly, Leyden & Lucena found that

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Liberal Education Division Technical Session 11

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Qin Zhu, Colorado School of Mines

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“a common set of values, beliefs, norms, and behaviors”shared by “members of a bounded community” [1, p. 5]. Instead, they have proposed a newframework for understanding cultures and individuals. Their framework for cultural studiesdescribes culture as a context in which “individuals living and working in a particular spatial andtemporal location are challenged by dominant images” and these dominant images “createexpectations about how individuals in that location are expected to act or behave” [1, p. 5].Individuals connected to a specific culture may respond to the same image differently and theymay resist, adapt, or accept such image in various ways. However, dominant images of a cultureare meaningful to the people who live in that culture

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 2

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Maggie Swartz, Colorado School of Mines; Jon A. Leydens, Colorado School of Mines; Jacquelene D. Walter, Colorado School of Mines; Kathryn Johnson, Colorado School of Mines

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contextualized engineering problem-framing and solvingprocesses within a broader sociotechnical context. Finally, we explore ways in which the resultsopen up multiple directions for future research.IntroductionMost U.S. engineering curricula continue to privilege the technical over the social dimensions ofproblems, and to deprive students of the opportunity to develop crucial problem framing skillsvia focusing largely (but not exclusively) on closed-ended, decontextualized problems [1]–[4].This trend continues despite professional engineers accentuating the importance of understandingsocial contexts, of how to work with non-engineers, and of how to incorporate diverseperspectives into their work [5]–[9]. To bridge this gap, it has been suggested that

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 5

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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suggests that that the divide between socialjustice (SJ) concerns and technical knowledge in engineering curricula is an important reasonthat students with SJ concerns leave engineering [1, 2]. In their recent book, Engineering Justice,Leydens and Lucena [3] present criteria they hope “can be used to guide educators [to render] SJvisible within the engineering sciences without compromising valuable course content.” Oneapproach is the so-called “Problem Re-write Assignment”: students write a context for atraditional “decontextualized” engineering science problem. We undertook this pilot study tounderstand how students frame their thinking about “contextualized/decontextualized”(Con/Decon) problems and what resources they would use to write a social

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 7

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chrysanthe Demetry, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Paula Quinn, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Stephen James Kmiotek P.E., Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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enhanced by ensuring a scaffolded and recursive process forePortfolio creation that incorporates ongoing dialogue with mentors and peers.Introduction We learn by doing, if we reflect on what we have done. — John DeweyAuthentic experiences combined with reflection and continual integration acrosstime and contexts are essential for deep, transferable learning, development ofexpertise, and ethical development. Ambrose [1] identifies these elements as coreprinciples from the learning sciences that should be foundations for high qualityundergraduate engineering education. A well-designed curriculum, among otherthings, has "authentic experiential learning opportunities to

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 9

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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trigonometry,vectors, derivatives, integrals, and differential equations—are actually used by engineers. Asadministrators and instructors of the WSM course pilot at the University of Colorado Boulder(CU), we are interested in understanding and analyzing the change processes wherein the WSMbecomes legitimized and integrated into the official course pathways of our large publicengineering college.At CU, the status of the WSM pilot class changed from optional in Year 1 to mandatory in Year2 for all students entering the engineering college at a Pre-Calculus level. This change fromoptional to mandatory resulted in a significant increase to the size of the class and a fundamentalchange in the ways students were informed of and enrolled in the class. In

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 2

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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

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challenging in the first place.IntroductionAmerican engineers are frequently educated in a depoliticized, decontextualized environmentthat prioritizes the technical foundation required by the profession. Devoid of the social contextand full spectrum of sociotechnical considerations required for true engineering work, thispractice is both poor pedagogy and an inaccurate portrayal of how engineering occurs in theworld beyond the classroom [1], [2].Engineering educators and researchers are increasingly interested in bridging this falsesociotechnical divide (also referred to here and in prior work as sociotechnical dualism) andfinding mechanisms for the authentic integration of sociotechnical work in the engineeringclassroom. Evidence for this need

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

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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GCSPs enables Scholars to interrogate their personal selves and lead the way inengineering education by engaging in the hard work of thinking about what it means to behuman.IntroductionIn 2008, the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), in collaboration with leadinginternational technological scholars, produced a report with a radically new vision forengineering in the 21st century [1]. Calling for “continuation of life on the planet, making ourworld more sustainable, secure, healthy, and joyful,” this document inspired a global movementurging interdisciplinary thinkers, policymakers, and the general public around the world to cometogether to address challenges facing humanity now and for the foreseeable future [1].As a part of this global

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Targeted Harassment in Engineering Education: What It Looks Like, Why Now, and What Is at Stake

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alice L Pawley, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Erin A. Cech, University of Michigan; Donna M Riley, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University

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including YouTube, Twitter, and even her exercise app. Thesocial media of her department and other departments and the Dean of Engineering’s office atPurdue were also targeted. Riley’s accounts have been made private, ultimately limiting theimpact and reach of her research activity as well as connectedness to others in her personal socialnetworks.The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) has identified the targetedharassment of faculty, including contingent faculty, as a threat to the core of academic freedom.The professional standard of academic freedom was developed by AAUP in 1940 [1]. It asserts,among other things, that teachers are entitled to full freedom in their research and publication ofresults, as well as full freedom in

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Multidisciplinary Endeavors: Engineering and Liberal Arts

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ashraf Ghaly P.E., Union College

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engineering program. It will use real worldexamples to show how such a program could alter the way students look at findingsolutions that make a difference in people’s lives. The program’s main objective is toinspire students to become agents to advance humanity toward an optimistic and abrighter tomorrow.Keywords: Peace engineering, humanity, science, engineering, policy1. IntroductionEngineer Aarne Vesilind and Robert Textor [1] have come up with the term “PeaceEngineering” as a label for ideals such as global environmental management, sustainabledevelopment, and seeking greater economic justice. The Colorado School of Mines [2]has created a program in “Humanitarian Engineering,” which is devoted to research anddesign intended to improve the well

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 6

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cynthia Hampton, Virginia Tech; David Reeping, Virginia Tech

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-Prentice Hall and Introductory Engineering Mathematics for Momentum Press. His research interests include: model/method transferability, threshold concepts to inform curriculum development, information asymmetry in higher education processes (e.g., course articulation), and issues in first year engineering. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Positionality: The Stories of Self that Impact OthersIntroductionThis initial work in progress paper explores a discussion of positionality from two doctoralcandidate researchers in engineering education. Initiated and guided by Culture, and ResearcherPositionality: Working Through Dangers Seen, Unseen, and Unforeseen [1], this

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 6

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mitch Cieminski, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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+ students and its notablywelcoming attitude toward them. From examining student-run practices across technical theater,acting, directing, and organizational management, I find that the practices of identity negotiation,performance, and flexible democratic decision-making, situated in an alternative technical-socialspace, are sociotechnical practices with a queer inflection important to the site. These can helpengineering educators in three ways: 1) by simply providing a description of some meaningfulsociotechnical experiences of queer students; 2) by beginning to bridge the “diversity-oriented”and “technically oriented” streams in engineering education research through considering howqueer STEM students are innovative technologists in their own

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 8

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Susan Gallagher, Montana State University; Irina Karapetyants, Russian University of Transport; Karalyn Clouser, Western Transportation Institute at Montana State University; Natalie Marie Villwock-Witte P.E., Western Transportation Institute at Montana State University

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-term study abroad course through Mon- tana State University and an introduction to engineering education course at the Central New Mexico Community College. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Comparative Approaches to Accessibility Education in the United States and RussiaAbstractDifferences in national contexts have led to uneven global development of transportation systemsthat are accessible to people with disabilities. The World Health Organization promotes theworldwide implementation of education and professional training programs to foster a mindsetsupportive of accessibility [1]. The education of future engineers is an essential component inthis