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Integrating History and Engineering in the First-Year Core Curriculum at Boston College

Conference Session
Sociotechnical Thinking I: Classroom Experiences, Identity, and Theory
Collection
2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors
Jonathan Seth Krones, Boston College; Jenna A. Tonn, Boston College; Russell C. Powell, Boston College
Tagged Topics
Diversity
Tagged Divisions
Liberal Education/Engineering & Society
historical context using a variety of instructional modes and pedagogicalinnovations.This paper presents the experience of developing and teaching MMW for the first time in 2020 inthe midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. MMW was designed and co-taught by an interdisciplinaryfaculty teaching team from the departments of history, theology, and environmental science. As adesignated “Complex Problems” course, a type of first-year interdisciplinary Core course, MMWoffered 70 students the opportunity to satisfy BC’s Core requirements in Natural Science andHistory through three linked pedagogical components: lectures, labs, and reflection sessions. Ourgoal was to integrate engineering, the history of science and technology studies, and ethical andmoral modes of
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Engineering Communication and Engineering Criteria 2000: Assessing the Impact Through Papers Presented at the ASEE Annual Conference

Conference Session
Engineering Communication I: History and Praxis
Collection
2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors
Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia; Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University
Tagged Divisions
Liberal Education/Engineering & Society
example, the effect of a global experience, and • papers about courses designed for non-engineering student groups.A few of the papers in our study were not returned by the title search described above, but cameto our attention in other ways, such as work on research projects other than this one. In our preliminary analysis of the papers, we focused on evidence in the categoriesarticulated by the various stakeholder groups we analyzed above: • an integrated view that does not separate communication from engineering work • understanding communication as both a distinctive field of expertise and an interdisciplinary enterprise • designing curricula, not just courses • recognizing various degrees and modes of
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