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Exploring Student Affairs, Identities, and the Professional Persona

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alexandra Vinson, Northwestern University; Reed Stevens, Northwestern University

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, engineering students make use of internship opportunities totry on several different occupational settings, and by reflecting on and juxtaposing theirexperiences in these settings they discern what kind of job they want after graduation. Ourinductive analysis generated three types of fit: personal fit, career values fit and intellectual fit,which we operationalize below.Cech et al.8 have operationalized a set of concepts that are similar to our concept of self-assessment of fit. Their analysis builds the concept of professional role confidence, which iscomposed of career fit confidence and expertise confidence. These measures are developed fromlongitudinal survey data measuring students’ confidence, based on their engineering coursework,in a number

Conference Session

Exploring Student Affairs, Identities, and the Professional Persona

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Najla Mouchrek, Virginia Tech ; Liesl M Baum, Virginia Tech; Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Tech

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interests include interdisciplinary collaboration, design education, communication studies, identity theory and reflective practice. Projects supported by the National Science Foundation include exploring disciplines as cultures, interdisciplinary pedagogy for pervasive computing design; writing across the curriculum in Statics courses; as well as a CAREER award to explore the use of e-portfolios to promote professional identity and reflective practice. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Student Persistence Through Uncertainty Toward Successful Creative PracticeAbstract: To increase creative practice among students in engineering and other

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Sociotechnical Thinking II: Interpretation, Curricular Practices, and Structural Change

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Melissa C Kenny, Wake Forest University; Olga Pierrakos, Wake Forest University ; Monique O'Connell, Wake Forest University

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with the WFU Program for Leadership and Character and many colleagues across the university. With inclusion being a core value, she is proud that the WFU Engineering team represents 60% female engineering faculty and 40% female students, plus 20% of students from ethnic minority groups. Her areas of expertise include engineering identity, complex problem solving across cognitive and non-cognitive domains, recruitment and retention, PBL, engineering design, learning through ser- vice, character education in engineering contexts, etc. She also conducts research in cardiovascular fluid mechanics and sustainable energy technologies. Prior to joining Wake Forest University, Olga served as a Program Director at the

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'Diversity' and Inclusion? Pedagogy, Experiences, Language and Performative Action

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Jenn Stroud Rossmann, Lafayette College; Mary A. Armstrong, Lafayette College

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” enables womento develop stronger implicit STEM identities through exposure to positive cues in theirsurroundings. The current study suggests that this valuable work within STEM may be valuablysupplemented by students’ experience in other disciplines. The WGS framework and scholarshipgave the students in our study a different, wider-lens view of engineering itself, and enhancedtheir sense of STEM identity.Pawley [42] argues that “feminist science studies are particularly relevant to engineering andengineering education, namely, for scrutinizing what ‘counts’ as engineering content and why.”Our participants felt strongly that all students should be exposed to the theory and methods ofWGS. They identified ways in which this knowledge was helpful to

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Sociotechnical Thinking I: Classroom Experiences, Identity, and Theory

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Stephanie Claussen, San Francisco State Unviersity; Janet Y Tsai, University of Colorado Boulder; Kathryn Johnson, Colorado School of Mines; Jenifer Blacklock, University of Colorado Boulder; Jon A. Leydens, Colorado School of Mines

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can be challenged by threats to an imagined future, and animagined future self can also serve as a motivational resource, as a goal to keep striving towards[32].While the concept of liminal identity has been explored in conjunction with examining identitydevelopment in K-12, higher education and adults [31], discussions of liminal identity are rarewithin the engineering education literature [33]. As such, this paper marks a foray intoinvestigating the connection between liminal identity development and engineering identitydevelopment. We use liminal identity as an organizing concept and analytical tool to highlighthow the identities of engineering students are in transition, informed by their perceptions offuture selves but expressed through

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Socially Responsible Engineering I: Context, Innovation, and Reflection

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Ryan C. Campbell, Texas Tech University; Ngan T.T. Nguyen, Texas Tech University; Jeong-Hee Kim, Texas Tech University; Linda Ann Duke, Kansas State University, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art; Roman Taraban, Texas Tech University; Danny D. Reible P.E., Texas Tech University

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thetraining of their students, it has received almost no attention in engineering education to date.Although VTS might be perceived as too far removed from engineering for relevance, we havedeployed it as a core innovative pedagogical method along with several other artful methods inan experimental graduate course with promising results. The purposes of this paper are to (1)explore how VTS contributes to the development of reflective thinking skills in graduateengineering education, and (2) share insights of interest to educators considering adopting VTSin their courses and curricula.The course in which we have experimented is a 3-credit elective offered through the departmentof civil and environmental engineering. It is led by two co-instructors

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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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Mathew D. Evans, Arizona State University; Michelle Jordan, Arizona State University

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to science and engineering communication studies 17,18, 19 and a plethora of advice from scientists and communication scholars about how to write forthe public20. Despite this interest, few university science or engineering programs dedicateformal coursework in public communication to undergraduate or graduate students 21. Whenprograms do offer such training, they are usually limited to teaching students to write intraditional genres such as press releases, newspaper-style articles, and essays13, 14, and fail toconsider more personal, informal, and affective forms of communication such as face-to-faceconversations that can occur through science cafes or street science 22, 23 or to make use ofmultimedia genres such as podcasts, blogs, or

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Sociotechnical Thinking I: Classroom Experiences, Identity, and Theory

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Jonathan Seth Krones, Boston College; Jenna A. Tonn, Boston College; Russell C. Powell, Boston College

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for MMW was informed by a number of institutional educational initiativesand programs at BC, including BC’s identity as a Jesuit, Catholic institution, its Renewed CoreProgram, and its development of a new Human-Centered Engineering Department.First, as a Jesuit, Catholic university, BC is committed to educating the “whole person” andembraces courses that advance aspects of social justice. Particularly in the Fall of 2020, whenlayered crises of COVID, racial injustice, climate disruption, and the presidential election placedhigh burdens on universities to respond, we were encouraged by the university administration toembrace these challenging topics in class. We emphasized the humanity of the engineeringdesign process and profession

Conference Session

Promoting Communication Skills

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Gabrielle Orbaek White, Swansea University ; Patricia Xavier, Swansea University; Catherine Groves, Swansea University

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, launched in 2017. The program, Sustainable EngineeringManagement for International Development (SEM4ID), has enrolled between 8 and 13 studentseach year from both engineering and non-engineering backgrounds, and provides a mix ofclasses in technical engineering and liberal education topics. While the different disciplines worktogether, there are separate learning outcomes for the engineers and non-engineers. Theengineering strand of the program is accredited by the UK Engineering Council.Students engage in experiential, problem-based learning (PBL) through international servicelearning (ISL) projects in Sierra Leone or Zambia, where they are connected to previouslyestablished community-based contacts. Throughout the year-long program, students

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 4

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeong-Hee Kim, Texas Tech University; Ryan C. Campbell, Texas Tech University; Ngan T.T. Nguyen, Texas Tech University; Roman Taraban, Texas Tech University; Danny D. Reible P.E., Texas Tech University; Chongzheng Na, Texas Tech University

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currently facilitates an interdisciplinary project entitled ”Developing Reflective Engineers through Artful Methods.” His scholarly interests include both teaching and research in engineering education, art in engineering, social justice in engineering, care ethics in engineering, humanitarian engineering, engineering ethics, and computer modeling of electric power and renewable energy systems.Ms. Ngan T.T. Nguyen, Texas Tech University Ngan Nguyen is a research assistant and doctoral student in the Department of Curriculum and Instruc- tion at Texas Tech University. Her research is focused on fostering the learning experiences of Asian international graduate students in higher education.Dr. Roman Taraban, Texas Tech

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Imagining Others, Defining Self Through Consideration of Ethical and Social Implications

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tina Lee, University of Wisconsin-Stout; Devin R. Berg, University of Wisconsin-Stout; Elizabeth A. Buchanan, University of Wisconsin-Stout

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National Academies Press, 2017. [Online]. Available: https://doi.org/10.17226/24821 [2] C. R. Johnston, D. J. Caswell, and G. M. Armitage, “Developing environmental awareness in engineers through Engineers Without Borders and sustainable design projects,” International Journal of Environmental Studies, vol. 64, no. 4, pp. 501–506, Aug. 2007. [Online]. Available: https://doi.org/10.1080/00207230701382198 [3] N. Dukhan, M. R. Schumack, and J. J. Daniels, “Implementation of service-learning in engineering and its impact on students’ attitudes and identity,” European Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 21–31, Mar. 2008. [Online]. Available: https://doi.org/10.1080/03043790701746132 [4] A. Bielefeldt, K. Paterson

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Promoting Communication Skills

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Lisa R. Volpatti, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Alex Jordan Hanson, University of Texas at Austin; Jennifer M. Schall; Jesse N. Dunietz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Amanda X. Chen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Rohan Chitnis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Eric J. Alm; Alison F. Takemura, U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute; Diana M. Chien, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Fellow, and an MIT Chemical Engineering Communication Lab Fellow.Mr. Alex Jordan Hanson, University of Texas at AustinJennifer M. SchallDr. Jesse N Dunietz, Massachussetts Institute of Technology Jesse Dunietz is an educational designer for the MIT Communication Lab, an artificial intelligence re- searcher, and a freelance science writer. He develops training materials for the engineering graduate students who join the Communication Lab to serve as communication coaches for their peers. He holds a bachelor’s in computer science from MIT and a Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon Uni- versity.Amanda X Chen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Biological EngineeringRohan Chitnis, Massachusetts Institute of

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Endeavors: Engineering and Liberal Arts

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sarah Summers, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Anique Julienne Olivier-Mason, Brandeis University; Marina Dang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Diana M. Chien, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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of Research ethics, the MIT Kaufman Teaching Certificate Program (KTCP) course, and un- dergraduate genetics. She believes in the power of peer-coaching as a method of improving an entire community’s ability to communicate effectively.Dr. Marina Dang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Dr. Marina Dang holds a PhD in Chemistry from Brandeis University, where she also served as an instructor for the Science Posse Boot Camp program. She taught chemistry at Emmanuel College and later became a STEM curriculum developer for an educational startup. In 2014, she joined the MIT Department of Nuclear Science & Engineering to serve as its first Communication Lab manager. As the Communication Lab model spread to new

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Assessment and Liberal Education

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jenn Stroud Rossmann, Lafayette College; Mary Roth, Lafayette College

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engineering profession, and through this coursework, to learn frameworks for analysis: a policy or an economic framework, for example. These courses are also open to (and popular with) nonmajors, leading to interdisciplinary discussions and project teams. The curriculum builds to a unique capstone experience (e.g. Rossmann and Sanford Bernhardt, 2015).Engineering students at Lafayette College also take approximately one-third of theircourses outside STEM subjects, in the humanities, arts, and social sciences. Thesedistribution requirements introduce engineering students to alternate “ways of knowing,”comprising a liberal education. However, these requirements are not necessarilyintegrative; they may provide opportunities for

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

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9what that means in practice, and what role the Engineering Studies Program should play increating and sustaining that culture. Too often, the program has been understood in terms of whatit is not, and the ways it diverges from our ABET-accredited BS majors, rather than for theunique combination of disciplinary methods it combines. This was damaging to the identity ofour AB students. Worryingly, the program’s existence can sometimes permit other Collegeprograms to abdicate their own potential contributions to interdisciplinary integration. Weunderstand from both the history of engineering education, and history itself, that a single“bridge” is insufficient. The program continues to work hard to communicate effectively withprospective and

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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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focuses on career, work-life policy, resilience, gender, and engineering design. She received ICA’s Mentorship Award and the Provost Outstanding Mentor Award at Purdue, where she was University Distinguished Professor and Endowed Chair and Director of the Susan Bulke- ley Butler Center for Leadership Excellence. She has worked with Purdue-ADVANCE initiatives for institutional change, four EPICS teams including Transforming Lives Building Global Communities (TL- BGC) in Ghana, and individual engineering ethical development and team ethical climate scales as well as everyday negotiations of ethics in design and professional formation of engineers through NSF funding. [Email: pmbuzzanell@usf.edu; buzzanel@purdue.edu

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Imagining and Reimagining Engineering Education as a Dynamic System

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Janet Y. Tsai, University of Colorado, Boulder; Kevin O'Connor, University of Colorado, Boulder; Beth A. Myers, University of Colorado Boulder; Jacquelyn F. Sullivan, University of Colorado, Boulder; Derek T. Reamon, University of Colorado, Boulder; Kenneth M. Anderson, University of Colorado, Boulder

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include develop- mental psychology; sociocultural theories of communication, learning, and identity; qualitative methods; and discourse analysis.Dr. Beth A. Myers, University of Colorado Boulder Beth A. Myers is the Director of Analytics, Assessment and Accreditation at the University of Colorado Boulder. She holds a BA in biochemistry, ME in engineering management and PhD in civil engineering. Her interests are in quantitative and qualitative research and data analysis as related to equity in education. She has been involved in the new pilot Engineering Math course at CU-Boulder since the start.Dr. Jacquelyn F. Sullivan, University of Colorado, Boulder Jacquelyn Sullivan is founding co-director of the Engineering Plus

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Novel Strategies for Studying Liberal Education

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Joanna K. Garner, Old Dominion University; Karen A. Thole, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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engineering students with an outreach mission to high school students. Her area of expertise is turbine cooling and using additive manufacturing to develop innovative cooling technologies. She has published over 220 archival papers and advised 70 dissertations and theses. Dr. Thole has provided service leadership to numerous organizations including being a member of ASME’s Board of Governors. She has also served as the Chair of the Board of Directors for the ASME’s International Gas Turbine Institute in which she led a number of initiatives to promote communities of women engineers and students. In her roles as an educator, researcher, and mentor, Dr. Thole has received numerous awards. The most notable awards include

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Diversity and Inclusion: Concepts, Mental Models, and Interventions

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Toluwalogo Odumosu, University of Virginia; Sean Ferguson, University of Virginia; Rider W. Foley, University of Virginia; Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia; Caitlin Donahue Wylie, University of Virginia; Sharon Tsai-hsuan Ku, University of Virginia; Rosalyn W. Berne, University of Virginia

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the project, and concluded that it would be good to try in the long term. Hethanked Will for the idea, saying “good question.” Thus an undergraduate proposed a novel wayto address an engineering problem. He derived this suggestion from his broad education inengineering and his hobby of reading about innovative technologies. In Wylie’s observations,undergraduates tend to excel at this open-mindedness and ability to make novel connections. Inaddition, the PI took Will’s suggestion seriously because Will understood the lab’s specificproblem and matched his suggestion to it. Graduate students and PIs of course are also capableof open-minded, interdisciplinary thinking, but undergraduates’ current experience of wide-ranging coursework and their

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Ethical and Global Concerns

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Alison Wood , Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Robert Martello, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

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earn a Master of Science in Engineering in Environmental and Water Resources Engineering and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin, while working with the Austin chapter of Engineers Without Borders as a volunteer and project lead for a project in Peru. She has published and presented on incentivizing decentralized sanitation and wastewater treatment, on sustainability of coastal community water and sanitation service options, as well as on integrating liberal arts and STEM education, currently through the vehicle of the Grand Challenges Scholars Program. She has co-designed workshops oriented toward educational change for Olin’s Summer Institute and the joint Olin College-Emerson

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Sociotechnical Thinking II: Interpretation, Curricular Practices, and Structural Change

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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

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identities and paths.In previous work, the authors have documented the history of the program, its current status, itscore curriculum, and the impacts on students in terms of sociotechnical thinking and diversity. Itis clear from this work that students approaching graduation do view themselves associotechnical thinkers. This analysis also shows that graduates are more diverse in terms ofgender than those in other engineering programs on our campus, and more racially/ethnicallydiverse than both students in other engineering programs and students as a whole at ourinstitution.This paper considers more deeply why the program is successful in developing sociotechnicalthinking and in attracting such a diverse group of students to the major and classes

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Diversity and Inclusion: Concepts, Mental Models, and Interventions

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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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the Brian Lamb School of Communication and the School of Engineering Education (courtesy) at Purdue University. Editor of three books and author of over 150 articles and chapters, her research centers on the intersections of career, gender communication, lead- ership, and resilience. Fellow and past president of the International Communication Association, she has received numerous awards for her research, teaching/mentoring, and engagement. She is working on Purdue-ADVANCE initiatives for institutional change, the Transforming Lives Building Global Commu- nities (TLBGC) team in Ghana through EPICS, and individual engineering ethical development and team ethical climate scales as well as everyday negotiations of

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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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 Epistemological  Boundaries   M534:  Who’s  in  the  Driver’s  Seat  of  Engineering  Education?  (Interdivisional  Town  Hall   Meeting)   W134:  Seeking  Resilience  and  Learning  to  Thrive  Through  Engineering   Figure 2. Sessions, Panels, Workshops, and Distinguished Lectures By Category. U=Sunday, M=Monday, T=Tuesday, W=Wednesday.  The sections that follow develop the five themes listed above and provide some examples ofparticular sessions or papers that exemplify the theme. The treatments of each theme arenecessarily selective and provide only a glimpse of the richness and nuance of the workpresented in our division. At a minimum, however, they form a rough draft of the

Conference Session

Sustainability and Social Responsibility

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Jessica Mary Smith, Colorado School of Mines; Greg Rulifson P.E., Colorado School of Mines; Courtney Paige Stanton; Carrie J. McClelland P.E., Colorado School of Mines; Emily Sarver; Linda A. Battalora, Colorado School of Mines; Stephanie Claussen, Colorado School of Mines; Susan K. Peterson, Marietta College; Nicole M. Smith, Colorado School of Mines; Rennie B. Kaunda , Colorado School of Mines

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International Studies, Anthropology and Latin American Studies from Macalester College.Dr. Greg Rulifson P.E., Colorado School of Mines Greg is currently a AAAS Fellow at USAID. Greg earned his bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering with a minor in Global Poverty and Practice from UC Berkeley where he acquired a passion for using engineering to facilitate developing communities’ capacity for success. He earned his master’s degree in Structural Engineering and Risk Analysis from Stanford University. His PhD work at CU Boulder focused on how student’s connections of social responsibility and engineering change throughout college as well as how engineering service is valued in employment and supported in the workplace.Courtney

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Integrating Liberal Education and Engineering

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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David DiBiasio, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Paula Quinn, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Kristin Boudreau, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Laura A. Robinson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; John M. Sullivan Jr, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; John Bergendahl, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Leslie Dodson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Engineering Through a Humanistic Lens” in Engineering Studies 2015 and ”A Game-Based Approach to Information Literacy and Engi- neering in Context” (with Laura Hanlan) in Proceedings of the Frontiers in Education Conference 2015. A classroom game she developed with students and colleagues at WPI, ”Humanitarian Engineering Past and Present: Worcester’s Sewage Problem at the Turn of the Twentieth Century” was chosen by the Na- tional Academy of Engineering as an ”Exemplary Engineering Ethics Activity” that prepares students for ”ethical practice, research, or leadership in engineering.”Ms. Laura A. Robinson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Lead Research & Instruction LibrarianProf. John M. Sullivan Jr, Worcester

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Programmatic Integration of Liberal Education

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Jenn Stroud Rossmann, Lafayette College; Kristen L. Sanford P.E., Lafayette College; Julia Nicodemus, Lafayette College; Benjamin Cohen, Lafayette College

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by required coursework in both engineering and thetraditional liberal arts, this core course sequence in Engineering Studies gives students aninterdisciplinary mindset and identity as “sociotechnical engineers.”In this paper, we describe the development, evolution, and assessment of our core three-coursesequence in Engineering Studies. Degree programs like Lafayette’s AB in Engineering Studiesprovide a mechanism for achieving the interdisciplinary, sociotechnical goals articulated by theNAE [1] and others, and for broadening participation in engineering education [2-3, e.g.]. As inour previous paper on the history of this program [4], we will consider both the transferability ofour approach to other institutional contexts and its

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Flexible Engineering Curricula

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Leland Giovannelli, University of Colorado, Boulder; Robyn Sandekian, University of Colorado, Boulder

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encounters with the Other. (This is most obvious in her latest new course, A Global State of Mind.) Whatever the subject, her courses are grounded in accountability–to the text, to oneself, and to one’s fellows.Ms. Robyn Sandekian, University of Colorado, Boulder Robyn Sandekian is the Managing Director of the Mortenson Center in Engineering for Developing Com- munities (MCEDC) at the University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder). She joined the Engineering for Developing Communities Program (now known as the Mortenson Center) in spring 2004, just as the first EDC graduate track was approved. With MCEDC, her main duties have included student advising and academic program development. Recently, she co-developed the