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

characterize engineering as a unique field, and what are the mechanisms by which these defining elements change over time? 2) How do elements such as innovation, critical thinking, systems thinking, biology, mathematics, physical sciences, engineering sciences, problem solving, design, analysis, judgment, and communication relate to each other to characterize the core of engineering as a profession? 3) What is the source of these core elements, and how are they shaped? Is engineering best characterized by the people it serves, the problems it addresses, the knowledge used to address problems, the methods by which knowledge is applied, or its social relevancy or impact? 4) What is the

Conference Session

Assessing Social Responsibility & Sustainability

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark H Minster, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Richard A House, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Patricia Brackin P.E., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Corey M. Taylor, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods, Engineering Ethics, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

. Unlike the prevailing curricular model inengineering education—in which introductory courses teach basic science and mathematics,prior to the intense disciplinary specialization and professionalism of upper-level courses—thescholarship on sustainability education25, 26, 27, 28 points to the need for “learning for sustainabledevelopment [to be] embedded in the whole curriculum, not as a separate subject.”29 Authentic,transformative impact is only possible when the concerns of sustainability transcend theperiphery of a curriculum to pervade student skill development.The HERE (Home for Environmentally Responsible Engineering) program, a first-yearliving-learning community at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, was designed to introducestudents

Conference Session

Assessing Social Responsibility & Sustainability

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Justin L Hess, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Sarah Aileen Brownell, Rochester Institute of Technology; Richard A House, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Alexander T. Dale, Engineers for a Sustainable World

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods, Engineering Ethics, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

for oneblock or neighborhood is not directly replicable at another. Sustainable housing is tied with manyother wicked problems such as issues of poverty, equitable education, resource conservation, andclimate change. As a result, any response to this wicked problem will impact the others. Withinthe participating WPSI courses, student teams were tasked to develop viable responses to thiswicked problem through staged design reviews, while being exposed to its overall complexityand interconnectedness of sustainable housing with other wicked problems.Our MotivationWPSI is organized through Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW). As an organization, ourvision is for a world of environmental, social, and economic prosperity created and sustained

Conference Session

Studying Engineering Education Research & Institutions

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Justin L Hess, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Nicholas D. Fila, Purdue University; Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Johannes Strobel, Texas A&M University

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Educational Research and Methods, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

we focus on in this study is skills required for an engineering student to be innovative,what we call innovative design. We describe innovative design as the act of generating novelconcepts, processes, or designs. Innovative design is closely linked to creativity,6 using andimplementing creative ideas to develop something tangible, real, or meaningful in a societalcontext. This type of innovation may be described as incremental, leading to small changes, orradical, leading to a complete rethinking of existing practices and designs, or generating entirelynew concepts altogether.7Innovative design may be broken up into constituent components by identifying what skills ortraits are necessary for being innovative. For example, Eris (2004

Conference Session

Research on Diversification & Inclusion

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Lachney, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Dean Nieusma, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Diversity

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, New Engineering Educators, Student, Women in Engineering

reform effort risks being undermined by the curricular and cultural practices thatpervasively shape student experience and outcomes and drive away too many could-be engineerswith diverse interests, aptitudes, lived experiences, and values.PDI’s response to the bait-and-switch problem employs design-oriented logics of engagement inparallel with the fundamentals-first approach, which provides a partial corrective to the logic ofexclusion. This configuration offers educators new avenues for thinking about explicit andimplicit connections between the design-centric emphasis in K-12 and the content-driven modelof fundamentals first. Moving forward, we hope to conduct empirical research using participantobservation and interviews to compare students

Conference Session

Studying Engineering Education Research & Institutions

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Xiaofeng Tang, Penn State University

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

high school graduates continue on to Baccalaureate-level (B.Eng. or B.Sc.) instruction, and for 50% of these to obtain the higher Candidate’s degree (M.Sc.)  Simultaneously, an attempt to contain the costs of higher education through the rationalization of higher education, both through the legislatively mandated consolidation of the nation’s semi-professional schools (those established for teachers, technicians, nurses and others) into a single University College system, and through fiscal policies designed to force administrative restructuring within the nation’s universities. Many nationally funded, not-for-profit research institutes were also absorbed into the nation’s universities under

Conference Session

Research on Diversification & Inclusion

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Brewer, University of Georgia; Nicola Sochacka, University of Georgia; Joachim Walther, University of Georgia

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, New Engineering Educators, Student, Women in Engineering

what thiscareer path would look like in practice, but I’m committed to finding out.About half way through my freshman environmental seminar, my professor, Dr. Walther, askedme if I would be interested in working on a research project in engineering education. Hedescribed a study of media representations of engineering that he was working on with hiscolleague and told me that they were looking for a student who would like to help with dataanalysis. I agreed, and attended his research group’s next meeting. I was initially intimidated byworking with professors on a research project, but I quickly became comfortable after help andencouragement from my supervisors.My participation in this research group formed the context for the present

Conference Session

Interactive Panel on Improving the Experiences of Marginalized Students on Engineering Design Teams

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lorelle A Meadows, Michigan Technological University; Denise Sekaquaptewa, University of Michigan; Marie C Paretti, Virginia Tech; Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Shawn S. Jordan, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Debbie Chachra, Olin College of Engineering; Adrienne Minerick, Michigan Technological University

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education, Electrical and Computer, Engineering Libraries, First-Year Programs, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Minorities in Engineering, Student, Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering, Women in Engineering

in Engineering Education (FREE, formerly RIFE, group), whose diverse projects and group members are described at feministengineering.org. She received a CAREER award in 2010 and a PECASE award in 2012 for her project researching the stories of undergraduate engineering women and men of color and white women. She received ASEE-ERM’s best paper award for her CAREER research, and the Denice Denton Emerging Leader award from the Anita Borg Institute, both in 2013. She helped found, fund, and grow the PEER Collaborative, a peer mentoring group of early career and re- cently tenured faculty and research staff primarily evaluated based on their engineering education research productivity. She can be contacted by email at

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Reflective & Critical Pedagogies

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Katarina Larsen, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology; Johan Gustav Gärdebo, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

. Thesechanges to the course, we argue, have the potential of shifting learning outcomes fromdescriptive to analytical and reciprocal learning.In terms of learning outcomes, students were to demonstrate an ability to write acritical analysis of a chosen topic in an essay drawing on course literature anddiscussions from seminars and other course activities. The activities were designed to:  Stimulate seminar groups to discuss course content in order to practice deconstructingtexts, get the students familiar with the course readings early on in the course.  Practice constructive comments and feedback on other students‟ texts and incorporate comments received into arguments in the course essay.Pedagogy for Analytical

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Reflective & Critical Pedagogies

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mania Orand, University of Washington ; Brook Sattler, University of Washington; Jennifer A. Turns, University of Washington; Lauren D. Thomas, University of Washington

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

experiences is widely understood as an essential component oflearning and development of expertise for both educators and students. However, incorporatingreflection in a way that engages engineering students can be challenging, and educators seekways to design or introduce effective and efficient reflective practices that best address this issue.In this paper, we describe three example case studies that use the concept of probes and weanalyze their potential for stimulating reflection to help identify new ways of supportingreflection in engineering education. Our goal is to introduce engineering educators to the conceptof probes as a method to support students’ reflection and also to inspire and facilitatecollaboration between engineering educators

Conference Session

Communication Across the Divisions I: Communication in Engineering Disciplines

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mike Ekoniak, Virginia Tech; Molly Scanlon, Virginia Tech; M. Jean Mohammadi-Aragh, Mississippi State University

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Civil Engineering, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Effective written communication skills are essential for engineers, as is widely recognized inthe field of engineering education and by US and international engineering professional andprogram accreditation organizations [1]–[3]. Since implementation of the EC2000 criteria,communication has been also been explicitly required by ABET accreditation criteria forengineering programs. Specifically, criterion 3g states that programs must demonstrate that theirgraduates develop “an ability to communicate effectively” [1]. While the ABET change in criteria push communication skills from the periphery to a centralcomponent of the engineering curriculum, the implementation of writing activities in engineeringcourses is often lacking. Best practices of

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Communication Across the Divisions III: Writing as Social–Technical Integration

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vukica M. Jovanovic, Old Dominion University; Megan McKittrick, Old Dominion University; Pilar Pazos, Old Dominion University; Daniel Richards, Old Dominion University; Julia Romberger

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Diversity

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Computing & Information Technology, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

structure assignments in a given context so that writing can besuccessfully embedded into existing curricula and appreciated by students in quantitativedisciplines as a critical part of their thinking process. Hence, there needs to be a more structuredapproach in educational design that relates to the “writing in the disciplines” (WID) approach,wherein faculty provide students a clear, discipline-informed framework for writing that seesdisciplinary differences in writing practices through the lens of genre. In this way, students receiveinsight into genres that will likely be part of their future workplace. The main genesis of rhetorical genre studies (RGS) was the work of Carolyn Miller, whowas the first to frame genre as a social action

Conference Session

Non-Canonical Canons of Engineering Ethics

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna M Riley, Virginia Tech; Yanna Lambrinidou, Virginia Tech

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Diversity

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Engineering Ethics, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

government agencies. In 2010, Dr. Lambrinidou co-conceived the graduate level engineering ethics course ”Engi- neering Ethics and the Public,” which she has been co-teaching to students in engineering and science. She is co-Principal Investigator on a National Science Foundation (NSF) research and education project developing an ethnographic approach to engineering ethics education. Page 26.322.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Canons against Cannons? Social Justice and the Engineering Ethics ImaginaryAbstractWhat if social

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Non-Canonical Canons of Engineering Ethics

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Xiaofeng Tang, Penn State University; Dean Nieusma, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Engineering Ethics, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

Activities Board (TAB).9 Page 26.977.4In December 1972, CSIT published the first issue of the IEEE CSIT Newsletter, whose coverlisted the new Committee’s purposes: 1. Develop means to encourage and support professional and social responsibility in the practice of engineering. 2. Promote sensitivity to and understanding of the interaction between technology and society. 3. Foster study, discussion and appropriate action involving IEEE members and others. 4. Promote the conception of means and implement programs for predicting and evaluating the impact of technology on society. 5. Take appropriate action to implement programs.10In a short editorial

Conference Session

Non-Canonical Canons of Engineering Ethics

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna M Riley, Virginia Tech; Amy E. Slaton, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.); Joseph R. Herkert, Arizona State University

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Diversity

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Engineering Ethics, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

turned in significantnumbers to the codification of best practices and ethical priorities. That burst of ethics-writingactivity was followed by others through the twentieth century, Davis explains, usually instigatedby moments of great growth in the profession or of notable outside pressures for self-regulation.1,2 Codes of ethics have customarily mandated rigorous, honest, and disinterestedengineering practice and depending on the sub-field, also more specific instructions regardingpertinent materials, technical processes, and commercial relations. These instruments are Page 26.1723.3essentially optimistic in projecting a desired future

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Integrating Social Justice in Engineering Science Courses

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn Johnson, Colorado School of Mines; Jon A. Leydens, Colorado School of Mines; Barbara M. Moskal, Colorado School of Mines; Deborath Silva, Colorado School of Mines; Justin Stephen Fantasky, Colorado School of Mines

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Diversity

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Engineering Ethics, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

many categorized the course as EE despite it being required for both majors. Thisperception may reflect the disciplines of the instructors, who were primarily affiliated with EE.However, since 12 of 14 focus group participants were MEs, that would not explain the differentratings across WI and WOI sections. The differences across sections are not generalizable due tolow sample size (WI n=7; WOI n=7).Research Question 1. When interpreted narrowly, RQ1 results in a list of classes students notedas including elements of social justice or social impacts of engineering. Within our four focusgroups, this list included NHV, Senior Design, Engineering Practices—Introductory CourseSequence (EPICS), Circuits, classes associated with the Humanitarian

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Reflective & Critical Pedagogies

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joe Tranquillo, Bucknell University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

get better at what they practice. Like all adaptive bi-ological entities, students will become proficient at navigating the environments they have hadtime to explore 25,26 . If their environment is highly structured, they will learn to operate in an or-dered environment very well. On the other hand if the environment is entirely unstructured, theywill do their best to cope with the disorder. The real world is a mix of order and disorder. Sowith the goal of preparing our students for the real world, it makes sense to create a classroomenvironment that has a balance between order and disorder. Page 26.1532.6Counter to what many faculty