Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 8

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mel Chua, Georgia Tech; Ian Smith, Project Alloy; Miriam Nathan Lerner, National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Rochester Institute of Technology; Sarah Jacobs; Rita Straubhaar M.Ed., Monroe Community College; Ruth Anna Spooner; Perseus McDaniel

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

in the context ofcomputer programming was both related to and distinct from this notion of the functions of aproduct.)At some point, someone signed “so, it’s what the thing tells you about itself?” and there was anelectric moment in the room. “Yes, that! It’s what the thing tells you about — how you can useit, what it’s for…” And so, with several grammatical and production tweaks, our signedprototypes for affordance theory was born.The signs for “affordance” and “to afford” reveal (or rather, afford) exploring aspects ofaffordance theory that may be less obvious in English. For instance, when these signs wereshown to a hearing non-signer who uses affordance theory in their research, they began to usethe signs as tools with which to think

Conference Session

Liberal Education Division Technical Session Session 10

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

their bachelor’s degreesin Engineering Physics; are either research assistants or research assistant professors of Physics;are members of the Physics Education Research group; and are engaged in a broad range ofeducational research, mostly at “the intersection of ethnic studies, critical pedagogies, and STEMteaching and learning” (author’s biographical sketch) with a focus on engineering design andequitable change in STEM programs.The diversity of the authors’ expertise and interests was reflected in the qualities that theselection committee for LEES best paper focused in in explaining its choice of this paper. “Theexamination of student engagement with ethics and ethical reasoning builds on past work on themismatch between engineering-science

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Endeavors: Engineering and Liberal Arts

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

, Salt LakeCity, Utah. Jun. 2018.[3] Yoritomo, J. Y., Turnipseed, N., Cooper, S. L., Elliott, C. M., Gallagher, J. R., Popovics, J.S., Prior, P., and Zilles, J. L. “Examining engineering writing instruction at a large researchuniversity through the lens of writing studies,” in Proceedings of the 2018 ASEE AnnualConference, Salt Lake City, Utah. Jun. 2018.[4] Hanson, A. J., Lindahl, P., Strasser, S. D., Takemura, A. F., Englund, D. R., and Goldstein, J.“Technical communication instruction for graduate students: The Communication Lab vs. acourse,” in Proceedings of the 2017 ASEE Annual Conference, Columbus, Ohio. Jun. 2017.[5] R. Day Babcock and T. Thonus, “A sample research question: What is a successful tutorial?”in Researching the Writing

Conference Session

Liberal Education Division Technical Session Session 12

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Megan Keogh, University of Colorado, Boulder; Malinda S. Zarske, University of Colorado, Boulder; Janet Y. Tsai, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

week for 7 weeks, students convened in a makerspace todesign and build individual projects using various power tools. The post-workshop surveysindicated that 26 of the 40 students were “very likely” to try soldering again on their own and 33out of 40 students “strongly agreed” with the statement “I believe the build group helped toincrease my tool knowledge, basic making skills, and confidence to participate in the design andbuilding portion of team based engineering projects” [9].The Carpentries is a nonprofit organization that teaches data science skills to researchers. Theirpaper for the 2018 ASEE Annual Conference reports that short (1-2 hour) workshops are anefficient way to help people who have little to no prior experience explore