Conference Session

Communication and Engineering Careers: Motivating Our Students

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julie E. Sharp, Vanderbilt University; Christopher J Rowe, Vanderbilt University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

decision-makingprocess are those that are challenging and applicable, provide students with new perspective, andstimulate self-reflection. Strategies should be focused on an orientation to learning includingbreaking down myths and basing a search process on individual identity. However, interactionswith others including faculty members, alumni, administrators, and other students influence astudent’s learning process and increase self-efficacy. Collaboration with other campus officesmore often provides load-leveling when staffing is slim as it is in most career services units ofcolleges and institutions. By partnering with academic units, career services can shareresponsibility in shaping students’ decision-making processes. This collaboration can

Conference Session

Restructuring/Rethinking STEM

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicola Sochacka, University of Georgia; Kelly Woodall Guyotte, University of Georgia; Joachim Walther, University of Georgia; Nadia N. Kellam, University of Georgia

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

the Collaborative Lounge for Understanding Society and Technology through Educational Research (CLUSTER), an interdisciplinary research group with members from engi- neering, art, educational psychology and social work. He has conducted qualitative educational research in a number of contexts ranging from formation of students’ professional identity, the role of reflection in engineering learning, and engineering students’ creativity development. He was the first international recipient of the ASEE Educational Research Methods Division’s ”Apprentice Faculty Award”, was se- lected as a 2010 Frontiers in Education ”New Faculty Fellow”. In 2011, he received a National Science Foundation CAREER award (#1150668) to

Conference Session

Integrating Engineering & Liberal Education

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pradeep Kashinath Waychal, College of Engineering Pune; Anil Dattatraya Sahasrabudhe, College of Engineering, Pune

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

contacted the identified expertsand interacted with them in person or over the Internet. They also explored media coverage of their topics. Theywere not mandated but expected to meet their mentors on regular basis. Some of them carried out surveys to getinsight into their topics.Synthesize: Students were expected to put together all the things that they had learnt and understood to create acoherent whole. Such a synthesis was required to be done at information, knowledge, or wisdom levels, butstudents mostly ended up doing it at information or knowledge level. As an example, gathering informationabout a particular regime and just organizing it in a particular way is called ―information synthesis‖. Analyzingthe reasons for the fall of a regime and

Conference Session

A Challenge to Engineering Educators

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Harold R Underwood, Messiah College

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

the advantage of doing so in thecontext of a global service learning program has been addressed by Shuman, Besterfield-Sacre & McGourty.6 Recent publications have reported on studies of portfolios used byundergraduate engineering students with regard to making personal sense of anddeveloping a professional identity for engineering as a career (Eliot & Turns7), whatconcepts students reveal about engineering as indicated by their written reflective entries(Dunsmore, Turns & Yellin8), and the development of self-awareness related to life-longlearning (Sattler, Kilgore & Turns9). Eris has proposed the portfolio as a way ofexternalizing the learning process of an engineering student, with the potential to promotedivergent inquiry

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society (LEES) Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig J. Gunn, Michigan State University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

if one looks closely, one will discoverthat engineering faculty are sometimes more critical of what is presented to them than theircolleagues in English. As we look at thesis after thesis and dissertation after dissertation we see amass of red marks, most of which pinpoint writing deficiencies not technical deficiencies. Yes,these are one-on-one encounters with a graduate student and a faculty member and do not reflect thenumbers of students in an undergraduate course, but they do reflect on particular communicationissues that can be mentioned to undergraduates about their own writing. Students listen to theirtechnical faculty and when one says that writing is important, it means a great deal more than whenan English teacher makes the same

Conference Session

Institutional Perspectives and Boundary Work

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ron D Dempsey, Southern Polytechnic State University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

SPSU. The institution and faculty have used this component of boundary work as ameans of exercising Gieryn’s concept of expulsion where “boundary work excludes rivals fromwithin by defining them as outsiders.”53 The expertise of “applied” and “hands-on” educationalexperience has allowed the ET programs at SPSU to demonstrate their superiority overengineering. An ET faculty member writes They (ET degrees) train the students for real engineering jobs. They have hands on courses and students also learn computer packages and programs necessary for the jobs. Employers do not need to train the graduates. The graduates have found real engineering jobs because they have learned both theoretical and hands on stuff. The

Conference Session

Restructuring/Rethinking STEM

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joe Tranquillo, Bucknell University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #7610The T-shaped Engineer: Connecting the STEM to the TOPProf. Joe Tranquillo, Bucknell University Joe Tranquillo was the second faculty member in the new Biomedical Engineering Program at Bucknell University and helped build an accredited department with seven faculty and 60 undergraduate students. His teaching interests are in biomedical signals and systems, neural and cardiac electrophysiology, and medical device design. Nationally Tranquillo has published or presented over 50 peer reviewed or invited works in the field of engineering education. In 2012 he was a founding faculty member of the KEEN Winter