Conference Session

Technical Courses and Liberal Education

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Shehla Arif, University of Mount Union

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #31588Designing an Engineering Computer Instructional Laboratory: Working withthe PanopticonDr. Shehla Arif, University of Mount Union I am a thermal-fluids sciences educator. My doctoral and postdoctoral work is on experimental fluid dynamics of bubbles. My emphasis is interdisciplinary moving between mechanical engineering, geology, and biology. I acquired PhD from Northwestern University, IL and a post-doc at McGill University, Canada. I am passionate about integrating Engineering education with liberal arts studies. To that end, I am interested in embedding social justice and peace studies into engineering

Conference Session

Rethinking Engineering Writing

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven R Walk, Old Dominion University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #7282Using Learning through Writing Pedagogy to Improve Laboratory LearningOutcomesMr. Steven R Walk, Old Dominion University Steven R. Walk, PE, is Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering Technology at Old Dominion Uni- versity, Norfolk, Virginia. His research interests include power electromagnetic phenomena, energy con- version systems, technology management, and technological change and social forecasting. Mr. Walk is owner and founder of Technology Intelligence, a management consulting company in Chesapeake, Virginia, and conducts management workshops introducing innovative strategies for business and

Conference Session

Technical Courses and Liberal Education

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Linda Vanasupa, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Lizabeth T. Schlemer, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Yevgeniya V. Zastavker, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #29398An emancipatory teaching practice in a technical course: A layeredaccount of designing circuits laboratory instructions for a diversity oflearnersDr. Linda Vanasupa, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering Linda Vanasupa has been a professor of materials engineering at the California Polytechnic State Univer- sity since 1991. She is a professor of materials engineering at Olin College. Her life’s work is focused on creating ways of learning, living and being that are alternatives to the industrial era solutions–alternatives that nourish ourselves, one another and the places in which we live. Her Ph.D. and

Conference Session

Innovations in Promoting Technological Literacy II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vazgen Shekoyan, Queensborough Community College, CUNY; Todd Holden, Queensborough Community College, CUNY; Raul Armendariz Ph.D., Queensborough Community College, CUNY; Helio Takai, Brookhaven National Laboratory; Sunil Dehipawala, Queensborough Community College, CUNY; Dimitrios S. Kokkinos Ph.D., Queensborough Community College, CUNY; Regina Sullivan, Queensborough Community College, CUNY; George Tremberger Jr, Queensborough Community College, CUNY; Paul J. Marchese, Queensborough Community College, CUNY; David H. Lieberman, Queensborough Community College, CUNY; Tak Cheung, Queensborough Community College, CUNY

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

AC 2012-4458: TECHNOLOGICAL LITERACY IN REQUIRED SCIENCECOURSES FOR NON-STEM STUDENTS IN A COMMUNITY COLLEGEWITH EXTENSION TO JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL ENVIRONMENTProf. Vazgen Shekoyan, Queensborough Community College, CUNYDr. Todd Holden, Queensborough Community College, CUNY Todd Holden is an Associate Professor in the Physics Department of Queensborough Community College of CUNY. His current research interests include bioinformatics and microbial fuel cells. He also mentors student research projects.Raul Armendariz Ph.D., Queensborough Community College, CUNYDr. Helio Takai, Brookhaven National Laboratory Helio Takai is an Elementary Particle and Nuclear Physicist with interest in development of instrumenta- tion for the

Conference Session

Rethinking Engineering Writing

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David M. Beams P.E., University of Texas, Tyler; Luke Niiler, University of Alabama; Beth Todd, University of Alabama; Marcus Brown, University of Alabama; Garry W. Warren, University of Alabama

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

(and is) intended to support multiple types of written engineeringcommunication, its initial implementation has been limited to the laboratory report (which isthe only choice currently listed under “Services”; future versions of The Coach will enableinstructors to customize tools according to their specific needs). Clicking “Lab Report”brings up a dialog box which allows the user to choose between continuation of an existingreport or the creation of a new report.Fig. 1. Opening screen of The Coach. Page 23.1173.3The sections of a laboratory report composed with The Coach are as follows:  Cover Page  Introduction and Background

Conference Session

Writing and Communication

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amanda Simson, University of New Haven; Judy Randi Ed.D., University of New Haven; Amanda Lynn Becker, University of New Haven

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

need for instructional resources and strategies to teachcommunication skills, engineering faculty at the University of New Haven have beencollaborating to develop technical communication curriculum, including a series of onlinemodules. The present study is a pilot study intended to evaluate the implementation of selectedinstructional resources and strategies integrated into a chemical engineering laboratory course,where students were required to write bi-weekly technical memos based on the results ofexperimental work.One innovative aspect of this pilot project was the team-taught approach to instruction. In thislaboratory course, the engineering instructor collaborated with a writing instructor to plan anddeliver instruction. Although team

Conference Session

Communication: From Pecha Kucha to Bullets

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth R. Leitch, West Texas A&M University; Rhonda B Dittfurth, West Texas A&M University; Freddie J Davis P.E., West Texas A&M University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

communication skillsin the existing engineering curricula. Communication instruction has always been an important part of theuniversity education process but this current initiative strives to focus on the study and improvement of technicalcommunication skills throughout engineering coursework requirements. This reflects the need of employers forengineers with strong communication skills and the desire of our students to improve these skills. Three engineeringcourses have been targeted for the initiative: ENGR 1201 (Fundamentals of Engineering), ET 2371 (Metals andCeramics), and ENGR 1171 (Engineering Ethics). The first two courses have a laboratory component with writtenlaboratory reports and oral presentations while the third is a course created in

Conference Session

Undergraduate Peer Educators: Mentoring, Observing, Learning

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico; Catherine Anne Hubka, University of New Mexico; Eva Chi, University of New Mexico

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ASEE Board of Directors

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

important problems at the interface between chemistry, physics, engi- neering, and biology preparing the trainees for careers in academe, national laboratories, and industry. In addition to research, she devotes significant time developing and implementing effective pedagogical approaches in her teaching of undergraduate courses to train engineers who are critical thinkers, problem solvers, and able to understand the societal contexts in which they are working to addressing the grand challenges of the 21st century. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Peer Review and Reflection in Engineering Labs: Writing to Learn and Learning to WriteAbstractClear

Conference Session

Promoting Communication Skills

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia; Judith Shaul Norback, Georgia Institute of Technology; Charlie Bennett, Georgia Institute of Technology; Benjamin J. Laugelli, University of Virginia

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

. Technological & Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering (also in 2019)Divisions sponsoring papers on communication in 2019 1. Chemical Engineering (also in 2015) 2. Civil Engineering (also in 2015) 3. College Industry Partnerships 4. Design 5. Educational Research and Methods (also in 2015) 6. Engineering Ethics 7. Engineering Physics and Physics 8. Experimental and Laboratory Oriented Studies 9. First Year Programs (also in 2015) 10. Graduate Studies 11. International 12. Liberal Education/Engineering & Society (also in 2015) 13. Manufacturing 14. Mechanical Engineering (also in 2015) 15. Military and Veterans 16. Minorities in Engineering 17. Multidisciplinary (also in 2019) 18. Pre-College

Conference Session

Studying Engineering Education Research & Institutions

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Corey Owen, University of Saskatchewan; Debora Rolfes, University of Saskatchewan

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Educational Research and Methods, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Page 26.366.7well as (aspiring) engineers. Our small classes attempt to enculturate students into a rhetoricalmanner of thinking, that is, into a way of evaluating and responding to communicative situationsefficiently and effectively. As a result of this enculturation into a community of practice, ourclassroom is more like a laboratory than a lecture hall, a concept we discuss in section 5.As Wenger24 writes, “An identity is … more than just a single trajectory; instead, it should beviewed as a nexus of multimembership” (159). Thus, while communication professors seem tobelong to a community of practice that is fundamentally different from that which engineeringstudents hope to identify with, Wenger’s concept of multimembership enables

Conference Session

Integrating Engineering & Liberal Education

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dominic M. Halsmer PE, Oral Roberts University; Peter Wesley Odom, Oral Roberts University; Jessica Fitzgerald, Oral Roberts University; Taylor Gipson Tryon, Oral Roberts University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

astrophysical institute’s attemptsat “reconstructing and visualizing the universe’s early days” as “the ultimate reverse engineeringproject.”1 This reference to science as the reverse engineering of natural systems is consistentwith the National Academy of Engineering’s (NAE) recent announcement that one of theirGrand Challenges for the twenty-first century is to “reverse engineer the human brain.”2 Manyscientists and engineering educators are now beginning to recognize the value of the reverseengineering mindset, not only for unraveling the mysteries of nature, but also for teaching theintricacies of design in the engineering laboratory. The last two decades have seen a significantincrease in the number of universities that have integrated this method

Conference Session

Communication: From Pecha Kucha to Bullets

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Micah Hale, University of Arkansas; Richard A. Coffman, University of Arkansas

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

is a licensed professional engineer and licensed professional land surveyor in the state of Missouri, and is a member of ASCE, the Missouri Society of Professional Engineers, and the United States Society on Dams. Rick’s research focuses on laboratory and field testing of soils and remote sensing applications within geotechnical engineering. Page 22.1115.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Observations from an Engineering Writing ProjectAbstractWritten and oral communication skills are highly sought after abilities in engineering graduates.However

Conference Session

Difference, Disability, and (De)Politicization: The Invisible Axes of Diversity

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy E. Slaton, Drexel University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

scientists almost completely failed to consider these powerful culturalnormativities? By extension, what might the methods of Science and Technology (orEngineering) Studies bring to such study? Do receptive audiences for such an inquiry exist?Using the case of a visually impaired undergraduate at a large state university who explicitlyaddressed the discriminatory epistemological suppositions of her lab course instructors, thispaper will describe presumptions made about the student’s abilities; about the nature of learningin STEM fields; and about precision and accuracy in scientific data as functions of some bodiesand not others. Preparatory to a larger study of students with disabilities in laboratory settings,this paper asks, as well, if risks

Conference Session

Improving Presentation Skills Through Summer Research and Ambassador Programs

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth L. Miller, Pennsylvania State University; Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

use of AE in professional settings, weconducted a study to determine how students who have learned the innovative method are givingpresentations in their companies and laboratories. Drawing from that study, this paper focusesupon the experiences of undergraduates and graduates presenting in industry and research,specifically highlighting how students have utilized the AE approach in such settings. This paperanalyzes the following three research questions: (1) Do students and recent graduates who learn the approach attempt to use it in professional settings? (2) How much resistance do those students and recent graduates face, and what are the underlying reasons for that resistance? (3) What strategies can

Conference Session

Ethical Awareness and Social Responsibility in a Corporate/Team Context

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Natasha D. Mallette P.E., Oregon State University; Michelle Kay Bothwell, Oregon State University; Christine Kelly, Oregon State University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

conceptspresented in lecture through team-based studios (24 or fewer students). During students’ latteryears in their programs, discipline-specific laboratory and design sequences provide additionalopportunities to enhance teaming knowledge and skills. The three distinct instructional spacesare:Studios. Most of the large-enrollment courses consist of a lecture component supported bysmaller studio sections. During studios, students actively apply concepts and problem-solvingprocedures as they work in teams. The presented tasks are designed as professional engineeringproblems where learners take the role of practitioners working on a team. The orientation ispractice-to-concept, where the tasks require students to use core concepts and practices as toolsin

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 7

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Caitlin Donahue Wylie, University of Virginia; Ian Linville, University of Virginia; Angielyn Campo, University of Virginia; Suk Jun Kim, University of Virginia

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

pairs of graduate andundergraduate engineers working in four research laboratories, we define five categories ofstrategies that students use to learn crucial research skills from each other: asking questions,demonstration, supervised attempts, trial and error, and imitation. Our study shows thatcommunities of practice, such as engineering research groups, are valuable sites for graduate andundergraduate students to learn crucial research skills. In addition, these five interactionstrategies are relatively stable, even across different research groups, disciplines, demographics,and levels of education. These strategies help facilitate the learning and teaching process withineach undergraduate and graduate pair. We found that undergraduate and

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

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

evaluators, [that means that]communication skills and teamwork have become a much more prominent part of theengineering curriculum” (Anderson, p. 1) As we mentioned earlier, the history of liberaleducation as a part of engineering education demonstrates that the truly new dimensions ofEC2000 were not the focus on non-technical outcomes, but rather the outcomes-based approachitself and the significantly more detailed description of the professional competencies in the listof outcomes. Approximately half of the papers demonstrate a heightened awareness of theopportunities for students to practice communication in informal contexts such as communityservice projects, laboratory courses, team projects, and classrooms—but without apparentemphasis

Conference Session

Promoting Technical Communication Skills

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University; Joanna K. Garner, Old Dominion University; Kaitlyn Pigeon, Pennsylvania State University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

summer internship. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Work-in-Progress: Online Tutorials to Help Undergraduates Bridge the Gap Between General Writing and Engineering WritingAbstract Although engineering students are regularly called upon to write as engineers in designcourses, laboratory courses, and internships throughout their curriculum, many engineeringstudents do not formally learn to write as an engineer until their third or fourth year of study. Forthis reason, a gap exists between what engineering students know about general writing and howthey are expected to write as an engineer. As a first step to address this gap, this paper

Conference Session

Writing and Communication II

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nadiye O. Erdil, University of New Haven; Ronald S Harichandran P.E., University of New Haven; Michael A. Collura, University of New Haven; Jean Nocito-Gobel, University of New Haven; David J. Adams, Technical Communications Consultant; Amanda Simson, The University of New Haven

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

. The program is designed to integrate technicalcommunication learning objectives into a sequence of engineering courses, culminating with thesenior design experience. Engineering students are introduced to the PITCH program in threecourses during their freshman year and the skills they learn are reinforced in each subsequentyear of their studies. After three years of progressively more extensive development anddeployment, a preliminary assessment of student writing from freshman to junior years wasperformed. PITCH teaches students how to report on technical work with an appropriate level of detailand how to effectively present data. As part of the program students prepare laboratory reports,technical memoranda, poster presentations, oral

Conference Session

Creative and Cross-disciplinary Methods Part I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katherine Hennessey Wikoff, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Michael Hoge Carriere, Milwaukee School of Engineering

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

strategies Chu was forced to devise are what eventually led him andseveral of his Bell Labs co-workers to win multiple Nobel Prizes. Says Chu: Page 25.798.6When most people think of industrial labs they think of, “Oh, you’re makingbetter widgets. You’re making something that’s going to be good for the phonesystem.” Now, ultimately, that’s true. But at Bell Labs in that time—this is in1978—allowed a small fraction of us—fifty, sixty, eighty—to do whatever wewanted; really to do whatever we wanted.So I joined Bell Laboratories. My department head said, “Steve, you can dowhatever you want. It doesn’t even have to be physics. All we ask is that youdon’t go to

Conference Session

Engineering Communication II: Curricular Practices, Integrations, and Collaborations

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Mary M. McCall, University of Detroit Mercy; Nassif E. Rayess, University of Detroit Mercy

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

learn more about producingreports that support work in a laboratory setting. Each class period begins with a brief lectureabout writing and then moves into lab work and data analysis.Using formal report and memo templates [18], students produce individual and team reports,which give them a chance to add to writing and teamwork skills. In group reports, roles arerotated so each student has experience in writing different sections and acting as the group editor.Figure 10 illustrates the type of comments they receive from the engineering instructor. 14 Figure 10. ENGR 3270 – Laboratory Report – Engineering Instructor Comments.Figure 11

Conference Session

Promoting Technical Communication Skills

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Sarah Summers, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Rebecca Bercich, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Phillip Cornwell, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Daniel Takashi Kawano, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; James E. Mayhew, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Sean Moseley, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

before explanations, and giving evidence to support claims) and write theirown memos in a laboratory setting. In the third course, the instructor references what waslearned in the previous two but does not give significant instruction about memo writing.Students are expected to write a satisfactory memo in a laboratory setting when asked.MethodsIn this study we assess the impact of our memo scaffolding plan by assessing a single assignmentin a required third-year Mechanics of Materials course (EM204 in Figure 1). The control andtreatment groups consist of students taking the course at two separate offerings. We describehere the context of the course, the details of the assignment, development of the assessmentrubric, and our assessment

Conference Session

Integrating Engineering & Liberal Education

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bill D. Bailey, Southern Polytechnic State University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

and Mold Making program, leadingto an Associate of Applied Science degree.Identifying linkage to outcomes such as these is fairly common at the program and course level.In this study, the relevant skills are integrated at the assignment level as well. In courses whereassignments did not support these skills, assignments were added or modified as appropriate.For example: communication, critical thinking, and teamwork were integrated into laboratory(machining) sections through the use of individual and team based projects. These projectsrequired written plans, written evaluations at the conclusion, a reflective paper to cementlearning, and a presentation to the class and others.This paper will provide a detailed description of how this

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society (LEES) Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig J. Gunn, Michigan State University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

for past grammatical expertise Page 23.676.8Junior ME 332 – Fluid Mechanics ME 371 – Machine Design IYear Laboratory Reports: (Approx. 9 @ 4-6 pages each) Short Technical Reporting Brief narrative of procedure, measured data, Design Analysis Reports (2 @ 4- deduced and analyzed data, plotted results with 6 pp. Individual); Technical discussion and conclusions. Analysis, Economic Analysis, Recommendation for Action

Conference Session

Critical Thinking, Leadership, and Creativity

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

a graduate student, Rudolpho Azzi, who happened to be an experienced teacher, thegroup worked to assemble a research program and teaching laboratory in behaviorism at theUniversity.15This work was deemed a success, and Bori and Keller were invited to take their work to theUniversity of Brasilia, Bori to create a new department of psychology, and Keller to continue onas advisor. With the university’s doors yet to open, they had the time and space to plan. It was inthe course of designing from scratch an introductory course in experimental psychology that thegroup came up with PSI. Pressed to be experimental in form as well as content, the group beganconsidering how their knowledge of behaviorist principles could be applied to the

Conference Session

Programmatic Integration of Liberal Education

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Michael Oudshoorn, High Point University; Claire Lynne McCullough P.E., High Point University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

hours percourse. High Point University uses, as its default, a class of four semester hours. The required 12full-length core classes plus the one-hour President’s seminar and a one-hour physical educationactivity is thus a total of 50 semester hours. The four-hour course requirement is also applied toengineering courses. While this is not a difficulty for courses such as Circuits and Electronics,which normally include both a class component and a laboratory component, for more theoreticalcourses, such as Signals and Systems, and classes for which three hours is perfectly adequate,such as Engineering Economics, four hours is not necessary, and requires some creative coursecombinations in order to include the multiplicity of topics normally

Conference Session

Engineering Education Culture: Mental Health, Inclusion, and the Soul of Our Community

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jessica R. Deters, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Environment 4 10 7 21 Total 102 59 39 200An Engineering Way of ThinkingThree codes emerged related to an engineering way of thinking: practice-based, visualizationtools, and writing. First, participants reflected on the importance of practice-based laboratoryexperiences in their engineering education. Students were not allowed to physically come intothe laboratory because of public health guidelines and university restrictions, so instructors hadto find alternatives. Some posted videos of themselves doing the experiments and students usedthose videos to write their reports, some sent students ‘at-home kits’, and some created

Conference Session

Panel Discussion: Global Engineering - What Does That Mean?

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robyn Sandekian, University of Colorado Boulder; Bernard Amadei, University of Colorado, Boulder; Aaron Brown, Metropolitan State University of Denver; Brent K Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Stephen Y. Lu, University of Southern California; Sylvanus N. Wosu, University of Pittsburgh; John W Via III P.E., Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.)

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Professor at Drexel University. Dr. Via has ˜30 years of industrial experience in the pharmaceutical, medical device and chemical industries spend- ing the last 20 years at Alcon Laboratories where he served as Vice President of Manufacturing for both the Global Surgical and Global Pharmaceutical & Lens Care business units. Dr. Via taught for 13 years as an adjunct professor at Texas Christian University and Southern Methodist University for 13 years while working for Alcon. Dr. Via received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Vir- ginia, a M.S. in Chemical Engineering and M.S. in Engineering Management from Drexel University, a M.S. Manufacturing Systems Management, a Master of Liberal Arts and a

Conference Session

Writing and Communication I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emre Selvi, Jacksonville University; Sandra Soto-Cabán, Muskingum University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

thataccomplishes little. The originality of his concept made it popular among the society and twoPurdue engineering fraternities began a contest as a rivalry in the 1940s and 1950s, which laterwas revived in 1983 and became a nationwide Rube Goldberg Machine (RGM) contest in 19883.The contest was expanded to the high school level in 1996 with the support of the USDepartment of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory. In 2012, an international online RGMcontest was launched by Rube Goldberg Inc. for ages 11-144.RGMs were also used in educational studies, especially those related with design. Several ofthese studies utilized Rube Goldberg projects in K-12 education and freshmen level engineeringcourses such as teaching engineering design to K-12 students

Conference Session

Communication Across the Divisions I: Communication in Engineering Disciplines

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David A. Saftner, University of Minnesota Duluth; Mary U. Christiansen; Adrian T. Hanson, University of Minnesota Duluth; Jill D. Jenson, University of Minnesota Duluth; Sara Ojard; Rebecca L. Teasley, University of Minnesota Duluth; Emily Woster, University of Minnesota Duluth

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Civil Engineering, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

and writing studies faculty. The collaboration reinforced workdone in the required writing classes and allowed both parties to leverage their expertise. Thewriting guide currently contains sections detailing reports, figures, tables, equations, references,memos, homework, professional e-mails, and a general grading rubric. The rubric is generalenough so that individual instructors can adapt it for a given assignment, while maintaining aconsistent framework as students move from course to course. Civil engineering faculty used theproposed rubric to evaluate Fall 2014 assignments from a freshman-level introduction to civilengineering course, two required junior-level laboratory courses, and the department’s capstonedesign course; all four