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Technical Courses and Liberal Education

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Shehla Arif, University of Mount Union

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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

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Technical Courses and Liberal Education

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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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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

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Promoting Communication Skills

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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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. 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

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Promoting Technical Communication Skills

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

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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

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Promoting Technical Communication Skills

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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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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

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Programmatic Integration of Liberal Education

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

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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

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Promoting Technical Communication Skills

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Kristine Horvat, University of New Haven; Judy Randi, University of New Haven

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Paper ID #29097A Partnership Model for Integrating Technical Communication Habitsthroughout Undergraduate Engineering CoursesDr. Kristine Horvat, University of New Haven Dr. Kristine Horvat earned a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical and Molecular Engineering and a Masters & PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from Stony Brook University. While in graduate school, she performed research at Brookhaven National Laboratory to investigate gas hydrates as an alternative energy source. Currently, Dr. Horvat is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of New Haven, where she teaches laboratory

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Promoting Communication Skills

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Bruce Kovanen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Ryan Ware, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Megan Mericle, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Nicole Turnipseed, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; J. Patrick Coleman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Celia Mathews Elliott, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; John S. Popovics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; S. Lance Cooper, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; John R. Gallagher, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Paul Prior, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Julie L. Zilles, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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. He is also involved in efforts to improve writing skills in engineering students.Prof. S. Lance Cooper, Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign S. Lance Cooper is Professor and Associate Head for Graduate Programs in the Department of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received his B.S. in Physics from the University of Virginia in 1982, his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Illinois in 1988, and he was a postdoctoral research associate at AT&T Bell Laboratories from 1988-1990. Cooper’s research interests include optical spectroscopic studies of novel magnetic and superconducting materials at high pressures, high magnetic fields, and low temperatures

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Relationships Between Skills and Knowledge Domains

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Keith E. Hedges, Drury University

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] archeology center. Thearcheology building has a cultural, liberal arts theme. The instructor provides the program andthe architectural design solution to the students. The building features two-story interior spaces,long span framing, overhangs, skylights, and intentional design conflicts between engineering-and architecture-driven preferences. The architecture students are negotiating through designchoices from the perspective of being an engineer. The instructional method is the design studioformat which is variant of the laboratory classroom [34]. The studio environment embraces theexploration of alternative structural solutions. The outcome is a structures book articulating thecode compliant graphic and numerical solutions along with an AIA

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Sociotechnical Integration

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Maysam Nezafati, Georgia Institute of Technology; Mel Chua, Georgia Institute of Technology; Joseph M. LeDoux, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Fellows ofHarvard College.Cezeaux, J., Keyser, T., Haffner, E., Kaboray, A., & Hasenjager, C. (2008). IntroducingUniversal Design Concepts In An Interdisciplinary Laboratory Project. Proceedings of the 2008American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, 13.806.1-13.806.9. https://peer.asee.org/4037Dixon, A. G., Clark, W. M., & DiBiasio, D. (2000). A Project-based Spiral Curriculum forIntroductory Courses in ChE: Part 2. Implementation. Chemical Engineering Education 34(4),296-303.Dyrud, M. (2017) Ethics and Artifacts. Paper presented at the 2017 ASEE Annual Conference &Exposition, Columbus, Ohio.Feister, M.K., & Zoltowski, C. B., & Buzzanell, P. M., & Torres, D. H. (2016, June

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Novel Strategies for Studying Liberal Education

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Michael Lachney, Michigan State University; Madison C. Allen, Michigan State University ; Briana P. Green, Michigan State University

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demarcated, which makes contextual conditions important tothe analysis [8]. A case study methodology is not bound by any specific type of data but, more sothan other methodologies (e.g. historical, laboratory, etc.), requires the convergence of differenttypes of data sources for strengthening the validity and accuracy of the findings [8]. This meansthat case study research often requires multiple research methods for collecting data. One way that validity can be constructed in case study research is through the process ofcomparing and converging multiple sources of evidence, otherwise known as “triangulation” [8].For the case of Julie’s teaching and coaching, data included field notes, audio and visual materi-als (i.e. digital audio

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Sustainability and Social Responsibility

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Bryn Elizabeth Seabrook, University of Virginia; Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia; Kari Zacharias, Concordia University; Brandiff Robert Caron, Concordia University

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Catalogue of 1904-1905 describes Thornton’s original graduating thesis: Every candidate for a degree in Engineering will be required at the beginning of his graduating year to submit to the Dean some subject for independent study suited to the student’s especial course and aims. After such subject has been approved by the Dean and the Professor in charge, the student will be expected to carry out for himself the necessary literary and laboratory researches and to present his results in the form of a Graduating Thesis. Such thesis must be typewritten on standard sheets, 8 by 10 ½ inches, bound in a proper cover, and handed in for final approval no later than May 25. All necessary computations and

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Technical Courses and Liberal Education

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Kenneth W. Van Treuren, Baylor University; William M. Jordan, Baylor University; Cynthia C. Fry, Baylor University

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propulsion systems. At Baylor University, he teaches courses in laboratory techniques, fluid mechanics, energy systems, and propulsion systems, as well as freshman engineering. Research interests include renewable energy to include small wind turbine aerodynamics, experimental convective heat transfer as applied to HVAC and gas turbine systems, and engineering education.Dr. William M. Jordan, Baylor University William Jordan is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Baylor University. He has B.S. and M.S. degrees in metallurgical engineering from the Colorado School of Mines, an M.A. degree in theology from Denver Seminary, and a Ph.D. in mechanics and materials from Texas A & M University. He teaches materials

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Identity, Culture, and Socialization

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Sara A. Atwood, Elizabethtown College; Shannon Katherine Gilmartin, Stanford University; Angela Harris, North Carolina State University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University

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University, and the School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.Dr. Angela Harris, North Carolina State University Dr. Angela Harris joined the faculty at NCSU in August 2018 as an Assistant Professor. Harris is a member of the Global Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (Global WaSH) cluster in the Chancellor’s Fac- ulty Excellence Program. Her research seeks to better characterize human exposure pathways of fecal contamination and develop methods to interrupt pathogen transmission to protect human health. Harris is engaged in computational and laboratory investigations in addition to conducting field work in inter- national locations (prior work includes projects in Tanzania, Kenya, and

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Promoting Communication Skills

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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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Conference Session

Sociotechnical Integration

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Jacquelene Erickson, Colorado School of Mines; Stephanie Claussen, Colorado School of Mines; Jon A. Leydens, Colorado School of Mines; Kathryn Johnson, Colorado School of Mines; Janet Y. Tsai, University of Colorado, Boulder

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is often not clearly made for students. § Must be contextualized. It is impossible to achieve sociotechnical integration without an understanding of the socio-cultural context of the problem. § Generally relies on open-ended problems, allowing students to experience tradeoffs in engineering processes.It is important to note that we are speaking of implementation of real-world examples intoengineering curricula and recognize that some classes may be taught in formats other than alecture-based course. Some examples of this could be inverted or flipped classes, active learning,laboratory courses, project-based courses, or discussion-based courses. While classroomimplementation may vary, the use of real-world examples as