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- Engineering Communication I: History and Praxis
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- Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia; Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University
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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
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- Engineering Communication II: Curricular Practices, Integrations, and Collaborations
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- Mary M. McCall, University of Detroit Mercy; Nassif E. Rayess, University of Detroit Mercy
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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
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- Engineering Education Culture: Mental Health, Inclusion, and the Soul of Our Community
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- Jessica R. Deters, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
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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
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- Community-Engaged Engineering Education Challenges and Opportunities in Light of COVID-19 Paper Presentations 1
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- Pritpal Singh, Villanova University
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energy systems and power electronics. He has been working on thin film solar cell research since 1979 including a Sabbatical Leave at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in 1993. He has also worked on several photovoltaic system projects Dr. Singh has also worked on electric vehicle research, working on battery monitoring and management systems funded primarily by federal agencies (over $3.5 million of funding). Dr. Singh has consulted for several companies including Ford Motor Company and Epuron, LLC. He has also served as a reviewer for the US Department of Energy and National Science Foundation. Dr Singh has over 150 conference and journal publications and holds seven issued US patents. Dr. Singh’s recent
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- Community-Engaged Engineering Education Challenges and Opportunities in Light of COVID-19 Paper Presentations 2
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- Paul A. Leidig P.E., Purdue University at West Lafayette; William C. Oakes, Purdue University at West Lafayette
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; Awards and recognition. Teaching Grading and administration; Job Salary and benefits; Assistants Help with student learning directly; Community engaged design teaching experience; Time and expertise. Personal / professional community engagement. Engineering Allowing for course credit (tech Promotional materials for recruiting; College electives, senior design, 1st-year); Increased diversity; Laboratory funding; Provides experiential learning in 1st year to senior design; Facilities and personnel technical Broader impacts for research grants; expertise; Awards and recognition
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- 'Diversity' and Inclusion? Pedagogy, Experiences, Language and Performative Action
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- Erin A. Cech, University of Michigan
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of essential notions of intellect, drive, and self-discipline thatcenter on bodily ‘normalcy’” [8]. Notions of engineering skill have assumptions about “capable”bodies and minds built into them [12]. For example, to be seen as proficient at circuit design andtesting in an electrical engineering lab, one is expected to have the manual dexterity tomanipulate centimeter-long resistors and capacitors and the visual acuity to see small details upclose. A students’ demonstration that they understand the workings of a circuit is often conflatedwith the physical act of circuit-making in the laboratory. In such instances, lack of physicaldexterity or visual sharpness may be interpreted as lack of proficiency at engineering tasks.Because of the
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- Community-Engaged Engineering Education Challenges and Opportunities in Light of COVID-19 Paper Presentations 1
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- Whitney Gaskins, University of Cincinnati; Paula Davis Lampley Esq., University of Cincinnati; Krizia Leonela Cabrera-Toro, University of Cincinnati
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the educational institution, as well as thecorporation seeking to hire diverse STEM talent.Role models and representation help students see potential in themselves, and girls who seewomen working in engineering careers are more likely to consider doing the same [7]. Withfemale engineers of color occupying a small number of seats in our nation’s innovation hubs,laboratories, scientific think tanks, corporate suites, and board rooms, it is challenging for youngwomen of color to envision themselves as engineers.Experiences, both negative and positive, can profoundly shape an individual’s thoughts andultimately who they become. Espinosa [4] examines the potential benefit of the collegeexperience, including experiences of women of color pursuing
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- Social Justice: Pedagogy, Curricular Reform, and Activism
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- Gabriel Medina-Kim, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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- Ethics, Mindfulness, and Reform During the COVID-19 Pandemic
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- Thomas A. De Pree, University of New Mexico; Sarah Appelhans, University at Albany-SUNY; Alan Cheville, Bucknell University; Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Melissa Shuey, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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reflexivity... whether,and to what extent, we [are] ready to reflect on the subject matter of race and racism in thismostly color-blind field of inquiry.” [7] What we observed during the ASEE virtual conferencewere contributions to “Big STS”—a concept introduced by Gary Downey to identify approachesto science and technology studies (STS) that promise broader social impacts beyond themicrosociology of laboratory studies, which have long been privileged in the field.On the surface, this paper is about activisms, social movements, and racial justice in engineeringeducation, but there is an understory about how small and subtle actions, like opening a SlackChannel for crafting, afford alternative virtual maker spaces for different possible futures. Howdo
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- Sociotechnical Thinking II: Interpretation, Curricular Practices, and Structural Change
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- Donna M Riley, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Rosalee A Clawson, Purdue University; Dragan Maksimovic, University of Colorado Boulder; Beth A. Myers, University of Colorado Boulder; Ivonne Santiago P.E., University of Texas at El Paso; Nick A. Stites, University of Colorado Boulder; Jennifer L. Taylor, University of Colorado Boulder
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; 2014 The University of Texas System Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award; and the 2012 NCEES Award for students’ design of a Fire Station. She also received 2018 American Society of Civil Engineers’ Texas Section ”Service to the People” award, and 2019 El Paso Engineer of the Year by the Texas Society of Professional Engineers. This is the first time in more than 30 years that a UTEP faculty wins this prestigious award.Mr. Nick A. Stites, University of Colorado Boulder Nick A. Stites is the Director of the Integrated Teaching and Learning Program and Laboratory at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is also an instructor in the Engineering Plus Program. His research interests include the development of novel
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- Sociotechnical Thinking I: Classroom Experiences, Identity, and Theory
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- Jonathan Seth Krones, Boston College; Jenna A. Tonn, Boston College; Russell C. Powell, Boston College
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Can a Body Do? How We Meet the Built World, the artist, design researcher, and OlinCollege professor Sara Hendren writes, “Engineering is not the science of the laboratory alone…It is fundamentally applied, which means its results live in the world. It belongs to people, notjust as ‘users’ but as protagonists of their dimensional lives” [1, p. 23]. Hendren’s invocation of avision of engineering as radically human-centered provided the philosophical and humanisticcore to our interdisciplinary teaching team as we embarked on designing a new course forfirst-year students at Boston College (BC). Our course, Making the Modern World: Design,Ethics, and Engineering (MMW), situated engineering practice and knowledge within its social,political, and
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- Socially Responsible Engineering I: Context, Innovation, and Reflection
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- Rider W. Foley, University of Virginia; Rachel Sinclair, University of Virginia; Araba Dennis, Purdue University
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), and students can select from the course catalog that addresses a number oftopics such as, data ethics, entrepreneurship, laboratory life, for example. These courses useapproaches aligned with the humanities and social sciences to further investigate the social andethical issues related to engineering and engineered artifacts. In their fourth-year all engineeringstudents take a yearlong course sequence in both their fall and spring semesters. This is wherethey learn about STS theories, consider various ethical frameworks and apply these concepts totheir own research topics. A graduation requirement is for all students to generate a writtenportfolio that includes a report on their technical capstone project and STS research paper thataddresses
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- 'Diversity' and Inclusion? Pedagogy, Experiences, Language and Performative Action
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- Jenn Stroud Rossmann, Lafayette College; Mary A. Armstrong, Lafayette College
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assumed endpoint:within a healthy watershed, all members of the ecosystem grow, develop, and flourish. Ratherthan merely being “retained” as an individual within a (neutral) pipeline, a member of anecosystem is part of a group that thrives as an interdependent collective. Metrics for the health ofan ecosystem will naturally incorporate intersectionality and complexity beyond traditionalrecruitment & retention data [12].However, despite these positive shifts from the limits of the lockstep “pipeline” to the morecapacious and humane “ecosystem,” metaphors about fostering persistence and thriving are, as arule, largely confined to the realms of STEM. They invoke STEM classrooms and laboratories,STEM communities and STEM processes (the pipelines