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

prompts in this first implementation ofLtW in a laboratory setting: that students might not be ready to “put in their own words”concepts and phenomena they have yet to contemplate outside of the standard language anddiscipline of use in their electrical courses to date.As part of the author’s university quality enhancement programs, and the Learning throughWriting program specifically, the author is seeking the advice and assistance of the programleaders to review the results of this first implementation and consider extensions orimprovements based on the observed outcomes and student responses.Bibliography 1. Baren, R., 1993. “Teaching Writing in Required Undergraduate Engineering Courses: A Materials Course Example,” Journal of

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

control group. Ten students took part in theexperimental group; 22 were involved in the control group.Faculty members teaching ENGR 1201 accommodated the trial use of The Coach byagreeing to mandate the laboratory report format of The Coach for all assignments and torequire reports to be submitted in hard-copy form. Instructors in ENGR 1201 turned over alllaboratory reports to the faculty member responsible for The Coach at UT-Tyler, but onlythose reports submitted by participants were scanned to .pdf form. All reports were thenreturned for normal grading. This process was meant to preserve the anonymity of thoseparticipating in The Coach and to prevent any potential bias in grading. Scanned reportswere redacted to remove names and to assign each

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

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

to be inevitable actually reflects choices (and principles ofUDL would probably question the defensibility of the lab’s original safety standards). The notionthat a given teaching space is unsafe for persons of sensory impairment or limited mobilityshould begin, not end, conversations about inclusion.The idea that that a visually impaired student could not be safe in the chemistry laboratory shedsa raking light on the moral economy of STEM instruction. “Accommodation” and changes ofany kind deriving from the needs or positions of students (rather than from inside the customaryexpertise of STEM professors) challenge ideas central to the culture of STEM. These are notsimply hierarchical habits that on principle devalue the experiences of

Conference Session

Institutional Perspectives and Boundary Work

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth Reid, Ohio Northern University; Tyler J Hertenstein, Ohio Northern University; Graham Talmadge Fennell, Ohio Northern University; Elizabeth Marie Spingola, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

capstoneproject, but meet state requirements for student teaching. Challenges include incorporatingeffective classroom experiences, curriculum development and extracurricular opportunitiesavailable as students in an education program with more typical requirements from engineeringdisciplines such as required laboratories and opportunities for undergraduate research. Seekingaccreditation for the program from the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education(NCATE) as well as ABET affords additional challenge.This paper will describe the unique challenges of establishing this interdisciplinary andinnovative program, including issues related to accreditation of the program from twoperspectives: education and engineering. Further, the paper will

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

lean implementation and training and development. His experience in program and course development and teaching includes work in industry, community colleges, and at the university level. He has served as an examiner for several Baldrige based quality award processes, including The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, and state awards in North Carolina and Georgia. His research and consulting interests include the improve- ment of organizational performance through quality initiatives such as the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Process, Six Sigma, Lean, etc., and the application of these initiatives to education, manu- facturing, services and healthcare

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

in-place(through careful discussion) technical assignments to emphasize needed communication; theengineering student will be more willing to accept and investigate the need for communicationskills.This paper addresses a widely ignored fact, “Engineering professors ARE English teachers!” Theydo not teach literature or the structure of the novel. They do not provide grammar quizzes everyFriday. And they certainly don’t give popular movie reviews of all the shows they watched on agiven weekend. On the other hand, they spend a great deal of their professional lives writing journalarticles and conference papers, reviewing articles written by other faculty, and being the mentors foruntold numbers of theses and dissertations. It would be an

Conference Session

Communication and Engineering Careers: Motivating Our Students

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tristan T. Utschig, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jeffrey S. Bryan; Judith Shaul Norback, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Mellon Enhancing Education Program. [cited 2009; Available from: www.cmu.ed/teaching/designteach/teach/rubrics.html.] 6. Oklahoma State University---School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. [cited 2009; Available from: http://www.ece.okstate.edu/abet_capstone_design_portfolios.php.] 7. University of Arkansas Mechanical Engineering. [cited 2009; Available from: http://comp.uark.edu/~jjrencis/REU/2007/Oral%20Presentation%20Form.doc.] 8. University of Illinois and University of Wisconsin (1998). Checklists for presentations Writing Guidelines for Assignments in Laboratory and Design Courses. [cited 2009; Available from: http://courses.ece.uiuc.edu/ece445/documents/Writing_Guidelines.pdf.] 9

Conference Session

Institutional Perspectives and Boundary Work

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ron D Dempsey, Southern Polytechnic State University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Page 23.1.8University, Pittsburg State University http://www.pittstate.edu/dotAsset/10561.pdf“many students enter engineering or engineering technology without a clear perception of thedifferences between engineering and technology curricular and their respective employmentopportunities upon graduation.”40 Expertise: The term “applied” and “hands-on” are the traditional nomenclature ofengineering technology. This applied nature of the technology programs manifests itself inlaboratory experiences which play a major role in the educational process. Programs inengineering also contain laboratory courses but as Robison points out “those courses inengineering that contain laboratories show strong orientation toward experimentation orresearch

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

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #6832Implementing a Student-Suggested Course in Engineering Career Develop-mentDr. Julie E. Sharp, Vanderbilt University Dr. Julie E. Sharp, M.A.T., M.A., Ph.D., is Professor of the Practice of Technical Communications in the Vanderbilt University School of Engineering, where she teaches written and oral communication courses in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and the General Engineering Division. Her teaching and research interests include job search communication, learning styles, and integrating com- munication in engineering courses. In 2012, she won an Apex Award for Excellence in

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

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

and equips one to apply that knowledge in appropriate ways.Steve Abram1 says that information becomes knowledge through learning. This could be extended to say thatknowledge becomes wisdom through learning. Learning can use a variety of methods as shown in the pyramidof learning (Figure 1) developed by E. J. Wood of National Training Laboratory, Bethel Maine Campus2. Thepyramid shows various methods of learning and corresponding knowledge retention rates for average students.Merely attending lectures is the least effective method. Self-reading and use of audiovisuals cause increasedretention. Demonstration, discussion, and practice take retention to the next level and teaching provides the bestretention. We believe that effectiveness of

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society (LEES) Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christine Haas, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Lynn S. McElholm, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Sonya M Renfro, University of Connecticut; Elizabeth S. Herkenham, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ; Melissa Marshall, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

State University. He serves on the advisory board of the Engineering Ambassador Network. With Melissa Marshall and Christine Haas, he teaches advanced presentation skills to Engineering Ambassadors in workshops across the country. Page 23.496.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Engineering Ambassador Network: Establishment of Successful Engineering Ambassador Programs at Four UTC Partner UniversitiesThis paper presents an overview of the establishment of the Engineering AmbassadorProgram at four schools to begin the