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

-teaching between engineers and writers is not new, fewinstances involve bringing the communication curriculum and writing instructor into theengineering classroom, as was done in this study. For example, Harvey et al. describedengineering students’ attitudes toward writing in a communication course in which engineeringfaculty attended two of four sections of the communication course (Harvey 2000). Qualitativeresponses to items assessing attitudes toward writing and anecdotal data showed that the studentsperceived a disconnect between writing assignments in communication classes and their work asengineers.Context for the study:The present study was conducted in a chemical engineering laboratory course. The courseconsists of a weekly lecture session

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

themselves comprehend and retain their content more deeply when using the AEapproach [8]. Because of the apparent advantages of the AE approach, institutions andorganizations such as the Engineering Ambassadors Network [9-10] are teaching the approach totheir students. Shown in Figure 1 are two slides that follow the assertion-evidence approach. Figure 1: Two example slides that follow the assertion-evidence approach [4]. Note that the headlines are sentence assertions, as opposed to phrases. Note also that the bodies of the slides contain only visual evidence, not bullet lists. Although the AE approach is spreading on a collegiate level [10], it is not yet widely usedin professional settings. To explore how to spread the

Conference Session

Writing and Communication

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vukica M. Jovanovic, Old Dominion University; Denise Tombolato-Terzic, Christopher Newport University; Daniel P. Richards, Old Dominion University; Pilar Pazos, Old Dominion University; Megan McKittrick, Old Dominion University; Julia Romberger, Old Dominion University; Otilia Popescu, Old Dominion University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

, Christopher Newport University Born and raised in Brazil, Denise Tombolato-Terzic earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Agronomical Engineering at her prestigious alma mater ”ESALQ”, University of S˜ao Paulo’s agricultural campus. She completed her graduate work at the University of Florida, having pursued Master’s and PhD degrees in Plant Pathology and Molecular Biology, respectively. After a brief time in industry, Dr. Tombolato- Terzic returned to academia, seeking a Master’s degree in Bioinformatics at Northern Illinois University. Currently, Dr. Tombolato-Terzic is a lecturer at the Molecular Biology and Chemistry department at Christopher Newport University. She teaches laboratory courses, lectures, scientific

Conference Session

Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: The Role of Engineering Education towards Attaining UN Sustainable Development Goals

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven J. Burian, University of Utah; Mercedes Ward, University of Utah; Tariq Banuri, University of Utah; Sajjad Ahmad, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Rasool Bux Mahar P.E., Mehran University, Pakistan; David Lawrence Stevenson, University of Utah; James A. VanDerslice, University of Utah; Kamran Ansari; Abdul Latif Qureshi

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Diversity

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Civil Engineering, Community Engagement Division, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Minorities in Engineering

Alabama. Dr. Burian’s professional career spans more than 20 years during which he has worked as a de- sign engineer, as a Visiting Professor at Los Alamos National Laboratory, as a Professor at the University of Arkansas and the University of Utah, and as the Chief Water Consultant of an international engineer- ing and sustainability consulting firm he co-founded. He served as the first co-Director of Sustainability Curriculum Development at the University of Utah where he created pan-campus degree programs and stimulated infusion of sustainability principles and practices in teaching and learning activities across campus. Dr. Burian currently is the Project Director of the USAID-funded U.S.-Pakistan Center for

Conference Session

Improving Presentation Skills Through Summer Research and Ambassador Programs

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joanna K. Garner, Old Dominion University; Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Christine Haas, Engineering Ambassadors Network; Suzanne Sontgerath, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Avi Kaplan, Temple University

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Christine Haas brings over ten years of experience working in marketing and communications with a focus on the science and engineering fields. She’s held positions as the director of marketing for Drexel’s College of Engineering and director of operations for Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Engineering. Now, as Principal of Christine Haas Consulting, LLC, Christine travels around the world teaching courses to scientists and engineers on presentations and technical writing. She has taught clients across gov- ernment, industry and higher education, including Texas Instruments, Brookhaven National Laboratory, European Southern Observatory (Chile), Simula Research Laboratory (Norway) and the University of Illinois-Urbana

Conference Session

Innovation and Reflection

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott A. Newbolds P.E., Benedictine College; Patrick F. O'Malley, Benedictine College; Meredith Stoops, Benedictine College

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

oversaw research projects for INDOT in the areas of highway structures, materials, and construction. He then served two years as the Director of Site Operations for the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) at Purdue University; a network of 14 university-based earthquake and tsunami research laboratories sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Dr. Newbolds began teaching at Benedictine College in 2012. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Indiana.Dr. Patrick F. O’Malley, Benedictine College Patrick O’Malley teaches in the Mechanical Engineering program at Benedictine College in Atchison, KS.Meredith Stoops, Benedictine College Meredith Stoops is the Coordinator of Service

Conference Session

Integrating Liberal Education and Engineering

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel B. Oerther, Missouri University of Science & Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

, science, technology, and health (ESTH). Oerther earned his B.A. in biological sciences and his B.S. in environ- mental health engineering from Northwestern University (1995), and he earned his M.S. (1998) in envi- ronmental health engineering and his Ph.D. (2002) from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He has completed postgraduate coursework in Microbial Ecology from the Marine Biology Laboratory, in Public Health from The Johns Hopkins University, and Public Administration from Indiana University, Bloomington. Oerther is a licensed Professional Engineer (PE, Ohio), Board Certified in Environmental Engineering (BCEE) by the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientist (AAEES), and

Conference Session

Assessment and Liberal Education

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Caitlin Donahue Wylie, University of Virginia; Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia; Toluwalogo Odumosu, University of Virginia

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

in Nigeria. His research focuses on studying the various processes by which societies select, adopt and implement large technological systems with an emphasis on digital telecommunication technologies, particularly mobile telephony systems and the Internet. At the University of Virginia, Tolu heads the Digital Privacy Research Laboratory. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 The Whole as the Sum of More Than the Parts: Developing Qualitative Assessment Tools to Track the Contribution of the Humanities and Social Sciences to an Engineering CurriculumAbstractAs over sixteen years of experience have demonstrated, outcomes-based assessment under theEC2000 criteria has

Conference Session

Assessment and Liberal Education

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sean Ferguson, University of Virginia; Rider W. Foley, University of Virginia

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Evaluating Learning of Sustainable Development. J. Educ. Sustain. Dev. 10, 160–177 (2016).17. McClure, J. R., Sonak, B. & Suen, H. K. Concept map assessment of classroom learning: Reliability, validity, and logistical practicality. J. Res. Sci. Teach. 36, 475–492 (1999).18. Muryanto, S. Concept Mapping: An Interesting and Useful Learning Tool for Chemical Engineering Laboratories. Int. J. Eng. Educ. 22, 979–985 (2006).19. Novak, J. D. Learning, Creating, and Using Knowledge: Concept maps as facilitative tools in schools and corporations. J. E-Learn. Knowl. Soc. 6, 21–30 (2010).20. Ruiz-Primo, M. A. Examining concept maps as an assessment tool. in Proceedings of the First International Conference on Concept Mapping 1, 555–562 (2004

Conference Session

Professional Development and Lifelong Learning

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rose M. Marra Ph.D., University of Missouri; So Mi Kim, University of Missouri; Carolyn Plumb, Montana State University; Douglas J. Hacker, University of Utah; Shann Bossaller, University of Missouri

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

, teacher education, and school and program evaluation. Dr. Hacker moved to the University of Utah in 1999 and has continued his research in the previous areas and has added to them research in the area of the detection of deception. Also at the University of Utah, he served as chair of the Teaching and Learning Department. His publications have appeared in the Journal of Educational Psychology, Contemporary Educational Psychology, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, and Journal of Experimental Education. At both universities, Dr. Hacker has maintained a strong commitment to work in elementary and middle schools, working directly with teachers by providing professional development in reading and writing

Conference Session

Innovation and Reflection

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chris Gewirtz, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Tech; Kirsten A. Davis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Ramon Benitez, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

, rather than teaching. Both Baxter-Magolda23 and Schön22 discuss the need for working with and developing astudent’s existing meaning making, instead of imposing meaning making onto them. In ourconception of innovation, students become innovators when they are freed from thinking withstereotypes and freed from unilaterally seeking approval from their relationships with others, andinstead can develop the capacity to construct their own knowledge, identities and relationships.Methods For our research in understanding and reporting on the educational environment in whichthe IPM classes were situated, we relied on ethnographic observation. Ethnography providesresearchers with the opportunity to understand and develop their own

Conference Session

Professional Development and Lifelong Learning

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Greg Rulifson P.E., Colorado School of Mines; Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #20397Fourth-Year Engineering Students’ Descriptions of the Importance of Im-proving Society Through their Engineering CareersDr. Greg Rulifson P.E., Colorado School of Mines Greg currently teaches sustainable community development in Humanitarian Engineering at CSM. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering with a minor in Global Poverty and Practice from UC Berkeley where he acquired a passion for using engineering to facilitate developing communities’ capacity for success. He earned his master’s degree in Structural Engineering and Risk Analysis from Stanford University. His PhD research at CU Boulder