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

Tagged Topics

ASEE Board of Directors

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

comprehension and retention [34, 42, 58, 59]. Even simple strategies, such asend-of-class “minute papers” that ask students to reflect on what they learned in class and whatremains unclear can provide opportunities for students to organize their understanding [60]. Thisapproach is effective regardless of instructor level of experience and across levels of studentability [61]. The reflective process can be effectively integrated into a peer review process [52,54].Identity as writing engineersAs seniors in a chemical engineering degree program, the students in our study have begun toform engineering identities. The structure of our program—as is typical of many—in whichstudents take technical writing early in their degree programs in the English

Conference Session

Social Responsibility and Social Justice II: From Classroom to Community

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna M. Riley, Virginia Tech; Janice L. Hall, Virginia Tech

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

delivered by their strategic partners as a measure of theircontribution to education reform in Louisiana. 30 Grants awarded to primary and secondarycharter programs like TFA, KIPP Charter Schools, Firstline Schools, New Schools for NewOrleans, are used to create more seats for students to attend charter schools as well as developprograms like the First Line Blended Learning program which is aimed at closing achievementgaps among students.31 Entergy also partners with programs like New Orleans POSSE to providefunding for post-secondary education for high achieving but financially disadvantaged studentsmaking college access and youth leadership development hallmarks of their charitable efforts,they have also sponsored and supported the United Negro

Conference Session

Ethics, Mindfulness, and Reform During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Shahrima Maharubin, Texas Tech University; Shamsul Arefeen, Texas Tech University; Ryan C. Campbell, Texas Tech University; Roman Taraban, Texas Tech University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

values. This can be facilitated by the course unbundling optionscreated by online teaching/learning repositories, as various learning tracks can be designed.Universities can employ competency-based programs on a large scale (e.g., four courses inmachine learning, six courses in creative writing) for students who require the necessary skills.The hybrid model has the potential to make education affordable to a large group of students.Note, however, that teaching hybrid courses requires hardware/technology not found in allclassrooms and creates considerable burden and overhead for instructors.Path 3: Full Online ModelMany high school students directly go to work at minimum wage and never get the opportunityto attain a residential college as they

Conference Session

Sustainability

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Justin L. Hess, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Sarah Aileen Brownell, Rochester Institute of Technology; Alexander T. Dale, Engineers for a Sustainable World

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

Page 24.1257.2profession, especially those covering sustainability topics, contain several of the 10 aspects ofwickedness.3 The National Academy of Engineering’s Grand Challenges for Engineeringprovides one relevant large-scale list4 but more regional issues such as urban transportation orwater infrastructure pose similarly complex challenges due to local variations. These issues mayhave a variety of clear technical responses, but implementation requires social and politicalagreement that engineers have rarely addressed. With the added contemporary need forconsideration of depleting resources and global crises such as climate change – which has beendefined as a “super” wicked problem5 – novel approaches to engineering education that

Conference Session

Sociotechnical Thinking I: Classroom Experiences, Identity, and Theory

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jonathan Seth Krones, Boston College; Jenna A. Tonn, Boston College; Russell C. Powell, Boston College

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

(albeit with considerable coordination of topics, as will bediscussed in section 6). For the second half of the semester, lectures transitioned into a series ofintegrated engineering case studies that engaged material from both disciplines as well as criticaltools from reflection. Lab activities were similarly organized with the first half-semesterhands-on applications of basic engineering principles and the second half an integrated,seven-week human-centered design project focused on issues of access and accessibility on theBC campus. Reflection utilized BC’s innovative small group Purposeful Ongoing Discussion(POD) model of near-peer mentors guiding students through various reflective practices tograpple with the ethical and moral dimensions of