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Communication and Engineering Careers: Motivating Our Students

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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

Communication and Engineering Careers: Motivating Our Students

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Conference Session

Communication and Engineering Careers: Motivating Our Students

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John C. Anderson, Northwestern University; David W. Gatchell, Northwestern University; Barbara Shwom, Northwestern University; Stacy Benjamin, Segal Design Institute; John Andrew Lake, Segal Design Institute, Northwestern University

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Conference Session

Communication and Engineering Careers: Motivating Our Students

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Katherine Golder, British Columbia Institute of Technology; Deanna Gail Levis, British Columbia Institute of Technology; Darlene B Webb, British Columbia Institute of Technology

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the main focus of this polytechnic institute?The institute that is home to Idol focuses primarily on preparing students for successful careers,and most often hires instructors who bring prior industry experience to their teaching positionsalong with their academic credentials. Industry involvement with instructors, course materials,and collaboration with student projects is common and encouraged, so students get firsthandexperience with workplace standards and practices.For students, assignments and extracurricular activities that have clear links to their futureworking life make their courses more meaningful to them and more practical for the workplace.For instructors, this system demands time in keeping up to date on current industry

Conference Session

A Challenge to Engineering Educators

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lisa DuPree McNair, Virginia Tech; Wende Garrison, Virginia Tech

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practice. Projects supported by the National Science Foundation include interdisciplinary pedagogy for pervasive computing design; writing across the curriculum in Statics courses; as well as a National Science Foun- dation CAREER award to explore the use of e-portfolios for graduate students to promote professional identity and reflective practice. Her teaching emphasizes the roles of engineers as communicators and educators, the foundations and evolution of the engineering education discipline, assessment methods, and evaluating communication in engineering.Wende Garrison, Virginia Tech Wende Garrison got her bachelor’s and master’s from Portland State University in Film & Television and Rhetoric &

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Institutional Perspectives and Boundary Work

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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

Education and Engineering DisciplinesAbstract:Ohio Northern University is in its second year of an innovative and unique Bachelor of Sciencedegree with a major in Engineering Education. This program will provide graduates with afoundation in engineering, mathematics, and education, qualifying the graduate for licensure as asecondary math teacher in the state of Ohio. The degree is similar to a General Engineeringdegree, expanding potential career opportunities. Further opportunities are expected to be amongvenues such as science and technology museums. This degree program offers the introduction ofmath teachers into middle and high school environments with an inherent appreciation ofengineering, producing graduates who

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society (LEES) Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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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501 (c) 3 not-for profit organization. The Workforce Consor- tium’s mission was to bring awareness to the full spectrum of new high technology career opportunities in the upstate New York Region and the global marketplace. Ms. Herkenham is an elected School Board Member official of a NY public school district for thirteen years. Her involvement has provided the keen understanding and the experience to develop meaningful and relevant student and educator professional development programs and strategies.Ms. Melissa Marshall, Pennsylvania State University, University ParkMr. Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Michael Alley is an associate professor of engineering communication at Pennsylvania

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society (LEES) Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ashlea Noelle Krupa, Pennsylvania State University; Melissa Marshall, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Joanna K. Garner, Old Dominion University; Christine Haas, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Johanna Gretchen Hatzell, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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about their gender, plansafter high school, and intended careers. The questionnaire had students rank, on a scale from 1(strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree), four questions regarding the Engineering Ambassadorpresentation on their opinions of engineering. The questions were as follows: (1) This presentation helped me better understand what engineering is (2) This presentation has made me think about engineering as a career option (3) Engineering is a profession that makes a difference in the world (4) Engineering is important to our health, happiness, and safety.The questionnaire had two open-ended questions asking students how the presentation changedtheir opinion of engineering and what from the presentation

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Communication, Professional Development, and the Engineering Ambassador Network

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Catherine Talbot; Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Melissa Marshall, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Christine Haas, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Sarah E Zappe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Joanna K. Garner, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia

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,biology, math, an nd general sccience. On visits to middle an nd high scho ools, ambassaadors speak to two to fivve classes inna day y. The ambasssadors creatte a 20-minu ute presentattion that folloows the asseertion-evideence approacch. These 20-minute pressentations deemonstrate a fun math oor sciencelessonn that can bee taken fromm the classroo om into an eengineering ppractice. Aftter thepreseentation, amb bassadors annswer questio ons from thee students annd the teacheer, apreseentation situaation similarr to talks given in the woorkplace. Addditionally, eengineeringambaassadors ofteen give a preesentation on n careers in eengineering tto a general assembly.Thesee assembliess can reach as a many as 300 students

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Communication, Professional Development, and the Engineering Ambassador Network

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Karen A. Thole, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Sarah E Zappe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Melissa Marshall, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Renata S. Engel P.E., Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Paper ID #7046Engineering Ambassador Network: Dissemination through an Inaugural Na-tional WorkshopProf. Karen A. Thole, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Dr. Karen A. Thole is the head of the Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering at The Pennsyl- vania State University. She holds two degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois, and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. After receiving her Ph.D., she spent two years as a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute for Thermal Turbomachinery at the University of Karslruhe in Germany. Her academic career began in 1994

Conference Session

Communication, Professional Development, and the Engineering Ambassador Network

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Julia M. Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

more engineers into public office to encouraging engineers who aresuccessful in their technical careers to aspire to leadership in national organizations (such asASEE). The problem remains, however, that engineers in general may feel less prepared topursue leadership advancement because of their lack of confidence in their leadershipcommunication skills.Recognizing that communication plays a central role in leadership, faculty and staff at Rose-Hulman have made communication a focus for the Leadership Advancement Program events thatare planned each year. In particular, we are using the notion of “difficult conversations” as away to emphasize the importance of communication in effective leadership.“Difficult Conversations” Approach to

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A Challenge to Engineering Educators

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Harold R Underwood, Messiah College

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

WorkWhile the value of a professional portfolio in other fields has been realized for some time,in engineering education, the benefits of a portfolio have only been recently recognized.It is known that the process of creating a portfolio encourages students to select, reflecton, and showcase best practice examples of their own work; as a complete product, theportfolio serves to display project experience with potential employers and colleagues,while they initiate their professional career.2 As such, the process of portfolio creationfosters effective educational practices of reflective judgment as advocated by King andKitchener4 and self-authorship recommended by Baxter Magolda.5 The possibility ofteaching and assessing ABET professional skills, and

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society (LEES) Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Craig J. Gunn, Michigan State University

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value of role models when people like engineering faculty, “Lead by example. Act theway you want other people to act. Think about what you are doing and how it will affect otherpeople. Make good decision that can be passed on. Do you say things that someone mightrepeat? If yes, than make it something good.” 2By the time students reach the junior and senior levels they have become engineers. They arelistening to their instructors as mentors to the challenging careers that lie ahead. The captivatingquality of the engineering curriculum lends itself to be the base upon which communication skillsare presented to engineers. Professors would not have to spend great amounts of time discussing thecommunicating that they do. But knowing that professors

Conference Session

Institutional Perspectives and Boundary Work

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ron D Dempsey, Southern Polytechnic State University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

engineeringtechnology educational programs is not well defined. The career status of technicians,technologists, and engineers is not understood by educator or employer.”37 This confusion withengineering has not abated over the years. Engineering technology suffers, as an academic andeconomic discipline, from a lack of clarity about what it is, what its graduates do, and confusionabout the boundaries between it and its more powerful and well-known discipline, engineering.Using the paper’s theoretical framework for boundary work of knowledge, practice, and power,one can see the how the boundaries between engineering technology and engineering lackdemarcation, to the detriment of engineering technology. Knowledge. ABET, the national accrediting body for

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Integrating Engineering & Liberal Education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Heath Tims, Louisiana Tech University; Krystal S Corbett, Cyber Innovation Center; Galen E. Turner III, Louisiana Tech University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

camp provides the opportunity for teachers and students to 1) betterunderstand the history of cyberspace, cryptography, and cyber security; 2) experience cyberapplications and programs; 3) discuss social and ethical implications of cyber; 4) explorepossible cyber career fields; and 5) gain an appreciation for the need to secure cyberspace. Thedynamic interactive camp curriculum consists of hands-on labs, a cryptographic treasure hunt,writing assignments, evening film sessions, and a Final Cyber Challenge. The Parallax Boe-Bot™ is used as the core teaching platform throughout.In the months preceding the camp, high school teachers, one science/mathematics teacher andone humanities teacher from each school, attend two professional development

Conference Session

A Challenge to Engineering Educators

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Canek Moises Luna Phillips, Purdue University; Kacey Beddoes, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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engineering is and how it contributes to economic development, quality of life, national security, and health—information that could be conveyed through effective messaging. (p. 19-20)Fifth, it limits the size of the engineering labor market: Women, African Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans, and some Asian American groups are significantly underrepresented in engineering, based on their proportions in the population at large…In the future…the engineering profession will have to draw more heavily on underrepresented groups for the country to maintain, let alone increase, its technological capability. Thus messages that effectively encourage girls and underrepresented minorities to consider careers

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Communication, Professional Development, and the Engineering Ambassador Network

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shannon Marie Aippersbach, Pennsylvania State University; Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Joanna K. Garner, Old Dominion University

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Paper ID #5691How Slide Design Affects a Student Presenter’s Understanding of the Con-tentMs. Shannon Marie Aippersbach, Pennsylvania State University Shannon Aippersbach is going into her fourth year majoring in Bioengineering at the Pennsylvania State University. She is originally from Pittsburgh, Pa. After graduation, Aippersbach hopes to pursue a career in the medical device field or research.Mr. Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Michael Alley is an associate professor of engineering communication at Penn State. He is the author of The Craft of Scientific Presentations (Springer, 2013) and

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Restructuring/Rethinking STEM

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joe Tranquillo, Bucknell University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

expense of breadth.The question I will respond to is: “What, if any, value is there in T-shaped undergraduatecourses and curricula?” Many students have began to form a T-shape before college andwill continue to become more T-shaped over time. But it is that during the undergraduateyears that students will transform their various interests into a mindset that will guidethem throughout their career. Teaching the T-shape also brings natural contact with themessiness of the real world, and therefore exercises the capacity for complex thinking. Iwill use the two words mindset and real world to focus the discussion below. Page 23.1237.13

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Communication, Professional Development, and the Engineering Ambassador Network

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Johanna Gretchen Hatzell, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Melissa Marshall, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Karen A. Thole, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Christine Haas, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Renata S. Engel P.E., Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Joanna K. Garner, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia

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. Karen A. Thole, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Dr. Karen A. Thole is the head of the Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering at Pennsylvania State University. She holds two degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois, and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. After receiving her Ph.D., she spent two years as a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute for Thermal Turbomachinery at the University of Karslruhe in Germany. Her academic career began in 1994 when she became an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In 1999, she accepted a position in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Virginia Tech where she was promoted to Professor in

Conference Session

Rethinking Engineering Writing

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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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of creating precise categories forevaluation: Broad, generous categories preclude sharp distinctions, while sharp, highly-focused categories create undue complexity. 6 Given these contingencies, regular re-calibration and discussion of ratings remains key to a robust and reliable evaluation process.In addition to the analysis of laboratory reports, data collection for The Coach includedquestionnaires at both the beginning and the end of the semester that attempted to assessengineering students’ perceptions and expectations of the role of writing in their curriculaand careers. The end-of-semester questionnaire included a section for reactions andcomments of those who had used The Coach. Informed consent was not sought for theseanonymous

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Integrating Engineering & Liberal Education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Pradeep Kashinath Waychal, College of Engineering Pune; Anil Dattatraya Sahasrabudhe, College of Engineering, Pune

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Students 28 34 29 20 12 16 8 32 70 237 Female Students 7 7 5 8 8 13 2 12 2 77 % Female Students 20% 17% 15% 29% 40% 45% 20% 27% 3% 25%Table 1: Allocation of students to different areas.It is interesting to note the overall and gender wise distribution of students among topics. Sports, business, anddefense studies earned better patronage. Female students chose traditional areas like fine arts, performing artsand medicine. Although they have chosen engineering career, their extracurricular interest seemed to havefollowed the

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Difference, Disability, and (De)Politicization: The Invisible Axes of Diversity

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amy E. Slaton, Drexel University

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Conference Session

Rethinking Engineering Writing

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brad Jerald Henderson, University of California, Davis

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Paper ID #8159”Doing Engineering in the School of Letters & Science: Adding a Manufac-turing Line Design Project to a Writing Program Class for Engineers”Mr. Brad Jerald Henderson, University of California, Davis Brad Henderson is a faculty in writing for the University Writing Program (UWP) at University of Cali- fornia, Davis. Henderson holds a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Cal Poly State University SLO and a Masters in Professional Writing (MPW) from USC. Currently focusing his career on engineer- ing writing and soft-skill education, he has worked as an engineer and engineering educator for Parker

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Difference, Disability, and (De)Politicization: The Invisible Axes of Diversity

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Donna M Riley, Smith College

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Conference Session

Restructuring/Rethinking STEM

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicola Sochacka, University of Georgia; Kelly Woodall Guyotte, University of Georgia; Joachim Walther, University of Georgia; Nadia N. Kellam, University of Georgia

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the Collaborative Lounge for Understanding Society and Technology through Educational Research (CLUSTER), an interdisciplinary research group with members from engi- neering, art, educational psychology and social work. He has conducted qualitative educational research in a number of contexts ranging from formation of students’ professional identity, the role of reflection in engineering learning, and engineering students’ creativity development. He was the first international recipient of the ASEE Educational Research Methods Division’s ”Apprentice Faculty Award”, was se- lected as a 2010 Frontiers in Education ”New Faculty Fellow”. In 2011, he received a National Science Foundation CAREER award (#1150668) to