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Integrating Engineering & Liberal Education

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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

Paper ID #6029A Framework for Liberal Learning in an Engineering College.Dr. Pradeep Kashinath Waychal, College of Engineering Pune Pradeep Waychal has close to 30 years of experience in renowned academic and business organizations. He has been the founder and head of Innovation Center of College of Engineering Pune. Prior to that, for over 20 years, he has worked with a multinational corporation, Patni Computer Systems where he has played varied roles in delivery, corporate and sales organizations. He has led large international business relationships and incubated Centre of Excellences for business intelligence, process

Conference Session

Rethinking Engineering Writing

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elisa Warford, University of Southern California

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

parentheticalcitation in the paragraph is from the student’s paper and does not refer to the references listed atthe end of this paper): In the mid 1980s, the field of tissue engineering was established as the next major biological breakthrough. As these technologies developed, it became plausible that these engineered tissues could replace organs and other living cells that had been damaged or lost. Successful regeneration showed exceptional promise with the use of biocompatible materials that function as connectors across an injured area. (Li 65) These “biological bridges” allow for cell proliferation and thus reattachment and organ growth. With this goal in mind, increased funds and research have been invested to

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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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

to be conducted in order to substantiate the results.Program Goals Moving ForwardEven though Rensselaer’s Engineering Ambassador program aims to promote engineering to anunderrepresented audience, the Ambassador role models currently do not depict the audience weare attempting to attract. Going forward, Rensselaer plans to address this, in addition toincorporating representation from all engineering majors. With these goals in mind, Rensselaer’sAmbassador recruitment efforts have become targeted to help encourage a diverse population ofEngineering Ambassadors. Expanding industry connections will also help to strengthen thesustainability of the program within Rensselaer’s School of Engineering culture and community.The university partnership

Conference Session

Institutional Perspectives and Boundary Work

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ron D Dempsey, Southern Polytechnic State University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Page 23.1.15the ET school, while the ET folks are told to mind our own business if we don't like something E is doing.” Now the larger engineering reality has infiltrated the smaller reality and the powerdifferential associated with the larger engineering reality begins to emerge as the means ofdemarcation. Carlile writes, “Even when actors have equal ability to use a common knowledgeto effectively share and access each other’s domain specific knowledge, power is still beingexpressed.”57 Carlile was speaking about actors sharing knowledge and expertise informationacross boundaries, but here we have a case where the boundaries are equivalent, the knowledgeand expertise common knowledge are the same, the actors have equal ability to share

Conference Session

Restructuring/Rethinking STEM

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joe Tranquillo, Bucknell University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

thelight bulbs went off.Radical Disciplinary Mixing – Brain, Mind and CultureEngineers typically take some number of courses outside of the sciences to fulfilluniversity and ABET breadth requirements. Unfortunately, while they typically performwell, many engineering students do not take these courses seriously. They put on theirhumanities and social science “hats” on in these courses, but then quickly take them offagain once they are back to their engineering life. Those who do gain some lastinginsights keep them compartmentalized.The Brain, Mind and Culture course was co-taught by the author and a professor ofcomparative humanities. It was cross-listed in the departments of biomedical engineering,neuroscience and comparative humanities, with

Conference Session

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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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

addition, the framework will suggest membership requirements forparticipating institutions, keeping in mind the benefit of the program’s flexibility ofadapting to many different types of institutions. The funds will be used to define astructure in which the quality of the Engineering Ambassador program remains high, andoffer the essential support system for participating institutions and new schools who wantto start a similar program. Part of the success of the founding partner schools can beattributed the collaboration between the Engineering Ambassador advisors and thesupport system that ensued. The network will allow the same benefit to participatinginstitutions in sharing materials, offering invaluable networking opportunities, andproviding

Conference Session

Integrating Engineering & Liberal Education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Paper ID #7372Cyber Science - Interdisciplinary Approach to Cyber StudiesDr. Heath Tims, Louisiana Tech UniversityDr. Krystal S Corbett, Cyber Innovation CenterProf. Galen E. Turner III, Louisiana Tech University Galen Turner is the Maxfield Professor of Mathematics and Statistics in the College of Engineering and Science at Louisiana Tech University. He received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Louisiana State Uni- versity in 1999. His primary research areas include graph theory, network analysis, matroid theory, and combinatorics, as well as engineering education. He currently serves as the Chief Academic Officer for the

Conference Session

A Challenge to Engineering Educators

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Isolde Adriana Parker, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah; Seetha Veeraghanta, University of Utah

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

them how toevaluate and synthesize sources of information. Their research is integrated into team presentationsand writing assignments for LEAP 1501 and LEAP 1500 courses.Collaborative modelThe majority of first-year students come into the E-LEAP program with rudimentary informationliteracy skills. Through student feedback, we know that the majority has experience usingcommercial search engines to search the Open Web. The majority has experience in a library setting,though usually not an academic library. The majority has produced research papers, pre-universityadmission.With that in mind, the librarian makes five visits to the E-LEAP classroom over an eight-week periodduring the semester. In the first librarian visit, we--the faculty member

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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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #7218Raze the Silos: Using Digital Portfolios to Increase Integrative ThinkingDr. Lisa DuPree McNair, Virginia Tech Dr. Lisa DuPree McNair is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she also serves as Assistant Department Head of Graduate Education and co-Director of the VT Engineering Communication Center (VTECC). She received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Chicago and an M.A. and B.A. in English from the University of Georgia. Her research interests include interdis- ciplinary collaboration, design education, communication studies, identity theory and reflective

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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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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

little conception of how science, technology, and engineering are related to one another, and they do not clearly understand what engineers do and how engineers and scientists work together to create technology. (p. 15 – 16)Third, it caused the public to define engineering incorrectly: In the ITEA survey, respondents were asked to name the first word that comes to mind when they hear the word "technology." Approximately two-thirds said "computers." Moreover, when given a choice of two definitions for "technology," 63 percent chose "computers and the Internet," whereas 36 percent chose "changing the natural world to satisfy our needs."… A majority of survey respondents (59 percent) associated the word

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society (LEES) Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig J. Gunn, Michigan State University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

accomplished througha concerned engineering faculty speaking about communication, not preaching about it. Byinvolving students in the work that they themselves do, the faculty of every engineering departmentcan stimulate a massive movement in the production of improved engineering text. Along with thediscussion on the need for a greater awareness of how text is presented the assignments that aregiven by each instructor can allow the students to speak their minds through short one- minute writeups at the end of class, quick 1 or 2 sentences comments about previous lectures or assignments, ormemos. These short assignments combined with longer formal reports can provide the studentengineer with ample ground upon which to want to improve their

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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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #7845Embedding communication in an interdisciplinary project-based upper-levelengineering design courseMr. John C. Anderson, Northwestern University John C. Anderson is a lecturer in the Segal Design Institute, where he also serves as Instructional Technol- ogy Coordinator. He has taught courses in composition and engineering communication at Northwestern for more than fifteen years. He received his B.A. from the University of Michigan’s Residential College and his M.A. from Northwestern University.Dr. David W. Gatchell, Northwestern University Dr. David W. Gatchell is a clinical associate professor of

Conference Session

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

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna M Riley, Smith College

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

socially constructed andsubject to political constraint.11 The experience of being queer and the experience of beingdisabled are both lived through bodies and can be theorized using sociologies of embodiment.Heterosexism, homophobia, and ableism are political forces that construct bodies in particularways and thus these isms are enacted upon -- and experienced within – bodies, as is heterosexualand able-bodied privilege. Engineering, in its adoption of mind-body dualisms as part of itsconstruction of objectivity, is able to ignore these experiences or render them unrecognizable.Theories of embodiment in Queer and Disability Studies can confront this disembodiment anduncover how it supports heteronormative able-bodiedness.To understand how

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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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #6555Faculty Reflections on a STEAM-Inspired Interdisciplinary Studio CourseDr. Nicola Sochacka, University of Georgia Dr. Nicola Sochacka received her doctorate in Engineering Epistemologies from the University of Queens- land (Brisbane, Australia). She currently holds a research and teaching position at the University of Geor- gia where she transfers her expertise in qualitative research methodologies to a variety of research contexts at the intersection of social and technological issues. This includes engineering education projects con- cerned with transdisciplinary education, student reflection, and

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

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julie L Taylor, University of Utah

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

writing,communication, and teamwork through multidisciplinary collaboration.Multidisciplinary research can encompass many different disciplines (i.e., engineering, health,communication, English, etc.) and negotiating the mergers of colleges or it can also denote thecoming together of multidisciplinary education (e.g., electrical engineering, mechanicalengineering, civil engineering). The premise of this type of setting is unlike minds comingtogether for the possibility of a better-informed cause through the exercise of multidisciplinaryteams. It is important to explore the consequences and successes of multidisciplinarycollaboration because working together will be paramount for engineers working in a global(diverse) society.1 Much of their

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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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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #7526Body? What Body? Considering Ability and Disability in STEM DisciplinesProf. Amy E. Slaton, Drexel University Amy E. Slaton is a professor of history at Drexel University. Her most recent book is Race, Rigor and Selectivity in US Engineering: The History of an Occupational Color Line. She is currently writing on issues of equity surrounding high-tech workforce preparation. Page 23.247.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Body? What Body? Considering