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Engineering Communication II: Curricular Practices, Integrations, and Collaborations
Collection
2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
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Kali Lynn Morgan, Georgia Institute of Technology; Cristi L. Bell-Huff, Georgia Institute of Technology; Janece Shaffer, StoryReady LLC; Joseph M. LeDoux, Georgia Institute of Technology
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Diversity
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-direction. What people tend to remember, and the meaning they ascribe to thesememories, is influenced by the people they share their stories with: their parents, friends, andteachers. Based on this research literature, we thus incorporated story-driven learning into ourundergraduate curriculum.Another central tenet in, and intended outcome of, our curriculum is the development of anentrepreneurial mindset, as described by the Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network(KEEN). The ultimate goal of infusing entrepreneurially minded learning (EML) into ourundergraduate engineering curriculum is to not only develop our students’ engineering skill set,but to also habitualize the use of that skill set to create value for themselves, others, and societyas a
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Making Students Aware of Their World: Five Perspectives
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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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Cherrice Traver, Union College; Douglass Klein, Union College; Borjana Mikic, Smith College; Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Steven B. Shooter, Bucknell University; Ari W. Epstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; David Gillette, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society
evidence needed to motivate adoption at other institutions.The projects are organized into five groups: three that encompass standard phases ofundergraduate engineering, one that includes full four-year curriculum projects, and one thatbuilds faculty capacity to develop and teach using integrative activities. The projects address Page 22.725.8different parts of the undergraduate engineering education to systematically develop students’innovative capacities and entrepreneurial mindset. The outcomes of the projects are aligned withthe ABET professional outcomes c, d, f, g, h, i, and j, providing meaningful ways to addressthose aspects of EC 2000
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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 3
Collection
2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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Ramiro Jordan P.E., University of New Mexico; Indira Nair, Carnegie Mellon University; Kamil Agi, SensorComm Technologies Inc.; Donna M. Koechner, eNova Solutions, LLC
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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society
they wanted to look toward a future whereengineering no longer just encompasses traditional concepts. A sustainable and peaceful futurerequires a new engineering education mindset that integrates social, humanistic, health,environmental, financial, entrepreneurial, arts and many other disciplines for the good of allliving species. That is why the concept of Peace Engineering is a game changer.In addition to the academic communities from over the world, there was a significant amount ofparticipation, sponsorship and commitment from the industrial, non-profit, and governmentalsectors. In all there were over 500 participants for this three-day intensive conference. Peoplefrom 44 countries and 301 academic institutions gathered at this event
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Ethics, Mindfulness, and Reform During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Collection
2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
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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
Paper ID #34087Work in Progress: Post-Pandemic Opportunities to Re-Engineer EngineeringEducation: A Pragmatic-Futurist FrameworkDr. Shahrima Maharubin, Texas Tech University I am a lifelong transformer. My personal, educational journey has built my skills as an engineer, leader, collaborator, and communicator. My education, engineering problem-solving skills and entrepreneurial spirit have naturally pushed me toward need-based innovation. The global pandemic has exacerbated societal problems and inequality and heightened the necessity of need-based innovation in many areas. One significant area is education. My goal is to
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Innovation and Reflection
Collection
2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Beth Rieken, Stanford University; Mark Schar, Stanford University; Shauna Shapiro, Santa Clara University; Shannon Katherine Gilmartin, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University
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Diversity
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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society
Chrysler Corporation.At Stanford she has served a chair of the faculty senate, and recently served as Associate Vice Provost forGraduate Education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Exploring the relationship between mindfulness and innovation in engineering studentsAbstractAn open, receptive, and curious (mindful) mindset is often cited as important in innovation. Yet,engineering education typically focuses on narrow analytical training at the expense of fosteringexpansive thinking. To specifically explore the relationship between a mindful attitude (open,receptive, curious) and innovation, we examined the relationship between dispositionalmindfulness and innovation self
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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 5
Collection
2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Katie Barillas, Rowan University; Stephen Fernandez, Rowan University
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Sky’s the Limit: Drones for Social Good​ courseincludes critical aspects that relate to multiple engineering disciplines, which allows students toidentify the connections between drones and their particular engineering concentration. Thecourse is also multi-disciplinary and encourages critical social reflection. Students consider abroad range of applications of drones with the goal of promoting social good. The courseculminates in an entrepreneurial project that incorporates knowledge and skills from severalengineering disciplines in the context of engineering for social good.Research has found that female, Black, and/or Latinx engineering students are drawn to pursuingcareers that they identify as promoting social justice and a greater social
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Reflective & Critical Pedagogies
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Joe Tranquillo, Bucknell University
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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society
, can lead to better communication and trust. What emerges is a more healthy relationship.Students gain what they wanted all along - to learn what will help them later on. And faculty gainwhat they want - deeper respect from their students.The focus so far has been largely on skills and knowledge. But as we are exiting the knowledge-based world in which we were educated, attitudes and mindsets are being recognized as moreimportant factors of later success 33,34,35,36,37 . In the literature these attitudes include grit, curiosity,self-efficacy, the growth mindset and others. Whatever the makeup or nature of a mindset, mostpedagogical methods short circuit the development of these mindsets. To take one specific mindset,we know that students are
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Liberal Education Division Technical Session 11
Collection
2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Qin Zhu, Colorado School of Mines
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Diversity
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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society
derived from one culture but then decontextualized from this culture and traveled to othercultures. For instance, dominant images of American engineering education such as student-centered, active learning, outcome-based assessment, and the entrepreneurial mindset originatedin the United States but have become global forms and traveled to other places in the worldincluding China. The global nature of these dominant images also provides a methodologicaljustification that explains why we should learn the dominant images of American engineeringeducation before we discuss Chinese engineering education. A major goal of Chineseengineering educators is to respond to those globalized images of engineering educationtraveling from the United States. In
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Research on Diversification, Inclusion, and Empathy II
Collection
2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Justin L Hess, Purdue University - West Lafayette; Nicholas D. Fila, Purdue University
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Diversity
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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society
empathic design techniques with an open, user-centric mindset Service-Learning Working on real-world projects oriented towards helping others Communication Establishing and refining core communication skills, such as listening Collaboration Developing conflict resolution and team building skills Ethics Education Working through ethical issues by reasoning from stakeholder perspectivesIn the following sections, we provide an overview of key literature that has explored therespective contexts from Table 1, along with salient pedagogical strategies for inculcatingempathy with respect to each educational context.4.1 Design ThinkingTwo prominent leaders in empathy training for design thinking include the d.School fromStanford
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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 2
Collection
2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Madeline Polmear, University of Colorado, Boulder; Nathan E. Canney, CYS Structural Engineers Inc.; Chris Swan, Tufts University; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder
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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society
Engineering Education and Outreach at Tufts. His current engineering education research interests focus on community engagement, service-based projects and examining whether an entrepreneurial mindset can be used to further engi- neering education innovations. He also does research on the development of reuse strategies for waste materials.Dr. Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder Daniel W. Knight is the Program Assessment and Research Associate at Design Center (DC) Colorado in CU’s Department of Mechanical Engineering at the College of Engineering and Applied Science. He holds a B.A. in psychology from Louisiana State University, an M.S. degree in industrial/organizational psychology and a Ph.D. degree in
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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
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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering
students to a list of pre-selectedtopics, time was better spent covering wicked problems and analysis skills with greater depth andusing sustainability problems as topics for discussion in these contexts.Professional rather than academic mentors are most helpful Page 24.1257.16Perhaps because students entered with an academic mindset, professional mentors and real-worldexperiences were seen as much more valuable than information from more academic sourceswhen creating projects. Some of this separation could be resolved by asking academic guestspeakers to focus on more advanced topics, but for the purposes of the programs, findingadditional
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Design and Making
Collection
2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Sarah Summers, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Renee D. Rogge, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
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Diversity
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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society
Cs that contribute to an entrepreneurial mindset: Curiosity, Connections, and Creating Value.The course objectives state that, as a result of Introduction to Disability Studies, students will  Demonstrate curiosity about how people with disabilities (deafness, autism, paralysis, etc.) experience the world and how those experiences challenge us to redefine, reconceptualize, and re/design for disability. Students will be able to answer questions like: How does disability studies help us understand the perspectives, motivations, and needs of others?  Make connections between their STEM work and the field of disability studies. Students will be able to answer questions like: How has science and technology
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Sociotechnical Thinking II: Interpretation, Curricular Practices, and Structural Change
Collection
2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors
Jenn Stroud Rossmann, Lafayette College; Kristen L. Sanford P.E., Lafayette College; Benjamin Cohen, Lafayette College
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Diversity
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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society
ofentrepreneurship, with alumni comparing their AB engineering classes to the BS engineeringscience classes they took: “The BS courses were more academically rigorous, while the ABcourses involved more creativity and independent problem-solving.” Alumni also described aparticular entrepreneurial mindset cultivated by the program: “There are two kinds of creativity, the Einstein version to see something in nothing; few of us have that ability, certainly not I, and the creativity that comes from seeing how things in one place can become something else in a different place, a different market, a different use, a new service or product. This kind of creativity requires
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Imagining and Reimagining Engineering Education as a Dynamic System
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Donna M. Riley, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Alan Cheville, Bucknell University; Jennifer Karlin, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Thomas A. De Pree, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Diversity
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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society
found in France, the U.S. educational system clearly drawssignificantly on entrepreneurial energies, going back well before the present neoliberal era. Onthe other hand, Cold War science policy has also contributed to the diversity of U.S. academicinstitutions (Geiger 1993, 2015). While this diversity has allowed the U.S. educational system tobe highly productive in generating a highly versatile and skilled workforce as well as newknowledge, this can also frustrate efforts to craft uniform visions and standards withinengineering education. Even when new standards are established and enforced, the entrenchedpatterns of institutional diversity will often harbor discontent with the status quo, leading tofurther rounds of reform.The background
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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
, particularly in engineering departmentswhere general education courses have never been offered. The process of developing the minorand assessing its core courses is described more fully in another research project presented atASEE 20175. The Innovation Pathways Minor (IPM) is for students who want to develop as innovatorsin an interdisciplinary context. This minor provides a core sequence of classes with opportunitiesto practice these skills, as well as elective credits for students to pursue their personal interests.This minor also fills a unique niche by helping students expand their entrepreneurial ideasthrough customer discovery and business model activities. At the end of the minor, students willhave a capstone opportunity to unite their
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Sociotechnical Thinking II: Interpretation, Curricular Practices, and Structural Change
Collection
2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
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Melissa C Kenny, Wake Forest University; Olga Pierrakos, Wake Forest University ; Monique O'Connell, Wake Forest University
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Diversity
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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society
reports simply called for even more modernengineers.Figure 1: A visual depiction of new competencies needed by engineers upon review of theGrinter Report (1995) and the Vision of the Engineer of 2020 Reports (2004 and 2005).Even from an accreditation perspective, in 1997, ABET released Engineering Criteria 2000which made it clear that engineering education needed to include these global, societal,economic, and environmental mindsets in future engineers [4]. The incorporation of what arecommonly termed “soft skills” in engineering curriculum, including teamwork, communication,ethics, and social consciousness, were soon considered a necessity. Engineering coursework hadalready garnered a reputation as being content-heavy, so innovative and unique
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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 7
Collection
2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Kenneth W. Van Treuren, Baylor University; William M. Jordan P.E., Baylor University
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Diversity
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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society
advice from an industry professional. This should be part of professionaldevelopment.Other topics emphasized at Baylor University are creativity, connections and creating value.Baylor University is part of the Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN). KEEN is“a national partnership of universities with the shared mission to graduate engineers with anentrepreneurial mindset so they can create personal, economic, and societal value through alifetime of meaningful work” [28]. This is accomplished by incorporating entrepreneuriallyminded learning (EML) into the classroom, instilling curiosity, connections, and creating valuein the students. What results is a mindset and skillset which prepares Baylor University studentsto be competitive in
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Learning Outcomes and Pedagogical Strategies: Problems of Alignment
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Madeline Polmear, University of Colorado, Boulder; Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder; Nathan E. Canney, CYS Structural Engineers Inc.; Chris Swan, Tufts University
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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society
Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life and the Center for Engineering Education and Outreach at Tufts. His current engineering education research interests focus on community engagement, service-based projects and examining whether an entrepreneurial mindset can be used to further engineering education innovations. He also does research on the development of reuse strategies for waste materials. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Faculty Perceptions of the Most Effective Settings and Approaches for Educating Engineering and Computing Students About Ethics and Societal ImpactsAbstractTeaching students about ethical responsibilities and the societal
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Imagining and Reimagining Engineering Education as a Dynamic System
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Jennifer Karlin, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Rebecca A. Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Cheryl Allendoerfer, University of Washington; Dan Ewert, Anderson Industries; Ronald R. Ulseth, Itasca Community College
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Rapids, MN. He was instrumen- tal in growing the Itasca program from 10 students in 1992 to 160 students in 2010. In 2009, he worked with a national development team of engineering educators to develop the 100% PBL curriculum used in the Iron Range model. He has successfully acquired and managed over $10 million in educational grants including as PI on 7 grants from NSF. He has been in the classroom, teaching more than 20 credits per year to engineering students for more than 25 years. His specific areas of expertise are in active learning, faculty development, and learning community development. He has been awarded the 2012 Progress Min- nesota award, 2012 Labovitz Entrepreneurialism award, and 2012 Innovator of the
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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 6
Collection
2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Benjamin David Lutz, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Nathan E. Canney, CYS Structural Engineers Inc.; Samantha Ruth Brunhaver, Arizona State University
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Diversity
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Colorado Boulder.Dr. Samantha Ruth Brunhaver, Arizona State University Dr. Samantha R. Brunhaver is an Assistant Professor within The Polytechnic School, one of six schools in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. She is a mixed-methods researcher with focus on the preparation and pathways of engineering students. Her specific research interests include engineering student persistence and career decision-making, early career engineering practice, faculty pedagogical risk-taking, and entrepreneurial mindset. She completed her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering at Northeastern University and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. Prior to ASU, she worked as an
Conference Session
Myths About Gender and Race
Collection
2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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Carroll Suzanne Seron, University of California, Irvine; Erin A. Cech, University of California, San Diego; Susan S. Silbey, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Brian Rubineau, Cornell University
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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Minorities in Engineering, Women in Engineering
Page 22.1719.2panel (n=100), bi-monthly diary submissions from a sub-sample of participants (n=41) as well asclass observations and interviews with faculty and administrators at the four sites. The findingsreported here draw from women‟s diary submissions over the course of data collection. Wedescribe the methodology employed in this phase of data collection and analysis in greater detailin the methods section.Our close reading of women‟s diaries shows that they hold contradictory conceptions of theiridentity as engineering students, on the one hand, and as young women, on the other. In reactionto experiences in the classroom, worksites, and informal encounters with peers, these youngwomen point out the limitations of an engineer‟s mindset
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Social Justice, Social Responsibility, and Critical Pedagogies
Collection
2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Yanna Lambrinidou, Virginia Tech; Nathan E. Canney, Seattle University
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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society
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Sociotechnical Thinking I: Classroom Experiences, Identity, and Theory
Collection
2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
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Stephanie Claussen, San Francisco State Unviersity; Janet Y Tsai, University of Colorado Boulder; Kathryn Johnson, Colorado School of Mines; Jenifer Blacklock, University of Colorado Boulder; Jon A. Leydens, Colorado School of Mines
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private firms and engineers who are entrepreneurial and trying to create new things. I don't think we can, but this is getting to something bigger, but the crisis with climate change is too big for us to wait for politicians to lead the charge, and engineers are a big part of the private industry that can put us on the right path. That was my problem with that statement. (00:46:23)Dakota responded that, “you don’t hire an engineer to pass a law, you hire an engineer toaccomplish a task, and it’s not the engineer’s responsibility to decide if it’s right or wrong, theywere hired to do a job” (00:47:06). Cleopatra replied, “…for each individual engineer as ahuman being with a life's work to think about, what do you want to
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Professional Formation and Career Experiences
Collection
2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
Authors
Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado Boulder; Jake Walker Lewis; Madeline Polmear, University of Florida; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado Boulder; Chris Swan, Tufts University
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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society
engineering education. His current duties include assessment, team development, outreach and education research for DC Col- orado’s hands-on initiatives.Dr. Chris Swan, Tufts University Chris Swan is Dean of Undergraduate Education for the School of Engineering and an associate pro- fessor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering department at Tufts University. He has additional appointments in the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life and the Center for Engineering Education and Outreach at Tufts. His current engineering education research interests focus on community engage- ment, service-based projects and examining whether an entrepreneurial mindset can be used to further engineering education innovations. He
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Social Responsibility and Social Justice II: From Classroom to Community
Collection
2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Andrew Katz, Virginia Tech
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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society
and the existence of marketplaces while simultaneously ceding control of the marketplaceto private interests.2 The term traces its roots back to 1938 at the Colloque Walter Lippman inParis, France, though several decades passed before it gained significant political influence (p.31).3 David Harvey has offered a nuanced definition of neoliberalism: a theory of political economic practices proposing that human well-being can best be advanced by the maximization of entrepreneurial freedoms within an institutional framework characterized by private property rights, individual liberty, unencumbered markets, and free trade.” (p. 22)2Essentially, it is an amalgamation of neoclassical economic theory and liberal
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Understanding Students' Narratives of Grand Challenges Scholars Program as a Nexus Between Liberal and STEM Education
Collection
2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Yevgeniya V. Zastavker, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Abigail M Fry, Olin College of Engineering; Holly Nguyen; Gretchen Rice, Olin College; Sydney Ross, Lawrence Technological University; Sebastien Zenzo Selarque, Rochester Institute of Technology (CET); Bridgit Spies; Margarite Vaccaro; Jason Barrett, Lawrence Technological University; Sarah Aileen Brownell, Rochester Institute of Technology; Matthew Marshall, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Karen Kashmanian Oates, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; David I. Spanagel, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; James J. Winebrake, Rochester Institute of Technology; Alison Wood, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
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institutional priorities and culture.This framework aspires to serve as a holistic scaffolding for educating next generation globalcitizens, not just next generation engineers. As the NAE states, “addressing the NAE GrandChallenges will require the efforts and talents of many graduates educated in a range ofengineering and non-engineering disciplines.” As such, “the goal of each institutional [GCSP] isto prepare students for the multicultural, multidisciplinary, entrepreneurial, socially consciousglobal engagement needed for 21st century engineering” [3].It has been a decade since the NAE’s seminal report and the inaugural Summit on the NAEGrand Challenges for Engineering at Duke University, where the NAE moved to endorse theGCSP as an educational