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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jay Patrick McCormack, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Steven W. Beyerlein, University of Idaho, Moscow; Ashley Ater Kranov, Washington State University; Patrick D. Pedrow P.E., Washington State University; Edwin R. Schmeckpeper, Norwich University

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a sample scenarioabout modern challenges in managing electronic waste. Feedback from project advisory boardmembers are integrated in this discussion.BackgroundEngineering programs have an explicit need to define, teach and measure professional skillssince their introduction by ABET evaluation criteria for engineering programs in 2000. Theseskills include ability to function on multidisciplinary teams (3d), understanding of professionaland ethical responsibility (3f), ability to communicate effectively (3g), understanding of theimpact of engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and cultural/societalcontexts (3h), recognition of and ability to engage in life-long learning (3i), and knowledge ofcontemporary issues (3j). A well

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Engineering as a Professional Calling

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Qin Zhu, Purdue University; Brent K Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jian Yuan, Beihang University

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Paper ID #8896Engineering Education Policymaking in Cross-National Context: A CriticalAnalysis of Engineering Education Accreditation in ChinaQin Zhu, Purdue University Qin Zhu is a PhD student in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. His main re- search interests include global/comparative/international engineering education, engineering education policy, and engineering ethics. He received his BS degree in material sciences and engineering and first PhD degree in philosophy of science and technology (engineering ethics) both from Dalian University of Technology, China. His first PhD dissertation on

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Engineering & Our Global Society

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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wenjuan wang, Beihang University ; Ming Li, Beihang University; Brent K Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Qin Zhu, Purdue University; Jian Yuan, Beihang University; Qing Lei, Beihang University

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PhD student in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. His main re- search interests include global/comparative/international engineering education, engineering education policy, and engineering ethics. He received his BS degree in material sciences and engineering and first PhD degree in philosophy of science and technology (engineering ethics) both from Dalian University of Technology, China. His first PhD dissertation on improving the practical effectiveness of engineering ethics that draws on theories in hermeneutics, practical philosophy, and discourse ethics has recently been awarded the ”Outstanding Dissertation Award” in Liaoning Province, China.Jian Yuan, Beihang University Jian YUAN is a

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The Interdisciplinary Nature of Engineering

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Benjamin Cohen, Lafayette College; Jenn Stroud Rossmann, Lafayette College; Kristen L. Sanford Bernhardt, Lafayette College

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

the engineer as an appliedscientist/mathematician working outside of society is outdated.Over the last several decades engineering leaders have emphasized the role of the engineer insociety through documents such as the National Academy of Engineering’s Engineer of 20201,the American Society of Civil Engineers’ Body of Knowledge2, and ABET’s EngineeringChange report on the effects of the EC2000 accreditation criteria3. Further, increasing concernsabout sustainability, as evidenced by these documents as well as recent changes to engineeringcodes of ethics, require engineers to understand themselves and their work as existing within thesocial, environmental, and economic context of the present and the future.However, as we hear these calls for

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Engineering & Our Global Society

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bhavna Hariharan, Stanford University

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: Designing for the Future of the Field convey it succinctly: “Becauseengineers’ work directly affects the world, engineers must be able and willing to thinkabout their ethical responsibility for the consequences of their inventions in anincreasingly interlinked world environment”5.In the centennial issue of the Journal of Engineering Education (Jan 2011), an essay onhow to engage future engineers suggests, “engineering education has a funny, maybeeven neglectful relationship to people” and there is a call to re-imagine engineeringeducation as something more “socio-technical”6. Rigorous engineering educationresearch is needed to advance fundamental understanding of the nature of today’sincreasingly socio-technical engineering work, as well as

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Engineering as a Professional Calling

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Julia D Thompson, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Mel Chua, Purdue University; Cole Hatfield Joslyn, Purdue University

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interests include engineering as a socially just profession in service to humanity and holistic ap- proaches to engineering education such as ethics of care, humanistic education, and spirituality. He holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering and a M.Ed. specializing in math education and has worked as an engi- neer, a pastor, and a high school math teacher. Page 24.491.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Engineering Education as a Spiritual VocationAbstractSpirituality and engineering education are often kept in separate compartments of our lives. Theymay slip

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Integrating Engineering & Liberal Education

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dara R. Fisher, Harvard University; Aikaterini Bagiati, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Sanjay E. Sarma, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

“soft” skill development inundergraduate engineers3. Many of these programs were designed to address the six“professional” skills of the ABET Engineering Criteria 2000 (EC2000) Criterion 3 Outcomes,which include teamwork, ethics, communication, understanding of engineering impacts, passionfor life-long learning, and knowledge of contemporary issues2. Page 24.623.2While many curricular programs can help engineering undergraduates to develop these skills andattributes, co-curricular activities also present a unique opportunity for students to develop these“professional” learning outcomes and other “soft” skills related to engineering education

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The Interdisciplinary Nature of Engineering

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alan Chong, University of Toronto; Lydia Wilkinson, University of Toronto; Deborah Tihanyi, University of Toronto

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

processes of the humanities and social sciences d. Oral and written communications e. Health and safety f. Professional ethics, equity and law g. Sustainable development 8 Page 24.802.3Across the Faculty, the allotment of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) electives fulfillingthe complementary studies requirement ranges by department from two to four half creditcourses.Our faculty’s engineering calendar provides a fairly restrained argument for the benefits ofimmersion in the liberal arts, explaining that: “Engineers’ colleagues frequently have abackground in the humanities and

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Sustainability

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mary Katherine Watson, The Citadel; Joshua Pelkey, AirWatch; Michael Owen Rodgers, Georgia Institute of Technology; Caroline R. Noyes, Georgia Institute of Technology

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structure, and Constructed a cohesive, internally consistent statementAbstract elements of the structure are seen to be applicable in about sustainability by relating two or more concrete other situations (i.e. transferable or generalizable). and/or abstract things related to sustainability, and provided evidence of critical thinking, ethical judgment, consideration of context or creative/original thinking relevant to sustainability

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Integrating Engineering & Liberal Education

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Donna M. Riley, Smith College

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Policy, 7(4):427-446.17. Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group (1992). Evidence-based medicine. A new approach to teaching the practice of medicine. JAMA, 268 (17): 2420–2425.18. Sackett, D.L., Rosenberg, W.M.C., Muir, G.J.A., Haynes, R.B., and Richardson, W.S. (1996). Evidence based medicine: what it is and what it isn't. British Medical Journal, 312:71-2.19. Upshur, R.E.G., VanDenKerkhof, E.G., and Goel, V. (2001). Meaning and measurement: an inclusive model of evidence in health care. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 7(2):91-96.20. Rogers, W.A. (2004). Evidence based medicine and justice: a framework for looking at the impact of EBM upon vulnerable or disadvantaged groups. Journal of Medical Ethics; 30:141-145.21

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Integrating Engineering & Liberal Education

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Pete Hylton, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Wendy Otoupal-Hylton, IUPUI

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from alist of social sciences classes, one from a list of arts and humanities classes, and one from a listof cultural understanding classes, in addition to one course each in English composition, speech,and ethics, all taught by faculty from outside of E&T. In many cases, however, there still existsa lack of interaction between engineering faculty and faculty from the School of LA. This hasnot stopped one particular program from endeavoring to build new bridges and open doors thathave traditionally been closed.For example, both E&T and LA have faculty members who are heavily involved in theMotorsports Industry. When E&T’s relatively new Motorsports Engineering Bachelor ofScience degree program was being developed, one of the

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kamarza Mulia, Chemical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Indonesia; Elsa Krisanti, Chemical Engineering Department, Universitas Indonesia

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problems 7. Able to apply thermodynamic concepts in solving chemical engineering problems 8. Able to apply concepts of transport phenomena in solving chemical engineering problems 9. Able to apply the concepts of chemical reaction engineering 10. Able to use modern chemical engineering tools 11. Able to conducts experiments and analyze the data obtained 12. Able to design components, systems, processes, and products related to chemical engineering profession with careful consideration of the engineering, economic, social, health and safety, energy, environment, sustainability, and ethics aspects 13. Able to provide solutions to various problems occurred wherever they live and work 14. Able to identify the kind of entrepreneurial

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Integrating Engineering & Liberal Education

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brent K. Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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dualism” has also been used by Faulkner and others todescribe how the technical aspects of engineering are often viewed as both superior to andseparable from social dimensions.3 Further worth noting is Cech and Sherick’s discussion of howengineering education perpetuates such schisms by reinforcing historically dominant – yetincreasingly antiquated – images of the profession’s epistemological, ethical, and ontologicalfoundations. This hegemonic reproduction impedes efforts to transform engineering faculty, Page 24.1265.2courses, curricula, and culture in ways that might breach the boundaries between the field’stechnical core and the actual

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Critical Thinking, Leadership, and Creativity

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Justin L. Hess, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Johannes Strobel, Texas A&M University; Rui Pan, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Carrie A. Wachter Morris, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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24.991.12 its dysfunction. Nature Publishing Group, 7, 942-951.19. Davis, M. H. (1996). Empathy: A Social Psychological Approach. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.20. Oxley, J. C. (2011). The Moral Dimensions of Empathy: Limits and Applications in Ethical Theory and Practice. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.21. Decety, J., & Jackson, P. L. (2006). A social-neuroscience perspective on empathy. Current directions in psychological science, 15(2), 54-58.22. Levenson, R. W., & Ruef, A. M. (1992). Empathy: a physiological substrate. Journal of personality and social psychology, 63(2), 234-246.23. Smith, A. (1759/1976). The Theory of the Moral Sentiments. Oxford: Clarendon Press.24. Köhler, W. (1929). Gestalt

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Engineering & Our Global Society

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Zhihui Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Xiaofeng Tang, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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social sciences were gradually recovered, yet several newproblems emerged.To begin with, social structures and ethics have been transformed radically incontemporary China. The instrumental view of education was not checked butamplified, as the whole society focused on the central task of economic construction.Engineering education--in addition to its consistent politicization--is also greatlyreshaped by commercialization, much like its counterpart in the U.S.12The identity of Page 24.1218.12many universities was recast as quasi-corporations, whose obligation was to produceprofit for the stakeholders rather than to create and advance knowledge for the

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Sustainability

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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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(k) sustainability-related problems survey6 Become conscious of the ethical and professional Pre-post (f), (j) responsibilities of engineers in a global, social, and survey environmental context Page 24.1257.7MethodsIn this section we explain how concept maps, design reviews, and the pre-post tests are designedto assess the above stated learning goals. Themes from the course were developed based on aholistic analysis of students’ responses on design reviews, surveys, concept maps, a debriefsession during the final class session, faculty’s observations throughout the course

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Critical Thinking, Leadership, and Creativity

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael L. Jones, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto

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) can include both written rulesand unwritten norms that govern interaction. These are necessary to mediate social orderand help regulate larger questions of justice, ethics, and morality. Division of laboracknowledges that subjects require the assistance of others to realize their goals and thatpower relations among subjects are often unequal.Identifying  and  Negotiating  Contradictions   While CHAT can be helpful in describing the component forces influencinghuman activity, it may be most useful in highlighting situations where these forces act incontradiction to each other [24]. The concept of contradiction in CHAT highlights pointsof tension, potentially creating transformative changes in activity patterns[12]. Engestromhighlighted

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Teaching Communication II

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jodi F. Prosise, St. Ambrose University; Hank Yochum, Sweet Briar College

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of our efforts toenhance graduates’ skills in communication, multidisciplinary teamwork, lifelong learning, andawareness of social and ethical considerations in addition to a firm grasp of science,mathematics, and engineering fundamentals. Page 24.873.7Future directions may include comparison of student performance in Senior Capstoneexperiences with or without participating in this model of long-distance collaboration.Figure 3: Student outcome assessment results. Percentage of students rating their perception of their ability for each outcome for one year without collaboration (2012) and one year with collaboration (2013). Each graph is

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Integration of Engineering and Other Disciplines (Including Liberal Arts)

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anneliese Watt, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Scott Kirkpatrick, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Ashley Bernal, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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twelve credit experience.Table 1- Course Objectives for the Summer Grand Challenge ProgramRH330 • Analyzing contexts, audiences, and genres to determine how they influence communication • Crafting documents to meet the demands and constraints of professional situations • Integrating all stages of the writing process, ethically and persuasively, to respond to technical contexts and audiences—from planning, researching and drafting to designing, revising and editing • Collaborating effectively within and across teams with overlapping interestsME497 • Provide strategies and practice for design development • Applying a systems approach

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Sustainability

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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James E. Wilcox , Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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to demonstrate a rudimentary ability to move beyond “opinions” towards informed judgment that is based in facts, sound reasoning, and active Page 24.929.2 reflection. 3) Demonstrated progress in the basic technical proficiencies of higher education, including reading, writing, oral and visual presentation, independent study, teamwork, and seminar-style conversation. 4) Clear evidence of thoughtful reflections about your own learning process as related to your transition to college.In terms of course content, in the year in which assessment data was collected, the course beganwith a focus on environmental ethics

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The Interdisciplinary Nature of Engineering

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Xiaofeng Tang, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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social dimensions of engineering using thelanguage of social sciences.Awareness of social impacts is the primary goal for ethical education of engineers at HMC.According to the mission statement of HMC, the college “seeks to educate engineers, scientists,and mathematicians well versed in all of these areas and in the humanities and the social sciencesso that they may assume leadership in their fields with a clear understanding of the impact oftheir work on society.”11 This mission statement suggests the dominant framework for teachingthe relation between engineering and society at HMC. In the Engineering Clinic, every team wasrequired to present the social implications of its project in a design review. Economy seemed tobe the most popular field

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Canek Moises Luna Phillips, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Conference Session

Teaching Communication I

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rebecca R Essig, Purdue University; Cary David Troy, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Brent K Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Josh Boyd, Purdue University; Natascha Trellinger Buswell, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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demonstrate non-technical student outcomes, including those pertaining to ethics,global issues, economics, and understanding of environmental and societal contexts.2When the objective is to improve student writing skills (“learning to write”), an integrated, orwriting across the curriculum (WAC) approach to teaching technical writing is consideredfavorable over the alternative of isolated, stand-alone communication courses that oftendecontextualize writing.3-4 In the integrated approach, communication instruction and practice isdistributed throughout the curriculum and embedded in technical courses, well beyond thestandard inclusion of laboratory reports in laboratory classes. Such an approach also maximallyleverages the writing process towards the

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Critical Thinking, Leadership, and Creativity

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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, other researchhas demonstrated that engineering educators have historically been able to maintain somedistance from the immediate political economic context in charting a course for engineeringeducation. We would certainly encourage all engineering educators, and not just those affiliatedwith our division, to consider the broader social and ethical foundations for engineeringeducation that go beyond the most immediate political and industrial (and even professional)interests.Finally, based on a very helpful suggestion made by one of the reviewers, I leave the reader with“some challenges for personal reflection and action” that also emerge out of this story about PSI.Being less connected one to another, they are presented in bullet form. And

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The Interdisciplinary Nature of Engineering

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mehmet Vurkaç, Oregon Institute of Technology

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society. He also places thisunderstanding in the context of ABET criterion (b), “an ability to design and conductexperiments, analyze and interpret data” [6, p. 2], in that such ability is part of the scientificmethod, which has its foundations in the philosophy of science, and which together alsoconstitute one of the primary components of the course design for IDM and SMR.Splitt [7] interprets the demand on engineers as the “solution of problems involving humanvalues, attitudes, and behavior, as well as the interrelationships and dynamics of social, political,environmental, and economic systems on a global basis” [7, p. 182], restated in the conclusion interms of “problems involving … world cultures, religions, ethics, and economics” and