Conference Session

Engineering & Our Global Society

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

: Instructions Provided to Students Self-Assessment. (10%; pass/fail) • The five learning objectives listed in the table below are drawn from the course syllabus. Assess the degree of development you achieved in each area through both informal and formal learning you did in this course. (The table simply repeats the outcomes outlined above. The most significant feature of its design is that it requires students to provide evidence to support their assessments.) Provide evidence to support each of your assessments. Your self-assessment will notaffect your course grade. The goals here are self-awareness and differentiating degrees ofdevelopment. Specifically, • Convey your assessment by filling out the

Conference Session

The Interdisciplinary Nature of Engineering

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mehmet Vurkaç, Oregon Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

and technology education.Pilot RunCourse DescriptionThe syllabus of the pilot course was centered on standard critical-thinking material. Thesetypically include cognitive science and psychology6, logic, epistemology, and philosophy ofscience. In addition, key concepts in Statistics7, experiment design, history of medicine, andcomputational techniques from machine learning and decision making were incorporated toforge connections to the students’ technical majors. These were, in turn, linked to the humanitiescontent through several means, including prompted written and oral inquiry into connections andparallels between contemporary and historical issues and their representation, the use of a6 Such as content from [19–25

Conference Session

Sustainability

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

being listed initially as special topicscourses for upper class engineers of all disciplines, with a recommended syllabus of basic skillsand concepts that can be tailored to the local curriculum. This will be paired with an annualwicked problem that is chosen by the larger community and shared by all schools. The samelarger community will provide professional expertise in relevant disciplines via online Page 24.1257.18courseware and mentoring throughout the semester. ESW has a history of operating courses atthe local level, and already operates a distributed community that the instances of this course canparticipate in.Improving engineering

Conference Session

Engineering as a Professional Calling

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph M LeDoux, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jacquelyn E. Borinski, Georgia Institute of Technology; Kimberly Danielle Haight, Georgia Institute of Technology ; Elaine Catherine McCormick, Georgia Institute of Technology; Alisha A.W. Waller, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #9632Engineering habits of the mind - an undergraduate course that asks: ”Whatis it that makes someone an engineer?” and ”What distinguishes engineersfrom other professionals?”Prof. Joseph M LeDoux, Georgia Institute of Technology Joe Le Doux is the Executive Director for Learning and Student Experience in the Department of Biomed- ical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. He has also previously served as the Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies for the Department. Dr. Le Doux’s research interests in engineering education focus on problem-solving, diagrammatic reasoning, and on the socio-cognitive

Conference Session

Teaching Communication I

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brad Jerald Henderson, University of California, Davis

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

ensure class consistencyand quality, in preparing the class syllabus, the instructor set a goal to deliver approximately75% existing, validated course materials balanced with 25% new, experimental course materials.The assessment process selected for the first trial activity was a Kirkpatrick Scale 2 pre- andpost- test measuring “delta-learning.” Here, specifically, the learning was tied to sentence-levelcorrectness, with the key metric being Andrea Lunsford’s well-known, published, and juried listof Twenty Common Errors (see Table 1 and corresponding source link in Results, next section).The instructor decided not to test for concision and clarity during the first trial, in order to avoidconfounding factors, but did so with the intention to add