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Learning Outcomes and Pedagogical Strategies: Problems of Alignment

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard Melnyk, United States Military Academy; Brian J. Novoselich, United States Military Academy; Gregory Martin Freisinger, United States Military Academy

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Current strategic plan for Georgia Institute of Plan and Vision Technology. Olin College Curricular Vision A guiding document for the development of Olin College curriculum. The purpose of this examination was to discover mandates within the documents that wouldfavor an andragogical teaching and learning approach. Expanding the bounds of this studybeyond a single engineering discipline and institution provides a richer context for theincorporation of andragogy into the greater field of engineering education. For the analyses, twoof the authors individually coded each document for text related to the five andragogicalassumptions. These instances were then evaluated to

Conference Session

Seeking Resilience and Learning to Thrive Through Engineering Education

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Claudio Cesar Silva de Freitas, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Zachary James Beyer, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Hassan Ali Al Yagoub, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jennifer Deboer, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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university-level engineering [31]. Given the context of theclassroom in the camp, as well as the challenge of teaching engineering in a politicallycomplicated and highly regulated environment, we followed a course methodology based onrecent studies about education in fragile contexts and previous experience from the researchers inteaching engineering [32] [33] [34]. Also, we designed our intended outcomes, content,assessment, and pedagogy with the goal of fostering social responsibility so that the coursewould be meaningful and applicable to students’ local community. For example, we consideredexisting engineering problems in the community and pedagogical constraints in the classroom aspart of our course planning based on democratic basis

Conference Session

Design, Assessment, and Redesign of Writing Instruction for Engineers

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rebecca Bercich, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Sarah Summers, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Phillip Cornwell, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; James Mayhew, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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) informal and formal reports2) memos3) oral presentations4) technical drawings5) otherThe “other” category is a catch-all for uncommon or less significant forms of TC such as briefpresentations, memos written from a template, lab books, and brochures. These categoriesallowed us to organize the information collected during the interviews into a single figure basedon a plan of study flow chart that has been used in the ME department for many years. Figure 1shows this flow chart in which each of the TC categories is assigned a color. The colored band(s)contained in a course box indicate which types of TC are required within that course. A half bandin a course box indicates that this type of TC is required by some instructors but not others. Aswe move

Conference Session

Maps, Metaphors, Tweets, and Drafts

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Judy Randi, University of New Haven; Ronald S. Harichandran, University of New Haven; Joseph A. Levert P.E., University of New Haven; Bijan Karimi, University of New Haven

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actual proposalreview experience, three reviewers (the Senior Design engineering instructor, the writinginstructor, and the external sponsor) for each of the six teams were invited to read the proposaldraft and provide qualitative feedback in response to four guiding questions: (1) How thoroughlydoes the proposal address the client’s needs and design criteria/constraints? (2) Is the proposalsufficiently persuasive to convince the client/sponsor that the team has a sound plan for carryingout the work, as well as the capability to succeed in that work? (3) How well is the proposalwritten and organized? (4) Does the proposal display a high level of professional appearance andattention to detail? These questions correspond to the Proposal Grading

Conference Session

Design, Assessment, and Redesign of Writing Instruction for Engineers

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jessica Livingston, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Sarah Summers, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Mary Jane Szabo, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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resourceful, knowledgeable learners, strategic, goal-directed learners, andpurposeful, motivated learners: “A key premise of UDL is that a curriculum should includealternatives to make it accessible and applicable to students with different backgrounds, learningstyles, abilities, and disabilities and to minimize the need for assistive technology” [4]. ​Thefollowing statements explain each of the three main principles of the UDL framework: ● Principle 1 suggests representing information in multiple ways. For example, including video lectures with built in navigation through slides or captions. ● Principle 2 recommends integrating options for planning and composition. For example, providing varied forms of graphic organizers

Conference Session

Embedding Sociotechnical Systems Thinking II

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anne-marie Nickel, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Jennifer Kelso Farrell, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Alicia Domack, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Gina Elizabeth Mazzone, Milwaukee School of Engineering

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froman asychronistic reading and writing assignment to an interactive, experiential-learning activity.The challenges related to collaborating across departments and associated with measuringstudent learning will be discussed as well as planned future work in this collaboration.Introduction Two faculty from different departments, science and humanities, realized that throughoutboth of their very different courses, was the common theme of the societal impacts of newtechnologies. The courses were both engineering electives, one a science fiction course and theother a course on nanotechnology. Initial discussions uncovered another area of commonality.The nanotechnology course required students to read a science fiction novel on

Conference Session

Imagining Others, Defining Self Through Consideration of Ethical and Social Implications

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Idalis Villanueva, Utah State University; Louis S. Nadelson, Colorado Mesa University; Jana Bouwma-Gearhart; Katherine L. Youmans, Utah State University; Sarah Lanci, Colorado Mesa University; Adam Lenz, Oregon State University

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. One course had the central focusto help engineering students develop professional skills based upon communication while theother course aimed to help underrepresented women in engineering to understand and plan forcareers in engineering. Both cases are uniquely positioned to help engineering educationresearchers to understand how professionally-focused and career-planning engineeringcourses could guide students’ perceptions about engineering. A sub-element of this work wasto understand if there were any time-dependent (e.g., freshmen versus junior) or gender-dependent differences in their perceptions. Finally, we aimed to understand if the instructors’perception of engineering varied or paralleled their students’ perceptions about the

Conference Session

Embedding Sociotechnical Systems Thinking II

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeffrey C. Evans P.E., Bucknell University

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, Parliament, 10 Downing Street. Daily life Homes, recreation (baths), villasSome discussion of context, planning, organization and logistics is warranted althoughnot the principle purpose of this paper. This course was developed by a single facultymember (the author). Academic content and expertise is added to the course through theparticipation of colleagues (e.g. Dr. Nicholas James, Professor of Urban Anthropology atCambridge during our site visit to Cambridge and Dr. Andrew Heath, Professor of CivilEngineering at the University of Bath) and choice of local (paid) guides. This course isthe core, or common course for our Spring 2018 Bucknell-in-London program andprovides a common experience for all fourteen enrolled students. Recruiting

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Embedding Sociotechnical Systems Thinking II

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amber Genau, University of Alabama at Birmingham; Andre Millard, University of Alabama at Birmingham

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experience of teaching it for the first time during the 2017-2018 academic year, and plans for the future.IntroductionIn 1997, ABET rolled out the Engineering Criteria 2000 (EC2000), which introduced for the firsttime an understanding of social context as a requirement for engineering education. This is anacknowledgement that engineering practice does not occur in a vacuum, but must be responsiveto the various economic, political, and cultural forces around it. In the years since EC2000,many engineering programs have struggled to meet this criteria in a meaningful way [1]. Thereasons are primarily two-fold. First, the addition of so-called “soft skills” into the curriculum inno way reduces the amount of technical content that is also necessary to

Conference Session

Embedding Sociotechnical Systems Thinking I

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jon A. Leydens, Colorado School of Mines; Kathryn Johnson, Colorado School of Mines; Stephanie Claussen, Colorado School of Mines; Jenifer Blacklock, University of Colorado, Boulder; Barbara M. Moskal, Texas Tech University; Olivia Cordova, Colorado School of Mines

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amount of ambiguity, necessary collaboration, sociotechnical complexity, andpersuasion needed: Many [of the interviewed engineers] felt frustrated because they did not think that their jobs provided them with enough technical challenges. Others felt frustrated because they thought that a different career choice might have led to a job that would enable them to make more use of the advanced technical subjects they had studied in their university courses. Many of them were actually planning to leave their career in engineering. In our research, we found that more experienced engineers, those who had stuck with it for a decade or more, had mostly realized that the real intellectual challenges in engineering

Conference Session

Seeking Resilience and Learning to Thrive Through Engineering Education

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Karin Jensen, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Kelly J. Cross, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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disciplines and student groups. The survey also included an open-ended responsecomponent that will also be analyzed for themes and in the context of the survey subscale results.We also plan to use the quantitative survey data to identify candidates for interviews to furtherunderstand the relationship of stress, engineering identity, and engineering culture. Interviewswill allow participants to describe their individual experiences and allow us to identify commonthemes and triggers of student stress, anxiety, and depression as related to being an engineeringstudent.Ultimately, the results of the study will produce recommendations for faculty, advisors, andadministrators, who directly impact the climate and reputation of engineering programs

Conference Session

Undergraduate Peer Educators: Mentoring, Observing, Learning

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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ASEE Board of Directors

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instructor is progressively scaling up the course toaccommodate larger numbers of students than what an instructor could handle in traditionaltechnical writing courses. In the fall 2017 semester, the instructor accommodated 50 students intwo sections, and in the spring 2018 semester, the instructor allowed that number to rise 75students across two sections. For the fall 2018 semester, the plan is to accommodate 100 studentsacross two sections. To assist the instructor in the mentoring and grading, the course uses a teamof undergraduate mentors. These undergraduates have excelled in the engineering writing course. While technical writing courses such as at the University of Texas at Austin [3] andengineering courses such as in the Mechanical

Conference Session

Imagining Others, Defining Self Through Consideration of Ethical and Social Implications

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tina Lee, University of Wisconsin-Stout; Devin R. Berg, University of Wisconsin-Stout; Elizabeth A. Buchanan, University of Wisconsin-Stout

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component.Field visit with EWB Project TeamOriginally, the ethnographic component of our project was envisioned as following our localchapter through an entire project cycle. We planned to travel with the EWB team, sit in oncommunity conversations, and conduct participation observation in chapter meetings, work, andplanning sessions. The chapter identified for this portion has, for a variety of reasons, not beenable to make progress on their project, but we were able to find another chapter to travel with.However, we have not been able to conduct participant observation during ongoing chapteractivities due to geographical distance. Instead, ongoing “check-ins” with chapter leadership havebeen conducted. In January of 2017, Dr. Tina Lee and a student

Conference Session

Maps, Metaphors, Tweets, and Drafts

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jared David Berezin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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“altering the melody” or“creating a parallel structure,” while moments of agreement might be described as“harmonizing” with the other “dancer” or “partner,” as opposed to agreeing with an “opponent.”As referenced in section 4.3 of this paper, engineers think and express themselves in terms ofwar-based metaphors, as product designers communicate how they plan to target a specificdemographic, and capture a percentage of those target users.2.4 Categories of metaphorIn this study, the term “metaphor” is used broadly to refer to many metaphorical forms ofnonliteral similarity comparison. In addition to the aforementioned definition of metaphor(section 2.1), this study examines the following subtypes of metaphor:• Personification ascribes human drives

Conference Session

Learning Outcomes and Pedagogical Strategies: Problems of Alignment

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert Graham, Johns Hopkins University; Tobin Porterfield, Towson University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

ensuringthat colleges and universities integrate these skills in their curriculum [4]. To determine whichprofessional skills are important for career success, researchers have queried academics,students, and practitioners in a range of engineering disciplines and country contexts. Chan et al.identify 38 skills including critical thinking, conflict management, and time management [5]. Astudy of practicing engineers in New Zealand maintained the importance of communication andethics but added career planning, leadership, and project management [6]. In addition to confusion over what makes up this professional skill set, no consensusexists on what to call this group of skills. Some research uses a single term, while others usemultiple terms

Conference Session

Imagining Others, Defining Self Through Consideration of Ethical and Social Implications

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alexis Papak, University of Maryland, College Park; Ayush Gupta, University of Maryland, College Park; Chandra Anne Turpen, University of Maryland, College Park

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frompredictive analytics to autonomous drone warfare. Gupta, Turpen, and co-researchers, AndrewElby, Thomas Philip, and Daniel Dilliplane, participated in the design of the focus groupprompts. The sessions were loosely structured with planned prompts and activities, but withenough flexibility that facilitators could make decisions about adding new prompts or lettingstudents continue a conversation longer than intended. Ayush Gupta (Ayush) and DanielDilliplane (Dan) served as the facilitators for all the sessions. In addition to participating in thesesessions, students were given supplemental materials to read between many sessions and givenpost-session surveys. The first focus group session focused on students getting to know eachother, getting

Conference Session

Imagining and Reimagining Engineering Education as a Dynamic System

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Janet Y. Tsai, University of Colorado, Boulder; Kevin O'Connor, University of Colorado, Boulder; Beth A. Myers, University of Colorado Boulder; Jacquelyn F. Sullivan, University of Colorado, Boulder; Derek T. Reamon, University of Colorado, Boulder; Kenneth M. Anderson, University of Colorado, Boulder

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moved througheducational systems; scales are ‘envelopes of spacetime’ into which certain school-basedidentities (and not others) can be folded” (p. 309). Educational scales are consequential forstudents as they define what constitutes success and failure, or belonging vs. not fitting in; asNespor additionally notes, “scale is thus both an object and a means of power in educationalpractice” (p. 309).Nespor (2004) defines five aspects of educational scale: 1. “Scale is made through the production and circulation of artifacts: school buildings, desks, curriculum standards, textbooks, tests, plans, homework assignments, and so forth… scales can also be defined by interrupting circuits of artifacts. Pupil activities may be tightly

Conference Session

Design, Assessment, and Redesign of Writing Instruction for Engineers

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Y. Yoritomo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Nicole Turnipseed, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign; S. Lance Cooper, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Celia Mathews Elliott, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; John R. Gallagher, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; John S. Popovics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Paul Prior, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Julie L Zilles, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

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and writing-to-learn activities. For example, 9 of 13 instructor surveyrespondents (two participants did not respond) marked that assigned writing is “never” used onlyby a student or group of students, while 14 of 15 marked that the writing is "always" collectedand graded. Few opportunities are structured for students to use writing to communicate withother students or to write through course concepts in low stakes ways that promote learningbefore officially setting those ideas down in more formal products.Similarly, when instructors were asked about the purposes of student writing in their courses, thetwo least-marked purposes were “learning course concepts” and “planning” (marked by 7 and 8of 15, respectively). In contrast, the purposes of

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Imagining and Reimagining Engineering Education as a Dynamic System

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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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engineering education, both with regards to initiatives organized by theengineering professional societies, as well as by volunteer, service-based organizations suchABET. As we move up the chain, it’s evident that engineering deans have a variety of forums forexchanging information and assessing their competitive position. Meanwhile, executive directorsand key staff members within national organizations plan and orchestrate educational changeusing both well-defined bureaucratic practices as well as more improvised organizationalmaneuvers designed to spearhead change.While it is too early for us to speak to how these processes intersect, our work reveals thatunderstanding the interactions that occur between the macro and micro levels (or more likely

Conference Session

Diversity and Inclusion: Concepts, Mental Models, and Interventions

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Megan Keogh, University of Colorado, Boulder; Malinda S. Zarske, University of Colorado, Boulder; Janet Y. Tsai, University of Colorado, Boulder

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client and the design team. Similarly, many women in ​Invention andInnovation​ were reported to have been in charge of the business aspects of the project. Bothclient communication and business planning are introduced in these subsequent courses.Another explanation for the trend of women disproportionately taking on non-technical roles isbecause they lack technical confidence. This explanation corresponds to possibilities discussed inthe focus groups. Women in the focus group believe that women are more likely to take onnon-technical roles in teams because of three main factors: i) they feel that they do not haveenough technical experience to be useful to the team, ii) they are not asked by their malecounterparts to take on technical roles, or

Conference Session

Embedding Sociotechnical Systems Thinking I

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kathryn Waugaman, University of Colorado Boulder; Janet Y Tsai, University of Colorado, Boulder; Malinda S Zarske, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Paper ID #23594Connecting with First-year Engineering Students’ Interest in Social JusticeIssues through Ethics Lessons to Sustain Student Retention in EngineeringMs. Kathryn Waugaman, University of Colorado Boulder Katie is an undergraduate student researcher at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is interested in why students choose to study engineering and what retention methods are successful for universities, particularly in underrepresented communities. She is a Senior in Mechanical Engineering and plans to work in renewable energy when she graduates in December.Dr. Janet Y Tsai, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Ethical Awareness and Social Responsibility in a Corporate/Team Context

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Natasha D. Mallette P.E., Oregon State University; Michelle Kay Bothwell, Oregon State University; Christine Kelly, Oregon State University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

practiceIntroductionEngineering work relies on effective collaboration and communication among diverse groups ofengineers and scientists, and engagement in partnership with broader constituencies (managers,technicians, end users, among others). There is a long-standing expectation that graduates fromengineering programs be proficient communicators and team members, and outcomes relevantto communication and teaming survived the recent re-visioning of ABET criterion 3 (Graduateswill have … “an ability to function effectively on a team whose members together provideleadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meetobjectives” and “an ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences”). As would beexpected, a

Conference Session

Diversity and Inclusion: Concepts, Mental Models, and Interventions

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sean M. Eddington, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Andrew O. Brightman, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Rucha Joshi, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Patrice Marie Buzzanell, Purdue University, West Lafayette; David Torres, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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engage in more inclusionary interactions and team work. Inreferring to the ECE program, students characterized their experience in terms of “survival.” Onestudent called himself and his peers “veterans of ECE,” while others described the studentculture as “stressed.” Christopher, a sophomore in CompE, recalled his strategy for coping withthe rigor of ECE: Because it's hard, but trying to avoid burn out the only way to do is to follow the plan of study. What's better to do is learn when you are going to burn out and pick a time when you can afford it. If you can do it before the finals, do it right before the finals, because you don't want to do it the week of the exams, because you want to study at that time

Conference Session

Communicating Across Cultural and Epistemological Boundaries

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Gordon D. Hoople, University of San Diego; Joel Alejandro Mejia, University of San Diego; Diana A. Chen, University of San Diego; Susan M. Lord, University of San Diego

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Diversity

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education that is explicitly socio-technical in nature.We plan to develop a transformative, inclusive approach to teaching energy as a model for howto adopt culturally-sustaining pedagogies within engineering. We have selected energy, as it is afoundational topic across multiple engineering disciplines, relevant to students’ lived 2experiences, and has important social ramifications. We are targeting a class in the second yearto provide students with a grounding in CSP early in their engineering education so that theymight use these mindsets moving forward. Many students often first see energy concepts in“Introduction to Thermodynamics.” With its grounding in 18th century power cycles and

Conference Session

Ethical Awareness and Social Responsibility in a Corporate/Team Context

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Greg Rulifson P.E., Colorado School of Mines; Carrie J. McClelland P.E., Colorado School of Mines; Linda A. Battalora, Colorado School of Mines

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pedagogies with more traditional engineering programs such as mining and petroleum engineering; these programs had mutual goals towards improving the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) offerings on campus. • An established campus program offers minors in Engineering for Community Development and Leadership in Social Responsibility • The authors attended a PBL workshop at Worcester Polytechnic Institute where the following interventions could be intensively planned in a supportive and productive environment over 3 days. These efforts led to some of the classroom interventions explained below.MethodsProject-Based Learning was employed in three different classes to help engineering students linktechnical

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Embedding Sociotechnical Systems Thinking I

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Natasha A. Andrade, University of Maryland, College Park; David Tomblin, University of Maryland, College Park

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efficientbatteries, the fact that material needed for the batteries is mined in a different country and thatthe people that mine these materials have different priorities than users of electric cars and theirlives are impacted in different ways. This level of thinking was more representative of otherstudents in the class and were partly due to students’ interest and background knowledge, partlydue to assigned readings, and partly due to how activities were led.Future WorkAs the study moves forward, we will continue to refine the above data analysis. We also plan toenhance the study in the following ways: 1. We will use open coding methods to derive a more in-depth, systematic analysis of student responses in Activity 3. Through this analysis, we

Conference Session

Design, Assessment, and Redesign of Writing Instruction for Engineers

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Stephanie Pulford, University of California, Davis; Jiahui Tan, University of California, Davis; Michael Raymond Gonzalez, University of California, Davis; Amanda Modell, University of California, Davis

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-positivist approach thatmight imply that we can perfectly anticipate a given group of students’ motivations beforeinteracting with them and plan accordingly. We as instructors will be more successful if we areprepared to accept students as they are, and design courses that assume, welcome, (and perhapsreveal,) the many different kinds of motivations that are undoubtedly present. We hasten to addthat we are not in opposition to well-posed post-positivist studies of student motivation bydemographic, and in fact believe that this approach may be strongly justified as a component ofintersectional research toward inclusion and culture change. However, the present study wasdesigned fill a particular present need in the literature around engineering

Conference Session

Undergraduate Peer Educators: Mentoring, Observing, Learning

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico; Catherine Anne Hubka, University of New Mexico; Eva Chi, University of New Mexico

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ASEE Board of Directors

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thestrategy, and then detailing its research base.Pre-writing. Pre-writing tasks provide opportunities for students to consider what they know anddon’t know about a topic, to organize their writing, and to plan their approach to writing [36, 38,39]. It includes all activities that culminate in a piece of writing: minute papers, reflections,assigned readings and responses, prelab assignments and discussions, and documenting theexperiment itself.Multimodal writing. This form of writing means incorporating multiple modes, such as images,audio, video, and text, and following discipline-specific or genre conventions [40]. Withinengineering genres, this commonly means interpreting tables and figures that display data orresults.Feedback and revision

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Communicating Across Cultural and Epistemological Boundaries

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Xiaofeng Tang, Ohio State University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

chose to omit itspsychological connotations and instead defined empathy as a “strategic action and [to] aninstrumental understanding of the empathee which helps to guide and to fine-tune thestrategic innovation plans of firms”[23]. Thus Steffensen, perhaps going further thanmany authors of empathic design would prefer to, moved empathy out of the terrain ofindividual traits and relocated it in the domain of corporate resources. Following thisapproach, Steffensen considered empathic thinking “a means to decrease failure rates ininnovation processes and hence a strategy for risk reduction”[23]. Not all authors in EEI agree with depersonalizing empathy and treating it as a puretechnique. In fact, some authors see empathic design not only as a

Conference Session

Revealing the Invisible: Engineering Course Activities that Address Privilege, -Isms, and Power Relations (Interactive Session)

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joel Alejandro Mejia, University of San Diego; Diana A. Chen, University of San Diego; Odesma Onika Dalrymple, University of San Diego; Susan M Lord, University of San Diego

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ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity, Faculty Development Constituency Committee

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Design in Engineering Education, International, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Minorities in Engineering

maintaining or dismantling that privilege. We hope that these examples willbe helpful to others interested in integrating such content into their courses.Institutional ContextThe history behind the creation of these courses stems from being at the forefront of institution-wide transformation, including the inauguration of a new university president, theimplementation of a new University Core curriculum, the award of an NSF RED grant, and thecreation of a new General Engineering department [11]. The University of San Diego is amajority undergraduate, private four-year [12], faith-based institution that embraces Catholicsocial teaching in its mission. Our new president has enacted a new strategic plan, TheUniversity has identified six pathways through