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Communication and Engineering Careers: Motivating Our Students

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John C. Anderson, Northwestern University; David W. Gatchell, Northwestern University; Barbara Shwom, Northwestern University; Stacy Benjamin, Segal Design Institute; John Andrew Lake, Segal Design Institute, Northwestern University

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

Conference Session

A Challenge to Engineering Educators

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Harold R Underwood, Messiah College

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Paper ID #6638Using the Portfolio Approach to Assess Multi-year Engineering Projects: aCase StudyDr. Harold R Underwood, Messiah College Dr. Underwood received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at UIUC in 1989, and has been a faculty member of the Engineering Department at Messiah College since 1992. Besides teaching Circuit Analy- sis, Electromagnetics, and Communications Systems, he supervises students on projects in the Integrated Projects Curriculum (IPC) and within the Communications Technology Group of the Messiah College Collaboratory. His on-going projects include Flight Tracking and Messaging for small planes in

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Rethinking Engineering Writing

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brad Jerald Henderson, University of California, Davis

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Paper ID #8159”Doing Engineering in the School of Letters & Science: Adding a Manufac-turing Line Design Project to a Writing Program Class for Engineers”Mr. Brad Jerald Henderson, University of California, Davis Brad Henderson is a faculty in writing for the University Writing Program (UWP) at University of Cali- fornia, Davis. Henderson holds a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Cal Poly State University SLO and a Masters in Professional Writing (MPW) from USC. Currently focusing his career on engineer- ing writing and soft-skill education, he has worked as an engineer and engineering educator for Parker

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Integrating Engineering & Liberal Education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Heath Tims, Louisiana Tech University; Krystal S Corbett, Cyber Innovation Center; Galen E. Turner III, Louisiana Tech University

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the project include activities developed such as: historical/policy essay assignments,robotics challenges, as well as computer science fundamentals. This paper will describe theapproaches used in addressing ethical and social issues related to cyber technology, as well ashow STEM fundamentals are enhanced by integrating with liberal arts.IntroductionCyberspace technology has become an integral part of our world, uniting individuals acrossinternational boundaries and offering them an unprecedented level of interaction. Personal,business, academic, and military applications across cyberspace have become intertwined. Butthere has been a negative consequence to this phenomenon. Individuals with particular personalor political agendas have

Conference Session

Restructuring/Rethinking STEM

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chris Robinson, University of South Carolina; Sarah C. Baxter, University of South Carolina

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Art.Interdisciplinary context is provided in order to establish a sense of application and relevancethat can be taken on to advanced coursework in either discipline. For each visual concept, termsare defined, student outcomes are listed and an assignment is provided for use in a project-basedlearning environment.Background:In Experiences in Visual Thinking, Robert McKim1 looks at the kinds of images that provide afoundation for visual thinking, which he defines as seeing, drawing and imagining. EdwardTufte’s books2,3, provide ample evidence that an awareness of visual design and anunderstanding of visual concepts are critical for effective statistical and scientific communication.His historical examples and worst-case examples are particularly relevant to

Conference Session

Integrating Engineering & Liberal Education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bill D. Bailey, Southern Polytechnic State University

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and Mold Making program, leadingto an Associate of Applied Science degree.Identifying linkage to outcomes such as these is fairly common at the program and course level.In this study, the relevant skills are integrated at the assignment level as well. In courses whereassignments did not support these skills, assignments were added or modified as appropriate.For example: communication, critical thinking, and teamwork were integrated into laboratory(machining) sections through the use of individual and team based projects. These projectsrequired written plans, written evaluations at the conclusion, a reflective paper to cementlearning, and a presentation to the class and others.This paper will provide a detailed description of how this

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A Challenge to Engineering Educators

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lisa DuPree McNair, Virginia Tech; Wende Garrison, Virginia Tech

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practice. Projects supported by the National Science Foundation include interdisciplinary pedagogy for pervasive computing design; writing across the curriculum in Statics courses; as well as a National Science Foun- dation CAREER award to explore the use of e-portfolios for graduate students to promote professional identity and reflective practice. Her teaching emphasizes the roles of engineers as communicators and educators, the foundations and evolution of the engineering education discipline, assessment methods, and evaluating communication in engineering.Wende Garrison, Virginia Tech Wende Garrison got her bachelor’s and master’s from Portland State University in Film & Television and Rhetoric &

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Restructuring/Rethinking STEM

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joe Tranquillo, Bucknell University

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Laplace transforms,feedback control, data acquisition and signal processing. More enlightened courses Page 23.1237.2include labs or long-term projects that challenge students to connect theory to design(Tranquillo, 2007). But one way to create a T-shaped course is to challenge engineers toapply their skills outside of traditional boundaries. With that goal, I challenged myBMEG 350 (junior-level biomedical engineering) students to design and build non-traditional musical instruments.Each student team designed and constructed an instrument that would record biologicalsignals and then transform those signals to Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI

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A Challenge to Engineering Educators

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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framework of a socio-economic-political matrix withan emphasis on insightful understanding of the social and ethical consequences of engineering andtechnology that they will, one day, design and create.In this paper, we present the argument that integrating information literacy content into anundergraduate research project provides a successful model for first-year students to develop andacquire transferable skills for lifelong learning . This integrated approach, we argue, not only enablesthe students to engage with concepts of sustainability as an ethical prerogative, but facilitates a betterunderstanding of information literacy principles within a research context.We draw our inferences from our qualitative and preliminary quantitative

Conference Session

A Challenge to Engineering Educators

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Canek Moises Luna Phillips, Purdue University; Kacey Beddoes, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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(eitherimplicitly or explicitly) that the public does not understand or appreciate engineering becausethey are uninformed or misinformed and that, consequently, the provision of more information(in the form of scientific literacy or the benefits of engineering) will lead to increasedunderstanding and support for engineering. In that way, such initiatives are enactments of thedeficit model. The deficit model (DM) is a term from the field of Science and TechnologyStudies (STS) used to describe initiatives/projects that are based upon a belief in the public’slack of knowledge and scientific literacy and seek to remedy it by providing more, and correct,information. However, a large body of literature has now identified significant problems with thedeficit

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Institutional Perspectives and Boundary Work

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kenneth Reid, Ohio Northern University; Tyler J Hertenstein, Ohio Northern University; Graham Talmadge Fennell, Ohio Northern University; Elizabeth Marie Spingola, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education

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Talmadge Fennell, Ohio Northern UniversityElizabeth Marie Spingola Elizabeth is a junior at Ohio Northern University. She is the Project Manager of an organization at school that is designing and fabricating a model Mars Rover for a local museum. She is, also, has leadership roles in Phi Sigma Rho, the engineering sorority at ONU. Other organizations she belongs to include SWE, ASME, Flute Choir, JEC, and more. Page 23.238.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Bachelor of Science in Engineering Education: Differentiating from Traditional

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Communication, Professional Development, and the Engineering Ambassador Network

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Catherine Talbot; Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Melissa Marshall, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Christine Haas, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Sarah E Zappe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Joanna K. Garner, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia

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, biomedical engineeringstudents at Northwestern University also felt they gained valuable leadership,management and communication through developing and teaching a K-12 outreachprogram.13 In the Tufts University study, eight top graduate fellows from Tufts Universitywere given the opportunity to be paired with a K-12 teacher.11 Participating NSF GK-12fellows spent 20 hours a week on average working with the outreach project, with 16hours (2 full days) per week spent in the classroom of their partner teacher. Thesestudents did not possess training as educators or significant experience working inschools. Fellows learned effective teaching strategies directly from the students andteachers in the classroom. In addition, fellows became skilled at

Conference Session

Communication and Engineering Careers: Motivating Our Students

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Julie E. Sharp, Vanderbilt University; Christopher J Rowe, Vanderbilt University

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leadership and policy. His research and teaching interests in engineering education include first-year engineering pedagogy and problem-based learning. His professional areas of expertise include technical project management and technology strategy. He advises the Dean of Engineering on strategy and is Communications Director for the School of Engineering. He is past-Chair of the First-year Programs Division of ASEE and member of ASEM. Page 23.705.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Implementing a Student-Suggested Course in Engineering Career

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society (LEES) Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Craig J. Gunn, Michigan State University

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ME 391 – Mechanical Engineering Analysis ME 412 – Heat Transfer Reading, thinking, and teamwork Design Project Documentation: Formal Report (1 @ 10 pp. + App., Individual) Memo Reports (X @ 2 - 5 pages App.Individual)Senior ME 451 – Controls ME 461 – VibrationsYear Laboratory and Project Reports: Laboratory and Project Reports: Laboratory Experiment Written Reports ( 2

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society (LEES) Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christine Haas, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Lynn S. McElholm, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Sonya M Renfro, University of Connecticut; Elizabeth S. Herkenham, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ; Melissa Marshall, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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morning and provide age and subject appropriate presentations and activities that are integrated with the science and math curriculum. Because the Ambassadors present in pairs, they present in up to three parallel classrooms at a time during the school day. The Ambassadors show how engineering is relevant to these subjects such as highlighting an engineering project such as developing a spinal implant. In addition, the Ambassadors start or conclude the day with a presentation about Engineering Careers in the school auditorium. The audience for this presentation usually ranges from 100 to 300 students. On campus recruiting of prospective students and community STEM events. The Engineering Ambassadors are active

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

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amy E. Slaton, Drexel University

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efficaciouslyreplaced by an audio or tactile one; or that hands-on and observational exercises might beequivalent to one another; or that different persons might justifiably use different instruments toundertake the same technical learning or labor. In short, this paper sketches a politics ofengineering epistemologies around issues of disability.This is part of a larger project regarding the meanings of identity in STEM education moregenerally, a body of work by scholars loosely grouped under the emergent Engineering Studies(ES) rubric.* This scholarship is not extensive but in the last few years it has carefully ∗considered the social instrumentality of categories including race, class, gender, LGBT identities,and age as enacted in

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Integrating Engineering & Liberal Education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dominic M. Halsmer PE, Oral Roberts University; Peter Wesley Odom, Oral Roberts University; Jessica Fitzgerald, Oral Roberts University; Taylor Gipson Tryon, Oral Roberts University

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the “big picture” of engineering.6 One such effort integrates theintroduction to engineering course and the engineering graphics course around a reverseengineering project, making use of 3-D computer modeling and rapid prototyping of thedisassembled parts for reengineering considerations.7 Another study compares eight differentmethods for teaching design to first-year students and concludes that a reverse engineeringmodel is preferred.8An attempt to increase student interest is made by creating a game whereby students are awardedachievement levels for gaining particular insights during reverse engineering activities.9 Oneengineering educator went so far as to report that reverse engineering has “proven to be theinstructor’s fire keg that

Conference Session

Communication and Engineering Careers: Motivating Our Students

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tristan T. Utschig, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jeffrey S. Bryan; Judith Shaul Norback, Georgia Institute of Technology

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analysis for ongoing CETL projects. His master’s thesis is an analysis of choice and player narratives in video game storytelling.Dr. Judith Shaul Norback, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Judith Shaul Norback, Ph.D. is faculty and the Director of Workplace and Academic Communication in the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. She has developed and provided instruction for students in industrial engineering and biomedical engineering and has advised on oral communication instruction at many other universities. The Workplace Communica- tion Lab she founded in 2003 has had over 19,000 student visits. As of Spring 2013, she has shared her instructional materials with

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Communication, Professional Development, and the Engineering Ambassador Network

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Julia M. Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Leadership CommunicationThe focus on communication has been a part of the Rose-Hulman Leadership Academy since itsinception. Recently we have adopted the “difficult conversations” approach as a way to givestudents’ development in leadership communication special attention. Specifically we saw thatwe had an opportunity in the Leadership Academy to move students beyond the communicationtasks and projects that are a part of our two required writing courses (Rhetoric andComposition—for first year students, Professional and Technical Communication—for third yearstudents). We wanted to provide to students concrete strategies they could use as they negotiated“difficult conversations” that are often a feature of leadership interactions.The book Difficult

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

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Julie L Taylor, University of Utah

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difference may present challenges for engineers when they enter the workplace. Thus, thequestion becomes how do we adequately prepare engineering students for the diversity of values,ideas, and approaches to problem solving that characterize the workforce? The purpose of thisproject is to explore the concept of difference as represented through gender.A thematic qualitative analysis of data revealed that engineering students experience dissonanceand (re)negotiate their positionality of being an engineer in the presence of difference. Thesefindings not only have implications for how we model interdiciplinarity in the classroom, butmore importantly, results from this project show that acceptance of difference is conditional. Aseducators, we have more

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Communication, Professional Development, and the Engineering Ambassador Network

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Shannon Marie Aippersbach, Pennsylvania State University; Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Joanna K. Garner, Old Dominion University

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the editor of the web-site ”Rethinking the Design of Presentation Slides,” the first Google listing for the search term ”presentation slides.”Dr. Joanna K. Garner, Old Dominion University Page 23.671.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 How Slide Design Affects a Student Presenter’s Understanding of the ContentIntroduction Engineering faculty often have their students create presentations about projects as ameans to have the students learn the content. For example, many design courses, such asPurdue’s EPICS,1 have student teams

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Integrating Engineering & Liberal Education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Pradeep Kashinath Waychal, College of Engineering Pune; Anil Dattatraya Sahasrabudhe, College of Engineering, Pune

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consulting and verification and validation. He has headed the corporate product and technology innovations and quality and delivery innovation departments. He has designed and delivered workshops in the areas of problem solving, project management and innovation management that were received very well by the participants. Pradeep was on the apex senior management group before proceeding on to pursue his academic, research and social interests. Before Patni, he has worked at IIT Delhi, IIT Bombay, SGGS College of Engineering and Crompton Greaves R & D Electronics in different research and academic positions. Pradeep Waychal has also published papers in peer reviewed journals, presented keynote invited talks in many

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Communication, Professional Development, and the Engineering Ambassador Network

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Johanna Gretchen Hatzell, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Melissa Marshall, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Karen A. Thole, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Christine Haas, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Renata S. Engel P.E., Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Joanna K. Garner, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia

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program at Worcester Polytechnic Institute is to engage younger generations in theSTEM fields and make the engineering study seem more accessible and exciting, meanwhile stillgarnering leadership, presentation, and project management skills of their own.10 This paper presents an overview of the Engineering Ambassador Network. Connectedwith this overview paper are four more specific papers that provide analysis about specificaspects of the Network. One such paper focuses on the outreach done by EngineeringAmbassadors,14 a second paper focuses on the leadership development of the EngineeringAmbassadors,15 a third focuses on the establishment of Engineering Ambassador programs atthree additional schools,16 and the fourth assesses the

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Rethinking Engineering Writing

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Steven R Walk, Old Dominion University

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focused problem, question, or topic appropriate for the purpose of the task 2. Identify relevant knowledge and credible sources 3. Synthesize information and multiple viewpoints related to the problem, question, or topic 4. Apply appropriate research methods or theoretical framework to the problem, question, or topic 5. Formulate conclusions that are logically tied to inquiry findings and consider applications, limitations, and implications, and 6. Reflect on or evaluate what was learned.Toward improving these outcomes through LtW, ODU implemented two faculty initiatives: (1)Faculty Workshops designed to teach faculty the techniques identified as the best practices toteach and assess writing, and (2) Action Projects designed

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Rethinking Engineering Writing

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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David M. Beams P.E., University of Texas, Tyler; Luke Niiler, University of Alabama; Beth Todd, University of Alabama; Marcus Brown, University of Alabama; Garry W. Warren, University of Alabama

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courses is great. This need has beenshown in studies such as the Engineering Writing Initiative (EWI), which tracked thedevelopment of engineering students’ writing skills at the University of Texas at Tyler over afour-year period. In that study, the presenters identified two key deficiencies in engineeringstudents’ written communications: rhetorical skills (awareness of audience, purpose, andmessage) and visual communications (graphs, figures, etc.).The work begun by EWI continues with The Coach, a collaborative, NSF-funded project atthree institutions: the University of Alabama (UA); the University of Texas at Tyler (UT-Tyler), a state-supported regional university and a component of the University of TexasSystem; and Bevill State Community

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Restructuring/Rethinking STEM

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nicola Sochacka, University of Georgia; Kelly Woodall Guyotte, University of Georgia; Joachim Walther, University of Georgia; Nadia N. Kellam, University of Georgia

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

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Institutional Perspectives and Boundary Work

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ron D Dempsey, Southern Polytechnic State University

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just a different way to become an engineer. Based on the comments made by students, not us: The professors of ET programs are more experienced and they teach engineering courses much better. We have new, mostly not-yet accredited E programs with nothing to distinguish them from many other programs and among the most highly reputed, accredited ET programs.The changes proposed by the ET faculty as a mean of delineating between the two programs are1) establishing entrance or admission requirements to the programs, 2) the engineering programsneed to become more theoretical rather than applied, and 3) a repackaging of ET pedagogythrough project based education. The ET faculty members are quite adamant that they will

Conference Session

Communication and Engineering Careers: Motivating Our Students

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Katherine Golder, British Columbia Institute of Technology; Deanna Gail Levis, British Columbia Institute of Technology; Darlene B Webb, British Columbia Institute of Technology

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the main focus of this polytechnic institute?The institute that is home to Idol focuses primarily on preparing students for successful careers,and most often hires instructors who bring prior industry experience to their teaching positionsalong with their academic credentials. Industry involvement with instructors, course materials,and collaboration with student projects is common and encouraged, so students get firsthandexperience with workplace standards and practices.For students, assignments and extracurricular activities that have clear links to their futureworking life make their courses more meaningful to them and more practical for the workplace.For instructors, this system demands time in keeping up to date on current industry

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Communication, Professional Development, and the Engineering Ambassador Network

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Karen A. Thole, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Sarah E Zappe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Melissa Marshall, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Renata S. Engel P.E., Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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visits. During the visits to middle and high schools, the Engineering Ambassadors, who are relatable role models, generally provide two types of presentations. Six Ambassadors arrive at the school in the early morning and provide age and subject appropriate presentations and activities that are integrated with the science and math curriculum. Because the Ambassadors present in pairs, they present in up to three parallel classrooms at a time during the school day. The Ambassadors show how engineering is relevant to math and science by highlighting an engineering project such as developing a spinal implant. In addition, the Ambassadors start or conclude the day with a presentation about Engineering

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

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Erin A. Cech, Rice University

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inequality within science and engineering professions. Her current research projects focus on the recruitment and retention of women, Native Americans, and LGBT individuals, and the role of professional cultures in the inequality in STEM. Page 23.1243.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 The Veiling of Queerness: Depoliticization and the Experiences of LGBT EngineersAbstractThe ideology of depoliticization within the culture of engineering is the belief that “social” issuescan and should be bracketed from the more “technical” aspects of