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Communication Across the Divisions I: Communication in Engineering Disciplines

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Susan Conrad, Portland State University; William A. Kitch, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Timothy James Pfeiffer P.E., Foundation Engineering, Inc.; Tori Rhoulac Smith, Howard University; John V. Tocco J.D., Lawrence Technological University

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Civil Engineering, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #12608Students Writing for Professional Practice: A Model for Collaboration amongFaculty, Practitioners and Writing SpecialistsProf. Susan Conrad, Portland State University Susan Conrad, Ph.D., is a Professor of Applied Linguistics and head of the Civil Engineering Writing Project. She has written numerous articles and books about English grammar, discourse, and corpus linguistics.Dr. William A Kitch P.E., California State Polytechnic University, Pomona Dr. Kitch is a Professor of Civil Engineering at Cal Poly Pomona. Before starting his academic career he spent 24 years as a practicing engineer in both the

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Communication Across the Divisions III: Writing as Social–Technical Integration

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Vukica M. Jovanovic, Old Dominion University; Megan McKittrick, Old Dominion University; Pilar Pazos, Old Dominion University; Daniel Richards, Old Dominion University; Julia Romberger

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Computing & Information Technology, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Comparatively Mapping Genres in Academic and Workplace Engineering EnvironmentsAbstract In the Engineering workplace, one must be able to negotiate many genres of writing: he orshe must deliver updates, understand technical requirements, weigh project priorities, develop andcarry out problem-solving techniques, all while using different forms of technical communication.Engineering work relies on the ability to flexibly transition between a variety of technical writinggenres, while also navigating the broad array of technologies required to effectively complete theseprojects. However, the genres and types of writing present in the workplace do not always reflectthe genres and types of writing undergraduate Engineering students

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Reflective & Critical Pedagogies

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joe Tranquillo, Bucknell University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

students) behind fancy sounding pedagogical techniques. In re-ality, we are still a sage, we simply don’t stand on the stage all the time. An inductive classroomis therefore only “flipped” in delivery, as we are still very much the arbiters of skill and knowledge.What I will present is a way to assign problems and projects where the instructor is not the content Page 26.1532.2expert. Faculty instead make a contract with their students to guide them without being able todirect them with regard to content. The end goal is for students to experience what it is like todrive forward their own learning. I will call such an approach a Faculty Ulysses

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Assessing Social Responsibility & Sustainability

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nathan E Canney PE, Seattle University; Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Mikhail Russu

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strategies. Inter-rater reliability for the code book wasexamined. Codes focused on the type of course (engineering course, humanities course, seniordesign, first-year), the topic of the course (e.g. sustainability, energy, religion, ethics), andteaching pedagogy (e.g. service-learning, case-studies, project-based).It is concerning that 42% of the engineering students indicated that no courses in theirundergraduate studies influenced their views of social responsibility. Of the seniors whocompleted the survey, 37% indicated that no courses had influenced these views. Of those whowere influenced, the most common courses were engineering courses (44%) and humanitiescourses (44%). Doing design work (11%), projects (9%) and service learning (8%) were

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Integrating Social Justice in Engineering Science Courses

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Donna M. Riley, Virginia Tech

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Engineering Ethics, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

considerations in our core courses. I reflect on lessons learned from twoassignments in two different core courses, each implemented in the larger context of engineeringat a liberal arts college. Here introducing a social justice dimension of sustainability was a smallpart of a larger effort to integrate liberal education into core courses.One module introduced students in a first year Mass and Energy Balances course to the tool ofLife Cycle Assessment (LCA) for developing and analyzing green products and processes, whilesimultaneously offering a critique of green consumerism which was incorporated into studentLCA projects. A key learning outcome was that students understood not only the promises of thetool but also its limitations and when it is and is

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Research on Diversification & Inclusion

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jane L. Lehr, California Polytechnic State University; Michael Haungs, California Polytechnic State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, New Engineering Educators, Student, Women in Engineering

liberal arts specialization;and at least 4 LSE courses: two on project-based learning, a senior project course, and acapstone.As of Fall 2014, over 34.5% of the 55 LSE total graduates are women. Eighteen of these 55alumni graduated with an engineering concentration that included at least 4 quarters of theintroductory computer science sequence (CSC 123, 101, 102, and 103) – and thus, for thepurposes of this paper, function as a comparison group to the computing disciplines at CPSU andnationally. Of these eighteen LSE-computing disciplines alumni, seven, or 38.9%, are women. Page 26.1095.2Why this difference? One explanation is that LSE is a small

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Reflective & Critical Pedagogies

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Prashant Rajan, Iowa State University

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Society for Engineering Education, 2015 1 Not engineering to help but learning to (un)learn: Integrating research and teaching on epistemologies of technology design at the margins  Abstract  Locating engineering education projects in sites occupied by marginalizedcommunities and populations serves primarily to reinforce themisapprehension that the inhabitants of such sites are illiterate, inept,incapable and therefore in need of aid or assistance from researchers, facultyand students. Drawing on the emerging literature on engineering educationand social justice, I examine the stated objectives, content, duration, andoutcomes of exemplar projects

Conference Session

Communication Across the Divisions III: Writing as Social–Technical Integration

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tatiana Teslenko, University of British Columbia, Vancouver

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university studies. This approach provides forthe introduction of important values, concepts and assignments that are “grounded in processeswhich can lead to sustainability”13. This paper also highlights the challenges of teaching in an Page 26.787.2interdisciplinary space located at the crossroads of education for sustainable development (ESD),composition studies, activity theory and community service learning.The described pedagogical approach strives to promote the transition to sustainability throughsocial learning14, i.e., by including community service learning projects that allow students toexplore human and social dimensions of sustainability

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Communication Across the Divisions II: Communication and Transdisciplinary Pedagogies

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeffrey J. Evans, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Amy S. Van Epps, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Michael Thomas Smith; Sorin Adam Matei, Purdue University Polytechnic Institute; Esteban Garcia

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Civil Engineering, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Mechanical Engineering, Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

be made more truthful and productive. He is the leader of the NSF funded project KredibleNet, whose goal is to set the agenda for computational social science analysis of authorship, leadership, trust and credibility in knowledge markets. He has published papers and developed software that aim to make this into a reality. Among the tools he has created are: KredibleNet: kredible.net Visible Effort: veffort.us Alterpode: alterpode.net Visible Past: visiblepast.net Ubimark: ubimark.com/inDr. Esteban Garcia Page 26.127.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015

Conference Session

Communication Across the Divisions I: Communication in Engineering Disciplines

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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David A. Saftner, University of Minnesota Duluth; Mary U. Christiansen; Adrian T. Hanson, University of Minnesota Duluth; Jill D. Jenson, University of Minnesota Duluth; Sara Ojard; Rebecca L. Teasley, University of Minnesota Duluth; Emily Woster, University of Minnesota Duluth

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junior-level. Collaboration with writing studiesfaculty ensured that the material in the writing guide was consistent with content taught in thosecourses. The writing guide is currently being piloted by civil engineering faculty in selectcourses and by the UMD’s writing center, the Writers’ Workshop, which offers one-to-onesessions led by graduate student or faculty consultants. Lessons learned from this pilot will beused to improve the writing guide before implementation across the civil engineering departmentin the Fall 2015 semester.The following sections first summarize the projects designed to improve writing in theengineering department and then describe the development of the writing guide and assessmentrubric, including the roles of the

Conference Session

Reflective & Critical Pedagogies

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mania Orand, University of Washington ; Brook Sattler, University of Washington; Jennifer A. Turns, University of Washington; Lauren D. Thomas, University of Washington

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

that wouldplace fewer burdens on educators, while helping engineering students take the time to understandthe lessons that are afforded by engineering courses through reflective activities.To address these issues, a few researchers in engineering education have successfully designedor developed new methods and tools to support student reflection. For example, Chen et al.combined the use of weblogs and wikis with the creation of portfolios (Folio Thinking) tosupport learning and reflection in an introductory freshman seminar on design engineering atStanford University. Chen et al. indicate that a challenge in project-based design courses is thatstudents “see what they have produced but they do not see what they have learned.” They reportthat

Conference Session

Interactive Panel on Improving the Experiences of Marginalized Students on Engineering Design Teams

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lorelle A Meadows, Michigan Technological University; Denise Sekaquaptewa, University of Michigan; Marie C Paretti, Virginia Tech; Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Shawn S. Jordan, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Debbie Chachra, Olin College of Engineering; Adrienne Minerick, Michigan Technological University

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Design in Engineering Education, Electrical and Computer, Engineering Libraries, First-Year Programs, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Minorities in Engineering, Student, Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering, Women in Engineering

in Engineering Education (FREE, formerly RIFE, group), whose diverse projects and group members are described at feministengineering.org. She received a CAREER award in 2010 and a PECASE award in 2012 for her project researching the stories of undergraduate engineering women and men of color and white women. She received ASEE-ERM’s best paper award for her CAREER research, and the Denice Denton Emerging Leader award from the Anita Borg Institute, both in 2013. She helped found, fund, and grow the PEER Collaborative, a peer mentoring group of early career and re- cently tenured faculty and research staff primarily evaluated based on their engineering education research productivity. She can be contacted by email at

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Reflective & Critical Pedagogies

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Devika Patel, Stanford University; Jonathan Edward Pang, Stanford University; Sarah Salameh, Stanford University

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research yet again―this time concentrating on education.”His sense of ethics began to truly drive his care statements, while any mention of technology orengineering approaches was generally left out of his reflections. His driving mentality was toensure that information should be conveyed in a safe environment, where interventions weredesigned to “appeal to people’s reason, not reaction―focus on facts (and understanding), notfear.” During this time, he also articulated his first idea for his project, which was essentially aversion of the course we were involved in before the summer internship administered to highschool and college students in rural India. It would focus specifically on designing and building alatrine with the community and from

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Research on Diversification & Inclusion

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Lachney, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Dean Nieusma, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, New Engineering Educators, Student, Women in Engineering

Page 26.616.2more as a metaphor for conveying students’ experience of disappointment than to insinuatemalicious intent.(i)In K-12 engineering programs, the overwhelming curricular emphasis is on engaging, design-based classroom activities: open-ended, hands-on projects requiring creative synthesis acrossmultiple domains of knowledge on the part of the student.1 In university engineering programs,students confront an educational philosophy that can be characterized as exclusionary and builtupon a “fundamentals first” approach to learning:2 analytically rigorous, rote learning of basicprinciples in math and science (e.g., calculus, chemistry, physics) followed by engineeringsciences (e.g. statics, fluid dynamics) followed by engineering analysis

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Assessing Social Responsibility & Sustainability

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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, dispositions, and worldviews. His dissertation focuses on conceptualizations, the importance of, and methods to teach empathy to engineering students. He is currently the Education Di- rector for Engineers for a Sustainable World, an assistant editor for Engineering Studies, and a member of the ASEE Committee on Sustainability, Subcommittee on Formal Education.Ms. Sarah Aileen Brownell, Rochester Institute of Technology Sarah Brownell is a Lecturer in Design Development and Manufacturing for the Kate Gleason College of Engineering at the Rochester Institute of Technology. She works extensively with students in the mul- tidisciplinary engineering capstone design course and other project based elective courses, incorporating

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Research on Diversification & Inclusion

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Brewer, University of Georgia; Nicola Sochacka, University of Georgia; Joachim Walther, University of Georgia

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, New Engineering Educators, Student, Women in Engineering

Michael’s retrospective reflections on and systematic analysis of threeencounters he had with various members of his college during his freshman year. It is importantto point out that at the times when these encounters took place, Michael had not yet begunworking on the research project described above [12]. In other words, the encounters took place innatural settings and were not influenced or prompted by the goals and purposes of this study.As described above, the purpose of embarking on this exploratory study was to examine howstories ‘told’ about engineering in the public discourse influence, or “shape and reflect” [12],communications at an institutional level. The focus of the empirical analysis was therefore notthe stories that individuals

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Communication as Performance

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lydia Wilkinson, University of Toronto

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

. Page 26.609.5Team 1This team, composed of a number of highly motivated students, used strategies drawn frominside and outside of this classroom to produce a handful of different possible story scenarios.Most of the group began plotting the scene before the assignment had been formally introducedin the second studio class. Their enthusiasm actually impeded their process as their plans wereentrenched by the time they learnt that their poster was to be their primary creative source. As aresult, one team member who developed an entire storyline over the weekend was forced to letgo of his project when teammates argued that it did not align with the content of their poster.Despite the eventual rejection of his story, his systematic approach to story

Conference Session

Non-Canonical Canons of Engineering Ethics

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Xiaofeng Tang, Penn State University; Dean Nieusma, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Engineering Ethics, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Institutionalizing Ethics: Historical Debates Surrounding IEEE’s 1974 Code of Ethics Contribution to the special session “Non-canonical Canons in Engineering Ethics”IntroductionConsider this case. Three engineers work for a governmental department which oversees theconstruction of a large-scale public transit system. Having participated in the project for anumber of years, they find serious problems in the management and deployment of theengineering work, which have led to a waste of public funds and pose a threat to the safety ofcommuters. After reporting their concerns to their direct managers, they receive only vagueresponses and witness no

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Non-Canonical Canons of Engineering Ethics

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Donna M Riley, Virginia Tech; Yanna Lambrinidou, Virginia Tech

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government agencies. In 2010, Dr. Lambrinidou co-conceived the graduate level engineering ethics course ”Engi- neering Ethics and the Public,” which she has been co-teaching to students in engineering and science. She is co-Principal Investigator on a National Science Foundation (NSF) research and education project developing an ethnographic approach to engineering ethics education. Page 26.322.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Canons against Cannons? Social Justice and the Engineering Ethics ImaginaryAbstractWhat if social

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Studying Engineering Education Research & Institutions

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lauren A. Sepp, University of Washington; Mania Orand, Human Centered Design and Engineering ; Jennifer A Turns, University of Washington; Lauren D. Thomas, University of Washington; Brook Sattler, University of Washington; Cynthia J. Atman, University of Washington

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, and type of reflection: how reflection is being operationalized. As aresult of our findings, it is evident that there has been a significant and recognizable upwardtrend in the explicit attention to reflection across the body of the ASEE conference publications.Understanding the trends of reflection across literature can help us further analyze its prevalenceand importance in the engineering education community.IntroductionIn engineering education, there has been an increase in pedagogical approaches that positionstudents at the center of the teaching practice, like problem-based learning, project-basedcourses, and capstone design courses.1,2,3 Such pedagogical approaches often engender reflectionby engaging students in reflection activities

Conference Session

Studying Engineering Education Research & Institutions

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kacey D Beddoes, Oregon State University; Corey T Schimpf, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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deployed in contributing fields. For example, as discussed above,for contributors to engineering education research from social science backgrounds, tying anepistemology and methodology together as above may be a point of confusion.Data Point 3: TaxonomyA third data point in this story comes from the recent Taxonomy for the Field of EngineeringEducation Research project. The project, which was funded by the National Science Foundation,sought to standardize terminology and create a new taxonomy to map and communicate thefield’s research.21 To date, seven different versions of the taxonomy have been developed. Thefirst version was developed during a workshop for the project at the University of Michigan in2013. Each subsequent version was developed

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Communication Across the Divisions II: Communication and Transdisciplinary Pedagogies

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brock E. Barry P.E., U.S. Military Academy; Daniel J. Fox, U.S. Military Academy; Robert M. Wendel, U.S. Military Academy

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Civil Engineering, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Mechanical Engineering, Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

, Dr. Barry spent 10-years as a senior geotechnical engineer and project manager on projects throughout the United States. He is a licensed professional engineer in multiple states. Dr. Barry’s areas of research include assessment of professional ethics, teaching and learning in engineering education, and learning through historical engineering accomplishments. He has authored and co-authored a significant number of journal articles and book chapters on these topics.Major Daniel J. Fox, U.S. Military Academy MAJ Dan Fox is an Instructor in the Department of Civil & Mechanical Engineering at the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the United States

Conference Session

Communication as Performance

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Katherine Golder, British Columbia Institute of Technology; Darlene B. Webb, British Columbia Institute of Technology

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

paper describes the survey results.Engineering students and faculty members in the audience were asked about theirperceptions of the educational value of the competition for both the competitors and theaudience members. They were also asked about their perceptions of the personalcharacteristics of the competitors. As this research project was funded through anInstructional Enhancement Grant, the goal was to examine the perceived educationalvalue of Idol. This examination aims to help identify ways learning and teaching are –and can be further – enhanced through Idol.Overall, the results of the survey pointed to an overwhelmingly positive response to thepresentation competition and the educational value it provides. The engineering studentsand

Conference Session

Communication Across the Divisions III: Writing as Social–Technical Integration

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Natascha M. Trellinger, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Rebecca R. Essig, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Cary D. Troy, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Brent K. Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Josh Boyd, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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profession, yet it israrely included in sophomore and junior level courses. Reflecting on our own prior efforts todevelop writing assignments for such courses, we became curious about the extent to which themost popular engineering textbooks include writing prompts and related writing activities. Thisquestion seemed particularly important given that textbooks often play critical roles inengineering curricula and courses. Textbooks often influence how courses are structured, andreading assignments and homework problems are frequently assigned directly from textbooks.In this project, we systematically searched for and analyzed writing-based problems in sixpopular fluid mechanics textbooks, with a focus on chapters with similar technical content

Conference Session

Integrating Social Justice in Engineering Science Courses

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kathryn Johnson, Colorado School of Mines; Jon A. Leydens, Colorado School of Mines; Barbara M. Moskal, Colorado School of Mines; Deborath Silva, Colorado School of Mines; Justin Stephen Fantasky, Colorado School of Mines

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Diversity

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Engineering Ethics, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

projects related to reducing turbine loads and increasing energy capture. She has applied experiential learning techniques in several wind energy and control systems classes and began engineering education research related to social justice in control systems engineering in fall 2014.Dr. Jon A. Leydens, Colorado School of Mines Jon A. Leydens is an associate professor in the Division of Liberal Arts and International Studies at the Colorado School of Mines, USA, where he has been since 1997. Research and teaching interests include communication, social justice, and engineering education.Dr. Barbara M. Moskal, Colorado School of Mines Dr. Barbara Moskal is a Professor of Applied Mathematics and Statistics and the Director of

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Assessing Social Responsibility & Sustainability

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mark H Minster, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Richard A House, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Patricia Brackin P.E., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Corey M. Taylor, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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”). Professional codes of ethics and ABET requirements are sometimes applied, withsustainability introduced as a design constraint.3 In our experience, these professionalrequirements are often treated only in senior design projects, and then only as items on achecklist. Optional minor and certificate programs may exist for those engineering students whoare interested, but even here crucial tensions often go unexplored between definitions ofsustainability (between weak and strong sustainability4, 5, between “technological sustainability”and “ecological sustainability”6, between “eco-efficiency” and “eco-effectiveness”7, or betweensustainability and sustainable development8, 9, 10, 11) and even between areas of the triple bottomline.3 Missing, too, are

Conference Session

Communication Across the Divisions I: Communication in Engineering Disciplines

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alyssa Catherine Taylor, University of Washington; Stephanie Pulford, Center for Engineering Learning and Teaching (CELT)

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Civil Engineering, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

communication must be thoughtfully designed tohelp readers make meaning of data. Such visual design for readers requires our students tobecome metacognitive of their own experience as consumers of visual communication. Yet oftenengineering students are not prompted to think about or design visual data communication untilthey must present their own data, typically as part of a senior capstone project. Our students’ lackof experience leaves them without a solid foundation for critical thought about figures, and thuswith scant preparation to learn from the experience of creating and refining them. If capstonesare to be an opportunity to learn about visual communication rather than simply perform it,students are in need of a swift means to gain perspective

Conference Session

Communication as Performance

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John W. Brocato, Mississippi State University; Amy Barton, Mississippi State University; Kelly Agee, Mississippi State University; Ed Dechert, Mississippi State University; Greg Carlisle, Morehead State University

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activity that correlates naturally with delivering professional technicalpresentations. For this project, students completed a pre-survey about their to-date presentationexperiences and overall public-speaking confidence followed by an interactive workshop on thetheatre-based exercises mentioned above. They then completed a post-workshop survey on thesesame concepts before giving their first presentation of the semester in a technical-communicationcourse. Significantly, the workshop was conducted by a theatre professor (one of the currentpaper’s authors) who began his career with an electrical-engineering degree and several years ofexperience in industry. The paper discusses the philosophy behind this pilot study; full details onthe workshop

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Assessing Social Responsibility & Sustainability

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Paul Gannon, Montana State University; Ryan Anderson, Montana State University; Justin W Spengler, Montana State University; Carolyn Plumb, Montana State University

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Paper ID #12177Exploring Contemporary Issues in Sustainable EnergyDr. Paul Gannon, Montana State University Associate Professor, Chemical EngineeringDr. Ryan Anderson, Montana State UniversityMr. Justin W Spengler, Montana State UniversityDr. Carolyn Plumb, Montana State University Carolyn Plumb is the Director of Educational Innovation and Strategic Projects in the College of En- gineering at Montana State University (MSU). Plumb has been involved in engineering education and program evaluation for over 25 years. At MSU, she works on various curriculum and instruction projects including instructional development for faculty

Conference Session

Non-Canonical Canons of Engineering Ethics

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Donna M Riley, Virginia Tech; Amy E. Slaton, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.); Joseph R. Herkert, Arizona State University

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choose not to undertakean engineering project in that time or place).While we might count it a victory for some of the non-canonical canons to move, in time, intothe accepted professional society codes, that is the not the primary purpose of creating thisalternative stream of ideals in engineering ethics. Rather we hope to illuminate the politicalnature of the process, the ways insider-outsider dynamics play out in professional societies, andthe contestation of what counts and does not count as engineering.IntroductionWhat are the processes by which professional societies develop Codes of Ethics, and how doesinstitutional power shape both processes and outcomes? Who counts as a moral agent? Who issubject to the code? Does the existence of a code