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Writing and Communication I

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Emre Selvi, Jacksonville University; Sandra Soto-Cabán, Muskingum University

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electromagnetic simulation of underground contaminants, material characterization, and engineering education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Experiences in Teaching Writing Unit Design Course to Engineering Students Using Advanced Rube Goldberg ProjectsAbstractTeaching design and communication skills to engineering students is always a challenging andevolving process. Many design courses compromise a project in order to provide students ahands-on experience to address different aspects of design. Project selection is very important tomotivate and encourage creativity in the students. It also alters the teaching efficiencysignificantly.Principles of Design course has been taught

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Writing and Communication II

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Julia M. Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Bernadette Longo, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Dave M. Kmiec, New Jersey Institute of Technology

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(forthcoming in 2016 fromIEEE Wiley Press) provides an alternative view of engineering communication that can be used byengineering communication teachers because it presents project documents within their workflow.1Central to the document workflow approach is bringing the authors of the documents into thediscussion of how engineering communication is constructed. The IEEE Guide is supplemented withonline resources that will be available at the IEEE Professional Communication Society webpage(pcs.ieee.org). These resources include a suite of document workflows that cover engineering andtechnology projects that are annotated and narrated by the professional engineers who produced them.These individuals can speak to the process by which the documents are

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Infusing Engineering with Art (and Vice Versa)

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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David M. Beams P.E., University of Texas - Tyler; Kyle Gullings, University of Texas - Tyler; Catherine Elizabeth Ross Ph.D., University of Texas - Tyler

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experience of the creative arts beyond the superficial might reveal thatthe artist and the engineer are not as different as is usually supposed. The University of Texas atTyler has conducted an experimental project in which engineering students were encouraged toexperience the design process afresh from the perspective of the creative arts. Juniors inelectrical engineering worked under the mentorship of arts faculty in a chosen medium (studioart, writing, or music) to produce legitimate works of art that were displayed, performed, or readpublicly, and documented how their experiences of design in the arts have informed and shapedtheir perspectives as engineers. The structure, expectations, and results of this course aredescribed in this paper.A

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Trends in Accreditation and Assessment

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rebecca A. Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Cheryl Allendoerfer, University of Washington; Ronald R. Ulseth, Itasca Community College; Bart M. Johnson, Itasca Community College

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Minnesota.Bart M. Johnson, Itasca Community College Bart Johnson is the Provost of Itasca Community College. Prior to this position, he was the Dean of Aca- demic Affairs and an engineering instructor and program coordinator at Itasca. His areas of engineering education research focus are project-based learning, learning communities, professional identity develop- ment, and professional competencies. Prior to Itasca, he was an engineer in John Deere’s Construction and Forestry Division and a research fellow for Whirlpool Corporation. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 On the Use of Outcomes to Connect Students to an Engineering Culture, Identity, and

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Assessing Literacies in Engineering Education

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Patricia R Backer, San Jose State University; Laura E Sullivan-Green, San Jose State University

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the engineering major. Advanced GE at SJSU is designed to help students become integrated thinkers who can see connections between and among a variety of concepts and ideas. In the College of Engineering at SJSU, we believe that it is critical that engineering students integrate the GE student learning outcomes into their engineering studies. In these two courses, students are challenged to understand the relationship of engineering to the broader community both in the U.S. and worldwide. In addition to the assignments in this course, the engineering faculty have created linked activities in the senior project courses that allow the students to apply these concepts to your engineering disciplines. The engineering senior level general

Conference Session

Pedagogies of Making and Design

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dean Nieusma, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; James W. Malazita, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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history of bridging content from engineering andliberal education, but the making activities that are currently being carried out have not yet beentheorized as one of the mechanisms through which technical-social integration is achieved. In thepaper, we provide specific examples of making practices and projects that exemplify the desiredintegration, and then argue that even engineering-centered design pedagogy can make use ofmaking activities as a vehicle for integrating critical social inquiry and humanistic educationalframeworks.Background: Making in the Context of the Digital HumanitiesAs in engineering (and STEM fields generally), making activities have been embraced in thehumanities and interpretive social sciences. In fact, wide-ranging

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Social Responsibility and Social Justice I: Pedagogical Perspectives

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ricky T. Castles, East Carolina University

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Paper ID #16856Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Getting Engineering Majors to Work withStudents in Other Disciplines on Issues Impacting SocietyDr. Ricky T. Castles, East Carolina University Dr. Ricky Castles is an assistant professor in the Department of Engineering at East Carolina University. He is primarily affiliated with the ECU Electrical Engineering concentration. His research work focuses on the use of wireless sensor networks, microcontrollers, and physiological data collection for a variety of applications. His primary interest is in the area of adaptive tutorial systems, but he has ongoing projects in the

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Pedagogies of Making and Design

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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. They need to learn to choose carefully elements ofdocument design, visual depiction, inclusion of any needed warnings, cautions, or tips, wordchoice, and sentence structure. A basic instruction-writing assignment in a technicalcommunication course might be to build an original Lego creation, and then write instructions sothat other individuals can successfully reproduce the exact same design. As a warm-upassignment, one of the authors has her students write instructions for how to use the instructionaltechnology in the classroom. Summers and Watt have described “quick and dirty” instruction-writing projects assigned in their technical writing courses, such as creating paper prototypes ofmobile applications, and revising existing instructions

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Writing and Communication II

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nadiye O. Erdil, University of New Haven; Ronald S Harichandran P.E., University of New Haven; Michael A. Collura, University of New Haven; Jean Nocito-Gobel, University of New Haven; David J. Adams, Technical Communications Consultant; Amanda Simson, The University of New Haven

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Haven Ron Harichandran is Dean of the Tagliatela College of Engineering and is the PI of the two grants entitled ”Project to Integrate Technical Communication Skills” and ”Developing entrepreneurial thinking in engi- neering students by utilizing integrated online modules and experiential learning opportunities.” Through these grants technical communication and entrepreneurial thinking skills are being integrated into courses spanning all four years in seven ABET accredited engineering and computer science BS programs.Dr. Michael A. Collura, University of New Haven Michael A. Collura, professor of chemical engineering at the University of New Haven, received his B.S. in chemical engineering from Lafayette College and

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Pedagogies of Making and Design

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christopher Lombardo, Harvard University; Daniela Faas, Harvard University; Avinash Uttamchandani, Harvard University

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electrical and mechanical engineering majors. Each ofthese courses has a final team project, with varying degrees of open-endedness, in lieu of atraditional exam. Design competencies were measured in these courses, both pre- and post-experience, using self-reported surveys as well as instructor assessment of ABET learningoutcomes. The post-experience surveys as well as final project rubrics were used to measurechanges in design competencies as well as changes in self-efficacy. There was a correlationbetween the changes of self-efficacy and ABET outcomes at the end of the courses for bothmajor-specific and general education courses. Students in the general education course scoredlower in final self-efficacy compared to their peers in the major

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Communication Across the Divisions I

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yupeng Luo, California State University - Fresno; Wei Wu, California State University - Fresno; Zhanna Bagdasarov, California State University - Fresno

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Educational Research and Methods, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

tablet program called DISCOVERe as an aggressiveinitiative to break down the digital divide and explore new ways of teaching and learning.Selected course sections are offered as tablet only courses. These courses have been redesignedto provide students an enhanced learning experience.One of the most significant learning behavior transformations in a tablet-enhanced learningenvironment is the active collaboration and interaction among students and instructors in classactivities and course projects. In this context, how we practice communication and criticalthinking may change to accommodate new formats and purposes facilitated by technology.However, at this early phase of the DISCOVERe tablet program, it remains unclear to instructorswhat

Conference Session

Research on Diversification, Inclusion, and Empathy II

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joachim Walther, University of Georgia; Shari E. Miller, University of Georgia; Nicola W. Sochacka, University of Georgia; Michael Alvin Brewer jr., University of Georgia

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professional so- cialization. She has experience teaching across the social work education continuum, with an emphasis on theory, practice, and the relationship between theory, research, and practice. She is engaged in an ongoing collaborative research program with colleagues from engineering to develop inter-disciplinary approaches to education for reflective inter-professional practice in a global society. She also collaborates with colleagues from multiple disciplines on community engaged projects focused on sustainability.Dr. Nicola W. Sochacka, University of Georgia Dr. Nicola W. Sochacka received her doctorate in Engineering Epistemologies from the University of Queensland, Australia, in 2011. She is currently a

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Panel Discussion: Global Engineering - What Does That Mean?

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robyn Sandekian, University of Colorado Boulder; Bernard Amadei, University of Colorado, Boulder; Aaron Brown, Metropolitan State University of Denver; Brent K Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Stephen Y. Lu, University of Southern California; Sylvanus N. Wosu, University of Pittsburgh; John W Via III P.E., Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.)

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. Amadei served as a Science Envoy to Pakistan and Nepal for the U.S. Department of State.Dr. Aaron Brown, Metropolitan State University of Denver Aaron Brown is an associate professor at Metropolitan State University of Denver in the Department of Mechanical Engineering Technology. His work is primarily focused in the realm of appropriate design and humanitarian engineering. He has worked on development projects all over the globe but his most recent humanitarian engineering project is focused locally in Denver where he is implementing the installation of solar furnaces he designed to help a low income community reduce their energy bills. This project was recently featured on NPR, the Denver Post and earned him the

Conference Session

Communication as Performance

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lydia Wilkinson, University of Toronto

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responses withinthis paper. The discussion section refers to both sources.A review of written responses identified three broad categories of transfer: approaches to thedesign process, strategies for effective project management, and communication skills. Thesegeneral categories were further broken down into subskills as listed below. These categorieswere generated by the primary researcher who is familiar with class content as well as materialand practices from the broader engineering curriculum. To test inter-rater reliability thesecategories and a five paper sample of responses (17.9% of the overall sample) were reviewed byan ECP colleague, who shares knowledge of the engineering curriculum but is unconnected tothis course or assignment. An inter

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Exploring Student Affairs, Identities, and the Professional Persona

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Najla Mouchrek, Virginia Tech ; Liesl M Baum, Virginia Tech; Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Tech

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interests include interdisciplinary collaboration, design education, communication studies, identity theory and reflective practice. Projects supported by the National Science Foundation include exploring disciplines as cultures, interdisciplinary pedagogy for pervasive computing design; writing across the curriculum in Statics courses; as well as a CAREER award to explore the use of e-portfolios to promote professional identity and reflective practice. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Student Persistence Through Uncertainty Toward Successful Creative PracticeAbstract: To increase creative practice among students in engineering and other

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Social Responsibility and Social Justice II: From Classroom to Community

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Donna M. Riley, Virginia Tech; Jonathan Grunert, Virginia Tech; Yousef Jalali, Virginia Tech; Stephanie G. Adams, Old Dominion University

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to elicit and characterize essential components of engineeringliteracy, with the aim of making engineering literacy part of the Curriculum for LiberalEducation. Where the Engineering Cultures course offers engineers an opportunity to developcultural competencies through the CLE, a new course would be designed to offer engineeringcompetency development to non-engineers.The course was designed based on findings from the first year of the project identifying corecompetencies for engineering literacy and characterizing how faculty and students valueexcellence in teaching and active learning within the liberal education curriculum. These weredeveloped from a literature review, a review of CLE course syllabi, teaching evaluation surveys,interviews

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Infusing Engineering with Art (and Vice Versa)

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2016 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

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nanotechnology. When the authors learned thatthese courses were offered at the same time in the academic year, they were inspired tostrengthen the learning experience, by creating an interdisciplinary learning experience forstudents in both courses where the students interacted with one another. In the first two years ofthe project during years 2009 and 2010, the authors built interdisciplinary activities into eachcourse. The assignments were asynchronous online discussions based on common short readings.Students were required to both respond to threads and create their own threads. One iteration ofthe assignment involved forming small discussion groups that included students from bothcourses. Student feedback from all iterations of the assignment

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Social Responsibility and Social Justice I: Pedagogical Perspectives

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Devin R. Berg, University of Wisconsin, Stout; Tina Lee, University of Wisconsin, Stout

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engineering course combining liberal education topics andintroductory engineering topics. This course also includes a substantial design project whichincorporates a cultural engagement component through collaboration with international partners.The first offering of this new course revealed that, while some reservations persist, students foundvalue in exploring what it means to be an engineer in a broader global context.IntroductionA traditional engineering curriculum will likely fail to provide students with the critical skills ofcultural engagement necessary to live and work in a globally connected world and profession. Itis not surprising that much of the traditional engineering curriculum has been focused onproviding solutions to the problems of

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Communication Across the Divisions I

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jessie Stickgold-Sarah, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Rebecca Thorndike-Breeze, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Nuclear Science and Engineering. Each individual research project is overseenby a faculty member within their lab, often with direct mentorship from a graduate student orpost-doctoral fellow. Several communication deliverables - a proposal, a conference poster, ajournal article and an oral presentation - are required throughout the year, based on eachstudent’s research.We have two principal challenges. First, our students’ numerous and varied engineeringdisciplines each possess their own underlying and often tacit reasoning patterns, habits of mind,and foundational assumptions2, see also 3-6 - all of which must be taken into account as studentscommunicate their research. Second, the tacit quality of these assumptions and mental processescreates

Conference Session

Research on Diversification, Inclusion, and Empathy II

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nicholas D. Fila, Purdue University; Justin L Hess, Indiana University - Purdue University, Indianapolis

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processes andengineering work.Theoretical FrameworkThis study is rooted in a social constructionist theoretical framework. Social constructionismemphasizes how or in what ways a particular social group gives meaning to and jointlyconstructs a phenomenon26-28. In this case, the social group is engineering students at a largepublic university in the U.S. and the phenomenon is empathy. Meaning arises from that group’sinteraction with the social world, which comprises human participants, artifacts, and otherenvironmental factors. In engineering education (the primary shared context of this social group),such a world can comprise a course setting, co- and extracurricular projects and activities,interactions with peers (i.e., fellow students), or any

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Infusing Engineering with Art (and Vice Versa)

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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R.F.A. Hamilton, Siena Heights University

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majors. These courses are not calculus based or evenparticularly algebra based. Rather they introduce the phenomena of physics then support it withshort, very basic equations. Often these classes are found on campuses under names such as“Physics for Poets” or “Physics of Toys”. Putting these two together would result in a project based course focused on the designcycle. Students could work to create several smaller projects following the design cycle.Introduction and small scale projects would allow students to develop familiarity with the designcycle. There exist a large number of well used engineering projects, such as the mouse-trap car,Rube Goldberg devices, toothpick bridges, cardboard canoes, and etc. These small projects canbe

Conference Session

Pedagogies of Making and Design

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Geetanjali R. Date, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research; Sanjay Chandrasekharan, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

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'heterogeneous engineering'.24 Stevens, Johri, and O'Connor note that “... the socialand technical are almost inextricably tied up together in any engineering project ...”25. LucySuchman, through the analysis of a bridge building project, demonstrates that apart from thedesign and technical work, the organizational activities of sense-making, persuasion andaccountability, considered by engineers to be somewhat peripheral, are essential, to the ‘real’work of design.26 Vermaas, Kroes, van de Poel, Franssen, and Houkes27 argue that engineering is“the result of social negotiation processes in which the various groups involved, includingcustomers but also producers, articulate their wishes and needs. The function of the product thatis to be developed is thus

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Writing and Communication II

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sarah Liggett, Louisiana State University; Boz Bowles, Louisiana State University; Annemarie Galeucia, Louisiana State University; Warren R Hull Sr. P.E., Louisiana State University

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for Engineering Education in the College of En- gineering at Louisiana State University. He earned a B.S. from Louisiana State University and an M.S. from Harvard University. He is a licensed professional engineer whose engineering career spans over 45 years. Prior to joining LSU, Hull was a senior partner with an international engineering firm, managing design and construction projects throughout North and South America. He was also a career U.S. Air Force officer, retiring in the rank of Colonel. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Insights from Focus Groups: A Qualitative Assessment of Students’ Perceptions of Their Communications SkillsIntroductionAt

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Social Responsibility and Social Justice II: From Classroom to Community

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jessica Mary Smith, Colorado School of Mines; Carrie J. McClelland P.E., Colorado School of Mines; Nicole M. Smith, Colorado School of Mines

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and Family in the American West (Rutgers University Press, 2014), which was funded by a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Her current research project, ”The Ethics of Extraction: Integrating Corporate So- cial Responsibility into Engineering Education,” investigates the sociotechnical dimensions of CSR for engineers in the mining, oil and gas industries and is funded by the National Science Foundation.Dr. Carrie J. McClelland P.E., Colorado School of Mines Carrie J McClelland is an Associate Teaching Professor at Colorado School of Mines. Carrie is a regis- tered professional engineer with a passion for teaching the next generation of engineers to be well-rounded professionals who consider

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Social Responsibility and Social Justice I: Pedagogical Perspectives

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jon A. Leydens, Colorado School of Mines; Juan C. Lucena, Colorado School of Mines

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contribution to integration social justice inengineering curricula. 1. How well does a course help engineers listen contextually to diverse users and actors so the ways in which the social context shapes (and is shaped by) the technical becomes visible? How effectively does the course help engineers and other stakeholders listening to discover more about criteria 2-6 below? 2. How thoroughly does the course help engineers and other stakeholders identify structural conditions so legal, historical, political, economic, and other social structures that serve as real or potential project-related barriers and/or opportunities to users, key actors, or engineers become visible and are openly acknowledged in the

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Writing and Communication II

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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students and collecting survey data from multiple institutions.IntroductionWriting is an important skill for engineers, but it is not necessarily thought about or taught as an“engineering skill.” Because of this, and despite ABET accreditation criteria directly related towriting,1 the inclusion of writing in engineering programs varies widely from program toprogram and course to course. While writing in engineering practice varies in scope frominformal emails and memos to large scope reports and proposals, writing in engineering coursesis often limited to formal laboratory or project reports, if it is included at all. This often causes adisconnect, leaving engineering graduates lacking in writing knowledge and skills, including asrelated to

Conference Session

Research on Diversification, Inclusion, and Empathy II

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Justin L Hess, Purdue University - West Lafayette; Nicholas D. Fila, Purdue University

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accuracy”16,17 or “theory of mind.”18 Batson described the second as “adopting theposture or matching the neural response of an observed other”; other scholars have called this“motor mimicry.”19 Batson described the third as “coming to feel as another person feels”; thismay be described as emotional “catching” or “contagion.”20,21 Batson described the fourth as“intuiting or projecting oneself into another’s situation”; this has simply been called projection.22Batson described the fifth as “imaging how another is thinking or feeling”; this has been called“imagine other” perspective-taking (as opposed to imagining one’s self as the other).23 Batsondescribed the sixth, a corollary to the fifth, as “imagining how one would think and feel in theother’s

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A Liberal Education Certified: A Panel on Integrating Liberal Education in a Large, Research-based Institution

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lydia Wilkinson, University of Toronto; Alan Chong, University of Toronto; Deborah Tihanyi, University of Toronto; Penny Kinnear, University of Toronto; Robert Irish, University of Toronto; Ken Tallman, University of Toronto

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-author of the book, ”Sociocultural Theory in Second Language Education: An in- troduction through narratives.” Her current research projects include a longitudinal study on professional identity development of Chemical Engineering students and a study of meaning-making language and behaviour in student design teams.Dr. Robert Irish, University of Toronto Associate Professor, Teaching Stream in Engineering CommunicationProf. Ken Tallman, University of Toronto Ken is an Associate Professor, Teaching Stream with the Engineering Communication Program at the University of Toronto. Ken’s responsibilities include coordinating communication instruction in the De- partment of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the

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Panel Session: The Grammar Elephant in the Engineering Classroom

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Brad Jerald Henderson, University of California, Davis; Ruth Ann McKinney, The University of North Carolina School of Law; Julia M. Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Hewlett-Packard Inkjet. Henderson was featured in the book—Engineers Write! Thoughts on Writing from Contemporary Literary Engineers by Tom Moran (IEEE Press 2011)—as one of twelve ”literary engineers” writing and publishing creative works in the United States. Henderson’s current project is a book pioneering a new method for teaching engineers workplace writing skills through the lens of math. A Math-Based Writing System for Engineers: Sentence Algebra & Document Algorithms is forthcoming from Spring Nature, 2017.Prof. Ruth Ann McKinney, The University of North Carolina School of Law Ruth Ann McKinney, M.Ed., J.D., Emeritus Clinical Professor and former Assistant Dean, directed the writing program and academic

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Assessing Literacies in Engineering Education

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christopher Leslie, New York University Tandon School of Engineering ; Lindsay Anderberg, New York University Tandon School of Engineering

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a humanities course, and the archivist fromNYU Libraries. This activity shows how liberal education can have a natural fit within theengineering curriculum. In particular, we wish to demonstrate how even a small-scale project,using available resources, will help to accomplish ABET Criterion 3: Student Outcomes.ABET’s Student Outcomes encourage engineering education to follow an active learning model,to discuss the social context and ethics of engineering solutions, and to develop skills of analysis,teamwork, and communication. Our archival interventions, though admittedly limited in scope,embody the principles ABET’s Student Outcomes. By working in groups with primary sourcematerials related to science and engineering, we encouraged